User talk:Kinu

 Wishing Kinu a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman ( talk ) 20:00, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Seriously, only three days? The page gets constantly vandalised, can you please extend that duration to indef please. Govvy (talk) 21:52, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm hesitant to apply indefinite protection, but given the most recent protections over the past couple of months, I think 6 months seems like a reasonable place to start. I'll update accordingly. -- Kinu t/c 22:54, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

What is the timestamp for the YouTube video where it's mentioned where Danny Coulson mentioned Phil Coulson? CarverSindile (talk) 01:45, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean. The reference desk might be a good place to inquire about this. -- Kinu t/c 17:12, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I mean when exactly does Danny in the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ZZyHfNE7M) mention that Phil Coulson was named after him? CarverSindile (talk) 22:29, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm uncertain why you are asking me, but I do not know. -- Kinu t/c 22:47, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * According to the edit history, you added it but I could be looking at it wrong.CarverSindile (talk) 23:47, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Assuming you are referring to Danny Coulson, the only edit I have made to that article is some date fixes here. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 20:51, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Do you think you can help me find it then? CarverSindile (talk) 22:10, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I do not have the time or interest to do so. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 23:32, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

See User talk:Notsammyray. Seems to have abided by WP:SO, agrees to avoid COI problems. Says all the right things. -- Jayron <b style="color:#090">32</b> 15:12, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look and comment there. Thanks for the note. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 17:13, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi Kinu. There was no need to block. All their edits were reverts of the vandal. See for example. For that matter, I don't believe protecting the page was even necessary. It was a single vandal, from a single IP address, targeting a single page; about as straight forward as you can get. All that was need was a block on the one actual vandal IP. If the other reverting editors on that page would have just issued warnings or reported the vandal, this could have been resolved much quicker. I really don't understand why I was the only editor who bothered to issue any warnings.

Anyhow, thanks for the block to user:118.99.110.60, but please unblock. They did nothing wrong. And please consider removing the page protection. I will keep it watchlist and report back if there's any further nonsense. -- DB 1729 talk 05:46, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Ok, uhh sorry, backing up here. I didn't see this edit which although could be good-faith, except the IPs seem to geolocate to the same place and so probably the same individual. Also didn't notice there was a third IP before I had arrived on the scene, so the page protection was indeed probably a good idea. Thanks for everything, sorry for the fuss, and have great day. -- DB 1729 talk 06:04, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries! I admit I was a little confused at first myself about what was going on there, so I appreciate the second set of eyes to make sure that I did things sensibly. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 17:22, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Same thing shortly after protection expired. DB 1729 talk 01:49, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. I've reprotected. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 04:36, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you! for also applying the partial block to the range. Another good idea:) And as for my previous posts last week, it's encouraging to see admins getting it exactly right, even when at first blush, it may have looked wrong. DB 1729 talk 08:46, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Would you mind revoking the TPA of HoveringTurtle? They've made it clear they're jsut gonna keep making accusations towards others (ans since they're complaining about sockpuppetry when there is no such mention that makes me think they are a sock) ― <b style="background:#0d1125;color:#51aeff;padding:1q;border-radius:5q;">Blaze Wolf</b>Talk<sub title="Discord Username" style="margin-left:-22q;">Blaze Wolf#6545 15:19, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅. Thanks for the heads-up. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 15:22, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yep. I warned them that if they continued on like that they would lose their talk page access. They clearly ignored that. Unfortunately I don't know who the master would be so I can't exactly file an SPI report. ― <b style="background:#0d1125;color:#51aeff;padding:1q;border-radius:5q;">Blaze Wolf</b>Talk<sub title="Discord Username" style="margin-left:-22q;">Blaze Wolf#6545 15:23, 12 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Glad to help, and thank you for your diligence in reporting these accounts! -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 04:34, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello, there are some conflicts that occur in the Arabs, so I see that it should be marked with protection because it is within the Arab-Israeli conflict related page. Sarah Schneuwly -Schneider (talk) 09:38, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The article already appears to be listed as contentious per its talk page. I don't see anything particularly egregious in the recent history to warrant any sort of protection, but if you disagree, you're welcome to take it to WP:RFPP. Thanks. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 00:29, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi,

My draft that you deleted was actually meant to be in the sandbox, I am merely testing out Wikipedia's article editing functions. Could you allow me to retrieve the source code for the page? You can still delete if you want. Regards. Dwasirkaram (talk) 04:41, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I have restored the content and moved the draft to User:Dwasirkaram/Mohammed Ali. As a user subpage, there is somewhat more leeway versus the Draft namespace, so no worries. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 04:44, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. GiantSnowman 14:42, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi, you semi protected this article in 2011. I was thinking 12 years has elapsed and maybe it's time to lift protection? LibStar (talk) 02:29, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
 * My apologies... I got the initial notification about this and meant to respond, but have been busier than usual as of late, so it slipped my mind. I got a courtesy ping indicating that this was resolved via RFPP, and I hope that said resolution is satisfactory. Thank you for letting me know. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 16:04, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

I saw that you revdeleted content on an article because it was copied from Fandom. It can be undeleted because Fandom releases their text under a Creative Commons license compatible with Wikipedia. Scorpions13256 (talk) 02:09, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * True, but the content that was subject to revdel was the entirety of the script of the film, which regardless of source is still subject to copyright. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 05:18, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I didn't know that. You are right. . Scorpions13256 (talk) 18:30, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

I don't think that is part of the current attack; they were just swept up by my insanely broad filter. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:52, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Oops... thanks for letting me know. I think I had too many tabs open and got confused as to which ones were the true offenders. I've unblocked that range. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 02:56, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Re Special:Diff/1161904841, maybe I'm missing something but I see no sign that the connection has (yet) been confirmed by a CU. I'd agree with tagging as  but not , not yet. Regards, Cabayi (talk) 08:12, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I assumed the confirmation was per this, but feel free to amend the tag if you see fit. Thanks. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 13:12, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the RD2 edit on the revision history of this article. There is one more edit from the same user that seems to also meet the revdel requirements, any chance you can also also revdel that other comment from the same editor? Thanks.
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 * Looking at the edit, I don't see anything that egregiously flouts WP:BLP to the point where the RD2 redaction criteria are satisfied. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 21:17, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Would you please reduce the move protection that you placed on Richter magnitude scale to semi-protected (or lower)? There is a requested-move discussion to move the page to Richter scale. I would close the discussion now if the page weren't move protected. <small style="color:#667;background:white;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">SilverLocust 💬 04:47, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Admittedly, I didn't dig into the history to see why it has been protected for so long, but hopefully it's no longer necessary. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 19:09, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

UTRS unblock request
Hi, Kinu. There's currently a standard-offer unblock request at UTRS from Eni.Sukthi.Durres, an editor blocked by you on 10 April 2023. (.) You initially partially blocked from mainspace because of incompetence at English, and then extended the block to sitewide, including revoking talk page access, because of threats etc. (Relevant links: ANI archived discussion which led to the block; User talk:Eni.Sukthi.Durres).

The editor is now asking to be unblocked to return to the less controversial kind of editing he believes he did from 2013 to 2018, after which he had a long break, and returned in a different spirit. The editing history is quite extensive, but I have spent some time checking it, and my impressions are as follows. Certainly their editing from 2013 to 2018 was not totally trouble free, as their block log shows, but the problems were very small in proportion to the amount of editing he were doing, and nowhere remotely near the level of the problems which led you to block him. His poor command of English didn't cause many problems in the 2013 to 2018 because he mostly just did things like updating statistics, and didn't actually write much English. I don't think he would have been indef-blocked had he carried on in the same way.

I am writing to ask you to consider whether you see a case for lifting the block, or at the least restoring talk page access to allow an on-wiki unblock request. I do not myself have a definite view on the matter. JBW (talk) 16:02, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I apologize for the delay in responding due to the holiday weekend. Although my decision to block wasn't based on any sort of formal consensus for a CBAN, given some of the egregious threats and concerns raised by other editors (e.g., ) at the ANI, I feel like this probably should be subject to scrutiny beyond just one or two of us. I do want to assume good faith about their intention to edit in a manner that would be less problematic, so I feel like restoring talk page access to allow an unblock request that can be considered more thoroughly and transparently seems like the best course of action for now. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 19:58, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I agree with you that opening it to "scrutiny beyond just one or two of us" is best, and I would certainly not have unblocked on my own without consultation, so I shall restore talk page access and invite them to post an unblock request there. For what it's worth, my guess is that it will come to nothing, but I am willing to give them a chance to prove me wrong. JBW (talk) 21:11, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hello; please consider revoking talk page access from Leaf business consulting services due to talk page abuse&#32;(diff). Thank you! Tol (talk &#124; contribs) @ 08:27, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks for letting me know! -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 08:29, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No problem; thank you! Tol  (talk &#124; contribs) @ 08:32, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

JuneDNS actually does exist!
It took a fair bit of 'massaging' the search engine, but it is real. Albeit, only barely. I left a message on the user's page which summarizes my "findings", and here's a link to the actual site. Pretty graphics, I'll give him that much. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 04:29, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah, thank you for pointing that out! If nothing else, the information at that site (and the site for the related PaulaJS, which they inserted here) supports my inkling that this editor is a sockpuppet of User:Dataclick, whom I had previously blocked for inserting the same content. I'll act on it accordingly. Cheers! -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 04:37, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Section heading in Speedy Deletion Discussion
, I added that section title because it has been hard to read the comments as it is set up now, using a mobile phone or Desk Top computer. I have participated in many of these discussions on other articles; I always saw the comments without having to open the Edit page first. The heading Wilmette Wilbus sends me back to article, and does not show the comments. I do not understand why this discussion page is tricky to see. Adding the section title made it easy, ordinary, to see comments without first seeing the Edit text. All I do see are two section headings, none of the discussion posts, until I take that back door route of the Edit text.

Is there something unusual about this particular Deletion Discussion page’s format? As you read, it is the first time that I put up the article under discussion, and the first time I experienced this awkward path to seeing the comments before adding one.

i do thank you for reading the article carefully and making useful comments. - - Prairieplant (talk) 22:48, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * (For reference, the discussion in question is here.) I'm not seeing anything particularly unusual about the format of this discussion versus others (aside from the copied content from the talk page, which should not affect the presentation). It appears fine on my end, so I'm not certain what would have been causing the issue you mention. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 21:47, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Immediate archiving
Just something to keep in mind for the future - if there is a post (in this case referring to WP:EFFPR) where the content needs to be removed immediately (ostensibly because there is problematic content) please do not ask for it to be archived, as it then propagates the content in two different locations. Please blank it and email Oversight instead. Thanks, Primefac (talk) 20:44, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. Thanks for the note. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 21:12, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you! -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 20:18, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Unblock request for Eni.Sukthi.Durres
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User talk:Bill and ben fan
You may wish to revoke TPA. Cahk (talk) 08:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 08:46, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Admin page vandalism
Hi there. You might want to check the admin noticeboard page and maybe up the protection level a bit - the silliness is continuing. Cheers. Daveosaurus (talk) 07:28, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. Here's hoping that the block and the additional eyes on it help. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 08:05, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello
Hello @Kinu, why did you delete the ? Can you please bring it back? There was content in it. Lionel Cristiano? 08:07, 25 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Pls check the view history. Lionel Cristiano? 10:31, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I incorrectly believed you were the one to have blanked it. I've restored it. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 16:22, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Also, I see what the template does now. Not sure we need this (and I've edited your comment so it is disabled here because I quite frankly don't want such nonsense here), but not a speedy deletion candidate, so I apologize. It might end up at TFD, but I won't push it for now. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 16:26, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks for bringing it back. Lionel Cristiano? 17:05, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

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