Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/2020/10

Q99675478

Reasons:

• Vandalismo de la dirección IP 186.144.13.99 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Rodney Araujo (talk) 01:12, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done solamente una edición de vandalismo, creo que el bloqueo o la protección no es necesario. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 01:34, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

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Indef protection of userpage

TenPoundHammer here. Can someone please indef semi-protect my user talk page here? It's getting hit hard with vandalism.. (Oh, and global block the sock too; they're a sock of Wikipedia user Jack Gaines who has been harassing me for years) 75.133.35.100 03:27, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done, do not have tools for global blocks--Ymblanter (talk) 19:09, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

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Demande de blocage

L' ip 204.19.80.254 devrait être bloquée. Elle se manifeste peu souvent mais uniquement pour vandaliser. En corrigeant ses dernières interventions je me suis aperçu que d'anciens vandalismes n'avaient toujours pas été corrigés (comme sur Bruno Hébert (Q2926838), 11 décembre 2019). --Sapphorain (talk) 08:40, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done, 1 mois--Ymblanter (talk) 19:08, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q23215

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 13:46, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done, 3 months--Ymblanter (talk) 19:04, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q46134670

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 22:33, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Protected for one month. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 03:44, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:200.25.61.8

200.25.61.8 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: blatant BLP violations. Hasley 22:38, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Posting here only brings unwarranted attention to the BLP violating edits. Next time please email Wikidata:OS instead. @Hasley:--Trade (talk) 23:46, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning Damian Butnariu (Q24174006)

This living person's alias keeps being vandalized, please semiprotect -- Dr.üsenfieber (talk) 10:07, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Already  Done by Ladsgroup. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 19:32, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concering 2.109.102.67

2.109.102.67 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) has increasingly often (today, 6 days ago, in august) vandalized various items. --Hjart (talk) 10:44, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done blocked, one month. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 19:30, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concering FrogBirb

FrogBirb (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Vandalism--Trade (talk) 01:05, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done --DannyS712 (talk) 01:16, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block Nennito (talk • contribs • logs)

Spam only account. 轻语者 (talk) 03:03, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done --DannyS712 (talk) 03:07, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

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SP for Q1335213

• Request: Long SP for Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Q1335213)

• Reason: Excessive vandalism. Seems to be school vandalism: started in mid-August and has not stopped until now, kind of childish.

Protection until June (school holidays) will give respite to this page and will not be a luxury (so it is not a request "in anticipation of"). Thanks in advance. —Eihel (talk) 19:43, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Another vandalism now. —Eihel (talk) 00:22, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 14:16, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

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Protect Cabello (Q5015358)

The item Cabello (Q5015358) suffers innumerable "mistaken" editions because it is the surname of singer Camila Cabello. Such edits affect categorization on Commons, for example. Minerva97 (talk) 16:17, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done 1 IP edit this year. Unnecessary. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 16:47, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

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Protection of Estrabao (Q57167268)

The item Estrabao (Q57167268) suffers innumerable "mistaken" editions because it is the surname of singer Camila Cabello. Such edits affect categorization on Commons, for example. Minerva97 (talk) 16:24, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done 5 IP edits this year, the last more one month ago. Unnecessary. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 16:49, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

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Vandalism on Carlo Acutis (Q2939142)

Hi,

Can you protect the page and block Mikellull23gamer, 38 vandalisme today. — eru ^{[Talk] [french wiki]} 16:46, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done by Andreasmperu --Alaa :)..! 20:31, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

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Protect an item

Hello,
I would recommend Q12200353 is protected to prevent vandalisms from IP addresses, who regularly modify the individual's date of birth even though the current date is referenced by the individual's personal website. Moumou82 (talk) 18:29, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Semi-protected. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:37, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

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Add badge

Please add good article badge for Winchester Model 1200 in viwikipedia language. Discussions: vi:Wikipedia:Ứng cử viên bài viết tốt/Winchester Model 1200. Local policy: Have 3 agree and no oppose. J. Smile (Love & V.A.V.I) (talk) 14:15, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 14:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello @J. Smile (Love & V.A.V.I), Ymblanter:, This article has a good chance of becoming a good article when you see the votes, but it is not technically right now. See Jimmy Page (Q165467) and w:vi:Thảo_luận:Jimmy_Page (with a star). Is it really necessary to put a badge now? Cordially. —Eihel (talk) 20:13, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

I do not speak Vietnamese very well, but I checked that the article on the Vietnamese Wikipedia has a badge, that the badge is linked to some policy, and that the English interwiki page for that policy is a Good article. I do not see what else I should have checked to be honest.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:17, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

However, I see that now it does not have the badge anymore, therefore I have removed the badge in the Wikidata element.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:19, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

@J. Smile (Love & V.A.V.I), Ymblanter:, I just understood: the voting was closed 1 day in advance and the request to change the badge here was made at the same time. Vote closed, article promoted, badge added, problem resolved. Sorry for inconvenience. —Eihel (talk) 17:42, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:189.219.38.140

189.219.38.140 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism, added bogus statements to items CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 06:50, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Doesn't look like this IP continued after his edits earlier. I think no further action is really needed. --Wiki13 (talk) 10:35, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q349375

Vandalism---Trade (talk) 12:06, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done. semi'd for a year. --Wiki13 (talk) 13:43, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q20089050

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 12:09, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done. semi'd for a month. --Wiki13 (talk) 13:43, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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MediaWiki:Randompage/id

Please translate MediaWiki:Randompage/id from "Item sembarang" to "Butir sembarang" per Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2020/09#Sidebar and MediaWiki talk:Randompage/id. The currently correct Indonesian translation for the term "item" is "butir". RXerself (talk) 04:12, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done. Hazard-SJ (talk) 05:43, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Kwip1

Kwip1 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Harassment--Trade (talk) 07:36, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Block

Some can block 200.25.21.153 and hide the post? (maybe need an oversight) --ValterVB (talk) 10:16, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Looks like the content is gone and the IP is blocked. — regards, Revi 12:51, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

@-revi: Yes, but need hide the third edit summary in this: topic (timestamp 12:21, 2 ott 2020). Admin can't do it. Need an oversighter. --ValterVB (talk) 13:38, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

You might have noticed I am an Oversighter :P Done everything I can do. (PS: Flow really sucks.) — regards, Revi 13:41, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

@-revi: I noticed it, but thought you didn't try :( Thanks anyway. --ValterVB (talk) 13:48, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

@-revi:, could you please block Iudm77 as well? --Trade (talk) 18:54, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:95.61.176.206

95.61.176.206 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism account created to trash, obvious puppet account. Add causes of death and invented places of death among other data. Cross-wiki abuse. Associated main account: LiliaMiller2002 (LaraMiller2015, AngelMiller30, MaffyMiller2008, etc.) Ytha67 (talk) 13:34, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done - IP blocked for one month. -- Fuzheado (talk) 01:47, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

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Reporting 212.98.82.184

212.98.82.184 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Guilty of several accounts of vandalism of various items this year alone. No valid edits. --Hjart (talk) 18:00, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done - After two edits, activity has stopped. -- Fuzheado (talk) 01:35, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q41921

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 14:03, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Already protected by Andreasmperu--Ymblanter (talk) 15:57, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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User:Chicken man 2222222 222

Chicken man 2222222 222 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) --Pyfisch (talk) 15:04, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 16:01, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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Test edits on Q4230

74.140.64.36 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Likely misbehaving bot, or test edits. --Pyfisch (talk) 15:39, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for 2 weeks--Ymblanter (talk) 16:00, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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Edit request

Could any of the administrators take a look MediaWiki talk:Wikibase-SortedProperties. On August 23rd I asked about a change, there is no reply to this day. Wostr (talk) 16:07, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 19:36, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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User:Arjun Singh Thakur

Arjun Singh Thakur (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) only adds their own name in descriptions, already warned Pyfisch (talk) 07:30, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Hazard-SJ (talk) 14:22, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection for Q1299

Please semi-protect The Beatles (Q1299) - persistent IP vandalism from various IP addresses, popular theme. --Jklamo (talk) 10:22, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done semi-protected for 2 weeks.-- H^akan·IST 10:26, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2.139.186.251

2.139.186.251 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: different vandalisms in the last editions. Altering flags and images Lost in subtitles (talk) 10:18, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done - Stale request, as the user has stopped activity. -- Fuzheado (talk) 11:08, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

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User:Jeanpaul Camus

Another user that adds nonsens/unwanted data (here: height of people) to description fields despite complaints on his talkpage. --Denniss (talk) 16:37, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done - Indefinitely blocked. -- Fuzheado (talk) 03:42, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

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User:90.187.70.133

90.187.70.133 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) German description vandalism. --Pyfisch (talk) 07:10, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: only 3 edits attributed to that IP. Consider a warning, but I don’t think a block is warranted at this point. Hazard-SJ (talk) 14:21, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q171558

Vandalism, highly visible item--Trade (talk) 19:29, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 19:52, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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To be blocked

Please block https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/68.118.87.137 --Estopedist1 (talk) 05:22, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Already blocked by Jasper Deng for one week. -- Fuzheado (talk) 11:01, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

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User:193.144.97.124

193.144.97.124 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Vandalism--Trade (talk) 09:40, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done - Blocked for six months. -- Fuzheado (talk) 11:07, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protect request of Q63229830

Kozo Iizuka (Q63229830)'s Japanese description has been vandalized by various IPs in the last 2 months. Can an admin please semi-protect it for a while? Thanks. whym (talk) 10:00, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for 3 months--Ymblanter (talk) 19:53, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Sajith Thomas

Item Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Sajith Thomas (Q99658738) was created as "Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Sajith Thomas". But multiple users worked together to change it into a person item for "Sajith Thomas". Please revert the vandalism and semiprotect the page. Also revert rename of Commons category. CU Request --Pyfisch (talk) 08:15, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

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Long term vandal back after block

The IP user who has been vandalizing various TV show items is back after their 2 week range block. See last report here.

This time under 2600:1700:3720:3770:2CA3:5663:AC21:F151 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)). And like always, various edits of descriptions and labels seem okay, but other edits remove labels without reason and then they simply remove interwiki links and move them to some other, unrelated TV show item (removal 1 + addition here, removal 2 + addition here, removal 3 + addition here).

Pinging @Mahir256: as the admin who last blocked the IP range. Seems two weeks wasn't enough for this person, vandalism re-started right after the block ended. Seeing as this has been going on for months (or even longer, these edits from an IPv4 range were back in March), maybe a long time block is needed (if this IPv6 range doesn't include other editors). --Kam Solusar (talk) 10:45, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Blocked the /64 for three months. Mahir256 (talk) 13:55, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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Hiding IP

I can't find a dedicated page for this: I accidentally edited while logged out, can someone erase my IP from edits [1] and [2]? Nikola (talk) 13:56, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Nikola:  Done. BTW, there is no dedicated page for this kind of requests. You should email oversightwikidata.org or contact an oversighter privately. --Esteban16 (talk) 23:09, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q202466

Vandalism, highly visible item--Trade (talk) 16:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done. 1 year. Wiki13 (talk) 16:26, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:GD.Google.Developer

GD.Google.Developer (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Spam--Trade (talk) 18:24, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

 Blocked. Hazard-SJ (talk) 20:09, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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Special:Contributions/Scarlen8/Special:Contributions/Scarlen9

Spam.--GZWDer (talk) 19:39, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

 Blocked. Hazard-SJ (talk) 20:09, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block Vuasoikeo (talk • contribs • logs)

Spam only account. 轻语者 (talk) 00:29, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 06:28, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Daboluo123

Daboluo123 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Adding non-factual information on country affiliations, e.g., diff Kautilya3 (talk) 17:19, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

The edit in question (and another of that user's 4 edits) was from 11 months ago. The two more recent edits seem okay (at least the automated translations do). I don't think any action is needed here. Hazard-SJ (talk) 20:09, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:User:Ainty Painty

User:Ainty Painty (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Thus user did make many not notable person itam that did brock wikidata policy. I did request for remove his/her more item. Please check his/ her all itam. I think he/she is technical paid editor. Baby come (talk) 06:34, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done - If this is a formal complaint, we need more actionable information. -- Fuzheado (talk) 12:44, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q234801

Vandalism---Trade (talk) 07:45, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done. 1 year. Wiki13 (talk) 12:32, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

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Advice on who can use wikidata

Guys

So im confused as to who can add stuff to wikidata on my behalf.

I had someone create a profile for me, i then added some facts about me alongside references of these facts

I do not sell services, i dont really have anything to promote, i simply added factual information about me, my IMDB profile and a number of other press citations alongside some of my social media links.

It has been deleted and ive been told im note noteworthy? Ive been told a video creator isn't noteworthy, im also told that im spamming.

Now ive never claimed to be noteworthy, ive never said i was an actor ( ive been in a handful of things ) and ive never tried to spam.

My profile was deleted for me adding in a citation about me on forbesindia.com

I was trying to add more factual information about me citing the correct sources.

However from what i can see anyone can be on wikidata, its not only for Hollywood celebrities am i right or wrong in thinking that?

Just im about to make a case study on how this works, and want to make sure that i have my facts right before telling people how this process works, as its seems rigged to me that some admin guy tells me im not a video creator, i never claimed to be one, but i did state ive a youtube channel on there to cite who I am.

So just looking for clarification on who can and cannot have a wikidata profile, as i see many others with wikidata profiles and im only doing the same as others.

And looking for clarification as to who can edit my profile, do i need to get an agent to do this, or am i able to do this myself.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Craigcampbell0302 (talk • contribs).

(not an administrator) Hi, Wikidata exists to support Wikipedia and free knowledge in general. Therefore we only accept items that serve this mission and are relevant to a general audience, see also Wikidata:Notability. This also means that we don't want to have an item for all 7 billion people, but just data for notable individuals. Currently notability for living persons is not precisely defined, in general persons are notable if they have a Wikipedia article or are listed in the authority file of a national library or other well-respected catalog. SEO Experts in particular are known to create an item for themselves, to promote their own person and the services they sell. The Wikidata community dislikes this form of advertisement and deletes it. If you know other people with Wikidata profiles that don't fit this description of notability, let me know. --Pyfisch (talk) 13:50, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection of Q726

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 09:00, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for 2 weeks--Ymblanter (talk) 18:30, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q10304982

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 17:32, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for a year--Ymblanter (talk) 18:55, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q36107

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 09:47, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for a week--Ymblanter (talk) 18:56, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q1641134

It is being vandalized by several accounts and ips. --Rodelar (talk) 13:25, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done - Semi-protected for one month. -- Fuzheado (talk) 15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please consider blocking 195.122.10.220 (talk • contribs • logs)

vandalism 195.122.10.220 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) -- Maxlath (talk) 15:42, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done 31 hours. --Lymantria (talk) 17:17, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

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Vandal or what?

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/193.50.175.39. Thx. --E4024 (talk) 18:44, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Low frequency, but consistent in vandalism. Blocked for 1 month. Lymantria (talk) 05:36, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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User block request: Jackbruceteen

Jackbruceteen (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Promotion only accout मार्तंड मल्हार (talk) 18:46, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Blocked indef --Esteban16 (talk) 03:38, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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User block request: Babyboy8

Babyboy8 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Promotion only account मार्तंड मल्हार (talk) 18:48, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done by Esteban16 --DannyS712 (talk) 02:58, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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Q77286976

RaptorGamer (Q77286976) was vandalized multiple times and should probably be semi-protected. --Pyfisch (talk) 21:59, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done by MisterSynergy --DannyS712 (talk) 03:58, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block User:2404:160:8024:d1a7:1:0:54d6:d690

2404:160:8024:d1a7:1:0:54d6:d690 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) --Pyfisch (talk) 09:36, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done by MisterSynergy --HarryNº2 (talk) 10:01, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please protect Q317506

It's being preyed by the IPs of a well known socker.--DarwIn (talk) 11:04, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done. Semi'd for 6 months. Wiki13 (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Q846876

Stockholm Bloodbath (Q846876) was vandalized multiple times and should probably be semi-protected. Shamzan (talk) 12:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 18:33, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please semi-protect Q58514

Same case as Q317506, item is being preyed by sock using IPs.--DarwIn (talk) 15:42, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for 3 months--Ymblanter (talk) 18:38, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semiprotection

Hi, I ask semi protect Julio Bascuñán González (Q20013400) due many vandalisms in the last hour. Superzerocool (talk) 02:42, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done semi-protected for a week --DannyS712 (talk) 02:55, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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Friendly reminder

@Andreasmperu: just removed items Q15304738, Q16738068, Q18445392, Q19967347, Q63042499 with no discussion, claiming they were not notable. But all these have a Commons category with a linked infobox. Now their infoboxes are blank. See for instance this category and this other one. The admin also went on to blank Q55395318 then re-adding some basic info. [3] (after being reverted herself, they reverted back and protected the item claiming "excessive vandalism" - where there obviously isn't). And then also deliberately removed a link to an item they just deleted. Although the notability policy says category items with a sitelink only to Wikimedia Commons are not permitted, in what relates to Q15304738 there is not only the Commons category (and related ones as pointed out above, including one for images uploaded by the individual and other with images taken by the individual) but also another which includes Wikinews articles written by the former Wikinews user and an interview on Wikinews: --200.112.102.19 03:18, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello, User:123uhjsakddsa89321l3/(Redacted), previously known as User:Cuatro Remos and (Redacted). Still onto self-promotion, it seems. Andreasm ^{háblame / just talk to me} 03:29, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Please respect my right to privacy, @Andreasmperu:. You should know better. Please remove my name from your comment (I have no problem if you refer to me as Cuatro Remos, but don't use my name, for a reason I vanished). And, yet, you are not responding my comments. Although I do not think they were deleted with bad intentions, I do believe they shouldn't have and I have pointed out why. --200.112.102.19 03:33, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

I have redacted the references to the real name. Please do not add them back --DannyS712 (talk) 05:17, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

??? The right to vanish was conceived for contributors who are leaving a project permanently, not to enable users to abuse the system and boycott several projects. That user has not abandon his aim of self-promotion, and to do so he has used several sock-puppets to try to hide his true identity. That self-promotion is shown by the public use of his real name. Andreasm ^{háblame / just talk to me} 05:27, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Discussions about whether or not this should be shown should not be taking place here. If you believe the hiding was in error, I suggest using email to discuss it DannyS712 (talk) 05:28, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not understanding what you are trying to do. But please be my guest and deal with that user. Andreasm ^{háblame / just talk to me} 05:31, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

I don't understand your hostility. I think you should read again the right to vanish page on Meta. I have not created sockpuppets in order to fulfill that (as you put it) "aim of self promotion": just to make things clear, I had a primary account, which ran by my real name, and a secondary account which I used on public computers. I lost access to my primary account in 2015 and the secondary one became my primary account. I retired definitely months ago and you can see I have not used my former accounts ever since. I vanished (yes, I did).

Also, requesting a second look is, by no means, a boycott. My petition was made respectfully and if the deletions are confirmed, I have absolutely no problem with that. 200.112.102.19 05:37, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Looking at the first item, Diego Grez Cañete (Q15304738), it does appear to meet the notability policy, since it has Library of Congress authority ID (P244)nb2018003453 which on its own should be enough (since Library of Congress authority ID (P244)instance of (P31)Wikidata property for an identifier that suggests notability (Q62589316)). I believe it should be undeleted. The other items are less straightforward, but at least to me appear notable at first glance, and I would suggest sending them to RfD for a second opinion. DannyS712 (talk) 05:42, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Personnally, I agree to restore Diego Grez Cañete (Q15304738) Pamputt (talk) 14:59, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

FTR I have restored Diego Grez Cañete (Q15304738) per above comments. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:23, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Aleksandr Kalyanov

Hola. Por tres veces he corregido el lugar de fallecimiento de Aleksandr Kalyanov, vandalizado por el usuario AndreiK. Como aviso, le dejado un mensaje en su página de discusión.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by J. Manolo G. P. (talk • contribs) at 16:49, 4 October 2020 (UTC).

Anonymous user creates articles in dozens of languages

24.251.25.227 (talk • contribs • logs) has a highly unusual edit pattern. They choose an item, improve it and create stub articles in a dozen languages. I think they are editing in good faith but their stubs don't seem to be welcome everywhere. --Pyfisch (talk) 09:27, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Was globally blocked by Tks4Fish for Long-term abuse. --Pyfisch (talk) 09:53, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block 187.26.83.14

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

Vandal IP of well known sockmaster specialized on creating fakes, everything should be reverted as well.--DarwIn (talk) 15:45, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Probably gone forever--Ymblanter (talk) 18:39, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block 2804:214:82DC:A001:C0AE:829A:9CAB:FBE9

2804:214:82DC:A001:C0AE:829A:9CAB:FBE9 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

Vandal IP of well known sockmaster specialized on creating fakes, everything should be reverted as well.--DarwIn (talk) 15:46, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

And also:

• 2804:214:82DE:4A01:1:1:6A9:D0F0 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
• 2804:214:82DE:4A01:C0AE:829A:9CAB:FBE9 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

Please try to apply some kind of range block to keep the vandal away.--DarwIn (talk) 15:53, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 19:47, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please semi-protect Q83279

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 19:14, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

•  Done - Semiprotected for one month -- Fuzheado (talk) 09:43, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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ongoing long-term global discruptive editing

Special:Contributions/82.79.62.243
User ignores all warnings and is totally incapable of editing.
Some of today's bullshit: [4], [5], [6] (company got defunct in 1902, long time before the logo looked that way); [7] (logo appears to belong to en:Detroit_Electric a total different company); [8] (wrong descr.: not a Japanese car); [9]

Previously reported: Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive/2020/09#continous_disruptive_editing_of_one_user_under_various_IPs -- along with some other IPs clearly used by the same person; one already blocked

Please block. I'll then proceed and request a global block because this user messes up globally in many different ways. --Zaccarias (talk) 22:55, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for a month by Mahir256 -- Fuzheado (talk) 09:41, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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190.189.37.222

Item hijacking. --Minorax (talk) 06:10, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

done by Sotiale. --Minorax (talk) 06:27, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block Nkasabov (talk • contribs • logs)

Spam only account. 轻语者 (talk) 10:01, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done report was good at the time, but now stale - no edits since then. Please report again if they come back --DannyS712 (talk) 04:30, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please consider blocking ‎103.110.7.136

‎103.110.7.136 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) The user is creating previously deleted item , LTA spam मार्तंड मल्हार (talk) 09:18, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done by Esteban16. Hazard-SJ (talk) 04:23, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please consider blocking User:MusicologoVzla or preventing him to edit Q2939142

Repeated erroneous inputs in Q2939142, though he was utterly informed that his conclusions are incorrect. The person described was Italian and had no second surname as it is commonly used only in the Spanish speaking world, and he was not an UK citizen. No trustworthy references available for all that. See my reverts: [10] [11], thx.--Jordi (talk) 10:11, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Please consider urgently blocking this user for that object. He is already changing the facts again in his home Wikipedia and probably will arrive soon again in Wikidata, too. Remains completely unreasonable.--Jordi (talk) 12:25, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Here he is, user remains completely unreasonable, please fullprotect this page.--Jordi (talk) 12:33, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

In the discussion of the article in Spanish by Carlo Acutis link, consensus is being reached on whether or not to put the maternal surname, that is why the change of details had been made in Wikidata. Jordi, I ask you to contextualize before coming to report.--MusicologoVzla (talk) 12:35, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

There is no consensus necessary, this is a simple question of facts you cannot prove because your conclusions are erroneous. The person was Italian and simply did not have any maternal surname because Italians do not use second surnames and the paternal surname was his only one, there cannot be reached any consensus to the contrary. Also, the person was not a British citizen as you state. So there are no details you shoud change in Wikidata, please stop to do so immediately. Thx.--Jordi (talk) 13:21, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block 185.225.28.44

User:185.225.28.44 in an IP vandal : let see his contributions. He's blocked on french Wikipedia. Thanks. --Arcyon37 (talk) 19:12, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done report was good at the time, but no edits since, block no longer needed --DannyS712 (talk) 04:29, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

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Block request

195.77.175.68 : a long list of vandalism. Thanks for your help. --—d—n—f (talk) 11:23, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Done, 11:55, 14 October 2020 MisterSynergy. --Sotiale (talk) 13:55, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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urgent: BIDGEE

It has come to our attention that Robert Myers (aka BIDGEE) has been ignoring the detective that was sent out to volunteers by the Wiki Foundation and also ignoring local laws by travelling to take shitty pictures all over the Australian country side, possibly spreading COVID to fellow citizen. Wiki Foundation and Wiki Australia must stop him and block him for life! He is self indulgent and using Wiki funds for holiday. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=500&user=Bidgee --Keepinitreal2020 (talk) 12:25, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

@Sotiale:, could you help out with this?--Trade (talk) 15:02, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

In what way is this urgent or is there a need to insult their photos? The photos were taken in September. BrokenSegue (talk) 15:28, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

I blocked the topicstarter and I do not see anything actionable here. Wikidata is not supposed to a platform for newly registered users to harass other users.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:57, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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Sansmiro

Please block User:Sansmiro, who is a sockpuppet of User:Awikivisitor20122018. Thank you, --Horcrux (talk) 12:33, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Done. See their block log. --Sotiale (talk) 13:54, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Area 51 OHIO (Q177397)

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 13:37, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Done. --Sotiale (talk) 13:54, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2A04:CEC0:11AA:5A73:0:65:A662:9601

2A04:CEC0:11AA:5A73:0:65:A662:9601 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalisme sur la notice Sophie Pétronin Kohfuku (talk) 19:54, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Done. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 02:00, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Chautrong1004

Chautrong1004 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: This account does nothing but vandalize. Buiquangtu (talk) 22:21, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done account has not edited since July, no need to block now. Please report again if they become active --DannyS712 (talk) 04:28, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block User:Ultras Green Army: Vandalism-only account

Ultras Green Army (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) --HarryNº2 (talk) 16:31, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done by MisterSynergy --HarryNº2 (talk) 17:58, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection for Q6279

Please semi-protect Joe Biden (Q6279) - persistent IP vandalism, very popular theme, living person. --Jklamo (talk) 16:10, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done, two months. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 18:37, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

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User:Ddandorian claisier

Ddandorian claisier (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))- SpamTrade (talk) 18:09, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Blocked by Jassper Deng. Wiki13 (talk) 12:37, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block Zaneandres (talk • contribs • logs)

Spam bot. 轻语者 (talk) 23:46, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Already done. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 04:05, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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blocked

Thank you for blocking the IP that was vandalizing that page - as soon as they were blocked this new user User:Jhonwictor User:Himan781 User:ShanviS appears and starts the same nonsense - can you take a peek and see if they need blocking too. Best wishes 2409:4052:E9A:15CC:0:0:BA4B:F712 04:01, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

These three are Confirmed as socks of each other. Blocked and tagged. Separately, though, the edit war over Shubham Singh (Q41960189) needs to stop so I am protecting the item.--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:33, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Roblox (Q692989)

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 17:40, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for a month--Ymblanter (talk) 18:46, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block 188.127.173.49

188.127.173.49 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) all his categories for airlines founded in the future need to be deleted. --Pyfisch (talk) 21:39, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for one month. This person was previously blocked with other IPs. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 04:12, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block 130.225.254.42

130.225.254.42 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) for vandalism in Hans Christian Andersen (Q5673). --Larske (talk) 07:42, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done 1 week. Lymantria (talk) 09:46, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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Vandalism by anonymous users

I tried to undo some vandalism from anonymous users on multiple items, but my edits are undone again by other anonymous users. Last items Q3238917, Q3611365. Users: 47.60.39.36, 137.101.15.134, 95.60.85.109, 46.25.191.95 (and maybe others). The vandalism is consistently adding false claims to recently died persons like burial at sea or ocean as place of burial, homicide or accident as manner of death, drowning or conjoined twins as cause of death, absurd medical conditions, etc. GeeJee (talk) 10:00, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Well known LTA. Blocked the IP's for a month and semiprotected the two items indicated for a week. Lymantria (talk) 10:51, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block 185.38.129.101

185.38.129.101 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) vandalism. –LiberatorG (talk) 10:52, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done 1 month. Lymantria (talk) 10:59, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Logan Paul (Q24451685)

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 08:40, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for a year--Ymblanter (talk) 18:56, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please semi-protect Jisoo (Q27655361)

Jisoo (Q27655361) is a frequent target of anon vandalism now. --CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 04:39, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Semiprotected for 6 months. Lymantria (talk) 07:50, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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User Block Request : Oceansidechair

Oceansidechair (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
Promotion only account Rockpeterson (talk) 07:00, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done. Wiki13 (talk) 09:55, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please check GhostsAreCool12 edits

Please check today's edits by GhostsAreCool12 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)). I had to revert these. -DePiep (talk) 14:35, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

 Blocked indef --Esteban16 (talk) 17:26, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Delete recent revisions of Q1455718

There have been slurs against a living person on nigger (Q1455718). Please consider deleting those revisions. Considering the history of recent vandalism and expected future vandalism a long term or infinite semi-protection might be appropriate. -- Dr.üsenfieber (talk) 14:50, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Dr.üsenfieber:  Done, next time please email oversight@wikidata.org or contact an oversighter privately. --Esteban16 (talk) 17:25, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Special:Contributions/Hacker.or.id

VOA.--GZWDer (talk) 17:36, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

 Already done --Esteban16 (talk) 17:43, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Amir Sarkhosh (Q99736447)

Some days ago, Amir Sarkhosh (Q59273537) was semi-protected due to cross-wiki vandalism. Now, probably the same person created a new object with a false spelling. See also User talk:Snookerado#Two page transfer (I'm not sure, but the IP could also be the vandal). Greetings, --Snookerado (talk) 10:32, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

I merged the items--Ymblanter (talk) 19:52, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:GLEB3630

GLEB3630 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: vandalism 1 2 and POV-pushing: 1 2 3... almost the entire remaining small contribution of the user - he is blocked in uk.wikipedia.org - most likely someone's virtual has been permanently blocked in other sections Carn (talk) 14:52, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

They last vandalized on Sep 12, and the later edits are kind of constructive, so I gave them a warning--Ymblanter (talk) 19:56, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Semiprotection of Nelson Mandela (Q8023) and Mahatma Gandhi (Q1001)

Please, semiprotect these two items. Not sure why, but once in a few days random IPs inevitably vandalize these items. --Lockal (talk) 17:59, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

I have semi-protected Nelson Mandela (Q8023) for 3 days, but I don't really think the other item needs to be protected ATM. Just 2 vandal edits today. If vandalism increases it should be protected. Esteban16 (talk) 18:49, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Reporting user :Tomflez69

@Trade: The user has created entity for a person who's wikidata item Q100400844 was deleted almost 3-4 times in this month . Its a clear suspect of sock as well as LTA spam . A block is required Rockpeterson (talk) 06:26, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

User Block Request : VashiBoy

VashiBoy (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Promotion only account Rockpeterson (talk) 06:36, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Block of IP 212.35.232.216

212.35.232.216 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) This user only wants to disturb and destroy. I've checked several edits he made and so far it was vandalism e.g. [12] , [13] , [14] and so on. It is impossible to check every single edit to filter out if some of them are good or not. I request that every edit he made will be reverted, if it hasn't been done so far and this IP will be blocked. He started editing in January 2020, it seems this IP is steady so a longer block is desirable. -- MovieFex (talk) 08:27, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

User Block Request Quitoncon

Quitoncon (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
Promotion Only Account Rockpeterson (talk) 10:06, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Reporting user CanadianBBQ

CanadianBBQ (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) This user has removed items from requests for deletion check his edit history . Also creating promotional items मार्तंड मल्हार (talk) 17:55, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi protection for Blackpink member pages

Lisa (Q26707663) - Lisa's page has been vandalized recently.

Jennie (Q26262599) - Jennie's page hasn't been vandalized yet, but could be applied as a preventive measure.

Rosé (Q27655344) - Rosé's page has been vandalized and could use semi-protection. It is a frequent target of anon vandalism lately.--CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 15:41, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

@CrystallineLeMonde:  Done for a year each. You forgot that Jisoo (Q27655361) is also a member; Lymantria (talk • contribs • logs) semi'd that for six months.--Jasper Deng (talk) 03:38, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

@Jasper Deng: I didn't forget it, but as you can see, its request for protection was made some time before this request and has been archived.--CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 05:03, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

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user AVIIAX

Please remove the edits. All have been previously deleted. I am listing here instead of the RfD page because I didn't want to take the chance of missing an item when it would be much more efficient to simply 'nuke' the editor's edits. Quakewoody (talk) 15:41, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

• turns out, it was only 4 items. and just account edits, no ip edits. it wasn't so difficult. Quakewoody (talk) 19:42, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Please block 5.125.2.4

5.125.2.4 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Harrasment--Trade (talk) 05:59, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done by Wiki13--Ymblanter (talk) 19:24, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Reporting user Hivikob442

Hivikob442 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) persistent re-creation of self-promotion items despite the warnings. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 14:58, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

 Blocked indef --Esteban16 (talk) 17:32, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Vandalism on a page about Napoleon I

Vandalism was carried out by: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2A01:CB08:88AB:AF00:9C7:D0EE:1ACC:CCD3 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Labananedu29

--Yurij Vladimirovich L. (talk) 18:31, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

I semi-protected indef, at this point I do not see any net benefit from the ability of autoconfirmed users to edit this item--Ymblanter (talk) 19:22, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please semi-protect Daniel Radcliffe (Q38119)

Persistent vandalism by multiple IPs. –LiberatorG (talk) 06:16, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Semiprotected for a year. Lymantria (talk) 06:20, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Evaluna Montaner (Q21006723)

Vandalism. Thanks, Aranya (talk) 21:29, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Two months. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 01:58, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Riley J. Dennis (Q66438534)

Someone keeps removing statements. --Trade (talk) 09:21, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for a week. --Esteban16 (talk) 02:36, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:148.3.164.130

148.3.164.130 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: This IP seems to be adding a mix of legitimate and garbage content. I've reverted the obviously-incorrect edits. Samwalton9 (talk) 13:13, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done A well known pattern of vandalism with a focus on death causes. Apart from obviously correct statements, I reversed some remaining unsourced ones. Blocked for a month. Lymantria (talk) 12:22, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:The rolum

The rolum (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism--Trade (talk) 09:05, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Blocked indef. Lymantria (talk) 12:25, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block Azarel24

Azarel24 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) vandalism-only account. –LiberatorG (talk) 09:39, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Blocked indef. Lymantria (talk) 12:25, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning 208.108.139.151

208.108.139.151 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism--Trade (talk) 12:56, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done. Blocked for 3 days. --Wiki13 (talk) 13:12, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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Q23434

Vandalism target.--GZWDer (talk) 22:11, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Already protected. -- Fuzheado (talk) 22:28, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 18:02, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

код в Чувашской энциклопедии онлайн

Добрый день, создайте пожалуйста. Chuvash encyclopedia (Q19909792). Чтобы Чувашская энциклопедия отображалась, в шаблоне Словари и энциклопедии. Белорецкий (talk) 14:41, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

@Белорецкий:, я не впролне понимаю, что Вы хотите. Пожалуйста, объясните подробнее.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:44, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

@Ymblanter:. Вот смотрите есть Great Russian Encyclopedia (Q1768199) и Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (old version) (P2924) или Bashkir Encyclopedia (Q16271761) и P4211 (P4211), также прошу и для Чувашской энциклопедии. ru:Шаблон:Внешние ссылки Белорецкий (talk) 13:17, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Для этого нужно новое свойство (Property, P*). Можете предложить по-русски, я переведу.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Help:Properties--Ymblanter (talk) 13:32, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

код в Чувашской энциклопедии Белорецкий (talk) 13:34, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

@Ymblanter:. Вы можете создать? Белорецкий (talk) 14:21, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Нет, я же вообще не знаю, как это свойство надо применять.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:47, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Tempoary block for GeertivpBot

GeertivpBot (talk • contribs • logs)

GeertivpBot is a bot currently engaged in low-value label fiddling. It is paying no attention whatsoever to maxlag. maxlag has been > 5s for a number of periods this afternoon. As I write, maxlag is 6s. Maxlag recommendtions are afaic to limit edits to 12 per minute when maxlag > 5s - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter - but GeertivpBot ploughs on at the rate of just below 30 per minute.

I did advise the owner of a problem earlier today. No response. diff.

@Geertivp: FYI. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:52, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

I stopped my Pywikibot User:GeertivpBot, temporarily. I have changed put_throttle = 6 now in user-config.py. Please advise me what parameters I can still adapt. Geertivp (talk) 19:07, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

what is your maxlag set to? BrokenSegue (talk) 19:43, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

maxlag=5 in user-config.py is the parameter which matters here. ---MisterSynergy (talk) 19:53, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

I have now set maxlag=4 (less tenacity than 5) and put_throttle=1 (original value). Those values will be used for the next runs. I have now read mw:API:Etiquette#Use maxlag parameter. I have also discovered the meta-query get userinfo ratelimits. Hoping that subsequent processing will be OK? Geertivp (talk) 08:16, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with maxlag=5 ;-) Besides this, put_throttle=1 is fine (sets your edit rate to max. 1 edit/sec while maxlag<5). You do not need this API query, though; your bot is currently still not ratelimited as far as I am aware, but soon it will be to 90 edits/min maximum (just like all other bots). ---MisterSynergy (talk) 11:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Protection of Muhammad (Q9458)

Editing war. It's only about time before people starts changing the image again. --Trade (talk) 00:31, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Restored to revision before edit war. Not protecting since further protection here will be 'Allow only Admins', but if other admins think that is required, feel free to go for it.

@Aybeg, Padliansyah553: Please discuss it on the talk page and reach on policy-based consensus. Further disruptive edits will lead to a partial block. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:15, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Fully protected by Ayack --DannyS712 (talk) 01:05, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of S1mple (Q48428626)

Vandalism. Russian Wikipedia article was semi-protected after a big attack (~300 edits in 1,5 hours). — 2A00:1370:8129:BF25:F4FB:4427:C9DF:ABB7 15:50, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Two weeks. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 17:56, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block

2601:644:300:4740:4571:41B7:B23D:66B3 (talk • contribs • logs)--WikiBayer (talk) 18:22, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done by MisterSynergy--Ymblanter (talk) 19:14, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

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Add a badge

Hello! Could someone add a good article badge to the English version of Swains Lock? (en:w:Talk:Swains_Lock/GA1) Maka the Two Star Meister (talk) 05:34, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 13:18, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

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Protection of Doug Wildey (Q3037966)

Hi,

The page has been suffering from revert by various ip since 2018, without any explanation given.

— eru ^{[Talk] [french wiki]} 10:05, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

ps: enwiki and frwiki have the same problem, frwiki is now protected for 1 year. — eru ^{[Talk] [french wiki]} 10:08, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done semiprotected for a year. Lymantria (talk) 11:31, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

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Protection for Q244165

Vandalism and partisan contributions are making on the page since last month. Considering that the situation in this region is still serious, such contributions could continue. I think this page can be half protected for a certain period of time. Regards. Uncitoyen (talk) 20:07, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 22:26, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please semi-protect Q5014725

Persistent vandalism. See history. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 22:13, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 22:25, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

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About sockpuppets blocked at enwiki editing Q97661447

Multiple accounts which have been blocked on enwiki as sockpuppets have edited Q97661447 (see w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/P Tune Studio BD for them all). I'm not sure on the policy about multiple undisclosed alternate accounts editing the same item on wikidata, but would an administrator deal with this as appropriate. The accounts are P Tune Studio BD (talk • contribs • logs) (the master at the enwiki spi), Bijoyakash (talk • contribs • logs) and Usmita mim (talk • contribs • logs). There has been timings overlap (i.e. P Tune Studio BD edited the item, then Usmita mim did and then P Tune Studio BD did). Thanks, Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 23:50, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@Dreamy Jazz: All blocked. They are Confirmed beyond any doubt to be the same, for what it's worth; no sleepers found.--Jasper Deng (talk) 23:54, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:31.4.178.232

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

• Restored nonsensical edits: [15]
• Claims Prince Azim of Brunei (Q7243829) was killed [16], contradicting w:Prince Azim of Brunei
• however other edits like [17] appear innocuous, but I can't verify the date of birth, so likely made up
• possibly related to blocked 148.3.164.130

What is your judgment, vandal or not? --Pyfisch (talk) 15:29, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Undid all edits that I couldn't verify. Some were already correct by others. --Pyfisch (talk) 09:55, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

They are back. --Pyfisch (talk) 15:15, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Blocked by Sotiale --DannyS712 (talk) 01:53, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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Protection of Golden

Hi, please semi-protect both Golden (Q100701128) and Golden (Q91250107), they have been targeted by multiple vandals. --Pyfisch (talk) 09:53, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done I don't think this is needed anymore, no vandalism since the report. Please re-report if it starts up again --DannyS712 (talk) 01:49, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2001:b400:e2f3:5a62:3df7:8551:1260:8d17

2001:b400:e2f3:5a62:3df7:8551:1260:8d17 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Harassment--Trade (talk) 19:35, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@Jasper Deng: time for a range ban?--Trade (talk) 19:38, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Report was good at the time, but now stale - no longer needed --DannyS712 (talk) 01:48, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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Protection of Q60261146

Just RB'd changes to Roseanne (Q60261146). It might become a target of anon-vandalism that Blackpink items experienced lately. --CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 01:00, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

I don't think protection is needed - two ips with bad edits in over a year, though I'll keep an eye on it in case it becomes more DannyS712 (talk) 01:03, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:174.109.153.103

174.109.153.103 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 13:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done by MisterSynergy --DannyS712 (talk) 16:31, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block 2001:16A2:B9F0:A700::/64

2001:16A2:B9F0:A700::/64 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) vandalism. –LiberatorG (talk) 13:53, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done one week. Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 17:52, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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Nelson Mandela (Q8023)

Please, semiprotect again, as vandalism continues. --Lockal (talk) 19:41, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Protected for a week this time --DannyS712 (talk) 22:46, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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Please block Bernieforpresident

Bernieforpresident (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) New account. Only edits have been vandalism. Ergo Sum (talk) 01:42, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done --DannyS712 (talk) 01:47, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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filter against some WD sitelinks has false positives

attempting to add a sitelink to WikiProject Webcomics (Q21829798) got me the error

Could not save due to an error. The save has failed. Warning: Adding sitelinks to Wikidata items, properties or lexemes has no benefit and should be avoided. Therefore your edit cannot be completed. Please contact the administrators if this is an error.

A Wikiproject task force is not an item or property or lexeme. Arlo Barnes (talk) 22:25, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Which sitelink did you try to add? ---MisterSynergy (talk) 22:27, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

What was the link you were trying to add? The abuse filter logs show you were trying to add a link to a Wikidata item, which is what the filter is meant to prevent DannyS712 (talk) 22:28, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I think I see why. Right now I'm the only member of the Wikidata Wikiproject Comics (because I recently started it). As such, the task force for webcomics comprises the same group of people (me). However, on English Wikipedia the sister Wikiproject thrives, so I planned to invite them to help edit on the Wikidata side too. Therefore I anticipated WD having a webcomics TF too and made a page for it, but because it is empty I made it a redirect for now. I went to add wikidata:WikiProject_Comics/Webcomics_work_group as a sitelink with the 'intentional sitelink to redirect' badge, but I guess it being a redirect made it seem to the filter software like I was linking to the target page. Could badges be taken into account, technically speaking? Arlo Barnes (talk) 22:41, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Why not just make a page about it and then add that? Don't add anything that redirects into a Wikidata item. --- Jura 05:59, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Hotels

Beyond the item mentioned at Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Query_Service_and_search#Hilton_Izmir_-_Removal_Request, would someone look into this and advise them how to go about it? It seems to me that statements get incorrectly deleted and overwritten, as if Wikidata was a webdirectory. Beyond that, I think the item mentioned has a good degree of completeness. --- Jura 06:13, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

User block request: Archie Bro

Archie Bro (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) persistent capitalization of descriptions in Russian despite several warnings. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 18:49, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Water chips

Water chips (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Cross-wiki vandal. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 14:33, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Already done by Mahir256 --DannyS712 (talk) 17:34, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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Q2939142

Q2939142 is being vandalized daily. Tbhotch (talk) 17:21, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a month --DannyS712 (talk) 17:35, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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Request closure for Wikidata:Properties for deletion#Property:P8531

Request closure for Wikidata:Properties for deletion#Property:P8531

Hello Administrators,

For the second time, I am asking for this closure.

The time has now largely elapsed and the request tends to maintain this property. As a reminder, P7777 suffered the same problems by the same contributor and is still active: the identifiers can be different, even unique. The request was made 2 months ago and the section has not been modified for 1 month and a half. Pending a favorable result, thank you in advance. Cordially. —Eihel (talk) 05:50, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Without continuation? For more weight, notification of other contributors in relation for the same problem: @Pamputt, VIGNERON, WikiSyn, Vive la Rosière, 1997kB:. Cordially. —Eihel (talk) 09:27, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

I just closed this deletion request. Pamputt (talk) 11:00, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

• @Pamputt: you seem to act as admin on your own contributions: NOK. --- Jura 11:02, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Uallv

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

First of all, I have tried to reach out to the user before writing this. The user has not responded and made some edit on WD in the time frame. Now to start with the user’s bot account, User:UallvBot, that has been running on WD and created items with data gathered from a website/database.[18] The problem is that the user has not made any request for permission regarding the bot account for this import of “Montreux Jazz Festival” (MJF) IDs. Also, the website (example [19]) clearly states in the footer “Copyright © 2020 Cultural Heritage & Innovation Center, EPFL (formerly Metamedia Center)” so, the user has imported copyrighted content into WD as CC0 (most likely). A lot of the item created is also questionable, concerning WD’s notability criteria’s (example Q99783833). The user has also made some edits regarding MJF from own account with QS, mostly matching MJF IDs with items. This has for music interested WD editors been an extreme load of work for cleaning up. This item is one of the worst where the user has added 14 MJF IDs, based on that they have the same name (song). By manually looking through all the IDs there was none of them that had a connection to the “original song written and composed by Stevie Nicks”. I also recommend reading the users talk page for further inconvenience edits. There is probably much more to bring up in this post, but I hope that the administrators discuss this matter in further detail and makes a statement. Regards Premeditated (talk) 10:54, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Update: The edits was made by "an agreeement with WikimediaCH". In the time period of the import this was not disclosed anywhere, but has later been fixed.[20][21] It's still a mess and the user has not made any effort in a cleanup. --Premeditated (talk) 07:08, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:201.172.174.205

201.172.174.205 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism in Q40852 Johannnes89 (talk) 17:17, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Block request for Breno15

Please block Breno15 (talk • contribs • logs). They created Q100783748, which is an old cross wiki hoax. The same item has been created before by now globally locked accounts with similar account names. --Shinnin (talk) 16:59, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done See Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/BrnoSilveira12. Lymantria (talk) 11:49, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Report: Preaching Lifestyle

Preaching Lifestyle (talk • contribs • logs) He is not here to improve Wikidata but to preach. (Do we have a page like w:WP:NOTHERE? ;-) ) Pyfisch (talk) 08:58, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Blocked indef. Lymantria (talk) 11:33, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Travis Scott (Q13605596)

Travis Scott (Q13605596) needs a semi-protection. A lot of vandalism by IP. --Premeditated (talk) 10:33, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done 6 months semi. Lymantria (talk) 11:27, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q1268

Please semi-protect Frédéric Chopin (Q1268) - persistent IP vandalism, popular theme. --Jklamo (talk) 09:31, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done 2 weeks semi. Lymantria (talk) 11:28, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:22, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Block Cuernotrayamon

Cuernotrayamon (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Vandalism-only account. --Pyfisch (talk) 12:41, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 14:32, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:22, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:193.146.86.29

193.146.86.29 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Does vandalism [22] [23]. Has been blocked before multiple times, but just for a short time period. BlauerBaum (talk) 14:09, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done, blocked for 1 year--Ymblanter (talk) 19:24, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:23, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

142.114.115.89

142.114.115.89 (talk • contribs • logs) is cross-wiki vandalizing. Tbhotch (talk) 19:45, 29 October 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. Esteban16 (talk) 00:46, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Uallv

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

First of all, I have tried to reach out to the user before writing this. The user has not responded and made some edit on WD in the time frame. Now to start with the user’s bot account, User:UallvBot, that has been running on WD and created items with data gathered from a website/database.[24] The problem is that the user has not made any request for permission regarding the bot account for this import of “Montreux Jazz Festival” (MJF) IDs. Also, the website (example [25]) clearly states in the footer “Copyright © 2020 Cultural Heritage & Innovation Center, EPFL (formerly Metamedia Center)” so, the user has imported copyrighted content into WD as CC0 (most likely). A lot of the item created is also questionable, concerning WD’s notability criteria’s (example Q99783833). The user has also made some edits regarding MJF from own account with QS, mostly matching MJF IDs with items. This has for music interested WD editors been an extreme load of work for cleaning up. This item is one of the worst where the user has added 14 MJF IDs, based on that they have the same name (song). By manually looking through all the IDs there was none of them that had a connection to the “original song written and composed by Stevie Nicks”. I also recommend reading the users talk page for further inconvenience edits. There is probably much more to bring up in this post, but I hope that the administrators discuss this matter in further detail and makes a statement. Regards Premeditated (talk) 10:54, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Update: The edits was made by "an agreeement with WikimediaCH". In the time period of the import this was not disclosed anywhere, but has later been fixed.[26][27] It's still a mess and the user has not made any effort in a cleanup. --Premeditated (talk) 07:08, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:201.172.174.205

201.172.174.205 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism in Q40852 Johannnes89 (talk) 17:17, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Block request for Breno15

Please block Breno15 (talk • contribs • logs). They created Q100783748, which is an old cross wiki hoax. The same item has been created before by now globally locked accounts with similar account names. --Shinnin (talk) 16:59, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done See Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/BrnoSilveira12. Lymantria (talk) 11:49, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Report: Preaching Lifestyle

Preaching Lifestyle (talk • contribs • logs) He is not here to improve Wikidata but to preach. (Do we have a page like w:WP:NOTHERE? ;-) ) Pyfisch (talk) 08:58, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Blocked indef. Lymantria (talk) 11:33, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Travis Scott (Q13605596)

Travis Scott (Q13605596) needs a semi-protection. A lot of vandalism by IP. --Premeditated (talk) 10:33, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done 6 months semi. Lymantria (talk) 11:27, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q1268

Please semi-protect Frédéric Chopin (Q1268) - persistent IP vandalism, popular theme. --Jklamo (talk) 09:31, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done 2 weeks semi. Lymantria (talk) 11:28, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:22, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Block Cuernotrayamon

Cuernotrayamon (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Vandalism-only account. --Pyfisch (talk) 12:41, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 14:32, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:22, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:193.146.86.29

193.146.86.29 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Does vandalism [28] [29]. Has been blocked before multiple times, but just for a short time period. BlauerBaum (talk) 14:09, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done, blocked for 1 year--Ymblanter (talk) 19:24, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 20:23, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

142.114.115.89

142.114.115.89 (talk • contribs • logs) is cross-wiki vandalizing. Tbhotch (talk) 19:45, 29 October 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. Esteban16 (talk) 00:46, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:180.242.218.61

180.242.218.61 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Keeps messing up labels and aliases, most changes are RB'd. CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 12:05, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:180.242.218.61

180.242.218.61 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Keeps messing up labels and aliases, most changes are RB'd. CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 12:05, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning 59.126.98.132

59.126.98.132 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Further notice: this IP user is an LTA in Chinese Wikipedia (w:zh:WP:X43) --だ☆ぜ (Dasze) 14:26, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Reasons: The IP user massly vandalized a lot of Chinese labels. I have checked the most recent 50 and all of them are vandalism. Could someone revert all the edits from the IP address? Temp3600 (talk) 14:30, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Stale, last edit was October 1 and before that edits were 11 September --DannyS712 (talk) 14:45, 30 October 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. DannyS712 (talk) 14:45, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Block user Chiragpardesi8

Chiragpardesi8 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Self Promotion , LTA spam , vandalism only account मार्तंड मल्हार (talk) 08:49, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Blocked by Jasper Deng. Hazard-SJ (talk) 18:42, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Hazard-SJ (talk) 18:42, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Requesting the reversing of a deletion concerning non compliance of the notability policy

Hello there,

i'm user --Evaccari (talk) 18:08, 23 October 2020 (UTC) and i woke up this morning and after less than 12 hours 5 entries i carefully added are gone, deleted by the user Wiki13 (talk • contribs • logs) without any possibility of enriching/contesting that.

On the 22th of October the user also deleted a page i added about my persona (i'm a well known italian SEO consultant) citing that i lacked notability and the page lacked references.

I accepted the "verdict"(i didn't put in references, my mistake) and moved on, re-doing the entry, adding references and, in my opinion, being compliant to the second rule of the notability policy:

"It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it can be described using serious and publicly available references."

I've got several public available reference:

• I co-authored a book (that has been published by a publisher already present on Wikimedia, reference URL: S.F. Flaccovio editore (Q3702595)), made an entry about it and provided the correct ISBN number (properly formatted) and the Google Books page that had my name clearly stated as a co-author (reference URL);

• I provided an university thesis, hosted in the University of Padova website, in which i was cited and quoted as an expert in the field (reference URL). I found it through Google Scholar (reference URL (last entry));

• I provided a newspaper article where i was interviewed about my work (reference URL) and was published both online and on paper;

• I provided references to big industry events where i was called as a speaker (reference URL AND reference URL AND reference URL). These events have very big companies attending them and attract a lot of attention;

• I created an entry about my popular (in Italy) YouTube SEO related channel (Q100736080) , which isn't very big in absolute numbers but its the most popular in the SEO community in Italy and added a reference to it. It was deleted too.

As i already mentioned i also created entries for the said book i co-authored (Q100733263) and the main author (Q100733747) providing references and making sure the data was correct.

Well, everything was just deleted in a matter of hours without, less than 8, without notice. I think what i submitted doesn't lack the notability, as user Wiki13 said, and want to ask for reconsideration and re-instatement of said pages.

I'd like to add even more references (i was cited in 3 university thesis and in other books) but i don't want to find hours of work deleted for some debatable reson again, if possible. I really respect this platform and wouldn't submit entries if i didn't think they would enrich it.

I don't need "publicity" or to advertise myself to pick up "new clients" (i already have too many, being actually "notable" and popular in the italian SEO community), i just want to put consistent data about my work on the platform and to be disambiguated from an italian olypic sailor with my same name.

Thank you in advance for your time and hard work,

E.V. --Evaccari ( talk) 18:08, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Given the extra information provided i agree thst deletion was a mistake. --Trade (talk) 18:53, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Glad to hear that. Is there a chance this will get un-cancelled someway? --Evaccari (talk) 10:23, 24 October 2020 (UTC) @Wiki13:--Trade (talk) 14:39, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

@Trade, Evaccari: Restored both, as references were given. At the moment of the deletion it was not meeting the policy. It had no sitelinks, was structual or described by serious references. Now it fulfills two of the three criteria we have for notability. If there's anything still missing after the two undeletions, please let me know and I'll take a look at it. --Wiki13 (talk) 11:37, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Wiki13:, the reference were given for the entity of my persona (Q100735089), which wasnt un-deleted, and for my YouTube Channel too (Q100736080), i thought they would get un-deleted too? That was the point of this request together with the 2 that got un-cancelled (and for which i thank you). --Evaccari (talk) 11:47, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Also done now. --Wiki13 (talk) 12:23, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Second Admin opinion here: User:Evaccari / User:Emanuele vac has created these items:

• Q99527542 (Emanuele Vaccari)
• Q99528687 (“EV SEO Podcast: impara la SEO dove vuoi!” – podcast by Vaccari)
• Q100733263 (“SEO per attività locali. Strategie di marketing per farti trovare e competere sul territorio” – SEO book by Solinas and Vaccari)
• Q100733747 (Daniele Solinas)
• Q100735089 (Emanuele Vaccari, second item after the first one was deleted)
• Q100736080 (“Emanuele Vaccari (YouTube channel)” – Youtube channel by Vaccari)

There are some few "references" provided in the items, but it seems that all of the sources are either under control of the subject themselves, or the usual spammy promotional articles that most other "SEO experts" have as well. We usually delete those items, and I do not see a reason to keep any of the content here. The only purpose of these items is self-promotion. —MisterSynergy (talk) 12:24, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello @MisterSynergy:, i'm glad you voiced your concerns so i can, hopefully, ease them. I'm sure i can better myself as a member of this platform and welcome criticism and chances for improvement.

That said, albeit i would be very happy to be able to claim that, i certainly don't control or have direct influence on:

• Google Books content where you can find a book i co-authored, with my name clearly stated on the book (there is even a photo of myself);
• The publisher, historical and already present on the platform, that published said book and provides ISBN and other identifier of said book, very well known in the italian marketing community;
• University of Padova site that hosts the university thesis that cite and quotes me as an expert of the field;
• The national newspaper site, one of the most well known in Italy, that interviewed me about my line of work;
• The very important SEO events sites that list me as a speaker;

Quite frankly don't see "spammy articles", as you defined these indipendent, verifiable sources. There are no articles cited in these references. I avoided putting in any of the many interviews that i was invited to do in other blogs/podcasts to avoid looking "spammy", as you put it. I don't spam and i don't deal spam.

That said i agree these documents are "self referencial": the discussed notability regards myself as an entry on the platform and so, yes, the references are about me: how could i demonstrate notability otherwise?

I didnt ask for the first 2 pages you cited (Q99527542 and Q99528687 to be un-canceled because, even if the podcast show is pretty popular itself, i can see why you would consider these pages, as they were made (i didn't put enough references, absolutely my mistake), not properly built. The second iteration of my entry, Q100735089, was re-made to be compliant with the notability policy, something that i believe was reached with this iteration.

To be honest i really fail to see what "spammy articles" are you referring to: i only see indipendent, verifiable sources of notability. Hopefully i can change your mind or, at least, make other admins agree about this. I don't want to waste anyone time, i know the admins of this platform cares very much about the platform itself and are very vigilant: i wouldn't have posted all the references if it wasn't my belief they would be instrumental as reference to assess notability.

I know my area of experise has quite the rotten reputation but really, i wouldn't be writing so much and being so focused and hard-working if this was a spam attempt. I would move in a very different way and wouldn't try to discuss things with you admins which i, as i already said, really much respect.

I hope we can sort this out because i'd really like to enrich the platform and disambiguate from the sailor with my same name. --Evaccari (talk) 14:23, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

@Evaccari: To disambiguate you from the sailor of the same name the item for the YouTube channel is not really needed, right? Usually items for YouTube channels are only created for very big channels. By the way describing "gelocal.it" as a "national newspaper site" is clever, because one reads "national newspaper" implying importance although it is actually a collection of regional newspapers.--Pyfisch (talk) 09:47, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

IagoQnsi - suboptimal US college basketball players upload.

Not very sure how to handle a user - IagoQnsi (talk • contribs • logs) - who is on a mission to add all US college basketball players to wikidata; has loaded up ~70k items to date. Two main issues: these people are all male - at least, the ones IagoQnsi's coding as playing in a men's league - but IagoQnsi is refusing to give the items a P21 statement. And they are all basketball players, but IagoQnsi has decided, from about edit 35k, not to add a P106=Basketball player statement. The consequence is either to accept, say, 100k obviously and avoidably suboptimal records; or to follow IagoQnsi around with a bucket, sweeping up the mess. Or to cause IagoQnsi's upload to be paused by a temporary non-punative block until they have remediated the deficiency of their work.

The question really is, is there a minimum standard for mass data ontakes, or do we accept mass creation of poor quality records; and if so, why?

@IagoQnsi: fyi. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:33, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with the data I'm uploading; it just lacks those two fields, which are easily added later. Lesson learned that I should have included them, but I hardly think a block is in order. OpenRefine doesn't handle stopping and starting very well, so I'd rather just update the items after the upload finishes; I've told you this on my talk page. I don't appreciate the characterization of me as a stubborn lone wolf; I've been very responsive whenever you've left me talk page messages. –IagoQnsi (talk) 12:03, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

I don't think such an issue warrants a block for now. The issue can be fixed easily.--GZWDer (talk) 15:02, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Unable to semi-protect properties

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T266394

I noticed I'm unable to semi-protect properties and filed phab:T266589. Anyone else running into this problem? Multichill (talk) 18:07, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

They are now semi-protected by default.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:53, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

I see we have phab:T266394 for this instead. I updated MediaWiki:Protect-text. Multichill (talk) 21:10, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Elvis Presley's instruments

Elvis Presley didn't play the violin, but he played the piano. So, I don't understand this: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q303&oldid=prev&diff=1298596006

Could anyone change this?

Reference: https://www.graceland.com/blog/posts/elvis-presley-the-musician#:~:text=What%20instruments%20did%20Elvis%20play,up%20an%20instrument%2C%20and%20play.

Thanks.

The previous item was linking to an item about a color named violin. I thought that you added the item about the color back to the article. --Trade (talk) 21:18, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

IagoQnsi - suboptimal US college basketball players upload.

Not very sure how to handle a user - IagoQnsi (talk • contribs • logs) - who is on a mission to add all US college basketball players to wikidata; has loaded up ~70k items to date. Two main issues: these people are all male - at least, the ones IagoQnsi's coding as playing in a men's league - but IagoQnsi is refusing to give the items a P21 statement. And they are all basketball players, but IagoQnsi has decided, from about edit 35k, not to add a P106=Basketball player statement. The consequence is either to accept, say, 100k obviously and avoidably suboptimal records; or to follow IagoQnsi around with a bucket, sweeping up the mess. Or to cause IagoQnsi's upload to be paused by a temporary non-punative block until they have remediated the deficiency of their work.

The question really is, is there a minimum standard for mass data ontakes, or do we accept mass creation of poor quality records; and if so, why?

@IagoQnsi: fyi. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:33, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with the data I'm uploading; it just lacks those two fields, which are easily added later. Lesson learned that I should have included them, but I hardly think a block is in order. OpenRefine doesn't handle stopping and starting very well, so I'd rather just update the items after the upload finishes; I've told you this on my talk page. I don't appreciate the characterization of me as a stubborn lone wolf; I've been very responsive whenever you've left me talk page messages. –IagoQnsi (talk) 12:03, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

I don't think such an issue warrants a block for now. The issue can be fixed easily.--GZWDer (talk) 15:02, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Unable to semi-protect properties

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T266394

I noticed I'm unable to semi-protect properties and filed phab:T266589. Anyone else running into this problem? Multichill (talk) 18:07, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

They are now semi-protected by default.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:53, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

I see we have phab:T266394 for this instead. I updated MediaWiki:Protect-text. Multichill (talk) 21:10, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Destructive content dispute on entities

There is a content dispute on Turkish Wikipedia regarding tr:Süryaniler and tr:Aramiler articles. We have discovered that Wikidata entities Q377085 and Q185461 are also involved. These edits on the entities are destructive and misleading. I reverted the entities to a previous revision. Please protect the entities aforementioned if necessary.--Evolutionoftheuniverse (talk) 15:31, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

In Turkish Wikipedia; we reverted to a previous revision which before the dispute, semi-protected the page but apparently the parties are willing to continue edit-warring on Wikidata. The users involved to edit-warring are Verum-nunc, Oxford Semitic, Nahroyo. Two of them are blocked in several wikis. They change the definitions and interwikis, which affects several wikis including Turkish Wikipedia since the short definitions and interwikis live in there. Wikidata and Turkish Wikipedia are different projects, so we are not able to intervene here. --Evolutionoftheuniverse (talk) 18:00, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

+ Vullc4n0. --Evolutionoftheuniverse (talk) 18:07, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Q28151255. --[evolutionoftheuniverse] ^@wikidata 18:48, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Elvis Presley's instruments

Elvis Presley didn't play the violin, but he played the piano. So, I don't understand this: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q303&oldid=prev&diff=1298596006

Could anyone change this?

Reference: https://www.graceland.com/blog/posts/elvis-presley-the-musician#:~:text=What%20instruments%20did%20Elvis%20play,up%20an%20instrument%2C%20and%20play.

Thanks.

The previous item was linking to an item about a color named violin. I thought that you added the item about the color back to the article. --Trade (talk) 21:18, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Semiprotect Q1850464

Excessive vandalism. --Pyfisch (talk) 10:08, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done for 1 month. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:11, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Hasley 20:21, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Block Likebet77

Likebet77 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) spammer, promotion only Please block and delete all their items. --Pyfisch (talk) 10:17, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 13:13, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Hasley 20:27, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Q81448592 (Gérard Gertoux)

Please examine the problems raised at Talk:Q81448592. They have given rise to two reverts.

@Jairon Levid Abimael Caál Orozco:

Theodoxa (talk) 10:41, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

User theodoxa, who has been blocked on en.wiki, says that God's name is not Jehovah, and that some fans are clinging to pronouncing the name Jehovah: "It would be interesting to have an article in Wikipedia about the curious case of the invented form "Jehovah": how it came about, how it came to be abandoned by scholars in general and how some fanatics still cling to the idea" [30]. What a pity that personal feelings are involved in editing! Gertoux is one of the contemporary proponents who propose that in the 1st century the pronunciation Jehovah was the one used, so the user on different occasions comes to Gertoux's page editing to denigrate the author. Theodoxa in conjunction with C. Chanson have come in bad faith to make destructive edits. C. Chanson has a website, where editors who hate Jehovah's Witnesses can register and edit. There is denigrating claims about Jehovah's Witnesses on this website, and this site has a page exclusive page dedicated to Gertoux, where there is denigrating claims about him. These users are busy wanting to make wikipedia their website, and C. Chanson has been in trouble for it.

Among the edits I reverted, there is one that is on Gertoux's education. In academic major, I deleted "Hebrew alphabet" and put "Hebrew" because Hebrew alphabet gives an error, and in ORCID, it read that Gertoux get a master in Hebrew. Also I reverted the occupation "hebraist", from National Libraries because these users insist that the information has been taken from a page of their book, but leaving it as the users had left it, it also presented an error, and the link no longer worked. Not only is Gertoux called a Hebraist there, but I'm already a little tired of months of discussion with these users, who go from wikipedia to wikipedia with one purpose.--Jairon Levid Abimael Caál Orozco (talk) 02:44, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

1. Is it correct to present four different catalogues in support of the statement that Gertoux is a Hebraist, when each and every one of the catalogues simply informs of (without endorsing) a claim made on the cover (blurb) of one book by Gertoux, the real source of the claim but not mentioned as a source?

2. In spite of the statement by Jairon Levid Abimael Caál Orozco that he has put "Hebrew" in place of "Hebrew alphabet", Wikidata still gives "Hebrew alphabet" (!) as the "subject (Gertoux) studied at college/university". The study (presumably of the Hebrew language, not merely of the alphabet) consisted of a ten-day intensive source, what the French call a "stage".

The problem has been brought here, because Jairon Levid Abimael Caál Orozco ignored the questions raised at Talk:Q81448592 and merely reverted. Theodoxa (talk) 09:19, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism on trwiki interwikis

I have rollback, patrol, review rights on Turkish Wikipedia. Entities Q185461 and Q377085 are under vandalism by Nahroyo and 89.205.135.20. --[evolutionoftheuniverse] ^@wikidata 02:46, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

I blocked Nahroyo for 31h--Ymblanter (talk) 20:38, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Sic19

For more than one hour this user has been adding a large number of incorrect statements.--GZWDer (talk) 10:13, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

@GZWDer: Can you be more specific? I see a lot of "given name" statements but those look ok to me. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:28, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Q81448592 (Gérard Gertoux)

Please examine the problems raised at Talk:Q81448592. They have given rise to two reverts.

@Jairon Levid Abimael Caál Orozco:

Theodoxa (talk) 10:41, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

User theodoxa, who has been blocked on en.wiki, says that God's name is not Jehovah, and that some fans are clinging to pronouncing the name Jehovah: "It would be interesting to have an article in Wikipedia about the curious case of the invented form "Jehovah": how it came about, how it came to be abandoned by scholars in general and how some fanatics still cling to the idea" [31]. What a pity that personal feelings are involved in editing! Gertoux is one of the contemporary proponents who propose that in the 1st century the pronunciation Jehovah was the one used, so the user on different occasions comes to Gertoux's page editing to denigrate the author. Theodoxa in conjunction with C. Chanson have come in bad faith to make destructive edits. C. Chanson has a website, where editors who hate Jehovah's Witnesses can register and edit. There is denigrating claims about Jehovah's Witnesses on this website, and this site has a page exclusive page dedicated to Gertoux, where there is denigrating claims about him. These users are busy wanting to make wikipedia their website, and C. Chanson has been in trouble for it.

Among the edits I reverted, there is one that is on Gertoux's education. In academic major, I deleted "Hebrew alphabet" and put "Hebrew" because Hebrew alphabet gives an error, and in ORCID, it read that Gertoux get a master in Hebrew. Also I reverted the occupation "hebraist", from National Libraries because these users insist that the information has been taken from a page of their book, but leaving it as the users had left it, it also presented an error, and the link no longer worked. Not only is Gertoux called a Hebraist there, but I'm already a little tired of months of discussion with these users, who go from wikipedia to wikipedia with one purpose.--Jairon Levid Abimael Caál Orozco (talk) 02:44, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

1. Is it correct to present four different catalogues in support of the statement that Gertoux is a Hebraist, when each and every one of the catalogues simply informs of (without endorsing) a claim made on the cover (blurb) of one book by Gertoux, the real source of the claim but not mentioned as a source?

2. In spite of the statement by Jairon Levid Abimael Caál Orozco that he has put "Hebrew" in place of "Hebrew alphabet", Wikidata still gives "Hebrew alphabet" (!) as the "subject (Gertoux) studied at college/university". The study (presumably of the Hebrew language, not merely of the alphabet) consisted of a ten-day intensive source, what the French call a "stage".

The problem has been brought here, because Jairon Levid Abimael Caál Orozco ignored the questions raised at Talk:Q81448592 and merely reverted. Theodoxa (talk) 09:19, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Sic19

For more than one hour this user has been adding a large number of incorrect statements.--GZWDer (talk) 10:13, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

@GZWDer: Can you be more specific? I see a lot of "given name" statements but those look ok to me. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:28, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Update MediaWiki:Gadget-autoEdit.js

There has been added multiple suggestion to add more translations since May 2020 on MediaWiki talk:Gadget-autoEdit.js. Could an administrators, stewards or interface editors add some of the suggestions into the gadget? Thanks. -Premeditated (talk) 14:09, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:2804:D4B:773F:D00:8137:6B80:2251:CC8E

2804:D4B:773F:D00:8137:6B80:2251:CC8E (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: IP vandalizing Cocielo item. Please block & revert, and eventually protect Cocielo Wikidata item, since it has been recurrently pestered by IP vandalism DarwIn (talk) 14:18, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Richard Braine

can someone fix Q7324317 and Q69252845? One should be for a person, and one for disambiguation. Instead of doing it myself, I bring it here so that it is done correctly. If you need for a reference, there's also Q63865631, but not part of the needed repair. Quakewoody (talk) 17:15, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:2804:D4B:773F:D00:8137:6B80:2251:CC8E

2804:D4B:773F:D00:8137:6B80:2251:CC8E (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: IP vandalizing Cocielo item. Please block & revert, and eventually protect Cocielo Wikidata item, since it has been recurrently pestered by IP vandalism DarwIn (talk) 14:18, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Richard Braine

can someone fix Q7324317 and Q69252845? One should be for a person, and one for disambiguation. Instead of doing it myself, I bring it here so that it is done correctly. If you need for a reference, there's also Q63865631, but not part of the needed repair. Quakewoody (talk) 17:15, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Destructive content dispute on entities

There is a content dispute on Turkish Wikipedia regarding tr:Süryaniler and tr:Aramiler articles. We have discovered that Wikidata entities Q377085 and Q185461 are also involved. These edits on the entities are destructive and misleading. I reverted the entities to a previous revision. Please protect the entities aforementioned if necessary.--Evolutionoftheuniverse (talk) 15:31, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

In Turkish Wikipedia; we reverted to a previous revision which before the dispute, semi-protected the page but apparently the parties are willing to continue edit-warring on Wikidata. The users involved to edit-warring are Verum-nunc, Oxford Semitic, Nahroyo. Two of them are blocked in several wikis. They change the definitions and interwikis, which affects several wikis including Turkish Wikipedia since the short definitions and interwikis live in there. Wikidata and Turkish Wikipedia are different projects, so we are not able to intervene here. --Evolutionoftheuniverse (talk) 18:00, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

+ Vullc4n0. --Evolutionoftheuniverse (talk) 18:07, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Q28151255. --[evolutionoftheuniverse] ^@wikidata 18:48, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

@evolutionoftheuniverse: wait, please explain your point more. I have been working on these entities to make a clear distinction between ancient Arameans and present-day Arameans and link each wikipedia article to one of them depending on their subject. Some wikipedias have an article for both peoples, for example fr: and de:. I have no idea what's going on on tr: and I have never edited there. You have reverted my work with no clear explanation. I am reverting back to my version for now. --GrandEscogriffe (talk) 20:12, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

OK, I have reverted to my version except for the links to tr:Süryaniler and ku:Suryanî which I have put back on Q377085 where you put them. Maybe this was what you wanted to fix. Please be careful not to cancel other people's work when fixing one issue. --GrandEscogriffe (talk) 20:51, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

@GrandEscogriffe: OK, next time I will ping you. I fixed other remaining vandalism now. We had to take action and I reverted it to last stable version. There is a cross-wiki edit-warring on this topic, we found out its cross-wiki aspect when we noticed that interwikis were changing irunderstandably wrong. The parts use sockpuppets, so, many accounts involved. You can find some detail here: Wikidata:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Edit-warring_on_Asyrian-related_entities. --[evolutionoftheuniverse] ^@wikidata 22:52, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

118.136.0.0/16, a user whose edits were over-simplified to distinguish from the others

As title, I don't know how to talk to him for that he is a IP user. Here are his edit records: Special:Contributions/118.136.0.0/16. --迴廊彼端 (talk) 11:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

59.126.98.132 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Further notice: this IP user is an LTA in Chinese Wikipedia (w:zh:WP:X43) --だ☆ぜ (Dasze) 14:26, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

User:Uallv - Montreux Jazz Festival mass upload

Without wishing to be the grinch, I think we need to discuss Uallv (talk • contribs • logs) and their recent Montreux Jazz Festival mass upload. In short, just about everything to do with this creation/alteration of circa 48k records seems to be wrong.

Uallv's items point to records of the performance of a song at a festival. But they're being coded as P31=song (Q7366) rather than P31="performance of a song". For completeness, even the concert interludes are being added, again as instance of a song rather than instance of a toilet break - example Q99824885, but there are very many of these.

Montreux Jazz Festival song ID (P8302) values are being added haphazardly to existing items based, it seems, on a sting match of the song title; so that an item for a single such as Working Class Hero (Q958795), part of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Q603000) is now apparently the same thing - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q958795#P8302 - as Marianne Faithful's three renditions of it - https://mjf-database.epfl.ch/public/songs/15986 &c. See https://w.wiki/iyi for the extent.

MusicBrainz work ID (P435) values are being added haphazardly to Montreux Jazz Festival performances, for example, for Q99826293 pointing to https://musicbrainz.org/work/441c485e-33e3-4b54-a36d-0a56aaf3ab66 (i.e. pointing to a parent instance of a song, where musicbrainz has discrete & different IDs for the recorded performances of the song) ... which is to say, the wikidata record is pointing at the wrong thing entirely. It's not always clear, beyond a string match, whether a musicbrainz link makes any sense. Q99826231, a performance by Jade Bird https://mjf-database.epfl.ch/public/songs/162619 is now linked to https://musicbrainz.org/work/c15f4695-91f1-3c40-aeca-9e73b33cd318 which seems to be a Cat Power rendition of a Chan Marshall song. Based on a string match of a sing title. Nothing more.

So. I raise this here, in the first instance, because the ontake of 48k records and/or alterations to existing items, *all* of which seem to be flawed or deeply flawed, represents an existential threat to the quality of music items on wikidata; the longer the problem goes unaddressed, the more likelihood there is of issues being compounded by unsighted users merging items based on Uallv's GIGO input.

The large-scale issue might be solved by running appropriate SPARQL and fixing issues, which, obviously, will require a significant input of time, and competent analysis of the issues. I suspect I've just scratched the surface here. Or it might be solved by reverting all of Uallv's edits.

I'm sure Uallv has worked in good faith and I bear them no ill will; there but for the grace of god go I, &c. But they have created a compete buggers muddle of a problem, which I think warrants discussion here rather than simply on their talk page. --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:34, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

My sympathies, since I understand you have only recently recovered from a mass-upload of poorly referenced basketball players. No idea how to help, but thanks for highlighting these to the wider community. Jane023 (talk) 11:54, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

• Maybe WMCH wants to comment as well. This seems to be part of paid editing: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Project/Montreux_Jazz_Festival @Debora (WMCH), Jeeb1207: --- Jura 14:49, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
  • It seems that none of these persons are active on Wikidata. Maybe @Flor WMCH: --- Jura 05:45, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the ping. I'm transmitting to Debora and Jenny.--Flor WMCH (talk) 06:52, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this important issue to our attention. We are addressing the problems right now, and will get back to you on our next steps and how to solve it. --Debora (WMCH) (talk) 11:08, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Ok it is evident that uploading songs I made a lot of mistakes. I propose you two steps to solve this problem and avoid a lot of work to the admins:

1. I remove my contributions to the preexisting songs, reverting the modifications I made. I start immediately. If you want to check what I’m doing I will publish a list on pages I’m working on a subpage of my user-page.
2. Regarding the new item created you suggest to change the instance type from “song” to “performance of a song”. Is this a feasible way for you to mantain on Wikidata these items? Which Q would be the best to represent the "performance of a song" concept? --Uallv (talk) 14:18, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
   1. In fact, "performance of a song" as such doesn't exist, as far as I understand, but it may be a subclass or even cohincide with musical performance (Q6942562). I tried to add a few aliases and translations under the assumption that people here agree that "performance of a song" is included in musical performance (Q6942562). --FedericoMorando (talk) 09:45, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
   2. If it's always a live performance, seeAlso concert (Q182832). --FedericoMorando (talk) 09:51, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Music has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead. --- Jura 09:56, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Part 1 is done: I rereverted all the contributions on preexisting items. --Uallv (talk) 14:10, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Update MediaWiki:Gadget-autoEdit.js

There has been added multiple suggestion to add more translations since May 2020 on MediaWiki talk:Gadget-autoEdit.js. Could an administrators, stewards or interface editors add some of the suggestions into the gadget? Thanks. -Premeditated (talk) 14:09, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This requires an interface administrator, and shouldn't be done by a steward or global interface editor since there are local users who can deal with it DannyS712 (talk) 14:48, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

User Block request Fmtee12

Fmtee12 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
Reason Promotional account used for creating non notable and previously deleted items Rockpeterson (talk) 15:29, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

• While I agree with everything said above, I think closing the account would simply lead to the creation of a new account and the use of IP addresses. It may just be easier to troll this one account's edits and "speedy" them as they occur. Quakewoody (talk) 14:16, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Deleted and warned, not blocking for now, though if they continue I will. See also Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Fmtee12 --DannyS712 (talk) 18:55, 6 November 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. DannyS712 (talk) 18:55, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism on trwiki interwikis

I have rollback, patrol, review rights on Turkish Wikipedia. Entities Q185461 and Q377085 are under vandalism by Nahroyo and 89.205.135.20. --[evolutionoftheuniverse] ^@wikidata 02:46, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

I blocked Nahroyo for 31h--Ymblanter (talk) 20:38, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

@Ymblanter, DannyS712: IP vandalism on Q377085, Q28151255, Q185461 by 2001:1c06:2c82:3300:e5c9:1b2:5cc7:f616, 2003:e1:8704:800:ad80:b72a:129f:4c09, ,89.205.135.20. They come and check the entities when they remember. --[evolutionoftheuniverse] ^@wikidata 18:06, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

I protected all three items for a month--Ymblanter (talk) 18:17, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: Thank you but I see two protected items. Maybe you have missed this one.--[evolutionoftheuniverse] ^@wikidata 20:42, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Indeed, may be I have not waited until the page loaded after I have pressed the button. Anyway, now it should be protected--Ymblanter (talk) 20:47, 31 October 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. DannyS712 (talk) 18:50, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Leonardo Manuel Galarza Velasquez

Leonardo Manuel Galarza Velasquez (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: User vandalizes items by changing data in a disruptive way, either adding links that are not allowed (to userspaces) or deleting information without a reason (diff). Soulreaper (talk) 19:04, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

118.136.0.0/16, a user who changes better English descriptions into over-simplified ones

As title, I don't know how to talk to him for that he is a IP user. Here are his edit records: Special:Contributions/118.136.0.0/16. --迴廊彼端 (talk) 11:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

I've posted some words on User talk:118.136.4.35 but it doesn't work. Please help.--迴廊彼端 (talk) 03:02, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Maybe I should correct my description. He often changes better English descriptions into over-simplified ones, which is too hard to distinguish from the others. Please help. --迴廊彼端 (talk) 07:30, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

@Hasley:、@Hazard-SJ:、@MisterSynergy: This is a user who often changes better English descriptions into over-simplified ones (almost 90%). I know his edits may not be vandalism. However it's very tiring to check his every edit and my words on User talk:118.136.4.35 seems not useful to change this situation Could you help? Thanks. --迴廊彼端 (talk) 11:10, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

This does indeed not look okay. As the anonymous user is difficult to contact, I have blocked the main namespace for 118.136.0.0/19 (should be sufficient) and invited them to show up here for a discussion. Once the editor understands the problem, we can remove the range block again. —MisterSynergy (talk) 12:26, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy:Thanks for helping! --迴廊彼端 (talk) 14:00, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Wiki13 (talk) 15:56, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

User Block request Fmtee12

Fmtee12 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
Reason Promotional account used for creating non notable and previously deleted items Rockpeterson (talk) 15:29, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

• @Trade: The user is continuing creating promotional stuff . Block is Required Rockpeterson (talk) 07:43, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
• While I agree with everything said above, I think closing the account would simply lead to the creation of a new account and the use of IP addresses. It may just be easier to troll this one account's edits and "speedy" them as they occur. Quakewoody (talk) 14:16, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

• • and on an unrelated note - has anyone noticed that many things are posted twice on this page? almost like someone did a copy and paste. Quakewoody (talk) 14:19, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
  • There's something going on, I've noticed one time that even the noticeboard header (!) was copied in the middle with duplicated discussions, some of them, like the one about Uallv's Montreux Festival additions, which is likely still here as duplicated. —CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

• Has continued creating non notable/promotional wikidata entries after all his previous items were deleted . @Trade: Please look into this . Rockpeterson (talk) 08:27, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Quakewoody: @Trade: Started creating promotional item again check Q101495444 Rockpeterson (talk) 18:22, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

User:Uallv - Montreux Jazz Festival mass upload

Without wishing to be the grinch, I think we need to discuss Uallv (talk • contribs • logs) and their recent Montreux Jazz Festival mass upload. In short, just about everything to do with this creation/alteration of circa 48k records seems to be wrong.

Uallv's items point to records of the performance of a song at a festival. But they're being coded as P31=song (Q7366) rather than P31="performance of a song". For completeness, even the concert interludes are being added, again as instance of a song rather than instance of a toilet break - example Q99824885, but there are very many of these.

Montreux Jazz Festival song ID (P8302) values are being added haphazardly to existing items based, it seems, on a sting match of the song title; so that an item for a single such as Working Class Hero (Q958795), part of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Q603000) is now apparently the same thing - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q958795#P8302 - as Marianne Faithful's three renditions of it - https://mjf-database.epfl.ch/public/songs/15986 &c. See https://w.wiki/iyi for the extent.

MusicBrainz work ID (P435) values are being added haphazardly to Montreux Jazz Festival performances, for example, for Q99826293 pointing to https://musicbrainz.org/work/441c485e-33e3-4b54-a36d-0a56aaf3ab66 (i.e. pointing to a parent instance of a song, where musicbrainz has discrete & different IDs for the recorded performances of the song) ... which is to say, the wikidata record is pointing at the wrong thing entirely. It's not always clear, beyond a string match, whether a musicbrainz link makes any sense. Q99826231, a performance by Jade Bird https://mjf-database.epfl.ch/public/songs/162619 is now linked to https://musicbrainz.org/work/c15f4695-91f1-3c40-aeca-9e73b33cd318 which seems to be a Cat Power rendition of a Chan Marshall song. Based on a string match of a sing title. Nothing more.

So. I raise this here, in the first instance, because the ontake of 48k records and/or alterations to existing items, *all* of which seem to be flawed or deeply flawed, represents an existential threat to the quality of music items on wikidata; the longer the problem goes unaddressed, the more likelihood there is of issues being compounded by unsighted users merging items based on Uallv's GIGO input.

The large-scale issue might be solved by running appropriate SPARQL and fixing issues, which, obviously, will require a significant input of time, and competent analysis of the issues. I suspect I've just scratched the surface here. Or it might be solved by reverting all of Uallv's edits.

I'm sure Uallv has worked in good faith and I bear them no ill will; there but for the grace of god go I, &c. But they have created a compete buggers muddle of a problem, which I think warrants discussion here rather than simply on their talk page. --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:34, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

My sympathies, since I understand you have only recently recovered from a mass-upload of poorly referenced basketball players. No idea how to help, but thanks for highlighting these to the wider community. Jane023 (talk) 11:54, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

• Maybe WMCH wants to comment as well. This seems to be part of paid editing: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Project/Montreux_Jazz_Festival @Debora (WMCH), Jeeb1207: --- Jura 14:49, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
  • It seems that none of these persons are active on Wikidata. Maybe @Flor WMCH: --- Jura 05:45, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the ping. I'm transmitting to Debora and Jenny.--Flor WMCH (talk) 06:52, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this important issue to our attention. We are addressing the problems right now, and will get back to you on our next steps and how to solve it. --Debora (WMCH) (talk) 11:08, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Ok it is evident that uploading songs I made a lot of mistakes. I propose you two steps to solve this problem and avoid a lot of work to the admins:

1. I remove my contributions to the preexisting songs, reverting the modifications I made. I start immediately. If you want to check what I’m doing I will publish a list on pages I’m working on a subpage of my user-page.
2. Regarding the new item created you suggest to change the instance type from “song” to “performance of a song”. Is this a feasible way for you to mantain on Wikidata these items? Which Q would be the best to represent the "performance of a song" concept? --Uallv (talk) 14:18, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
   1. In fact, "performance of a song" as such doesn't exist, as far as I understand, but it may be a subclass or even cohincide with musical performance (Q6942562). I tried to add a few aliases and translations under the assumption that people here agree that "performance of a song" is included in musical performance (Q6942562). --FedericoMorando (talk) 09:45, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
   2. If it's always a live performance, seeAlso concert (Q182832). --FedericoMorando (talk) 09:51, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Music has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead. --- Jura 09:56, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Part 1 is done: I rereverted all the contributions on preexisting items. --Uallv (talk) 14:10, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

I also edited three items with more detailed and accurate informations. Here they are: Q99750652, Hammertones (Q99771784) and Chicken Shift (chte) (Q99771418). What is suggest is:

• add the description
• add part of (P361) with the relative concert item
• add point in time (P585) with the performance date
• change instance of (P31) from song (Q7366) to musical performance (Q6942562)

All these tasks can now be done easily with QuickStatements. --Uallv (talk) 22:48, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Please note that there has been made a deletion request for close to 41k items on the RfD page in regard to this subject. I have put that request on hold for now, as I want to know if @Uallv: intends to fix this whole batch so that it will meet our notability policy. If after some time the items still do not meet that policy I am inclined to delete them. --Wiki13 (talk) 22:01, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

I am willing to edit the items in order to satisfy notability policy. I made a proposal in this discussion. I'm am waiting a feedback from someone of the Wikidata:WikiProject Music or some other user to start editing. I also wrote on their page Wikidata talk:WikiProject Music#Improving_Montreux_Jazz_Festival_Songs_Upload, @Premeditated, Tagishsimon, Flor WMCH, Debora (WMCH), Jura1:

WikiProject Music has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead. --Uallv (talk) 18:40, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

From our side (WMCH), the proposal from Uallv sounds good. Please publish the list of edits you are going to do in QuickStatement, in order for the community to be verified and approved.--Debora (WMCH) (talk) 13:03, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I wrote a discussion about Uallv in mid October 2020 without anyone making any comments. So, I'm glad that Tagishsimon got people interested. Uallv has shown little to no interest in fixing the around 41k bot created items, before WMCH got informed about the circumstances. Uallv has also broken multiple policies, without any restrictions from the Administrators and/or Bureaucrats. This makes it looks like it's not problematic to import 41k items that is Copyrighted (at the time), missing bot request, not notable and not disclosing that it is paid edits (at the time). Allowing this behaviour gives the impression that polices like Terms of Use, Wikidata:Bots, and Wikidata:Notability are not important. I will call it vandalism.

How items like Q99783833 will ever meet the notability policy is an interesting question. There is also created items for existing songs on WD. They has to be merged, because of the extremely bad importing. Using MusicBrainz work ID (P435) on a musical performance (Q6942562) item makes no sense unless the MB entry is connected to the Montreux Jazz Festival performance (and not the standard song). The items should be built like this example: Super Bowl LIV halftime show (Q74108782). --Premeditated (talk) 14:37, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

I'm really interested in solving this issue, as a matter of fact I already manually reverted all 1800 edits on preexisting items. Now I'm asking admins' opinion about my proposal of improvements. I also prepared the list of edits that should be done to fix the upload. I also added the removal of the MusicBrainz work ID (P435) considering the fact that with this modification is now wrong. You can find the list of modifications in this pages MJF_quickstatement_list_1, MJF_quickstatement_list_2 MJF_quickstatement_list_3, MJF_quickstatement_list_4, MJF_quickstatement_list_5, MJF_quickstatement_list_6, MJF_quickstatement_list_7. --Uallv (talk) 20:33, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

This does not solve items like Q99783833. And you are not solving the huge amount of duplicate items you have crated like: Christian Mazzalai (Q99596736) → Christian Mazzalai (Q64176254), Deck d'Arcy (Q99596720) → Deck d'Arcy (Q64176251). All of the title has also language code und. The items still does not give any useful information other then a connection to a concert item, that is linking to duplicated participant (P710). --Premeditated (talk) 12:28, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

To solve the un-merged issue I created a subpage (User:Uallv/MJF musician match list) with a list of musicians that has a possible candidate for the merge. I also merged the two candidates you proposed. In many cases I did not merged entities because there were not enough information to determine if the two entities are the same. I'll check again the entities to further improve the quality.

I choose the language und because it is impossible to automatically determine the language of a song title. Lastly the unknown songs were part of the database and were added to describe the performance. I'm open to discussion about that items. Of course we should consider that some of that titles are the real titles of a song. --Uallv (talk) 16:41, 16 November 2020 (UTC)