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American princess?
Hello! I'd like to try to understand what happened in this case. Can you please explain? --SergeWoodzing (talk) 08:45, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if you followed the link in the RfD banner on that page to the actual RfD discussion, but I'll summarize it. User nominated about 30 redirects in one large group, and the only rationale they provided was a link to the WP:NOTGOOGLE essay.  A consensus was very rapidly reached that the nomination was in bad form because it seemed the nominator did not actually verify/read the targets of each redirect to see whether the target might be appropriate (in addition to not performing all of the nomination steps like tagging and notifying).
 * No firm consensus was reached on whether any of the particular redirects were appropriate to keep, so if you feel e.g. should be deleted, you're welcome to nominate it for RfD discussion (individually) yourself or find a new target page for it. –Darkwind (talk) 17:01, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Yes I did see that mass deletion and I found it very confusing. Now I know what happened. Formalia rules, I suppose. Makes me very nervous, even the very thought of doing a deletion request, for fear of missing some detail in the formalia and having the essential item ignored in favor of formalia. The fact here is that Jasmine Grimaldi is not a princess. Could you, with your expertise, please nominate that very inappropriate redirect for deletion, just with that simple fact? I will then be glad to support the request and add the constitutional problem for possible discussion, as well as the fact that we do not and cannot know who the first American princess was among native American tribes and kingdoms of centuries ago. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 06:28, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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Mog people
Hi. I see that you did a revdel on this article, but the version which was reverted to seems to also be a copyvio. The page it was copied from, see here, was created back in 2013 according to the Carbon Dating app. The version of the article in existence at that time, this, does not contain much in the Tripura source, so I don't think this is a case of WP:MIRROR. Thoughts?  Onel 5969  TT me 11:40, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I hadn't checked the remaining text for copyvios, I just verified that the removed material was a copyvio and present in the old revisions. You're correct, most of the remaining article is a copyvio of the page you linked.  I'll cut it out and see if I can revdel the rest without too much attribution masking. –Darkwind (talk) 04:35, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. –Darkwind (talk) 04:38, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Onel 5969  TT me 11:06, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Mistake
Hi there Darkwind, I mistakenly made an edit to the Rothschild Family page while reading it.

thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terencej72 (talk • contribs) 07:54, 1 October 2019 (UTC)


 * That's fine, I put it back. Thanks for letting me know. I'll add some helpful information to your page in case you're interested in learning how to edit. Also, don't forget to sign your comments on talk pages like this with ~ (that's the tilde symbol 4 times), which turns into your username and the date/time. –Darkwind (talk) 07:57, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news
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Arbitration
 * The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
 * The arbitration case regarding was closed.  While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous
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IP address
Hello, I’m coming to you because I’m learning this morning by logging in that my IP address is part of the IP range that you blocked two days ago and that blockage ended a short time ago. When I see the reason for the blockage, it is a sockpuppet that would be present since 2015 on Wikipedia. Please note that I am responsible for none of the edits in this IP range (which are in addition to vandalism). I am even less a sockpuppet of the account in question. On the contrary I am a user who spends time on the encyclopedia to improve it and create articles. Not to vandalize. It is true that I live in France, like him (according to what I saw in Long-term abuse/Joseph kargbo) and I contribute via a mobile and therefore via a mobile network that can be shared. I come to you because seeing this I got a little scared, afraid of being wrongly blocked for multiple account usage and blocking bypass that I had not realized. So, can you tell me, possibly by analyzing my physical positions, if I run the risk of being blocked? Thank you. Futuresay22 (talk) 07:31, 16 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm sure you have nothing to worry about. Your editing doesn't resemble the vandal at all. I'm surprised you even saw the IP block notice, unless you had tried to edit while you were logged out.  I specifically selected "anonymous only" for the block so that users with accounts would not be affected.  As for your current IP address or its geolocation data, administrators like myself don't have access to that data, and there's no reason for us to ask someone who can see it (i.e. an editor with checkuser privileges) if you're not being disruptive, which you aren't. –Darkwind (talk) 06:33, 17 October 2019 (UTC)


 * When I logged in, I saw the message "This IP is blocked. You can't create an account. If you have one, log in." I knew that I was able to log in with my account, but I wondered about consequences. But if I risk nothing, it's a good thing. Thanks for your reply. – Futuresay22 (talk) 09:45, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Seeheimer Kreis
please also delete the last revision comment made by the IP which is basically saying "You Idiot" to the previous reverter. Thank you. --Denniss (talk) 16:24, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes
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Bureaucrat changes
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Interface administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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 * An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
 * The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
 * A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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GOCE December 2019 Newsletter
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
 * A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
 * Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration
 * The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
 * Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , , , , ,.

Miscellaneous
 * This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Partial blocks.
 * The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news
 * Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating.  There is currently one template: uw-pblock.
 * When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.

Arbitration
 * Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Athaenara • DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes
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CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
 * A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news
 * Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present.  You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
 * The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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GOCE March newsletter
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes
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Bureaucrat changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous
 * The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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"U+f8ff" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect U+f8ff. Since you had some involvement with the U+f8ff redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:40, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Uw-contact
Template:Uw-contact has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 05:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020). Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Callanecc

Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
 * Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news
 * The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
 * created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous
 * A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020). Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration
 * A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

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Technical news
 * Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
 * The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Our friend WW
Hope you don't mind I just deleted the tagged userpage as we've been just trying to DENY as much as possible per discussion here. He makes a new SP every other hour so I just tend to LTA block immediately and leave user and talk. Hope that's all good. Cheers. Glen 06:38, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * And like clockwork... Glen 06:39, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's fine with me either way. The script I was using creates the user page automatically; I'll make sure to do it by hand if I come across any more. –Darkwind (talk) 06:56, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Regarding WP:SPECIESOUTCOMES from User talk:Zinedinemay2006
Sorry for fragmenting the discussion, but I don't want to burden someone else's talk page with any discussion we might want to have about this. Yes, I'm familiar with SPECIESOUTCOMES, but AFD precedent does not excuse a sub-stub article with only two bare URLs for reference, much less a whole flood of them. Maybe if they were properly formatted with complete citations, but as it is, all this is doing is creating a flood of pending cleanup work to get these pages to a minimally useful state.

I think maybe my advice to this editor was a little too broad, because I did imply that individual species pages weren't generally useful. I meant that more for this specific case, and not in general. –Darkwind (talk) 21:04, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Their articles were definitely disruptive, they made a real mess of things. But I think the issue was more the bad machine translation, formatting, and lack of communication, rather than the notability :) CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 21:08, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for looking at the Ronald_McDonald page
Hi! I don't normally make an RPP, but it seemed necessary to get the IP contributor to talk. Good news is that it probably wasn't necessary.

As I'm sure you know, doing any sort of recent-change (or pending-changes) patrol is a lot like herding cats, and you never know when it's best to chase 'em a little more or just let them go. As it stood with the Ronald_McDonald article, several of us were trying to stem the tide of unsourced changes, and just were not having any luck.

Anyway, I'm sorry I wasted your time with that minutiae, but I really appreciate you were willing to help!

Thanks! &mdash; UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 22:22, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * No problem. I think they had a valid point, but didn't know how to express it without being disruptive. –Darkwind (talk) 22:25, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Re Pro Wrestling Australia Draft
I take note of what you said in declining my application for move protection of Draft:Pro Wrestling Australia. I did tell him on his talk page not to do it again or he would be reported. He has made no attempt to improve the article at all (it is littered with fact tags and there is also a past AfD delete of the same promotion under a slightly different name). That is the main reason why I not only believe that it's not ready for publication, but I also believe that procedure should be enforced in this case. I am certain he moved it instead of improving it to stop it from being deleted per draft procedure at six months. The user also has a history of not discussing anything from what I can tell so it can be maintained that the move was made in bad faith. If you have any other ideas to ensure that he doesn't move it again in just under six months yet again I'll be happy to read it. Addicted4517 (talk) 08:43, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The point I was trying to make is that there is no "procedure" that can "be enforced" here. Nobody is required to request a review of a draft before moving it to mainspace, even if it hasn't been substantially changed or improved since it was drafted. They boldly published it, you reverted them, now it's time to discuss it with them. As I mentioned, if they continue to move the page without discussing it, that can be taken up on a behavior noticeboard.


 * Let's assume for this discussion that the draft is in fact not ready to be published. (I have not reviewed it in detail, so I'll accept your assessment for now.) Move protecting the page places an unnecessary burden on the next editor who actually does take the time to improve the draft and get it ready to go live. Having to ask an admin to move the page or unprotect it may seem like a small hoop to jump through, but the protection policy is specifically written (in accordance with Wikimedia's founding principles) with the goal of placing as few of these technical restrictions in the way of editors as possible. Having to move the page back once every six months or so is, under policy, the preferred alternative.


 * In the absence of any discussion from the user, we must continue to assume good faith. So what if they are moving it back and forth to avoid deletion? Maybe they plan to improve it, but they don't have time to work on it right now. CSD G13 isn't exactly crucial to the success of the encyclopedia, and having the draft stick around for another six months or longer is not going to hurt anything. If they haven't posted anything on the draft talk page, maybe try writing them a non-template message on their talk page directly, to ask them what they plan to do with the draft. It couldn't hurt. –Darkwind (talk) 09:53, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It would take too long to go looking for the history of the user concerned. All I can say is that he has a rep that IMHO has exhausted any right to AGF. That's why discussing it from my POV is a waste of time. I do know however that there isn't any point pursuing that without the detail. So I have an alternative suggestion. If he doesn't change anything and says nothing in the meantime, and moves it again into the main space I should nominate it for deletion for similar reasons to my original intention (previously deleted and not ready to be published). Addicted4517 (talk) 08:14, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

189.172.79.167
Hi Darkwind, This ip address that you have partially blocked has resume vandalizing/disruptive editing by changing episode titles against primary source (the official website) again on Paradise PD. — Young Forever (talk)   01:33, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I've blocked them for another week. –Darkwind (talk) 04:42, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

LTA user accounts
When you block obvious LTA accounts that are abusive like this one has been, you can also revoke talk page access and email access when doing so. All they're going to do is abuse it. ;-) Cheers -  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   06:50, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Mohun Bagan A.C.
Can u revert the change in article name from ATK Mohun Bagan A.C. to its previous one Mohun Bagan A.C. and restore to Revision as of 15:16, 10 July 2020.  ❯❯❯  S A H A   10:18, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I saw ur message in the article talkpage. I want to elaborate that. ATK (football club) is a club, and Mohun Bagan is another. in January it was announced that their football departments will merge. So, MB FC merged with ATK FC while Other departments of the club will operate as usual. There's a page on that ATK Mohun Bagan F.C. (check the citations in this page). Now, the page name of MB changed to ATK MB, which is incorrect.  ❯❯❯  S A H A   10:22, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * there are multiple sources for the name in the new article.ATK Mohun Bagan F.C.
 * No need to ping me on my own talk page, just so you know. Anyway, do any of those sources mentioned that the rest of Mohun Bagan (A.C.) is remaining separate? That's the part that should ideally be explicitly sourced. Either way, I don't particularly intend to get more involved in this situation, now that I've established a stable version of the article. I only suggest finding such a source in order to prevent further disruption when the protection expires. –Darkwind (talk) 11:09, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , oh sorry. I mistakenly pinged u here. the press release by the club says that another club has bought shares in its football club. leaving th other departments.  ❯❯❯  S A H A   11:40, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * In that case, I would add a sentence to the article that explicitly says as much, perhaps at the end of the paragraph that talks about the merger of the football club, and cite it to the press release (this is one of the few times that a primary source is sufficient). Maybe something like, "The other activities and departments of Mohun Bagan AC will continue under that name and are not being merged."


 * Additionally, if the athletic club will not be conducting any football activities going forward, I would suggest that you move the football statistics either to a separate article (perhaps merge the information with History of Mohun Bagan A.C.) or to the article of the merged club under a section possibly called "pre-merger club histories" or something. The way it stands now, you have an article ostensibly about an athletic club that doesn't participate in football anymore, but the entire second half of the article is football lists and statistics, and doesn't say anything about the hockey or the cricket teams etc. –Darkwind (talk) 20:29, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , the club was famous for football only. so, I don't think removing/merging the football part will be good. there is an article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mohun_Bagan_A.C._records_and_statistics . Also, putting this data in the new merged club article won't be good. it might create confusions and mislead supporters, rivals etc. I would suggest keep it as it is. we can add FINAL SEASONS, FINAL HONOURS etc. instead of honours, seasons headings.  ❯❯❯  S A H A   05:25, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

one thing for sure has to be reverted, two pages of mb and atkmb cant remain like this. either update on mb with past tense and dissolving, or add all atkmb updates to mb page and keep only that (per tradition). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.1.7.48 (talk) 21:54, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * atkmb and mb are different entities.  ❯❯❯  S A H A   05:17, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

exactly, still mb page says club exists, same as newly made atkmb. 2 pages for one club now, dont tell mb will play against atkmb! 🤣 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.1.7.48 (talk) 07:30, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * mb's footballing departments have closed, but hockey and athletics isn't. try to understand this.  ❯❯❯  S A H A   10:00, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi
Please send the deleted material from Sala Polivalentă (Blaj) into a new Sandbox of mine. Thanks! Rostadia2012 (talk) 13:14, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅, at User:Rostadia2012/Sala Polivalentă (Blaj). –Darkwind (talk) 20:59, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Overriding CheckUser blocks
Please be a bit more careful... you just overrode a CheckUser block. See. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:00, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * My apologies, they weren't blocked at the time I had opened the pages to investigate from AIV, and I must not have noticed that had changed before I did the blocks from the SPI page I created. –Darkwind (talk) 22:04, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it happens. But one has to be extra careful about CU blocks due to WP:CUBL.  Anyway, there's a whole bunch of these accounts.  I've found more than a dozen already.  It looks like they've been hitting the Spanish Wikipedia for a while.  The oldest ones from there are too stale to check, unfortunately. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:41, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

186.81.100.53
Hi. The IP that was the subject of the 3RR report I filed had made another edit to Racialism of the nature that they were warned about by you as a resilt of that report. . Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:11, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * –Darkwind (talk) 02:12, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:24, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * FYI the same content has been added (and quickly reverted) twice today by different IPs beginning with 191.106: [], []. I suspect that all three are the same individual. Generalrelative (talk) 22:58, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

One more thing
Hi again,

Sorry to bother you, but on these 2 we have had no result/consensus in weeks. It is fair to remove the template. It was a mistake nominating them, and nobody wants the deletion. Thanks, mate!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sala_Polivalent%C4%83_(Oradea) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sala_Polivalent%C4%83_(Bistri%C8%9Ba)

Rostadia2012 (talk) 15:36, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

IP disruption on Kosovo Liberation Army
Hello. After a block imposed by you expired, that IP made a disruptive edit on Kosovo Liberation Army. It would be great if you kept an eye on its edits, and act again if necessary. Cheers, Ktrimi991 (talk) 13:57, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

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