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Not vandalism on my part; just lots of incompetence on my part
It was the first time I was trying to nominate an article for deletion Sanand Mitra I realized I was causing chaos so I apologize. I have asked for help from the Teahouse. Flibbertigibbets (talk) 23:26, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Blocking IPs
The two-year proxy block is less. Web don't use this block. Thanks Mesisese (talk) 21:56, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:44, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

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Question regarding sockpuppetry case
Dear ST47,

Do you comment on the given evidence in sockpuppet investigations, or is it just CheckUser stuff? I have found quite a bit of evidence for Sockpuppet_investigations/Dallavid and another user that may be a sock. Ayıntaplı (talk) 23:42, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Checkuser comments are based on the technical evidence discovered during the check. Unlikely means that while I can't completely discard the possibility that the accounts are related, there is evidence that they are not connected. ST47 (talk) 02:54, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, I thought you said unlikely based on technical evidence. Sorry, then. Ayıntaplı (talk) 03:11, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Tban violation
Hi, I've noticed an SPI involving my name. I'm not even going to comment on that farse in detail, ironically from someone who was  actually confirmed to be socking, and another editor commenting hours after the SPI, both of which had disagreements with me in a number of articles. For the record, I've participated in discussions involving user Dallavid (as with other editors quite active in AA2 topic), but that’s it - I've never talked with them or even emailed once, so the accusations to me are quite laughable. Golden may try to request any checks they want, but nothing will come out of it as there is nothing to come out (as evident by the CheckUser). I'm not a "sock" of anybody, and will never be.

What I wanted to ask whether the whole report or at least parts of it are a violation of Golden's current topic ban from AA2 conflicts (broadly construed), like discussing/linking an edit of mine in their SPI involving a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan? Could an admin / clerk confirm this?

p.s. Golden mentions "village articles" in their SPI, completely omitting the part where there was an entire discussion about those villages. Anybody involved in the discussion could've easily seen these village edits. But that would blow Golden's entire conspiracy out of the window, wouldn't it? Ironically enough, all the edits Mfikriansori (user from the discussion) restored were Golden's own additions in the articles (see any of their edits from 14th November and check article histories). But what do I know, all of these took me 15minutes to find out while Golden made up a whole conspiracy omitting various important details.

p.s.2. I think someone's onto something; "The name Dallavid has an Italian feel to it, given that "dalla" in Italian means "from the," while ZaniGiovanni is directly an Italian name." - lol. Also, apparently saying "per ..." or commenting about quotes from WP:RS (meaning actually doing your research) is exclusive to me, I guess a good chunk of Wikipedia editors are socks now. This is the quality of the discourse/arguments in AA2, unfortunately. And when the CheckUser falls flat, the 'new evidence' is this subpar. Not surprising to me considering the "Italian" bit earlier.

Anyway, I'd appreciate your thoughts regarding the tban violation. ZaniGiovanni (talk) 16:07, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * If you have a concern about an AE topic ban, you can report it to WP:AE. I do not consider it to be a topic ban violation to make a good faith report of something that needs administrative attention. ST47 (talk) 16:59, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll think about reporting in AE. Thanks for your time. ZaniGiovanni (talk) 17:10, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas
Hello, I wanted to say merry christmas, and sorry for my vandalism from a few years ago. I was pretty terrible, and your block served me well. enjoy your christmas. 50.103.193.199 (talk) 07:09, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

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Block adjustment for dashboard.wikiedu.org
Hi! Could you adjust this block so that it avoids hitting dashboard.wikiedu.org? On IPv6, it uses 2600:3c01::f03c:93ff:fe24:db1b. Thanks! Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:48, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Done. You guys really need to get that into a WMF IP range instead of trying to create accounts from a public webhost. ST47 (talk) 02:10, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * We very rarely create any account from the dashboard.wikiedu.org server; OAuth edits come through it (including from many new users), but nearly all the instructors and student editors create their own accounts the normal way. Moving to a WMF range would be challenging, because Wikimedia Cloud doesn't support custom domains and we also do incoming and outgoing email. Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:22, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

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Unblock
{{unblock|reason= I mistakenly tried to edit Wikipedia while I was incognito on chrome that is why my IP address (102.89.22.25) has been blocked by (ST47ProxyBot) I was just trying to update a page please kindly review my block and unblock my IP address (102.89.22.25) thank you. Laolu4 (talk) 14:37, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

159.100.170.0/23
Could you please block with the same block settings as. They belong to the same VPN cloud network. Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 19:58, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

WP:IPECPROXY request or solution
Hello @ST47,

Few days ago I received a notification of IP block on my talk page here. I had requested it to unblock but Admin declined my request per ''Your account and the first IP (103.111.39.247) aren't blocked, but the last one is(180.178.170.225). So I can't unblock you when you aren't directly blocked'', and suggested me to request IP block exemption that's why I approached you. Can you please assist me and solve the problem to prevent the future IP block. Thank you. M.Ashraf333 (talk) 07:21, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
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IP Block of 199.15.248.0/21
Hello, I believe that you blocked my IP address 199.15.248.51 (part of 199.15.248.0/21) because it was allegedly from a co-location or VPN provider. However this block is effecting normal Wikipedia users, people trying to follow the rules. The IP range 199.15.248.0/24 is used by the ISP Morgan Wireless. Morgan Wireless is owned by their parent, Reliable Hosting LLC. Morgan Wireless uses the range 199.15.248.0 – 199.15.248.255, while Reliable Hosting uses the range 199.15.249.0 – 199.15.255.255. Doing a WHOIS (not using ISP Range Finder, but something else) on 199.15.248.0 you can see that the range 199.15.248.0/24 is used by Morgan Wireless in the second ARIN entry which is not visible to ISP Range Finder. Since an IP Address can’t be used by two different things at the same time, 199.15.248.0/24 can only be used by Morgan Wireless. Since Morgan Wireless uses Static IP addresses for both residential and business users, this block could be easily resolved by allowing 199.15.248.0/24 to edit Wikipedia. Thanks in advance, I look forward to getting this resolved. I&#39;mTheITGuy (talk) 00:21, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
 * , Thanks for the info, I have unblocked that range. ST47 (talk) 20:37, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
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Arbitration
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User logs in only through P2P proxies
Hello ST47. A certain registered user is found by running a CU to be exclusively using P2P proxies for access to Wikipedia. At least, he is using accounts that were previously blocked at least once by ST47ProxyBot. Reviewing the contributions of these accounts reveals blocks marked as "API-confirmed P2P VPN".

The account is about a month old and has used a succession of different formerly-blocked proxies, one for each login, so a small number of new proxy blocks wouldn't help. In your opinion, does this behavior violate any policies? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 17:43, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Responding via email. ST47 (talk) 20:13, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your analysis. I have replied. EdJohnston (talk) 00:19, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * A link to the user's page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on . This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Could you do some webhost blocks?
I stumbled upon this Special:Contributions/185.183.179.65/24 webhost range, owned by                                            Ibraheem Massalha who apparently uses https://ipinfo.io/AS17252 and https://ipinfo.io/AS42366 for his webhost company. I think the AS17252 ranges have all been blocked but there's a lot of AS42366 ranges which should probably be blocked. Wondering if you could do that? Galobtter (talk) 06:49, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Please advise
At viwki, there is an Long term abuser with a long history of Proxy/VPN abuse. Specifically, this user paid to rent a VPN service through an app that they could switch between IPs when abusing. We used to implement IP range blocking over ASN in the past, but now they have bought a new VPN plan. Is there a way to thoroughly handle this problem (for example, completely blocking App VPN)? Thank you. Tryvix1509 Let me know if I made a mistake 04:56, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
 * , there are some steps that we're taking to block some of the various VPN services, but there are a number of different types of services, not all can be easily blocked, and some will leave collateral damage due to the IP addresses used by the proxy service being closely interspersed with normal residential customers. If there's a specific service that you have in mind, please let me know - but know that the answer will probably be that the WMF themselves would be in the best position to defend against such situations by expanding the automatic blocking of Tor exit nodes to also use VPN threat intelligence feeds. We have asked them to do this, for example at restricted Phabricator task T265845, but there has not been much interest. ST47 (talk) 23:58, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. Next time, when I have more free time, I will list the IPs that this LTA uses.  However, there was a sysop in the past that implemented a strategy in proxy blocking, and it seems to work quite well, see vi:User:Plantaest/Nháp 26. Also, I see you have, how does your bot work? P/s: Looks like I don't have permission to view the Phab task. Tryvix1509 Let me know if I made a mistake 14:47, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

A lot of edits
I'm just patrolling the recent changes page, and your "changing block settings" takes up ~85% of all of the changes I'm seeing? Is this a glitch or something? Not accusing you of anything, just wondering. AugustusAudax (talk) 01:06, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * What is your recent changes filter? Tryvix1509 Let me know if I made a mistake 14:48, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Just the default. AugustusAudax (talk) 15:25, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * , I was extending a number of IP rangeblocks targetting proxies and VPNs which were set to expire soon, but which are still relevant. You can hide "logged actions" from recent changes if you wish to see only edits. ST47 (talk) 17:23, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
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Chile-based dynamic IP
Hi, there's a Chile-based dynamic IP that you keep catching and blocking for around three days. Latest incarnation,. "blocked 190.21.175.19 talk with an expiration time of 2 days and 23 hours (account creation blocked) ‎(blocked p2p proxy|ip=190.21.175.19|isp=Movistar Fibra ".

However, by the time you block them, or pages are again protected, or IP range blocks are applied (diverse range of IPs), or they've clocked up four user warnings for the same, repeated, disruptive edits against consensus (reverted by numerous other editors), they've already moved on, or else they come back again and again in another guise. I've started issuing level 3 notices immediately, but it's like playing whack-a-mole. I do wonder if the editor is on the spectrum.

Not sure if you could help, and any advice would be appreciated, thanks.  Esowteric +  Talk  +  Breadcrumbs   09:48, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
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Guideline and policy news
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 * Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
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Why are web-hosted IP addresses blocked for editing for logged-in editors?
I can see why it is wise to keep anonymous users from editing using a web-hosted address. I do not quite grasp the rationale for also disallowing this for registered and logged-in editors --Lambiam 12:42, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * It is trivial to register any number of accounts through ranges that are blocked with account creation allowed. ST47 (talk) 03:09, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * So do all methods that block account creation for anonymous users have the side effect that they also block editing for registered and logged-in editors? --Lambiam 21:26, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

IP Block
Hello. Yesterday while making edits, I saw a notice The IP address (223.123.91.99) that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be used by a peer-to-peer proxy service I immediately submitted an unblock request because I am not using any VPN or any other software for changing IPs. I am using a "Data Sim of Zong Mobile network operator company" since last few weeks without any problem. But my request was declined with the reason that it's Confirmed p2p proxy. Now today when I logged-In, I realized that I am no longer blocked and I can make edits. when I checked, my IP address is now changed to 223.123.85.49. While it's a good news for me but now I am worried that what if I am blocked again. Can you please tell me what should I do to keep myself safe from block as right now I don't have any other internet and I will be relying on "Data Sim of Zong Mobile network operator company" for making edits in future as well. Your guidance will be highly appreciated. Note I don't know if this is the right place to seek guidance or not. I posted the query here because the Bot which blocked my IP was developed by you I guess. Charsaddian (talk) 13:31, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).



Administrator changes
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 * Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist.

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 * The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
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ST47ProxyBot
ST47ProxyBot recently blocked 83.137.6.233. Nearby 83.137.6.238 quacks similarly. Should I do anything to encourage it to be checked, or does this happen automatically? Certes (talk) 11:08, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

10.80.1.6
ST47ProxyBot recently blocked (see here), claiming it was blocking https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3A10.80.1.6. This appears to be an actual mistake. 10.0.0.0/8 is a private IP address range, as I'm sure you are aware. :) --Yamla (talk) 13:57, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * (I lifted the block, but am raising the issue because I think this is an actual bug) --Yamla (talk) 13:58, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah it definitely is a bug because I got blocked! Vacant0 (talk) 13:59, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @Yamla It also blocked, and . 163.1.15.238 (talk) 14:01, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, i lifted the block. I can't access the log of the bot blocks so couldn't see if it had blocked more. --Yamla (talk) 14:03, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @Yamla Try this link: 163.1.15.238 (talk) 14:04, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Of course. Thanks for your help, anonymous user! :) --Yamla (talk) 14:08, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @Yamla The bot just blocked . 163.1.15.238 (talk) 14:11, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I blocked the bot. ST47, you are free to lift the block without consulting me once you are convinced it's fixed (or... working correctly...?!?). --Yamla (talk) 14:14, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

indicates this is a bug, so probably unrelated to the bot. See Phabricator. Again, any admin is free to lift the block on the bot without consulting me, once they think it is safe to do so. --Yamla (talk) 14:22, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Looks to be resolved so I lifted the block on the bot. --Yamla (talk) 14:47, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * This is quite bizarre. My immediate guess is that the bot was using legitimate proxies to access enwiki, and since I do ask the wikipedia API what it thinks my IP address, that's probably the reason for the blocks targetting this internal IP. Please feel free to re-block if the issue persists, otherwise I'll be working on whitelisting internal IP address ranges between meetings. Thanks, ST47 (talk) 14:55, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * This may be completely wrong, and forgive me if it is, but I don't think it was a bug with your bot - Get my IP address was misreporting IPs as 10.x.x.x rather than their actual external IPs. If the bot used the same IP-checking-method as that project, it would also break - indicating a fault on the backend rather than with your implementation. Couruu (talk) 15:02, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @Couruu, Wikipedia:Get my IP address also relies on the API, it uses in the background.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>ST47, you could also make the same request on both Wikipedia and beta cluster Wikipedia, if there's any discrepancy you'd know something's up.<span id="Alexis_Jazz:1692719343698:User_talkFTTCLNST47" class="FTTCmt"> — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:49, 22 August 2023 (UTC)