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Old changes from 2024

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Special:Permalink/9814973 and Special:Permalink/9850667 for copying https://www.britannica.com/science/carpal-bone ⸺(Random)staplers 06:35, 1 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Done - Apologies, I missed this request. Griff (talk) 16:05, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

RD1 request

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(Please let me know if there's a better way to request RD1s here.) Boreas and Zephyrus both need cv redaction. Special:Diff/9956329 onward is from [1], Special:Diff/9893548 onward from [2] and [3]. The account is blocked as a sock on en-wiki: [4]. -- Asilvering (talk) 04:46, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

While I'm at it, there are a number of articles by W;ChangingUsername that are copied from the NHS website. The text has been removed already, but it should also be RD1'd. Since most of their articles were created before they were warned about this, I expect the issue affects all of them. I got here via Copypatrol dinging Chlorphenamine. -- asilvering (talk) 05:13, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Ok, I started making a list of the articles by this editor that need revdel, but actually, they're all QD candidates, looks like. So you can save your erasers (and use dynamite instead). I know none of them look like much right now, but if you don't QD them, you'd have to a) rewrite the stub and b) revdel most of the history anyway. But there's still a bit of eraser-work to do:
Sorry in advance about your erasers. -- asilvering (talk) 06:26, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Some more:
  • Allergy, everything from their first edit on 2 June up to my edit
  • Diazepam, everything from their 1 July edit to Davey2010's first edit
  • Abdominal pain, everything from their first 1 June edit up to my edit
  • Hyperthyroidism, everything from their 12:22 edit on May 29 (ie, including the edit "Symptoms final" but not the two previous ones) up to my edit - this is from a variety of sources, incl [5], [6], possibly some non-NHS stuff (copypatrol dings [7])
asilvering (talk) 21:02, 3 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Ok I didn't mean to do any more, but: Special:Diff/9548231 onward copies from [8]. -- asilvering (talk) 05:35, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Done - Quite a lot of work but thank you for catching it. Griff (talk) 14:05, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Famous last words... judging by the state of the copypatrol backlog, that's only the barest tip of the iceberg. -- asilvering (talk) 18:28, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Additional RD1 from CopyPatrol, already reverted/single revisions.
RD1 from CopyPatrol with multiple revisions.
Sennecaster (talk) 21:23, 28 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Done - I used up several erasers getting through all of these :) Thank you (sincerely) for finding these copyright violations and presenting the diffs/information in an easy way to process. Best, Griff (talk) 01:38, 29 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
asilvering (talk) 05:45, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Done - thanks for noticing. Griff (talk) 22:56, 9 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:Change filter/Mistakes

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Most of the comments here are rubbish, isnt there an archiving system? Cactus🌵 spiky 04:55, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Cactusisme: There is an archiving system: topics with no comments for 21 days are archived by a bot. 2601:644:907E:A70:5DE:2EFE:97F6:A9B5 (talk) 06:26, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
how about the ones with topics Cactus🌵 spiky 08:30, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Cactusisme What do you mean by "the ones with topics"? 2601:644:907E:A70:85FF:1340:9A1E:D909 (talk) 21:27, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
The ones with comments. Cactus🌵 spiky 10:38, 3 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Cactusisme That means they are archived 21 days after the last comment (unlike WP:Simple talk, where it's 10 days). 69.222.191.67 (talk) 22:12, 3 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Oh, alright. Cactus🌵 spiky 07:15, 4 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protection for Palia Kolis

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Persistent vandalism by Sahitya Palia, Ved Singh Rajpoot and his ip address 2405:201:3033:F0F2:9D8E:7739:BFD2:5510.Mandit Patel (talk) 13:25, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Article was sent to RFD and user has been warned. Griff (talk) 13:53, 4 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Review the articles created by User:श्रीराम खड्का

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User:श्रीराम खड्का has created multiple articles simultaneously, all of which have been generated by an LLM and are devoid of references, while those that have been included are inconsistent. Additionally, complex words have been used. I have tagged them with the {{AI-notice}}. Review the articles User:श्रीराम खड्का has created, and I think they should be deleted. Zjui3r (talk) 19:28, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

User notified, most articles deleted for various policy issues. A couple of the others do not qualify for QD, but should be cleaned up. Thank you for noticing these articles and noting them. Griff (talk) 14:40, 4 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

162.156.70.174

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Special:Contribs/162.156.70.174 is using AI/LLM to write all their articles and comments. 2601:644:907E:A70:85FF:1340:9A1E:D909 (talk) 20:45, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

The discussion at Talk:2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico is just crazy. The ip is replying to themself, repeatedly, all AI generated. Ravensfire (talk) 21:18, 2 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Blocked for a year to give time for AI to further develop and realise how not to talk to itself. Griff (talk) 13:54, 4 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
I needed the laugh this morning, thanks! Ravensfire (talk) 14:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

File:Fotor-2024041210012.png

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Could an admin please reply to the message left by Mooresklm2016 at File:Fotor-2024041210012.png? The page should be deleted, but before that's done, communication should be started with that user. 2601:644:907E:A70:E489:BBF9:E45D:3FF (talk) 00:26, 3 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done and done. Thanks for the note, Griff (talk) 13:54, 4 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Mohammed uzzal miah

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The following users at Mohammed uzzal miah, Talk:Mohammed uzzal miah, and Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Mohammed uzzal miah should be blocked for violating WP:ONESTRIKE.

This is because User:Rukbv64bnn has changed other people's comments at the rfd (and they are already blocked on English Wikipedia).

They have admitted that User:Hbbbbbbkmnnnbb and User:Radikanardi also belong to them. 69.222.191.67 (talk) 22:11, 3 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

I have indeffed the main account. Where did they state that the other accounts were also theirs? -- Auntof6 (talk) 22:43, 3 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Auntof6 In these edits: [11]. They said "I want to clarify that both accounts were created by me" and also made the same comment from another account. 69.222.191.67 (talk) 22:44, 3 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. I am not a checkuser, so I will let the checkuser process handle the others. -- Auntof6 (talk) 22:45, 3 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Nautica Malone

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Would an admin mind looking into semi-protecting the article? It seems to be collecting more than a few trolls today and there are BLP issues given this is about a recent suicide. Ravensfire (talk) 15:22, 5 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Ravensfire, it looks to have calmed down some. I have added the article to my watchlist and will protect if vandalism becomes an issue again. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Griff (talk) 13:53, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Appreciated. Ravensfire (talk) 14:07, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Request move of template

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Please move Template:For multi to Template:For-multi over the page that exists at the latter title. (Please move the doc page too.) The template has been moved at enwiki and new articles transferred from enwiki will likely use the latter title. 166.107.163.31 (talk) 23:00, 5 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done ...and the website did not crash while doing it! Please let me know if you see any unintended issues from the move. Thanks, Griff (talk) 13:57, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

User:103.46.201.212 edit warring as an identical spammer of User:HistorianAlferedo

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It difficult to understand but this user which i tried to pinged first in the place have ruthlessly making an WP:Bad faith editorial styled quorums over every subordinate article letted with Jats clan such as [12] [13] [14] with some other related contentment while keep blanking the subliminal information related to Jat (caste) and miserably quoting Semi nomadic and other disgraceful term such as rural community while alleging his WP:Sock connection with an master account of User:HistorianAlferedo 2409:40D6:10E7:8EFF:48EF:1822:740D:E69F (talk) 07:20, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

To me, the current version of the article is the most stable but it appears that there is a long-term revert war going on with it. I have semi-protected the page for 3 months until a discussion can be held. Please bring your concerns to the talk page for further discussion. Griff (talk) 13:47, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
The edit done by this user seems more like a castecruft and povpush. Moreover, some of the information added was hate speech for two other communities of the Indian subcontinent. Also, the citations added by the user were irrelevant and raj-era sources. I request the user to add correct information along with better citations that too without ill-statements about the people belonging to some some other race, tribe, etc. Thank you HistorianAlferedo (talk) 14:19, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Looks like a duck to me , oh look like my quilled prejudgement come to real as he make his way out of here Lol 2409:40D6:10E7:8EFF:48EF:1822:740D:E69F (talk) 14:24, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
For both of you, please have this discussion on the talk page of the article, not here, and focus your comments on the content issues, not the users making them. Thank you, Griff (talk) 14:27, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Griffinofwales If i am not wrong this guys which i plummet continuously editing sidewise to prevent over exposure his original master account as an part of such resiliency i would like to acknowledge are you the same suspect?? 2409:40D6:10E7:8EFF:48EF:1822:740D:E69F (talk) 14:29, 6 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
@HistorianAlferedo Griff is a admin, and he is right this is meant to be on the talk page of the article and if you want to check if they are sock puppets, please file a complaint here Cactus🌵 spiky 08:40, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism from anonymous IP

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Repeated edits of vandalism on [[RuPaul's Drag Race season 17]] (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RuPaul%27s_Drag_Race_season_17&action=history) from User:62.64.224.62, including the addition of spam. Thanks. 213.78.252.2 (talk) 12:16, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Considering the linked IP has no edits here, I believe you may be at the wrong Wikipedia. For situations on the English Wikipedia, please go to the appropriate page on the English Wikipedia.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 14:05, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
No, I am using English Wikipedia, here is the contributions of the anonymous vandal. 80.44.240.123 (talk) 20:48, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
This is not the English Wikipedia however. Griff (talk) 21:04, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

TTYDDoopliss

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After being blocked for WP:NOTHERE and revealed as a sock of user WhereverWeAreNow on the English Wikipedia, this user has migrated to Simple English Wikipedia to continue making disruptive edits that led to the block on enwiki in the first place.

Per the WP:ONESTRIKE rule, TTYDDoopliss should be also blocked from this wiki indefinitely. theinstantmatrix (talk) 15:44, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for bringing it to our attention. I have blocked the user per ONESTRIKE. Griff (talk) 16:01, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

two (or more) promotional/spam articles, in one day

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Creating two promotional/spam articles.

See simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kayaliesmith

. I have asked for qd of the one article. Someone else might want to ask for qd of the other article, if not an outright block is out of the question. Good luck while i fix other articles. Thanks. 2001:2020:315:A7A4:6414:4835:B3BD:6B3F (talk) 16:10, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done - Thanks for the note. Griff (talk) 17:31, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Protection request

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Hi, Could someone protect Maan (caste) and Chandel please as there's an edit war between 2 IPs,

I'm assuming 103.46.201.212 is correct in removing the content as the person that keeps adding the content has been doing so under different IPs and an account, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 17:15, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

*heavy sigh* Thanks Davey, both articles are now semi-protected. If you notice edit warring on any other caste articles, please let us know. Griff (talk) 17:37, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hey @Griffinofwales, No worries and okay will do - I've pretty much ignored whatever they were doing on the caste articles but 103s edit summaries caught my eye and yeah didn't want the wrong person blocked, Anyway no worries thanks for actioning this, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 18:26, 7 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

69.156.206.236

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69.156.206.236 is still copying articles from enwiki without simplifying the language, even after two temporary blocks. jlwoodwa (talk) 04:36, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the notice. The user has been blocked. Griff (talk) 22:36, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
2601:586:CC00:E0B0:7C6D:174D:855F:39E is doing the same thing, and with articles of the same type (e.g. animation studios). I think this is the same person using a different IP. jlwoodwa (talk) 09:46, 9 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Blocked as well, thanks for the report. Griff (talk) 22:59, 9 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Kelly299 and 93.182.105.236 - block request

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So Kelly299 creates an account and immediately replaces images of tanks with Turkish ones and then starts replacing pizza images with Turkish pizzas as well as removing "Greek" from types of Pizzas[23][24][25]

Two minutes later 93.182.105.236 joins in in the edit war removing the same content[26][27][28][29],

In the edit war Kelly has claimed the content is racism and the IP is claiming "keeping Greek instead of Turkish is nationalist POV",

The IP has also made previous Greek-to-Turkish replacements:[30],

I'm assuming Kelly is the IP and I'm assuming the IP is an LTA or someone, Anyway could these be blocked please, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 16:32, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

93.182.105.236 has been blocked, imho Kelly should be too due to their unhinged POV editing, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 16:34, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Davey2010 the IP has been blocked already but Auntof6. Things were turning heated on a simple article, I was to the point of edit war was happening between me and the IP. I am more calmer now, I was kinda passive aggressive with the changes. But the IP is now blocked and it's done with. Thanks - Adelaide 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 16:37, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Kelly has stopped editing for now. Final warning given. Let us know if they resume editing in a problematic manner. Thanks for the report, Griff (talk) 23:06, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hey @Griffinofwales, No worries and brilliant thank you :), Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 23:11, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Protection request

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Hi, Could someone indefinitely protect List of programs distributed by Qubo (block) please to match List of programs broadcast by Qubo (block),

These articles are LTA/sock magnets and are created by IPs who simply add made up content, Both articles redirect to the main parent article so there should be no need to edit them, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:39, 9 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 18:44, 9 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Brilliant thank you much appreciated :), Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 19:02, 9 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

tampering of pages listing coups d'etat and attempts

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On the articles “list of coups and coup attempts by country”, “list of coups and coup attempts” and “list of coups and coup attempts since 2010”  a user by the name tgeorgescu (and possibly a few others) has been editing the articles to claim some some very recent political events are indeed coups, as well as some historical events, even tho there is nothing to corroborate these claims.

These include:

The 2019 Bolivian political crisis

The Romanian Revolution

The Abkhazian Revolution

Euromaidan

Claims by Serb Prime minister Vucic that there was a coup against him in 2024

Claims by Slovak Prime minister Fico of a coup against him

The 2024 Bangladesh Revolution

Coup allegations in Georgia

Accusations that the president of Romania is doing a self coup

All of these edits seem to be done for the purpose of a specific political agenda. I talked to Georgescu about his inclusion of Euromaidan, stating that it was a common argument of russian propagandists to paint it that way. he responded by claiming a revolution and coup are the same thing. I childishly responded by telling him to fuck off and that he was a tankie (disgraceful on my part). He kept repeating his claims in response.

A few days Before I learned of Georgescu’s edits, I noticed some vandalism of these articles, and then uprgraded the protection level for the last two articles I mentioned before. This has not worked. I contacted a user named Vrotsky who thanked me for an edit the other day, about the situation. He said the following:

"Hello, dear user. Yes, I've noticed the addition of controversial content to the various coup d'état wikilists - and it's much worse than it seems. These lists are recently receiving massive edits by IP users and sockpuppets. And it goes far beyond Euromaidan - they've added content about the Arab Spring revolutions, the 2000s-2010s 'Color Revolutions' and modern protests to the list. I'm one of the users who is trying to preserve the page's neutrality, but a lot of content was added in a short time. Well, there are several ways to combat vandalism on Wikipedia. In this case, you can use the WP:Coup argument or start a session on the article's talk page. If you suspect a user is making disruptive edits or vandalism, you can report them. A common behavior of this type of user is to reinsert deleted content without providing an explanation."

Another problematic user is Cobra Portuga, who is making the same sort of edits and only replies in Portugese when questioned about this.

I request that Georgescus and Cobra Portugals edits in general be reviewed, and for them to be banned. Sorry about the wall of text Bird244 (talk) 00:07, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

I think you are on the wrong project as I cannot find any of the edits you refer to here. This is the administrators' noticeboard for the Simple English Wikipedia. Griff (talk) 03:11, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Bird244 You might wanna file it en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard, here Cactus🌵 spiky 08:39, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Update to filter 42

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The filter should have the name changed to Adding links to other language Wikipedias. The tag should have the same name as the new filter name, and the tag article with links to other-language wikis? should be deactivated or deleted. I added another regex line to exclude changes that are logged by Special:AbuseFilter/115 (attempts to cite Wikipedia itself).

wikipedia := "(?<!simple\.|simple\.m\.)\bwikipedia\.org\b";
reference := "<\s*ref[^\/]*>[^<]*wikipedia\.org";

page_namespace == 0 &
!("autoconfirmed" in user_rights) &
added_lines rlike wikipedia &
!(removed_lines rlike wikipedia) &
!(added_lines rlike reference) /* covered by filter 115 */

Thank you. Codename Noreste (talk) 02:39, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done - Thanks for flagging. Griff (talk) 03:14, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Requesting semi-protection at Mongoloid

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Mongoloid has been vandalized by an IPv6 several times a week since Jan 16, see the page history. Rsk6400 (talk) 07:49, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done - Thanks for the report, now protected for 3 months. Griff (talk) 14:12, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Asking for an administrator to review an outstanding deletion request.

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Good afternoon. A request for deletion is currently open for Category:American_bisexual_people. It has been open since January 29th. If there is an administrator free to review it and possibly close it (or extend it if it needs more attention) could they please take a look at it. The link to the RFD is here:Wikipedia:Requests_for_deletion/Requests/2025/Category:American_bisexual_people. Thank you, DaneGeld (talk) 17:28, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

@DaneGeld: I see your request, but I can't review it because I opened it. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:01, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Done, deleted and closed fr33kman 02:19, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Lumpadia$9$7

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I think Lumpadia$9$7 is a sockpuppet of Acalitri1200. jlwoodwa (talk) 06:31, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Please file this at WP:Request for checkuser Cactus🌵 spiky 08:36, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Jlwoodwa Pinging Cactus🌵 spiky 08:36, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
I am not requesting that CheckUser be used here, though. Acalitri was blocked more than 90 days ago, and so were all of their sockpuppets that I could find. That means the result would just be "stale". I think the behavior alone is enough to prove that it's the same person. jlwoodwa (talk) 09:08, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thats what checkusers do, they check if the accounts are sockpuppets. Cactus🌵 spiky 09:09, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
The information used by the CheckUser extension is only kept for 90 days, as required by foundation:Legal:Wikimedia Foundation Data Retention Guidelines § How long do we retain non-public data? That means I have no reason to think that CheckUser would find anything here. jlwoodwa (talk) 09:15, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Checkusers are the only ones that can block the user for sockpuppeting, not admins Cactus🌵 spiky 09:17, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Why do you think that? jlwoodwa (talk) 10:03, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Its true? Cactus🌵 spiky 10:06, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Technically not true, although CheckUsers are the only people who can say for certain that they were the same person, any admin can block based on activity performed by the possible sockpuppet matching the activity of a blocked user.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 14:14, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Update to filter 47 again and to set it to disallow

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Looking at the recent hits (which are mostly vandalism and bad changes), I think we can update it again and set it to disallow with the default disallow message. Here is the updated code below:

page_namespace == 0 &
!("autoconfirmed" in user_rights) &
( 
    characters := "[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{9,}";
    consonants := "([^_:.,*'|=#}{0 -]{1,9})\1{7}";
    match := characters + "|" + consonants;
    
    (
        (
            added_lines rlike characters &
            !(removed_lines rlike characters)
        ) | (
            rmwhitespace(added_lines) rlike consonants &
            !(rmwhitespace(removed_lines) rlike consonants)
        )
    ) &
    !(added_lines rlike ("https:\/\/\S*(?:" + match + ")|(^|\n)[|!]")) &
    !(added_lines irlike "number|spell|math|string|<br\b") &
    !(page_title irlike "number")
)

Thank you. Codename Noreste (talk) 15:12, 11 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Requesting a flood flag

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Hi there. I wanted to create some categories for footballers by club but didn't want to spam New Changes. May I please request a flood flag? Thanks. - MourningRainfall 🌧️ 17:36, 12 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done for 3 hours. Griff (talk) 19:48, 12 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. Could I possibly get an extension? I still have a lot more I have to do. If not, that's okay too. - MourningRainfall 🌧️ 21:57, 12 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'm done for now. Thanks again. - MourningRainfall 🌧️ 05:05, 13 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Removed. Best, Griff (talk) 14:19, 13 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Nuke contributions?

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simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Boyce10125$

. 2001:2020:319:BBCE:BDEC:4E07:2E4:3161 (talk) 21:52, 13 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the note. User blocked, contributions nuked. Griff (talk) 21:55, 13 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
I helped too. BigKrow (talk) 21:56, 13 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Suggest protecting Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America

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This has already been discussed on the talk page (Talk:Gulf of Mexico). Many editors think that the title has to be Gulf of America just because the official name changed in the US. That reasoning has been rejected and people don't seem to realize that Wikipedia is not a USA-Wikipedia where titles can be determined by whatever the President of the United States decides. 205.154.244.130 (talk) 22:43, 13 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

I semi-protected the page. This issue is also: this is an international waterway, it will be listed in countless documents, there is no easy name-changing from one day to the next. Eptalon (talk) 14:33, 14 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Up-to-no-good edit

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simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:CLICKTHISPROFILE!&diff=prev&oldid=10076458

. 2001:2020:319:BBCE:E96C:95B6:497C:EEF8 (talk) 01:14, 14 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

(Oops. The edit was reverted hours ago.) 2001:2020:319:BBCE:E96C:95B6:497C:EEF8 (talk) 01:18, 14 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Kelly299

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Kelly299 (contribs) seems like a vandal. They were warned a number of times for making unhelpful edits in changing pictures on pages to Türkiye-related topics. Now they edited the religions on the USA page from 2% Judaism, to 2% Islam, to 2% Greek Orthodoxy. 50.175.193.34 (talk) 05:46, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

The user has been blocked for a week. For future reference, the place for this kind of report is WP:Vandalism in progress. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 10:42, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Users

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I am a same person in 3 accounts. It is not letting me do anything on my main page by two accounts (User:Philippe the VIIIIIII) and (User:Louis XI of France). Louis XI of France (talk) 09:15, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Louis XI of France: Can you be more specific? An example would be helpful: exactly what did you try to do, and exactly what happened (for example, what messages did you get)? -- Auntof6 (talk) 10:45, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
When I try to edit my main page (up), with the other accounts, and I cannot do it, and it is telling me let us now in the administrators noticeboard (this page) Louis XI of France (talk) 01:11, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
You cannot edit a different user's user page. Only administrators can do that. Griff (talk) 01:32, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
I have 3 accounts. Philippe the VIIIIIII (talk) 01:59, 17 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
That is understood (although I do not understand why you need that many). There is a technical limitation to editing another user's user page. If you want to edit the user page of a different account you control, you must switch accounts and use the account for which the user page belongs. Griff (talk) 02:06, 17 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
I am in another country for a vacation with 2 IPads but they are in 2 different places, 30 minutes between, so that is why I have 3 accounts, @Louis XI of France is retired until I come back. My password's are autogenerated so I do I copy and paste it? Philippe the VIIIIIII (talk) 03:24, 17 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
It seems like it would be easier to log in on the same account on all devices. Either way, this does not require administrator attention. Griff (talk) 12:43, 17 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Admin Gadgets

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Can an admin add |rights=delete to userrights gadget as well in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition#admin-gadgets? That will make sure the gadget is only visible for admins, only one who can change user rights. Bunnypranav (talk) 10:58, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Illumination (company)

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Illumination (company) (change · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 15:11, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Not done - The vandalism looks to all be from one specific IP which has now been blocked. Protection not required. Best, ~ Griff (talk) 19:16, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Gotcha that makes sense, thanks and happy editing 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 19:38, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Requests

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Hi! Could you:

  • Indefinitely protect User:Magnolioideae and delete all her subpages (except for the archives, as I want to keep them standing)
    • Also, she is me, just to clear up any confusion. However, the account is inactive
  • Revdel this diff as it's disturbing and meets the second criterion.
  • Revdel the disturbing edits by this IP as they are always inserting content that meets the revdel's second criteria.

Thank you. ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 15:18, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done - It was a little bit of work but most of the revdels were already done. Best, Griff (talk) 19:17, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much :) ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 19:18, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Request of protection of Wikipedia:Change filter mistakes

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i think you all should protect the Wikipedia:Change filter/Mistakes page mainly because frequent vandalism occurs there and the reason why i said the change filter mistake on simple talk its because i am scared of being a victim of vandalism due to frequent vandalism there so i hope you all understand. 179.109.143.137 (talk) 22:06, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

I agree the vandalism on there is atrocious (and I've now deleted this) however protecting it stops legitimate reports like this one from being posted.
Regarding not posting on Simple talk; This noticeboard has got 2k views yesterday and 3k on Thursday .... your talkpage can be vandalised no matter where you post ?.... –Davey2010Talk 23:14, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
well my talk page isnt vandalized (thank god) but i like any new editor is still scared of vandalism 179.109.143.137 (talk) 23:16, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Meh no need to be scared, everyone's talkpages get vandalised it's not something you can prevent, –Davey2010Talk 23:22, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
ok i think i will not just involve myself in reversions just focus on making car articles the reason why i am scared is the bad things vandals are saying to editors on their talk pages anyways good luck with your contribuitions best regards. 179.109.143.137 (talk) 23:26, 15 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Oldest people

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Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 00:34, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

It appears that the vandalism is coming from a single /64 range which has now been blocked. I have not protected the article for now since I am hoping the vandalism will now stop, but if the situation changes, please let us know. Thanks, Griff (talk) 00:46, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Griffinofwales - it appears that the article is still being vandalized. Thanks. Ternera (talk) 19:08, 17 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Looks like it was the same /64. They have been reblocked for a month. Griff (talk) 19:29, 17 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Excellent, thanks for the switch action! Ternera (talk) 19:30, 17 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
+1 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 03:38, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Revdel request

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Hi, Could someone revdel/oversight this and this please, mainly because of the name, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 02:08, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done - thanks for the report. Griff (talk) 02:35, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
No worries thanks for actioning this it's much appreciated, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 03:04, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Revdel request 2

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Hi, Could someone revdel this please, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 12:42, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 12:43, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
thanks for actioning this it's much appreciated, Thanks, Warm Regards –Davey2010Talk 13:32, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Notice about new editor

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Special:contribs/2001:16B8:15CE:7F00:389E:8B62:1883:7FA5 is making a lot of AI generated articles, which are complex, about TV shows. 108.251.111.97 (talk) 18:33, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Deleted for copyright violations. Thanks for the report, Griff (talk) 22:07, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Revdel request on George W. Bush

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_W._Bush&diff=prev&oldid=10081983 Hi can you revdel this edit, it's just the edit summary that is bad, thank you! 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 20:13, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done - Thanks for the report. Griff (talk) 22:03, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Awesome! Thank you so much! :) 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 23:02, 16 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

No hurry in nuking (more Lake Como spam)

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simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tremezzina&diff=prev&oldid=10084160

. I suggest wait with nuking. Wait, say half a day, or more. If possible. 2001:2020:325:D0A7:30AD:1764:22F8:A55B (talk) 19:49, 17 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

User BigKrow

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Due to a complete non understanding of QD criteria I have banned them from tagging QDs for 6 months. If anyone sees them break this then the correct response is a site wide block for 6 months. Thanks fr33kman 00:10, 18 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

So what will happen if they violate it? Cactus🌵 spiky 00:16, 18 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
They will be site-wide block for 6 months fr33kman 00:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
oh, ok. You should inform them about that. Cactus🌵 spiky 00:23, 18 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
I did so before I posted here. Please see their talk pafe. fr33kman 00:29, 18 February 2025 (UTC)Reply