User talk:Nightfury/Archives/2016/February

WP:REDLINK of Railfuture
Re:, see WP:REDLINK ("It is useful in editing article text to create a red link to indicate that a page will be created soon") and User talk:NawlinWiki#Undelete of Railfuture. Histmerged draft is at User:Sladen/Railfuture, and you're welcome to assist in helping to try and turn it into a useful article! In a case like this, having the Special:WhatLinksHere/Railfuture helps give a good overview of how the subject is presently referred to, and in turn can help with locating existing cites. —Sladen (talk) 10:33, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Devonexpressbus ‎sockpuppet
Hi there,

I noticed your sock puppet investigation, and I have a few more IP's you might want to look at. I encountered this user on 2016 GT3 Le Mans Cup season, but it appears that the behavior persists in numerous Motorsport related articles. The various IP's (who I believe are all used by this user) would continually add entries without any sources (despite warnings), never includes an edit description, and often (but not always) also edit various articles relating to UK Railways and train equipment. One final note, none of the listed IP's editing history overlap and, from top to bottom, are newest to oldest.

The IP's in question:
 * Special:Contributions/86.146.154.252 (the one you already listed)
 * Special:Contributions/86.146.156.240
 * Special:Contributions/86.143.104.67
 * Special:Contributions/86.175.178.82
 * Special:Contributions/86.143.105.230
 * Special:Contributions/86.146.154.201
 * Special:Contributions/86.146.155.127
 * Special:Contributions/86.146.156.168

I'm afraid I don't have any experience with this sort of thing, so my apologies if this is the wrong venue for it. JohnMcButts (talk) 04:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * JohnMcButts, can you paste what you have on the Sockpuppet page, under comments from other users? Thanks very much. NordicDragon Talkpage 09:18, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. JohnMcButts (talk) 17:01, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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How would one register a legittimate alternative account? Thanks NordicDragon Talkpage 09:02, 12 February 2016 (UTC)


 * As I said on IRC, the policy governing legitimate alternate accounts is WP:VALIDALT. Unless there's a privacy issue involved, I would strongly suggest that you either stick to one account or clearly link the accounts via their userpages. Technically you can use Special:Userlogin/signup to create the account. Huon (talk) 09:32, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

sandbox to article space
Rather than delete the history, I've just temporarily moved the page back to your sandbox. You can go ahead and just copy/paste your article to article space, since you're the only person who worked on it, there are no attribution issues that would require you move your sandbox (if this isn't a clear enough explanation, let me know). After you do that, if you want to leave your sandbox as-is, that's fine. If you actually want the sandbox history deleted too, that's fine as well, just let me know. --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:07, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thats fine, thankyou Floquenbeam. Nordic   Dragon  22:08, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, no problem. I have a feeling that she might not be notable enough for an article, so prepare yourself for some pushback on that, and marshal any reliable sources you have to better establish that.  Notability isn't really my strong suit, so I leave all that work to others; maybe I'm wrong, but don't be surprised.  --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:13, 16 February 2016 (UTC)