User talk:King of Hearts/Archive/2014/04

Dear King of Hearts
I truly appreciate that at least this part of witch-hunt is over. I'm being bashed on another incident that was caused by my adding of one-sided links to fashion sites I love. I apologized there but also argued in a nice way, why I believe the links must be on Wikipedia. I love fashion more than anything in the world and I love to share my passion with other users. In this case I probably shared to much, but I thought that after the links to FMD (the site in question) made of half of the references in the profiles, it should be legit to offer the wiki-user a more specific and neutral profile about a designer/model or whatever. Now imagine, you love a couple of websites like crazy - I for example spend a lof of time on style.com, models.com and of course FMD, and because you are so much into this, you want to provide the users much more information about a designer like Dries van Noten (like in my example in the defense linked above), and you link it of course. I linked it because on FMD you have besides much more biographical information also an image of him, but also over 600 fashion works of him. Isn't this a good reason to link to it (and the links are in compliance with WP:EL and RS). The most terrible thing is actually, that they are now talking about punishing a fashion database - which besides has delivered Wikipedia so much information - just because of my behaviour. This is pure injustice. Sorry for flooding you with my concern, but you were the first to something good to me in proving that I am not a sockpuppet (this was part of the withc-hunt that came from there), and I would truly appreciated if you could have a look at the issue there. ► robomod 15:20, 2 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I also wanted to add that after reading the talk's page of user Vituzzu, who is an official Wikipedia administrator and also the accuser of me being a spambot/spammer, the language he is using there, especially the Italian , is so much below a serious and educated (he is calling users dickheads and other real bad things!), that I would love to file a complaint on a superiors Wikipedia-entity. Could you guide me to a website that allows the de-administration of users? I couldn't find one so far. ► robomod  15:26, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Doctornickel
Hi, Your Majesty. I re-opened the Doctornickel thread that you had closed ("Boomerang"), because I'd discovered it was a sock and have indeffed the account accordingly. Anybody can re-close it, but maybe you'd like the honour? Bishonen &#124; talk 23:34, 4 April 2014 (UTC).
 * ✅ -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:39, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

sockspuppets
Thank you for you help in banning the sockpuppets and the user who made the sockpuppets that affected the ufo phil page.172.56.17.16 (talk) 08:33, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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Where has it moved to?
Morning I wish to ask where the content of the latest enquire has gone to? ie dated March 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/FanforClarl I have looked at the notes and it suggests it was moved to here but that is not the case since it wasnt; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/FanforClarl/Archive Fanforclarl so where has the details been moved to? Thanks --Crazyseiko (talk) 12:58, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Detroit Joseph
Could you have another quick look at this please? I've added diffs. The question isn't whether they are sockpuppets (they pretty much admit as much, and both accounts were created the day after the master was topic banned from the subject), but whether a CU would be useful to see if there are any more. Black Kite (talk) 22:10, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah; it's just that CU's tend to be pretty inflexible about the diff requirement regardless of the case. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 22:13, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks for doing that. Black Kite (talk) 22:18, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

IP socks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/121.217.220.179

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/124.179.85.140

I saw this. I thought you might want to know that there is definitely IP socking by DJFryzy at chiropractic. I think the chiropractic page should be semi-protected. QuackGuru ( talk ) 19:21, 9 April 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:35, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I just remembered because of the persistent problems the status quo was semi-protection. QuackGuru  ( talk ) 02:36, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Fixed. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 02:38, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. There was another suspicious account that might be a sock. I'm not sure if it is DJFryzy or another chiropractor fan. QuackGuru  ( talk ) 02:42, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Feel free to open a new SPI, and be sure to include relevant diffs from both the master and the suspected sock. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 02:47, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Since I'm not sure on this one I will move on for now until there is hard evidence. QuackGuru  ( talk ) 02:50, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Sally Kellerman.
King of <3. Could you please assign me a mentor to assist in making the Sally Kellerman article worthy of GA consideration. I have been hard at work in gathering legit sources to provide information on her career. In addition, I did take apply the assessor's comments to the article. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avario87 (talk • contribs) 03:32, April 10, 2014‎
 * You can look on WP:GAN for users who have made many reviews. They would likely have a good understanding of how to get articles up to GA status. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:42, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

SockPuppet Investigation Immediately closed by an administrator when the accused requested him to close it- Need Immediate attention
Hi User:King of Hearts ,

I had opened a sock puppet investigation on two users Shriram and Lihaas on India General election page- Sockpuppet_investigations/Shriram. One of them suddently made a request to another Administrator ( RequestMadeHere ) to close the investigation and the page was immediately closed.

Excerpt- User:JamesBWatson, I would think canvassing around for his view is turning disruptive. (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shriram) How about a topic ban?Lihaas (talk) 14:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

The immediate closure of topic looks suspicious. Please do the necessary.

Thanks Soorejmg (talk) 15:52, 10 April 2014 (UTC)


 * KoH, please see this as well. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:07, 10 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Soorejmg has sent this message to six different administrators. See User talk:Soorejmg. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:30, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi KoH, The accused user Lihaas asked another Amdinistrator JamesBWatson to close the SockPuppet INvestigation and he immediately did that. This is supisicios. Please have a look. As the page Indian general election, 2014 is a high profile page in India now due to ongoing election, there is very high chance of paid editing in WIkipedia by political parties in a wide manner to make page look advantage for them. I would request your kind intervention in this case.

Excerpt of request made by the accesed Lihas to JamesBWatson- "User:JamesBWatson, I would think canvassing around for his view is turning disruptive. (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shriram) How about a topic ban?Lihaas (talk) 14:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)"

Thanks SoorejSoorejmg (talk) 06:06, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Sockpuppets of Techastrax
Hi, I would like to point you back to Sockpuppet investigations/Ichek where I have provided diffs as requested. The currently suspected puppets are those of Techastrax, the mastersock. It seems you have moved the mastersock to Ichek, but I would say that Techastrax is a different sock despite sharing similarities with the currently suspected socks and Ichek. The main aim of the current socks are to revert the prevailing consensus of legitimate users' concern to use PPPs instead of exchange rates on List of countries by average wage, where they seem to use hit and run guerrilla tactics with random IPs that have no edit history. Massyparcer (talk) 20:29, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * A new sock has showed up again which is an IP with no prior edit history other than emulating the mastersock. I'm starting to fear that these socks are trying to evade the system by generating random IPs..the new IP sock emulates its prior socks perfectly..I'm not sure what to do here but have updated the closed case with diffs. Massyparcer (talk) 15:45, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 64.134.231.154 has been blocked. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 22:33, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I think we need to protect the article (List of countries by average wage) from new users to allow the process of gaining a legitimate consensus take place without abuse. Otherwise, I fear that the socks will keep inventing new IPs to evade the Wikipedia system.. Massyparcer (talk) 20:28, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:47, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

The socks seem to have found a new way to evade the measures put in place..after you protected the page from new users on April 16th, a new sock was immediately created, User:Linxar75, who has gone around editing other very related pages to pretend to be "different" since he needs time to be autoconfirmed. After that time was up, he finally showed his real agenda by emulating the mastersock once again by reverting the page against consensus without any prior discussion: This was subsequently reverted by a good-faithed editor but the situation has gone even more complicated - He created a separate page titled List of countries by average wage (nominal) in an attempt to override the exiting article List of countries by average wage -. Another duplicate one titled List of countries by average wage (PPP) was created as well. I'm afraid that the situation will get out of control if we don't deal with this sock soon.. Massyparcer (talk) 08:43, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I have blocked the sock and reverted/deleted all their edits. Unfortunately, there is no good way of completely stopping sleepers from popping up. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:25, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

The IP's for E4024 haven't been blocked yet
Will they be blocked? Are we waiting for something? Étienne Dolet (talk) 18:18, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I blocked the entire range, which includes those listed IPs. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 22:30, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Can I revert all the disruptive editing the IP has caused in the AA2 topic area? After all, the master puppet is indefinitely banned from AA2. Étienne Dolet (talk) 21:24, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * As long as the edits were made after the master was blocked, feel free to revert per WP:EVADE. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:44, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

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CU request via UTRS
Hi KoH, I've responded to your CU request at UTRS. Cheers, --<b style="color:Navy;">Jezebel's</b> Ponyo <sup style="color:Navy;">bons mots 21:56, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

User:Fredin323 and User:Chessandcheckers
You recently advised User:Fredin323 and User:Chessandcheckers about WP:SHARE in closing their SPI here. However, now that User:Chessandcheckers is blocked for edit warring, User:Fredin323 is back here continuing the same edit warring and using the same language in the edit summary. Do you have any suggestions on how to handle this? Thanks, Bahooka (talk) 22:41, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I have blocked him for edit warring. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:17, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your help. Bahooka (talk) 23:18, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Less than 7 hours after this block for edit warring ended, User:Fredin323 started edit warring again with 3 quick reversions at California State University, Fresno (05:34, 24 April 2014‎; 05:50, 24 April 2014; 06:53, 24 April 2014). It seems User:Fredin323 is thumbing his/her nose at Wikipedia, but whatever the motive, would you please follow-up with the appropriate sanctions?  Thank you. Contributor321 (talk) 17:41, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, right now a lot of time has passed since the reverts, which would make a block punitive rather than preventative. Let me know if he reverts again. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 17:43, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * User:Chessandcheckers is active again right now removing content here. And now he has specifically called me racist against WP:NPA. Bahooka (talk) 19:31, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I have blocked both users for 72 hours per WP:SHARE. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 20:17, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I had set up a case on the edit warring noticeboard because I didn't know if you were on Wikipedia right now, so I will go ahead and remove that. Best, Bahooka (talk) 20:19, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

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Could you please restore the talk page history as well?
I'm referring to Talk:Hold 'Em (Windows), of course. I did mention that I would like this history restored as well in my original request. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 09:24, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 18:22, 23 April 2014 (UTC)


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Lord of Rivendell SPI
Hello,

I'd like to know whether you IP range blocked the sockpuppet IP's of Lord of Rivendell. He's coming out with new IP address almost every time he edits (example ). Thanks, Étienne Dolet (talk) 04:03, 24 April 2014 (UTC)


 * No, I did not. And it looks like too large of a range to block. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 16:41, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Sock
Hi .. you just closed as "no consensus" an AfD where (you may not have seen it; probably didn't have notice of it) in addition to the nom having been indef-blocked, one of the remaining two d !votes was by a what was (before your close) found to be a sock of the indef banned sockmaster nom. I wonder if under the circumstances you could review that -- the sock's !vote should not therefore be counted, and without it I believe the AfD should be a keep close. Tx for your consideration. --Epeefleche (talk) 04:11, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 16:46, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. Epeefleche (talk) 17:48, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jean Shafiroff
Just curious, but isn't it customary to relist AfD's at least once before closing as "no consensus?" -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:48, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * No. See WP:RELIST: That said, relisting should not be a substitute for a "no consensus" closure. If the closer feels there has been substantive debate, disparate opinions supported by policy have been expressed, and consensus has not been achieved, a no-consensus close may be preferable. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 16:48, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Aaahhh -Ad Orientem (talk) 17:00, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Blocking an editor prior to vandalism after final warning
Hello King of Hearts,

I find it very concerning that you blocked Marilena82 despite the fact that she did not vandalize after my fourth warning. On the contrary, she stopped vandalizing and apologized on my talk page. I would appreciate an explanation for your adminstrative action.

Thanks,

The  Cascadian  21:58, 25 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I must not have looked at the timestamps closely enough. I have unblocked her. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:01, 25 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Great, thanks. I removed the block template from her talk page.  The  Cascadian  01:01, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/189.189.56.162
Would you please block Special:Contributions/189.189.56.162 for three months and sockpuppet to Sockpuppet investigations/Andrewbf? It is very similar of Special:Contributions/Andrewbf. 183.171.176.174 (talk) 07:58, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Request
Can you also delete Alfredo Gonzalez (baseball player)?--Yankees10 00:25, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Charles Branham-Bailey
why did you close early? the relist had not gone 7 days. LibStar (talk) 07:22, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * A relist does not have to run the full 7-day course. As long as 7 days has passed since the original nomination and consensus is clear, the AfD can be closed. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 20:10, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome.
 * The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations.
 * CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings.
 * You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome.

Problems
 * For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load.
 * On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move.

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Aimperator and the Yardley of London article
Aimperator has resumed edit warring on the Yardley of London article by again adding uncited material to the article. Nightscream (talk) 16:07, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:38, 30 April 2014 (UTC)