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Can you please move this Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zindahtohpyalabharde

Dusrapehelu is tthe oldest, so the sockmaster. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 16:18, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

@Doug Weller:  Done. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 16:29, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. Btw, I never notice RfAs, but I can ask you now to please notify me when yours takes place, asap I hope, as I rarely notice them. As I've requested notification it can't be called canvassing. Doug Weller talk 16:46, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. If and when it happens, I will let you know. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 16:58, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Doug Weller, a page doesn't have to exist for you to add it to your watchlist. You can watch in anticipation. Cabayi (talk) 22:00, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
@Cabayi: thanks, I actually do that frequently - the problem is I don't pay enough attention to my watchlist of 23,751 pages not including talk pages. :) Doug Weller talk 13:33, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Cabayi, thanks for the tip! Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Blablubbs is on my watchlist now ... ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 18:46, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
@Doug Weller: The time has come – Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Blablubbs. ;) --Blablubbs (talk) 13:26, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Your close

As you can see from the archive, you closed the report on August 22 because the filer had presented insufficient evidence of socking. I have no problem with your close. However, I had independently noticed a possible connection between Menia97! and Ajhenson21. The best comparison is to Gardo Versace 16. Both edited storm articles and the Ang Probinsyano season articles, which is a telling combination. Both are using a similar mobile device. Neither uses edit summaries (more's the pity for behavioral cues). The timing of the Menia97!'s creation (July 17, 2021) seems about right as there were no checks (that I know of) after June.

The evidence is not a slam dunk, but I think it's enough to justify a CU. What do you think?--Bbb23 (talk) 14:06, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Comment Menia97 editing and probinsyano which is same edit of Gardo Versace 16 (sorry I'm busy now) -- HurricaneEdgar 16:26, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
@Bbb23: The Ang Probinsyano edits that came after my close do make this highly suspcious (I might have endorsed if those had been there at the time I looked at the account) – I have no objections to a refiling with better evidence by you or anyone else, I just didn't have the time and energy to go diving for diffs that tie the hurricane edits to the archive (it's a large topic area, one I understand little about, and one ripe with socks of various masters) and hence closed on procedural grounds. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:36, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Being tired (and therefore more lazy than usual), let's see if I can avoid refiling: {{checkuser needed}}.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:41, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Comment Menia97 clearly a sock of Ajhenson21 the sockmaster interested update the typhoon season this is my prove since I compare Joliox and Menia HurricaneEdgar 16:45, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

the behavior of sockmaster, make update the typhoon season and TC 2021. HurricaneEdgar 16:49, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Very  Likely, have blocked ~TNT (she/they • talk) 16:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
@TheresNoTime: Thanks a lot. And, Blablubbs, thanks for letting me use your Talk page.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:26, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for looking TNT! And you are all always welcome to conduct miniature SPIs here. ;) --Blablubbs (talk) 20:26, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Menia97 confirm as a sock and he now block. HurricaneEdgar 16:58, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Of note

[1] Acroterion (talk) 00:04, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

A deserved one. Thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:54, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, Blablubbs. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Pahunkat (talk) 11:19, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

@Pahunkat: Acknowledging that I've seen this; real life has been rather busy, I'll try to get back to you soon. Sorry for the delay. Best wishes. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:00, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
No problem Blablubbs, real life can get very busy and it should always take priority. The email isn't urgent. Pahunkat (talk) 10:27, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
@Pahunkat: Finally got around to replying, sorry for the delay. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 11:05, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

CU case Alexanderolotu51

Hi Blablubbs, coming over from Commons, where I had to deal with this SP, it seems you might have missed 1 SP Alexanderolotu652. --Túrelio (talk) 20:22, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Badgers

Hi @Blablubbs: Its good to know that badgers, which i'm particularly fond of, don't engage in sockpuppetry. scope_creepTalk 17:29, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

@Scope creep: They truly are excellent animals! I only discovered that fairly recently (not sure how I managed to stay ignorant of that particular fact for decades), and have since started spending an excessive amount of time watching badger-related Youtube videos. I regret nothing. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
Afternoon @Blablubbs: They have huge claws and teeth. Its well see its a youngster. I watch that Dodo channel as well. I watch this https://www.youtube.com/@wildlifeaid which is a uk animal rescue, as well. The amount of rescues these folk do is phenomenal. I think without that women looking after that wee badger it would have had it. I always admire the folk do this. scope_creepTalk 13:29, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Wolfdietrich Schnurre

The article Wolfdietrich Schnurre you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Wolfdietrich Schnurre for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski (talk) 19:42, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Congrats. That is a cracking article. scope_creepTalk 20:09, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! --Blablubbs (talk) 08:17, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

SPI disposition

I am bringing this to you at the recommendation of the involved SPI closer, User:TheresNoTime, who indicated they were "not going to be around much longer."

An SPI was recently closed that was started at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thetranslaterofhistory, suggesting that User:Polynoir was the same as established sockmaster, User:Thetranslaterofhistory. An argument was made that while Polynoir was indeed a sock, it was not a sock of Thetranslaterofhistory but instead was one of a list of accounts belonging to a different master, the earliest of which was User:Mazulu1010. It was concluded that the whole set of proposed Mazulu1010 socks were ducks, while a CheckUser returned a 'Unlikely' diagnosis (I assume for the original proposal, that Poynoir/Mazulu1010 were the same as Thetranslaterofhistory).

As I understand it, the appropriate disposition should have been to create a new SPI master page, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mazulu1010, and the latest dicussion relocated to that page, while the history of SPI/Thetranslaterofhistory should have been retained as that of a distinct master.

However, when User:TheresNoTime closed it, they renamed the entire SPI/Thetranslatorofhistory and its archive of CheckUser-confirmed socks to SPI/Mazulu1010, making this CheckUser-unlikely match the new sockmaster for the older confirmed sock. I am concerned this might confuse future sock investigations of Thetranslaterofhistory, who will undoubtedly keep coming back for more. I raised this with TheresNoTime as the closer, but as I said, they reported their pending departure and recommended I raise it with you or another SPI admin

What I think needs done is simply for SPI/Thetranslaterofhistory to be restored to its pre-move state with its archive, while leaving the newest discussion at the newly-created master account for SPI/Mazulu1010 and the current post-rename archive of SPI/Mazulu1010 (which belongs to Thetranslaterofhistory) removed. Agricolae (talk) 00:52, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Update - the new case has now been archived at SPI/Mazulu1010, so it will now require deleting all but the most recent entry there with the remainder restored to SPI/Thetranslaterofhistory/Archive. Agricolae (talk) 18:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
@Agricolae: Thanks for the heads-up, I've been meaning to take a look; I had actually started archiving the case when I noticed the same weirdness and self-reverted. If undoing the merge requires use of the delete button, we might need help from an admin clerk, though. Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 10:58, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
I am unfamiliar with how to 'split' when a move has resulted in combining two data streams that should have been separate, but it seems to me it may be possible to just go back to before things got messed up. If the Mazulu pages were moved back to Thetranslaterofhistory and its archive, they could be reverted to when the latest discussion closed. Then the newly-created Mazulu1010 redirects could be retasked for stand-alone main SPI/Mazulu1010 and Archive pages, and the latest discussion moved there and archived just as would have been done at the original close of a case of 'not a sock of this master, but a sock of that other one'. I say this on a theoretical level, as I don't know if there are any admin limitations that would block this from being a possibility. Agricolae (talk) 19:34, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
Looks like it has been resolved, I assume through your intervention. Thanks. Agricolae (talk) 17:39, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Q5

It's pronounced HAPPYPLACE, but good try ~TNT (she/they • talk) 16:59, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Bahahahaha. --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:01, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion for user page "Things I need to disclose"

I thought I'd point out a typo (a missing letter b) in User:Blablubbs#Things_I_need_to_disclose, but then thought that I could make the whole thing look nicer. After spending perhaps more time than necessary, here's my suggested replacement:

Also, if you have all of those doppelgänger accounts, aren't you missing one combination, BlabbIubs? The corresponding line for that would be:

Yours, – Anon423 (talk) 14:08, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Bad news about Rgalo10

I have some bad news Rigojefte Galo of the username Rgalo10 is back he created Yellow sun 4228 and Red lava 4228 socks please report to sockmaster. 172.58.230.253 (talk) 00:40, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) They seem to have been blocked. I have meanwhile requested global locks. JavaHurricane 15:08, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
@JavaHurricane: Just FYI, the above is Rgalo editing logged out. Also: Thanks for the blocks, Bbb23. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:10, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
No problem, soon you won't need me. Interesting about the IP. Oh, and JavaHurricane, thanks for requesting global locks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:12, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Ha! I had thought so. JavaHurricane 15:38, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Happy adminship!

Thought I may as well be the first for once to something...congrats on becoming an administrator! If you ever have any questions or whatnot, please don't hesitate to reach out to myself or any other administrators. We're all here to help . I'd recommend checking out common.js files of admins and raiding them for goodies; mine is thatta way if you want to get started. --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:03, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations!--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 08:20, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations Blablubbs!

It's still an hour and a half away, but the result is not in doubt anymore... Congratulations on your successful RfA! JavaHurricane 11:48, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations Blablubbs !!

I’m way too excited about this that I’m not sure I have the right words to correctly express how happy I am for you. I’m thankful to the community and you yourself for stepping up and taking up this arduous task. It’s 55 minutes before it’s official, but yup! you are in. Congratulations once again, I know the collaborative project is indeed in safe hands with brilliant minds like yourself taking up administrative duties. Celestina007 (talk) 12:22, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Your request for adminship

Its a long-running custom to ruin a newly minted admin's talk page layout with stuff like this ~TNT (she/they • talk) 20:22, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Blablubbs, I have closed your request for adminship as successful. Congratulations for both your successful, landslide nomination and for your place on WP:RFX200 - both are incredible achievements! As always, the administrators' reading list is worth reading and the new admin help pages are most certainly available if you feel that you might require some practice with the tools in a safe environment prior to applying them elsewhere on the project. Good luck! Acalamari 13:18, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Congrats - use the mop well as I have no doubt you will! :) firefly ( t · c ) 13:28, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Congratulations! Enjoy the buttons, Cabayi (talk) 13:27, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks!

A few minutes ago, Acalamari closed my RfA as successful (thanks!), and brought an end to what was the most exciting – but also the most stressful – 168 hour-period in my time on Wikipedia. This may be cheesy, but I think some thanks are in order: To my noms L235 and Risker for investing their trust and time in me (I owe you both), to everyone who participated for making my RfA a far more pleasant experience than I expected, for the many thought-provoking commens people left, and to TheSandDoctor, Eostrix, JavaHurricane, Celestina007, TheresNoTime and DanCherek for their congratulations above. Finally, I want to follow the advice of my handler and clearly state in response to this that I am definitely not a CIA asset.

Off to new (and old) adventures. Thanks again. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:25, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Very pleased that this all worked out well. I was happy to co-nominate you. Keep up the good work! Risker (talk) 14:08, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Congratulations on your RfA, Blablubbs, glad to have been your nominator <3 KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 18:58, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Congratulations on the successful RFA! Also my records indicate you are a FBI asset however, so would you care to explain ;) -- Asartea Talk | Contribs 13:27, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
The community is delighted to have you. Thank you once again for stepping up. Celestina007 (talk) 13:29, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
I'm glad I finally can add you to my list of "sysops to bother when I have an Admin Thing that needs done but I don't want to find the right venue for it and wait a half hour". It's about time. :-) Perryprog (talk) 13:29, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
The bit is flipped
And that is great
So please go here
And pull your weight
Burma-shave
  • You're also one spot out on a bronze medal, but you can't have it all, I guess. Let the mopping commence. Giraffer (talk·contribs) 14:02, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
    • Aaaactually, given that Dihydrogen Monoxide's RfA was withdrawn, we can accurately state that Blablubbs' RfA is the bronze medal winner for the 3rd most support successful RfA in history. Also; you might want to take a look at User:Hammersoft/monobook.js; the last two lines there contain an import link for User:Animum's extremely helpful easyblock.js. This makes blocking for most standard blocking reasons as easy as one click. You'll be glad you installed it. It saves an awful lot of time from fumbling around looking for the right block notice, etc. Congratulations on getting the tools! Now, get in the cesspool of adminship and get to work! :) --Hammersoft (talk) 15:53, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
      @Hammersoft: Thanks for the tip – it does sound very useful! Unfortunately, I don't think it will work without a skin change since it apparently doesn't work with vector. :/ --Blablubbs (talk) 16:50, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Oh geez. You're one of those vector people, eh? That's not compatible with adminship. Time to turn in your mop. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:54, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Worse, even: New vector and I actually like it. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:00, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
  • Congrats on the mop. I hope you have been training to use it in combat against multiple hostiles for your SPI work. Team Ay-ehn-eye will also be glad to have you work. I shall ask my joint employers, Mossad and Palestine, whether your links to the intelligence community let us continue to be friends Nosebagbear (talk) 14:40, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Adding my congrats to the above, well deserved and I wish you all the best! Eddie891 Talk Work 14:38, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Congratulations Blablubbs on your new tools! -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:16, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
  • Congratulations, Blablubbs! Looks like I missed another RfA which is what happens when you check your Watchlist infrequently. But it looks like it was successful. My only words of advice are to not think twice about checking in with another admin if you have questions about taking an action. We all have our strengths and areas where we have less experience and wisdom is knowing that we don't know everything. Oh, and every admin occasionally makes a mistake so when it is pointed out to you (and don't worry, someone will!), don't double down, just take it as a learning experience. Good luck! Liz Read! Talk! 19:42, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Glad you got the mop

Glad to see another hopefully active administrator here. If you ever want advice or just to chat you are always welcome on my talk page. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 13:34, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Well, that's over. Time to drink to our youths, to days come and gone. ♠Vami_IV†♠ 17:34, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
That’s assuming he consumes alcoholic beverage! but (imo) nahh!! I don’t think he does. Ah! but Blablubbs please Feel free to take the friggin beer if you want to. 😊 Celestina007 (talk) 19:07, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
I have beer of the root variety if he doesn't drink. Texas special, with the finest wintergreen. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 19:17, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
@Vami IV and Celestina007: I do drink on occasion, actually – and tonight seems like a good night for a beer. Cheers to you both, whatever the beverage of choice may be. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:28, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Ah! yes please enjoy yourself tonight, have a good night rest because the task ahead is quite arduous but I know you are more than ready for this task. Good luck and Congratulations once again. Celestina007 (talk) 19:42, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Notes on your RfA

Congratulations on your successful RFA!
In a self-proclaimed RFA tradition, allow me to impart the words of wisdom I received from Oshwah (and stolen by him from KrakatoaKatie) after my RFA passed three years ago:
  1. Remember you will always protect the wrong version. (I got nothing here. It's inevitable.)
  2. Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. Without exception, you will pick the wrong one to do. (See #5.)
  3. Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll. (You'll attract many more of those now, because mop. They must like to drink the dirty water in the bucket.)
  4. Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block, because really, what else is there to live for?
  5. Remember that when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology. It will not be a personal attack because we are admins and, therefore, we are all rouge anyway.
  6. Finally, remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, input, or advice. My user talk page is always open to you and I'll be more than happy to help you any time you need it. :-)


KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 19:01, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
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KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 19:01, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations on your RFA! I knew you'd pass. I'm sorry I could not be the first to support you as I promised. I was in the hospital. I have a feeling that you are going to be one of Wikipedia's most prolific CUs of all time when you get the permission. Scorpions13256 (talk) 21:57, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

I too was on a little break when the RfA happened. Apart from conveying my best wishes and the obligatory congratulations, I would also like to ask you to be heedful for a potential burn-out: admins get a lot more abuse than regular editors, and the area where you like to work obviously is one of the worst. It will probably be more important than before to take a break from time to time, or to consciously focus on less controversial areas to uplift your spirits. I too am hoping you will go for the CU rights when the time comes, but much more than that I'm hoping that you are here to stay! ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 13:15, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
+1. I hope you help at the SPI more with your skills. Heartily congratulations. ─ The Aafī (talk) 17:22, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Thank you everyone for your kind words and advice, both here and above! @Scorpions13256: I'm very sorry to hear about the hospital stay – I hope you're doing better now. Please get in touch any time if there's anything I can do for you. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:00, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Request to create a local account for my bot account Q28bot

I am under the influence of GFW, so I have to use a proxy. However, my robot account Q28bot has not yet been registered on enwp. I am currently experiencing problem （phab:F34640866） when trying to create a local account, so please help me create a local account and grant it an IPBE.--Here's 28 and did I make a mess? 07:50, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

@Q28: I force-created the local account; I unfortunately can't help with the IPBE; you will have to go through the procedure outlined in WP:IPECPROXY. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:15, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
@Q28: What task are you looking to complete with your Bot account. Do you have a BRFA that's been granted trial approval? SQLQuery Me! 11:23, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
@SQL: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Q28bot 1, I just created request.--Here's 28 and did I make a mess? 06:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

User talk:Antoniotorreskingdomwealth

Did you see the reply after you blocked him? Be afraid, be very afraid because it looks like the whole weight of the house of whateverthehellitiscalled is coming down on you! Don't you know who he is? :) 10mmsocket (talk) 14:16, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

unimaginable TIME FCK

I cannot edit the singer page now that IPs are blocked. we are only trying to increase the TIME FCK and decrease the WORD. please unlock singer page and allow TIME FCK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.66.29.35 (talk) 14:39, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Alizee Anya needs the TIME FCK page but IPs are not THE WORD and realised FALSE WING HOPE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.66.29.35 (talk) 15:03, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

A beer for you!

congratulations on your well-deserved adminship. Assyrtiko (talk) 18:14, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Challenging SPI

Hello Blablubbs! IF you have some time (and only if, because this one's a real piece of work), would you have a look at this SPI? Since the suspected master here is really persistent (I'm perhaps not experienced enough, but I'd say they're on the verge of becoming an LTA), it would be good to have a more SPI-oriented admin become familiar with their behavioral patterns. Since the CU check wasn't conclusive here and there's a longish analysis of the behavioral evidence, this would be a good opportunity to do so. But yeah, only if you have a lot of time to spare. Thanks! ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 11:49, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

@Apaugasma: Thanks for the heads-up; real life is a little busy right now, so this might have to wait a day or two, but I'll try to take a look. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:26, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
@Apaugasma: Meant to have a look now, but it looks like Yamaguchi was quicker. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 19:06, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Jaipur IPs again

Following on from the block you did on 2409:4052:2313:C85E:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · block user · block log).

Any chance of some blocks/protections where appropriate please? FDW777 (talk) 11:55, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

@FDW777: Blocked the account and the most recently used IP. The underlying range is huge and hence tough to block, though it might be worth considering if this continues. I don't have the time to look into protection right now, apologies – you may want to consider making a list of frequently targeted pages and taking it to RFPP. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:15, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
Perfect, thank you. A blocked account with IP details in the block log makes life much easier for dealing with future IPs, so I'm not having to say "well this edit was similar to this edit by a similar IP...". FDW777 (talk) 12:29, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Superdeterminism - Request for Guidance

I have spoken to Mr.Ollie and Tercer. We are in a stale mate. I have proven that Wiki considers "Physics Essays" a reliable source. They disagree. You tell me who is right? Wiki itself has a page for "Physics Essays" which says it's a peer reviewed journal, and Wiki has at least 4 articles which cite Physics Essays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_Essays

Tell me please - who do I contact about getting a ruling on this issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnbannan (talk • contribs) 12:32, 15 September 2021 (UTS) (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hello Johnbannan! We have a special noticeboard where you can discuss the reliability of sources with other editors: see Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. Before posting there, please read the guidelines in the blue box above. Thanks! ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 12:41, 15 September 2021 (UTC) PS: please don't forget to sign you posts on talk pages with four tildes, as follows: ~~~~

Jasminerivera

I considered getting a Google translation, with a view to taking it into consideration for deciding on the block length, but decided not to bother. I might have done the same as you if I had seen it. Same outcome in the end, though. JBW (talk) 23:15, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Wow!

Hey, I've just found out that you only recently got the mop. I'm sort of surprised 😮 to realise you hadn't already got it. I would certainly have supported if I'd noticed the RfA was going on, but luckily you somehow managed without my help. Welcome to the corps. Here's somewhere to store the mop when you aren't on Wikipedia. 🪣 JBW (talk) 23:29, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, JBW! Regarding the section above: Not sure I would've bothered either, I checked because someone requested revision-deletion on IRC and I figured someone who jumps to a threat like that over a TV series stub probably isn't going to be a net positive to the editing environment. I presume they'll return, though. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

I think your range may be off

I think you were looking for Special:Block/81.177.3.0/24 or perhaps Special:Block/81.177.0.0/16? Anyway it's time for me to get some shut-eye so the timing is actually pretty convenient. I hope you'll forgive me for not linking tomorrow's IP to today in anyway. Since clearly that's the best way to avoid complications. Don't worry I'll stay well away from discussions I participated in on this IP to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. And yes I know posting here like this may seem a tad impertinent, which is not at all my intent, just trying to ease things along. Best Regards, 81.177.3.8 (talk) 19:57, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Heh, this is a somewhat awkward conversation to have, but yes, you are correct – fixed, thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 21:59, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Blablubbs. Many thanks for your help with the spammers. I really appreciate the protection that you have added to my Talk Page. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 23:36, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Sure thing, MrsSnoozyTurtle. I'm sorry this is happening to you – again, please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:28, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Article talk pages

Hello, Blablubbs,

Just a reminder that when you are deleting an article, there is often a talk page (and maybe even archived talk pages) that needs to be deleted as well. If you look at Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphaned talk pages, you'll see a number of pages you deleted where the talk page wasn't deleted. I think this can happen with some scripts that do mass deletions of pages, sometimes they neglect to delete talk pages when they delete articles. It's usually not a problem because a couple of admins will check the database reports daily so this is just a reminder to bring it to your attention.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me or you can ask another admin you know from the SPI world. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 05:11, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

P.S. I just ran into a vandal tonight complaining about you blocking them, so that's a sign that you're a real admin. ;-) Liz Read! Talk! 05:13, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
@Liz: Snap, I had run a mass deletion of some sock creations and forgotten about the talk pages – I went through manually after I realised that the massdelete script doesn't automatically delete associated talk pages, but one must have slipped through the cracks. Thanks for the reminder (and the kind offer for help) . The vandal there is an LTA, I got a few revert notifications from them and the rest of that farm earlier – thanks for blocking, I'll go request locks. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:32, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Prashantmeena12 again

Probably better here than at AIV since a bit of familiarity with the editor is needed since there isn't much evidence so far, but today's history at Medini Rai (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) shows Aakashp5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and 2409:4043:2d17:43fd::6d49:b411 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) are quacking loudly. FDW777 (talk) 08:36, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

@FDW777: I see what you mean, but I don't think there is sufficient evidence to block here, sorry – both only have a single edit, and I don't believe I've seen this master use edit summaries before; for what it's the IP has probably already been reassigned. I'll keep an eye on it, though. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 10:57, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
You may be right, since 2409:4052:E02:8849:E1D8:3ABF:7024:3C79 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is more likely to be them, I remember one of their previous IPs also used "Dicisive". FDW777 (talk) 11:36, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
@FDW777: Yep, here: [2]. Blocked the /64 for 31 hours. Currently pondering whether to block 2409:4052::/32 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) for a bit (anything narrower would probably not hold for long), but I have collateral concerns so I'll hold off for now. Thanks for reporting. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:54, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

I'm requesting your assistance in connection to recreating the List of ambassadors of the Philippines to the United States article, particularly to check which parts of the page were added/modified by Izukumidoriya1227 so that I or another contributor can revive/rewrite it and possibly other Philippine diplomacy/foreign affairs-related pages that were deleted over a week ago. Additionally, the pages that were deleted were used to populate some Wikidata entries (example here). -Ian Lopez @ 14:20, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Ian, thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, I won't be able to restore those pages. Not counting minor typo fixes and the like, all of the pages I deleted were entirely written by Edmund Takagi (otherwise they wouldn't have been eligible for deletion under CSD#G5); while I would, under many circumstances, be okay with restoring so that others can continue working on these articles, Izukumidoriya1227's original block was for copyright violations, and violations continued with the sockpuppet ([3]). I hence assume that I may be restoring copyrighted material by undeleting these pages, which is not something I am willing to risk. I could however provide you a list of sources used in that article, if you would like. Apologies that I can't be more helpful. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:51, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
In that case, just provide me the list of sources for List of ambassadors of the Philippines to the United States and the following articles either here or via email (since they were also swept): List of ambassadors of France to the Philippines, List of ambassadors of Germany to the Philippines, List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Germany, List of ambassadors of the Philippines to the Netherlands, List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Greece, List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Australia, List of ambassadors of the Philippines to the United Arab Emirates, List of Canadian ambassadors to the Philippines (could be a redirect I dunno), List of ambassadors of Canada to the Philippines, List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Switzerland, List of ambassadors of the Philippines to France, Embassy of the United Kingdom, Manila, Draft:AllDay Supermarket (Might as well work on that for my first ever DYK or something) and May Nagmamahal Sa'yo (Not likely to work on that but another contributor into Philippine films/pop culture from the 1990s would). Please take your time in providing the sources. -Ian Lopez @ 15:15, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
  • @Ianlopez1115: I spent some time with find and replace – I think the below should cover it all.
long list of sources
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to the United States
  • "Appointment Paper". Malacañang Palace. July 24, 2017. Archived from the original on June 16, 2019. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  • "From Presidential Spokesperson Ernie Abella – On the Nomination of Mr Romualdez as Ambassador to the US". Presidential Communications Operations Office. July 27, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  • "Embassy of the Philippines, Washington, D.C. - BACKGROUND DETAILS (Archived copy)". Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  • Romuáldez, Eduardo Z. (1982). Assignment in Washington. E.Z. Romuáldez.
  • "Willy Gaa, veteran diplomat; 69". Philippine Daily Inquirer. November 11, 2010. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  • "SPEAKER DIRECTORY: JOSE L. CUISIA". World Affairs Council (Northern California). Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  • "PHILIPPINES: His Excellency Jose L. Cuisia Jr". The Washington Diplomat. November 11, 2010. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  • Flores, Helen (December 1, 2017). "Trump receives Philippines envoy's credentials". The Philippine Star. Retrieved July 14, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
List of ambassadors of France to the Philippines
List of ambassadors of Germany to the Philippines
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Germany
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to the Netherlands
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Greece
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Australia
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to the United Arab Emirates

List of Canadian ambassadors to the Philippines: Redirect left behind from a page move

List of ambassadors of Canada to the Philippines
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to Switzerland
List of ambassadors of the Philippines to France
Embassy of the United Kingdom, Manila
May Nagmamahal Sa'yo
Anyway, I checked the logs and the AllDay Supermarket draft was deleted around the same time as the other pages. Either way, you can list down the potential sources as foundation for an article that I can work on once the ambassador pages have been resuscitated. -Ian Lopez @ 11:16, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
@Tamzin:, didn't realize that but thanks for the link. You can help me re-create some articles in question but I understand if you're not into that. -Ian Lopez @ 14:56, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

SPI

Thank you for fixing the username. Evidently I had a brain cramp. :-) Maxim(talk) 16:41, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Glad if I could help – if there's one thing I can relate to, it's brain cramps. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:47, 30 September 2021 (UTC)


Query about a SPI case

Hello, Blablubbs,

You are a very active SPI clerk and now, also an admin. So I thought maybe you could tell me why Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sanketio31 is still open. I was checking the impact of blocked editor User:DJRSD who was identified as a sockpuppet of User:JeepersClub which led me to this SPI about Sanketio31. I can see given the huge amount of evidence that was presented that this is a complicated case but I was still surprised that it hadn't been resolved given that it was opened over 3 weeks ago. Is SPI overwhelmed and understaffed right now? This isn't a complaint because I know that quite a lot of work is involved, it's more that I was curious about the SPI process. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 23:50, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Hey Liz! Thanks for reaching out. This case in particular is very large and complicated, so the process takes a lot of time – Mz7 indicated a few days ago that he is in the process of checking these accounts, and that there will probably be some waiting time involved. Usually, checks take something between a few minutes and an hour or so, but the data here seems to be rather messy; a preliminary check by Maxim indicated that they are indeed all related, so I'm hopeful that we will be able to wrap this up soon.
More generally speaking, SPI is one of our perpetual backlogs (though not as bad as e.g. WP:CCI) for a number of reasons: The volume of filings is rather large, and many of them don't include enough evidence to make a call, which can lead to drawn-out hunts for additional diffs; there is a shortage of CUs active at SPI (I hope CUOS2021 will help with that), as well as a chronic lack of patrolling administrators. I'm not sure whether that last shortage is because the process is complicated or otherwise unappealing to most, because of an impression that behavioural investigation at SPI should be left to clerks, or because of something else entirely. The current backlog isn't actually too bad compared to peak times (the diligent work by my two clerk trainees Tamzin and Spicy has been a great help), but we can certainly always use any additional help we can get, and the clerk team is always happy to help people navigate the procedural maze. Alternatively, people could also just stop socking... Please let me know if you have any other questions, or if there's something SPI-related I can help with. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:17, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

–

  • SPI is definitely "overwhelmed and understaffed" at the moment, and this is reflected in the lengthy backlog. However, I think WP:CUOS2021 should be a big help, assuming ArbCom assigns CU permissions appropriately. Note that as long as you are an administrator, you do not need any special permissions or roles to perform many of the functions of SPI. Back in May, I wrote a post on AN that offered some tips for helping out, if you're interested: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive333#Admin help needed at SPI. Mz7 (talk) 23:22, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
    I remember when I first became a CU in 2019, the group of us that just had received the permission were so fresh-eyed and motivated that we reduced the backlog to this: [4]. If we could have something similar this year, that would be so amazing, haha. Mz7 (talk) 23:27, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Blablubbs and Mz7,
I had forgotten about this message (I think I'm getting old) until I was checking into an editor which brought me back to this SPI case and, wow! I completely underestimated the amount of time and effort that went into this. I must have been looking at an abbreviated version because looking at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sanketio31/Archive, well, it's just overwhelming the amount of care, checking and double-checking that was involved. And I don't even know how CUing is done so I wouldn't be surprised if it's even more work and more labor-intensive than I imagine it to be.
So, besides me issuing a brief apology for being impatient, after reading through most of this case, I'm left wondering if this sock group influenced the outcome of any AFD discussions that we should reconsider. From what I gather, they would nominate pages and then vote "Keep" so maybe they didn't cause any articles to be deleted but that was the question I was left with after reviewing this case now that it has been completed. I spend much of my time now looking at CSD tagged pages and expiring drafts and I know how difficult it is to overcome a "Delete" decision on an AFD discussion so I'm concerned that some articles were deleted that wouldn't have been if these accounts hadn't overwhelmed the AFD discussion. Should I be worried or was this group's primary influence to keep articles that might have otherwise have been deleted? Because they can always be nominated again but once articles are deleted, it's hard to bring them back. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 05:51, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Hi Liz. You're absolutely correct – there are a few instances in which Sanketio31's voting altered the outcome of an AfD. I was preparing a COIN post on it, but I got pulled away by something IRL. I'll try to put something up by the weekend. Giraffer (talk·contribs) 06:03, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Hockeycatcat

I noticed that you stopped by the talk page of an editor who did the same for me one time. I haven't seen them myself, but just note the suppressed edits on his user page. If I were an administrator, I would not have unblocked for the same reason as you, but I hope you took them into account when making your decision. Sorry if my comments are inappropriate to you. I'm just trying to help out another autist. Scorpions13256 (talk) 01:57, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

@Scorpions13256: Your comments are not inappropriate at all, though I think you're assuming more good faith than I am; from the behavioural link I can make to specific IPs, it appears that this is about things that are far more severe than legal threats, and it wasn't a one-time thing either. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:36, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
I didn't see them myself. Scorpions13256 (talk) 14:23, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Also, thank you for noticing the reverse copyvio. I haven't encountered one of those in a while. Scorpions13256 (talk) 02:10, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
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Where does WP:UNDO prohibit modifying the revision that is being reverted to?

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Reverting § Using undo for an edit that isn't a revert. CapnZapp (talk) 14:53, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Belated Congratulations on RFA

Congratulations on your very successful RFA. I wasn't on line much in September; when I was I was helping with an article rewrite and not paying attention to much else. I am glad you passed easily and did not need my vote. Best wishes Donner60 (talk) 00:51, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Donner60: A very belated thank you for the kind words. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 17:48, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Wha?

I came by to see if you answered my query about a SPI case from three days ago and you've already archived the discussion! That's kind of a surprise. It doesn't allow me to respond to your reply but at least I can read it so thanks for not just deleting it. Liz Read! Talk! 02:25, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Liz: I archive my talk page once per month, and yours was pretty close to the cutoff. There hadn't been a reply in two or three days and I had seen you around in the meantime, so I figured you had seen the responses Mz7 and I left. Apologies if that was a mistaken assumption – I've restored the section above. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:17, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

New CU

You might be interested in looking at WP:SPI/Riyadhcafe87? The name came up here: WP:AN/I#Discussion:

Though it might be more of a WP:MEAT case, cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:32, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Huldra: Acknowledging that I've seen this; looks like an interesting case, but also a complicated one – I'll try to have a look, but it might be a while. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:19, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
For your outstanding work in compiling and filing Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sanketio31, one of the most technically and socially sophisticated sockfarms in recent memory! KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 05:59, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Why have you closed the Sockpuppet investigation?

Behavioral evidence of sockpuppetry is absolute and mathematically demonstrable. I'm surprised you closed one and not the one this sockpuppeteer maliciously initiated against me. Is there a reason for this?Cristodelosgitanos (talk) 18:12, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

@Cristodelosgitanos: I do not find the behavioural evidence conclusive enough to overcome an {{unrelated}} CU result. I have not reviewed the second case. --Blablubbs (talk) 18:17, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
I see @Blablubbs. I should have been clearer on the math. No worries. Cristodelosgitanos (talk) 18:33, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

MAKO Surgical Corp.

Congratulations on your recent RfA. Could you use your sock-hunting skills to look into the very odd things going on around MAKO Surgical Corp.. I looked at it because a revision deletion was requested, but I found no evidence of copyvio. However something odd is going on with various editors and IPs doing prods and AfDs on established companies, welcoming each other, and generally mucking around as can be seen here. I looked at filing a sockpuppet report and decided the procedure was too difficult. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:14, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@Cwmhiraeth: The IPs are the same as 4KidsFriend (talk · contribs), who is in turn evading a block on Muhammad Alfarezal (talk · contribs) and socks. Blocked. It's difficult to figure out what a sensible rangeblock is here, I'll keep an eye on 118.96.0.0/16 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) and 180.244.0.0/16 (talk+ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) to see if I can figure one out somewhere down the road. Thanks for the heads-up. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 10:44, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

User:Emir Alemdar 80

Hello Blablubbs, hope you are doing well. Emir Alemdar 80: a new sock of Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of علي أبو عمر. Locked globally now. I don't think there's COI between my lock and this, as I'm tracking this LTA since Jan 2019. Best --Alaa :)..! 14:29, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

@علاء: Thanks for the heads-up; for what it's worth, I don't think that amounts to a COI either. --Blablubbs (talk) 17:16, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks

I had fun reading your page on how to file a good SPI. It reminds me of advice I received in a film production class I took in High School, as well as my Capstone paper. Show! Don't tell! Scorpions13256 (talk) 00:09, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks @Scorpions13256, I'm glad you found it useful! --Blablubbs (talk) 20:34, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Recent sock tag in the User:Al aman kollam case

Hey Blablubbs. Thanks for doing the closing. Recently you tagged Chennai Passangai per the case, but that account is not blocked and nobody confirmed he was a sock. I suggest that the tag should be removed! Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:07, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

@EdJohnston: Darn it, forgot to uncheck that one. Fixed, thanks for catching that. --Blablubbs (talk) 06:56, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

October 2021

You have been pinged in an SPI case opened by Mvcg66b3r. LooneyTraceYT comment • treats 00:00, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

29 Oct 2021

Hi can you block this user 42.118.38.76 he kept on deleting contents for no reason at Indonesia national under-17 football team, Indonesia national under-19 football team, Indonesia national under-21 football team, Indonesia national under-23 football team, respectively. Runningboy21 (talk) 09:13, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Possible block evasion

Hi there Blablubbs. This editor came to my attention, and it looks like they've restored a few edits you had reverted on the basis of block evasion.

Blubluey (talk · contribs)

The edit summaries use language consistent with the recently blocked sock account. Might be worth a look as it seems you're familiar with the case. — Manticore 02:49, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

@Manticore, yup, that's them; good catch. Bbb23 was quicker than me – thank you both. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 08:36, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Giraffer submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Blablubbs (talk · contribs · count · logs) for Editor of the Week for his outstanding work at SPI & WPOP, and his excellent content work. He's not a name that would be in anyone's long term memory since he only started editing last June, but you've probably seen him around somewhere. With 40k+ edits in one year, it's easy to assume that he just spent a lot of time reverting vandalism on Huggle, but that is far from the truth. Blablubbs mainly works as an SPI clerk, helping to analyze and manage sockpuppet investigations of all backgrounds and sizes. This is work which can involve hours of in-depth analysis of diffs and patterns, and can involve receiving talk page abuse and impersonation. He is consistently one of the most active SPI clerks if not the most active, and despite having to deal with LTAs, trolls, and disruptive users, is unfailingly civil and always approachable. Outside of SPI, Blablubbs is an excellent content creator, having translated three articles from German into eloquent and sophisticated English: Dachau camp trial, Hannibal (network), and Das Begräbnis, and expanded another three from existing stubs: Styles Hutchins, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, and Sandwich First Baptist Church (the last one as a collaboration with Spicy). His article contributions merited a Precious Award from Gerda Arendt. I believe that Blablubbs' experience, professionalism, and dedication make him a valuable asset to this project, and I hope you can join me in supporting him for this award. This awared was seconded by ProcrastinatingReader and User:Gwennie-nyan

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Does outstanding work at SPI & WPOP. Started editing last June. with 45k+ edits, Blablubbs mainly works as an SPI clerk, helping to analyze and manage sockpuppet investigations of all backgrounds and sizes; work which involves hours of in-depth analysis of diffs and patterns, and can sometimes involve receiving talk page abuse and impersonation. Consistently one of the most active SPI clerks and despite having to deal with LTAs, trolls, and disruptive users, is unfailingly civil and always approachable. An excellent content creator, having translated three articles from German into eloquent and sophisticated English: Dachau camp trial, Hannibal (network), and Das Begräbnis, and expanded another three from existing stubs: Styles Hutchins, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, and Sandwich First Baptist Church (the last one as a collaboration with User:Spicy). His article contributions merited a Precious Award from Gerda Arendt. Experienced, professional, and dedicated. A valuable asset to this project.
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Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 13:01, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, Buster7, and thank you @Giraffer, ProcrastinatingReader, and Gwennie-nyan: For the incredibly kind words. I'm honoured. --Blablubbs (talk) 20:27, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Congrats! Also some people with whom I discussed this prior to nominating you might like to show up too :P --Giraffer (talk·contribs) 20:41, 30 October 2021 (UTC)


Sockpuppet is back

User:ShkoDevAct mewest sock is User:ShuU1Ka. He editing same edits on pictures https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peshmerga&action=history Shadow4dark (talk) 17:49, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Rassiopeia

Mind e-mailing me a link to the upwork account? I looked at the case, and was pretty confident based on editing style, but hadn't quite made my mind up. Girth Summit (blether) 16:15, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

@Girth Summit: I don't even think Email is necessary – master had it linked on their userpage, see Special:Permalink/1036868360. Hope this helps. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 18:13, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Ah - so it is! Yes, I think that rather adds to the suspicions, good call. Girth Summit (blether) 19:00, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

UTRS 50288

Otterslort is requesting unblock at UTRS appeal #50288. (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ineedtostopforgetting) These always make me feel awkward. They always sound like the deer in the headlights looks. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 08:52, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

@Deepfriedokra: Thanks. I'm confident it's them (and the unblock request does more to corroborate that than to deny it) – if I'm right about that, they should be fairly accustomed to headlights by now. I can drop some evidence on UTRS later if you want me to. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:56, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. Socks don't know their tells, so they want to know where they slipped. They stopped posting after I posted the SPI link. A cynic might think that meant they knew the jig was up. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 11:34, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Requesting block

Hello Blablubbs, I am requesting a block for Krishan Kumar Ladoiya and Krishan Ladoiya Nohar for abusing multiple accounts for promotion of themselves. No much to say since it's obvious. Please let me know if this is not the right way to request for block and I didn't want to waste anybody's time by filing an SPI since it's very obvious. Thanks. --Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 07:14, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

@Idoghor Melody Krishan Kumar Ladoiya is an obvious sock of Md Mehdi vaiya, so I've blocked them for that. The other one has some weird overlap, but wrote about an entirely different person; I'm not quite comfortable blocking without looking more closely, I'll try to do that when I have some more time. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:39, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
@Blablubbs: Noted --Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 17:19, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Deletion review for Quiet Parks International

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Quiet Parks International. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:22, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

MRY

Assuming you mean My Royal Young, how'd you figure that out?--Bbb23 (talk) 01:44, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

@Bbb23: Yup, that's what I meant. Trolling a filipino editor + unlikely to be new + a bird-related GAR on a page a sitting arb was substantially involved with added up to MRY in my head – a (sanity-)check I requested from a CU off-wiki after my block corroborated that. --Blablubbs (talk) 02:06, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. Shouldn't you be asleep? --Bbb23 (talk) 03:03, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Probably should have been; and about 15 minutes after writing that comment, I was. Sleep and I have a complicated relationship sometimes . --Blablubbs (talk) 10:31, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
FWIW the account later spammed the familiar blacklisted images on Commons and Wikispecies on my talk pages, after which it went to SRG. Waiting for a lock now. JavaHurricane 16:36, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Ineedtostopforgetting

Thanks for what you've done at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ineedtostopforgetting. I was thinking of doing something similar myself. JBW (talk) 11:00, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

@JBW: Glad if I could help; it's been going on for a while now, I hope the semiprotection does the trick. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:18, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

One thing leads to another...

OK, so I came to this page to read your reply to my message in the section above, and that had the side effect that for some reason or other the section "MRY" caught my attention. That had the side effect that I saw Bbb23's question "Shouldn't you be asleep?" which led me to wonder whether Bbb23 was outing you by implying non-publicly revealed information about your geographical location, so I had a look at your user page to see if it said anything about where you are. And that turned out to be a really good thing to do, because it had the side effect that I saw your list of Things I like to use, several of which look as though they are likely to be really helpful. Thank you for sharing the information about them. (Incidentally, all that jumping from one thing to another is a symptom of attention deficit disorder, which has been a plague on me for all of my life, but sometimes, as in this case, it brings about welcome results.) JBW (talk) 14:47, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

JBW I assume you noticed that when you edit this page Blablubbs lists their local time. As I recall, when I left my message it was after 2:00 a.m. their time. Oh, and Blablubbs, I don't have a "complicated relationship" with sleep myself. It's quite simple: I'm a chronic insomniac. :-( --Bbb23 (talk) 14:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Bbb23 No, I hadn't noticed the listing of local time. In fact even after you mentioned it, it took me a while to find it, in small print at the top of a fairly long edit notice. However, my comment about outing was totally tongue in cheek (in case you didn't realise) because I didn't think you would mention it if Blablubbs hadn't revealed it somewhere or other. As for insomnia, that's another of my life long problems, and is in fact to a large extent another consequence of the attention deficit disorder, because I just can't stop my brain from thinking furiously about one thing after another, instead of just shutting the fuck up and letting me get to 😴 sleep. 😕 JBW (talk) 15:26, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
@JBW: Glad to hear you found the list useful – I was never into collecting stuff, and then I discovered user scripts. The timezone does indeed come from the edit notice, though I think the Babel box has more doxing potential than the timezone does . I'm sorry to hear about the sleep troubles; I find that Wikipedia is a great distraction, but not a good sleeping aid – speaking of, I should probably go to bed... --Blablubbs (talk) 23:28, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope

Hi, Blablubbs! Thank you again for all your help when I was starting out. I feel much more confident these days thanks to you and all the other editors who have helped me. I don't have enough time to come here a lot but today I did something I never did before, I moved an article. I moved Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope to The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope, since that's registered trademark title. I'm pretty sure I did it right, but if not, reverse it. I just wanted to "check in" with you with this milestone! The Horror, The Horror (talk) 01:03, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

@The Horror, The Horror: Good to see you're still around! The move looks good from a technical perspective – I'm not great with article naming conventions and unfamiliar with the subject, so I can't speak to whether the "The" should or shouldn't be included (see WP:Article titles and Wikipedia:Official names for guidance there). Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 22:41, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Fresh eyes

First off, thanking you for reading my thoughts and for any help in a frustrating situation that has throw my mental for a loop. Tempers get the best of me sometimes where I go to a dark place. Needed a breath to cool off and center, somewhat. Here goes...

Your November 2 block log of BumakinBeauty clued me in to fish out seedy WP:UPE or WP:SOCK behavior (admittedly, I'm unsure of how to distinguish the two, though sure as s--t know a COI when I see one) that has been going on for what looks like months on Tinder and Sean Rad WP. BumakinBeauty feels self-explanatory — in March, a COI whitewashes/adds peculiarly beneficial text within a day of me starting and amidst construction (first diff with subsequent diffs adding his picture, robust detail and philanthropy). There are WP:SPAs on Tinder dating back to September that coordinate in large edit adds/retractions with instances of misleading summaries when looking at the diffs. All edits appear quite favorable to Tinder.

Although cumbersome, this seemed manageable with rollbacks and I reinstated an advertising tag (along with a COI), while nixing the BumakinBeauty COI sock spin after seeing your log and investigation. What I found interesting were these responses to my actions here and here, a borderline obsession on the latter. I proceeded to advise them of a possible COI because some of the edits to Tinder look alright and saw previous warnings and a noticeboard discussion. Peculiar again.

Frankly, it's insulting to be berated when I just took what I added from reading the news and wouldn't have a clue whether some inane detail was misreported like a COI with UPE insight would. Perhaps fresh eyes can better discern this mess because it feels like WP:DUCK to me! It is exhausting and discouraging to go out of my way to avoid edit warring when that ultimately caters to embolden more UPE influence and whitewashing. Tangledupinbleu chs (talk) 14:32, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Template

@Blablubbs: What if someone made a mistake when editing in template or module namespace? Vitaium (talk) 23:41, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

@Vitaium: I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean – could you rephrase the question? --Blablubbs (talk) 23:44, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

I forget to click a CU request

SPI is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vhubbard and I can't work out how to do it retrospectively! Silly me. Sorry. FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 13:24, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

@Timtrent: No worries, it's not exactly super intuitive – you have to flip {{SPI case status|}} to {{SPI case status|CUrequest}} (CU, request, and checkuser work too). I've gone ahead and changed the status [5]. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 13:29, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Thank you. I bet I still forget next time I omit it by accident. I saw you were active and though a quick note would bear fruit. FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 13:30, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Itcouldbepossible

Itcouldbepossible requested an unblock. Checkuser evidence shows  Unlikely at best, though I cannot rule out WP:MEAT. That's relevant here, given the action from that account on the deleted article, Rate aththo (though in all fairness, they were PROD'ing that article for deletion). Thoughts? --Yamla (talk) 11:39, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Hey Yamla. I think the behavioural evidence currently at SPI (although presented by a sock) is fairly strong in part, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DasSoumik#19 November 2021, specifically the bit about the AfD noms ([6][7]) – those two have a very long-running feud ([8][9][10], among other things). It seems unlikely to be coincidental to me that their first AfD, very early in their editing career, would again be going after Amkgp with an extremely similar (and equally invalid) rationale. The nominated page was in fact written by Amkgp, but the creation was made during one of their loutsocking stints, so I presume that the nominator had some prior knowledge of that socking saga. I also found their writing style similar (and there's lots of teahouseposting for both them and past socks), but I acknowledge that that's hard to quantify. I'm fairly sure there's some connection here, but I'm okay with you unblocking if you think I jumped the gun. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:58, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Knowledge of German and SPI needed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Helmut_Hoppenstedt

Hi Blablubbs, you may be the ideal SPI clerk to answer Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Helmut_Hoppenstedt, and I'd be very thankful for hearing your opinion about the case. Thank you very much in advance! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:31, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

@ToBeFree: Thanks for the heads-up – my first impression between the dewiki block and two edit summary peculiarities (very frequent use of quotes + very frequent use of parentheses), I think there might well be something here; I hope to take a closer look tomorrow. --Blablubbs (talk) 00:57, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much! :) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:36, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Unban request from Hulged (Wahhid)

At Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Unban_request_from_Hulged_(Wahhid), Hulged (aka Wahhid) is requesting their ban (under WP:3X) is lifted. You noted they are banned, hence the notification. --Yamla (talk) 19:41, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Non-admin at SPI experiences?

Since you've been both a non-admin clerk and an admin clerk, can you give me a list of everything that changed, so I know I haven't missed anything in Jack Frost's training? All I can think of is that a non-admin can't block, can't see deleted material, and can't perform case renames/merges if they require a histmerge. And I guess they can't do G5 cleanup. Am I missing anything? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:55, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

@RoySmith: That covers the technical aspects well, I think; one thing I would add is the "social" dimension – the amount of verbosity required when it comes to justifying a block changed significantly for me. Something I tried to do as a non-admin clerk (especially early on), and something I encourage my two trainees to do, is making sure that any admin action request goes along with a casepage that contains enough diffs to actually convince a reviewing admin that they are making a good block (as opposed to making them look for themselves or having them rely solely on your judgement). At the end of the day, the blocking admin "owns" the block, even if it was per request – as an admin clerk, I can always document my entire thought process if and when the block is challenged; as a non-admin clerk, I tended to be significantly more verbose. Also pinging @Tamzin and Spicy: In case they have anything to add. --Blablubbs (talk) 17:03, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
Personally I don't mind having to write out a long justification, because the process helps me think aloud. I try to do that even for things that are fully within my discretion, like closing a case without action. Although on some LTA cases I keep my block requests pretty succinct. There's only so many ways to say, "Clearly this is Angelmunoz because he's falsifying dead children's dates of birth", for instance.
In my experience so far, the biggest inconvenience as a non-admin clerk is not being able to see deleted revisions. There are some ways around that, but in many cases, unless there's an admin around who I can bother off-wiki, I have to ignore a case. And even asking an admin is only viable for more straightforward cases. I can't really say, "Hey, can you give me every single deleted copy of these four drafts, with notes of whose edit each was, so I can compare how they spaced infobox parameters?" -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 17:19, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

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Rev-Dels

Cheers for the heads up there. My general consensus is that if someones spotted an issue with any of my administrative actions (apart from blocks etc and where theres policy prevent immediate reversal of them etc etc) to fix them and apply a suitably large trout. Amortias (T)(C) 19:21, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

@Amortias: Looks like I'm the trouting candidate  – I find American PD law pretty confusing, which is why I didn't want to reverse anything before asking; thanks for clearing things up, PMC. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:23, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
No trouting one way or another, the URAA is so stupid and complicated that it needs a chart to even begin to make sense of. When Scorpion and I were originally chatting about these a few weeks ago I actually also thought they were PD until Sennecaster reminded me of the URAA and the Hirtle chart. It continues to strike me as ridiculous that the US can assign copyright to historical things that were never published in it but that's America for you. Cheers guys :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:14, 28 November 2021 (UTC)


Sockpuppet of a globally locked user

Hi there! This is Dr. Coal, a sysop on tr.wiki, and I wanted to let you know that I blocked Ehbjen on tr.wiki yesterday as the sockpuppet of Osourdounmou, whose relevant cases I found here, and also requested a global lock. FYI, best wishes, Dr. CoalMessage 21:02, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, @Dr. Coal!  Blocked and tagged. Also FYI ping Tamzin and TheresNoTime since you two handled the last case – a sleeper check might be worthwhile. --Blablubbs (talk) 23:45, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping. I've filed pro forma and requested a check. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 00:32, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi again! Schielo is another sockpuppet of the very same user, just spotted and blocked on tr.wiki. Best wishes, Dr. CoalMessage 16:03, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Dear Tamzin, FYI as well. Best wishes, Dr. CoalMessage 23:05, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
@Dr. Coal:  Blocked and tagged again, sorry for the delay – and thanks for the ping. :) --Blablubbs (talk) 18:09, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi! This is Dr. Coal reporting in again. Dasgut is the very same person as well. Best wishes, Dr. CoalMessage 14:42, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
@Dr. Coal: The gift that keeps on giving... Blocked, thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:41, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Quite fruitful indeed, but that fruit is the forbidden one, so to say. Best, Dr. CoalMessage 17:15, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

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Histmerges

@Jack Frost and GeneralNotability: I saw the note on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Anshumantiwariofficials regarding histmerges. I suspect what I'm about to say will be unpopular, but that's never stopped me before :-) When I was doing my clerk training, case merges were the most confusing thing for me. As a software engineer, I firmly believe that when you've got a task which is repetitive, complicated, and error prone, it's something a machine should be doing for you. People should be spending their time on tasks which require human judgement that machines are incapable of. This really seems like something spihelper should be handling automatically, rather than generations of SPI clerk trainees struggling with the nuances of histmerges in their various flavors. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:42, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

RoySmith, which part? spihelper can do histmerges (and imo makes them a whole lot easier), the manual way was even more of a pain since SPI can't use Special:MergeHistory. The problem with overlapping histories is not a technical one, we can do them, but it makes complete hash of the page history, and deciding whether two pages can be safely merged would be rather complicated to do programmatically (we can merge as long as the pages haven't had SPI sections open simultaneously) GeneralNotability (talk) 00:51, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
I have always just assumed spi-helper knew what it was doing and whenever it asks me if I wanted to do a histmerge, I just say yes. Nobody's complained yet that I've messed up a case, so whatever hashing of the page history happens doesn't seem to be of much practical importance. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:05, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
RoySmith, what happens is that the diffs are merged based on timestamp, so you get interleaved diffs that make no sense to someone reviewing the history later. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:16, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
I supposed, but I'm not convinced that really matters. However, let me suggest another approach. Right now, we've got two basic approaches: histmerge vs manual copy-paste. People prefer histmerge because it's easier. And you're saying it's hard to know when you can do histmerges vs when you have to fall back to copy-paste. So, don't bother trying to figure it out. The script could always do copy paste. It's a pain for humans, especially since they then need to provide the appropriate attribution, but it would actually be easier for an automated process to do that because then it would always be doing the same thing. One code path makes for simpler code. It would not be as efficient, but I'm guessing we average maybe a couple of case merges a day, so who cares? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:07, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Sockpuppet returns?

A long-dormant account, CappellsFromSkelmersdale, created Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Username-hopping vandal, which is connected to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chelston-temp-1/Archive. I've deleted the LTA as trolling and blocked the account, but you may want to log this at SPI. Fences&Windows 15:24, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@Fences and windows: Apologies, only getting to this now. I'll have a look, thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 17:40, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

MCUKR AfD

Hi Blablubbs... can I ask why you have deleted so many revisions of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mass killings under communist regimes (4th nomination) and its talk page? – Joe (talk) 15:10, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

@Joe Roe: Mind if I shoot you an email about that? --Blablubbs (talk) 15:11, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Sure. – Joe (talk) 15:13, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
@Joe Roe: Thanks, done. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:25, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

I'm wondering the same thing. Citing RD5 doesn't at all explain what's going on here. schetm (talk) 17:53, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

@Schetm: Someone inserted a link to a website which in turn links to a dox of two Wikipedians in a context that places them at risk. After conferring with Joe, I've sent this to the oversight team for review. My apologies that I can't be more specific. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:34, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
I totally understand hiding revisions that dox individuals. However, I wonder why hiding 114 revisions on the AfD and 148 revisions on the talk page was necessary. Surely not all of them were in violation. I'm also concerned if any AfD !votes were redacted, especially if there's another AfD (hopefully, not soon!) I also understand that confidentiality must be kept, but it is concerning to see a couple revisions I made disappear. schetm (talk) 01:10, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
@Schetm: They all contained the offending link, so any other form of removal would have been incomplete; I acknowledge that this was a judgement call and that I may have been overly cautious – I tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to PII disclosure. I hope to hear back from the oversight team soon. For what it's worth, it should be possible to make removed comments accessible again by copying them from the deleted history, adding them to the page in a new edit and then self-reverting again; I'll hold off on that pending a response from OS, but it might be an option to consider in case they decide the revdel should stay in place. Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 12:22, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

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Query

Hello, Blablubbs,

I saw you blocked Saeidakhgaryan and Sheikh. .saeid for having multiple accounts and wondered what you thought of Arasalahi. It's a 5 year old account that just started editing yesterday, coincidentally, right after I tagged Ara Salahi with a PROD tag. Both of the blocked editors worked on this bio, too, a draft of which is on User:Sheikh. .saeid/sandbox. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 14:55, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Hey Liz, sorry for the late reply. I did see that at the time, but noticed some differences in the editing pattern and decided not to pursue it. I see Taji4444 and Amir1376311 have popped up in the meantime; at a glance, those two look related to the accounts I blocked, but unfortunately I don't have the time to look more closely right now. Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 21:47, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

GRP

More of his nonsense. You know the drill. JavaHurricane 15:33, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

There's also a SineBot edit signing the abuse which needs revdel too in case you missed it. JavaHurricane 15:36, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Looks like Primefac has done the needful. Thank you both! JavaHurricane 15:43, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Very belated congratulations

I have been an active editor and contributor for more than ten years and often comment/!vote on RFAs. I have been exceptionally busy in real life for the past few months and have been mostly offline. So I missed your RFA. I am glad it well so well and you did not need my !vote to pass. Belated congratulations and best wishes. Donner60 (talk) 08:39, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

@Donner60: Thanks again! --Blablubbs (talk) 16:32, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

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Logged out editing

Please provide more specific evidence that you think those logged out edits are me. I am telling you they are not (except for the one that I already claimed), and I am telling you in no uncertain terms that there are hundreds of people on probably 5-10 different IP ranges because of how ISPs are set up in Indianapolis. This is a serious allegation against me and one that I'm not going to let slide. Also, I don't see how any of the edits are "unambiguously in violation of policy" - from what I can tell, all of the edits appear to be constructive and in good faith (I know I wouldn't revert any of them if I had seen them made in real time). And finally, I didn't edit war with anyone - I reverted once. That's hardly edit warring. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 21:39, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

@Taking Out The Trash: That isn't a regular ISP, it's an institutional network that you have acknowledged being on; a fairly empty underlying range, in fact; the last 500 edits on the /16 (the largest allocated block) go back to February 2019. Projectspace contributions are even more rare, with every single one since 2017 coming from a single, rather stable IP address. That IP is being used for two things: Occasional mainspace edits, often about trains – including a specific route that you express interest in on your userpage – and making projectspace contributions that could potentially make the commenter unpopular with other Wikipedians – i.e. evasion of scrutiny. In addition to some shared writing style clues, there is conclusive evidence which I'm not allowed to disclose on-wiki per the outing policy that you used that exact IP address within the last few hours. I am happy to share it with any interested functionary if that is desired. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:00, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Firstly, that isn't an institutional address, at least not exclusively. I'm aware that it geolocates at least in part to the University of Indianapolis, but that isn't correct as I've seen addresses within those ranges elsewhere in the city (my real-life job is computer-related). I believe that at least part of the ranges might be used by UIndy, but the chances are equal that they could also be used by IUPUI, Butler University, or any other schools in the area (as well as non-school use too). Remember that even a single IP address is likely shared by at least dozens of users. Whether all of them edit Wikipedia... well, obviously not considering how quiet the activity is. But the potential is there. I count one edit (one!) to the Cardinal article, and I haven't made any edits to train routes or the like at all unless I happened to revert vandalism/disruptive editing on one. Finally it is very possible that I used that IP address today. It is also possible that I didn't. You really can't make hard conclusions about this kind of stuff when dealing with this region, because there's so much traffic (or at least potential traffic) using a relatively small amount of Internet infrastructure. I reiterate that this is a serious allegation, a false one, that damages my reputation, and if you do not retract it, I will pursue further on-wiki measures. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 22:27, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
@Taking Out The Trash: You are free to do so if you wish. I believe the evidence is conclusive enough for a reasonable person to arrive at the conclusion of abusive logged-out editing based on it (I make enough rangeblocks to know what a busy range looks like, and this isn't one). It is getting late where I live, and I am unusually busy these days, so I will not be able devote as much time to a discussion as I would like – my apologies for that in advance. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:47, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
After further consideration this just isn't worth my time especially this close to the holidays. If the Wikipedia community feels it can freely spew what is essentially libel against me (not in the legal sense, but in the sense that what I have been falsely accused of permanently damages my reputation), I have no interest in being part of such a community. Bye. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 14:25, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Deletion

You deleted the first page I have ever created and then stated I had a financial interest in the subject in which I created the page for. I do not have a financial interest in the subject, Quanda S. Francis. I have followed the subject for years, including my time in foster care. I am not being paid. The subject is important to me and others. Her accomplishment is our accomplishment and we are computer science majors that collectively worked on this page and we are not interested in seeing history be erased because it not “your history”. This is only the beginning for this extraordinary person that has inspired so many and as a first generation African American, leave our stories alone. Reboot40 (talk) 16:12, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

@Reboot40: I know it is tough to see something you worked on be deleted, and I won't dispute for a second that Wikipedia has a substantial coverage gap when it comes to people of colour. However, all subjects need to pass our notability guidelines in order to be included, and the community has very recently determined that Quanda S. Francis does not pass that bar at this time. Notability standards ensure that there is enough coverage to write verifiable articles, and hence help ensure accurate coverage, especially of living people. You recreated a near-identical article regardless, and I deleted it in accordance with policy. Just to make sure that I understand what is going on: You have no connection, personal, financial, or otherwise, to Quanda S. Francis, or her political campaign? Also, you have mentioned that the article has been worked on by a group of people, but you and an IP editor seem to be the only people who have made significant contributions. Are you folks sharing an account? --Blablubbs (talk) 16:29, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Don't expect a response.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:30, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Welp, could've saved myself that paragraph. Thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:43, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Michaael Gingold

Hi! It's been so busy this year I haven't been here for a month! I hope you have a chance to see what I did at the writer about horror Michael Gingold's page. It was a stub! Thank you for all your support! I'm feeling more confident and less insecure! The Horror, The Horror (talk) 22:28, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

OP rangeblock

Hey Blablubbs, just a heads up I revoked TPA for 8.217.0.0/16 which you colo blocked back in September. Nothing of value is coming from that range. -- LuK3 (Talk) 13:03, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@LuK3: Thanks for the heads-up. Fwiw, I don't recall exactly what led to me going with soft ones, but those blocks should be ok to bump up to hard if there are signs of abusive proxy use. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:33, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Increased block length

Just to avoid any possible misunderstanding, at User talk:Sangeeth Manoj Kumar, where you reset the block length and I said I might have blocked for longer, I didn't mean that as a criticism of your decision, it was really just intended to convey to the blocked editor that it might have been worse. In fact, having thought more about it, I don't think a longer block would have been merited, because although the block was evaded, there was no continuation of the kind of problematic editing which the block was intended to stop. JBW (talk) 16:25, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

@JBW: No worries, I didn't take it as criticism at all – my ping was partially with the intent that you could increase the block length if you felt that it's warranted; I should've made that clearer. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:21, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ugbedeg

Would you mind popping back and taking a look again. It may be that thiss and another SPI (I have left details there under other editors' comments) are linked in some manner. FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 22:50, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Already in hand. FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 23:50, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

Hey Blablubbs! 😃 Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Socking by User:Lingodumpy

Lingodumpy is editing as Cutervised. See [11] and [12]. Also the design pattern of their userpages are same. 2402:3A80:1A46:496B:BB3E:C614:BE42:E03 (talk) 09:39, 30 December 2021 (UTC) Also removing warning notices from talk pages as spam. [13] 2402:3A80:1A46:496B:BB3E:C614:BE42:E03 (talk) 09:57, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Stop doing spamming ... Come with your username Cutervised (talk) 10:00, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

As he is caught red handed, he changed his userpage design [14] 2402:3A80:1A46:496B:BB3E:C614:BE42:E03 (talk) 10:03, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Merchandise giveaway nomination

A t-shirt!
A token of thanks
Hi Blablubbs! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~
A snowflake!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

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