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Protection for Joe Brumm (Q111726587)

Vandalism. Madamebiblio (talk) 01:16, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

done BrokenSegue (talk) 03:02, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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Wah-Wah

El artículo Wah-Wah está enlazado con las wikipedias en otros idiomas como una canción, pero en realidad corresponde a una película de 2005. Por favor, podéis enlazar el artículo con las películas. Como por ejemplo, en la wikipedia en inglés del artículo Wah-Wah (film). Gracias. Huuzzah (talk) 13:32, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

It is unclear what you are requesting. The item you were editing was about the song "Wah-Wah". The movie of the same name already has its own item (Q7959687). EPIC (talk) 13:40, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

It is already resolved, thank you. Huuzzah (talk) 13:43, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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please block Special:Contributions/2402:800:620F:6ECC:F58A:9A7C:4BBA:6F10

2402:800:620F:6ECC:F58A:9A7C:4BBA:6F10 WikiBayer (talk) 07:54, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done /64 range blocked by MisterSynergy. --Lymantria (talk) 08:32, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2001:8004:2701:AA00:9A6:D09C:359B:AD2

2001:8004:2701:AA00:9A6:D09C:359B:AD2 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Persistently inserting completely irrelevant labels/alias like Special:diff/2043148978 Special:diff/2043132699. Warned twice. ―94rain ^talk 08:15, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked /64 range. --Lymantria (talk) 08:33, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Long-term abuse ( (b)lock evasion)

YawaKa10 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

GagoMaker16 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

see Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/LouLou2000 WikiBayer (talk) 09:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Both blocked indef. EPIC (talk) 11:05, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:87.71.137.33

87.71.137.33 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: vandalism ―Mykhal (talk) 17:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

I see that you have warned this user. I see no reason to block now, but if vandalism repeats, please let us know. --Lymantria (talk) 17:55, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:151.75.115.225

151.75.115.225 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: suspicious edits / spam? (Audible related) ―Mykhal (talk) 17:54, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked 3 days. Spam it is. --Lymantria (talk) 17:58, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning talk page disruptive editing

• 68.200.36.245 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
• 2603:9000:D100:617C:B5B6:FB9C:E5C8:6299 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

— Reasons: Keeps using talk page as a forum by adding multiple sections? See also deleted contribs. Already warned both IPs. ―94rain ^talk 22:52, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done blocked for a week --Ameisenigel (talk) 23:07, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Ameisenigel just deleted some pages of the first IP and blocked that one for a week. I deleted two pages from the second IP, but only blocked it for 24 hours, as considering it is an IPv6 it is likely dynamic. EPIC (talk) 23:08, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Blocking an IPv6 /128 is guaranteed to be a losing proposition because it is de facto dynamic. In practice, everything on the RHS of a /64 is assigned to the same user, same connection, same device, for them to do as they please. Elizium23 (talk) 21:47, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

I'll start off with 24 hours for the IPv6 address, the block will expire in an hour and the IP is likely dynamic. Should they repeat editing unconstructively, I will consider a longer block. EPIC (talk) 22:06, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

It's not clear that you understand what I said: a /128 is not really an "address" but an ephemeral Interface ID which any user can change at will; it is not a viable method to block abusive users. Kudos to @Ameisenigel: who's imposed a correct block on the /64 block, which is the standard minimum block. Elizium23 (talk) 04:27, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

I did understand what you were talking about regarding rangeblocks - what I meant is that I blocked for a day which would've most likely helped in that case as the IP address likely was dynamic, and thus it would probably get them to stop if they don't come back on another IP later. Either way I just saw that recently Ameisenigel rangeblocked that one. EPIC (talk) 10:17, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

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Removal of IP address

I accidently made a comment without being logged in. Can I have my IP address removed from the revision history of this - User talk:Günther Frager - page please? Helper201 (talk) 19:05, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done EPIC (talk) 19:11, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Helper201: PS: Preferably, for the suppression of personal information, the request should be made by sending an email to oversight@wikidata.org or by contacting an oversighter privately, rather than disclosing the details publicly. --Esteban16 (talk) 06:00, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:NIET, Greater Noida

NIET, Greater Noida (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Spam ―MathXplore (talk) 08:41, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

The account also has username issues (promotional username for existing business, username implies role account) MathXplore (talk) 08:42, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Indeffed. --Lymantria (talk) 09:46, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning Help. Me out everywhere

Help. Me out everywhere (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Adding nonsense into items, after warning. 94rain ^talk 08:31, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Saroj (talk) 08:36, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning sleeper sock accounts

• Pramesta Cahyani (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
• Zildzi (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
• Perbaikan (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

Reasons: These accounts has been confirmed to be part of sockpuppetry on either idwiki or enwiki. Even though it seems that the accounts hasn't made any contributions (yet), the rate of edits Made by the sock-er through some IP edits has been increasing lately on idwiki. Preventing only, these accounts are the sleepers accounts that I found has been left behind. Thank you.:) Nyilvoskt (talk) 18:04, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

To be clear, all of these three accounts have edited Wikidata. Are you sure you're not confusing them with someone else? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:07, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

@Koavf Sorry if I didnt provided enough proof it seems. I'm pretty sure they are sockaccounts of the subjects I mean. It's seems for non-Indonesian speaker, the edits might be good-faith constructive, but no. Their edits are just disruptive and their usual behavior can be pointed as following:

• ambiguous comparison

e.g. Ibu kota oblast ... "Capital city of ... oblast" -> Kota di Rusia "City in Russia"

• disinformation

e.g. Organisasi Islam "Islam organisation" -> Denominasi Islam "Islam Denomination")

• wrong grammatical usage

(e.g. Pemain sepak bola asal ... "Football player from ..." -> Pemain sepak bola di ... "Football player in ...")

• massive edit rate

Along with that, the sockmaster oftenly moving page massively (mostly in idwiki;example) and mostly done at late night and early morning in Indonesian time (around 19:00 UTC to 23:00 UTC). Aside from the checkuser, all accounts above meet atleast 2 or all criterias as of WP:DUCK. Please understand that some-A LOT-of edits seems hasn't been reverted yet, not because they are constructive, but because there isn't enough contributors to revert the edits, even not idwiki recovered from edits the socks already did. I guess this enough? :/ Nyilvoskt (talk) 18:58, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

That's fine--the sockpuppetry on other wikis is enough, I think and as someone who doesn't speak Indonesian, I can peace together from what you are writing and translations from DuckDuckGo that something seems off. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:28, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done I have left talk page access in case any of these accounts/persons can try to justify unblocking. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:30, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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Consistent vandalism

Hello, an anonymous IP from Italy (who is vandalizing also articles on it.wiki) is constantly removing sourced info from the items Stadio Olimpico (Q159884) and Giuseppe Meazza Stadium (Q133566). They acts using several dynamic IPs thus there's no way to control their edits. Blackcat 01:28, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@Blackcat: Which IP do you mean? Multiple IP addresses have edited both items. EPIC (talk) 10:15, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@EPIC:, namely 2a02:b023:8010:97c9:d1a5:905b:7b67:1715 and 82.84.119.118; they act through several IP and also use trolling edit summary (see diff) -- Blackcat 11:49, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done I blocked the 82.84.119.118 for a week, but only blocked the IPv6 address for 24 hours as it's likely dynamic. EPIC (talk) 12:21, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@EPIC:, ok. I'll report here if they does it again. -- Blackcat 14:12, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Once again you've only blocked the /128 which is entirely ineffective. Please consider the standard best-practice of Wikimedia administrators and block the /64 which is assigned to devices by ISPs. Elizium23 (talk) 16:47, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

First off, that is in decision of the admins. And secondly, checking the page histories there are multiple IP ranges who have edited them. Rangeblocking only one IPv6 range would thus not do much. EPIC (talk) 16:58, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I've blocked at least the most recent one, 2a02:b023:8010:97c9::/64, for one week. I'll see if it actually does something - an IPv6 range bigger than that would be way too big to block. EPIC (talk) 17:04, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:137.101.8.32

137.101.8.32 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Sock of LiliaMiller2002 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)). Adds ridiculous claims, mostly about dead people, e.g. about the Peruvian pronographic actress recently dead from an overdose [1] [2]. IP-hopping vandal, so you might consider a range block. Sjö (talk) 08:43, 7 January 2024 (UTC) ―Sjö (talk) 08:43, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done, rangeblocked for one month. EPIC (talk) 10:18, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:83.48.86.0

83.48.86.0 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism in Spanish. Also, block PlayPopitas (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) too as they're a vandalism-only account. ―64andtim (talk) 10:11, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done IP blocked by EPIC for one day, account indeffed by me. --Lymantria (talk) 12:39, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Буквы

Буквы (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Adding spam and knowingly false information to Q56356604 - Territorial Centres of Recruitment and Social Support (a military institution that mobilizes citizens of Ukraine into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine). In particular:

• [3] the name "Trade Center of Corruption and Socialist Propaganda" was added here as an alternative name for the military institution "Territorial Centres of Recruitment and Social Support".
• [4] here an instance of "illegal armed formation" was added to the same state institution.
• [5] here and [6] here added YouTube videos related to Russian propaganda urging Ukrainian citizens to avoid joining the Armed Forces. ―Seva Seva (talk) 15:56, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Eleni Papadaki (Q5359182)

Happy New Year!
Unfortunately, this item is vandalised on a regular basis... She was a Greek actress killed during the Greek Civil War; I've written half her Greek Wikipedia article, having assessed an adequate amount of related reliable sources. Certain IPs have been vandalising her Wikidata item for months now, trying to impose their view on when the actress was born and killed, etc, despite my having provided substantiation.
Perhaps the item could be protected?
Thank you in advance. L'OrfeoGreco (talk) 22:58, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Saroj (talk) 02:04, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:The Mayor of Asti Maurizio Rasero loves China and CGTN Español

The Mayor of Asti Maurizio Rasero loves China and CGTN Español (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: en:WP:LTA/HOY ―Leonidlednev (talk) 04:29, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked already globally locked Estopedist1 (talk) 06:52, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:85.192.104.125

85.192.104.125 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 15:12, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Lymantria (talk) 15:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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Additive clausel to Wikidata:Notability, related to Commons

I think we really need an amendment additive clausel to Wikidata:Notability #1, point 4, related to Wikimedia Commons. One last funny discussion: Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2024/01/01#Q119906811. Namely, I propose the following.

Category items with a sitelink only to Wikimedia Commons are not permitted, unless either a) there is a corresponding main item which has a sitelink to a Commons gallery or b) the item is used in a Commons-related statement, such as category for pictures taken with equipment (P2033). Non-category items with a sitelink only to Wikimedia Commons are also not permitted given that the item is not an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.

Text in bold is possible amendment. Suggestions? Estopedist1 (talk) 07:03, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

"Category items" are items with instance of (P31): Wikimedia category (Q4167836) claims, thus this amendment does not help you at all. The item in question is about a human. —MisterSynergy (talk) 07:21, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy: sorry, my word "amendmend" is not correct. I mean additive clausel, which is showed in bold. Hence, we can grasp all categories from Commons (categories itself, humans, musical groups, organizations etc.) Estopedist1 (talk) 11:47, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Wouldn’t it be easier to change the notability criteria as follows:

1. It contains at least one valid sitelink to a page on Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikispecies, or Wikiversity, or Wikimedia Commons.
   4. Category items with a sitelink only to Wikimedia Commons are not permitted, unless either a) there is a corresponding main item which has a sitelink to a Commons gallery or b) the item is used in a Commons-related statement, such as category for pictures taken with equipment (P2033).

If it’s important, it will fall under WD:N #2 (or #3). --Emu (talk) 12:19, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for posting this. I think it's important that we resolve this issue. (Although I think there's just as big a problem with smaller Wikipedias that are slow to clear out spam.)

I agree with Emu's version. In particular, I don't think it makes sense to justify a N1 exception on the basis that the item doesn't meet N2. (For backwards-compatibility, I recommend that we avoid renumbering the items when deleting N1.4.)⅜

I think that a policy change like this is a question for the community to resolve, not for administrators, so maybe this is the wrong venue. Or maybe you're just gathering initial feedback for a later RFC. Bovlb (talk) 18:21, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

We have had several lengthy discussions (WD:PC, Wikidata_talk:Notability, at least one RfC) roughly 2018–2021 related to items for Commons categories, and there has always been pressure to relax our notability policy in favor of more items for Commons categories. The current policy, which I am not a fan of, is a result of those discussions. As much as I would like to see a stricter policy, I don't think this is a viable path forward. I think we should much rather establish a clear procedure how to *require* serious references on a per-statement basis, or not accept otherwise unsourced statements altogether when in doubt regarding promotional activities. —MisterSynergy (talk) 18:49, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

I found a couple of previous discussions.

• Wikidata_talk:Notability/Archive_3#Are_Commons_categories_notable_by_themselves?
• Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2017/11#Proposed_change_to_WD:N_regarding_Commons_categories

Are people really arguing that we need to accept any vanity page where the subject has worked out how to create a Commons category? (I don't imagine that the Commons community appreciates being the starting point for spammers.) Or is there an underlying structural need for certain Commons categories? If we added a new exception along the lines of "Items with only a category sitelink to Wikimedia Commons are not permitted, unless ...", then how would we complete that in a way that supports Commons but doesn't facilitate spam? Bovlb (talk) 19:10, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

A lot of those discussions—and there were many more—circled around the Wikidata infobox at Commons which they pretty much place on every category page, thus generating "structural need" (data use in a Wikimedia project) anyways.

The issues with Commons are basically twofold:

1. they have a lax notability policy and are unable to deal with/review the large amount of promotional content that is uploaded to their project (we have similar problems by ourselves, though)
2. the structured data that they want to migrate/mirror to Wikidata is complementary (to the core content, i.e. media files), unsourced meta data in infoboxes or categories, thus hardly verifiable; this may seem okay for Commons, but not for Wikidata

As I have expressed in many discussions in the past, I am unhappy with how it turned out for us, but there was in fact a lot of pressure to ease our policies and this has eventually happened. My impression is that in the recent year or two the situation has gotten slightly less bad, but Commons categories have remained an easy path to Wikidata notability until today. —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

The thing about Commons is that they have an entirely different culture and mission from your typical Wikipedia, and indeed Wikidata is another unicorn that doesn't match either category.

On Commons, their aim is to build a repository of free media for the public, full stop. It was indeed founded to support the Wikipedias and supply content for their articles, but the Commons mission is beyond that, and they don't consider themselves bound by Wikipedia's concerns for scope and notability.

To that end, even their username and account policies work toward this: they don't prohibit commercial entities from promoting themselves there, because a lot of times, it is the entity itself that needs to furnish licenses to the content they're uploading. If Denny's wants some photos there, a Denny's employee can create an account, upload and license the Denny's content: that's clearly prohibited by COI regulations in most Wikipedia spaces.

So as long as they determine content as "in-scope" for the project, that is, having some sort of educational purpose or benefit to the public, they will not care about strictures placed by Wikipedia-oriented projects, because supporting us is not their primary mission. Elizium23 (talk) 04:36, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

I mean, it’s not just smaller Wikipedias that are slow to clear out spam. There is a whole language edition devoted to not-quite-existing objects and database junk of all sorts and it’s almost impossible to do anything about that. --Emu (talk) 21:09, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

at the moment we have to focus on one topic. If we will implement Emu suggestion. Id est, removing Wikimedia Commons from WD:N #1, and removing WD:N1.4. Then Commons-related stuff should be resolved. In a result: Commons categories e.g. for 7-year old tennis enthusiast may stay in Commons (e.g. Commons:Category:Jekaterina Jeritševa), but not allowed to have a entry in Wikidata Estopedist1 (talk) 21:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User talk:Seva Seva

Mass abusive deleting on page Alain Delon. And doing it again. YANN92340 (talk) 08:51, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

See below at "Report concerning User:YANN92340". --Lymantria (talk) 10:08, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:YANN92340

YANN92340 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons:

• add duplicate information, accusing me of vandalism ([7]);
• add unverified information for which there is no source in any language section, including in the native French Wiki ([8]);
• add pirate and spam sites ([9], [10]);
• add links to non-working sites that write DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN when requested ([11], [12], [13]). ―Seva Seva (talk) 09:36, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Your complains about duplicate information and about pirate and spam sites should not be pointed to User:YANN92340. The identifiers at hand are legitimately added to Wikidata, hence one cannot accuse a user for indeed using them. If you think the identifiers should be removed, there is possibility to request their deletion. The links to non-working sites you mention all work for me. The DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN seems to be due to a local problem at your side. Then only the unverified ([14]) remains. The way to deal with that is try to discuss it with YANN92340 and see if a source can be found, in stead of attacking each other. I block both of you for a week from editing Alain Delon (Q106529) and call for finding consensus for this last of issues. @Seva Seva: other issues you have raised here, are no issues. If you bring them up again, that may well result in a wider block. --Lymantria (talk) 10:05, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Please stop saying LIES ! Everybody can see :

• If, indeed, the fist information could be considerate as duplicate, i was immediatly deleting it! It is not honnest to say i was added! https://.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q106529&diff=2044615549&oldid=2044614019
• The second information is on french Wikipedia (simply a source is requested). No reason to delete on Wikidata. This medal was given to all the military personnel serving in Indochina more 90 days. So, including to Alain Delon.
• More abusive behaviour from you, saying i was adding "pirate and spam site". In reality, i was adding those two links with Property:P10097 and Property:P11454. Totally legitimate adding so!
• Other very abusive behaviour, claim that to add links to "non working sites" : the three links are perfectly working. Everybody can see that you say is ridiculous!...

I see you have made also other problematic changes on Alain Delon, and other pages. I let the communauty checking that. I am very serious contributors, very active and since long time. Anyway, i dont like to lost my time, mainly with people with have no respect. YANN92340 (talk) 10:47, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

I see Lymantria was made an appropriate answer during the time I was writing my answer, i was not seeing earlier. I agree with him (or her?). Better not a battle of edition, and let all minds calm down. The main thing is to preserve the quality of the site. Have a nice day everybody. YANN92340 (talk) 10:57, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Once again, I ask you to change your aggressive tone, stop bullying, baseless accusations of vandalism and intimidation. When you talk about "my behavior", you forget to say about your behavior, which consists in aggressively promoting your own point of view, tarnishing the opponent as a "vandal" (even if you yourself were wrong and later admit it). Please, follow WD:NPA and WD:AGF. According to Lymantria decision, I suggest to go to the discussion page and determine: "are there any sources for awarding the medal?". Seva Seva (talk) 11:06, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

I suggest continuing the discussion here: Talk:Q106529#Indochina Campaign commemorative medal Seva Seva (talk) 11:11, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:2402:800:620F:29DA:59F1:9B25:167D:D299

2402:800:620F:29DA:59F1:9B25:167D:D299 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 05:00, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Blocked the /64 for a week. –FlyingAce^✈hello 05:22, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2600:1011:B121:24AA:9D5A:7F53:F0BA:347

2600:1011:B121:24AA:9D5A:7F53:F0BA:347 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Persistently removing content from pages. --94rain ^talk 09:22, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Already blocked by Estopedist1. --Lymantria (talk) 10:44, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Hide IP address

Could you please hide this IP address? I was logged out. Disembodied Soul (talk) 15:32, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:09, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:82.78.75.48

82.78.75.48 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Returning vandal 86.120.190.0/24. Gikü (talk) 15:35, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked for three months. Saroj (talk) 05:08, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Crosswiki spam

Hi, I'm reporting the following users who made crosswiki spam with this item Q123470574: User:Абу Айюб аль, User:СедаДудуркаева, Абу Хафс аль, User:Abu bakr al musa, User:Infovarius, User:Abu Nuradin Rustamov Mastrocom (talk) 16:25, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello. I suggest that the topic starter understand the event better before making such loud statements, instead of simply writing off accounts from the list of edits. For example, I put this article in my “work” section for deletion, and did not engage in crosswiki spam.--Хомелка (talk) 16:28, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

@Хомелка yes,you're right, I got confused while reading the history of the item, sorry, Mastrocom (talk) 22:16, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Everyone except User:Infovarius has been blocked. @Mastrocom, please refrain from randomly reporting accounts for vandalism without proper verification. Saroj (talk) 05:20, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2402:800:620F:29DA:59F1:9B25:167D:D299

2402:800:620F:29DA:59F1:9B25:167D:D299 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: vandalism, also requesting mass revert ―Jahl de Vautban (talk) 22:37, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked Saroj (talk) 05:22, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Ruski1488

Ruski1488 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: See w:Fourteen Words. ―2403:6200:8871:2E38:B8CE:2EDF:7B42:DD93 15:33, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Global lock requested. --Lymantria (talk) 16:14, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Why you not blocked account locally prior to global lock?! 2403:6200:8871:2E38:B8CE:2EDF:7B42:DD93 17:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

See Help:Usernames and accounts. --Lymantria (talk) 17:23, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Account is globally locked by Mykola7, for which I would pay him millions of dollars if I know his credit card credentials! 2403:6200:8871:2E38:D93F:E6C5:4511:D52 05:08, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:5.120.56.239

5.120.56.239 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: IP vandalism on WD:LP's page ―I am smiling (talk) 10:07, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked --Saroj (talk) 13:08, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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Protection for Green Pheasant (Q425900)

Vandalism. Madamebiblio (talk) 00:29, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Is it really vandalism though? Doesn't look like vandalism edits. EPIC (talk) 00:43, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

@EPIC: The change of labels and capitalization after the user has already been warned about the capitalization guidelines would appear to be sabotage. Madamebiblio (talk) 00:56, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Oh, I see your point. I now gave them a last "warning" to read the help page about capitalization of labels - hopefully it will work. EPIC (talk) 01:10, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked for three months: continuing after warning Estopedist1 (talk) 09:00, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:181.66.184.135

181.66.184.135 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Non-constructive edits (diff diff diff), the user adds references without content (blank pages , diff) and values not related to the item (diff) in a repetitive manner. I have written to the user without response. --Ovruni (talk) 01:35, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked Saroj (talk) 05:24, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Change Article Title

Hi,

We need to change the article title from National University College to NUC University on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_University_College NUC University (talk) 21:50, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@NUC University: you would need to ask about this on English Wikipedia. It's already changed here. BrokenSegue (talk) 23:32, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:95.26.120.167

95.26.120.167 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: IP vandalism ―I am smiling (talk) 05:16, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked for three months Estopedist1 (talk) 09:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:193.17.30.204

193.17.30.204 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism ―TenWhile6 (talk | SWMT) 08:12, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked for six months (2nd time) Estopedist1 (talk) 09:11, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

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User:ELOmar444 and assumed sockpuppets

Following on from previous requests (1, 2), the vanity entry claiming some unjustified royal title has returned at Q123000117 with only two editors. Requesting item deletion and locking of the 7 still active accounts associated with this case (User:AURlelo409, User:DAYLA0921, User:ELOmar444, User:FRl3905, User:FREDjans80, User:HansAnders80, User:DaanOOR79). Dogfennydd (talk) 01:03, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Saroj (talk) 03:31, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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request to restore two data objects

The two data objects Q116867577 and Q116867604 have now been deleted twice. The two data objects clearly meet the third point of Wikidata's notability criteria. Ameisenigel augments with the fact that the statement position held (P39)editor-in-chief (Q589298)of (P642)SME (Q897968)/The Slovak Spectator (Q1237701) makes the data objects superfluous. That may be true, but that does not mean that the data object does not meet the third point of the notability criteria.

In addition, such combined data objects can also help users. Here with editors-in-chief you can discuss this, as there is also the property editor-in-chief (P5769). But let's just take the data object member of the National Assembly of Suriname (Q17268790). After the explanation of Ameisenigel, you can also make this data object unnecessary using the statement position held (P39)member of parliament (Q486839)of (P642)National Assembly (Q1760847). But I wouldn't do that because the data object is helpful for users. The data object allows you to easily display the members of the National Assembly of Suriname via the query service. But if you were to use the statement instead, this would not be possible for a simple Wikidata user. The qualifications require – I'll call it – a detour to the query service, which ordinary Wikidata users are not aware of.

Finally, the most important reason why the data objects should be restored: The data objects are relevant positions. Because both SME (Q897968) and The Slovak Spectator (Q1237701) are relevant newspapers for the German-language Wikipedia, which means that the editors-in-chief also immediately become relevant for the German-language Wikipedia. So from my point of view you can say that the position here is also notable for Wikidata. That's why I ask for the data objects to be restored. --Gymnicus (talk) 23:49, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Interested to know the outcome of this. I've always used of (P642) when adding editors of publications, but of (P642) is being deprecated so wondered what the replacement would be. Creating data items for editor per publication (as done above) seems a reasonable solution as they clearly pass Wikidata's notability guidelines:

"It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.

It fulfils a structural need, for example: it is needed to make statements made in other items more useful." Piecesofuk (talk) 10:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Zubryckiy

Zubryckiy (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Edit warring Has been conducting editing wars by changing Ukrainian letters for quite some time:

• Г to Ґ №1
• Г to Ґ №2.

Which does not correspond to Ukrainian spelling. It also makes destructive changes of a similar nature. I ask the administrators to take administrative action to stop such destructive actions. Thank you. ―Jphwra (talk) 10:23, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

I seem to have been the one who blocked this user on svwiki a few years back. Don't know whether the edits here on Wikidata are actually destructive, however. EPIC (talk) 10:33, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

destructive, in addition, he has a personal limitation because of this in the Ukrainian-language section. So here is 100% blocking for Zubryckiy. Jphwra (talk) 14:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

previous blocking was related to @Ymblanter. Maybe he can help? Estopedist1 (talk) 08:26, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

I find the user editing non-constructively (they were removing sourced information which did not conform to their POV), and I first extensively warned them and then blocked them. For whatever reason, they switched to Ukrainian which I do not speak (presumably considering my warning as a part of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict). Based on that incident, I did not get an impression that they are net positive for Wikidata, but I did not study their contribution in detail, and, since I do not speak Ukrainian, I have no idea who is right and who is wrong in this Ґ issue. What I am pretty sure about is that they have a battleground attitude. Ymblanter (talk) 08:38, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

His contribution is destructive and he has a personal restriction on such actions in our section. And here he bypasses this personal limitation not for the first time, generating conflicts already in the section itself. So I think blocking should be used here. Jphwra (talk) 18:36, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:88.30.54.27

88.30.54.27 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Persistent vandalism by IP. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 18:59, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked for a month this time. –FlyingAce^✈hello 20:46, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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Ediwar by User:ManiacOfSport

siehe [15]

Ich habe gelernt, bei umstrittenen Änderungen erst zu diskutieren, und danach bei Erreichen eines Konsenses erneut zu ändern. Die Änderung ein drittes Mal einzufügen, ohne einen Konsens oder auch nur eine Antwort abzuwarten, ist meiner Meinung nach ein klassischer Editwar und inakzeptabel. Stepro (talk) 19:14, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Eine Viertelstunde vor deiner Meldung hat ManiacOfSport eine Diskussion auf deiner Seite eröffnet: User talk:Stepro#Benjamin_Kololli. Ich gehe per AGF davon aus, dass du sie noch nicht gesehen hast. Ich sehe keine unmittelbare Notwendigkeit für den Eingriff eines Admins. --Emu (talk) 20:11, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Das ist nicht der Punkt. Hier wurde eine Änderung ein drittes Mal innerhalb kurzer Zeit durchgeführt, ohne einen Konsens oder auch nur eine Reaktion abzuwarten. Meiner Meinung nach ist das klar gegen die Regeln. --Stepro (talk) 12:21, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Bitte beteilige dich an der inhaltlichen Diskussion auf deiner Diskussionsseite. Spitzfindige Diskussionen, ab wann man technisch von einem Editwar sprechen kann und wie der zu sanktionieren ist, bringen uns nicht weiter. --Emu (talk) 12:34, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

"Spitzfindige Diskussionen"? Sag mal, geht's Dir noch gut? Wird das hier ein Freibrief, seine Meinung per Editwar durchzusetzen, statt einen Konsens zu erzielen, oder was?

Ich bitte dringend um die Einschätzung eines weiteren Admins. Stepro (talk) 15:19, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Fang bitte eine Diskussion an der Diskussionseite an. Diese Seite ist zur Zeit leer. Ymblanter (talk) 19:58, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Oder an deiner Benutzerseite. Ymblanter (talk) 19:59, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:FlangOff

FlangOff (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: xwiki abuse, lock evasion of Special:CentralAuth/BOjojo7777, Special:CentralAuth/Noffx666. ―MathXplore (talk) 05:03, 14 January 2024 (UTC)(Fixed message, MathXplore (talk) 05:05, 14 January 2024 (UTC))

Account globally locked. Saroj (talk) 06:40, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Smredowanulhaquerayhan

Smredowanulhaquerayhan (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: This user emailed me, asking for help creating a Wikipedia page about him. I replied to him on his user talk page, describing why he cannot create an article or an item about him. But he didn’t stop re-creating items about him. And the latest creation is Q124257983. ―— Haseeb (talk) 07:12, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Lymantria (talk) 07:19, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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Remove item Q124285431

I accidentally clicked create this element, there already is one Q4521700. GAECHKA (talk) 11:35, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

 Merged --Emu (talk) 12:07, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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Onde-onde or Buah Melaka and Klepon are different

different story , ingredient and texsture : Klepon origin from Java , main ingredient is grated coconut , pandan leaves, suji leave , glutinous flour and palm sugar

While Onde-Onde or Buah Melaka origin from Malacca , main ingredient is grated coconut , pandan leaves , glutinous flour and Malacca palm sugar. Onde-onde means chewy and jiggly in Malay term and Buah Melaka inspired by Malacca fruit (Phyllanthus emblica) Megat Lanang (talk) 18:10, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@Megat Lanang: please discuss the topic at respective items' talk pages or at English-language Wikipedia, not here Estopedist1 (talk) 06:54, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Responde ai

Responde ai (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Disruptive editions. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 19:46, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Lymantria (talk) 06:17, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2601:CA:4302:7A20:C61C:E713:ADE3:966

2601:CA:4302:7A20:C61C:E713:ADE3:966 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 05:44, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked 1 week. --Lymantria (talk) 06:19, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2a01:e0a:dda:e950:9471:4e62:6b68:58cb et 89.85.85.94

2a01:e0a:dda:e950:9471:4e62:6b68:58cb (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — 89.85.85.94 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2163110 ―DocMuséo (talk) 10:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC) --DocMuséo (talk) 10:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Only 2 two days old edits

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Protection required for Q342537

The item Q342537 should be protected, as there are many IPs vanadalizing it (actually, this is going on since September 2023). After this rollback, the user also tried to access with my username. Horcrux (talk) 17:54, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done protected three months as this vandal has been going on for quite a while. EPIC (talk) 18:11, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

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Please protect Q20533706

This item has been vandalized by 4 different IPs and a newly-registered account in less than 24 hours. There was also some vandalism last November. One IP vandal has been blocked, but vandalism continues from multiple others. Thanks, Jamie7687 (talk) 18:56, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done protected one month. EPIC (talk) 19:24, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Kenny198964

Kenny198964 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Reasons: Clearly a sock of Nipponese Dog Calvero, IP ban requested: 2402:7500:5E4:48A5:A760:9E28:6022:E0D9 --DefenderTienMinh07 (talk) 19:20, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Blocked indefinitely. --Saroj (talk) 02:21, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:92.103.132.28

92.103.132.28 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: recurrent vandalism in the last month ―Jahl de Vautban (talk) 12:20, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked Saroj (talk) 14:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:134.228.205.50

134.228.205.50 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: recurrent vandalism in the last month Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 19:13, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

 Not done no edits since January 9 --DannyS712 (talk) 23:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Protection required for Q20090091

The item Q20090091 should be protected, as there are many IPs vanadalizing it. Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 19:14, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done for a year Ymblanter (talk) 19:52, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Edit to a Wikipedia link on Q2142560

Hi, i think the English Wikipedia sitelink should be to Grammatical number#Trial instead of Trial (number) which only redirects to Grammatical number. — Golmore ^! 18:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

This is done on the sites themselves, like this. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 18:23, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q25328

Please semi-protect Antoni Gaudí (Q25328) - frequent IP vandalism, popular theme. Jklamo (talk) 09:38, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done for three months --Ameisenigel (talk) 09:49, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protection for Q124217095

Please semi-protect Enzo Vogrincic (Q124217095), a lot of vandalism from IP in the past few days. Soylacarli (talk) 13:20, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done for one month. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 13:31, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 18:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Edits by User:Knowledgeross5 and User:Kstorts11

User:Knowledgeross5 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

User:Kstorts11 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

Good day. I have identified these accounts that appear to be operated by an owner or employee (Q118220514) of 516 Media (Q117705129). I don't think any of their created items and edits are for people that are notable, but I am having a hard time tracing through the large interconnected web of items they've made, presumably to imply structural use notability. In addition, many of the items have connections from "different from" properties, many of which are connected to items they couldn't be reasonably confused with.

I've been logging a large number of items for a bulk deletion request for more than an hour and am getting frustrated because the web keeps on expanding. Should I continue on with creating a bulk deletion request or could an administrator intervene? -- William Graham (talk) 21:46, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Edit to add that most of the items are businesses and small religious organizations that don't seem to have any external identifier properties besides social media, open corporation data, and google knowledge identifiers. Searching for serious sources on them has not been productive. -- William Graham (talk) 21:50, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for bringing this up here, I was also starting to prepare a bulk deletion request, but not so far into it as you, it seems. Would it be helpful to remove the linked items through "different from" in a first step? --Dorades (talk) 12:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Zansind

Zansind (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Sleeper account, disruptive edits and has been confirmed to be part of Eiskrahablo sockpuppetry on enwiki Nyilvoskt (talk) 16:20, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 18:23, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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Wikidata object "war"

Hello, I can't connect the Low German article "Oorlog" (https://nds.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oorlog) with the Wikidata object "war" because it's semi-protected. Could you please unprotect it or help me with it? Kno52 (talk) 10:54, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 12:04, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

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Deletion of P1629 from properties

I am getting numerous notifications that Wikidata item of this property (P1629) has been deleted from properties that I worked on. There is a discussion about deprecating this property at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P1629#Mark_this_property_as_deprecated but there is significant opposition, so I do not understand why the property is now being deleted en masse from other properties. Supposedly it should be replaced by other newer properties, but where is the communication to all property creators about what we are now supposed to be doing?

Some examples of the deletion that I've been notified about: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property:P12107&diff=next&oldid=2003979546 and https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property:P11867&diff=next&oldid=2048243114 and https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property:P11902&diff=next&oldid=1938525649 AdamSeattle (talk) 21:38, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

There appears to be a related discussion at Topic:Xx3lrm9fd5apmdyv. CC @Swpb Bovlb (talk) 00:07, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

As I've explained in several places, I haven't done anything that requires agreement to deprecate P1629 - I've only been moving statements that were using P1629 incorrectly to instead use the correct properties, based entirely on the existing, explicit purpose of the properties involved. As pointed out by User:Pigsonthewing, P1629 was only intended for exact matches, and so statements that use P1629 to link external ID properties to databases or issuing organizations are, and have always been, incorrect. Replacing those incorrect statements individually would not be controversial, so doing so en masse shouldn't be either. The only places where a P1629 statement has been removed without a more appropriate statement being added is where such a statement was already present. As it happens, I'm not currently in favor of deprecating P1629 at all; migrating its misuses is a different matter entirely. Swpb (talk) 17:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Contributions by User:SIR SUCCESS (NAA JAHINFO)

User:SIR SUCCESS (NAA JAHINFO) has recently made a lot of good-faith links from wikidata items to Commons categories, but unfortunately incorrectly linking to the wrong categories at Commons. Typical example: linking a subspecies to an unrelated subcategory of the species. I've undone a handful, but the rest need to be checked, please! - MPF (talk) 23:26, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

I warned the user again. Probably block is the only solution here. Estopedist1 (talk) 09:13, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Disruptive changing of labels

Deniz Çiçin (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) It appears that Deniz Çiçin (talk • contribs • logs) has been disruptively changing labels of living persons after being repeatedly warned on their talk page about it. The behavior continues. Amigao (talk) 01:08, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Y Shock-blocked for two weeks, until we will get answers. E.g. recent edit at Q183482 is clearly disruptive Estopedist1 (talk) 09:09, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:78.30.67.82

78.30.67.82 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: idiot LTA ―XXBlackburnXx (talk) 06:24, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

blocked BrokenSegue (talk) 06:25, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

now at 41.46.42.156 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) -89.144.221.95 12:05, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked for three months Estopedist1 (talk) 07:33, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protection for Q38076

Please semi-protect McDonald’s (Q38076) - frequent IP vandalism, popular theme. Jklamo (talk) 09:11, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

 Protected indef. Famous company Estopedist1 (talk) 09:30, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Big Bass Drum

Big Bass Drum (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: This user's edits are all vandalism. Example: changing a pop song to claim it was released in 298 AD, claiming that the pop song Meet Me Halfway is jazz, claiming that a 2018 pop song was released in 1729-I'm a bit busy but it would be great if someone knew how to bulk-revert all their edits. ―Blythwood (talk) 12:21, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked indef: blatant vandalism. All 81 edits reverted Estopedist1 (talk) 13:22, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks so much! Blythwood (talk) 13:43, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:SusanBordova

SusanBordova (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Another obvious block evasion by Matlin. He continues to edit Polish-related items (example) that have already been edited or created by his recently blocked sock Cipka1234 (who made +72,000 edits from not being blocked in time). Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 05:31, 19 January 2024 (UTC) ―Kirilloparma (talk) 05:31, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Lymantria (talk) 07:20, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:94.79.184.1

94.79.184.1 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism in item descriptions ―Discostu (talk) 10:11, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done 24 hrs. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 11:20, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2001:8004:2703:1C1C:ADEE:E9B4:B02C:B56D

All edits are vandalism example claiming lonely boy a comedy rap song clams love me now was released in 12CE claiming Bank Account was released in 1807 please block the whole range for a whole year The things that ill do (talk) 11:15, 19 January 2024 (UTC) The things that ill do (talk) 11:23, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

• 2001:8004:2703:1C1C:ADEE:E9B4:B02C:B56D (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 11:29, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

  Similar case. All edits have been reverted, and a /64 block has been applied. Thank you for reporting. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 11:39, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:217.107.124.234

217.107.124.234 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: LTA Igoryu1993, please nuke contribs. ―Leonidlednev (talk) 17:09, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Nuked. No local block needed, as the IP is already globally blocked by a steward. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 19:13, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:神手阿丁

神手阿丁 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Reasons: Sock of LTA Nipponese Dog Calvero. DefenderTienMinh07 (talk) 00:02, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked indefinitely. Saroj (talk) 09:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

@Saroj: Also 石原金太郎 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) --DefenderTienMinh07 (talk) 16:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Saroj (talk) 17:43, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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Add these locked articles to Wikidata.

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama 23.184.48.197 02:39, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Saroj (talk) 09:24, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Ready to get better

Ready to get better (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 04:34, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked indef. –FlyingAce^✈hello 04:58, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Coco bongo94

Coco bongo94 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 05:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done - indef blocked as a vandalism-only account. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 05:52, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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Add these locked articles to Wikidata.

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camila_Cabello

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Hadid

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Spears

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_Gomez 23.184.48.197 06:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Saroj (talk) 09:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protection for Q28973866

Please semi-protect Vinícius Júnior (Q28973866) - frequent IP vandalism, living person, popular theme. Jklamo (talk) 11:08, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 13:43, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Manolito.gafotas2222

Manolito.gafotas2222 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 13:46, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done indef’ed --Emu (talk) 15:19, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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Undeletion request

The deleting admin no longer being an admin, afaics, would someone please undelete Michael W. Kieron (Q98690872) ... ref for notability is https://rinhs.org/events/awards/distinguished-naturalist-award/michael-w-kieron/ ... thanks. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:27, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Emu (talk) 23:27, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Much obliged; thank you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:02, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:186.153.169.35

186.153.169.35 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Persistent vandalism in Malena Sánchez (Q9027135) ―Ruy (talk) 19:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

 Protected: item is protected for six months Estopedist1 (talk) 20:03, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:85.192.82.1

85.192.82.1 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 13:55, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done 3 days. --Lymantria (talk) 14:23, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:83.63.72.114

83.63.72.114 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Hide vandalism, please. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 15:21, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 16:16, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Bethblun

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

Hijacked Beth B (Q121035142) and turned it into an item on herself. Also has Q124301957 created for her by a different user that is currently nominated for deletion, see Wikidata:Requests for deletions#Q124301957. --William Graham (talk) 00:38, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

user is warned Estopedist1 (talk) 09:53, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

User:Cengime: edit-war

User:Cengime has been edit-warring at Q2517450. See the page's edit history between '19:00, 14 January 2024‎' and '20:08, 17 January 2024‎'.

The user has also received a warning from me at their talk page. Veverve (talk) 20:13, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Veverve has repeatedly reverted the page to say that the book was published in 1908. The discussion of his similar complaint at the Wikipedia Administrators' noticeboard has already established that it is a well-supported fact the book was published in 1905, and Veverve told me himself that he does not believe it was published in 1908, so I saw no reason not to restore the correction of the year to 1905. - Cengime (talk) 20:21, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

his similar complaint at the Wikipedia Administrators' noticeboard has already established that it is a well-supported fact the book was published in 1905: claiming something on multiple Wikiprojects does not turn something into a a well-supported fact. A well-supported fact is that you edit-warred at this item. Veverve (talk) 20:25, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

I refer the interested reader to the evidence adduced in the aforesaid discussion and I note Veverve's silence as to any substantive reason to dispute it. - Cengime (talk) 20:29, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

• Everyone take a step back and look at this with some perspective please. We're fighting over whether the year is 1905 or 1908. Looking at the relevant wp articles it looks like 1905 is most commonly used. If there are serious sources that say 1908, I suggest that the year be taken out of the description and 1908 added to the publication date property alongside 1905 with the appropriate references. If this needs to be done, please give the appropriate references here rather than continuing to edit war on the page and I (or another neutral third party) can add it. And a general note that further edit warring by either side will be considered disruptive editing - please resolve the conflict here instead. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 22:19, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

  I agree with your proposal of removing the date until a RS for the date is given. Veverve (talk) 07:17, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

  Why do you think the book was not published in 1905? - Cengime (talk) 13:24, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

The ENWP article appears to be about a 1910 translation.

References for 1905: [16]

PLWP says 1908 with no ref, introduced by @Gregok. Bovlb (talk) 19:47, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Good catch - for now I've removed the date from the description, it isn't adding value there anyway (no similar books that the year would help disambiguate from). 1905 is still, as far as I can tell, likely the correct year and remains in the year property on that item. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 01:43, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Item:Q124269284

aka Item:Q123577380 aka Item:Q123553296 2003:F1:C708:6500:A79D:9C08:C18B:74B1 19:47, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

This seems to be related to Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q124269284. See also Tanzir Islam Britto, SHTIB, and ARSTIB. Bovlb (talk) 20:08, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Request to merge Q110406120 to Q4683100

The theme is the same, the former was created because of a link error. 223.74.241.192 08:18, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

 Merged, see Help:Merge next time as this isn't an administrative action. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 09:49, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protection against vandalism in policticians from Poland

Andrzej Duda (Q9151911) • Maciej Wąsik (Q21282153) • Mariusz Kamiński (Q3845166) — due to vandalism in descriptions. WTM (talk) 18:49, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done all three protected for a week. EPIC (talk) 19:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

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Sock puppetry report

Greetings, folks:

• Σπάρτακος (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) has returned in IP form

It is my belief that this person abuses illicit "residential proxy" services across Italy to hop among IPv4 addresses which are compromised from ordinary users of residential ISPs. Therefore it is futile to block, or even rangeblock, the addresses after they are used. Nevertheless, I present a sampling of recently-used addresses as demonstration of the ongoing LTA disruption.

• 37.160.190.177 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
• 95.249.194.41 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
• 5.91.36.221 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
• 5.91.45.22 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

I don't have any requests for admins or a suitable resolution for this, other than: please keep vigilant to know the style of this user, when he eventually returns. Elizium23 (talk) 23:49, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I've blocked the range that I could, unfortunately you're likely right that there's little that can be done here. I'll watch the pages frequented by this user. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 04:20, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Midzhe Azzukhri

Midzhe Azzukhri (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Sockaccount of user:Zildzi, massive disruptive edits and false statement, along with massive redirect from related wikis as another evidence of sockpuppetry. The account already blocked indefinitely in idwiki Nyilvoskt (talk) 10:49, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@Nyilvoskt Can you please provide the link of idwiki investigation page? —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 11:27, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@Yahya: Unfortunately, there hasn't been investigation for this particular account, yet as via WP:DUCK (duck test) the account meets criteria of the sockpuppetry. This account (and previous one) is heavily related to Indah Purwasari as of the behavior in Wikidata is the same as in idwiki, specified as following:

• ambiguous comparison

e.g. Ibu kota oblast ... "Capital city of ... oblast" -> Kota di Rusia "City in Russia"

• disinformation

e.g. Organisasi Islam "Islam organisation" -> Denominasi Islam "Islam Denomination")

• wrong grammatical usage

(e.g. Pemain sepak bola asal ... "Football player from ..." -> Pemain sepak bola di ... "Football player in ...")

• massive edit rate

Along with that, the sockmaster oftenly moving page massively (mostly in idwiki;example) and mostly done at late night and early morning in Indonesian time (around 19:00 UTC to 23:00 UTC). Best regards, Nyilvoskt (talk) 11:41, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Weird edits from an IP, few but recurring

Could someone check on 195.98.251.10 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) contributions ? Active on frwiki, wikidata and commons, almost all edits are weird or reverted. author  TomT0m / talk page 12:04, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

I've left them a final warning. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 14:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Spam filter

Please add Timo Wagner (Q24289573)official website (P856)https:/⟨IGNORE ME⟩/www.timowagner-actor.com/. Nw520 (talk) 01:19, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

I requested correction of the global spam blacklist at meta here. --Lymantria (talk) 15:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@Nw520: The global spam blacklist has been corrected, I added the url as you requested. --Lymantria (talk) 06:26, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:185.170.250.49

185.170.250.49 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism in the article Q334673. Was Discovered long-standing vandalism in the article Q213801. ―Vladimir Solovjev (talk) 10:33, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked for 1 month. --Esteban16 (talk) 11:27, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

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Account being used for vandalism only

Im the simplest person (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) I'm new to wikidata patrolling but their edits appear to be unconstructive. Philipnelson99 (talk) 03:24, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

I have undone a few of their changes but figured reporting here would be easiest since I do not have rollback. Philipnelson99 (talk) 03:25, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked indefinitely, edits reverted. Thanks for reporting. --Lymantria (talk) 06:30, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:195.235.194.152

195.235.194.152 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Sock of LiliaMiller2002 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)). Edits items about dead people, adding unsourced and unlikely information like [17]. The vandal has used this IP for a long time, so I suggest a very longer block than three months. ―Sjö (talk) 14:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done -- Ajraddatz (talk) 14:13, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning MRJosses and 87.95.62.80

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

Both accounts keep changing the date of birth property to an incorrect date and have done so repeatedly. Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:23, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Both blocked. --Lymantria (talk) 21:43, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Simplysimp

Simplysimp (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Has been confirmed on idwiki as sleeper account (recently active and blocked indefinitely) as of WP:DUCK from the same sockpuppetry I reported a few hours ago Nyilvoskt (talk) 17:02, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked indefinitely. Saroj (talk) 09:16, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning Rálik Szilvia

Rálik Szilvia (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: removing labels of concepts related to Szilvia Rálik (Q63242152) stating on huwiki that they are the subject. I already reverted some of their edits. Bencemac (talk) 10:18, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

user is warned Estopedist1 (talk) 06:56, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Shall I restore the removed labels? Bencemac (talk) 10:17, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

I restored the labels. Bencemac (talk) 10:14, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

The user did it again thus I am reinstalling my request (FYI @Estopedist1). Bencemac (talk) 07:05, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bencemac: last two edits are acceptable. What is the problem? Estopedist1 (talk) 07:33, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

The same as previously: the user is removing the date of birth from the description. I cannot tell you by heart where it was decided, but we add the date of birth/death to the Hungarian descriptions, and the same often applies for the English descriptions in some cases. Bencemac (talk) 07:52, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:187.190.109.178

187.190.109.178 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism ―Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 17:49, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 blocked for 3 days. --Esteban16 (talk) 17:51, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:5.29.14.27

5.29.14.27 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: vandalism ―Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 19:01, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done for a week. Ymblanter (talk) 19:56, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning 2804:d4b:7f05:1300:755c:958f:67b5:60b0 (

2804:d4b:7f05:1300:755c:958f:67b5:60b0 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) purely disruptive edits after being warned. Philipnelson99 (talk) 00:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked the /64. –FlyingAce^✈hello 00:54, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Ng Makakay

Ng Makakay (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: has been confirmed to be sock account in commons, most likely to be LTA Eiskrahablo as of the edits behaviour Nyilvoskt (talk) 02:02, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Lymantria (talk) 06:21, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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Q124357691 not in scope

To me, this "article" or entry doesn't seem to be in scope. --Túrelio (talk) 08:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Deleted --Ameisenigel (talk) 15:55, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Marcus Cyron

Marcus Cyron (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vojtěch Dostál asked them last year no to remove sourced statement if they are false, but instead to use rank to deprecate them. I have asked them the same thing at the end of December, on two separate places (Talk:Q27178026 and on my talk page). The user states that they are doing so in order to adress "data waste", yet they don't see any problem in adding dozens or hundreds of labels and aliases with nameGuzzler. They also states that they "will always and in future delete inaccurate data", which I effectively spotted yesterday on Q2709652, where they removed two sourced statements. For me this is nothing short of vandalism and this hampers Wikidata's aim in becoming a secondary database, as stated in Wikidata:Introduction. I kindly asks an administrator to consider taking action, if only symbolic as I think that a majority of the user's contributions are good contributions, and remind them that one can't just do as they please if the data doesn't go their way and to use instead the tools that we have at disposition (namely ranks) to address errors in sources. --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 09:21, 20 January 2024 (UTC) ―Jahl de Vautban (talk) 09:21, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jahl de Vautban Please only use the word “vandalism” if edits are done in bad faith. There is no reason to suspect Marcus is acting with the intent of damaging the project – quite the opposite, as you are rightfully admitting yourself.

That being said, @Marcus Cyron: Please do not delete properly sourced statements even if they are wrong or imprecise. You can of course delete instances where the source doesn’t support the statement (see also Topic:Xxo05id81afja1t4) but this source does seem to support the statement you have deleted. As you know, I have relied on your expertise in this field in the past and you know it better than the Czech national library – but that’s not the point here. Your expertise is needed in ranking the statements, not in deleting inaccurate (but sourced) statements. --Emu (talk) 15:16, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning Dear santa i hate you

Dear santa i hate you (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) clearly a vandalism only account and now that I'm getting familiar with what vandalism looks like on wikidata and I think this is an LTA. See Special:Contributions/We have got the power and Special:Contributions/Im the realest person. Philipnelson99(talk) 02:59, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Blocked indef. –FlyingAce^✈hello 03:27, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @FlyingAce! Philipnelson99 (talk) 03:28, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

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Request for semi-protection for Q860940

Please semi-protect Q860940 due to persistent vandalism and slander to the topic of this query; he is a living person. This query was semi-protected several time.--郊外生活Kogaiseikatsu (talk,contribs) 04:23, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

 Semi-protected for 6 months. --Esteban16 (talk) 05:50, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Mosspa 443,109 miles

Mosspa 443,109 miles (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism ―MathXplore (talk) 11:21, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

(Note) Possible xwa, already blocked at enwikt, and halted by enwikinews abuse filter. MathXplore (talk) 11:22, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

 Globally locked --Esteban16 (talk) 11:41, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

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Locked item "Princely state"

Princely state (Q1336152) seems to be locked. Can you please add the Persian wiki reference: fa:امیرنشین_نوابی. Thanks! علی~fawiki (talk) 23:49, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

علی~fawiki:  Done, --Esteban16 (talk) 00:56, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Lets do it at home only

Mass vandalism some one needs to change his block to indefinite and revert his edits The things that ill do (talk) 04:55, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

blocked and reverted BrokenSegue (talk) 05:04, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Also blocked the reporter, same user on a diff account. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:49, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protection against vandalism in Karina Milei (Q122781887)

Consecutive vandalism in Karina Milei's article, with derogatory nicknames such as: "Primera Dama" (referring to the fact that this person is the partner of her brother, the president of Argentina), "La Regalona Eterna del Javi" (referring to the fact that she is a regalada, rather than saying the true meaning). For which a temporary semi-protection is requested, as she is a high-ranking person (Secretary General of the Government in Argentina). Milkout 06:00, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

 Protected for six months. @Milkout: there are several unpatrolled edits related to this item. You can check if needed. Thanks! Estopedist1 (talk) 10:04, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Add this locked article to Wikidata.

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky 185.104.63.112 01:10, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Not an admin but I was able to do this. Philipnelson99 (talk) 01:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Ascas1029384838392919

Ascas1029384838392919 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 20:30, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

user is warned Estopedist1 (talk) 04:55, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

No edits since 22 January, closing --DannyS712 (talk) 19:21, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Please protect King Luxy (Q63484862)

Fanssnap (talk • contribs • logs) has repeatedly restored a guideline-violating promotional description on this item, and is not responding to feedback. Now the same action has been performed by an IP. It looks like the item may need to be protected to prevent its description from being turned into a promotional mini-article. Jamie7687 (talk) 06:50, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

 Protected for six months Estopedist1 (talk) 07:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protection against vandalism in Serhii Datsiuk (Q12099615)

Vandalism in Serhii Datsiuk (Q12099615). Anonymous users regularly add false information: image, burial place, nickname, etc. Butko (talk) 11:08, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

 Protected for one year (2nd protection) Estopedist1 (talk) 13:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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Semi protection for Q2864785

An IP keep adding the Armenian label in the description in English. There was the same trend some month ago with other Armenian kings, but I'm not able to find the discussion. --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 22:37, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Same request for Q711577 and Q1382490, with the same motives. --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 22:41, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done first item protected. The other two don't have many edits. Andreasm ^{háblame / just talk to me} 05:17, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

 Protected actually all three items protected for three months Estopedist1 (talk) 17:28, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:2607:FEA8:C225:1600:D894:6B25:CD00:9143

2607:FEA8:C225:1600:D894:6B25:CD00:9143 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: removing correct statements for year months - please revert all its edits ―Mykhal (talk) 12:04, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 13:17, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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Vandalisme anonyme (IP) sur " SOS Racisme"

Bonjour,

Plusieurs modifications douteuses sur https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1653374&action=history

Cordialement. Jerome misc (talk) 16:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

 Protected for six months Estopedist1 (talk) 16:23, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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Deletion of an userpage

Hi there,

could someone please delete User:Nomen ad hoc/B?

Thanks in advance, Nomen ad hoc (talk) 09:18, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Ameisenigel (talk) 09:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Request for confirmed permissions

Hi,

My bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/UpdateWikiprojectBot has been broken due to it being served CAPTCHAs when it tries to edit. My other bots that I run don't face this problem even though they make very similar edits to specific pages. Could I get the relevant permissions added to UpdateWikiprojectBot so that it can autonomously edit as I want it to :)

Carlinmack (talk) 09:45, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done I have added confirmed. Bovlb (talk) 18:42, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:69.115.130.88

69.115.130.88 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Repeatedly added sitelinks to deleted pages ―H78c67c (talk) 21:36, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@H78c67c: massive edits by this IP. Most edits seem to be acceptable. I am not sure that blocking is the best case here Estopedist1 (talk) 07:16, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

@Estopedist1: their behaviour in Richard Neal (Q1464697) is problematic, and they have been blocked twice for that already. Some of their other edits also don't appear constructive at all. H78c67c (talk) 07:31, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked for six months (third block) Estopedist1 (talk) 07:35, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

@H78c67c please revert his edits where necessary. Thanks for reporting! Estopedist1 (talk) 07:36, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

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Adding English Language article

Hi, There is English language article to this under draft, please review it. 31.146.234.210 08:32, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Links to draft articles are not allowed. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 08:45, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:213.96.44.225

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

All edits of this IP user are vandalism and should be reverted. --Haansn08 (talk) 15:26, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

No action needed; only one edit within the last few years and it has already been reverted. –FlyingAce^✈hello 03:33, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Could we protect Maryam Mirzakhani (Q1771279) then instead? Her item keeps getting vandalized. --Haansn08 (talk) 09:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Ymblanter (talk) 19:30, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Add these locked articles to Wikidata.

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina

https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina 185.104.63.112 01:16, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Not an admin but I was able to do this. Philipnelson99 (talk) 01:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@Philipnelson99, how did you do it? Is it something an IP editor could do as well? Is there a better noticeboard for posting such requests? Elizium23 (talk) 01:42, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Obviously, the corresponding items (like Tennessee (Q1509)) have been locked, so IP editors cannot modify them. But they are not locked exclusively for admins. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 13:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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Correction

Good day, you can modify this article El Rengo Crispín the correct one is: (Q114925932) and is currently with (Q123132940), thank you in advance. Juan1990yo (talk) 21:49, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

What does he have to do with a Danish company? Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 21:53, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Correction Juan1990yo (talk) 22:06, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

 Merged Estopedist1 (talk) 08:08, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Spotify AB Q87067874

There has been an ongoing spammy references issue dating back quite some time, users keep adding links to dubious APKs for the spotify app. Philipnelson99 (talk) 02:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

 Semi-protected for 6 months. --Esteban16 (talk) 05:56, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:5.149.15.234

5.149.15.234 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: (somewhat chronic) vandalism ―Mykhal (talk) 14:58, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done

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Semi protection for Q912313 optical microscope

Could we please stop IPs from editing optical microscope (Q912313)? Someone keeps changing the date of invention. It gets reverted quickly, but this has been going on for a long time. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:34, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

 Semiprotected for a month, and I've added it to my watchlist to keep an eye on it when the protection expires. –FlyingAce^✈hello 19:15, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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Property creation backlog

Category:Properties ready for creation, currently 55 listed as ready. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 12:53, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning Partition Zion GD

Partition Zion GD (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Philipnelson99 (talk) 02:19, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

 Globally locked --Esteban16 (talk) 05:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Deletion or merge of Q105621009 to Q6430185 (Konstantinos Piladakis)

Reason : Same item existed twice. 2A02:85F:F01B:5893:1C70:F79:4865:2C2D 12:49, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Merged the two items. EPIC (talk) 12:50, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Antikristen

Antikristen (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) (Lit. Anti-christianity) — Reasons: vandal account only. Nyilvoskt (talk) 15:18, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Indeffed. --Lymantria (talk) 15:43, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Vandalism by User:Тарас Миронюк

See user history. Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 15:35, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Indeffed. --Lymantria (talk) 15:51, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:76.137.175.87

76.137.175.87 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. ―Madamebiblio (talk) 17:08, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Not able to create new item

Hello, I'm trying to add a new item for the Aasif Sheikh article but I'm getting this error: "This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: LTA (Hiefata)". Can somebody please help me? Azozoalis (talk) 17:09, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/142, @Lymantria, please see this. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 02:59, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Fixed. --Lymantria (talk) 06:29, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@Azozoalis: You can proceed. --Lymantria (talk) 06:30, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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Request for undeletion

May I request for the following to be un-deleted? It has been and I just stumbled upon the company's wikidata article when I was researching about them as a possible customer. Since I have a Wikidata account, I figured it would be nice to clean it up but it got deleted due to me.

Can we just rollback other items I made? Like creating Wikidata articles for the founders (as I saw on their LinkedIn and Website). I would absolutely feel guilty and it is unfair for the company if their Wikidata article that has been there for years already gets deleted because some third-party tampered with it. That's very unjust, right? I hope my appeal makes sense. I just find it very unfair and this would make me feel guilty for days since it's because I cleaned it up.

Thank you so much for your kind consideration!

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7268748

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_hi/122015F1 https://linkedin.com/company/quality-logo-products https://www.qualitylogoproducts.com/about-qlp.htm Nabiresearcher (talk) 05:09, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

was deleted by user:Saroj Estopedist1 (talk) 07:15, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate your understanding regarding its deletion, which was based on notability concerns, especially since it was initially linked to an English Wikipedia page that has since been removed. To move forward, I kindly request that you provide reliable and verifiable sources that clearly demonstrate the notability of Quality Logo Products. Upon reviewing such evidence, we can engage in a constructive discussion about potentially restoring the article. Saroj (talk) 09:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Saroj,

Thank you for your very kind consideration! Would these articles/profiles suffice? Please let me know. Thanks!

https://www.inc.com/profile/quality-logo-products

https://media.ppai.org/ppai-newslink/quality-logo-products-wins-award-for-excellence/

https://www.northwestern.edu/wildcard/services/businesses/quality-logo-products.htmlhttps://www.prweb.com/releases/quality_logo_products_ranks_29th_in_top_promotional_product_distributors_list/prweb15593952.htm#!

https://www.exhibitoronline.com/news/article.asp?ID=17314

https://www.forbes.com/sites/allbusiness/2017/12/14/branded-giveaways-and-other-promotional-products-do-they-still-have-an-impact/?sh=2076a6327790

https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/1364456 Nabiresearcher (talk) 08:52, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Saroj can I ask for updates on this? Thank you! Nabiresearcher (talk) 07:11, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Nabiresearcher, I've undeleted the Quality Logo Products page. Feel free to continue editing and improving the item. Saroj (talk) 06:31, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Block of Frettiebot

Just a note that I just blocked Frettiebot due to continued problems in spite of feedback. There are some issues discussed at User talk:Frettiebot that the community should be resolving, such as how to handle bots edit warring with humans, and the use of deprecated rank. I'm happy for any admin to unblock if the block is no longer necessary. Bovlb (talk) 18:09, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Issue from discussion is fixed. --Frettie (talk) 19:23, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Please consider unblocking now. I think the block is no longer necessary as the bug in question has been purpotedly fixed. Also, let's not mix this bug (which I have never encountered and must be indeed a rare sight) with the never-ending complaints of (mostly now-blocked) sockpuppets about the bot's correct use of deprecated rank, which has been recently confirmed by a community-wide Project Chat discussion - that issue is unrelated. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 20:38, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

I have hesitantly unblocked (for now) based on botop's claim that the specific bug has been fixed, but I think we have some wider issues to consider here.

There's been a lot of discussion, and I have not yet read all of it, but the relevant facts here seem to be:

1. The bot is importing information from National Library of the Czech Republic (Q1967876) via NL CR AUT ID (P691).
2. This information is largely accurate and useful.
3. There is, however, a significant error rate, with many problem reports to the talk page. For example, humans are being conflated with scholarly articles. The same (unique) identifier is being assigned to multiple items. We don't expect any human or bot to be 100% perfect, but it is important how we deal with repeated errors.
4. A recurring theme in the problem reports is that when humans remove the errant claims, the bot will edit war to restore them.
5. The botop's position on resolving the edit wars is that human editors should use deprecated rank instead of removing the claim. This is not the first time this approach has been raised, but I believe it is still controversial, and it is certainly not well-known.
6. The recent block proximately arose from the bot edit warring despite the fact that a deprecated rank had been used on the relevant claim.
7. These edits do not clearly fall under any RFP for this bot.

So I think we need clearer policy about:

• How do we deal with correcting bot errors?
• What is the correct approach to stop bots from edit warring?
• Do we care about bot scope creeping away from RFPs?

Bovlb (talk) 21:43, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

• Deprecation is the way to go, and it is not the bot to blame if editors do not get this right. This should really be known by now. The bot must consider deprecated claims as well, of course.
• Many bots operate outside of approved tasks. The bot policy does not clearly state what we want to achieve with these task approvals, and the entire process is just a nuisance for experienced bot operators. It takes a week of time to go through the approval process in order to give the community to provide input, but usually there is no input made, and no code is being reviewed. It is important to remember that the bot policy was initially drafted based on Wikipedia experiences in late 2012 and it has conceptually not much changed since, despite the most prevalent way of editing here being automated (bot) editing, unlike at Wikipedia. The bot policy does not fit into this project.

—MisterSynergy (talk) 00:03, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

I think people balk at the idea of using deprecated rank on claims that should never have been added. That a claim is associated with a source does not mean that the source supports the claim. Referring to Help:Ranking#Deprecated_rank, I see: "All statements, including deprecated ones, must be verifiable in the sense that a source makes the claim whether or not the claim is true." This usage of deprecated rank does not appear to be be sanctioned by the documentation. One of them should change.

An example of a reported problem that I did not list above is of adding general occupations when a more specific occupation is already present. Arguably this is both useful and necessary in order to preserve the sourcing information, especially if the more specific claim is unsourced. Unfortunately, it annoys infobox users on client projects and they come here to tidy it up. A deprecated rank is not appropriate here, but there is a case for using preferred rank instead.

I agree that bot policy is somewhat cumbersome and burdensome and it is often unnecessary to go through to process for small changes to bot scope. At the same time it is often useful to get community input before any large-scale task that has the potential to cause disruptions, and experience has shown that editors are not always good judges of whether they are going to cause disruption. Regardless, Wikidata:Bots#Bot_accounts says: "Bot accounts should not be used for contributions that do not fall within the scope of the bot's designated tasks." If this isn't what we intend, then we should change the policy, not ignore it.

"This should really be known by now." New user education is a struggle, and ranks are not obvious in the UI.

Bovlb (talk) 01:14, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bovlb I don't think we should discuss these issues at Administrator's noticeboard but some of them seem important. Please bring any general problems you've encountered to Project chat or other more exposed page and tag us. For issues related specifically to Frettiebot, let's discuss on Frettiebot's talk page. BTW, thanks for unblocking Frettiebot, I hope the bug in question had really been fixed. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 10:46, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

I posted a pointed at Wikidata:Project_chat#Dealing_with_bot_errors,_bot_edit_wars,_and_bot_scope_creep.

I think that we can all agree that, if a source supports a claim, but it is generally believed to be untrue, then we can represent this by deprecating the claim. The key question here is that, if a source does not support a claim, but a bot reaches the erroneous conclusion that it does, is it reasonable for us to have an unsupported deprecated claim merely as a mechanism to prevent the bot from edit warring? Bovlb (talk) 17:21, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

We need statistics estimating how many frettiebot additions are unhelpful, both as a %age and in absolute terms. I would include here both wrong statements, and overly vague statements. If its wrong because of a bad bot, they should be removed, and the bot suspended quickly and fixed and a plan made to systematically revert the errors before restarting. If its wrong because the source is wrong, there is some merit in leaving them but deprecated. Vague statements are just clutter.

I think frettiebot needs to be altered to

1) remember what it did, and not attempt to do the same thing twice.

2) Check before proposing a classification whether a more accurate classification exists, and not bothering with the vague one.

As seen in a long thread on Project chat, frettie seems reluctant to engage with his critics. Vicarage (talk) 17:40, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

It's not true, I abstained from the discussion because I didn't feel it appropriate to get involved. In the current situation (few days), I reacted very quickly (and i fixed error in few hours from bugreport!). Things you mentioned have long since been resolved in the previous discussion. It is technically very difficult for a bot to remember what it has already done and if, why? But whatever, we've already had this discussion once, I understand you have a different opinion, but that doesn't mean the same discussion needs to be had again. --Frettie (talk) 20:45, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Why can't your bot log what its done, and compare new work with the log. 'sort | uniq -d' would do it. Clearly the problem wasn't resolved if its been raised again here by others. Vicarage (talk) 22:14, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

This was also part of an earlier discussion. In short, it's difficult (because there is a big data) and then the bot loses the ability to reasonably update the data. It is good to accept that there are incremental imports, not just one time imports.--Frettie (talk) 08:12, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bovlb The key issue here is that this particular bot does not "reach a conclusion" by itself. All data are completely based on matching of identifiers present in the bibliopraphical entries. I.e. the bot does not itself reconcile by eg. name or date of birth. It's a common misconception. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 08:45, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

[Not admin] I stand by what I said in the previous lenghty discussion and what was already said here previously: deprecating the claim instead of blindly removing them is the way to go. Of course some are blatant mistakes (on that specific point it would help if someone had editing rights on the database being imported, so as to quickly correct errors) or some values are too broad and "useless" (for what use exactly?), but that is IMHO beside the point. Wikidata should collect all those mistakes and inaccuracies to allow for error reporting and diversity in modelling knowledge, because Wikidata is a secondary database per Wikidata:Introduction. On the specific point of users from others project being frustrated by Wikidata, I could easily say the same about unmergeable duplicates, because there are two pages on the wiki, or wrong data being imported from infoboxes. That doesn't mean that my only option is to go on the page and delete it. --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 10:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

"... I could easily say the same about unmergeable duplicates, because there are two pages on the wiki, or wrong data being imported from infoboxes. That doesn't mean that my only option is to go on the page and delete it." Wonderful and accurate! --Frettie (talk) 17:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

VRT assistance needed

Dear Wikidata admins, the m:VRT once in a while receives request about Wikidata, mostly when users want to appeal account blocks or are affected by IP range blocks. Are there any admins interested in joining the VRT to process such requests? --Krd 12:31, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

I joined VRT a couple of years ago. I worked on a few tickets, but didn't find much related to Wikidata. When I finally saw a VRT ticket mentioned here and tried to follow up, I found that my account had been closed for inactivity. It didn't seem worth asking for it to be reopened for one ticket if that was just going to happen every time. Bovlb (talk) 19:46, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:CFA1877

CFA1877 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: I realized today that this user has been systematically reverting almost every edit since September 2023. The fundamental principle of assuming good faith has not been met, I haven't been asked at all about my edits on my user talk page, and much of my work has simply been thrown away.

The list of reversions is as massive as it is absurd. My edits on one entity are reverted, but the same edit made by someone else on the same entity in another language is respected. Notice that we are not talking about complex and controversial scenarios: we are talking about basic tasks like adding missing labels or descriptions in Asturian language to entities. Some random examples: encyclopedia article, US patent, asteroid label, category, category. I wrote him on his talk page but he has a completely opposite point of view and he's still doing the things he's been doing since September.

I'm out of options, therefore I write this report here. Thanks. ―YoaR (talk) 19:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

For months we have clashed because this user has behavior more typical of a political activist than a user from Wikidata. When a disagreement arises, he always has an answer for everything, he is always in possession of the absolute truth. When the conversation reaches a point, make it clear that he is not going to argue or answer. In those situations, it doesn't leave much room for other kind of action. Instead of seeking a consensus (or a solution), for months it has limited itself to reversing or insisting again on its discussed actions. And in the end this problem has poisoned everything. His attitude reaches the point of personal mockery.

Outside the Asturias region, this user translates names without any basis. Simply put, many objects (localities, streets, buildings) do not have their own name in the Asturian language. As happens in many other languages. The last battle that he has started it has been due to Asturianize the names from streets of cities in Andalusia (for example: 1, 2, 3, 4). The issue has reached a point where he knows he is acting badly (he makes adhoc translations without basis), but he doesn't care. Now comes the victimhood, when for months it has brought things to this point.

I understand that he has used an exhaustion tactic, to see who will throw in the towel first. And he has only resorted to the Administrators noticeboard when he has seen that this tactic has not worked. I am the first who does not want to spend time on this issue, but I am tired of this user's contempt and disregard for me. CFA1877 (talk) 19:29, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Opinions & Appeal on an Item

I provided some article for undeletion of the item (Q112845092) to the deleting admin @Lymantria but he is unable to view one because of their area and said others doesn't meet the WD:N to undelete the item.

I would like to know other admin opinion on this discussion, Below is the URL to the discussion on their talk page for proper understanding

User talk:Lymantria#Q112845092 Daremize (talk) 17:06, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Relevant items: Q112845092 (JeanLouis0). See also Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Sommerville91.

For the benefit of those who cannot access the Fox5 link, it's a puff piece on Jean Louis Hardy and his company ENG2. Fox 5 San Diego is a legitimate local news station affiliated with the Fox network. It's not marked as an advertisement or press release, but there is no individual byline, only "Impact+". It also features a Founder's Story video where Daniel Robbins interviews Jean Louis Hardy. Again, it's something of a puff piece. By "puff piece" here, I mean that they are praised excessively with no critical analysis and allowed to present their perspective with no adversarial input. Bovlb (talk) 17:30, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@Daremize: If you have additional indications of notability, now would be a good time to post them. More information here: Wikidata:Guide to requests for undeletion. Infrastruktur (talk) 17:38, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

there are still some i saw online that i didn't provide because i think they might appear promotional or advertorial and they have been published before the day the item was deleted which i believe they might have been in the item content but i will provide them below

https://www.netnewsledger.com/2022/06/28/jean-louis-hardy-helping-business-owners-make-miracle

https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/eng2-and-jean-louis-hardy-breaking-all-limits-in-business

https://disruptmagazine.com/unleash-your-destiny-with-jean-louis-hardy-the-inspiring-story-of-a-transformational-business-coach/

https://www.gq.co.za/wealth/jean-louis-hardy-on-the-secret-mindset-that-allows-you-to-control-your-destiny-f50c50cd-5a3a-417b-8da7-73d6f5d521b7

https://ventsmagazine.com/2023/12/04/the-transformational-journey-jean-louis-hardys-impact-on-vancouvers-consulting-scene/

https://disruptmagazine.com/jean-louis-hardy-will-help-grow-your-business-but-first-he-will-grow-your-mind/ Daremize (talk) 19:13, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

All advertorials and puff pieces in Bovlb's words. --Lymantria (talk) 06:27, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

yeah, I got that Daremize (talk) 06:42, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 Not done @Daremize: Ok, so enough time has passed to take consensus. There are some opinions against notability, none for notability. The verdict will have to be not notable. this appeal is also final as I interpret the rules. Lymantria is unable to close this since he's technically involved, nevertheless I believe his judgement to be spot on. Infrastruktur (talk) 20:17, 1 February 2024 (UTC)