User talk:Magnatyrannus/Archive 13

Your RfPP requests
Pre-emptive protections are not allowed under policy. You have been requesting extended-confirmed protection for the last few TFAs and their talk pages just after midnight UTC (22th, 21th, 20th, 19th, 17th). While your predictions have been right occasionally, with disruption coming your request, these requests are not appropriate because the community has only endorsed a trial of automatic semi-protection.

As you are hopefully aware, at RfPP every request needs to be responded to, unlike at AIV. When requests are made, administrators assume that they are made due to ongoing disruption, not disruption that is predicted to occur. Time spent reviewing a request for pre-emptive protection would be time better spent reviewing a valid request for protection.

If you want to make a proposal to have all TFAs extended-confirmed protected pre-emptively, you should make that case at the Village Pump, not at RfPP. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:44, 22 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I sincerely apologize for all the inconvenience caused on the FAs and me requesting ECP for them. Magnatyrannus (talk &#124; contribs) 01:46, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You have done good work fighting vandalism on those articles. But policy (and therefore the community) prevents administrators from protecting them pre-emptively. If socks start their disruption, make a request then. ScottishFinnishRadish appears to be keeping a close eye on TFAs, so protection would hopefully happen swiftly. I hope I haven't discouraged you from future work here – I just want you to adjust your approach. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:51, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Sdrqaz I have made the proposal at WP:Village pump (proposals). Magnatyrannus (talk &#124; contribs) 00:01, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

RE: WP:AIV reports
Hi, users should typically be warned and vandalize past a final (i.e. Level 4) warning prior to reporting them at AIV. There were multiple editors with reports you made as "vandalism after final warning" in which it didn't appear that they had received any warnings. . If these appeared elsewhere on a range or are block evasion, please indicate as such and ideally link to those IPs/accounts. Best,  Spencer T• C 01:02, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm well aware of that, but I didn't have the energy to warn them because it would be a waste of time doing so, given that their edits are solely vandalism. Magnatyrannus (talk &#124; contribs) 01:05, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * To clarify, if you "didn't have the energy to warn them", why did you list these at AIV as "vandalism after final warning"?  Spencer T• C 01:10, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Magnatyrannus, warning a disruptive editor is not optional. If you can take time to report them, then you can take time to warn them first. I appreciate your honesty but you need to rethink how you handle editors committing vandalism because it isn't according to policy guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 05:39, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Re: Talk page blanking
Hello, I noticed you blanked my talk page with the reason as WP:DENY. I'm not familiar with this policy; but could you elaborate on why you did that? I'm not angry, just kinda confused. Thanks - 𝘾𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙢𝙖𝙣2917 (talkpage) 20:36, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello ? 𝘾𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙢𝙖𝙣2917 (talkpage) 23:45, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry for the late response; anyway, I removed that user’s thread because it was off-topic and seemingly disruptive. Magnatyrannus (talk &#124; contribs) 00:44, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah okay. Also, the currently featured article (the one about the radio station) has a very offensive comment on it's talk page. Could you remove that? (I'm not extended confirmed so I can't.) 𝘾𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙢𝙖𝙣2917 (talkpage) 00:45, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * WBPX-TV is the article. 𝘾𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙢𝙖𝙣2917 (talkpage) 00:46, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I've just gotten back from trick-or-treating, which is why I couldn't respond to you. Cheers Magnatyrannus (talk &#124; contribs) 00:50, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah sorry. I would trick or treat but it's a school night and nearly nobody arrived at my house, so not a very fun Halloween. Anyways, thanks for reverting their edit, much appreciated 𝘾𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙢𝙖𝙣2917 (talkpage) 00:51, 1 November 2022 (UTC)