User talk:MisterSynergy

User warning templates
I saw your comment at WP:AIV, and I decided to be nosey. I used to wonder how some of these users were able to crank out user warning so quickly, and it turns out it's just a matter of enabling WP:TWINKLE. Basically all you have to do is click 2–3 times and optionally type a personalized message to the offending user (usually not required). Hopefully this helps. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 16:05, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, typically I am not very active here at en-wiki and I do not really know about mandatory warning procedures (although I read the hint on WP:AIV). In this case I just stumbled upon this particular obvious case of vandalism because Alexander Lukashenko is linked on the Main Page and there was a weird picture at the beginning of this article when I accessed it. Since the reported users made some malicious edits, I decided to report them in order to make sure someone oversees their behavior. In fact, I don't really care about whether they are going to be blocked or not, this is now up to the administration. If they think these users deserve a warning before being blocked, they should go ahead and do so. (Anyway, thanks for your comment!) —MisterSynergy (talk) 16:30, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

I came here to say the same thing. Twinkle will do wonders for you, well beyond warning users. Also, before making further reports at WP:AIV and other noticeboards, please make note of the instructions at the top of the page. Barring the most severe of vandalism or blatant sockpuppetry, warning is an absolute prerequisite to blocking. Everyone deserves to know that there are real people behind the wiki and that they have a chance to rectify their disruptive behaviour. Thank you for your understanding &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  16:22, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for comment, I understand. Although the procedure of warning before blocking seems mandatory here at en-wiki (read that before reporting), I consider this particular case of vandalism as intentional by the reported users. A warning would not be useful here, it's a waste of time. I am at work, I can only spend a small amount of time for this issue. If there is mandatory bureaucracy involved in reporting users at en-wiki, I'd rather avoid doing so in future. Regards, MisterSynergy (talk) 16:30, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Vandalism by definition is intentional, but the vandals still deserve a warning. These two users seem far from "extreme" vandalism, and I personally would go with all four levels of warnings before blocking. This a philosophy that yields many success stories here on enwiki. I'm sorry you see different, but yes, if you are unwilling to take the time (very little if you use Twinkle) to warn the disruptive users, you'll find reporting to AIV (also very easy using Twinkle) to be just as much of a waste of time, as the report will surely be declined. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  16:41, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, I apologize, especially if it seemed I was giving you a hard time. My mistake. I didn't look at the picture... and yes, that's severe defamation. I've issued a level 4im warning to the one user, and blocked the other as an obvious sock. My apologies again. It's not that I was doubting you, it's just that it was unclear the photo was the issue, as I quickly check contribs using WP:POPUPS which shows only the text. Anyway, looks like this sort of disruption has been rampant at Eugene McMenamin so I've semi-protected it. My apologies again! :) &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  16:51, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The rabbit hole goes deeper. The users you reported were socks of previous vandals to that page. Now I just feel bad! In retrospect your AIV report, even without the warning, was a very good thing. I consider that coincidental, though, as neither of us knew what we were dealing with. My point about needing warnings still stands, but this was an exception (because of the sockpuppetry). Nonetheless my apology still stands, as my gratitude that the disruption was brought to my attention. Best &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  16:59, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Ok, accepted. I just wanted to raise attention on these users' behavior, and due to lack of time and knowledge about appropriate measures and useful tools I did not take further actions. I thought that someone else would inspect the reported users' contributions anyway. Next time I will emphasize the problem more in detail at WP:AIV.

I hope that the problematic image will not become a problem for me, since my employer has a very strict sexual content policy and online filters in place. I think they've not noticed this incident due to TLS transport encryption, but I didn't dare to continue for that reason as well. Regards, MisterSynergy (talk) 17:43, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * You are right, my dear bot :-) This is repaired now. —MisterSynergy (talk) 09:59, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

rollback
Hi MisterSynergy. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3AMisterSynergy enabled] rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback: If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Beeblebrox (talk) 18:48, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
 * Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
 * Rollback should never be used to edit war.
 * If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
 * Use common sense.

Email
Got your email and looked over it... seems like a very interesting case. There does not seem to have been any discussion of it (at least not in the 10 years I've been with the group), so I will pass it on to some colleagues and let you know what we discover. Thanks for bringing it up! Canadian  Paul  06:16, 24 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I hope you saw the email that we officially split the two rowers. Thanks again for your help! Canadian   Paul  05:09, 11 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you, yes I've seen it. I am now waiting for the SR successor website to appear, in order to replicate this onwiki as well (enwiki, dewiki, and basically all other Wikipedias). Hopefully, the transition to the new site goes smoothly… ;-) —MisterSynergy (talk) 07:01, 11 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Smoothly yes I think. Quickly, no, haha. Canadian   Paul  05:42, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiData Question
Hi I am new to WikiData so was wondering what it meant when the page I created for Elena Oriabinskaia was connected to the wikidata item. Could you explain what that means and what it does and potentially how I can get involved and help out? ihatethisname User talk:ihatethisname 00:09, 07 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Hey ihatethisname, Wikidata is the data repository of Wikimedia. Among other things, it stores interwikilinks to Wikipedia articles about the same topic in other language editions. Thus, all articles are supposed to be "connected" to a Wikidata data item (which technically is a wiki page with non-text content). However, there is no obligation on the side of editors to do this by themselves. Article pages that are not (yet) connected to a Wikidata are being dealt with by several bots, and probably some interested editors as well. What happened in this case about Elena Oriabinskaia is that you have created the English Wikipedia article on 29 July early, and later that day another editor created a new data item for the article at Wikidata. Today I realized that there was already another existing data item about this person, and at Wikidata we only want to have one data item about individual concepts (such as humans). I thus "merged" both existing data items, which means that all data from both data items was moved into the older one, and the newer one was turned into a classical redirect. The English Wikipedia interwikilink was also moved to the other item; turns out that six other language editions did already have articles about Oriabinskaia. Once again, you do not need to do anything if you do not want to—there are sufficient users to handle this for you in this case. However, if you want to get involved, have a look at the Wikidata project and try it out. Plenty of things are actually pretty similar as in Wikipedia, and your account works there as well. It is just that the content has some other form… :-) —MisterSynergy (talk) 00:20, 7 August 2021 (UTC)