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Rollback needed

Can someone rollback my edits at [1]. Somehow merge with QuickStatements is broken. Thanks. --- Jura 18:13, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

I rolled back the latest 70 (2 pages of output) and then realized that there are at least 65 more pages and then I stopped counting. This is work for a bot, not for a human.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:59, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. Just the ones on the page were needed. With smartrollback it should be just one click. --- Jura 08:26, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
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87.41.52.6

This static IP address belongs to a school in Dublin. All contributions so far were vandalisms, beginning from September 2019 until 31 January 2020. --AFBorchert (talk) 22:56, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done; 6 months block —MisterSynergy (talk) 23:08, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
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Request

Please remove my rollback right, thankyou. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:36, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done Thank you for your service. And thank you for your future service, Global rollbacker. --Sotiale (talk) 09:44, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:190.225.33.147

190.225.33.147 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism Doublah (talk) 19:48, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

I second this: persistent vandalism continues after uw-v3. — Mike Novikoff 00:25, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done; Blocked for a month —MisterSynergy (talk) 00:28, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

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Special:Contribs/333Art

  Done by User:1997kb —MisterSynergy (talk) 00:30, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

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Request page protection for Thanos (Q2276627)

Continuous and repeated vandalism as of late. Doublah (talk) 20:00, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done. --Epìdosis 20:45, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Q229166

Amber Heard's item, high rate of unconstructive edits due to the recent news. Thanks. Ahmadtalk 20:17, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done 1 month —MisterSynergy (talk) 00:29, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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please block Special:Contributions/212.55.25.249

Vandalism... I reverted on Q4890298, but a lot of other dubious edits... --Hsarrazin (talk) 09:59, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done blocked for 3 months(considering past block log), semi-protected for a week(target item). --Sotiale (talk) 11:21, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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193.144.97.124

193.144.97.124 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)): has been blocked three times already, the last block being for half a year, and still proceeds to vandalize. — Mike Novikoff 11:31, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done re-blocked for 6 months. thank you for reporting. --Sotiale (talk) 12:26, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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Close edit group discussion

Hi! Could an admin close with some result this edit group request? I don't do it, despite being admin, as I am the proponent. Thanks, --Epìdosis 13:45, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done--Ymblanter (talk) 20:10, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:74.83.124.176

74.83.124.176 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Removing contents since 29 Jan. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 12:52, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done blocked for a week. Thank you for reporting! --Sotiale (talk) 14:36, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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Request page protection for James Charles (Q58816418)

Continued and repeated vandalism Doublah (talk) 22:18, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 22:20, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:70.114.27.252

70.114.27.252 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Mass-removing claims from Q4063270 Ionmars10 (talk) 01:06, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

  Blocked by AmaryllisGardener for 1 month. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 07:34, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:173.248.231.116

173.248.231.116 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Inserting nonsense since 15 Sept 2019. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 01:26, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

  Blocked for 3 months. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 07:34, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report vandal

85.192.73.95 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) --WikiBayer (talk) 08:51, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done short block and semi-protected target item. Thanks! --Sotiale (talk) 11:23, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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88.12.3.191

88.12.3.191 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Continued vandalism since January 27. Montgomery (talk) 09:45, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done blocked for 10 days. Thanks! --Sotiale (talk) 11:24, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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Request for re-protection

Continued vandalism after expiration of previous protection. GMGtalk 11:41, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 11:45, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

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Please semi-protect Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Q16196017)

Persistent vandalism. --WhitePhosphorus (talk) 13:23, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done for 2 weeks by 1997kB. --WhitePhosphorus (talk) 14:07, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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User Sofia-kaif

Sofia-kaif (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) continues to post spam after warning. –LiberatorG (talk) 17:17, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Done, locked. Stryn (talk) 19:08, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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User:PostimiesPate

Please block PostimiesPate (talk • contribs • logs) as a vandalism-only account. They are already blocked indefinitely in Finnish Wikipedia for vandalism. --Shinnin (talk) 19:05, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Done, locked. Stryn (talk) 19:06, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:173.248.231.115

173.248.231.115 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Inserting nonsense since 28 Oct 2019. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 02:45, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done Blocked for 3 months. Pamputt (talk) 06:45, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
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89.42.67.144

89.42.67.144 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) continued vandalism after warning. –LiberatorG (talk) 16:48, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

  Blocked for a day. Esteban16 (talk) 17:03, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
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Please semi-protect Meital Dohan (Q431393)

Coordinated cross-wiki attempts to either hide or modify the date of birth, by the subject's PR/legal team. This has been going on, repeatedly, since at least September 2018 by both registered and unregistered users. On both hewiki and enwiki long term semi-protection was enabled after numerous attempts at shorter protection periods have failed. I request the same for the wikidata page, since I see the same edits continue now into 2020. Thanks, Dovno (talk) 10:07, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done 6 months. Thank you for reporting. --Sotiale (talk) 10:52, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
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128.127.162.46

128.127.162.46 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Vandalizing multiple items. --Kostas20142 (talk) 11:21, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

  Blocked for 1 month. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 11:26, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
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83.61.61.206

83.61.61.206 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Persistent vandalism even after being warned. --Kostas20142 (talk) 13:00, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done for 31 hrs. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:17, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
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62.20.62.211

62.20.62.211 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) This user is very keen to vandalize Swedish title descriptions, mostly for the article about the Corona virus and a south-Swedish province by typing out lovely phrases as "eat sh*t" and "c*nt wh*re". Not to mention the emojis. May I suggest a three or four month block, so they can have some time to grow up and mature a bit? // WikiPhoenix Talk 10:25, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

  Blocked for 1 week by Sotiale. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 11:26, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
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2401:4900:180F:DF38:35C2:FDAB:33A2:EA28

2401:4900:180F:DF38:35C2:FDAB:33A2:EA28 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) spam. -- Maxlath (talk) 22:07, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

  Blocked /64 for a week. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:42, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
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Special:Contributions/93.176.141.255

Vandalism on Fahrenheit 451 (Q202009). Minorax (talk) 01:52, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for a week. Thanks--BRP ever 02:02, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
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User:Adamstony3333me

Please block Adamstony3333me (talk • contribs • logs) as a vandalism-only account. They are already blocked indefinitely in English Wikipedia. --Shinnin (talk) 18:25, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done--Ymblanter (talk) 20:51, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
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Pancho Saavedra

Vandalism on Q29860177.--Eduardosalg (talk) 17:25, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done reverted and protected by Bovlb --Kostas20142 (talk) 20:22, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
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Please semi-protect Liverpool F.C. (Q1130849)

Persistent vandalism since around 1 Oct 2019 --WhitePhosphorus (talk) 06:23, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done for 3 months. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 06:44, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
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Please semi-protect Cardi B (Q29033668)

Excessive vandalism on Cardi B item. Needs a semi-protect, thanks - Premeditated (talk) 08:21, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done Semi-protected for 1 year by 1997kB Pamputt (talk) 09:42, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
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Please semiprotect Castro of Santa Trega (Q2411979)

Please semiprotect Castro of Santa Trega (Q2411979) due to persistent IP vandalism. –LiberatorG (talk) 13:31, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done 10 days. Thank you for reporting. --Sotiale (talk) 13:51, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:178.216.14.7

178.216.14.7 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Starting Edit warring. [2] Tries to write the date is not confirmed by authoritative sources. In Ukrainian Wikipedia, this issue is also being considered by administrators. Akunopaka (talk) 17:39, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

  User has been incorrectly or insufficiently warned. Re-report once the user has been warned sufficiently. and it looks like a   Content dispute. in which you need discussion with user. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:20, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
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95.61.222.107

95.61.222.107 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Persistent vandalism, even after warned. --Kostas20142 (talk) 19:42, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done, blocked for 31h--Ymblanter (talk) 20:53, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Block has ended and IP has already vandalized several more articles. –LiberatorG (talk) 14:32, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Blocked now for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 19:50, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
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Пустые страницы

@Ymblanter: пустая страница, пустая страница. Kalendar (talk) 11:43, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Вторую удалил, первая не пустая, и на неё ссылаются с трёх других страниц.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:45, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
@Ymblanter: Вторая пустая опять появилась. Kalendar (talk) 18:48, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
  Done--Ymblanter (talk) 19:51, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
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Вандализм

@Ymblanter: Dudyudmsxjjdhdjshs Kalendar (talk) 10:30, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done--Ymblanter (talk) 21:38, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Q303

Please semi-protect Elvis Presley (Q303) - persistent IP vandalism from various IP addresses, popular theme. --Jklamo (talk) 12:07, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done semi-protected for a month. Thank you for reporting! --Sotiale (talk) 13:21, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
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Vandal (crosswiki)

184.146.206.155 (talk • contribs • logs) vandalism only--WikiBayer (talk) 15:21, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done by 1997kB. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 17:05, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Q146

Please semi-protect house cat (Q146) --Trade (talk) 19:15, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done, protected for a month--Ymblanter (talk) 21:40, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
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vandal 200.34.76.106

200.34.76.106 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) --Gerwoman (talk) 19:18, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done, blocked for a week--Ymblanter (talk) 21:42, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
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Вклад участника Racaciun

Не очень разбираюсь в принципах работы WikiData, но, есть подозрение, что правки участника Racaciun не совсем корректны. В частности у статьи w:ru:Пермский край появилось официальное название на татарском языке. При этом татарский язык не является официальным в Пермском крае. И подобные правки носят массовый характер. --Mike Somerset (talk) 07:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: may you have a look? Thanks. Pamputt (talk) 10:56, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
  Done, blocked indef, vandalism and block evasion--Ymblanter (talk) 11:19, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Probably everything needs to be rolled back, but I do not have time at the moment.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:22, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Вклад Maitsavend'а тоже следует откатывать, весь? Они как будто сообща работали, судя по историям правок. --Wolverène (talk) 12:26, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

FTR: I have reverted 3 of Racaciun's batch. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 12:52, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks--Ymblanter (talk) 13:36, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Indeed, all three seem to be the same person. I recently blocked Maitsavend indef. --Ymblanter (talk) 12:40, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
This topic also suggests that the same person edits as IanraBot and Marat-avgust, but I did not check this.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:44, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:95.61.222.107

95.61.222.107 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Continues to vandalize after recent end of block. – LiberatorG (talk) 16:17, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Already reblocked for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 19:53, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
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Вандализм

@Ymblanter: 188.162.14.73 Kalendar (talk) 10:34, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Этот больше не появится--Ymblanter (talk) 21:38, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
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Please semi-protect football codes (Q1081491)

Looks attractive to vandals and I suggest long-term protection. --WhitePhosphorus (talk) 16:31, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done for 6 months. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 11:12, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
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Q84764325's restoration

Please do restore this item, as it complies with WD:N, and fulfil a structural need there (ping Jianhui67 who mistakenly deleted it). Thanks, 86.193.172.227

  Done Ayack (talk) 13:41, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protect Margarita Salas (Q3320231)

Please semi-protect Margarita Salas (Q3320231) as it has been attracting vandalism from multiple IPs from different ranges, lately. --Kostas20142 (talk) 17:51, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done for 3 months. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 17:55, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
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User:Macskelek

Will someone please block User:Macskelek who is apparently a kid and - though probably in good faith - in spite of a warning, is adding descriptions wich do not comply with the guidelines. Their MO is copypasting the first sentence of a huwiki article to the description field by the suggestededit-add 1.0 tool. Pls. see my message to them on User talk:Macskelek yesterday. Thanks. Csigabi (talk) 09:01, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done, blocked for 3 days--Ymblanter (talk) 21:26, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Q4583

Please semi-protect Anne Frank (Q4583) - persistent IP vandalism from various IP addresses, sensitive and popular theme.--Jklamo (talk) 16:31, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done semi-protected by MisterSynergy for 1 year. Pamputt (talk) 06:21, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
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Block requested

Hi! Could someone please block 206.167.230.3 (talk • contribs • logs)? It's a school IP addres, judged by the recurring blocks on enwiki. Also here only vandalism comes from it, as far as I can see. I've just undid vandalism that wasn't noticed until now. Trijnstel (talk) 22:07, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done blocked by Jasper Deng for 6 months. Pamputt (talk) 06:22, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
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edits by 180.244.234.20

Hello, recent edits by 180.244.234.20 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) seem to be vandalism - incorrectly changing country of citizenship and other claims , and weird removals of and changes to correct labels and aliases. Also duplication of said labels and aliases. Some of the label/alias additions are correct but most of the others are bad changes and should be reverted. Manually inspecting every edit will take a lot of time so I would also like to request them all to be reverted. Redalert2fan (talk) 22:23, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

special:contributions/민병국 continued problematic edits

It would seem that repeated warning and undoing of problematic edits of this user are not effective.  — billinghurst sDrewth 13:05, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Uh.. He insulted politicians against his ideology and put personal sentiment on items. It's difficult to translate into English. I revdel because not only are some of them false, but also serious insult is defamatory, without whether block is appropriate or not. --Sotiale (talk) 13:49, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
You do not need to translate this into English, just block indef if the policy violations are serious enough.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:53, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
It is assumed that this user cannot communicate in English. If I leave a warning in Korean, and vandalism continues after that, he should be blocked immediately. --Sotiale (talk) 13:23, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Block of 73.108.155.139

Please block this IP for a long time. The only thing he does is vandalism, beginning at Oct 2019 and still continuing. -- MovieFex (talk) 16:26, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done Blocked for 6 months. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:38, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
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semi-protect Carlos José "Bebe" Contepomi (Q17364253)

Please semi-protect Carlos José "Bebe" Contepomi (Q17364253) for some time as it has attracted much unnoticed vandalism these days by unrelated at first glance IPs (and a likely related newly-registered account). --Kostas20142 (talk) 23:07, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done by Jasper Deng --Kostas20142 (talk) 01:13, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
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semi-protect Natalia Jiménez (Q55436)

Please semi-protect Natalia Jiménez (Q55436) due to excessive vandalism that has attracted the last days. --Kostas20142 (talk) 21:11, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done Semi-protected for 1 month. Pamputt (talk) 21:34, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
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WDQS lag is terrible (over 9 hours now)

See this Grafana plot - it looks like something happened over the weekend, and the lag has been steadily growing for 3 of the servers. Wikiscan isn't showing super-high edit rates though. Does anybody have any idea what could be going on? ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:37, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Currently my bot contributes to less than 10% of total edits. I don't think it will be a issue. It intentionlys work in a constant speed (~28 queries/minute regardless of maxlag though not all queries will result in an edit).--GZWDer (talk) 21:59, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
@GZWDer: It's outrageous that your bot is (bots are ?) not taking notice of maxlag. The whole purpose of maxlag is to get bots of back off when load is greater than capacity. You're saying "meh, no, my bot just keeps pushing edits". That's not acceptable, nor is it reasonable: there's surely no impediment to you changing your bot(s) to respect maxlag? Your bots are afaik, some of the biggest contributors to wikidata. Equally there's no good reason why the community should accept what amounts to sociopathic behavior. Admins must consider whether bots that do not obay rules and thus help precipitate issues such as the one we are discussing should be blocked until fixed.--Tagishsimon (talk) 15:12, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, @Jura1, Mahir256, ArthurPSmith:. Sorry for the possible problems caused. Indeed, the maxlag parameter was not being respected due to a bug. This week I will fix it once and for all. YoaR (talk) 07:11, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
Just a note that the query service lag has been gradually dropping - it is now under 3 hours, and looks like (assuming nothing else breaks) all will be back to normal tomorrow. It's possible the block took care of it, however we should keep watch on this as the problem may recur... ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:05, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
And today it is indeed at a reasonable level (though the worst one is about 25 minutes which is on the high side of reasonable). ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:33, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
I blocked user:BotNinja for not using maxlag. Multichill (talk) 16:36, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Usually there is no way to check explicitly whether a bot respects maxlag or not.
Basically it roughly works like this: the server reports the "maxlag" value to the client (bot script/framework), and the bot script then needs to decide what to do. The policy sort of requires that the bot should not edit when the maxlag value is larger than 5 (seconds). However, the bot script (or framework) can either ignore the maxlag value completely, or slow down instead of stopping completely, or decide to react at higher maxlag values (such as 10, a more aggressive value). Without looking into the code, you can infer the bot's behaviour only by monitoring it during times of high load, and this is sort of difficult these days where the maxlag value is constantly bouncing around the threshold of "5 seconds" within a couple of minutes. Anyways, according to my own experience with pywikibot in standard config, a bot should realize "maxlag>5 seconds" pretty quickly after this situation has started (a minute or so). At this Grafana board, you can nicely see how the edit load toggles pretty in sync with the maxlag status that is also displayed there.
Another remark: most or all of the listed bots edited a 1–5 edits per minute if I don't miss anything. This is not a load that creates the lag, or significantly reduces the lag in case you block it away. Edit rates of the order of 1/s are the problematic ones, however. —MisterSynergy (talk) 22:03, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
As the operator of pi bot, which uses pywikibot, I'd appreciate some clearer technical guidance here. There seem to be four key parameters - 'minthrottle' (now 1, was 0), 'maxthrottle' (now 1, was 0), 'put_throttle' (always 1), and 'maxlag' (now 5, was 5000), see [5] - what are the optimal settings to use for these, bearing in mind that the bot reads more than it edits, and it's mostly limited by round-trip-time to the servers anyway? Also, it's a cross-wiki bot - it can be editing Wikidata, Commons, and enwp simultaneously, and a lag in one set of project servers shouldn't slow its reading/editing on other projects. Perhaps I should split the focused tasks off into different run scripts, but some of them are often quite entwined. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:21, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
Should be fine if you use "maxlag=5", regardless of the other parameters. This stops the bot to write during high-load times in a policy-compliant way, and as far as I understand, also to read.
Mind that there are no general restrictions regarding edit rates, so going at 1 edit/s (max possible value with "put_throttle=1" and no parallel execution of jobs) is fine as long as maxlag<5.
I am not fully aware about the cross-wiki issue, as I usually edit Wikidata only with my bots (also using pywikibot). However, maxlag is a per-project measure of "server load", thus "maxlag>5 at Wikidata" should not interfere with the bot's actitivies on other projects—as long as no interaction with Wikidata takes place. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:10, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
I had increased the maxlag parameter because I was supervising edit-by-edit. Also, see phabricator:T221774.--SalviBot (talk) 14:09, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Socking?

Hello, about:

User only using his sock only on wikidata, and using sock master account widely. Based on illegitimate uses of alternate accounts: "Improper purposes include attempts to deceive or mislead other editors, disrupt discussions, distort consensus, avoid sanctions, or otherwise violate community standards and policies": User editing Wikidata from both accounts, you can found that this user really discusses using both accounts, and answers with both accounts in same discussions, and once he sends email from this and answers from the other, and this is very annoying! (example). Also, here he said conflicting information and accuses the user and asks her to apologize without the slightest evidence for it. Please also see #vandalism as he sent around 4-5 emails to me from both accounts with same words "if you love God revert your edits"! and last email from him contain a lot of unacceptable words. Finally, really I can't understand what this user want and another 2 sysops same!

So, I would like to request block to block the confirmed sock indefinitely, and block the main account from sending emails and edit user talk pages (or partially from edit this page). شيماء talked to me about the frequent annoying that mentioned user do. I don't want to make this block via my account, as I'm already blocked this user before, and probably there's another suggestions! (Note I already tried to talk with him, but without any benefit). Thanks --Alaa :)..! 14:11, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

actually this account created by accident
I don't know who the harasser in e-mail I didn't accused any member
but actually she have no right to delete datas we agreed about before, but no problem I solved everything I can continuing my article now in english wikipedia
thanks for your paitance
أبو السعد 22 (talk) 23:33, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
I thought they gonna act accordingly this time, but I see no good out of their replies; same behavior, no explanation on sock account and instead of discussing problem, they continued blame game towards admins who removed their their edits. Taking all that in account I have blocked master for a month and sock indefinitely. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 08:27, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:92.191.145.164

92.191.145.164 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism WhitePhosphorus (talk) 16:02, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Likely dynamic IP which is gone--Ymblanter (talk) 20:08, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semiprotect Aslaug (Q732678)

I have no idea what's going on but the nonsensical edits there deserve semiprotection, I guess. (Or someone to understand what should the edits mean.) --Mormegil (talk) 21:41, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done 1 month. Thank you for reporting! --Sotiale (talk) 03:19, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protect Harriet Tubman

Please consider semi-protecting Harriet Tubman. IP editors have vandalized the data, and that vandalism has remained in the database for 2 weeks. Hike395 (talk) 03:20, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done for 3 months. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 03:24, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:74.215.106.197

74.215.106.197 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Still removing stuffs; please extend the block. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 12:10, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done blocked for 2 weeks. Thanks! --Sotiale (talk) 12:48, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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new editor removing statements

85.255.235.135 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

I warned them, if they continue, they need to be blocked--Ymblanter (talk) 20:04, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:118.111.6.68

118.111.6.68 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism Afaz (talk) 04:57, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done Jianhui67 talk★contribs 14:00, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
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Reporting 151.20.125.224

The recent extensive contributions of 151.20.125.224 are all highly suspect. The IP is a sockpuppet of the globally locked Alec Smithson. The Alec Smithson account was blocked on multiple wikis, for amongst other things creating hoax articles or articles with false claims from fabricated sources. Smithson and his socks have also uploaded numerous images to Commons with falsified data concerning the source and the description. See: Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Alec Smithson (February 2020) and Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Alec Smithson. This IP was blocked on English WP 3 days ago as a Smithson sock [6]. The alter egos of this IP, i.e. 151.20.21.172 and 151.20.7.153 were blocked by Pasleim as Smithson socks here on Wikidata for a week in 2018 and for 3 months in 2019 and all their edits reverted. Voceditenore (talk) 10:25, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done, blocked for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 21:02, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, Ymblanter. But someone here should check his additions and/or revert en masse as done by Pasleim with a previous Smithson IP sock. Many of his past additions were flatly wrong, malformed, or have no reliable source. Voceditenore (talk) 17:21, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Pathwaybot

See User_talk:Pathwaybot#Incorrect_modeling: Please block this bot. It is adding author (P50) to items that should not have them.--GZWDer (talk) 03:55, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

After reading User_talk:Pathwaybot#P2860 I retract the request for immediate block, but I still think this is a bad way to model the concept.--GZWDer (talk) 04:04, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Vandal: 37.111.224.211

Special:Contributions/37.111.224.211. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:47, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Probably a dynamic IP which is already gone--Ymblanter (talk) 20:22, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
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Vanadalism by 87.245.100.116

I do not see a single helpful edit, just primitive vandalism. Maybe a lock for a few month could help. Thanks --Wurgl (talk) 11:21, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

  Blocked for three months --Esteban16 (talk) 11:49, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
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Ban spambot GemmaMallette5

See their contributions, appears to be a spambot adding spam to their talk page. --SixTwoEight (talk) 21:41, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Deleted and blocked.--BRP ever 23:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
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Umair Ahmad: a rabbit trail of sad, cross-wiki, spammy nonsense

A very strange little rabbit warren of spam starts with Q84612759 and Q84612319 (both of which are on WD:RFD).

The author of the definitive and not at all spammy sounding "Link Building for Seo: The Definitive Guide (2020 Update)" and the equally non-spammy sounding "Backlinking For OFF-Page SEO: 100% Complete Guide For Backlinks SEO to Get 80+ DA in 2020" is apparently Umair Ahmad, Q83869111, an "Entrepreneur, Writer, Researcher & Film Producer". His impressive sounding CV, according to Wikidata, was imported from English Wikipedia. The page on English Wikipedia has been speedily deleted three times, then went to . English Wikidata also lists a number of other publications, including the far more respectable sounding "Masterpieces of Lahore Museum" (Masterpieces of Lahore Museum (Q84691170)). Which he didn't write: someone just added his name to it on English Wikipedia, then a bot imported that claim here.

On Goodreads, he has a self-published autobiography with three reviews, all glowing, two of which were written by him. And, to top it off, he has a Wikiquote page which quotes from the masterful and authoritative "Link Building for SEO" (which it lists as being published by Oxford University Press, while Google Books lists it as "independently published". Folks, here we have a chronic self-promoter, who is using all the Wikimedia projects he can edit to promote his nonsense. Sultan (Q20762695) claims he's a producer of Sultan, apparently one of the top five grossing Indian movies of all time. Obviously, going from producing a big budget Indian film to writing SEO spam nonsense in four years must be painful.

It'd be helpful if administrators both here and on other wikis (including Pashto, Urdu, Chinese, Commons and English Wikiquote) could undo this litany of cross-wiki spam, and notify other local admins. I'm undoing what I can on enwiki. —Tom Morris (talk) 16:43, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Gindomarlo

Gindomarlo (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism on Mexican politics, both the following info boxes are under vandalism from an user addying pejorative nicknames not endorsed by the person or by the media at large:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318508

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57269

The nicknames in question being "El Cacas" ("The Poop") in the case of Andres Manuel and "Comandante Borolas" ("Drunk Commander") in the case of Felipe Calderon.

I do not know how to revert or protect either so want some help on this apparent conflict. Zinco335 (talk) 23:42, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

193.146.93.29

Please block User:193.146.93.29, it is a vandalism only account. They were blocked before, and have started vandalizing again now that their old block has expired. --SixTwoEight (talk) 12:01, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done a year, Same duration as the previous block. --Sotiale (talk) 13:05, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:173.248.231.120

173.248.231.120 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: vandal (from Sep 2019) WhitePhosphorus (talk) 14:16, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done, blocked for a year--Ymblanter (talk) 19:35, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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User:Calebjohncarter

I'm not super familiar with handling of vandalism on Wikidata, but the user has only made an edit to vandalise the description of Mitt Romney (Q4496) (ignoring the Wikidata:Living_people policy by adding opinion into the description) and undone the subsequent reversion edit (clearly marked as undoing vandalism). I don't want to fall into Wikidata:Edit_warring so thought I should make the potential issue known here. --SilentSpike (talk) 17:21, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

  Warned user. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:49, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

90.118.19.247

Please block/OS. Frakir (talk) 07:38, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

The IP has stopped. So I propose to ignore it for now. Let us hope he/she will not come back. Pamputt (talk) 08:45, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
@Frakir: Please don't make oversight requests in public; direct them to oversight wikidata.org.--Jasper Deng (talk) 23:55, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

my login is not noted by some procedure of wikidata

Hi,

please look this screensot File:My login is not noted by some procedure of wikidata.png.

Obviously I am logged in, but there is a message that I am not logged in.

It occurs sometimes, but not always.

Best regards, --Juan Villalobos (talk) 19:00, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

81.43.78.213

81.43.78.213 (talk • contribs • logs)

Vandalism on Q2263. Ahmadtalk 08:57, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

It seems that he stopped and left. Let's keep an eye on it. --Sotiale (talk) 13:06, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:173.248.231.0/24

173.248.231.0/24 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: persistent vandalism since Apr 2019. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 02:14, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done blocked for 1 year. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:30, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:74.83.124.176

74.83.124.176 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Please extend the block. Still removing contents since the last block expired. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 02:17, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done blocked for 1 month. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:30, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protect PewDiePie (Q13423853)

Persistent vandalism. --WhitePhosphorus (talk) 11:04, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done 1y semi-protected —MisterSynergy (talk) 12:59, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
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Protect Danilo Medina (Q57429)

Please protect Danilo Medina wikidata item to protect it from vandalism.--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 17:49, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done for a week--Ymblanter (talk) 20:34, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
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Block and hide

Request for hiding text and description of two edits [7], [8] and block Special:Contributions/Historyk15; vandalisms only (here and in Commons). Wostr (talk) 23:37, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

@Wostr: Please warn the user first. I don't think the edits warrant hiding. In the future, please do not make revision deletion requests in a public forum like this.--Jasper Deng (talk) 23:53, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
@Jasper Deng:If people are NOT supposed to make revision deletion requests on Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard then it should be stated very clearly at this page. I've made revision deletion requests here before and i never knew this rule existed. --Trade (talk) 20:35, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
@Jasper Deng:, these edits are highly abusive. I (and any other admin in pl.wiki) would block this user at once and hide the edits and I truly don't understand why I shouldn't ask for hiding edits, it's a common practice in many projects to hide offensive edits like this, I do it frequently on my home wiki. Wostr (talk) 23:57, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
You can and should ask for hiding of edits, but not in a public location like this page. @Wostr: Please provide a detailed translation (preferably in Special:EmailUser/Jasper Deng) because Google Translate does not suggest it's obscene to an extent beyond ordinary vandalism.--Jasper Deng (talk) 23:59, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
@Jasper Deng: What is the basis (a helppage, guideline?) of the suggestion that I shouldn't ask for it in a public page? Don't get me wrong, I'm just very astounded and I'm trying to understand, because I have never heard it before that it is something inappropriate. Wostr (talk) 00:05, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
@Wostr: You risk inducing the Streisand effect (Q22732). It's explicitly not permitted for oversight (see the comment at the top of Wikidata:Oversight) and is discouraged for revision deletion.--Jasper Deng (talk) 00:08, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
@Jasper Deng: I wasn't asking for revision deletion using oversight privileges, but using admin privileges under standard deletion policy (that is in fact quite similar to one that we have in pl.wiki and we do revision deletion on a standard basis in cases like offensive language etc., and as we try to react quickly to every request, the hypothetical risk of 'inducing the Streisand effect' by public request for revision deletion is probably very low). Never mind though, thanks for clarification, block&hide or don't, I'm not going to explore this anymore as it took definitely more time than it was worth. Regards, Wostr (talk) 00:29, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
The Streisand effect does not care about what method we hide with.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:25, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning Special:Contributions/78.128.23.93

78.128.23.93 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: User's updates have been vandalism. The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 16:24, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

fix req. Minorax (talk) 16:26, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
  Done blocked for 1 month. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 08:16, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Q9458

Please semi-protect Muhammad (Q9458) - persistent IP vandalism from various IP addresses, sensitive and popular theme.--Jklamo (talk) 17:09, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done--Ymblanter (talk) 20:47, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
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Request for deletion - edits by SilvianaX

The truth is, there are so many non-notable/self-promotion items that link to one another (all created by SilvianaX or IP addresses) that I can't even keep it organized enough to create a proper "bulk deletion" request. I thought maybe bringing it here might make it a little easier. These items also cross over to other projects. Quakewoody (talk) 18:38, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

  • I nominated 54 for deletion - just based on "page creation" and "latest revision". So, I hope that cleans up the history enough to make the others easier to track down because there'll be fewer "links here" to follow. Quakewoody (talk) 06:34, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
  Resolved user has been blocked and most items deleted. Quakewoody (talk) 17:47, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
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reporting inappropriate content

hello all, where do i report inappropriate content? question arose because of the entry under "official website" here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4115189

removed the spam site ‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:30, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Q210189

Repeated vandalism in the German description. Cheers •   • hugarheimur 00:18, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done for a week. Thanks! --Sotiale (talk) 00:30, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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Action needed

A new vandal, nobody from this IP 103.204.244.38 (talk • contribs • logs) has ever edited Wikidata before, but I think that attacking Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard should end with at least a few hours of blockade. Thanks! Sincerely, Nadzik (talk) 22:06, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done the /24 for a week. Mahir256 (talk) 22:13, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Q170703

Boca Juniors (Q170703): persistent vandalism on this item with an already long protection history. The previous protection has expired a couple of weeks ago, and here we go again. — Mike Novikoff 23:40, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done by Mahir256. — Mike Novikoff 01:05, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
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User:Viapicante

I have been following them since User:Billinghurst brought some of their creations to WD:RFD. Their creations follows pattern of spam items we see usually and this has been highlighted before by User:Mahir256 (Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive/2020/01#The_continued_creations_of_User:Viapicante).

Recently have been blocked indefinitely on English Wikipedia by ArbCom for undisclosed paid editing and their creations indicates that they are doing same here.

They have also responded to these allegations at User_talk:Viapicante#Please_respond_about_your_creations_and_editing so I am requesting if an uninvolved admin can look into this and take appropriate actions. Thank you! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 15:07, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

  Comment It is not a black and white case from my observations. There is/has been dubious content added, there is content of a more personal/conflicted nature which is grey in wikidata:notability, and there is stuff that I would say is within scope. Not an easy case to resolve. What is truly problematic is the lack of communication; no declaration of interest to judge their personal tasks against what could be paid editing, and their sometimes use of references that some consider unreliable and part of the puffery/paid editing industry.  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:23, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Modifications en masse de dates de naissance par User:Ghuron

Bonjour, ce User:Ghuron modifie en masse des informations de date de naissance (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ghuron), et j'ai l'impression que ces modifications sont fantaisistes. --HenriDavel (talk) 16:25, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@HenriDavel: Pouvez-vous me montrer l'un de mes changements qui soutiennent votre point de vue? Ghuron (talk) 16:28, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Modification, le 20 juillet 2019, de l'année de naissance pour Arash Sadeghi (Q28078341), qui est ainsi passé de 1986 ( ce qui lui ferait 33 ans) à 1949 (ce qui lui ferait 70 ans), avec en référence Wp italienne qui indique pourtant 1986. --HenriDavel (talk) 16:35, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Merci de me l'avoir signalé. Apparemment, il y a 2 problèmes qui jouent ensemble:
  • Wikipédia en espéranto ne précise pas correctement la catégorie des dates de naissance, qui a une précision "siècle", c'est pourquoi j'ai 1949 en premier lieu [9]
  • Wikipédia en italien a une date exacte, mais pour une raison quelconque, j'ai ignoré le fait que l'année était différente [10]
Je vais vérifier (et corriger) les mauvaises modifications (ne devrait pas être nombreuses) + corriger certains problèmes dans mon script Ghuron (talk) 16:45, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q868516

Repeated vandalism Prince Haash (talk) 06:16, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

I gave it a week, please let me know if it comes back after that.--Jasper Deng (talk) 12:02, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
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Request for a lock

Hi, I would like to request a block for Andrzej Duda (Q9151911). His articles both here and on pl.wiki have become some kind of battleground. Poland is now in midst of a presidential campaign and his article on pl.wiki has been locked until May 25th (the day after the election). Thank you! Nadzik (talk) 18:37, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

I've semi-protected it as a high traffic page. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 18:43, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks @Ajraddatz:! Cheers! Nadzik (talk) 19:14, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
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Вандализм

@Ymblanter: Razan1787. Kalendar (talk) 19:47, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for 3 days--Ymblanter (talk) 20:14, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
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184.146.206.155

Vandalism. Ahmadtalk 20:50, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

  Blocked for 2 weeks. --Esteban16 (talk) 23:38, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
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Persistent vandalism in Q85993818

Dear admins. It comes to my attention that a user keep trying to revert the edits at the corresponding item? Could you please take a look? I suspect that this account is part of the abuser's actions. Thanks. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 14:02, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

  deleted by Mahir256 --DannyS712 (talk) 18:48, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
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Vandalism

Vandalism-only accounts, clearly not here to contribute productively, and quack case of socking. --Kostas20142 (talk) 00:47, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done --Sotiale (talk) 02:17, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
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Permanent Semi-protection for Q22663 and xHamster (Q16617922)

Due to issues with IP adresses spamming the official website (P856) of these two high-profile items with possibly malware i'll like to request for both of them to be permanently semi-protected.

A lot of Wikipedia articles relies on Wikidata for linking to their official websites and thus any malicious spam will put a lot of people at risk.

See [Talk:The Pirate Bay Talk:The Pirate Bay --Trade (talk) 22:40, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done - normally I would be hesitant to protect without recent abuse, but Wikidata does not have sufficient counter-vandalism volunteers to deal with these links in a timely manner, and those could be malicious. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 22:04, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
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Wave of IP vandalism on Hedy Lamarr

Hi,

seems a few IP coming from Spain are vandalising Hedy Lamarr (Q49034) since the start of february, could the item be semi protected for a while ? --Misc (talk) 15:48, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

  Semi-protected for a month --Esteban16 (talk) 16:42, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
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Пустая страница

@Ymblanter: Пустая страница. Ссылок сюда нет. Kalendar (talk) 19:26, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Redirected--Ymblanter (talk) 19:43, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
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Вандализм

@Ymblanter: NikitaBoss2005. Kalendar (talk) 19:39, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done--Ymblanter (talk) 19:45, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
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malicious Quickstatement batch

I just noticed a malicious Quickstatement batch: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jsamwrites . I don't know how to revert it. Thanks --Hjart (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

  • @Jsamwrites: Care to add some source for your addition of "gay village" as a P31 to items? Mahir256 (talk) 04:35, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
    • @Hjart, Mahir256: it's lacking references but I see nothing malicious in this batch. Why woud you think so? @Jsamwrites: could you mention the source? Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 08:24, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
      • @VIGNERON: I must admit that I'm not all that familiar with the places in Denmark I first saw labeled like this, but I was surprised to see it anyway and my first thought was that this had to be vandalism. I now realize that it might not and apologize for the alarm. Hjart (talk) 12:36, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
      • @VIGNERON, Hjart, Mahir256: As you may be aware that currently petscan is not allowing edits to Wikidata from their interface (I am not sure if some changes were made recently), which used to give a source of information for the edits. My current approach is to use Petscan to get the information followed by QuickStatements. So all the information are coming from English Wikipedia. To be more precise, following are the articles and categories used for this batch.
    * List of gay villages
    * Category:Gay villages

I can add stated in (P248) with English Wikipedia (Q328), if there is no objection. John Samuel (talk) 12:57, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:240F:4F:13E4:1:58AC:777C:3081:C20A

240F:4F:13E4:1:58AC:777C:3081:C20A (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism Afaz (talk) 14:38, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done blocked for 31 hours. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 16:26, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
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Changes without consensus

Asav (talk • contribs • logs) has his own view of what is a valid source[11] for referencing[12] and removes the cast (e.g.) and now changes language of work or name (P407) of the Internet Movie Database (Q37312) in the sources in multilangual. I'll request he has to be has suspended if he doesn't stop this sort of activity. -- MovieFex (talk) 02:54, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

MovieFex has been following me around for some time, undoing perfectly valid edits, originally in the movies category (which I frequently edit, since I've coded a film infobox on the Norwegian Wikipedia edition that relies on Wikidata.) S/he seems to have been stalking my edits outside of this category as well, as s/he has reverted correct edits completely unrelated to film, see e.g. here and my response here. The reason I removed Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) as a reference in the quoted diff is simply that it's not a valid reference. It's simply a link to a huge database without the necessary title, reference url aso. I have replaced it with valid urls, titles aso. in about between fifty and a hundred occurences, but removed it in some others, as it contains no useful information.
Furthermore, it's completely untrue that I removed the cast from Sniper: Legacy (Q18170441) as stated by MovieFex. As a matter of fact, I've done just the opposite, i.e. added the cast members with valid references, which they lacked before. You just have to look at Sniper: Legacy (Q18170441) to verify this.
Lastly, I've changed the claim that the IMDB website is in English to multilanguage, due to the obvious fact that IMDB is multilingual. Please note that the individual titles, such as Sniper: Legacy (English) are still correctly marked with their original language.
Consequently, I request that MovieFex be precluded from engaging with any of my edits from this point onward as it's really disruptive. Thank you. Asav (talk) 04:11, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
It is an insolent lie that I would or have followed him around. I was aware of some changes he made because of maintenance pages in de-wiki. And he is not the one who has to decide wich source is valid or not. It is absolutely unecessary to delete a source which is given under the identifiers. He can add sources, too. No problem. But the deletion of valid statements is unacceptable. And when comparing this and the current version it is clear, that he hasn't added all of the cast which was before. At last Internet Movie Database (Q37312) shows clearly that language of work or name (P407) and language used (P2936) is English. -- MovieFex (talk) 04:32, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Unfortunately, it is correct that Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) by itself is present on a whole lot of statements. Again, it's not a valid reference at all, rather it's pretty muck akin to name "the internet" as reference. Standalone Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) have probably been added ny a bot at some time and ought to be removed with a bot job. And claiming that IMDB isn't multilingual is quite simply ludicrous. Asav (talk) 12:49, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
What leads you to conclude that "not a valid reference at all"? It may be incomplete, but it allows to check the statement with the identifier also present on the item. --- Jura 13:12, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly, but using just Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) as a reference doesn't lead you anywhere near the actual statement that corroborates the claim. It just points to a huge database. I think you'd agree that just naming "The New York Times" without any further clarification as a reference is not helpful to anyone. Please remember that a standalone Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) has been used in loads of places to verify claims about (probably thousands of) cast members. It is possible to go the actual website Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) and search for the film/cast member there and to contribute a correct reference, i.e. one with the proper url, title, language of work aso., as I've actually done for hundreds of entries(!). But again, just having Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) is not a valid reference. Apart from that, it wreaks havoc on most Wikipedia info boxes, which correctly identify it as invalid, resulting in a huge red error message. Thus, but not exclusively for that reason, it should be removed unless it has the proper reference values added to it.
Furthermore, and again, IMDB is a multilingual, not an English language site, and must be identified as such.
But more importantly, MovieFex has flagges my edits as "vandalism", which they clearly are not. Also, s/he has been following me around, revertinng valid edits completely unrelated to film topics, such as Olaudah Equiano (Q379887), an African-born abolitionist in the 18th century, which is clear proof of online stalking. Asav (talk) 15:22, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
@Jura1: You don't know the story behind the story that has begun here and continued there. In short words: The Norwegian wiki has decided to use a template from the English wiki to import filmdata from wikidata. Obviously this does not work properly so Asav took the way to manipulate wikidata instead of fixing the problem they have in their own wiki. He does not accept that wikidata is an independent project and not the slave of the Norwegian wiki. Importing data from wikidata is by own risk, and if they are so naive to give up their independence and to be dependent on wikidata is their problem. But when beginning to delete valid statements and to manipulate wikidata to be comfortable in NO-wiki is vandalism, no doubt. And calling me a stalker is an aggressive personal attack and insulting that has to be sanctionated. -- MovieFex (talk) 20:03, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
The mass-deletion of Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) should be discussed beforehand: e.g. instead of deleting it at [13] one could completed or replaced it with Q49883590#P2529. It should also be possible to do that lookup directly in a nowiki-template. I don't think it's a good idea to use the term "vandalism" when one disagrees with other users on their edits, but apparently it has become a preferred approach around here. Maybe someone else wants to comment on that aspect .. anyways, please bring up Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) on Wikidata talk:WikiProject Movies and ask the user who added it to join. --- Jura 04:12, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Just to make it clear: There has been no "mass deletion" of Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957). On the contrary, I have mostly replaced it by valid references, mainly garnered by individual, time-consuming searches on this Czech language website itself. It's only been deleted in a monority of cases. I agree that the Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Q3561957) "problem" merits its own thread. The topic here is a different one, that I'm being accused of vandalism for perfectly valid entries by someone who's been following a bona fide contributor around to revert them and replace them with erroneous entries. All I'm asking, is for this to stop! Asav (talk) 12:23, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
In Wikipedia I suppose one replaces one reference with another, but in Wikidata this isn't generally done. --- Jura 08:38, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Undue revert

Hi,

could you please have some consideration of this revert, in the light of this discussion?

Thanks, 86.193.172.227

That discussion has no outcome. I don't see that Ghouston agreed on keeping this nickname. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 08:11, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Deleting edit diff

I would like the request the deletion of this edit diff in item Q30997698 (Carnet de la Patria). The number in the "description / es" parameter appears to be someone's identity document, as it can be confirmed by entering the number in Venezuela's Electoral Council website: http://www.cne.gob.ve/web/index.php. The name that appears is the same of the one that appears in the "aliases / es / 0" parameter, and I can only assume that the number in the "label / es" parameter is the person's Carnet de la Patria ID. I request the deletion given that this appears to be someone's personal information, and in the worst case scenarios this might be a case of outing. --Jamez42 (talk) 14:26, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

@Jamez42: Deleted, but I recommend WD:OS in such cases. This page is public and posting it here is just opposite of what you trying to achieve. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:33, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Please block 190.76.127.192 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) as well. --Trade (talk) 14:34, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
I don't think a block is needed here, no further edits have been made, and it may have been a good-faith error. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:38, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

dinosaur (Q430)

Needs some attention. --Succu (talk) 21:16, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done by Mahir256, semi-protected for a month. --Sotiale (talk) 23:07, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
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Adam Levine (Q219631)

Requesting protection for Adam Levine (Q219631); influx of vandalism recently. – Aranya (talk) 04:25, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done by Mahir256--Ymblanter (talk) 09:38, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
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Interwiki restoration

Hello, in two deletion requests I asked for interwiki links to be put to wiki pages after deletion. My request has been ignored, so I contacted an admin, who deleted those pages. But my message has also been ignored. Is there a way to restore list of interwiki links from those two deleted items somewhere to my user sandbox page or to my e-mail? I would then add classic interwiki links to those wiki pages to link them inbetween. --Dvorapa (talk) 21:48, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

@Dvorapa: Forgive me the delay in getting back to you. As I lack interface admin access on the wikis on which the scripts linked by the aforementioned items reside, I regret that I cannot add the interwiki links back myself. Perhaps a steward may be able to help you add these links back (if you cite the appropriate bullet point of WD:N to them). Mahir256 (talk) 22:12, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
I see and thank you for your response now. You're right, I should've known this requires steward access since interface admin rights are required. --Dvorapa (talk) 22:17, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
You could ask for steward help at this page on Meta. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 02:04, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Holaqtaljeje

Holaqtaljeje (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Since the account was created, vandalism to Raúl Figueroa (Q50820982) and Figueroa (Q21487824) were the only actions. Both Q-items have been subject to more vandalism by IP-Users on 28-FEB-2020. Archie02 (talk) 19:03, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done Indef blocked Andreasm háblame / just talk to me 01:56, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
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Raúl Figueroa (Q50820982)

Raúl Figueroa (Q50820982) is seeing extensive vandalism recently, mostly by IPs. Requesting temp. protection. --Archie02 (talk) 20:03, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done 20:49, 28 February 2020 by Jasper Deng. --Sotiale (talk) 02:07, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
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Mario Negri (Q16301672)

I request the protection of Mario Negri (Q16301672) since it's receiving a lot of vandalism.--BugWarp (talk) 20:31, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done 20:47, 28 February 2020 by Jasper Deng. --Sotiale (talk) 02:06, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
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Neil Armstrong (Q1615)

Please semi-protect Neil Armstrong (Q1615) due to recent excessive vandalism by various IPs. --Kostas20142 (talk) 00:29, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

  Done Protected for a month. Andreasm háblame / just talk to me 01:58, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
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User Wesalius and HypoBot edits

The operation of HypoBot creating statements from Wikipedia categories has created an unknown number of erroneous statements, specifically by adding occupation (P106) = physician (Q39631) to people who have won the Nobel Prize winner in Medicine. When I asked the bot operator to revert those edits his response has been rather dismissive and uncooperative. Is there a way to effectively deal with this problem - both the user/bot problem as well as the erroneous edits? Keren - WMIL (talk) 15:11, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

For dealing with wrong information, you can use PetScan (link ready to run). However, blocks should be preventive, not retroactive, and there is no will to continue. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:09, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Editor continuing after enwiki block

Datamaster1 (aka Mmoates was blocked on enwiki for sock puppetry. See Wikipedia:WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Mmoates. Q7326068 and Q1154057 are both related to topics that the user was edit warring on enwiki. I'll defer to the Wikidata community on how to proceed. Billhpike (talk) 23:53, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

To be clear I have not edited anything that is inaccurate. All of my edits have been constructive and our based on the information that is on En Wikipedia. Billhpike is harassing me. Commenting on my user talk page, commenting on other talk pages about me and all I am doing is importing data that is on the English Wikipedia. Check my edits nothing is inaccurate. His entire goal is to get me blocked. Look at my edits. None of them are vandalism and they are all accurate. If he is accusing me of breaking a policy I would love to know which policy. He admits I edited properties. I am saying I have cited sources with what I have edited feel free to take a look. I'm not sure what he claims I have done wrong. Admins, something else to keep in mind Bill has not made any edits to Wikidata since Sept 2019. He is solely here to harass me, not be productive. Datamaster1 (talk) 23:55, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Do you have a conflict of interest with Michael Moates Q63245258? Billhpike (talk) 23:57, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

This question has been asked an answered. You are harassing me. PS... admins if you look all of the things I have done today are referenced. I am not going to continue to debate with Billhpike. It is counterproductive and I am done arguing about this issue. I request Billhpike be blocked under the blocking policy for Personal attacks or harassment. My edits here have been productive and cited. Datamaster1 (talk) 00:01, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Also, for the record Billhpike, Wikidata does not have a COI policy. Datamaster1 (talk) 00:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

  • [edit conflict] Each project has it's own rules. There is nothing preventing a blocked editor on one from contributing on other projects. The same applies to COI, what applies to one does not automatically apply to others. In fact, a COI (at least, when it comes to self-promotion) is actually encouraged on WD. Quakewoody (talk) 00:25, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
    Not sure I would encourage it, but certainly it is more permissible than on enwiki. We're mainly concerned with the quality of the data here. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 02:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Well, self-promotion, within notability of course. Who better to know the information than the subject of an item. So, its not so much self-promotion - meaning, not free advertising. But self promotion in the sense that I know when I was born and married even though they aren't printed on the internet. Which is far different than the COI rules on enWP, where I can't even add the date of birth of my deceased lover because I am personally involved with the subject. Quakewoody (talk) 02:43, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
  • Are the edits of the sock account incorrect or otherwise disruptive? Neither the sock or the main account are blocked here, so short of disruptive behaviour (including continuing old disputes here) I don't see a reason to block. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 02:02, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Ajraddatz - I do not believe any of my edits are disruptive. Should anyone disagree I am happy to look at it. I believe that Bill is solely here to harass me because he continues to post on my user talk page and other talk pages about me. He is not a contributor of WikiData but is solely here to try and get me blocked. Again, I revert to Bill though if he has evidence I have been disruptive here I will gladly look at it, Billhpike? Datamaster1 (talk) 04:42, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

So per his comment above he has not actionable items continues to be disruptive including posting on ANB meaningless accusations not supported by Wikidata policy, continues to harass my personal user talk page, tags me in the user talk page of other... as others have stated I have not been disruptive or broken any polices. I request a close on that basis. I further request Billhpike be sanctioned for continued harassment and personal attacks which are against Wikidata policy see blocking policy for Personal attacks or harassment. Datamaster1 (talk) 06:22, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Vandal, please revdel

Special:Contributions/ 2409:4063:4E8D:C2C3:A565:6435:71D6:EA5C. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:15, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

@Koavf:   Done, though why ask to revdel rather than just block? Mahir256 (talk) 18:22, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
@Mahir256: He included links to what is certainly spam and possibly malware. On projects where I can revdel, I always remove these links in case they are something malicious. Additionally, it just leaves some self-promoting advertising on our site somewhere, which I don't think is a good message to send. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:26, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
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Admin question

Can I revert this? Do I have to ask first? --- Jura 10:10, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

This is still under discussion, I believe. You reverted my change and I reverted yours because it's still under discussion here.--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 12:04, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
The question isn't if it can be reverted, the question is if I may revert it. --- Jura 12:15, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
@Ash Crow: can you clarify your retroactive restriction? --- Jura 12:26, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
I just saw your prior block. Sorry. Why are you being so difficult to work with? difficult to work. I'm just another editor, just like you. I want to get it right. You're not discussing the issue, you're just demanding your way.--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 12:49, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
Can you open a separate topic if you want to discuss other matters? The question here is just if I can edit like anybody else. --- Jura 12:53, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
If you are talking about the topic ban, it is not my decision, and not even my words. I just reported the ban acted by several admins on this very page. Apart of the ban, if there is a running discussion about a specific statement, you should wait for said discussion to reach a conclusion instead of engaging in a revert war, as it is the case for any other user. -Ash Crow (talk) 21:22, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
@Ash Crow: You implemented it and stated its retro-activity. Can you clarify if it applies to the statement in question?
Can we undo the users content deletion while the discussion is ongoing or restarts. As they noted, it's a statement added 8 years ago and they don't actually challenge it's validity nor are they interested in adding alternative referenced statements. --- Jura 04:29, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Jura, the only argument you have made, aside from your snide remark that Spain is still the jurisdiction over Puerto Rico, is that the information has been there for a long time. That has been your argument. I have provided references you have not. And your summary here is the complete opposite of what I have stated. And the topic ban on you is a political topic ban. ”Jura1 is forbidden from undoing another autoconfirmed editor's edits to items about politicians, politics, and government without prior discussion.” What you are trying to add is politics, so what is going on? Look at the discussion read it there’s no consensus for what you are trying to add to this these US territories wiki data items.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by The Eloquent Peasant (talk • contribs).
Thanks for stating your unsigned point of view. However, I'm actually looking for an admin view. Thus the noticeboard/section header. --- Jura 01:39, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Retroactive. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. More seriously, this is not my restriction. As I told you before, I just implemented the collective decision. Singling me out on this repetitively is just bordering on harrassment. -Ash Crow (talk) 09:29, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
I feel very harrassed as well when Jura has completely ignored making an argument but simply demands reverting my changes.. that I have backed up with references.
See: The CIA World Factbook, under the Geography section for the United States, states that the area of the United States is:
Area
total: 9,833,517 sq km
land: 9,147,593 sq km
water: 685,924 sq km
'note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia, no overseas territories" (emphasis is mine)[1] --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 13:43, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
  1. ↑ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

Request to Restore Deleted Items

I am submitting a request to have recently deleted items restored. A few weeks ago we were tasked in trying to create a dataset and an eventual knowledge graph of notable lawyers and law firms in each state. The goal is to provide a searchable dataset or index of only lawyers or law firms that were notable or known based on several different factors including cases that were tried. While of course some of it could be seen as subjective we were attempting to provide some disambiguation to what is seen as a crowded field. We have a list of these entities and a vast majority of them currently have entries either on Wikidata or Wikipedia. We identified 4 firms and their respective lawyers who did not have an entry anywhere. Internally we felt they had the most reliable sources to provide notoriety.

We admit we are not experts on Wikidata entries but we had made edits before and made edits on other Wiki sites with success. The additions we made over the past few weeks allowed us to create the RDF we needed/wanted for this dataset/graph. With the entries removed we're trying to figure out a way of moving forward and feel that restoration of these items not only contributes to our project but since they meet the requirements of Wikidaata entry, it will also provide beneficial in the web of data or in linked open data as applicable.

All we ask if needed we can update the listings once restored to provide the sources of notoriety. These sources were vetted and are third party, independent resources. We have no affiliation with any of the entities being added and again were only chosen based on the fact they seemingly have the notoriety to be included. We admit that our method of entry may have needed to be more detailed but we are trying to do everything correctly.

We do really appreciate any time spent on your end reviewing this and know that our research project is depending on being able to reference an entity ID from a Wiki source. Thank you again.

Zerocoolpasta (talk) 20:44, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

CC @Bencemac as deleting admin.
I sampled a few of the deleted items and found law firms and lawyers. No sitelinks, no references, no indication of notability, but some websites and social media links, and links between the items. I probably would not have deleted them myself, but I have to agree they are borderline. Bovlb (talk) 22:14, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

@Bencemac and Bovlb If able, we can provide the links/references to what we have. We were using other law firm listings that are currently in our dataset as a reference when making these mew items. For example Q7746388. But again if we can add them again with more reference we will be happy to do that. Zerocoolpasta (talk) 05:17, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

To what extent is an average lawyer notable (in the sense of WD:N)? Nomen ad hoc (talk) 09:00, 19 February 2020 (UTC).

@Nomen ad hoc Well I think you sort of summed up our project. There are thousands of lawyers out there and how does a person tell the difference between a credible lawyer and a less credible one? We are building a dataset to try and help with that. The problem is that is even the most credible lawyers don't have an entry in Wikidata, Wikipedia or really anywhere in the LOD web. But to answer your question when it comes to either credibility or notoriety we were looking at high profile cases that received attention naturally. We spent a lot of time finding news articles, interviews, etc for them. There were some lawyers or law firms like Thomas J Henry https://g.co/kgs/6YGtSG that appear notable just in search results (we're basing this on the knowledge panel, people also ask, topic trending) or others like Geoffrey Fieger https://g.co/kgs/mQng2t who is a well-known attorney just by name recognition.Zerocoolpasta (talk) 19:30, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Any objections to giving User:Zerocoolpasta some rope here to improve these items with references and evidence of notability? Bovlb (talk) 03:46, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Would it be better to see, let's say, 10 items filled out to completion so that we can evaluate, rather than allowing them to import 10,000 ambulance chasers that wouldn't pass WD:N? Quakewoody (talk) 04:14, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
I believe we're talking about 13 undeletions here, although obviously there's the spectre of additional creations hovering over us. Bovlb (talk) 04:21, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

  Info The mentioned items were nominated for deletion as spam. Pinging Jklamo. Bencemac (talk) 20:02, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

@Quakewoody and @Bovlb Hopefully it's alright I respond and add a bit more info. Just want to start by saying the remarks are great because "Ambulance Chaser" is often associated with desperate or even greedy attorneys. Once again the exact people we are trying to weed out. In terms of the amount of additions. I would have to double check but I believe everybody that had a listing was it and no more were needed to be added.Zerocoolpasta (talk) 21:10, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
@Bencemac: Thanks for that information. The deletion comment I saw was "Mass deletion of pages added by Zerocoolpasta", so I assumed you decided that off your own bat, and I did not look for a deletion discussion. Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 03:36, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll follow the result! Bencemac (talk) 06:54, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
I hope that User:Zerocoolpasta is now aware of need to add references proving notability of his items and claims in his items. If references are not added anytime soon, I will consider to renominate items for deletion again.--Jklamo (talk) 09:12, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Jklamo Bencemac Bovlb We really appreciate this guys. We will start updating the items and our plan is to have them all updated on or by Friday. If there are still any questions about the notability or credibilty of them (we dont think there will be an issue but we can see how it can be subjective) please let us know. Thanks again and this saved us so much time and possibly our entire project.

Report concerning User:ACasualBantam

ACasualBantam (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Few examples of vandalism: [14] [15] [16] [17] Waddie96 (talk) 17:56, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Is there any way of r/v the user's 20+ edits automatically? Waddie96 (talk) 17:58, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
@Waddie96: I haven't checked the reported user's contributions, but generally, yes (you'll need to be a rollbacker); see w:en:User:Kangaroopower/scripts/Mass Rollback or w:en:User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js. You can load them here by adding the following code to your common.js:
mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kangaroopower/MRollback.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
Ahmadtalk 18:18, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
@Ahmad252: Thank you for the above! Please can you assist with mass rollback then? Thank you Waddie96 (talk) 13:27, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Is there any chance an admin, like @Jasper Deng:, can assist with giving me the rollbacker right? I have the right on en-wiki. Then I will rollback this user's vandalism and assist with vandalism in future. Waddie96 (talk) 13:30, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi @Waddie96: we usually like to see a bit of local experience with counter-vandalism before granting the local flag. Wikidata diffs can be a bit tricky to read, and it's useful to have some experience reverting before granting the rollback permission (which also contains other useful rights built in, unlike on enwiki). If you get a bit more experience, feel free to request on WD:RFOR. Thanks, -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:40, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
I reverted/undid some of their edits, and warned them. Some edits are still live, because I think they weren't problematic (I may have missed some, though). Ahmadtalk 15:43, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
I've reviewed the user's current edits, and changed those which are problematic or not in sentence case. Waddie96 (talk) 11:14, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Bad mass edits in progress

@Maryseem: See my comment to the user describing the problem -- hundreds or thousands of edits, continuing at a rate of about 40/min. I don't know how this is normally addressed. Can the batch be stopped somehow, or the user blocked temporarily to stop tons of bad edits, or can you mass revert the whole batch at the end? Thanks, Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:36, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Calliopejen1: Thank you for catching this! I was doing a mass update from OpenRefine and the schema wasn't correct. I canceled it. A mass revert would be ideal but I have no idea how that would work... Maryseem (talk) 18:53, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Maryseem: Since you used OpenRefine, it should be possible for you to undo the entire batch. In the edit comment field of each edit in an OpenRevine batch, there is a details-link. It leads to the editgroups-page of that batch. From there, you can click "Undo entire group". --Shinnin (talk) 19:29, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
@Shinnin: Thank you! It has been undone. Maryseem (talk) 19:36, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Minorax (talk) 09:17, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Viapicante

I have been following them since User:Billinghurst brought some of their creations to WD:RFD. Their creations follows pattern of spam items we see usually and this has been highlighted before by User:Mahir256 (Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive/2020/01#The_continued_creations_of_User:Viapicante).

Recently have been blocked indefinitely on English Wikipedia by ArbCom for undisclosed paid editing and their creations indicates that they are doing same here.

They have also responded to these allegations at User_talk:Viapicante#Please_respond_about_your_creations_and_editing so I am requesting if an uninvolved admin can look into this and take appropriate actions. Thank you! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 15:07, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

  Comment It is not a black and white case from my observations. There is/has been dubious content added, there is content of a more personal/conflicted nature which is grey in wikidata:notability, and there is stuff that I would say is within scope. Not an easy case to resolve. What is truly problematic is the lack of communication; no declaration of interest to judge their personal tasks against what could be paid editing, and their sometimes use of references that some consider unreliable and part of the puffery/paid editing industry.  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:23, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Relisting, hope someone deal with it now. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 16:24, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
  • Based on their pattern of creation this looks like undisclosed paid editing which is against the Terms of use. Their uploads on commons and their Enwiki contributions point towards the same direction.--BRP ever 11:44, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Socks of Maitsavend

Earlier this year, I blocked Maitsavend indef for vandalism. Their modus operandi was to add Tatar language description (or to replace existing descriptions) using made up names. I do not think there were ever interested in anything else, and they never communicated with anyone, and reacted to their blocks by just continuing doing what they were previously doing. After I blocked them indef, they started to use socks. The socks have the same modus operandi and use Widar, which enables them to make several hundreds edits per day, which then need to be rolled back. I blocked about a dozen of their socks, and I am pretty sure I missed some. Today, I blocked one more sock, Assegut, and spent at least half an hour reverting their edits (as a representative example, this edit changed the description of the city from Уфа to Өфә, and it is trivial to check that the bame of the Tatar Wikipedia article, where the user has been blocked a long time ago, is Уфа). I am sorry but I do not feel this is a productive use of my time. Me blocking their socks and rolling back hundreds of edits on a weekly basis is just not a scalable solution. Does anybody have any ideas, how these edits can be prevented? One option is to remove all Tatar descriptions by bot (since likely nobody cares about them anyway), but this is not exactly what Wikidata is for. Any ideas are welcome.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:46, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

We could set an edit filter for changes to Tatar descriptions (perhaps for unconfirmed users) to warn, throttle, or disallow. I am not certain how "warn" would interact with WIDaR. Bovlb (talk) 21:00, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Thank you. May be indeed to disallow non-confirmed users to modify Tatar descriptions would be a viable solution - though a dramatic one.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:46, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
Another one is Maglef, and now I am traveling and do not have time to revert. I am afraid we need a filter ASAP.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:46, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
I have created Special:AbuseFilter/129, which limits newish editors to 3 Tatar labels or descriptions per day. This seems to catch all edits by Assegut and Maglef. I can't take the test interface back far enough to test Maitsavend. Bovlb (talk) 20:18, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Thank you very much, this should work.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:40, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: It appears Samaierti (talk • contribs • logs) has hit this filter several thousand times. They have now moved on to editing East Mari (mhr) descriptions, nearly 700 so far. Please advise. Bovlb (talk) 02:27, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, this is clearly the same person. I blocked them and reverted the Tatar descriptions, Mari descriptions seem ok (though I obviously do not speak the language either).--Ymblanter (talk) 06:28, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
@Ymblanter: Now affecting 31.180.211.62 (talk • contribs • logs), could be a false positive here. Should we relax the throttle to, say, 10 per day? Bovlb (talk) 16:52, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Indeed, I do not see anything wrong with the edits of this IP. We can relax to 10 per day, no problem.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:12, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Done. Bovlb (talk) 00:23, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:54, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Minorax (talk) 04:59, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
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