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184.147.31.21
See some paragraphs above, the guy from Toronto again. Grüße vom Sänger ♫ (talk) 21:11, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- YMS beat me to it.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:26, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
User 191.115.190.69
When does it become appropriate to block 191.115.190.69? Please look at this users activity: Special:Contributions/191.115.190.69. Peaceray (talk) 06:20, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Peaceray: The next 31 hours seems like a good time. Mahir256 (talk) 06:42, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
90.191.81.65 User contributions
- By patrolling new editions (tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/rech/) I see a very big amount of editions at this IP; some of them looks OK (adding interwiki links, descriptions, aliases), most of them seems very unusual - specially by anonymous users: Items removals, merging, deleting many properties etc; some of them looks like vandalism. It is an Estonian user from Tallin, using dynamic address
- Is any way, by patrolling, to:
- mark various editions as higher risky (elevating risk level)? Greetings --Jasc PL (talk) 13:29, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- undo/delete all editions from IP by flood vandalism - something like "patrol xx editions" by user?
BTW - is any way to appeal to the registered users editing English elements here (so often knowing it) to add also labels, descriptions and aliases in English also, so they could be easy translated to other languages? --Jasc PL (talk) 14:19, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Jasc PL: Can you point to specific edits which you think are vandalism? --Pasleim (talk) 17:27, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Pasleim: I have seen contribs of this user - some thousands of entries, every day, 95%+ not patrolled yet. I don't remember all details now, but merging an removing many existing items, undoing registered users editions, yours too, is not a usual practice, I think.
- Could also someone be so nice to answer my earlier questions and - can I filter new editions list by language or selected group of them? --Jasc PL (talk) 21:06, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
CORYS
Hello. I found CORYS Tess and CORYS. can you merge ?
Done Pamputt (talk) 15:23, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
31.200.20.7 spammer
An anonymous user with the IP "31.200.20.x" or "31.200.10.x" has been spamming many talkpages with incessant requests to create an article on a subject he wishes. Could the admin here please protect my talk page from anonymous edits if he does not desist from his activities? Thank you Mimihitam (talk) 16:52, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- A lot of spam indeed. I blocked the whole 31.200.0.0/16 range for one week. Please report back if he continues after this block expires. Stryn (talk) 18:04, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- This looks harsh to me. I've noticed this user's acrivities as well and thought about asking him to reduce his requests, or best post them to one place (portal etc. on enwiki) instead of bothering dozens of users individually. However, there's no rule against asking users to write articles, and on the talk pages I checked I did not find a single response like "No, I won't and please don't ask again". --YMS (talk) 18:13, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- Well it doesn't make sense to try to warn the IP, if he is changing it so frequently. And from that range I didn't see much more than the same spamming. But feel free to remove/modify the block as you see is the best. Stryn (talk) 18:16, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- This looks harsh to me. I've noticed this user's acrivities as well and thought about asking him to reduce his requests, or best post them to one place (portal etc. on enwiki) instead of bothering dozens of users individually. However, there's no rule against asking users to write articles, and on the talk pages I checked I did not find a single response like "No, I won't and please don't ask again". --YMS (talk) 18:13, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Request to protect Montesquieu (Q15975)
Hello, In the past, I obtained by IRC a 1-month semi-protection of Montesquieu (Q15975) which is repeatedly vandalized, probably because it is a frequently studied topic in high schools in France and elsewhere. Of course, this continues now. Would it be possible to have a year long or even permanent semi-protection for that page ? Louperivois (talk) 22:15, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Louperivois: I am hesitant to impose blocks for a year or more unless 'extended-confirmed protected' is desirable as a protection level on Wikidata. Semi-protected for three months. Mahir256 (talk) 22:31, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
In the last days I reverted many of the changes done by this user, when you look at the changes Special:Contributions/NOMO..STAR all, but the first one are reverted, not only by me, but by others too. How to handle this? Thanks – BTW: A German speaking admin will see those useless changes easier. --Wurgl (talk) 09:17, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- Some of the edits I see are outright vandalism such as [1], and others are useless, so that I tend to think that the user is in need of a block. However, it would be great if somebody tried to talk to them in German at their talk page and understand what is going on - currently it is empty, they are not even aware of this topic.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:50, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- Warned (in German) at User talk:NOMO..STAR. If that does not help, they are going to be blocked soon. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:47, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- Tnx.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:12, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- No change done by this user since the statement on the discussion page, so you may close this one. Thanks! --Wurgl (talk) 23:48, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
- Tnx.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:12, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
- Warned (in German) at User talk:NOMO..STAR. If that does not help, they are going to be blocked soon. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:47, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Spammer.
Artix Kreiger (talk) 03:52, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
213.149.0.18
User:213.149.0.18 appears to be vandalising Kinopoisk person ID (P2604). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:06, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done --Alaa :)..! 14:41, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
User:193.49.248.134
Noting that this IP editor has racked up some vandalism in a short period of time: Special:Contributions/193.49.248.134. I have posted 3 warnings to the user's talk page; the user may have stopped after my last revert & warning. Peaceray (talk) 09:10, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Personal Attacks in discussion
Can an Admin please review these ad hominem attacks on the Wikidata focus list property proposal discussion [2] [3]. These are part of a pattern of harassment across several wiki projects. And the attacks have short circuited the discussion on this proposed property that would resolve the constraint violations on P972.--Theredproject (talk) 21:01, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Request to move it:Ordinario (diritto canonico) (Q16584962) to Q1638918
I regret that I am too rarely active on Wikidata to know how to do this myself. Please delete from Q1638918 the item it:Ordinario (ufficiale), which is a redirect to it:Ordinario (diritto canonico), and replace it with the article it redirects to. This move that will leave Q16584962 empty. Theodoxa (talk) 15:04, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done; please ask at Wikidata:Project chat or one of its therein linked language variants next time, since this does not require admin attention. Thanks, —MisterSynergy (talk) 15:15, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you. I'll try to remember for the next time, but I cannot promise to succeed. Theodoxa (talk) 15:26, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
User 181.49.84.186
Total vandalism for Wikipedia: Special:Contributions/181.49.84.186. The error is corrected only manually in all articles! It is very uncomfortable. — Niklitov (talk) 05:00, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- He/She did make only two contributions here and did not edit since 7th March. So no need to block this IP for now. Pamputt (talk) 06:25, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- Nevertheless, that's the third anon vandal messing with Russia (Q159) in the last 10 days - maybe a semi-protect would be good there? ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:32, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- I have now seen precedent below for year-long semiprotects, so I figured I’d protect this again. Mahir256 (talk) 15:46, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- Nevertheless, that's the third anon vandal messing with Russia (Q159) in the last 10 days - maybe a semi-protect would be good there? ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:32, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Semi-protection for Q937
Please semi-protect Albert Einstein (Q937) - popular theme, frequent IP vandalism.--Jklamo (talk) 09:01, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done 1y semi —MisterSynergy (talk) 09:10, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Request to import template:Cite Q from ENWP
I am posting to request that someone with necessary userrights import a template from ENWP to Wikidata.
The template is en:Template:Cite Q. It generates a citation from any Wikidata item for a publication. @Pigsonthewing: established this template at ENWP. I asked that user about bringing it to Wikidata and they suggested that I ask here either for someone to perform the import or who might be able to assist me with an import, which I would do if it were possible and someone could direct me on how to get started.
My use for this is to develop documentation pages in Wikidata for Wikidata-specific projects which I think would be best to host here rather than on meta or elsewhere. Thanks for anyone who can respond to this. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:31, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
- Specifically, to use Special:Import to import both Cite Q and the modules and templates upon which it depends. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:05, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Just FYI. there is a Module:Cite exists.--Pzgulyas (talk) 09:46, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done - Mbch331 (talk) 10:07, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:18, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Continues to create nonsense statements. --bdijkstra (overleg) 13:37, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
- I blocked him for 3 days. ope we can get any explanation during this time. Pamputt (talk) 19:13, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:18, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Request for protection
At least few months for Romuald Rajs (Q4357685) and Cursed soldiers (Q1320177) (in the first vandalism [Bandyta, morderca, polski zbrodniarz wojenny → Bandit, murderer, Polish war criminal] was unnoticed by 9 days − and visible for every Pl.Wikipedia mobile version user; in the second vandalism have been quickly changed to another not neutral description [Bohaterzy → Heroes]). This is similar to Zygmunt Szendzielarz (Q3847848) semi-protected several days ago. Vandalisms in these items are very likely to happen again, because of the current political situation in Poland (also, both relevant articles in Pl.Wiki have long history of vandalism, one is semi-protected right now). Wostr (talk) 21:02, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Wostr: Done Mahir256 (talk) 21:06, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:18, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Template broke ?
{{Tl}} seems not to take into account parameters anymore, and its page shows the error:
{{[[Template:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]}} Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Protection banner' not found.
{{Doc}}_template do not appear as usual in template pages as well. It seem related to https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Tl&diff=647173477&oldid=647173473 (see https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Administrators%27_noticeboard&oldid=647164909#Request_to_import_template:Cite_Q_from_ENWP )
can someone have a look ? Mbch331 ?
- Should be fixed now. Mbch331 (talk) 14:23, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
This user is keep vandalizing, look at Special:Contributions/QuranReciting. Super ninja2 (talk) 05:11, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
- you change on my web page vandalizing super ninja2 (talk) 05:17, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
The user stopped --Alaa :)..! 19:20, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:20, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Multiple vandalism by 195.221.155.11
Hello,
195.221.155.11 is a shared IP of a French school (BTW, don't we have a Template:Shared IP edu (Q10726123) here on WIkidata). It should probably be block, I let you decide for how long.
Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 13:33, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
- @VIGNERON: Done Mahir256 (talk) 14:51, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:20, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
The persian wikipedia article for rutherfordium
Though the persian article for rutherfordium is good the list says that it isn't. Every time I try to edit it it told me to contact an administer.--Mani Shokoohi (talk) 14:17, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Mani Shokoohi. I did it. Pamputt (talk) 17:41, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:21, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Semiprotection is needed
In association football (Q2736). See the history. --Metrónomo (talk) 17:36, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done Semi-protected forever. Pamputt (talk) 17:41, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:21, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Protect Stephen Hawking Q17714
Date of Death (14th) and many other things are Vandalized. --Grim (talk) 04:44, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- Cmon, don't wait! --Davidpar (talk) 04:52, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Davidpar, you're the guy who just changed the date of death to 13th, wich is obviously wrong. --Grim (talk) 04:56, 14 March 2018 (UTC)- Grim I changed the reference that was vandalised [4]. You can check that I am reverting vandalised editions [5] --Davidpar (talk) 04:58, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- You're right. You propably only missed the wrong date in the edit. The ongoing IP-changes are the real problem. --Grim (talk) 05:04, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- Most of the vandalism is coming from IP addresses. Can we lock down permissions on this item so that only registered users may edit it. High rates of vandalism since his death the morning 2018-03-14 UTC. Peaceray (talk) 05:08, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- You're right. You propably only missed the wrong date in the edit. The ongoing IP-changes are the real problem. --Grim (talk) 05:04, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- Grim I changed the reference that was vandalised [4]. You can check that I am reverting vandalised editions [5] --Davidpar (talk) 04:58, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done You’re welcome. Mahir256 (talk) 05:46, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:21, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
new incarnation of known troll
The IP 184.147.30.217 is on the well-known vandalism trip again. Grüße vom Sänger ♫ (talk) 05:35, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- Blocked for a month. Mahir256 (talk) 05:48, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:21, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Semi-protection for Q306
Please semi-protect Sebastián Piñera (Q306) - popular theme (temporary very popular), frequent IP vandalism.--Jklamo (talk) 13:25, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 13:29, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 19:21, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Can somebody stop the jobs launched by Mbch331 please? Many edits are wrong and he is not answering on his talk page. Thanks. — Ayack (talk) 14:32, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
- Edits have stopped a couple of minutes ago. Mbch331 does indeed have to repair quite some items after that batch. —MisterSynergy (talk) 15:09, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
- It's a reliable user and I'm sure they will fixed it once returning to their computer. It's not like someone who created some broken tool months ago and then wants to be come administrator ..
--- Jura 15:11, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Jura1: Thats why I asked an administrator to stop the jobs as they have the rights to do so without blocking the user. — Ayack (talk) 15:21, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
- That is valid for QuickStatments in batch mode only (i.e. when edits are made via User:QuickStatementsBot). Otherwise there is no way to stop a batch of another user than using the block tools. —MisterSynergy (talk) 15:26, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Jura1: Thats why I asked an administrator to stop the jobs as they have the rights to do so without blocking the user. — Ayack (talk) 15:21, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: — Ayack (talk) 15:21, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Juan de Borbón-dos Sicilias y Landaluce
saved as Juan in wikidata, common name, without lastname for https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E5%AE%89_(%E4%B8%A4%E8%A5%BF%E8%A5%BF%E9%87%8C), I corrected the english spanish label at wikidata but in zh is illegible for me, assume is wrong
Hi Wikidata. Just wanted to notify you of a phone number spammer who has been active here and on other wikis. Cheers, --SVTCobra (talk) 11:53, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, this person tried the same in the past. This is phishing, I've globally locked the account and hid the edits just in case. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 12:33, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 09:13, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Semi-protection for Q182276
Please semi-protect Benito Pablo Juárez García (Q182276) - popular theme, frequent IP vandalism.--Jklamo (talk) 22:59, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- done --Pasleim (talk) 23:14, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 09:12, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
User:Thefartingpanta
Please see User:Thefartingpanta • talk • contribs • deleted contribs • nuke contribs •block user
This user has vandalized past the 4th warning.
Peaceray (talk) 04:39, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Blocked by Mahir256. --YMS (talk) 07:30, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- New name of this user: Thefirtingpanta and new vandalism (only one today, so for) - my post below (Q6294). Temporary IP block? --Jasc PL (talk) 12:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Blocked as well. —MisterSynergy (talk) 12:34, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: Jasc PL (talk) 22:39, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
The next destructive today-user
Please check Special:Contributions/Kastanoto - many of Polish items are affected. --Jasc PL (talk) 16:54, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Kastanoto seems to merge cebwiki items, which is fine. Can you please point to a diff that is critical? —MisterSynergy (talk) 17:06, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
MisterSynergy - linking to cebwiki is no problem - look at all removals and redirections in several Polish items - without any sense (edited: Jasc PL (talk) 14:51, 24 March 2018 (UTC)) - I'm pl-N --Jasc PL (talk) 17:17, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Difficult to say for me. Ping Polish speaking admins @Jarekt, Rzuwig: please have a look… Thanks, MisterSynergy (talk) 19:05, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks MisterSynergy, I'll contact one of them immediately. --Jasc PL (talk) 19:36, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- En: I'm trying to clean many trash-articles created by some cebuano bot related to places in Poland. Articles created by that bot shows as duplicate items in the application OsmAnd (different Wikidata entries); even some of them are about objects which I cannot find on any map (on OpenStreetMap and Geoportal Topo): https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruska_(suba_sa_Polonya), but I want delete them because it's not my business clearing Wikipedia in language which I don't speak. Thanks for recommending the "merge" tool.
- Pl: staram się uporządkować liczne śmieciowe artykuły wygenerowane przez jakiegoś cebuańskiego bota dotyczące miejsc w Polsce. Artykuły wygenerowane przez tego bota wyświetlają się jako duplikaty w programie OsmAnd (z powodu różnych identyfikatorów Wikidanych); na temat niektórych nie mogę znaleźć informacji na żadnej mapie (nawet na OSM i Geoportal Topo): https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruska_(suba_sa_Polonya), ale nie będę je usuwał, ponieważ nie czuję się upoważniony do usuwania artykułów na Wikipedii w języku którego nie znam. Dzięki za polecenie narzędzia "merge". – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kastanoto (talk • contribs) at 21:38, March 23, 2018 (UTC).
- EN: I'v consulted all mentioned editions of @Kastanoto: with a very experienced and conscientious pl-user Wostr: despite my first impression of vandalism - in this case all is OK.
- PL: Wybacz, zauważyłem dość "agresywne" edycje zupełnie nowego użytkownika, szczególnie na polskich elementach - więc nie mogłem nie zareagować; sądzę że lepsza nadmierna ostrożność niż zignorowanie czegoś takiego. Przykładów wandalizmu ze strony anonimowych (IP-user) lub dopiero co zarejestrowanych użytkowników jest tutaj mnóstwo. Ja z kolei nie jestem na tyle doświadczony, by odróżnić edycje takie jak Twoje od tych typowo destrukcyjnych. --Jasc PL (talk) 23:27, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Lsj: as someone who should be aware of this. Also, @Kastanoto:, in theory nothing stops you from just going to GeoNames, getting an account there, and removing the offending places. Mahir256 (talk) 22:10, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: Jasc PL (talk) 23:27, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Semi-protection for Hillary Clinton (Q6294) also
Since some days this item is the target of vandalism. --Jasc PL (talk) 12:15, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks MisterSynergy for the both. By the way let me ask one question - regarding all of admins and above: how long yet will be tolerated direct editions make by anonymous IP-users and registered a moment ago? I see that most part of that edits are amusement or vandalism. We all have much more important work to do like wasting time to still play with them --Jasc PL (talk) 13:18, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- We barely (or never?) use indefinite protection here, but in case of persistent vandalism cascading protection times up to a year or so are possible. The item about Clinton was never protected before, thus we start with 1 month this time.
- The idea to protect heavily used items (maybe even automatically) comes up occasionally, and there may be good reasons to do so in some cases. However, right now there is no consensus to do so as anon contributions in general are quite useful. In practice this means that we test whether an item needs further protection after another one has ended, and wait for subsequent complaints here at WD:AN.
- Anyway, highly used items are pretty well watched these days. Meanwhile the watchlist integration in Wikipedias has also improved a lot, thus hopefully more editors would activate that feature and react to Wikidata vandalism swiftly. This does not rule out to ask for community consensus regarding (auto) permanent protection for highly used items, though.
- Thanks for your reports, btw! —MisterSynergy (talk) 13:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Btw. you find some indefinitely protected pages here: Special:ProtectedPages. We don’t have many of them. —MisterSynergy (talk) 13:32, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Many thanks for your answer MisterSynergy but I have in mind another problem: in my opinion - all editions make by anonymous and completely new users (as long as they made requested amount of properly editions in time-bound) should be placed in separate queue and exclusively by patrolling every of them they can be added to main database - simple, secure and preserving all proper editions solution.
- Here is the next "one hour user": Contributions/West_point2207 tenaciously vandalizing David B. Samadi (Q2305367). How many same I find in the next 1 hour? --Jasc PL (talk) 14:17, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Jasc PL: please join Wikidata:WikiProject Counter-Vandalism - there are a number of tools listed that will help. I like the "ORC" tool applied to Recent Changes with a filter for unpatrolled changes. Whether we have a queue as you suggest or do it as we do now, there's the same effort involved in patrolling if we want to catch everything. ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:52, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Great @ArthurPSmith - page you mention looks very useful; I will need some time to check all functions, tools and read their manuals. Some time ago I ask some questions here about more efficient ways, but It looks like nobody was interested in more efficiently patrolling made by usual users. --Jasc PL (talk) 16:49, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Jasc PL: please join Wikidata:WikiProject Counter-Vandalism - there are a number of tools listed that will help. I like the "ORC" tool applied to Recent Changes with a filter for unpatrolled changes. Whether we have a queue as you suggest or do it as we do now, there's the same effort involved in patrolling if we want to catch everything. ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:52, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: Jasc PL (talk) 12:50, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
The Proof That Sry85 should be Questions about his political preference and Should not be administration in Thai Wikipedia
- Neutrality
[1] Please look at wiki data who edit it to link to something else .Did you have a chance to look at in while it was link to the wrong version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.171.97.171 (talk) 17:01, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Thita_Manitkul
English? Sry85 deleted her Thai Wikipedia And Using the Wrong English Version intentionally.How can the person who is not neutrality in politic be writing Wikipedia.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.171.97.171 (talk) 14:45, 6 March 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.171.97.171 (talk)
I'm afraid you'll have to be more clear. I don't see where the Thai article was deleted, nor do I see that the English version is non-neutral. The tags added by Sry85 in October 2017 are no longer on the article, but spot-checking Sry85's edits I don't see a particular political bias. What is the problem that you want assistance with? 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 11:47, 7 March 2018 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/805876910
http://www.ombudsman.gov.ph/UNDP4/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Plenary_Highlights_APPAN.pdf
http://www.ombudsman.gov.ph/copy = UNDP4/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Plenary_Highlights_APPAN.pdf
Copy from front pages of google =UNDP-APPAN Workshop on - Office of the Ombudsman PDF www.ombudsman.gov.ph › 2013/01 › Pl... (Member of the National Assembly, Lao PDR), Congresswoman Cynthia A. Villar. (Member of the House of Representatives, Philippines' Lone District of Las Piñas. City), Lt. Col. Thitiya Rangsitpol (Member of ... 1][dead link] ^ [2][dead link] ^ http://www.ombudsman.gov.ph/UNDP4/we-content/upload/2013/01/Plenary Highlights APPAN.pdf[dead link]
[1][dead link] ^ [2][dead link] ^ http://www.ombudsman.gov.ph/UNDP4/we-content/upload/2013/01/Plenary Highlights APPAN.pdf[dead link] ^ [3][dead link]
The link from Wikipedia What he did was they change url and put the page of the politians for deletion because they did not have authorized in English. If they can not delete it they try to unlink from English language or put something else into the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.171.97.171 (talk) 16:51, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I am still not entirely sure what point you're trying to make. What action do you want taken? The copied speech has already been removed. I have no ability to change what goes on at the Thai edition wikipedia. The topic is notable, but copyright violations are not allowed here. Regarding bias, it is coming on strong from all sides. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 16:23, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
- Same Person
The article with dead link would not be approved in the beginning .
Then a person said the link is dead and a page should be deleted .
Nobody found the evidence the culprit must have known how to do it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/805876910 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.171.97.171 (talk) 16:12, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Unintended PING-Spam
The last change of MediaWiki software had an unintended collateral damage: Instead of just pinging those, who are mentioned deliberately for that cause in an edit summary, it pings all, that are accidentally the last stable version editors of vandal reverts. Ther is already a Phab about that, and it's mentioned in a thread in the chat, but as a fast fix some admin could simply change the MediaWiki:Revertpage to the recommended version without linking the former editor to:
Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/$2|$2]] ([[User talk:$2|talk]]) to last revision by $1
Grüße vom Sänger ♫ (talk) 15:58, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- The recommended version should be
by [[:User:$1|$1]]which I have already done. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:52, 16 March 2018 (UTC)- I've asked if this could be done before, quite a while ago. I don't think anyone was against the idea, it just seemed that nobody could be bothered to change the status quo. Now it seems necessary and I would welcome this change being done. I would do it myself, but don't want to "break" anything! (edit conflict) @Matěj Suchánek: I can't see the previous version in the history, but who says this is "recommended"? Jared Preston (talk) 16:58, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- My version will keep the link (status quo) as well prevent the ping-spam. I didn't remove the link because I just wanted to prevent the latter. I think nothing will break if you remove the link. The "previous" version was loaded from translatewiki. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 17:03, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- I just think it would look neater not linking to the username of the last non-vandal contributor, like on the English and German Wikipedias for example. Jared Preston (talk) 17:13, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- My version will keep the link (status quo) as well prevent the ping-spam. I didn't remove the link because I just wanted to prevent the latter. I think nothing will break if you remove the link. The "previous" version was loaded from translatewiki. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 17:03, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- I've asked if this could be done before, quite a while ago. I don't think anyone was against the idea, it just seemed that nobody could be bothered to change the status quo. Now it seems necessary and I would welcome this change being done. I would do it myself, but don't want to "break" anything! (edit conflict) @Matěj Suchánek: I can't see the previous version in the history, but who says this is "recommended"? Jared Preston (talk) 16:58, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- As mentioned here and here the problem will be fixed this week --Alaa :)..! 18:50, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Spam filter whitelist request for Bitcointalk
Can someone please add https://www.bitcointalk.org/ to the spam filter whitelist so I can add it as the official website for Q48743869. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:04, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done; I'm not fantastic with the regex stuff so let me know if it didn't work. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 21:06, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- It worked. Thanks for your assistance. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:43, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 16:28, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
350 edits per minute
User talk:Renamerr#How many batches and edits do you have left? - can someone keep an eye on him and possibly unblock him when he responds? It's 1AM now, and I may not be around when he's around. — regards, Revi 16:14, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
- I took care of it, maybe we need to document about "acceptable (semi-)automated tool speed" or is it already documented but I don't know where it is? — regards, Revi 16:50, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, we need one. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 17:12, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
- There are some sensible guidelines on meta:Bot policy#Edit throttle and peak hours. --bdijkstra (overleg) 19:52, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
- That's one I'm aware of, but I don't think people would visit Meta to find the appropriate max speed. While our bot policy says "Bots should respect maxlag and should follow the API etiquette guidelines.", that may not be clear for QuickStatements or other tool users thinking they are not bound by "API Etiquette guideline".
- Meanwhile QuickStatements (or Widar itself) should hard-limit the max speed unless they have botflag - it looks like the user in question here continued editing at unacceptable speed after I went to bed. — regards, Revi 05:29, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- Perhaps we should invite WMDE comment as well for the technical aspect. --Rschen7754 05:58, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- As far as I understand, it is not that simple to tell whether an edit rate is still acceptable or not. There are many potential bottlenecks on the server, and we do not have a single chart that tells us whether we need to slow someone down or not. Recently I met Lydia in the Wikidata IRC channel to talk about that.
- Right now, User:Artix Kreiger 2 is again at 236 edits/min, on average over the past 6 hours [6]. They were blocked due to edit rate issues recently after Lydia complained about them.
- From my experience, QuickStatements is the fastest tool available, and it edits at ~80 edits/min in single batch mode. In case of (significantly) higher edit rates, say 100+ edits/min, we can assume that editors started parallel batches, which is to be avoided. Would it be possible to add a “single batch policy for all tools” to our guidelines, or a limit of 100 edits/min that may not be exceeded for more than a couple of minutes?
- —MisterSynergy (talk) 06:11, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- Jaime Crespo (WMF DBA) said "the guidelines, as documented, is to not perform requests in parallel" (and "400 cannot be done without parallelization") @ operations channel-- so pararrel requests should be (maybe MUST) avoided as possible as they can. And API Etiquette says "mw:API:Etiquette#Request limit - If you make your requests in series rather than in parallel (i.e. wait for the one request to finish before sending a new request, such that you're never making more than one request at the same time), then you should definitely be fine." similar thing. — regards, Revi 08:08, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- And for acceptable edit rate - Meta global bot policy says "they should operate at an absolute minimum interval of 5 seconds (12 edits per minute)." Disclaimer: I don't think Wikidata is subscriber of global bot policy. — regards, Revi 08:11, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, the values given in the meta global bot policy seem to be inapplicable for Wikidata. The servers have proven to withstand much more edits per time interval than given there, and we typically do not have that many editors who run expensive batches at the same time. However, editors should not be allowed to consume the entire capacities (and beyond) of the infrastructure just by themselves, and this is the aspect we should make sure via policies.
- Regarding API use and parallel requests: I don’t think that we can expect the average tool user to be aware of such considerations. Very likely they do not know that they use the API, many of them probably don’t even know what an API is. There are also many other (non-editing) tools that make parallel API requests, and nobody ever complained. I do for instance use the DiffLists.js script; each time I open my watchlist (or a contribution list or recent changes), it fires up to 500 API calls at once, and each of them finishes within 0.2 seconds. For a long time I wasn’t aware of that fact until I recently looked into the code after I became interested in some of the script’s functionality. Sure, API calls can create very different server load, but the lack of comprehensive metrics about “server load”—whatever that exactly means—makes it very complicated to deal with these issues. —MisterSynergy (talk) 08:51, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- There is a difference between reading data and writing data. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 08:54, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- Perhaps we should invite WMDE comment as well for the technical aspect. --Rschen7754 05:58, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- There are some sensible guidelines on meta:Bot policy#Edit throttle and peak hours. --bdijkstra (overleg) 19:52, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, we need one. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 17:12, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
- Hello, since I was pinged, I want to say I will be answering any and all questions asked. Artix Kreiger (talk) 15:12, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- „I have planned more than 1 million semi-automated edits (for insects only). What should I do?“. semi-automated?! --Succu (talk) 22:09, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Request for page protection
Hi, could Help:Searching (Q5525084) be permanently semi-protected? Most IP edits are test edits or misplaced, and there is not much for unregistered users to edit anyway. Jc86035 (talk) 16:55, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Jc86035: Done for one year. Mahir256 (talk) 16:59, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 09:14, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Manipulation by Sry85
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thita_Manitkul English Version
Thai Version links to University of Colorado at Boulder
Someone intentionally doing this action – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nafeby633 (talk • contribs) at 25. 3. 2018, 17:49 (UTC).
- You shouldn't link to Wikipedia like this:
[[en:University of Colorado at Boulder]]. This is what breaks the links. If you really need to, add a colon like this:[[:en:. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 06:48, 26 March 2018 (UTC) 
Not done Until the page is your user namespace, it cannot be linked to another version on Wikidata. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 06:50, 26 March 2018 (UTC)- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 09:14, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
I don't know this guy, but many peoples don't like him :) --Jasc PL (talk) 17:42, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done -- Ajraddatz (talk) 17:50, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 09:13, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Remove protection of Martín Vizcarra
Please remove protection from Q24030720. Some trigger-happy admin has protected it for two weeks for "excessive vandalism" even though there was no vandalism but obviously edits made in good faith. It should never have been protected at all. --Pxos (talk) 15:52, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Pxos - good will is not enough, sometimes :) --Jasc PL (talk) 17:51, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
- It's possible to make edit request on the talk page. There doesn't seem to be any demand for it. There was a problem with a connected item. So semi-protection does seem useful.
--- Jura 17:58, 24 March 2018 (UTC) - Linked page on eswiki is also protected, protection is just short (4 April) to cover the most sensitive period (it is current event). I think we can keep semi-protection.--Jklamo (talk) 20:34, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Rim Banna
Please put protection on:
As explained in talk page, there are some non-register who attempting to place Nazareth (Q430776) in Palestine via Edit war (part of Israel since 1948). These are factually inaccurate edits changing her country of citizenship (P27) to Palestine although its should be Israel. As much of her output was conflict related, might make sense to ECP without a timelimit for ARBPIA. Sokuya (talk) 22:03, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Sokuya: We don’t have ECP as a level here. Feel free to propose the level at Wikidata:Project chat. Mahir256 (talk) 23:34, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 10:08, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Semi-protection for Q368
Please semi-protect Augusto Pinochet (Q368) - popular theme, frequent IP vandalism.--Jklamo (talk) 23:42, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done for three months. --Okkn (talk) 01:14, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 10:08, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
ongoing vandalism
Please block Alican19051 as vandalism-only account. --Kostas20142 (talk) 17:33, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 10:08, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
The chinese version of Super Mario Bros is no longer a good article
I checked that Super Mario Bros in Chinese is no longer a good article, can any admin remove the badge?
Thanks Eltomas2003 (talk) 23:31, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- What item is it? Artix Kreiger (talk) 03:06, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done -- Ajraddatz (talk) 03:19, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 10:08, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Remove TEU property
P1124 (P1124) is scheduled for deletion since last year. Could you please actually delete it? Micru (talk) 14:11, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
- Done, on the basis of Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2017/Properties/1#TEU_(P1124). --Okkn (talk) 14:49, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: --Alaa :)..! 10:08, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Link to Spanish page is incorrect
The links between the English Rate equation page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_equation) to the Spanish version of the page is incorrect. It links instead to the Spanish article for nuclear half-lives (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodo_de_semidesintegraci%C3%B3n_efectivo). I looked for the equivalent page in Spanish, and it doesn't seem to exist. The closest I could find was "Cinética química" (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cin%C3%A9tica_qu%C3%ADmica) which already links to the English "Chemical Kinetics" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_kinetics). But in any case I recommend deleting the links between the pages because they are clearly incorrect. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mochs (talk • contribs) at 13:45, March 26, 2018 (UTC).
- I moved the eswiki link to effective half-life (Q5347264) where it belongs. ArthurPSmith (talk) 14:12, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
MisstressD (Widar sitelink changes)
This user popped up on my Enwiki watchlist, as they were changing the site links from the proper articles to redirects (Strangely enough, each time the redirect was up for deletion as well) and disambiguation pages. They are also changing category items from linking to the appropriate category to linking to main/parent articles. I've reviewed all the enwiki changes in the last couple days but spotted changes to commons sitelinks as well, which I'm not as familiar with. Needs a deeper look, continued after leaving a talk message. If I'm wrong on how categories should be linked, please let me know. -- ferret (talk) 14:26, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
- I've looked over some of the edits, and the ones changing from a commons category to a commons page are fine. There is a separate property that can be used to link to the commons category. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 14:31, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Usual IP
Would someone undo its edits and block it? [7]
--- Jura 05:10, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Jura1: Is this IP user really worthy of being blocked? --Okkn (talk) 06:24, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- I think it's the same as [8]. At some point, I (and others) tried to make sense of its edits, but I gave up. Feel free to fix/edit/monitor/whatever its contributions.
--- Jura 06:51, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- I think it's the same as [8]. At some point, I (and others) tried to make sense of its edits, but I gave up. Feel free to fix/edit/monitor/whatever its contributions.
DePiep & unit of measurement
User:DePiep is edit-warring (1], [2], [3], [4]) at highly-used item unit of measurement (Q47574), to change its English label from "unit of measurement" to "unit of a physical quantity" and its description from "real scalar quantity, defined and adopted by convention, with which any other quantity of the same kind can be compared to express the ratio of the two quantities as a number (International vocabulary of metrology)" to "(International vocabulary of metrology.)"
I reverted, expanded the existing discussion at Wikidata:Project chat#How to add an item and advised them to cease edit warring and to demonstrate consensus for their edit, but they persist, and also made an abusive comment ([5]). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:45, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
- (ec) Andy is a nasty editor who does not know anything about physical quantities. Andy used to troll me at enwiki, but now I happen to meet them here at WD. Anyway, I claim my edits are OK and Andy is trolling. - DePiep (talk) 22:55, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
- Y'rhnor: I actually wrote to Andy: "A "unit" is not a "physical quantity".". -DePiep (talk) 23:01, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
- Illustrating that Andy does not know thew issue: Andy recently proposed deletion of Q51102989. -DePiep (talk)
- A previous version of the description of the item is supported by [9]. This source is given in a "described by source" property. It's a pity the system does not have a method to provide references for descriptions.
- As for dimensionless unit (Q51102989) none of the properties have any references, nor does it link to any Wikipedia article in any language. I think that makes it worthy of deletion, and if other folks at Wikidata think references aren't important, I disagree. Jc3s5h (talk) 00:05, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
- Or, Jc3s5h, add references & links. That is how Wikipedia works. There is a difference between "not an item" and "I don't understand this". btw, for 14 years already, this is the article: en:Dimensionless_unit. - DePiep (talk) 08:27, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
- en:Dimensionless unit redirects to en:Dimensionless quantity (and has done since August 2006), which in turn is paired with dimensionless quantity (Q126818), not Q51102989. Perhaps the latter should be redirected to the former, here on Wikidata. You have now claimed in the deletion discussion that "The notion 'Non-notable' by Andy is meaningless.", which will come as news to all those familiar with WD:N. But this is not about Q51102989; it is about your abusive behaviour. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:26, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
- Or, Jc3s5h, add references & links. That is how Wikipedia works. There is a difference between "not an item" and "I don't understand this". btw, for 14 years already, this is the article: en:Dimensionless_unit. - DePiep (talk) 08:27, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
- re Pigsonthewing aka Andy. Here it started, with you going off-topic: [10] (note that everything in there is OT, and not constructive). After this, there was this 'trolling', non-communication, or 'hounding' as we call in in enwiki. I note that Andy did not contribute two words to the discussions, not even by editsummary.
- re "non-notable", even linking to WD:N: is why I said Andy cannot judge about this. Andy missed WD:N points 2 and 3 (out of 3).
- This is what I call 'trolling', or if that sounds offensive: 'serial unhelpful contributions, combined with hounding'.
- I request to the admins to throw this complaint out without consequences (and without asking more editor's time). - DePiep (talk) 20:02, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Q47574 has been restored to its original configuration; Q51102989 has now been merged into a pre-existing item; an administrator has warned DePiep not to make further personal attacks nor ad hominem remarks. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:31, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- Another example of User:Pigsonthewing/Andy Mabbett harassing. Or is this trolling? Cashing self-donated points? btw, the merge is disputed; probably incorrect. - DePiep (talk) 19:01, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
DePiep again
"Please revert your thing and then fuck off. That you do not understand the issue does not give you extra rights." here. Utterly unacceptable Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:12, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Blocked 31 hours for incivility and battleground behavior. --Rschen7754 00:46, 7 April 2018 (UTC)