User talk:Nishkid64/Archive 56



Nangparbat again
Special:Contributions/86.158.234.39 looks like our friend also.
 * blocked. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 23:48, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Nukes4Tots
In the previous case on this user, you took it off-wiki.

Now, the same reporter is back making comments about the outcome of the prior case that were not disclosed on-wiki.

I've deferred the case to you for the present. In particular, I defer to you on the issue of whether the current report needs to be revision deleted to protect privacy. Mayalld (talk) 22:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

SPI
You investigated an SPI I filed on Friday. How do you figure out which one is the sockmaster? Is it date of account creation, number of edits or something completely different? - Mgm|(talk) 23:46, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hobojaks is the oldest of the four accounts and has most number of edits. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 23:48, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

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Nangparbat again
--Wikireader41 (talk) 01:07, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * and here . please consider protecting some pages that he is vandalizing

User:Hersfold/Vandal_watch

User:Thegreyanomaly/Nangparbat the evader

 This is from your fellow indian american editor wikireader41 i will not rest unless he is punished for his pov pushing abuse 86.158.237.159 (talk) 16:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * And you will notice that all these comments were from before February 18, 2009 when you warned me. I have taken your warning to heart. He still insists on bringing up again and again.  Do banned sockpuppets of nangparbat have any rights or would this be considered vandalism ?? --Wikireader41 (talk) 17:04, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Editors have repeatedly asked you not to edit pakistani articles yet you removed there warnings from your talk page and carried on pov pushing wait let me get you the diff :) 86.158.237.159 (talk) 17:07, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ADMINISTRATORS have repeatedly asked you to stay off wikipedia and BANNED you. please stop Vandalizing now.--Wikireader41 (talk) 17:09, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * see here he has had a anti-pakistani agenda from the start the only solution to this is to protect pakistani/indian pages especially sensitive ones e.g kashmir conflict so he cannot push his pov his recent try at another anti pakistani article about british pakistanis didnt go so well so hes letting out some of his anger the article got deleted for its clear violations on NPOV 86.158.237.159 (talk) 17:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

"Notable alumni" of minor league teams
Hi. Another editor, NatureBoyMD, has come up with what I think is a good and thoughtful template and conditions for a "notable alumni" list for a minor league team that interests him. See. I thought that before he finalizes it, it/he might benefit from you taking a glance at it, and giving him any comments that you may have, since I could see it being used for other minor league teams (its better than anything I've seen), and you are a baseball editor whose views I respect. Feel free to leave your comments on it for him on my home talk page at the above url, as that is where he and I have been discussing it. Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 05:35, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Blocked
My IP address at my apartment (98.231.16.46) is blocked. It wont let me edit any pages (even discussion pages) from there, so I have to do everything from work until this is resolved. I have no idea how this block happened, but have been told my other admins that only you can resolve it. Please advise. Thank you. Huntmog (talk) 17:27, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

nangparbat
--Wikireader41 (talk) 18:21, 23 March 2009 (UTC) please consider blocking him and protecting some of these pages --Wikireader41 (talk) 13:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

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You blocked the IP range of an ISP
You blocked the IP range 200.74.184.0/22 which belongs to Gtd, a Chilean ISP. Many innocent users are be affected, including myself. Secdio (talk) 02:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

re: taijitu
Nishkid, with respect to this: - is that sock accusation factual or speculative? the credibility tags seemed excessive to me, but not necessarily bad faith, so I'm wondering what information you have that I lack.

honestly, I was looking forward to a little credibility-checking there: that article only exists because another editor was very aggressive about pushing a minor point; it was easier to start a new article on the taijitu than get into an edit war at yinyang. -- Ludwigs 2 05:53, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

comment requested
I have opened an Unban request on behalf of Jvolkblum and others, which also includes a ban request on Orlady, at Administrators' noticeboard. User:MBisanz expressed interest in hearing your views. doncram (talk) 00:34, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

nangparbat

 * Dealt with. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:01, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Tor blocks
Thanks -- he did 2 more after your blocks. NawlinWiki (talk) 04:19, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

could you please help out?
I am currently a graduate student, working on a semester project regarding Wikipedia. I was hoping you would be able to privately answer a few questions in reference to your personal experience with Wikipedia in order for me to get your view on the website. The questions are on my user page, and if you could answer in them in word and e-mail them to the address shown that would be really helpful. Your anonymity is assured, and any personal information you give will never be used outside of this questionnaire. Thank you for your time.Curesearcher (talk) 02:46, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Nangparbat
hi ths is suspicious --Wikireader41 (talk) 18:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Ganguly
Surprising how quickly regionalism can flame massive tensions in India. On testy comment and all of a sudden, there's a stack of angry comments, mostly from a Bengali forum..... and then 3.5% of readers comment, instead of the usual 0.2% of readers....  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 05:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like Wikipedia repeating itself, lol  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 05:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Nishkid, we need REAL justice in Wikipedia!
"Appear" is not a sure accusation. A "coincidence" cannot rule a sure accusation, in any court of the western world. And the CU "popped up" can be the usual hacker's action. We need REAL justice in wikipedia! Nishkid, are you of Slavic roots? It is very strange that you ADD even two other names to the accusation (Againstantism and Right2).--DuilioM (talk) 18:42, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Anwar saadat
Hey,

A user you blocked recently has returned causing more trouble and after failing to win an argument has put me up for trial at.

I feel that this User: Anwar saadat has decided to pursue a case after understanding what he has been doing is wrong. You may check his recent edit history, where he has altered GAs and long-term stable articles causing edit wars involving several users. Furthermore what comes as a shock, is that he is going against Wikiproject:Indian cinema and deleting whole sections of GA articles, claiming they "are unneccessary to him". More recently, he has been stalking my edits and has been trying to frame me out in every single way possible through images. I find it shocking, how this can continue!

In a personal claim, I find it quite shocking to see why he is still editing, looking at his edit history - he has been BLOCKED twenty one times and has been allowed to continue to stay on and edit inconstructively. Moreover in his time, he has been blocked for : '''disruption, stalking, WP:3RR, gross violations, racist abuse, trolling, anti-Hindu remarks in extremist favour of Islam, straight reverting and sockpuppetry. I cannot believe, why he is still editing. I'm sure that racism alone is enough to get one permanently blocked, and with over 20 blocks, I'm very shocked. Hopefully you could help, get rid of him once and for all.

Moreover, I think this edit sums this character up. Here, try not to laugh!!!

Cheers. Universal Hero (talk) 15:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Follow-up re: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Brunodam - two more accounts
Hi Nishkid, further to this SPI case that you CU'd yesterday, a corresponding CU at itwiki has confirmed your results, and also turned up two other accounts that also exist here at enwiki. They are User:Mrs.Maria and User:Duilmodena. At enwiki, so far, Mrs.Maria is (very marginally) active - with a couple of amusing talk page posts, and  - while Duilmodena is a sleeper. Should I wait for either of them to edit again and file a new SPI or is there enough there for them to be nuked? Regards, AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 16:53, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

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New Rochelle discussion notice
New Rochelle problem discussion notification: I've opened a new discussion at Administrators' noticeboard.

This relates to the 4 part proposal i opened on March 26, which was closed on March 27 and archived at Administrators' noticeboard/Archive187.

This is a courtesy notice to all parties who had more than a one word comment in the previous discussion. I think it is a problem that won't go away, and I hope that you will be part of the solution, whether or not you and I have agreed previously. I hope that we can at least clarify the problem, if not immediately agree upon a solution. If anyone thinks this is inappropriate canvassing, I am sure they will express that. I don't anticipate too many separated discussions on this topic, but if this one is closed and a new one opens, I'll probably notify you again, unless you ask me not to. doncram (talk) 03:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Request for arbitration - Unjustified ban of users
I have filed a request for arbitration regarding recent bans of user accounts from which no activities could be found that dispupt Wikipedia. The arbitration request can be found here: Requests for arbitration You are not mentioned as an involved party, I send you this message as a courtesy for your information, and I hope that your opinion there can contribute to solve the issue. Thank you! doxTxob \ talk 23:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

FAR Dhaka
Hi Nishkid, can you please take a look again and comment? We have fixed almost all the issues raised by the reviewers, so let us know if you have any other issues. If there are, please point them out at the FAR page so that we can fix them. Thanks in advance. --Ragib (talk) 23:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry! I'll try getting on that when an open block of time frees up in my schedule. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 17:41, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Checkuser
Hi,

Regards the ResearchEditor checkuser, previous RCU turned up accounts I hadn't flagged, but were by the same sockmaster. I've only seen this the one time, does RCU turn up all these accounts and it's legit to report them, or was it a one-time error? If this is standard, does this mean no more sock accounts were active? Thanks, WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules: simple/complex 17:46, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * If you check both reports of the last sock investigation, on Feb 15th I reported 12 but got conclusions on 25; for the March 2nd report, I reported only Mmerct and Henry James Fan, but Kanonkas gave conclusions on three accounts (the above 2 plus Evetin). So I guess I lied, it happened twice.  Basically I'm wondering if the RFCU now always reports all accounts used in a specific time period.  Thanks, WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules: simple/complex 17:57, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Lovely, thanks. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules: simple/complex 20:11, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Old sock back?
Hi Nishkid...remember this very prolific sock account that you helped me with? I'm suspecting that User:Gercekkaynarca might be a reappearance of this guy, based on some similar edits. Might I trouble you for a confirmation? Many thanks!  AK Radecki Speaketh  18:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

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Article needing feedback
Since you got 1926 World Series to FA status, do you think you could take a look at 2004 World Series at some piont. I am hopful I can get it to FA status also. Thanks for any help in advance. BUC (talk) 11:03, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Query on block
Hello. I saw that you did a checkuserblock on for one year. Having previously dealt with this IP as being used by the sockmaster Qwertgb (a la ), I was wondering if your block was related to this vandal, or someone else? Thanks, — Kralizec! (talk) 18:42, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Sir, can you move the article New York City from full protection to its previous semi-protection state, since an agreement was successfully reached?
I'd be glad if you could. User Loodong and I finally reached a consensus on how to word the disputed sentence, but after concluding our thoughts, we now have found enough common ground to properly render the sentence. However, to do so, you first have to remove the article's full protection, and instead place back its semi protection. That way, we'll be able to edit it. By the way, I like the picture of your user page. I have a passion for photography! --Pgecaj (talk) 21:02, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Advice for adminship
Hi

I was wondering if you could give me advice for becoming an administrator. What I mean is that what should I do to be worthy of being an administrator? Carabera (talk) 22:13, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Obama talk page
Hi - I don't know if you feel that 's complaints about the way you handled 's block disqualifies you from further administrative work on the Obama pages, but if you'll take a look, the grandstanding on Grundle2600's talk page seems to have spilled over to Talk:Barack Obama as well. I will probably seek to add COM to the list of parties at the Obama arbitration case but in the meanwhile, there is a messy thread on the Obama talk page where I really hope we can encourage everyone to drop and move on. Thanks, Wikidemon (talk) 01:52, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Update. The situation seems to have quickly deteriorated in my absence, after I posted the above.  Accordingly I have filed an AN/I report here in attempt to deal with the discussion at Talk:Barack Obama. Thanks, Wikidemon (talk) 07:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Sock of User:Hkelkar
Hi, I am having a problem with an IP who appears to be "Hkelkar." The IP is, which geolocates to Austin, TX. I noticed that his editing is similar to User:Vacuumloops, who you blocked as Hkelkar. Sure enough, many of suspected sockpuppets of Hkelkar also point to Austin, TX.

If you agree, can you please block? Chedorlaomer (talk) 22:41, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Blocked. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:56, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Another: . What's wrong with this guy? He appears to have a thousand sockpuppets. Chedorlaomer (talk) 17:30, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Also . Chedorlaomer (talk) 17:33, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Another . Thanks for all of your help with this, by the way. Chedorlaomer (talk) 20:52, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Possibly also . Similar views and style as Hkelkar. It isn't as obvious as the others, at least based on my very limited experience of this user, but I am suspicious based on what I have seen so far. Are you able to check? Chedorlaomer (talk) 07:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Generals
Hi I am the original author of this article.
 * Please do not merge this article with article Ranjit Singh, as you have done with Nishkid64.

on the other hand the topic of the article Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Generals could be better developed with much more specific references without cluttering the main article. Cheers Intothefire (talk) 06:22, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe the article on Ranjit Singh broadly needs to cover many aspects of this incredible historical figure ,

Nice reply, appreciate your polite mannerism.

Gorkhali (talk) 05:31, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Gercekkaynarca
Hi, this user is most insistent that he isn't User:VivaNorthCyprus despite your CUblock. I did think of just locking his talkpage, but I suppose AGF is in order, so I have put his latest unblock request on hold for you to comment. Thanks, Black Kite 09:56, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion to tag a blocked sockpuppet
When C S mentioned that an editor working on a mathematical article has been blocked as a sockpuppet of a banned user, I became curious and went to User talk:Lagelspeil. It turned out that there was no indication of any problems there, and I couldn't find any in the user's edit history either. If I had been interested in this editor for unrelated reasons, I would have had no reason to look at their block log and see they are blocked. As it is, I still don't know who the puppet master was. Your block was on 2 April, and around that date I also couldn't find anything relevant in your contribution history. Are there special reasons for this secrecy, or did you just forget to do some steps? --Hans Adler (talk) 11:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

User:ShivNarayanan
For your information  Roger Davies  talk 16:24, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Nishkid6_4
Is Nishkid6_4 one of your accounts? This user created an account today on my.wikipedia.org, but hasn't edited yet. His username looks very similar to yours. GT5162 (我的对话页) 17:16, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. I see that his global account was locked. (In case you were wondering how I found out about that account, I was monitoring recent changes on small Wikimedia wikis on IRC channel #cvn-sw when that name appeared). GT5162 (我的对话页) 20:32, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

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Fujimori
Thanks, that was fast! --BorgQueen (talk) 18:14, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Hamish Ross socks
Just got five of them (starting with User:The JPSlaphead), and I bet there's a sixth that I missed. Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 21:37, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you! NawlinWiki (talk) 21:48, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * More Hamish socks, on what appear to be at least 3 different IPs. Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 20:30, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

The Rolling Camel
Was that block a mistake or am I missing something? -- aktsu (t / c) 21:09, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * NM, read your message on his talk page... Good catch I suppose, never saw that coming.. -- aktsu (t / c) 21:16, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

User talk:91.108.248.228
Please see the request on the above page. There's nothing ominous in the language of the request, but a request for private information like this is itself concerning. Of course, for all we know he or she could want to send you a snail mail thank you note. Anyway, I'm sure you'd want to know about this.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:48, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Romila Thapar
Can you take at the recent edits to this article, and the talk-page discussions about labeling her (and other historians) "Marxist" ? While User:Nshuks7 has at least been trying to look for sources and defend this edit; some newly-revived old accounts are just blindly reverting to their preferred version. User:Regents Park and I have manged to clean up the BLP violations, but I am pinging you and User:Akhilleus, since you have been previously involved with this article and may recognize editing-patterns. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 23:49, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the check. You'll need to do the blocking too ... unless you are ready to lend me your admin bit. :) Abecedare (talk) 02:15, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Still more...
...on at least 2 IPs, and I saw your rangeblock. Maybe it should be bigger? Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 00:40, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the fast response! NawlinWiki (talk) 00:55, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Articles_for_deletion/India_and_state_terrorism
Hi Nishkid, Another editor pointed this out on my talk page and thinks they might be sockpuppets. Both those users have !voted at the AfD. Probably just canvassing going on, but thought you should know. best, Priyanath talk 15:02, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

New User
Hello there: I see that you’ve blocked user for abusing multiple accounts:. It’s my suspicion -yet unconfirmed- that the same user is back with a different alias. has the same editing style, also translates from German and is targeting very similar (in fact the same) articles that El Azteca was working on. I’m not planning on filing a complaint, since I don’t see his edits as malicious, but I just wanted to let you know about this new user, perhaps, you might want look into it.

Regards, Likeminas (talk) 20:22, 9 April 2009 (UTC)