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Vandalism

Dear Sir, I noticed that 72.74.145.96 keep edit warring and provide incorrect data on List of universities by number of billionaire alumni. I have checked the IP's contributions and it seems like it was doing the same thing on Eric Schmidt, Cher Wang, Walter A. Haas and Jared Goff...Could you help me with this matter as it is impractical for me to inspect these pages once every 3 days. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:B011:E00B:5C0C:9531:E576:F548:5E79 (talk) 19:01, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

I've reverted some of the edits and issued them a final warning. --Bongwarrior (talk) 19:56, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Dear Sir, this IP just won't stop vandalizing List of universities by number of billionaire alumni, and it has been doing it for more than a month (please see page history). Could you please block this IP or semi-protect the page. Again, thank you for your help.

Non admin heads up

Hey Bongwarrior. I know you are an admin and I am not, so this might not be my place, but I wanted to do an unofficial friendly warning to you. Please don't post an ITN nomination 20 minutes after it starts. Don't take that the wrong way, but yeah, you posted it way too fast...almost showing a lapse in judgement. Please don't be mad at me. Elijahandskip (talk) 21:28, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, no. This was obviously going to be posted, and there is absolutely no need to wait x number of hours to give everyone a chance to filibuster because the story isn't important enough to people in Tonga or wherever. --Bongwarrior (talk) 21:32, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
I too was in the process of posting it when I saw Bongwarrior already did it. Good posting. -- Fuzheado | Talk 21:37, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
And as an aside, admins aren't special. If you ever see one making a mistake - and many of us do - absolutely ask them about it. Most will welcome the scrutiny, as I do. --Bongwarrior (talk) 21:43, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

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Request for Revision Deletion

Hi Bongwarrior!

You probably don't remember me, but back in 2010 (when I was a very young child) a classmate used my account to make some especially inflammatory remarks. You blocked me from editing. Then later on when I wanted to use this account, I petitioned to you to unblock me and explained my situation. You unblocked me.

I'm wondering if you are able to delete those contributions from April of 2010 (which I, again, did not create when my account was stolen) as an admin? From what I understand from Wikipedia:Revision deletion this is a thing you can do. And it seems reasonable.

Much appreciated.

--Captainq25 (talk) 04:31, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Seems reasonable to me too, so okay. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:45, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about California (2nd nomination)

Thanks. There's plenty of other "List of songs about" articles to deal with too. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:31, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Request for revdel

Hi Bongwarrior. Could you revoke talk page access of User talk:104.166.155.145 and revdel the edits? Thanks, 05:25, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Sort of. I've deleted and restricted their ability to recreate the page, which is close to the same thing. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:31, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Perfect, thanks. Laplorfill (talk) 05:32, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing

Hello, how is my editing wrong? Landonsch22 (talk) 20:16, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

I don’t understand why my edits are being reverted

Why are they being reverted. They are accurate Landonsch22 (talk) 20:21, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

This is an encyclopedia. STop adding silly names, especially without any kind of sourcing. This was explained on your talkpage: please read the warnings. Acroterion (talk) 21:06, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

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  • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
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  • IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

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Happy First Edit Day!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

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  • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

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  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

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George Harrison Page Protection

Would you mind Semi-Protecting George Harrison's page. Its a pretty popular page and is the only beatles page that is unprotected. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 9Revolution (talk • contribs) 8:49, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't think that's necessary right now. There is some vandalism, but it's pretty infrequent. --Bongwarrior (talk) 18:54, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Ok

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

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Merchandise giveaway nomination

A t-shirt!
A token of thanks
Hi Bongwarrior! 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!

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

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  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

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How we will see unregistered users

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Antarctica featured article review

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please do not undo the changes

Hi,

Kindly requesting you to please do not undo the changes we applied by us. Hope you understand.

Regards, EQ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hhfbms1014 (talk • contribs) 10:45, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Paul Soriano page

Thanks for dropping in and ending that. You could probably block the IPs too as they are almost certainly proxies. This seems to have been one person behind these edits, and the speed that were changing IP ranges at would suggest that those IPs are proxies. Mako001 (C)  (T)  08:06, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

I doubt it's one person. More likely it's some forum somewhere or Twitter or something. Usually I go through and block a bunch, but I'm not going to bother unless it continues .--Bongwarrior (talk) 08:09, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

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  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
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Page needing moving

Hey. I see that the 2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis page is outdated due to the page name. It should be located at 2019–2022 Persian Gulf crisis. However only admins can move it. Felicia (talk) 23:41, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

That would probably need a WP:RM discussion. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:45, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
I wonder why since it has gone well into the current year. Felicia (talk) 01:39, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
That part of it is currently being discussed on the talk page, and it's the reason why it was move protected in the first place. --Bongwarrior (talk) 01:45, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

141.237.8.245 (LTA)

Thanks for blocking them for 1 week - this is an LTA who is currently traveling Greece (WP:LTA/WKHF). I told Widr to not block for just 31 hours due to the history of disruption and this LTA's tendency to wait out blocks, but they got unblocked normally and did it again.

Is there any way that you could semi the 4 latest pages targeted - The Curse of La Llorona, Crikey! It's the Irwins, The Evermoor Chronicles, and Black Shuck? I had asked on the 27th at RFPP but was declined. Thing is, there's been quite a few pages protected due to this LTA and those protections do indeed work; Evermoor Chronicles was also vandalized right off of its page protection expiring. Thanks. wizzito | say hello! 10:56, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

I'll try to keep an eye on them. I don't think all of those pages need semiprotection, but some of them probably will. --Bongwarrior (talk) 04:47, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
It's me again, just editing as an IP (I do so sometimes because lazy). Thanks for protecting two of the pages. Can you block 79.103.60.119, the newest IP, a little longer? The history of the LTA shows that they simply wait out blocks. Thanks, Wizzito [IP] 16:50, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
I will confirm that this is me, and that this is technically allowed. All my IP really gives is a general location, so I don't find it that bad. wizzito | say hello! 17:04, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
It's probably fine for now. If they return with that IP, they'll be blocked. --Bongwarrior (talk) 06:27, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Happy April 1

Don't open this!
What the?!



Happy April Fool's Day! Thanks for your contributions to improve the dissemination of free knowledge to humanity! North America1000 15:12, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Check it!


The warrior!
The warrior!

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

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  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
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Thank you!

Thanks for the recent sock blocks! BilCat (talk) 04:20, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Happy to help. --Bongwarrior (talk) 04:23, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

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Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

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22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

User:71.94.157.155

Said user is being disruptive at Chevrolet Corvette (C7), where it has been established that the Equus Throwback & IsoRivolta GTZ are built upon existing C7 & C7 Z06 chassis, as such qualifies to be placed under the related section, akin to the Lotus Exige & Hennessey Venom (or whatever its called). Said user has removed this, despite a past discussion on the talk page regarding this subject & has included insults in their edit summary. Seeing as you have previously blocked them for disruptive editing, I unfortunately have come here again to say that it doesn't seem to have changed. I don't really know where to report vandals so I thought I'd reach out here & see what you can do X-750 I've made a mistake, haven't I? 09:32, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

The content edits don't bother me, and they might be correct. The conduct isn't super great, but it hasn't been a huge ongoing problem from what I can tell. Lots of various noise from that IP, but probably not all the same person. --Bongwarrior (talk) 03:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

for being the most vandalized page on wikipedia Burntsalami (talk) 02:36, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

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Precious
Two years!

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:43, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
  • The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

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  • user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

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?? Yeah

Why’d u remove me off pheobe Cates family. U can fact check it 2600:1700:3228:19C0:3056:1A5B:75:3D13 (talk) 02:49, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Because nobody cares about the non-notable relatives of famous people, no matter if it's true or not. --Bongwarrior (talk) 03:12, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Sixteenth anniversary on Wikipedia!

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

readded Valereee
removed Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

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  • An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
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  • The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
  • Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

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  • You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
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