User:Bbb23/useful links

Block links and other information

 * List of block templates
 * Template:Blocked talk-revoked-notice
 * Standard unblock decline: I should be unblocked
 * List of range blocks
 * List of edit filters
 * User:Jasper Deng/IPv6 (technical information about IPv6 addresses)
 * User:Jasper Deng/IPv6/non-technical (Jasper's less technical guide)
 * To range-block a group of IP addresses, put the range block directly in the box of the address to be blocked, e.g., 2605:e000:96c0:af00::/64.
 * When you block an IP, there is a box that is unchecked by default called "Prevent logged-in users from editing from this IP address". If you check that, it works like an autoblock against named accounts, meaning that they can't log in if they are using the blocked IP address. However, the block log attributes reflect this only implicitly, meaning with that box unchecked, there is the phrase "anon. only", whereas with the box checked, that phrase is omitted. See this discussion.

SPI-related

 * Uw-sockwarn. This is for an only warning to a sockmaster sometimes used on a first offense. It can also be used for meat puppetry.
 * uw-login. This is for warning named accounts about editing without logging in without expressly accusing them of sock puppetry. Twinkle has it.
 * moreinfo is used when you're doing the standard moreinfo or cumoreinfo request. Substr is required.

Arbitration links (mostly about sanctions)

 * List of general sanctions
 * List of discretionary sanctions (a subset of general sanctions)
 * Request for clarification related to article sanctions
 * List of different sanction notices to editors for discretionary sanctions
 * List of different sanction notices for talk pages subject to discretionary sanctions
 * Arab-Israeli decision re sanctions
 * Update on P-I sanctions from November 2010
 * India-Pakistan decision re sanctions
 * Armenia-Azerbaijan decision re sanctions
 * User:Salvio giuliano on MMA sanctions: I have created, a template that can be placed on talk pages to inform those who are about to edit an MMA-related article that the entire topic area is subject to discretionary sanctions, but this is an optional step; generally, however, before restricting a user, he should have been personally warned of the existence of said sanctions which can be done using . All sanctions should, then, be logged here.
 * Example of editnotice for article subject to ARBPIA sanctions
 * Example of editnotice for template subject to Syrian civil war general sanctions
 * Discussion with Tim Canens indicating that the blocking admin may unblock pursuant to WP:AEBLOCK
 * Use to warn editors of discretionary sanctions.
 * Use for notifying an editor of a block per discretionary sanctions. Make sure you use some of the optional parameters as they are helpful. Here's an example as it's not given on the template page:
 * If you want to see if an editor has been notified, look at the history of their talk page and type "discretionary sanctions alert" in the tag box. If they've been notified, there will be an entry. Notification on the decision page should not be logged anymore. A list of all notifications can be found here. For any individual entry, click on "details".
 * Use Ds/talk notice to add a discretionary sanctions notice to the talk page of an article with the appropriate topic code and "style=long".
 * Two links to old decisions about off-wiki conduct: (1) CAMERA and its background and (2) WP:EEML (sections on off-wiki communications and off-wiki conduct).

Statistics

 * Administrative action statistics

Tools

 * Rangeblock Calculator
 * This form allows for mass deletion of pages
 * Mike V's Talk page. In this discussion Mike V explains how to check whether an IP is using an open proxy when editing Wikipedia.

Account creation

 * WP:ACCRIGHT (account creator permission)
 * WP:ACCG (account creator guide)
 * (the ones listed in Admin are tool administrators)
 * (anyone can supposedly create an account using this interface by putting in the username, checking "temporary random password", and putting in the new account's e-mail address to send it to them)
 * All admins supposedly have account creator permission

Miscellaneous

 * Editor restrictions list
 * Moonriddengirl's cheat sheet on copyright
 * Editor assistance/Requests/Header. Edit this to change the WP:EAR header. I assume that the other noticeboards follow a similar format.
 * User access levels. This shows all the rights users can have and how they are acquired. In particular, look at this table.
 * External links/Perennial websites. This is a helpful essay about specific external links like social media sites, YouTube, Find-a-Grave, ancestry.com. Just because there's a template for an external link doesn't mean it's okay to add the external link. Often cited at WP:RSN.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:50, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * sharedIPEDU. This is for an IP talk page that geolocates to an educational institution. The See also section has other shared templates.
 * Community-based sanctions block template:
 * List of IPs who vandalize infoboxes about schools, mostly lawyers and judges: ; ; . There are many others, but I have to find them. I believe I block them for three months. Adding and . Note that the 104 series all geolocate to Northridge, California, whereas the 101 IP geolocates to Australia. Adding.
 * Sitush's analysis of Indian sources: User talk:Bbb23/Archive 25
 * This discussion explains how templates that begin with a forward slash work. This is useful for WP:SPI, for example, which has a template like this for the header of the page. Another method later added to the discussion: edit Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations and look in "Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page" at the bottom. --Bbb23 (talk) 00:04, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Canned response to a CU request for an IP address: We rarely disclose the IP address of a named account per the privacy policy.
 * WP:MASSDELETE. "Most of those directions are for installing the function to Mediawiki--which is already done here, so you don't need to worry about it. All you need to do is follow the "Usage" section, i.e. go to Special:Nuke and type in the editor's name to delete all the pages they've created, or a pagename pattern to delete pages with similar names." Writ Keeper.
 * Using a script that is in common.js, you can rollback all edits of a given user. Bring up their contributions page, and there is a rollback all option at the top in a dropdown. I know of no way that you can selectively rollback multiple edits. Writ Keeper is the owner of the script.