User talk:Mz7/December 2020–February 2021

2020 China–India skirmishes
Can you restore your ECP protection on 2020 China–India skirmishes? Same IP users with zero willingness to discuss their edits are back. Aman Kumar Goel (Talk) 02:04, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , sorry for the delay in responding. Looks like another administrator applied a 1-year semi-protection. Let's see how that holds for now. Mz7 (talk) 22:01, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

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Dimpletisha
Hey M, I know you just did a CU on Dimpletisha (and thank you), but I noticed, an obvious throw-away account, come out of a 9-month retirement to edit at Harshad Chopda, their only area of interest, and a frequent interest of Dimpletisha's. This was a day after you blocked Dramionex, so the timing is highly suspect and I can't exactly block on duck evidence. Any chance you could see if they're related to the recent accounts? Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:36, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks for your message. I ran a check, and I think this is a different person. Definitely a curious coincidence, but the CU data says . Mz7 (talk) 22:00, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Intriguing. Thanks for looking! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:04, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

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UTRS
Hi,

Can you please take a look at this appeal on UTRS? You're the blocking admin and I'm in two minds whether or not I unblock the user or restore TPA to allow the unblock discussion to take place there. I'm inclined to restore TPA access.-- 5 albert square (talk) 00:43, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your message. I had to refresh my memory a bit to recall this particular case. It appears the editor behind this range has an extensive history of disruptive editing, edit warring on The Angry Beavers for much of the past year. Reading over the details of the UTRS request, to be honest I am not really convinced that unblocking them would be a good idea. Although they claim they will not edit war in the future, when they explain how they will avoid edit warring, they write, if there's any information that should or must stay in the article, I won't delete the information, but will just leave it alone because it should or must be in the article. I feel this explanation misunderstands what edit warring is. It isn't that they were removing information that was so important that it had to be in the article, but rather, they were repeatedly restoring their preferred version of the article without attempting to discuss their changes on any kind of talk page. With all of this being said, I do see that the block expires next week anyway, and I'm happy to defer to whatever you think is best. Given the choice between unblocking and restoring TPA, I'd restore TPA, although for the reasons above I think consideration should also be given to declining the request outright. Mz7 (talk) 04:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

please perform CU check
Sockpuppet investigations/Architect 134, thank you very much sir, and when it's confirmed please counter and ban the account. 156.219.58.255 (talk) 03:27, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

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Recent IP block
The IP editor who was changing politicians' names created an account right around the time of your block, and also created this draft: Draft:Pappy. – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 02:51, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks for the heads up. Blocked now. Mz7 (talk) 02:52, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 02:53, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * Thank you, ! To you as well. Mz7 (talk) 19:21, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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Happy holidays & January 2021 appeal of arbitration enforcement sanction
Happy holidays and happy new year, Mz7! I sincerely hope you've been doing well, and I hope you and your loved ones have been safe and coping well amidst the pandemic! Tomorrow is the new year! You told me to return to you in January 2021 to submit my appeal of arbitration enforcement sanction from the summer of 2020. In January 2021, I hope the appeal can be lifted as I have learned from my past wrongdoings and mistakes. During the timeframe of my sanction, I have engaged in proper behaviour and etiquette on Wikipedia by fully abiding by the community guidelines and regulations. I fully refrained from edit-warring with any users and I tried my utmost best to collaborate with fellow members of the Wikipedia community.

I once again pledge and promise to you that I will never, ever, use a second sockpuppet account again for disruptive purposes. I promise I will never edit war or remove sourced material with out clear summary. I understand that I need consensus from others. If things do not go my way, I have to understand that's OK. I understand that things will not always go my way, and that is perfectly normal and okay - it's not the end of the world. It's okay if others don't agree with me as everyone has different views and stances on various subjects. The most important and crucial thing is to respect everyone and their perspectives. I have to respect the contributions and inputs of others. It's not just about me, wikipedia is a community-driven platform. I cannot just go on about edit warring with others like I own the place, - if everyone did that Wikipedia would be a disruptive mess. Wikipedia is for everyone and I have to respect the insights of others, not just my own. Thanks to preventative measures meant to preserve the integrity of Wikipedia, Wikipedia can be the wonderful place it is today. During my ban, I read over the Wikipedia guidelines very carefully again. I pledge to carefully abide by all of these guidelines. You can trust me in that I will not edit war or abusively use a second sockpuppet account since I recognize that disruptive edits won't help anyone and goes against the community-driven based ideals of Wikipedia. When I make contributions to Wikipedia, I will think before publishing the edit, and I will never edit war with others. If someone reverts my edit, I will not edit war with them. There is a reason for talk pages and edit warring does nothing productive for the community. I want to be able to engage in civil discourse with others on topics of my interest, such as modern US politics. I want to collaborate with others to make this website a better place. I want to be able to give my insights, but I also want to take in the insights of others. I want to be able to prove that I am capable of learning from my mistakes and capable of doing better. I recognize that my actions were wrong and harmful. It is my fault and my fault alone. I will not give any excuses for my wrongful actions because there is no excuse for disruptive actions on Wikipedia or not knowing the rules. I have received several warnings before, it was my own fault that I disrespected the rules. Not familiarizing myself with the rules is not an excuse.

I deeply regret the disruptive damage I previously have caused before on Wikipedia. I want to reassure you that I have learned my lesson since then. I fully understand if you believe it still has been too short of a timeframe for you to trust me again and I fully will respect any decision you will make. In writing this, I have no intention at all of troubling you or giving you any hard time. I am so sorry if this is currently an inappropriate time to be asking or if I am being bothersome. Thank you so much for your time, and sorry for any inconveniences. I hope you have yourself a wonderful holiday and new year!

Happy new year and happy holidays! All the very best, Sincerely Yeungkahchun (talk) 05:29, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi . Happy New Year, and I apologize for my delay in responding. Do you think you could explain some of the context behind some of the complaints on your user talk page since you were unblocked, such as User talk:Yeungkahchun? Additionally, what kinds of edits do you intend to make in the US politics topic area if this ban is lifted? US politics is quite the controversial editing area, especially over the past several months, which is the main reason I am hesitant to lift these restrictions. I understand, however, that you have been relatively forthcoming about your situation, and it has been some time since you were blocked for sockpuppetry, so I'm not strictly opposed to loosening this. Mz7 (talk) 22:54, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

I intend on making small productive edits while adhering to wikipedia guidelines from time to time on politician pages as I sometimes see typos or vandalism such as promotion of Trump's false claims of voter fraud. I don't see an urgent need to be editing the 2020 presidential election page as it is quite controversial and heated right now and also I think it is well taken care of. The big pages such as the 2020 presidential election page and Donald Trump page are well-taken care of right now so I don't see myself making edits on those pages.

And as for the User talk:Yeungkahchun situation, the reason for my edit was in support of another wikipedia user's (user Stonksboi) viewpoint on the talk page Talk:2022_Winter_Olympics. User_talk:Normchou keeps adding a sentence that was already mentioned in the article, as seen discussed on here User_talk:Normchou. As other wiki users have stated on User_talk:Normchou, "the edits made were in consensus with all previous and future Olympic articles, controversy belongs to the controversy subsection.User_talk:Normchou gave no explanation why the 2022 games are an exception to this." As seen on User_talk:Normchou, this user has a history of disruptive editing on China related articles and has been reverting multiple multiple users' edits. However once my edit was reverted by user Normchou, I did not engage in editwarring with this user nor did I commit sockpuppetry to revert the revert of my edit. Since my blocking, I have learned my lesson and I no longer revert others' reverts of my edits nor do I engage in editwarring and sockpuppetry with others. Yeungkahchun (talk) 23:38, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Regarding the 2022 Olympics situation, I think the main issue is that you didn't leave an edit summary, so it is not clear to other editors why you removed the content. (I also noticed that most of the editors who have complained on Normchou's talk page have since been blocked from editing, so it makes the claim that Normchou "has a history of disruptive editing on China related articles" somewhat dubious. Admittedly, I haven't looked too deeply at that editor's contributions, so maybe I'm missing something.) In the future, and especially in controversial areas like American politics, you should strive to leave an edit summary with every single edit that you submit to Wikipedia, so that it is clear to other editors why you are making the change. Additionally, if your edit is "in support of another wikipedia user's ... viewpoint on the talk page", then ideally you should also leave an edit at the talk page discussion. Based on all of your statements to me, I suspect you already know most of this stuff, and I don't want to sound like a broken record. It has indeed been almost five months now since you were unblocked, and in that time you have been relatively forthcoming and cooperative about your sanctions. I think your planned strategy of sticking to fixing typos and vandalism is good; it's best to start slow before diving into extremely controversial areas. In light of that, I am okay with lifting your topic ban. I will file the paperwork to do so shortly. Please be aware that in the event of further disruption in this topic area, you may be sanctioned again. Please edit carefully. Best of luck, Mz7 (talk) 05:12, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much for lifting the sanction, I highly appreciate it! Starting from now I will leave edit summaries for every edit so it is clear to editors as to why I made changes (in the past I rarely made edit summaries). I also will refrain from removing huge portions of content unilaterally, instead I will start a discussion on the talk page discussion in order discuss improvements to the page with the Wikipedia community. Once again, thank you! Best, Yeungkahchun (talk) 21:19, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
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Images
Hey Mz7. A small favour, now you see the page of Zoran Tegeltija, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian Prime Minister), does not have an image of him and I can't see to find one that respects copyright rules. My mentality is that a Prime Minister of a country should have a decent image of them on their page. Could you somehow, if you want to of course, try to find a decent, non-copyright image of Tegeltija and send me a link so I could put it up? I would greatly appreciate it.

Also, Dušan Bajević a Bosnian football manager and player has an old image of him put up, precisely 1974. I also looked for a much newer image of him to put up, particularly this one. Could you somehow see if its copyrighted? Even if not that one, another newer image of him can do. I know I'm asking for a bit much, but I really looked for images of them and couldn't find any that are ok too use. Sadly, their images on Flickr are all not fair to use. So if you could just look in to it a bit I would honestly really appreciate it. But again though, your call. :) Kirbapara (talk) 19:51, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, if an image is not clearly stated to be available under a free license, then we have to assume that it is copyrighted, so it's not likely that we can use the image that you linked in the article. Mz7 (talk) 21:07, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Reconstruction Amendments
Hey. I'm thinking about nominating Reconstruction Amendments for GA again. Would you mind giving it a once-over first? For context, you quick-failed Talk:Reconstruction Amendments/GA1. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:18, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay in responding—I've been trying to find time to dig into the sources and give the article a more thorough look through, but I haven't gotten the chance to yet. However, after a cursory look-through, it does seem like you've added inline citations for all of the claims in the article's body, which addresses the reason I quick-failed the article back in August, so if you were to nominate it again, it won't be quick-failed again. Mz7 (talk) 18:18, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

A message of gratitude for your guidance and helping me on the page
I just wanted to apologize to you personally for the whole situation right now, just after I just got of a topic ban lift. It’s not good to be editing the first sentence of a highly visible page without any discussion first. It hadn’t come to me that you should make discussions before editing the first sentences of pages but I sincerely thank you for that tip with respect to RECKLESS, as I don’t want to be getting in trouble with anyone or cause any disruptions. From here on out I won’t be editing the first sentence of a lede of highly visible pages without discussion. Once again, I want to thank you for all the tips you’ve been sharing with me to help my better improve myself on wikipedia I truly do not want to cause any disruptions nor do I want you to be disappointed or regret your decision Best Yeungkahchun (talk) 06:00, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * My disappointment still remains because although you gave me the impression earlier that you would start slow and avoid editing controversial pages related to the 2020 election, you went ahead and did just that. Please demonstrate your understanding through actions, not words. Mz7 (talk) 06:28, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

I deeply regret this entire situation. Without thinking, I just edited that page so hastily in the heat of the moment not realizing that, with this being a big page, this goes against my pledge of stay off big pages for now. I take full responsibility for this fallout and I won’t make excuses for this reckless action and lack of judgment. I understand your disappointment.

I have been truly grateful for the second chance you gave me when you unbanned me yesterday, I don’t want you regretting further and disrespecting your trust.

I respect you, and thus I need to show respect through my actions. I have to do better and I must do better. Best, Yeungkahchun (talk) 07:03, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

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Happy adminship anniversary!

 * Huh. Four years, and I'm still here. Who would've known? Mz7 (talk) 19:57, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Logo error in MonoBook
As you closed the discussion, see Talk:Main_Page. Can the display error in MonoBook be fixed? Fences &amp;  Windows  23:37, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay in responding, but I see this appears to be resolved now. Mz7 (talk) 04:11, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

A beer for you!

 * I came here to say the same thing about this close. Concise, well-reasoned, and timely. Good show. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:52, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Something to look at
It's on the Commons, but you might be interested in this, particularly when seen alongside this and this. Would it help to repost this here? davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  21:36, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your message. I ran a check, and Squadaloo is ❌ to Snowballgamers from a technical standpoint. They're probably a different user with an interest in the same topic. With that being said, during the course of my check, I discovered that Squadaloo has been socking under other accounts; I've documented my findings at Sockpuppet investigations/Drhunterhamilton21. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 22:04, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

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Individual vs bulk suppression requests
Hi there, I am asking this question as I saw you handled some requests I sent in earlier. If I have several pages to request for suppression, is it preferable to send them all in a single email or send each page in an individual email? Zupotachyon (talk) 08:49, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I think this is a question where you might get different answers depending on who you ask. Personally, I would prefer that you send the requests just in one email so that I can just respond to all of the requests in one reply, but I think some other oversighters may prefer to receive multiple emails to separate out the requests. Later today I might ask around and get back to you. Mz7 (talk) 08:58, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you. I remember a couple of times some of my individual requests were handled separately by different oversighters; I was assuming there was a sort of ticket system so I've been sending in separate requests. Zupotachyon (talk) 04:48, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

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While I can't really fault a no consensus at "Village pump (proposals)", an element of the close is fallacious (specifically WP:CSF) within the Wikipedia context: "other reputable websites (e.g. The New York Times) also use hyphens or even pipes in their page titles" has no relevance, because WP has its own style guide and NYT has a separate and very different one. What other publishers are doing is immaterial, unless and until such time that what others are doing becomes such an overwhelming norm that our own style guide changes. "[M]ost readers will never notice this change" is also irrelevant; most readers will never notice a zillion things WP does in the background, but this is not a reason to not implement them if we have internal reasons for implemeting them (like, say, not contradicting our own guidelines).

I respectfully ask that you remove those two elements from the close (or keep the but note they are not applicable). Mingled in with applicable argument, they are are not just extraneous but misleading – they inspire editors with some nit-picking axe to grind to bring up rationales that are not valid on Wikipedia any time they want to get their way, and to expect those rationales to be considered and enumerated in the close. But they clearly should not be. From WP:NHC: "The closer is there to judge the consensus of the community, after discarding irrelevant arguments: those that flatly contradict established policy, those based on personal opinion only, those that are logically fallacious, and those that show no understanding of the matter of issue." These two particular arguments qualify as several of these at once, even all four if one understands "policy" is this statement in the mass-noun sense, inclusive of policies (count noun), guidelines, processes, and other norms that the community enforces in RfCs. (And since we enforce them in RfCs, this is necessary the meaning of "policy" in that sentence. :-) — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  20:23, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * , thank you for your note, but I'm afraid I don't agree. This discussion did not revolve around article content, but rather a minuscule technical feature whose importance on the grand scale of things has to be close to the bottom rung. The reference to The New York Times is not to point out that they have a different style guide than us (in fact, it would be quite surprising to me if their internal style guide was any different to our own with respect to en-dashes), but to emphasize that even other publications with a reputation for paying attention to style also do not consider the hyphen vs. dash debate to be important in the narrow context of the HTML title element. Essentially, the argument is that the slight stylistic imperfection is so trifling that we need not correct it, particularly combined with the cost of taking up limited browser tab space (while it was not cited during the discussion, the essay WP:BIKESHED comes to mind for me). I understand that you disagree with this argument, but unfortunately, I do not think it would be accurate to discard it as "irrelevant", as "flatly contradicting established policy", or as "logically fallacious". Mz7 (talk) 21:12, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * You clearly have not read their style guide. :-) Like most news style guides, it is completely different from ours on dashes.  You're simply recycling the same fallacy again.  major publishers with style guides, public or in-house, are "other publications with a reputation for paying attention to style" (or they would not be major publishers), but we do not imitate them, because we have our own style guide. And you've done the same with the second fallacy. It  that some editors consider it too trifling to bother with; that is never a reason for us to not make a change for which there are other rationales beyond whether it is  important (such as consistency with our own guidelines so we do not confuse people or inspire ignoring the guidelines because WP won't itself follow them).  Yes, BIKESHED does come to mind; you are inadvertently helping enable the perpetuation of bikeshedding by ignoring the clear instructions at NHC, by giving weight to arguments that cannot have any weight here, thereby inspiring others to continue trying to bicycle-shed and wikilawyer over trivia for petty, subjective reasons.  I did not come here to relitigate the RfC arguments with you, but seem to have inspired you do so, as if you are "retro-supervoting". LOL. I don't mind that the close is no consensus. It's okay that the argument to be consistent with our own guidelines did (somehow) not carry the day.  But the argument that it should not carry the day because some other site does something a different way, or that it's not important to the average reader, are patently invalid arguments (and as the closer you shouldn't be advocating either of them, just observing they exist and whether the fit the NHC criteria, which they clearly do not).  There was absolutely no reason to list and weight those two arguments, since there are already sufficient valid arguments behind the oppose !votes to result in the same no consensus.  I.e., this is not  a proper close, and encourages a degradation of future RfCs, but is very easy to fix. It's taken you way longer to argue against fixing it than to just fix it. Unless you ping me back I will not press this further; I've made the case, and my intent isn't badgering you. Just be aware that some of us care a lot about the rationales provided in closes since they often have a strong effect on what arguments others try to use in later ones.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:38, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mojtaba2361
Hi. I noticed you archived Sockpuppet investigations/Mojtaba2361 - the reason I filed the second report (Sockpuppet investigations/Mojtaba2361/Archive) was because I thought that the investigation overlapped with/should be merged with Sockpuppet investigations/ArmanAfifeh and its archives, and it was concluded that the accounts are likely to match - shouldn't the pages be merged then? --DannyS712 (talk) 12:48, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * , I noticed that, but I also noticed that mentioned that it's not strictly necessary to reblock the master per WP:DENY, so I assumed that it wasn't a big deal to leave the cases unmerged on that basis. Mz7 (talk) 18:32, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, I just wanted to avoid having two "active" cases (where "active" refers to places where people can report socks, not necessarily that there are any reports still open) DannyS712 (talk) 18:34, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * , all right, having taken a second look, I've unarchived the case and asked for the merge. Mz7 (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-05
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 * IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed.

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 * You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
 * Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
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Reggieplata is back
Somehow Reggieplata has returned in the form of another sock puppetry account with Familyplata8384. I believe we need to block him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.56.62.31 (talk) 11:03, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks like is already blocked. Mz7 (talk) 03:14, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

F1 IP editor (Gareth)
He seems to be back again. Eagleash (talk) 13:26, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

(Originally Rowde – master; last sock was 'GBThomas2000'). Eagleash (talk) 13:34, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * , ah yes indeed. I've blocked the account. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 03:13, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Ta muchly! Eagleash (talk) 21:13, 3 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Some people never give up. Eagleash (talk) 01:12, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * , blocked. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 03:50, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks; now to try to sort what he's done and whether we need some of it! Eagleash (talk) 07:05, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Please review my request for PCR
Hello, I have applied for pending changer reviewer and it seems like plenty of backlog. Please kindly review if possible. Happy editing cheers. Kichu🐘 <i style="color:blue">Discuss</i> 10:26, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Done. Mz7 (talk) 20:02, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Sockpuppet
Hey again Mz7. :) So, it seems that I am again related as a Sockpuppet of Bakir123... It's getting really iritating now. I mean there is no even logic since I was cleared by both you and another editor and my account being looked up by a checkuser. The editor Oleola is suspecting it now. I don't get that as I had actual messages with Bakir123 on both of our talk pages and both of us thanking each other for our edits. And now I'm in a situation fearing that I might somehow for an unknown reason get blocked for doing absouletly nothing wrong. Bakir123 as well. I would appreciate it if you would look in to that. Here is the investigation page: Sockpuppet investigations/Bakir123. I belive you were mentioned in it as well. Kirbapara (talk) 16:48, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi!
Hi! It is me now, haha! Look, the Oleola guy is yet again posting some sort of evidence. I really don't know what his problem is. I have just been confirmed as unlikely being Kirbapara by another checkuser, Oshwah, and yet he is still trying to achieve something. I respect him for his edits, but I mean come on, two devices!? That is complete balony, sorry for the language. Can you please just end this, I, and I belive Kirba too, just want to edit in peace. I'm done with this sockpupetry thing. I messaged Oshwah with this simmilar edit on his talk page, asking him as well, just so you know! Bakir123 (talk) 22:48, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

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Request for Pending changes reviewer rights
Hi Good morning, I hope you are good, I Need a help from you i have placed one request for PCR rights in Requests for permissions/Pending changes reviewer, so if you dont mind then can you review my request and please tell me that i am eligible or not?, I left a message in your talk page because i saw that you are the admin of this wikipedia, Thanks Have A Good and Safe Day. Bubbly Snow   &#x1F4AC; 05:48, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06
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 * You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis.
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 * Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead.

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Request
Hi, First of all, I apologize for coming to your talk page Previously I had temporary Rollback rights, which have now lapsed. Now I would like to be actively involved in reverting Vandalism..I’m already applied for this right in January here .but I have not received any reply yet I request you to consider my request..whether it is Positive or negative...Thanks -- Padavalam🌂   ►  19:48, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07
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 * Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.

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Tech News: 2021-08
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Request for revdel
Dear I'm currently working on the draft article over at Draft: That vegan teacher, but some of the revisions contain massive amounts of BLP violations and original research. There aren't that many revisions, can you please go through and strike the necessary revisions? Theleekycauldron (talk) 18:00, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 18:06, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

February 2021
If you could read, I actually added CITATION NEEDED, but you know. To each their own. Aeyeu (talk) 13:42, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * , adding a citation needed template to your own edits is absolutely not a defense against violating our biographies of living persons policy. We require citations for controversial information about living persons from the moment you insert them to Wikipedia. This is a very serious policy, as getting this wrong can and will bring the project into disrepute. Please be aware that you may be blocked from editing if you persistently violate our policies. Mz7 (talk) 19:52, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

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