User talk:Mvqr/2021/November

Reverting edits by sock
I can see the logic of denying a sockpuppet the satisfaction of creating articles, but does the encyclopedia really benefit from the mass removal of a group of necessary non-diffusing categories such as this edit? It seems sad, and wasteful of effort. Pam D  18:01, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Pam! The sock was doing this at a very high pace, was using the Cat-a-lot to do mass changes (dozens of edits a minute), spending less than a minute between gadget invocations. In some cases, though apparently not this one, it appeared wrong. In some cases they also changed the category itself. This series of puppets made these sweeping changes, getting up to about 500 plus edits in each account, in like 15 minutes of Cat-a-lot use. I am concerned the only reason they did this was to become extended confirmed, and that they did not pay attention so much to the edits they did.-- Mvqr (talk) 18:11, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * But you have gotten me reading into category policy, there is much to learn here.-- Mvqr (talk) 18:17, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks: I can see you've already undeleted a lot of these. I suppose quite legitimately one could work pretty fast to add a missing non-diffusing parent category, which is the sort of edits I'd seen them doing. I tried to look at the SPI history but my head started to spin: as so often I couldn't get back to see what the original problem had been ( there was presumably a history of an account being blocked for a non-SPI reason, which inspired them to start creating the socks). Ah well. Thanks. Pam  D  18:44, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Rollback
Hi Mvqr. After reviewing your request, I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3AMvqr enabled] rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when using 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 trouble or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! F ASTILY  11:46, 28 November 2021 (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.