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Protect 2

Please Protect a Skibidi Toilet, New Users and IP are Vandalized Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 21:30, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Note: Has been fixed, but not protected. 2601:402:4400:3A90:1A65:8685:647F:29F3 (talk) 22:14, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Administrators, Protect a Skibidi Toilet Article because article completely vandalism Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 03:03, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Some Rfds aren't listed at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion

They are the following:

• Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Battle of Dali
• Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Battle of Jassar Bridge
• Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Capture of Kishangarh Fort
• Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Indo-Pakistani war of 1965
• Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Kadhalan
• Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Operation Kahuta

Depextual (talk) 23:45, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Listed and closure date has been updated. BRP ^ever 00:15, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

@BRPever It didn't work. The pages will show 7 days after the time that they are viewed, not 7 days after you edited them. Depextual (talk) 00:21, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Well, they will probably show 7 days after they were last purged or edited. Depextual (talk) 00:22, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

What do you mean? I manually listed them and then updated the closure date as 7 days from today. BRP ^ever 00:24, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

@BRPever If you look at the wikitext, they just say

{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#time: H:i, j F Y "(UTC)"|+7 days}}

As it's not actually substituted, it will always show the time 7 days in the future. Depextual (talk) 00:28, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Ah, fixed.-BRP ^ever 00:45, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

@Depextual: In the future, you might want to contact the people who created the unlisted RfDs and let them know they have to list them. It doesn't really require an admin.

@Mr.Hanes and Kuskrey: Please take note: when you create an RfD, you need to list it at the page indicated above. You should also notify the page creator that the RfD has been created. -- Auntof6 (talk) 00:41, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

My bad , I notified the page creator but forgot to list them will do list RFDs in future Mr.Hanes (talk) 03:54, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

ok, Sure will follow your instructions Ksy 05:58, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

@Mr.Hanes, @Kuskrey: Thanks to both of you! If you have any questions about the process, feel free to ask. -- Auntof6 (talk) 07:25, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Move request 3

Hi, Could someone move Hick to Redneck please per enwiki please?, Many Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 02:35, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

@Davey2010  Done — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 03:25, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Fehufangą much appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 11:47, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Revdel talk messages

This edit and this edit on my talk page. Both messages are highly disturbing, and the second is gender-stereotypical. ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 01:11, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Asteralee  Done — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 01:14, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Fehufanga Thank you very much :) ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 13:06, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Sock Puppet Account in English Wikipedia

Noting to do here.-BRP ^ever 16:17, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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I suspected account as sock in English Wikipedia,

EnSingHemm

AppGoo0011

They evade block by creating multiple accounts. Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 04:13, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Raayaan9911 They haven't even edited here. Why are you reporting this? BRP ^ever 04:51, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@BRPever Because i Found a sock, in Article Please check their user talk page and contribs in both account (EngSingHem and AppGoo0011) Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 05:01, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Raayaan9911 This is the Simple English Wikipedia, not the English Wikipedia. Make a report on the English Wikipedia's sockpuppetry investigations page, not here. Simple English Wikipedia admins are not automatically admins the English Wikipedia, unless you happen to be an admin at both wikis. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 06:41, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Fehufanga, I can't make report in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations because my account, check in my user talk page in English Wikipedia Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 16:08, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Raayaan9911 My advice is that you should stay away from anything to do with the English Wikipedia here, because of your block. Do not report incidents on the English Wikipedia here. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 22:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Fehufanga, My account is Blocked Mistake and Misunderstood. I don't report in English Wikipedia here, I don't edit in English Wikipedia and I don't do anything that restricted in English Wikipedia until My Block is Lifted, I understood a Wikipedia Rules in English Wikipedia. Thank you Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 22:42, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

[non-administrator comment]. If you are blocked from the English Wikipedia, you should not report English Wikipedia issues elsewhere. The two projects are not tied in that way. As an English Wikipedia admin I wouldn't feel comfortable making edits suggested from people blocked. See proxy editing Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:52, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

@Lee Vilenski, I wouldn't report issue in English Wikipedia Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 16:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

So, why do it here? Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:04, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

i didn't do anything Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 16:14, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

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Copyvios for November 14th

@Davey2010 - Special:Diff/9878934 copies https://operations.nfl.com/media/24emxacq/2024-nfl-rulebook.pdf ⸺(Random)staplers 05:26, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Randomstaplers  Done — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 06:44, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Randomstaplers for noticing and actioning this –Davey2010^Talk 12:47, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Protection

Protect User talk:Tim Cheng koros, long term abuse target. ToadetteEdit (talk) 07:05, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@ToadetteEdit  Done — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:17, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Request for removal of rollback permission

Hi, I'd like for my rollback permission to be removed. I've been inactive for long periods of time and probably won't be returning to changing Simple Wikipedia. Thank you for having me. – Angerxiety^! 05:35, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done MathXplore (talk) 05:39, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Revdel and Protect

Hi. I'm requesting that this diff (disturbing), this diff (disturbing), and this diff (racial comment against me) be hidden. Also, I request the protection of my talk page for a week because in this past month, I have had three vandalism comments (and one IP threatening to rape me as of some of the hidden diffs). ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 22:56, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

I have deleted the respective revisions, and protected your talk page Eptalon (talk) 23:20, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

@Eptalon Thank you very much :) ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 01:02, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Protect 4

Hello! I'm requesting that Mahathir Mohamad be protected as its gotten many blankings in the past month. ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 16:46, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Done for 1 month fr33kman 16:48, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much :) ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 16:53, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Paid User Alert

Hello Admins From past 1 month i am observing there are many People making paid pages on simple wikipedia. People who are not having any news article and having 2-3 paid article also getting live here. And Scammers are using fake references as well with fake references. And a user @Symonds Gerother is involved in it because today i inserted qd in 5-10 non notable pages and he revereted all the changes and removed qd. So he is also involved in the group of people who are making paid pages of non notable people so deleted all the pages on which i have inserted qd and which has been remove by @Symonds Gerother and Block this user.

thanks and regards Kindlt (talk) 16:11, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

He is blocked on other wikis for sockpuppetry, and such. But do you have solid evidence that he's a paid editor? I doubt he's making those, just non-notable doctors and entrepreneurs at most (We have a lot of those being created in this wiki). His page creations seem to be pretty normal, I suppose. And those pages that were created look notable. RiggedMint 16:32, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

He is a sockpuppet of Amansharma and you just open his user changes he is removing Qds on many pages using pseudo links and fake sources having no signs of notability so its a clear sign that hs is linked to the paid pages part. Kindlt (talk) 16:59, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Some Pages are: Sahil Luthra, Suganthan Vishnu Krisnarajah, Chirag Bhandari, Santosh Shetty, Amit Chakraborty, Vedic Legal, Kislay Panday, Hindustan Asset Reconciliation and Securitisation Limited, Mayank Daral, M.S. Faizal Khan, DJ Manzee, Ram Mani Pandey, Chirag Gajera, He have removed Qds- A4 for all these pages so its clear sign he is associated with all these pages and all these pages are using fake or pseduo paid references and these are just the pages that i saw like this many pages might be there on simple wikipedia related to him. so please check all these pages and take necessary action with this pages and even with this USER @Symonds Gerother

thanks and regards Kindlt (talk) 17:07, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@Kindlt yes you are right @Kuskrey is also a part of sock puppetry with @Symonds Gerother 2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:0:0:504B:B500 (talk) 17:12, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Admin kindly check the this above user has been created recently and I Believe there are group of people who are doing scam on this platform. Please check in detail. Ksy 17:21, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@Kuskrey You are a sock Puppet along with @Asteralee is also a sock @Kindlt is right I am with you sir 2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:0:0:504B:B500 (talk) 17:24, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Do you have reasoning that they are socks? Or is it hearsay? Clearly if you're just blaring out people saying they're socks and/or paid editors without reason or evidence, then you're clearly attacking the person. RiggedMint 17:29, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@RiggedMint we have all the proofs @Kindlt will sharing in a while. @RiggedMint I think you are also a part of this 2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:0:0:504B:B500 (talk) 17:31, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Part of what? I am clearly saying I have reasonable suspicion that you are attacking the person presented. RiggedMint 17:37, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@Kuskrey you are doing spam with @Symonds Gerother I am with @Kindlt @Depextual

I am sharing list of Sock Puppet

@Kuskrey@Symonds Gerother 2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:0:0:504B:B500 (talk) 17:29, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Please do not put words into my mouth. I do not believe that Kuskrey and Symonds Gerother are the same user. Depextual (talk) 17:31, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Now After this discussion its looking real that @Kuskrey @Asteralee @Depextual are sockpuppet of @Symonds Gerother and they are playing very planned and big game over here because their editing habits are matching and are related to many similar pages. Kindlt (talk) 17:33, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@Kindlt yes you are right @RiggedMint is also a part of Sock puppetry @Ravensfire please sir clarify all. 2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:0:0:504B:B500 (talk) 17:36, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

I have been here in simplewiki way longer than symonds (since 2021). I have no reason or intention to sock? RiggedMint 17:42, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Some of the bludgeoning needs to stop. Your points have been made and it's making this extremely hard to read and follow. Commenting over and over with demands is getting counterproductive. Ravensfire (talk) 17:37, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@Ravensfire just clear all thing to these all sock puppets sir

@Kuskrey@RiggedMint @Asteralee @Symonds Gerother 2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:0:0:504B:B500 (talk) 17:42, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@RiggedMint you are fool @Kindlt is right they are socks and doing sock puppetry 2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:0:0:504B:B500 (talk) 17:15, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Admin kindly check there are group of Scammer on this platform and @2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:0:0:504B:B500 is part of it. As it is created recently with 2 to 4 edit and creating Scam on this platform. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4055:2e15:dbee::504b:b500 (talk) 17:42, November 19, 2024 (UTC)

A couple of the articles I've looked at are not good - poor sources at best, promotional in tone. Some of the articles where Symonds Gerother has removed a QD tag are 100% warranted though. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Democratic Party (United States)? Alia Bhat? Ranbir Kapoor? Give me a break - those are absolutely disruptive tags where SG was doing what any good faith editor should have done. Kindlt and IP, you're going WAY over the top here and ignoring good faith and justified edits. Not helpful. Ravensfire (talk) 17:43, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

See articles tagged by Special:Contributions/2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:A8A2:B203:2576:8A3C - those are all bad-faith QD's on clearly notable articles. Cleanup may be needed, but a QD is way out of line. Ravensfire (talk) 17:46, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@Ravensfire sir @Kindlt he is right @Symonds Gerother is a sock Puppet and @Kuskrey @Asteralee @Depextual @RiggedMint also a part of sock puppetry@Kindlt have proofs he will show in a while @Ravensfire sir you also agreed that @Symonds Gerother is also a sock Puppet 2409:4055:2E15:DBEE:0:0:504B:B500 (talk) 17:47, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Do you have any proof of these claims? If the answer is no, then stop trying to spread this "info" without any proof. If the answer is yes, then please share the proof here instead of restating the same thing over and over again.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 11:29, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

• I've RFD'd some of the articles, Symonds Gerother why was this user reverted without any edit summary or help?, You could've left them a message telling them the steps to take to RFD it or failing that RFD'd them yourself, Your actions with this user leave much to be desired if I'm being honest. –Davey2010^Talk 20:03, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

  I sincerely apologize for my mistake and acknowledge that I was wrong to remove the QD tags. When I observed a new user and a random IP address marking multiple articles for quick deletion in a short period, I assumed it could be potential vandalism. Acting in good faith, I reverted those changes. Symonds Gerother (talk) 20:05, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Symonds Gerother articles

Symonds Gerother was blocked a few days ago, and I've been going through some of the articles they've created and it's not pretty. There's a lot of unsourced and really over-the-top promotional fluff that you don't find in the enwiki version, so it's purely from SG's editing. Suhasini Maniratnam is a good example of this, here is all of the fluff I've removed from that article, when you look at w:Suhasini Maniratnam on enwiki, it didn't have any of the fluff. They have also used highly questionable sources in articles. On Shaik AllaBakashu, they included 9+ sources that are basically the same 2-3 paragraphs with slight rephrasing in all of them. [1], [2], [3] as examples. A bare minimum of checking would have started raising concerns in a good faith editor looking for sources.

I'm going through some of his articles, and nearly all of the India related articles have had problems. Some of them are for clearly notable people, but there's a lot of bad material and just bad articles. Any thoughts on the best approach to deal with this? I cannot assume good faith anymore with them and strongly suspect they have been an undeclared paid editor pushing articles on non-notable subjects here, while creating some good articles pulled from enwiki as cover. Ravensfire (talk) 15:45, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Digital Signal Processing Articles

Recently there have been several editors creating essay-like articles about digital signal processing (DSP) topics. Most of these are not encyclopedic, unsourced, and appear to have been generated by a large language model such as ChatGPT. Given below is the list of articles I could find and their creators.

Editors who were contacted through their talk page seem to be unresponsive. Additionally, none of the editors have made more than one edit to the wiki. This does not strike me as a spam attempt, but some sort of school assignment gone wrong. The number of articles that have to be deleted/simplified is nontrivial, and would be a burden to the community to go through one by one. So, I am proposing a blanket deletion for articles under this topic that appear to be LLM-generated essays. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 09:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Skimmed through the ones that haven't already been deleted and I'm in support of deleting them all. Some of these are probably valid topics (Active noise cancellation), but others don't have articles on enwiki and may be too techinical of a topic for here. With the lack of sources, I don't think the articles warrant keeping around, even as single-sentence stubs. Ravensfire (talk) 19:19, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

I have looked at those that exist:

• rewritten Anti-aliasing filter, it is up for deletion, shoild be keepable now.
• DSP for Secure COmmunication in blockchain: nominated it for deletion, links digital signal procesing to blockchan, which is completely wrong, Ands yes it is possible to tunnel a signal using an encrypted channel, and encrypt/decrypt the data as needed. This has nothing to do with blockchain though.
• Role of Fourier Transform in uantum mechanics: Likely similar case than the one above, tries to establish a link between two completely unrealted concepts, up for deletion.
• Multirate signal proceasinng: up for deletion

"Actie noisecancellation: Wrote a stub. Eptalon (talk) 21:14, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Student user names: project work

I teach English at Charles University and am thinking of doing some project work with my nutrition students. The students will be supervised and will be introduced to the idea of sandboxes etc. There is mention on the School/Teachers' Guide that it is best to request the creation of students' accounts. Ideally, I would have students work together in twos and threes and have, say, 10 accounts which might be named as 1lf_nutrition_group_1 etc. Krozruch (talk) 13:00, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

@Krozruch: There are two digits in that sample user name. Which one should change for each user name, or should it be both? In other words, which of these should be the second name?

• 2lf_nutrition_group_1
• 1lf_nutrition_group_2
• 2lf_nutrition_group_2

Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 16:51, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Ah, of course, I should have been clearer. The 1lf is actually for the 1st faculty of medicine, though lf1 would be better in English so the second number should be changed:

lf1_nutrition_group_1

lf1_nutrition_group_2

Thanks! Krozruch (talk) 09:50, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@Krozruch: Just one more question so I can be sure they get set up the way you want: The software requires the first letter to be in upper case. It is also not allowing underscores. That would make the first account Lf1 nutrition group 1. If you would like different capitalization (except for the first letter), or anything else different, please specify.

I (or another admin, if I don't end up creating the accounts myself) can choose passwords and email them to you. Then you or your students can change the passwords if you/they want to. -- Auntof6 (talk) 10:21, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

The "LF" is an abbreviation so perhaps "LF1 nutrition group 1" etc. Perfect. Thanks for taking the time. Krozruch (talk) 12:32, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning user:Davey2010

Hello. Recently, user Davey2010 made a major change to Alycia Debnam-Carey article without providing proper sources. I have undid this change and written to the user about it. User Davey2010, however, withdrew my revert with the description This was copied from EN you moron (diff), which seems offensive to me. BTW, I have not come across a rule that allows unsourced copying of content from enwiki (of course, if I am wrong, please correct me me from error). Best regards, BZPN (talk) 13:37, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

@BZPN There are steps to take while you verify the content, you don't simply remove them. That's lazy editing and actually counterproductive. Davey2010 did go a bit too far with the edit summary but this is not the first time, or the first issue you had with them. I am not sure how to exactly resolves this, but if Davey2010 withdraws the edit summary, and BZPN assumes good faith and communicates before interpreting policies in the wrong way, I will consider this resolved with restriction that BZPN brings any issue they have with Davey2010 to admin before acting. BRP ^ever 15:04, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

@BRPever, I didn't mean to assume bad faith - I put the uw-unsourced1 template on this user's discussion page, which does not assume bad faith. This is not about my bad interpretation of the policies, if any - I just try to make sure that articles do not include information without sources (the reader must be able to verify the information provided), and in WP: Verifiability steps removing statement is the last step anyway. BTW, this procedure is quite long and rather assumes situations where the information has already been included in the content for some time. If, however, it was added a moment ago, there is no point in leaving it there and waiting for someone to find the source, you should take action immediately (e.g. notify the author and temporary remove this information, maybe the author will find the source - that's what i did). Regards, BZPN (talk) 15:17, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

I came across this accidentally, I apologised here and obviously withdraw (or take back) what I had said. It's a ying and a yang as I agree we shouldn't host unsourced content but on the other hand it should be sourced on enwiki anyway and I'm simplying copying over content from there.

If I'm now expected to source every filmography or discography table I copypaste then I will simply stop copypasting as I got slightly fed up of constantly doing this at EN which is why I now only do it there occasionally/once in a blue moon, I'm stuck in a rock and a hard place with this. –Davey2010^Talk 15:59, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

@BZPN The content wasn't really malicious. It's an overkill to remove everything without consideration. I know the importance of sources, but simply considering every unsourced addition bad doesn't help much. I disagree about there being a no point in waiting for someone to source it. If the content is correct, it should stay (we have tags for that reason). Also, I suggest notifying the author and waiting for them to source it instead of simply removing their work from the page. If there is no response in a while, it can be removed depending on the information added. BRP ^ever 17:39, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

If the content is obviously malicious, incorrect, POV, OR, or publicly unverifiable information, it can be removed and then user can be notified. BRP ^ever 17:44, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

QD

Could you please delete Darcy (Bunsen Is A Beast) as it meets under the G3 criterion. Thank you! ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 16:36, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Deleted by Fr33kman. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:10, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Username

I found username violation Bebo12321, Bebo is American social network service website that operated in 2005 until 2013 and Relaunched in 2021 Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 02:53, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure that is a violation. There could be many reasons it's being used. fr33kman 10:10, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Bebo is American Social Network Service, Did you know Bebo? Users with Username "Bebo" and written end of his username "12321" Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 16:35, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@Raayaan9911  Not done Not obviously a promotional username. Consider that "Bebo" could be their given name or nickname. If it's something like "BeboSocial" or "BeboApp", that would have been more obviously promotional. Have you considered that the service is no longer active as of 2022? Why would somebody be trying to promote it in 2024? Additionaly, the user hasn't made an edit in over a week when you reported them, and none of their edits are trying to promote Bebo. There is nothing actionable here.

Raayaan9911, please stop making bad username violation reports. None of the users you have reported needed to be blocked. Please check whether or not the user has been locked, whether or not the user is still recently active, and whether or not the username is actually promotional or just a coincidence. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 21:47, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@Fehufanga, I'm sorry Raayaan9911 Talk to me! 05:03, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Titleblacklist

Add the title "Renmar Arnejo", repeatedly recreated, including Renmar Arnejo (Dollmaker) today. ToadetteEdit (talk) 10:37, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@ToadetteEdit: We don't have a permanent blacklist. I think you mean to salt the title.

I usually will temporarily salt a title if it has been deleted at least three times within a short period of time. That doesn't seem to be the case here. However, I see that "Renmar Arnejo" was salted indefinitely in August of this year. @MathXplore:, would you please explain why the duration for this was indefinite?

"Renmar Arnejo (Dollmaker)" has been deleted only twice, in November and September of this year. To me, that isn't enough to salt. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:07, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

But the issue is that, if we salt the title, users will circumvent it by creating the article under a different title. The topic creation is part of a wider crosswiki attempt to promote a non notable person, as far as I can see. ToadetteEdit (talk) 11:12, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Please see 'Renmar Arnejo', ,Renmar Arnejo, Renmar Arnejo., 'Renmar Arnejo, Renmar Arnejo", Renmar Arnejo-, Renmar Arnejo,, Renmar Arnejo', and Renmar-Arnejo. MathXplore (talk) 11:50, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@MathXplore: OK, I see that those are also salted. But why indefinitely? I don't think we assume that a particular topic/person will never be notable. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:53, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

I have set as indefinite because I do not see the reason to allow creation by malformed titles. MathXplore (talk) 11:55, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@MathXplore: OK, yes, I see that the ones you listed are malformed. What about Renmar Arnejo, which isn't malformed? Auntof6 (talk) 12:01, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Do you want it unprotected? MathXplore (talk) 12:01, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@MathXplore: I want to know if there was a particular reason for the protection to be indefinite. -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:04, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

The only reason for that is the repeated creation. I have nothing further than this. MathXplore (talk) 12:07, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@Auntof6 I feel like some titles are better off being created by autoconfirmed user. It's not a high bar to cross. The pages on those titles created by users who just created account is likely to end up being another attempt at promotion by their sockpuppets. BRP ^ever 12:05, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Isn't there also a title blacklist? I think Battle for Dream Island is on the blacklist permanently. Depextual (talk) 18:45, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

@Depextual: OK, maybe there is. I guess I was focused on salting. -- Auntof6 (talk) 19:04, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Please see MediaWiki:Titleblacklist. MathXplore (talk) 06:28, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

November 23rd copyvios

• Special:Permalink/9899658 looks like it copies http://www.angelfire.com/film/aklw/2004/january.htm
• Boreas - all diffs newer than Special:Permalink/9859440 for copying https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/boreas/ (IP admission in edit summary) ⸺(Random)staplers 05:54, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done MathXplore (talk) 06:27, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Plus

• Recent edits on Poker Face for copying the song's lines ⸺(Random)staplers 20:32, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

   Done MathXplore (talk) 01:38, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Abuse Filter Deactivation Request

Requesting Filter 86 be disabled per the consensus at Simple talk.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 13:56, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done MathXplore (talk) 01:39, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 08:55, 24 November 2024 (UTC)