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204.193.117.66
204.193.117.66 is the Sarasota County Public Library system (and possibly other facilities managed by the Sarasota County Board of County Commissioners), it is not Sarasota County Public Schools. I know this because 1. I work for Sarasota County Schools and that's on a different /24 range (which produces a mixed bag of edits) and 2. I've personally used this shared IP address (I log into my account from the library, so any edits you see without the use of CheckUser are not me unless there's been a time I forgot to sign in or made a very minor edit I didn't think was worth logging in to make, such as fixing a blatant typo). Note that I'm not contesting the block as more recent vandalism from it has been persistent. PCHS-NJROTC (Messages)Have a blessed day. 03:12, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Turbofuture.com as source
I saw the Turbofuture.com article you found about the Ligma joke and I read this about turbofuture.com: Wikipedia talk:Spam blacklist/Archive 2 The site appeared to have an editorial team and policies to ensure quality and accuracy so I thought maybe it was being unfairly blacklisted as being associated with HubPages. But then I clicked on some of the other ones: reelrundown.com, tatring.com, owlcation.com and they also have an editorial team--the exact same team for each one. So I think the mistrust of it as an RS is warranted. BBQboffin (talk) 19:30, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
 * yeah I read the same things, basically everything in the HubPages universe is under the same scrutiny, and deservedly. Personally I think it's an overreach to have them on the spam blacklist, though - the spam blacklist is meant for links and sites which are frequently added as spam; it's not meant for blacklisting unreliable sources. OpIndia is blacklisted for different (and good) reasons, but even sources we say to never use (like the Daily Mail) are usually not blacklisted. HubPages probably should just have a "generally unreliable" label at WP:RSNP, but I don't really have the energy to take that on right now. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:01, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Warning after reverting edits
Hello, I saw that you reverted the good faith edits of an editor but forgot to leave a message on their talk page. It is extremely important to do so when the reverted edits are in good faith. Thank you --  Cosmic6811  🍁 ( T ·  C ) 19:19, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your note, I appreciate you reaching out. Our generally-accepted essay on the topic, WP:REVEXP, directs to explain reverts in edit summaries, which I do by practice and did here, unless the rationale for reverting is so complex as to require a detailed explanation on a talk page. The requirement to provide reliable sources for new and especially for contentious information is one of Wikipedia's best-known fundamental policies so I don't think that any additional explanation is necessary, but I could have linked to the guideline.
 * In this case in particular, I have reason to believe that this is not a new editor and that the edits were not in good faith, but rather a returning user pushing a non-neutral point of view with information that has no source, so I spent much less time trying to explain things than I might have for a newly-created account. As personal practice I do normally leave a notice like the one you left for the IP editor when a new account makes this kind of mistake.
 * Cheers -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:19, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh ok --  Cosmic6811  🍁 ( T ·  C ) 00:36, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

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HumilatedGoan‎
Hi, I've noticed you editing the above user's Talk page. Have you looked at Sockpuppet investigations/BlueFreee? Depending on the results, a check might obviate an appeal. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:57, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I hadn't seen that, no. I'm in the middle of transferring their appeal to ARCA but I'll take a look at that first. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:59, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:35, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Blame the spript
Definitely a malfunction, not user error in any way... Girth Summit  (blether) 16:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

The sincerest form of flattery
I'm assuming this wasn't you creating an alt: User:.lvanvector. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:16, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Nope, not me, thanks for acting on it. All my alts are listed on my user page, along with a note saying any other account claiming to be me should be blocked immediately. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:49, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Deletion review for Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Chaseline
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Chaseline. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Liz Read! Talk! 23:15, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

oops
sorry for the rollback, finger slipped Drowssap SMM  ( talk ) (contributions) 15:07, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * No problem, it happens. I have to apologize for one about once a week. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:52, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Shaheen Sayyed
I hope this warning wasn't intended for me? The first speedy nomination was by User:Liz, and the second was by an anon editor in India, who also posted here about it. Wikishovel (talk) 15:05, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * it was a general note, not intended for you specifically. I'm pretty sure that the IP is the page creator editing logged out (I have not checked and wouldn't be allowed to confirm anyway), and was trying to revert Liz adding the tag but didn't see that Ritchie333 already removed it, so they restored it inadvertently. Anyway, I've come across this behaviour especially from AFC reviewers where if one speedy criterion is declined then they try a different one, or just repost the same one and hope a different administrator sees it, and that's not how speedy deletion is supposed to work. You were obviously not doing that.
 * Given how this sockmaster seems intent on repeatedly recreating the same articles (they're very likely being paid to create them) I think it's worthwhile for the subjects to be reviewed at AFD and deemed non-notable, then if anyone else recreates them they're eligible for G4 deletion even if the subject tries to hire someone else to write their bio. Sort of killing two birds with one stone. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:18, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Slovak Slovenia


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MY RESPONSE
Please go through my response. I strongly suggest WP:VERIFY for edits made Sutyarashi and one good reason from him as to why exactly he is misquoting Angluish on pages like Sultanate of Swat, Shilmani, Swati tribe, even Shahmiri dynasty and Pashtunization process.I would be one of many he has reported to be blocked and passing derogatory remarks on authors like Raverty, and others while seems okay with Rajatarangini which under Wikipedia policy is also Primary Source. Azmarai76 (talk) 18:55, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

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Are you supporting RAJ times references
I see you have reverted changes proposed by Sutyarashi to you. Is Leitner not RAJ times source??? That you want to stay at Dardic languages page. Azmarai76 (talk) 09:33, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Please you can check this suppected sock?
@Ivanvector, Uzer:Parihar Piyush was blocked 18 days ago by Vanjagenije as a sock of Master Pranay Chopde now he came back again with new account Uzer:Sanjay Thakur Pawar

1__Piyush Parihar edit page Mahalakadeva at 14th November (| 2) and Sanjay Thakur Pawar edited same page 8 hours ago see (| 3]) both accounts also made edits on page Powari language see (| 4/ | 5) even further both accounts made edits at page Bhoyari see (| 6 \| 7) 2404:3100:189F:93F4:1:0:4A7F:4B94 (talk) 22:31, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Please, make a report at WP:SPI. Thanks!  Vanjagenije  (talk)  12:55, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * History of Iran, hello please you can make a request at WP:SPI as I don't know how to make such requests.? Please all the similarities are mentioned even other blocked sock related to master Pranay Chopde also make edits to the same pages with same edit behavior and sumaries. 223.123.9.99 (talk) 19:20, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

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Sockpuppet investigations/Pirjhando
Hi Ivanvector. Hope you are doing well. There is a SPA with COI on Sayyid Ihsanullah Shah Rashdi and Badi' ud-Din Shah al-Rashidi. Both are in AfD. Can you please look into this on priority as most of the translations on the AfD seem to rely solely on their input/word and they have denied COI. I had a discussion with Vanamonde93 here regarding the same. Thank you. Jeraxmoira (talk) 19:01, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look this evening if nobody gets to it before me, but my laptop battery is about to run out and I don't have the charger with me. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:04, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries, please take your time. Your help is appreciated whenever you're able to look into it. Thanks again! <3 Jeraxmoira (talk) 19:07, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

How should we deal with this?
Hi Ivanvector! I want to bring this to your attention that there is a very explicit case of meat-puppetry going on with regards to Bangladesh liberation war-related articles. posted a thread on reddit 3 days ago to recruit editors to edit the articles and join talk page discussions to support him in his POV disputes, especially on Bangladesh genocide and Rape during Bangladesh liberation war. Also see this comment by him on that thread. As he got blocked for edit warring yesterday, the meat-puppets began to continue the disruptions on his behalf. One of them admitted being recruited from that thread and also said there are other forums where they are trying such recruitments. I posted notices about this meat-puppetry on article talk pages affected but now those meats are even removing those notices from the talk pages. I'm refraining from reverting them as you earlier warned me of edit-warring but I think this now requires administrative action, especially since Wiki.arfazhxss will be soon returning from his block and will rally these meats to cause such disruptions on a bigger scale.

As a disclaimer, I'm not involved in any content dispute with Wiki.arfazhxss although I did report him at WP:ANEW and at WP:SPI.

Also pinging who has witnessed some of their recent disruptions. LucrativeOffer (talk) 01:42, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

SPI
Is it possible to run another check-user over
 * Sockpuppet investigations/გიორგი172 --Kansas Bear (talk) 18:29, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

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MrGreen1163's SPI
Hi Ivanvector, why did you close the SPI without the necessary scrutiny of the evidence that I spent my time marshalling for my legitimate suspicions that throwaway accounts were being abused for aiding the efforts of the suspected sockmaster. I have no idea why Abhishek0831996 butted in and have had very little interactions with them, if any, and have had no clue that Aman.kumar.goel was blocked or had reported this user before. They didn't do a crime though. How do you justify implying that reporting throwaway] accounts like this was me weaponizing the SPI? Not only have you closed the SPI without considering the evidence but with essentially bad faith observations about me and others that I take exception to. And what's with your offhand use of loaded expressions like "political opponents", like what do you even imply I am doing here for all these years? MBlaze Lightning (talk) 17:49, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I empathize with the time you probably spent compiling your evidence, but it amounts to many accounts holding a common POV in a long-running geopolitical dispute with deep nationalist bias on all sides of it. It's simply not convincing evidence of sockpuppetry. We're talking about a country with a population of over 230 million with a diaspora estimated at another 10 million (the world's 6th largest), and a conflict that is deeply personal for literally billions; it's simply expected that many editors will hold this POV. These investigation requests amount to little more than demands to preemptively interrogate every Pakistani editor, and no we will not do that. It would be rather simple to apply your same logic against the influx of editors arguing for "Indian victory" at Talk:Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948, and you're not all sockpuppets, are you? It's the "Indian editors interested in cricket" argument in a different form.
 * As for not knowing about the other editors, I don't really believe you; the editor interaction tool strongly suggests otherwise. There has been a pattern for many years in these India-Pakistan disputes that an editor on one side reports an editor on the other side that they're in a dispute with at SPI, and when that investigation turns up nothing then a different editor reports the other editor again but under a different case, and that goes on and on until a clerk familiar with the pattern shuts it down. The fact that Aman.kumar.goel reported MrGreen1163 and that investigation was closed, and then you reported MrGreen1163 again anyway, is more of that same pattern. And that's why I'm telling you again that SPI will not be used as a substitute for dispute resolution: spend your energy discussing with your opponents, rather than just trying to get rid of them. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:53, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Ivanvector, I am baffled by your response and your audacity to double down with your thoughtless insinuations and aspersions. No, I have no business watching people to see who is doing what. Neither you have any business demeaning me at places remarking that I am proxying for a blocked user. I filed this SPI report much before Aman.kumar.goel was even blocked. The accounts I reported have not the slightest relation with the accounts Aman.kumar.goel reported in his report with the exception of MrGreen1163, with whom I am not engaged in any active content dispute. When a throwaway account with a handful of edits is used to revert my reversion of the other person's reversion of a contested edit on an obscure page, I have every right to suspect the bona fides of the involved user and the grounds to investigate further. When I furnished detailed evidence that lead me to a conclusion for an objective evaluation, what gives you the privilege to cast aspersions on my bona fides in lieu of looking at what has been presented in its own merit? If the evidence is so flimsy, why has the first of the suspected socks been already CU blocked independent of my report? These accounts, in their fleeting history, have aided one other on topics I haven't had a clue existed in my 8 years of editing in this rarefied India-Pakistan topic area. Your generic "oh, it's a country of xxx million people who all collectively obsess about same things on the same platform and at the same places and at the same time" besides not having a tinge of basis to it, fails to show understanding or appreciation of the fact that these newly created accounts together with the suspected master are the only ones active on these recondite pages Battle of Hussainiwala, Battle of Kaiser-e-Hind Fortress, Operation Datta Khel and 1950 Afghan invasion of Pakistan to collectively obsess about the same edits and write the same quibbles about the same things. MBlaze Lightning (talk) 08:19, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't even care about the SPI at this point, Ivanvector, but you don't get to fling mud of your own at others, and insinuate that editors in good standing are proxying for a blocked user without evidence. If you believe so strongly in such a story, I encourage you to pursue the case, failing that, redact it altogether, because I do not condone it. MBlaze Lightning (talk) 08:47, 5 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I was on my way to respond to your ping on this SPI but it has been already archived, and then I saw this discussion. As it has been already noted above, I would reiterate that the SPI was filed much before Aman.kumar.Goel was blocked thus it is already clear that no proxying happened. I am a regular at SPIs and in fact you have helped me out with one recently. I would also urge you to strike your accusation of proxying in the archived report because proxying really didnt happen. Thanks Abhishek0831996 (talk) 16:09, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Ivanvector have had a look at my request? Abhishek0831996 (talk) 16:27, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * very busy today and probably will lose power because of a passing winter storm, but I will revisit my comment in the archive as soon as I'm able. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:20, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Just discovered now that one more suspected sock (on that SPI) has been blocked for socking. Hopefully that lends some more credibility to the request made here. Abhishek0831996 (talk) 14:40, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * it doesn't. I can't say too much, but the way that checkuser works, the fact that checks were run but those accounts weren't identified is reasonably good evidence that they're not related. I didn't run the checks and haven't seen the data, but the CU who did has much more experience with the tool than I do. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:16, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Persianwise
I do not know whether you kept user:Persianwise in your wachlist after having blocked them. In any case, you will certainly be interestested in the first edit of this user after you blocked them for editing their talk page.

This and their 2024 posts at Talk:Cartesian coordinate system show clearly that this is a case of WP:NOTHERE. I suggest an indefinite block. D.Lazard (talk) 17:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Wow. Now blocked indefinitely, and I'm sure I'll have to come back later and revoke their talk page access, although I've preemptively warned them about that. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:37, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It seems like the time has come to revoke TPA. I was hoping they could be convinced that their approach would not accomplish their goals, but it seems they've doubled down on personally attacking others. Serves me right for being naïve, I guess? EducatedRedneck (talk) 15:52, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Welp. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:45, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Ivanvector Admin, please also see the request. At WP:SPI I made about sockpuppets of Rawna Praveen singh solanki . and see if they have other slipper accounts. I just pinged you because there are many queries about sock accounts, but mostly admins are not responding quickly to the SPI investigation list.2404:3100:189E:B5DC:1:0:191D:137F (talk) 01:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

WP:G10
I really don't feel like posting to the case request page again, but I read your post about speedy deletion, and I just wanted to ask one question about G10. I'm not here to debate whether the page qualified for G10. As you know, I didn't delete it on that basis (don't need to list again all the mistakes I made leading up to my deletion - still embarrassed about it as I type). Are you saying that G10 applies only to BLPs? --Bbb23 (talk) 16:26, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's my interpretation of how G10 is written as it seems to be entirely framed around negative biographical information, but I see it also links to Attack page which describes attacks concerning non-living entities, so I might be interpreting it too narrowly. I'll revise my comments at ARC. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:41, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, my interpretation has always been that it's mostly used with BLPs, next with non-BLPs, and last with organizations. The title of it is "Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate, or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose" - note the word "entity", but the text doesn't mention entities except by implication with . The fuller explanation at "Attack page" does a better job. In my view, the text of G10 should be clarified, but CSD is a touchy place, so I'm not about to do it.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I might write something there, but I'm also feeling like I'm getting involved in too many disputes lately. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:07, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

The ping thing
Sorry about the pinging & your request shall be respected. If I hadn't pinged you there, I might've been accused of selective pinging. GoodDay (talk) 19:35, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Understood, I assumed you were pinging everyone. No disrespect intended, I just think I should avoid that discussion. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:15, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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Redirects after page moves
Hello, Ivanvector,

Please consider leaving a redirect when you move an article, especially a long-standing article. This is particularly important when you are correcting a bad page move. If you look at User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects, you can see all of the broken redirects left behind when you moved Shaykh (honorific) to Sheikh and didn't leave a redirect. The way the bots work on this issue is that if an article is moved, the bots quickly change all of the redirects to point to new, bad article title. If you don't leave a redirect behind when you move the article back, then the bots can't return the redirects to point to the correct article title and they show up as broken redirects and are frequently deleted. But if you leave a redirect, then the bots can restore the original redirects as they were before the page move. I have created redirects from the article page and talk page so the bots can fix the redirects.

I go over this problem with most of the page movers here who, for some reason, do not like to leave a redirect behind when they move articles. But the urge to do this is very strong if the move was the result of vandalism which they just want to erase including the bad article page. But it's better to leave a redirect which can, after the bots act, be deleted. Alternatively, if you want to take the time, an editor, page mover or admin can correct all of the broken redirects themselves but it's typically easier to let the bots handle that task.

Thank you for all of the work you do here! It's appreciated. Liz Read! Talk! 17:55, 8 February 2024 (UTC)


 * This goes for Talk:Al-Fatawa al-Alamgiriyya, too. Liz Read! Talk! 17:58, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! I realized that was happening partway through what I was working on, and I thought I went back and recreated all the ones I had deleted but I guess I missed some. Thanks for following up. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:38, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by and, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
 * Proposal 5, initiated by, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
 * Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
 * Proposal 7, initiated by, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
 * Proposal 9b, initiated by, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
 * Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by, , and , respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
 * Proposal 13, initiated by, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
 * Proposal 14, initiated by, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
 * Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by and, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
 * Proposal 16e, initiated by, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
 * Proposal 17, initiated by, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
 * Proposal 18, initiated by, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
 * Proposal 24, initiated by, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
 * Proposal 25, initiated by, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
 * Proposal 27, initiated by, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
 * Proposal 28, initiated by, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

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Spicybiryani SPI
I had my suspicion since 2023, when this editor made edit request to change the "strenght" of Indian forces on Talk:Bangladesh Liberation War, just like his previous sock Cipher21, but I simply waited for more evidence. I wanted to file the SPI on 8 February, given how this user is alone and desperate about adding "India" as "alleged" role on infobox, like his earlier sock. But then again, I felt I should wait more because you have already closed the similar SPI citing the block of the OP. Now this editor has provided yet another striking evidence on here which matches up with his earlier edits made here for limiting casualties figures to "1500".

Can you allow me to file an SPI? IMO, the above evidence together with what was already provided on the last SPI and "PossiLikely" CU finding in December are enough for a block. Orientls (talk) 08:39, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello, can you consider replying to the above message? I don't find any doubt over sock puppetry charge. His earlier socks also came up as "PossiLikely". Thanks. Orientls (talk) 07:58, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi . If I've given you the impression that you need my permission to file then I've done something wrong, you don't need to ask me, and besides I couldn't possibly keep up with the requests if I did think I could impose this sort of rule. I am critical of SPI reports where the filer is clearly attacking a political opponent and doesn't have any real evidence, but I think you have a better case here. But I don't think checkuser will be useful now, and I don't have much free time right now, so you should go ahead and file the report I think. Along with your evidence you can mention that the account was created 10 days after the previous confirmed sock was blocked, and if you can find any evidence of the new account picking up arguments that older accounts left off, those are useful things to put in a report. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:36, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

About article Harbin
Hi! If you translate this website this website with Google Translation, You will find a sentence that says: "Harbin" comes from the Jurchen language "Harwen", which means "swan". This is different from the "Place of Drying Fishing Nets" statement introduced by English Wikipedia. I wonder if I can add it to the article?-- 邻家的王子 (talk) 17:46, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Blocked???
HEY UMM...? I AM SHOWING IM BLOCKED FORM SETTING UP AN ACCOUNT ON HERE AN IT LINKS TOUR INFO AS THA BLOCKING "ADMIN"? IVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING MORE THAN READ AN DOWNLOAD PDF'S SO UMMM....? WHAT GIVES? LOL CAN THIS BE CORRECTED? ID APPRECIATE IT IF YOU COULD GET BACK TO ME WHEN YOUR ABLE THANKS!!! ReCkLeSs1989 (talk) 20:26, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. You do seem to be able to create an account since you are editing from one. If you are trying to create additional accounts and running into a block, unfortunately I can't tell which block is causing that problem. The error message you see should have instructions for what you can do next, either posting a message with technical information that will help us locate the problem, or how you can request an account be created for you. But before you do anything, please familiarize yourself with our policy on the use of multiple accounts. Thank you. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:52, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia App says you blocked this IP, but no log on it?
When I use the Wikipedia app to edit now, it says you blocked this IP for "Trolling; obviously not here to contribute to the encyclopedia", with an expiry of January 26, 2025. However when I use a desktop, as I am while typing this, there is no block notice, and I have no message about this. Can you please clarify? 198.48.143.196 (talk) 05:19, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi . I can't verify, but most likely the device you're using the app on and your desktop computer are connected to different networks, so each would have a different IP address, and only the IP of your app device is blocked. I can't see what the blocked IP is, though. You're free to edit from this connection, but if you see the error on your app again and would like to resolve it, then make an unblock request on your user talk page while still using the app. I don't use the app myself so I'm not sure where to look for that. Please see the guide to appealing blocks (especially the section on shared IP blocks), and use the unblock template (unblock) to make your request; your "reason" can be something simple like "I am affected by an anonymous IP block", and you don't have to try to explain "what you did wrong" like the instructions say.
 * Alternatively, if you have (or create) an account you can request IP block exemption, but we can only apply that to accounts, not to logged-out editors. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:07, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Super Hylos
A few articles you G5ed were at AFD - see e.g Articles for deletion/Yannik Taniwel and Articles for deletion/Julius Sohilait. Please can you close accordingly? GiantSnowman 13:33, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅. I can't easily see if there are any others, but let me know if there are more, or go ahead and close them similarly. Cheers. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:36, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks for the speedy response. GiantSnowman 13:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Blocked
Hi Ivanvector, I got a notice that I have been blocked from making any further edits by you. I have been a Wikipedia user for almost 15 years and now I would like to contribute when I can towards topics I am knowledgeable of. Yesterday I began work on what would be my first page. Upon working a little bit on the page I gave it a break and thought I'd save it, it appears I in fact probably tried to publish it. At the time I didn't realize that would send it out to be checked over, I just didn't want the little I had done to be erased. I hope the block can be lifted, I will indeed further detail the page I was working on and include more references and information. This is all very new to me but everyone has to start somewhere and I really would like to continue this in the future. Maybe you could even give me a tip or two on how to correctly go about and improve my method. Thanks and I hope we can come to an understanding. -Sorger740 Sorger740 (talk) 05:05, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi . Your account is not blocked, and as far as I can tell there are no IP blocks that should be affecting you. It could be that you were editing from a different connection when you saw the block message, but I would need some more information to look that up. As long as you're able to edit with this account then you should be fine, but if you see a message about being blocked again then it should also have instructions for how to appeal, or how to contact administrators if it's a dynamic IP or open proxy block.
 * I can see that you created the draft Draft:Brigitte Calls Me Baby, and it looks like you did submit it for review even if you didn't mean to, and another user has provided some feedback on how to improve the draft so that it might be accepted. We generally don't delete drafts unless they're abandoned for at least six months, so it's still there for you to work on if you'd like to.
 * Getting an article on a band accepted is a bit of a challenge, because new editors often submit promotional articles on small bands that they're affiliated with, and Wikipedia does not accept advertising. We have high standards for notability for bands; you can see the general criteria here. In order to be accepted your draft will need to demonstrate, through citations to reliable sources, that the band meets our criteria.
 * I hope that helps some. Good luck and happy editing! Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:46, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the response I will check into it then, maybe I was mistaken. I am not affiliated with the band at all, but I am knowledgeable about them amongst other bands and topics I plan to write about. Aside from good references and good writing are there any specific ways to have a better chance to be accepted as a new Wikipedia contributor? Thanks again Sorger740 (talk) 18:36, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

A cup of joe with my appreciation

 * Thank you! But almost none of those words are mine. The WP:CAPITULATE essay was shown to me by another editor in a discussion only a few months ago. I do think it's good advice for a lot of editors, though. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:47, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Nauman335
re this note As an admin duck blocking, can I close the request? I thought that had to wait for a clerk and/or CU. Happy to help with that backlog if I can do so. Thanks for flagging. Star  Mississippi  02:13, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi . No, I misspoke. You can pretty much go ahead and do anything that needs to be done administratively in a case (adding evidence, blocking users, etc.) but you probably should leave it to a clerk to actually change the status flag. There are sometimes non-obvious things that need to be done. Thanks for your help anyway! Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:22, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * No worries, thanks for clarifying! Have a good day. Star   Mississippi  03:03, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Query
Hello, Ivanvector,

I was looking into the situation with DIVINE that happened earlier today. I noticed some peculiar behavior at an AFD that seemed off but I didn't think it would end up as it did. Any way, in their talk page comments they mentioned SWAPD and I didn't know what that was. So, I did a search, found out it was a marketplace of some sorts and when I did a search for Wikipedia, I found this listing and then there was this. There were a few more. Maybe this kind of thing is well-known in functionary circles but this was new to me. Of course, there is no proof that these posts are being honest and are accurate. It's just so strange when editors you've come to know from working with just kind of implode like that. Liz Read! Talk! 05:47, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I just digested the entire AN thread about this, which I hadn't seen when I posted this, and my observations now seem pretty petty in comparison with Usedtobecool's claims. But I'll leave my message here in case it is useful. Liz Read! Talk! 06:58, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

About the edit war on the article of White Mexicans
Greetings Ivanvector, I write to you as an attempt to get a second opinion regarding my partial block on articles such as White Mexicans, the message on my talk page reads "During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection..." During the course of the dispute I did try to discuss as can be seen in the talk page, is the other editor who refused to discuss his changes. Besides that I invited the opposed editor(s) to discuss multiple times and I also requested page protection, on top of this all I have to remark that I wasn't the one seeking to perform controversial changes but the one trying to keep the article on a stable/middlegroung version (as can be seen in the article's history, I'm not the only editor reverting Analyticalreview). If I have reverted, it has been because the other editor(s) have been completely, deliberately irresponsive to Wikipedia's guidelines and they have left me with no other choice. To finish this message, after all this there's another sock account reverting without discussing anything already and I say that it is a sockpuppet/puppeter because one cannot get more obvious than this, with the later account being already blocked (You may also find that the arguments the blocked sock uses are almost identical to those Analyticalreview and Uruguayan989 have been using in the last weeks). As I told to another administrator (Daniel Case) two days ago, the guy just switches accounts as if it was nothing. Pob3qu3 (talk) 22:54, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * right above the warning you quoted it reads, in bold, "Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; Do not edit war even if you believe you are right." The page had already been protected because you were edit warring, and the very first edit after that protection expired was you restoring the content that led to the page being protected. You have also been edit warring on the same topic on other articles. So, rather than protecting multiple pages and making it so that nobody can edit them because of one or two editors' behaviour, I have instead blocked the editors most responsible from editing them. You can continue participating in the talk page discussion and working towards consensus. Also, please stop accusing everyone who doesn't agree with you of being a sockpuppet. If you keep that up you may be blocked from editing sitewide, and then you would not be able to participate at all. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:11, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Request for deletion of a redirect page which is not even a require
Greetings @Ivanvector, i would like to draw your attention at the Ahmedabad Titans page which is redirected to a Gujarat Titans, which is a team in IPL. To keep Ahmedabad Titans page doesnt make sense because the team were never been called by ahmedabad titans as such or it is never been used by that name. So if it is right to raise a deletion of this page or not, wants your view on this? If yes, could you please raise the deletion request for that? Curious man123 (talk) 09:52, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

A head's up
Hello, Ivanvector,

I just came across four Draft talk pages from drafts you deleted earlier today. If you use Twinkle>CSD>Pick appropriate criteria, then Twinkle will delete not only the draft article but also the talk page along with any redirects that exist. It's not just you, by the way, it seems like there are several admins who periodically forget to delete the Talk pages when they delete the Article page. Hence, I'm posting this reminder in case you delete pages manually instead of using editing tools like Twinkle. Thanks very much! Liz Read! Talk! 19:10, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! I think that's actually from the CSD Helper script from User:Ale_jrb/Scripts. I might need to look at the configuration options, but it seems to get confused about talk pages. Sometimes it notifies me to delete a talk page that already doesn't exist, and other times it doesn't notify me at all, and then whatever happens it boots me back to CAT:CSD so then I have to go through my contrib history to follow up. I should probably just use Twinkle. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:15, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion under A7
I have created a page hours ago about a terrorist who has become active recently after 10 years. Therefore I created a page giving citation from three independent and famous news websites in our country. He has become active in the social media and asking for violence to his followers passively. So I felt there should be a page under his name so that people who don't know him should know his past.

I wrote nothing negative. Just wrote some neutral sentences with citing news articles, and thought of adding some more after sleep.

The page was deleted due to a speedy deletion under A7 tag. I was asleep so I couldn't challenge it. By visiting his talk page, it seemed to me that the person who placed the tag has a record of removing contents that lead to Islamic State.

What do you suggest? Kawrno Baba (talk) 05:58, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

My first contribution blocked
I added quotes from Kristen Clarke, Head of the USDOJ Civil Rights Division, to her page. The quotes were double sourced. Why was my contribution blocked? UndergroundVeritas (talk) 21:59, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * was this you? If so, the quote was removed because we don't publish novel analysis, such as giving your personal opinion of a person's political views based only on something they said on Twitter. Content on Wikipedia is required to adhere to a neutral point of view, which is almost always incompatible with "setting the record straight". We cannot publish our own personal conclusions, we can only repeat conclusions made by independent reliable sources, and only in a way which reflects a balanced view of the subject. If you have such a source you could discuss including it on the article's talk page. If you were talking about something else, you'll have to be more specific. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 22:17, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
Hi there! Phase I of the Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
 * Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
 * Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
 * Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
 * Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
 * Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
 * Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
 * Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

Blocked IP Address
Hello User:Ivanvector !!! Hope you will be Fine !!!

I Joined Wikipedia on 07 May 2024 and I'm able to edit Live Articles, draft articles, adding Images Tags but When i edit or add Image Captions, i got a warning that I'm blocked from editing or adding Images captions. Please fix this issue because I'm able to edit everything except adding Images captions. Please unblock my IP or any other issue. Thank you... SoryThank (talk) 10:25, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * This editor is a sockpuppet of Sockpuppet investigations/Nauman335. Blocked and tagged. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:05, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Why decided to remove my comment?
Why you had decided to remove my comment instead of keep it as a warning or remove the entire post? user in question likely had done that post with the intention of posion the well and disrupt the discussion for his favor, his edit history seems to point to it as well Meganinja202 (talk) 16:57, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * There are already plenty of warnings from multiple administrators on that page that personal attacks will not be tolerated. The tone of discussion on that talk page is already quite poor, and it's certainly not helped by comments like yours accusing other editors of having nefarious motives. Our policy is to assume good faith rather than immediately assuming that a question has bad intent, and if you don't have anything constructive to say in response then you are free to not say anything at all. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:03, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Yasuke edit
Hello Ivanvector, as a IP i am not able to talk on the talk-page, but i would like to bring to your attention some of the problems on your decision to ignore the sources situation in the article about Yasuke.... It should be mentioned, that the Huffington-article actual used quoted from Luís Fróis

in the quote: ＜巡察師（ヴァリニャーノのこと）が信長に送った黒人奴隷が、信長の死後、息子の家に行き、相当長い間、戦っていたところ、明智の家臣が近づいて「恐れることなくその刀を差し出せ」といったので、刀を渡した. 家臣は、この黒人奴隷をどのように処分すべきか明智に尋ねたところ、「黒人奴隷は動物で何も知らず、また日本人でないため殺すのはやめて、インドのパードレ（司祭）の聖堂に置け」と言った＞

Yasuke is refereed only as a slave prior and after the death of Oda and he was only spared from death, because of his slave-status, comparing him to an animal by Mitsuhide. 「皮膚の色こそ異なるものの、若干言葉を解し、最後まで主人への忠誠を果たした従者を殺すのは忍びないと光秀が思ったとしても不思議ではない」 This part is already mentioned on the page, but it ignores the problem, that it is unlikely to happen, that Mitsuhide would have called a noble samurai retainer of Oda, known by him prior to the assimilation of Oda, just an animal.....he was not killed like a samurai, he was send back to his former owner, the missioner Fróis. Other samurais were killed by Mitsuhide in this incident and Yasuke was even violent in his capture.

In an earlier quote, he is not even the subject of talk and the quote is once again just highlighting, that Oda surrounded himself with black people, given by missionaries to him and he gave them various things. This includes a Tanto, not a katana and this was often misleading used to claim, that Yasuke would have owned swords, but it is just a dagger. Even women wore daggers, who were more specific named Kaiken and to quote the English article about this blade. The kaiken was also carried concealed in its shirasaya by the lower classes who were not permitted to wear swords, [...] Such a dagger is explicit to have a defensive weapon as a person, who was not allowed to carry a sword, like a warrior. Oda gave in this primary source a dagger to a black person, because he was not a samurai. And the whole quote is not mentioning Yasuke as the actual person, who got this dagger and other black people were mentioned to exist.

On a different paragraph it was once again highlighted, that the missionary gave these people as servants to Oda and the article itself calls explicit Yasuke a warrior 武士. Not a samurai. the differentiation is even highlighted once again here on Wikipedia. In Japanese, historical warriors are usually referred to as bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]), meaning 'warrior', however, historical sources make it clear that bushi and samurai were distinct concepts, with the former referring to soldiers or warriors and the latter referring instead to a kind of hereditary nobility. with direct links to the famous Nippo Jisho written in the time, when Yasuke was present in Japan.

This was already highlighted on the talkpage to be the case and not followed by any critic against this argument on 15:18, 17 May 2024 (UTC) by Hexenakte (At the end of the consolidation of threads discussing Yasuke's samurai description). Yasuke was certainly not part of the nobility of Japan and thereby was simply unable to be a samurai at these times and was at best only a warrior. The other source calling him only a servant and slave is still ignored on his page and should probably be added with this source, you deleated. https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/yasuke_jp_609347f7e4b09cce6c26a9b2

Additional i want to add, that even the source 13, used to claim, that Yasuke is suppose to be a retainer of Oda still openly calls Yasuke a slave over the whole article, like そもそも奴隷だった弥助がデスマスクというものを知っていたのか？ (Did Yasuke, who was a slave, even know what a death mask was in the first place?) on the second page. Later the article even speculates, that he served once again under a different samurai. This wouldn't be possible, if he would be a samurai himself. In other parts of the source Yasuke is called a servant of Oda and not a retainer, so this source is simply used to claim, that there would be effidence, that he was a retainer, while the article is not directly stating this and makes arguments, who wouldn't allow him to be a retainer or just warrior in the first place. There are 2 sources (4 and 13) to prove, that he would be a retainer or samurai, but both articles are about entertainment movies, who present Yasuke in these shows as retainer or samurai. They don't talk about the historic figure in these paragraphs at the start and later they call him in historic content a slave.

I hope, you understand, that i had to inform you about these clearly problematic sources for specific-claims about Yasuke, who mixed fictional works with history in the article and the lack of honouring the clearly repeatedly historical claimed slave-status of Yasuke in the primary sources about him, who are partly already used in the article, but erased from his documented life in Japan. --2003:DF:A72F:9F00:B429:CF64:4762:BB8 (talk) 18:53, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Your characterization of my removal of the inappropriate disclaimer as "ignoring the sources" is incorrect. I removed that text only because it was inappropriate to have added it in that section, and neither of the sources provided seemed to support the conclusion. The article as it is now does not call Yasuke samurai other than in the context of fictional depictions where he was depicted as samurai, and Wikipedia articles are meant to present facts as they are, not to tell readers which facts are more important, nor how they should be interpreted, nor does Wikipedia take sides in controversial subjects. In short, writing in a note like "by the way, he wasn't samurai" is completely irrelevant in an article that doesn't call him samurai in the first place. It would be like adding a note at the top of Barack Obama saying "just so you know, he wasn't born in Kenya". You can see MOS:NOTETHAT for our style guide on these kinds of "leading" statements.
 * Besides this, I think it's important for you (and all editors involved in this) to understand that Wikipedia does not publish original research. Above you've made the common error of stating a few sources' conclusions correctly but then combining them into a new conclusion that none of the sources actually state. That is called synthesis and is a form of original research, which we cannot publish. In order to publish a conclusion like "Yasuke was not samurai because Oda gave him a dagger", we need a reference to a source which says that exactly, not two sources which say part of it.
 * Otherwise, the only opinion I've given on the samurai matter has been that the discussions should be in one place instead of spread across many different pages and threads. I am trying to keep to the role of neutral moderator, and so from my perspective there's nothing for me to do other than to monitor discussions, remove the occasional disruptive editor, and implement edit requests when consensus is formed on the talk page. You can participate in that discussion when the protection expires, but I am not interested in starting another discussion here. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:40, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh, than i am sorry about this characterization, because my intention were different and i believed the source would be deleated from the whole article, this was wrong, but i would like to highlight once again, that the original research part is already a huge thing over large areas of the article and this synthesis is gets ignored, while other synthesis contrary to this view will not get removed. We are there on the same page. If we cant write, that huge parts of his live made no sense, if he was a samurai, we cant make other claims on the site, that imply, that he would be a samurai, to make these claims work.
 * The Birth and early life and Documented life in Japan sections is filled with this problem to evade certain sources in articles, because it would mean to talk about Yasuke clearly sourced rank as a slave in Japan to allow to speculate about a potential higher rank of Yasuke in Japan, like the samurai-rank in other sections.
 * Both sections try to exclude the clear references of Yasuke as a slave even in quotes from the same Japanese articles used in our wikipedia article, explicit quoting the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, who is mentioned in the article and even quoted, but it is deliberated paragraphed to evade this term slave in quotes in his work.
 * The quote ＜信長も黒人奴隷を見ることを望んでいたため、宣教師のオルガンティノが連れていったところ、信長はその色が生まれつきで、後から塗ったものでないことを信じようとせず、帯から上の着物を脱がせた＞ von Fróis in the article is thereby ignored.
 * The quote 明智光秀の「黒人奴隷は動物で何も知らず」という説明は、あまりにも人種差別的だ. is ignored.
 * The quote フロイスは「黒人奴隷は少し日本語が分かったので、信長は彼と話して飽きることがなかった. is ignored.
 * the highlighted part calls him a black slave and these are only the quoted in one article found in a short search.
 * Additional i want to highlight once again, that source 3 and 4 and 18 is often used to prove in a manner of original research, that he would be a retainer ignoring these quotes, who call him a slave in the same article, because they put the article into google-translate and cherry-pick or by ignoring the context of the words in the article: The article, used the term 仕えた to describe him as a "retainer" for google translate, but 仕えた means in Japanese just serving (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/japanese-english/%E4%BB%95%E3%81%88%E3%82%8B) and would describe him as a servant. Not every common servant of Oda was his retainer. Only the samurai by their given rank were named retainers, while they served him.
 * In source 18 he is called 家臣, a vassal, who again would only be a retainer as a vassal, if Yasuke already possess this rank of samurai. Not every vassal was as a retainer.
 * The claim, that Oda made him a retainer by these sources, is not correct and already expects Yasuke to be a samurai to make these terms work in Japanese, while these articles wont call him a samurai. It is a synthesis, or not?
 * Would it be possible to at least copy and post these 2 problems onto the talk-page for me, as i am not able to contribute to the talk page, but my points are reasonable to ask for a consensus on these 2 matters onto the talk-page, that some terms in the article still imply, that he would be a samurai=> retainer, and that the article is clearly avoiding quotes of a major source of his live, who clearly define him over his whole documented life in Japan only as a slave multiple times in different articles used by Wikipedia already and often used by the writers of these articles too.
 * Before the protection expired, the talk-page should come to a form of conclusion on these vital parts. I don't want to create more drama directly after the protection expired, that would only lead to an expansion of the protection.
 * --2003:DF:A72F:9F00:41AB:29B5:56F0:5FF3 (talk) 23:01, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Closure of discussion
Thank you for closing the discussion. Can you tie it off on this notice board as you have done the close.

PicturePerfect666 (talk) 14:05, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅, although I marked the wrong discussion closed initially. Thanks for the reminder. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:27, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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