User talk:Billinghurst/2021

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) in topic Wikidata weekly summary #500

In Greek wikinews

Hello, good year, how can I see the pages that need to be deleted?Fffv7787 (talk) 14:08, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

@Fffv7787: Generally pages labelled with {{delete}} have the speedy deletion category, otherwise for any wiki, start at Category:Speedy deletion (Q8855935).  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:30, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Request for filter help

Hello, Billinghurst, and Happy New Year!

We could use help with Filter 22 at Wikivoyage. Please have a look here, and also share any thoughts you have in the comments.

Thanks so much!

Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:35, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Ikan Kekek: If you are in freenode's IRC, then we can talk. What issue are you having? Can you point me to some posts that are getting through and they have not been deleted? Specific pages? Specific namespaces? Or is this fellow just doing shotgun tactics?  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:42, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
@Ikan Kekek: I have refactored to make additions easier and manipulable if you want to flick them b/w ns. It picked up for earlier edits, though I don't know what I am looking, or variations they make, eg. case change, spaces,
@MusikAnimal: For en.wikivoyage can you please set up your filter activity checking functionality, similar that you did for enWS. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 08:24, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Here's an example of a post that got through. This fellow has some predictable patterns but also will just attack most anyplace without any particular reason. I haven't been on IRC. We can discuss specifics more in the response thread for the filter. Thanks very much for your help! Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:24, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
@Ikan Kekek: Yes, I saw that, please go to voy:enSpecial:AbuseFilter/examine/5226614 import filter 22 and test on the IP address as editor, and you will see success. I also had success on three other IP edits on that same filter. With these sorts of vandals, at enWS, and here at meta, we got the ability to block an account introduced, and I have craft filters to put a two hour block on the vandals, which has been really useful. One does need to drive out the false positives first prior to introducing that strategy.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:31, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Let's keep in touch. One of my fellow en.voy admins who's more technically knowledgeable than I is concerned about the possibility of false positives. Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:43, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
One should always be concerned about false positives. That said, I have been doing this for some years now, and I try to keep it simple. There are numbers of other measures though without seeing the extent of the vandalism, one cannot tell.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:44, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

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Please unblock it

please open the block on my wikipedia page, bro, please check it there I only want to see the contribution of users, that's just it, please check

--Duta [ 2000 ] 12:32, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Please read and follow the instruction at w:Wikipedia:UTRS.  — billinghurst sDrewth 20:02, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #1

18:38, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

vandal in uk.wikivoyage

Hello! Can you, please, block the vandal Ночь диких танцев (talk · contribs) at uk.wikivoyage? Local administrators are probably already asleep. --Mykola7 (talk) 23:54, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Already blocked. Sorry for disturbing, --Mykola7 (talk) 23:57, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

filter logs to check for false positives

  • change up Special:AbuseFilter/96 (shopping)
  • extra terms Special:AbuseFilter/68 (redirects)
  • extra terms Special:AbuseFilter/169 (gambling)
  • 68|96|169 log

watch for a week  — billinghurst sDrewth 05:43, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

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blocking

if you are continuously blocking then who will create a page for my software? magic? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Satheeshsoft (talk)

@Satheeshsoft: Probably no one until it is notable, per the requirements for the encyclopaedias. Please read the information about what is pertinent for the sites prior to you spamming them. The more important question for you will be who will blacklist your domain if you keep spamming. 🙋  — billinghurst sDrewth 05:24, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

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Your GIE expired

Hi. Your GIE got expired on 5 February 2021, but no one noticed it, so you still have the rights. Please request renew if you want to keep them. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 01:57, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

about edits on my user page

Shegowandering (talk) 16:44, 11 February 2021 (UTC) I'm not sure if I'm inserting this message well. I have been allowed to link in my own blog to the user page (on wikipedia and wikivoyage). Because of that, when I decided to get active on other Wiki pages, I added the link to the user page. It wasn't for advertising, just because that's what I was previously allowed to do. @Shegowandering

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Edit js in dewikinews

Please replace "wgIsArticle" with "mw.config.get('wgIsArticle')" in de:n:MediaWiki:Gadget-Extra-Editbuttons.js 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 21:56, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Remembering that I am not particularly a coder, would you like mw.config.get('!wgIsArticle') or !mw.config.get('wgIsArticle')  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:48, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
if(!mw.config.get('wgIsArticle')) is correct --𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 10:15, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
  Done per n:de:special:diff/832496  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:23, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

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You have marked unresolved affair as resolved

Hi Billinghurst! Please, can you clarify to me according to which facts you have considered that the topic in Wikimedia_Forum#5th_Official_request_for_correction_of_false_and_libelous_information_about_Michal_Matúšov_in_the_Annual_report_2018_of_WMSVK is resolved? The pages in Meta and in the website of WUG WMSVK are still containing false, defamatory information about myself. I myself see no signs of resolution. Do you? --KuboF Hromoslav (talk) 16:18, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

@KuboF Hromoslav: You raised the issue to get the attention of WMF and they have responded, that is the only realistic resolution that can take place in that forum in any means. What else can take place in the discussion forum Wikimedia Forum? If you have any issues for Metawiki, then please take them through the processes in place at metawiki, these exist and you can be guided through those by that community.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:36, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, billinghurst! While I came in order for a specific action to be performed (not to express my frustration) and that action wasn't performed, your arguments make sense. Thank you! --KuboF Hromoslav (talk) 16:27, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks

Hello Billinghurst, thanks for deleting the garbage and protecting the talk page! Much appreciated. Best regards, Bédévore (talk) 00:08, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Bédévore 👍👍👍 No problems, after my initial goof. I have also added it to AF/181 similarly to your dominant account.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:10, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Additionally, it is one of the filters that when triggers I have the bot ping me when I am sitting in IRC.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:13, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

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Need help in jvwiki

Hi, we need your help in jvwiki to edit an interface css. I already ping you here. Thank you! Wirjadisastra (talk) 03:41, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

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Reverted edits on sockpuppetry

Hello. Why were my edits reverted on the article "sockpuppetry" I won't take it as "disruptive editing" — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Number1victoryroyale (talk)

@Number1victoryroyale: Because they are inaccurate examples and definitely not universally accepted, as I said in my edit summary. Reverting an admin and just adding them back again was plain silly behaviour. Please use the talk page for discussion when you are reverted.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:57, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

@Billinghurst. I understand now. Sorry for my disruptive editing. I left a message on the sockpuppetry talk page. I also really won't consider my edits on the article being "silly" They were disruptive as I now know. I must have been confused with something else

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About global lock

He is circumnavigating global lock. He is the owner of accounts, Tarik289 and Tarik298 which were blocked. Here is the proof.[8] He also copied his older user page in Turkish Wikipedia. You wrote this to your complain. I didn't copy anything but my old account. I am on the white list in Turkish Wikipedia like 5 months and i didn't do anything wrong and i got permission from admins at Tr Wiki. I never changed anything in Eng Wiki but i got banned again and again, why you do that while i did nothing wrong at Turkish Wikipedia. Pls ban me from eng wikipedia but do global unblock. Its my permission for not doing sock puppetry but (...) user called visnelma complain me for 4 time without saying that. 78.190.1.132 14:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

I pasted something that was caught in the filters, without judgement on the post. If you have issues with a lock, talk to the stewards who locked you. stewards wikimedia org  — billinghurst sDrewth 15:02, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
I did it already like 2 times but they never turned back. Thank you for your help and have a good day. Kiziloksea (talk) 05:05, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

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Willy sock

I daresay you might have thought of this already, but nonetheless it may be well to ask. Wouldn't it make sense to just delete that user talk page as blatant trolling by an LTA? I think it is not Willy as he's long gone, and that the account may have been hacked, but you can decide this better. Thanks, JavaHurricane 11:49, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Who knows. They could just as easily edited somewhere else. There is little value in deleting, and on its own it is of little value.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:52, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Lint issue

At User talk:Billinghurst/2012, it is fully protected. Leaderboard (talk) 10:32, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

It is an archive talk page, don't fuss it.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:09, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

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Abuse filter

) I just received your message, and I’d love to take you up on that offer. Can’t wait to see what you come up with. If it helps, I did create a list of all known t***** sockpuppets, so we can those in the filter. Not sure how to copy and paste my Pages document into a user talk page, so I just put the list on a website: https://writeanonymously.com/ Scroll down the posts until you see the one with the rainbow dots. That’s my list. Thanks, HelenDegenerate (talk) 14:56, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
@HelenDegenerate: w:special:abusefilter/1152. Tracking. There is nothing private about the filter or logs, well not at this stage, as it is just doing things very quietly with a gentle footprint. That may change, as any admin may add to it, or may change it. So I wouldn't paste information about it, where it is going to get high eyeballs, especially by LTAs. The thing about LTAs is to not be seen to be shocked or concerned, that is what they feed upon. They want to shock you, irritate you, have you react to them, aka feed the trolls for an emotional hit. So best to not give it to them. Noting that this user talk page is also watched and attacked by LTAs, and they are as boring, and repetitive as batshit, but some people have problems on celebrating normal successes. <shrug>  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:38, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
@Billinghurst: It looks great! Thank you so much. 😊 HelenDegenerate (talk) 00:28, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/72

Hi Billinghurst,

In the "Notes" part of Special:AbuseFilter/72, the URL of the regex101 doesn't work because of the "/test" at its end, which should be removed. Can you do it please? Thanks!

Kind regards, — Jules* Talk 10:08, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Sure Jules* though we have refactored the regexes to make them somewhat humanly readable rather than that tangled ball of wool that you will see at the url. That newform doesn't migrate.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:47, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Ok, thanks billinghurst. We found on fr-wp several false-positive because of the word "divorce"; it has been added in March 2021. Is that OK to remove it? — Jules* Talk 18:15, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
@Jules*: done. Definitely shouldn't be there outside of a phrase. Thanks for raising the issue.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:35, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021

Greetings,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 26 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 14:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Question

Hello Billinghurst, I noticed you declined the addition of supertennisracquet.com to the spam blacklist. Could I ask you to elaborate more on the decline reason - you declined it so that the SPI could proceed, but it was closed by a CU with a suggestion to add it to the global blacklist to stop the spam. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 08:52, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

I also said that I added the domain to the revertlist for enWP and it is set to monitor for all wikis, so if it continues to be problematic we will know. I was presuming that enWP was managing the sockpuppetry and using the domain as an indicator.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:28, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Question

Hello, could you please explain to me what has been done with my topic on the Wikimedia Forum? Did it go somewhere else? Was it closed? Thanks.--Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 17:10, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

I collapsed the discussion yesterday, otherwise I have no idea. Check the history.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:20, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Pywikibot stable releases

Replying from IRC..."core_stable" is updated whenever a new release is made, usually Xqt does that these days. If the patch is important/fixes something crucial a stable release could probably be made sooner rather than later. Or you could just copy the version of imagecopy.py from the "core" folder and run it directly until the stable one is updated. Legoktm (talk) 18:37, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

imagecopy.py was archived with 6.0 and is not actively maintained currently. There is no difference between stable and master branch. Should imagecopy.py restored? Or was imagetransfer.py meant?  @xqt 05:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
@Xqt: It was imagetransfer.py  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
There was an improvement made for imagetransfer.py recently which also needs specialbots._upload to be updated (see phab:T267535). I intended to publish the next stable release at the end of this month. Or do you need it earlier?  @xqt 09:38, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
@Xqt: I stumbled on another work that needed to be moved from Commons to English Wikisource, so was looking to use the script that Inductiveload updated. It can wait, or it can be done by the alternate means I have been using. It was more working out which way I would go. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:15, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

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About pages in ja.wikipedia which you've marked with Template:delete

I'm not sure if those are copy-pasted page from another wikipedia page. For example, about w:ja:Template:クライド・ジェロニミ, I thought it's a copy of page on Bambfan Wikipedia. But, it doesn't exist. So, I'd like to ask; where are the originals? Semi-Brace (talk) 22:12, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

@Semi-Brace: it is one of our rampant copy-pasters of English-language WP articles and templates, whether the article is wanted or needed at that space, they just copy and paste the article or the template. It can be deleted, and they will IP hop, and do it again. Do what you need to do with it. I am simply indicating that there is a xwikis issue with the editor's contributions.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:58, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. I’m going to ask speedy-deletion as they contain only red-link, thus will not be used, and also copy-pasted (I’ve confirmed that). —Semi-Brace (talk) 01:21, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
@Semi-Brace: WikiBayer indicates to watch 5.77.64.0/19, 62.11.3.128 plus other domains. They are around the vandal's habits better than I am.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:45, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Disney ( Abuse filter 281)

I have been seeing your abuse filter. This troll used the most Time IP 62.11.3.128 and Range 5.77.64.0/19. See [12] However, there were always individual IPs that come from other ranges (which are not captured by my filter). All IPs come from Italy. He creates redirects or spams with mini articles that partially contain English words.--𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 17:35, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

@WikiBayer:I am happy for you to merge that into your filter, I see no need for separate filters for the same target. Can I recommend that you have names or embed keywords within comments so that searches identify the purpose of the filter. I didn't find anything by searches.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:48, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
@WikiBayer: With regard to filters like these, are we structuring per abuse(r) or are we structuring whether there are issues with ranges, so broad but shallow view? There are other ranges outside of this problem that need review, and I can think of another specifically, so your opinion is of value.  — billinghurst sDrewth 03:47, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the filter; I've been looking at this LTA for some time as well. I added an additional regex; as it is currently logging-only and there should not be too many false positives anyway. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)
18:33, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
I have now made the filter global, LOL. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)
17:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

IMHO your inputs on Requests for comment/Start allowing ancient languages is really welcome now

Because if I remember correctly, you said something against Requests for new languages/Wikisource Literary Chinese, but if one day this RFC is passed, then I'm afraid we, include you, have to withdraw oppose comments like "hey it's an extinct (or an ancient/a historical) language so it shouldn't have Wikimedia wikis", because we have to judge language requests on, and only on, the activities, and nothing regarding languages themselves. Sorry if I'm canvassing you. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 00:54, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Mine was a logistical comment, neither a qualitative or quantitative argument. I talked about the size of communities and sustainable independent wikis. I made no comment about the validity of the language and its contributions. I am pretty certain that if the contributions do not fit into the current zhWS, then they should be at mulWS, and I would recommend that you work it out with those two communities which is the best place and better suited to host the works. I don't see the need for yet another wikis when we see so many wikis closed due to inactivity. A wiki is more than the infrastructure, it is community and sustainability. I have nothing further to add to an RFC as it is not about the language per se. Plus this is a languages committee issue per language proposal policy and any RFC is moot.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:15, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Infostrada on it.wiki

Hello, I noticed your removal of part of the above article as "supposed spam". This note just to inform you that the part of information removed was not spam but just reporting a commercial rebranding due to the fact that "Infostrada" is full part of Wind-3 telecom group and starting from a precise date, the name "Infostrada" simply disappear. Removing that information (that is the plain reporting of a key episode in the company's/brand's life) would result in a kind of misleading information, inducing the reader to think that that name and logo are still alive (they aren't anymore since several years now). I understand that you could have considered it as "spam" due to the sourcing editor, but this was one of the (rare) case where it was not. --L736El'adminalcolico 16:31, 31 mar 2021 (CEST)

archiving  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:24, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

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Editing news 2021 #2

14:12, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Patrol Rights

Hi @Billinghurst: why you not gave patrol rights. This is a user right not a respect or Award that can be earned easiley.user right only gave by admin or Bureaucreate. MXX8 (talk) 14:34, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

This is metawiki and our application of how the right is applied stands. Here it is earned.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:57, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
If rights were earned here, then no member would have to request rights.I am the manager and bureaucrat of a wiki other than Wikipedia. If you feel that this right is earned, then you will given this right to me at the right time. Best Regards MXX8 (talk) 14:06, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Your account is 44 days old, and you have 24 edits here, and effectively only edited here for a day or two. There is zero chance that I am going to agree to you having a rollback right at this point of time, zero. I am not even prepared to grant you autpatrol rights. What do you even know about the function and culture of this wiki? I see no relevance that you manage a wiki or a bureaucrat elsewhere. I believe that your edits at SRG and SRGP are out of order, your account demonstrates no ability to make the assessments that you voice; and no evidence of any expertise at all. So where are we at now?  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:36, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

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About os.wiki

Znauri (Qornisi) is part of Georgia and now is occupied by Russia, and there is non-recognized republic South Ossetia, I have made change in this page, I have just written that it's territory of Georgia but administrator of os.wiki has reverted my edit and now I am not able to edit this page because this user has defensed this page, please help me https://os.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%97%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8B%D1%80&type=revision&diff=494522&oldid=494521 --ჯეო (talk) 10:30, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Nothing that I can do, it needs to be resolved at osWP. Any action is outside the authority I have to act in such issues.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:17, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Edit summary filter

Re Special:AbuseFilter/history/17/diff/prev/3915: I guess it's okay to duplicate some filters, but I'll post this here as a reminder that further expansion on this would likely be more helpful in the relevant filter. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)
13:29, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

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Apology

Sorry, If you took it otherwise in my last comment but I was not intended to offend you. I was just trying to put my plan forward. Thankyou for your explanation. Iflaq (talk) 05:01, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I wasn't offended, and no requirement for an apology. I was attempting to get your focus, as if there was the observed requirement for sophisticated configurations of wikis, that would be the default. Another couple of competent and attentive administrators will do the wiki well.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:32, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
Thankyou. Can you help me in importing css page from en wiki MediaWiki:Common.css to local ks wiki as it contains data for template {{db-meta}} and others. Since I can't edit the MediaWiki:Common.css at ks Wikipedia, I request you to import it. Iflaq (talk) 12:04, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
That is a lot of CSS.   Done  — billinghurst sDrewth 13:34, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
@Billinghurst Thankyou so much ,😊. Iflaq (talk) 14:21, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

left at small and medium wikis.

In a delete request you say: left at small and medium wikis.

So you think that de:wiki, nl-Wiki an fr:wiki are small an medium, or how can I understand? --Les Meloures (talk) 08:51, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
You are correct, apologies for misspeaking.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:52, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Egos are a marvellous thing. This user billinghurst is believed to be GOD. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 17:22, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

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Request for marking for translation

Hello Billinghurst,

Please mark the page Greater Bay Area Wikimedians for translation if you have time. I remember that the translation administrators here are not very active. Thank you --Yo Yan 18:48, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

@游魂: It is not ready, you need to put {{TNT}} and <tvar> in place so that the templates translate. Also to note that if a page is being prepared in a language other than English, that via the "Page information" link the underlying language of the page needs to be changed, otherwise that version would be taken as the English language version. I made that change. If you need further help, usually the best space for help or making requests like this is Meta:RfH.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:11, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Xabier Lezama

Hi. I saw before you told about the situation on different wikis. Just want to inform you the IP 85.84.0.104 (Yep the main involved) has been deleting them on several. (Y tried to recover for it getting it deleted again. --Lost in subtitles (talk) 21:12, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. Egos are a marvellous thing. I will just keep referring it to their admins.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:43, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

It uses its privileges in a "personal" campaign against the author, the publisher knowing that this article is referenced by reliable sources and verified worldwide under the control of the Wikidata authorities. Don't use your privileges at Wikipedia's expense for your specific wars. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk)

Rubbish. Let us talk about personal campaigns … I am addressing your conflict of interest editing. See w:WP:Autobiography for why this is a bad idea. See w:WP:Conflict of interest for why it is a bad idea. It is not only the articles that you create on yourself, it is that you insert your works into articles. You do not have an account in which you edit. You do not have a user page where a conflict of interest is expressed so that people can assess your edits against that criteria. What do we have instead? IP hopping. The issue was brought to metawiki following your evasive measures, your initial sockpuppetry, and your recreation of deleted articles. Where the biographies have been put before the communities for discussion as I see it the articles have been deleted by consensus of the communities. Now tell me that is a personal campaign. Lift your game, edit by the standards and the express policies that are in place to manage our articles.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:59, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

The articles have not been eliminated by consensus of the communities, they have been eliminated without consensus just to see their label. The user Vexation informed you of a cosswiki of a radio station in more than 200 languages ​​and you told him that it was a lot of work. His measuring stick is conspicuous by its absence, so it is a personal campaign. You know very well what spam is and you know perfectly well that it is not spam. Your problem is misinterpreting the rules and using them for your personal gain. A user account for what? If the first thing you do is block the user, and when you want to defend yourself and make another account, they accuse you of being a puppet. Never Mind The Bollocks, You are a well-organized mob, like your colleague Lost in subtitles who incessantly deletes and deletes articles without giving any explanation to the editors, or even sees the articles. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 17:09, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Sources are provided that cannot be called 'self-promotion'. No conflict of interest. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 17:19, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Rubbish. Let us talk about personal campaigns... An administrator tells another administrator to delete an article and then uses the argument that it has been deleted to remove it from other wikis. Improve your game. I don't create articles about me, that's a lie, see here:[[15]] I edit according to the standards and express policies that exist for managing our articles. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 23:25, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Re self-promotion and conflict of interest

  1. Creating and solely adding information about yourself is an archetypal case of self-promotion
  2. Doing the above noted editing at dozens of wikis without clearly contributing to the general wikis
  3. Adding information about yourself without clearly identifying that it is you is clearly a conflict of interest to how the wikipedias have explained it
  4. Repeatedly removing tags added by others requesting a deletion is clear conflict of interest
  5. Not tagging articles where you have a conflict of interest to the notice of the community of the autobiographical and conflict of interest that you bring
  6. Removing notes added by others alerting the community to situations that are within the process allowed by the community

You have created this situation for yourself

  1. re-created articles without following the processes
  2. undertaken sockpuppetry to get around the processes of the wikis without resolving the existing issues
  3. not followed community expressed guidance on sockpuppetry, autobiography and conflict of interest
  4. edited solely for your own promotion, not the general improvement of knowledge of the language encyclopaedias

Do not blame others for the situation you face, your ego and your approach is the issue. This is of your own doing.

It is not my job to educate you. It is not my job to critique each wikis processes. Nor my job to review the general situation that you place yourself at all these wikis. It is my job to put before the community the situation that exists. I do this under the criteria for the role that I hold and was raised at SRM to a situation that you created and exacerbated.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:45, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

In the wiki lb: luxebumburgues, the global administrator removed your tag, accepting the article ... and what do you do? you write "personally" to convince him to remove the article. Thus, it is verified that SI is a personal matter of revenge and systematic hatred. You skip the 3 rollback rule continuously, you skip the rule of NOT intervening in deletion discussions when you are the one requesting it. -It is confirmed that YES, it is personal. You have global administrator privileges that allow you to do almost everything and yet you continually skip those rules so you can be GOD on wikipedia and get away with doing whatever you want. That is the big problem with wikipedia, users with privileges who do not use them for the good of wikis, use them for the bad, delete articles, make indiscriminate blocks and get away with all the discussions for satisfaction, ego and pride. Will you be happy bleeding unnecessarily deleted articles? Against, another editor tired of arguments, vanities, war and conflict of editions, who leaves the wiki, observing what its founder said: "The vandals have taken jail and now they are the ones who rule like a street mafia." — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 06:59, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Do not try to put the blame on me for your problematic editing and the communities' responses. By the way, you can stop the personal attacks and the name-calling, see Meta:Civility. Deal with your issues and present the facts, it is all that I have been doing in addressing your issues at any of the dozens of wikis where you have created your autobiographies.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:39, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Here you admit that you are a liar and apologize for the willful deception. See here: [[16]]. Here they blocked you for vandal. See here: [[17]]. Don't try to blame me for your troublesome editing, manipulation, and deception in community responses.--85.84.0.104 09:11, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

It is my job to put the situation that exists before the community and I am sorry to tell you that your work is obsolete on Wikipedia and no longer makes sense billinghurst. After ten years of life and before the decline of its editors, The founder Jimmy Wales, launched "Abstract Wikipedia". Founder Jimmy Wales publicly acknowledged a few weeks ago that the millions of volunteers who write the various articles are dwindling and it is difficult to find new editors and those who were present are leaving, because of the incessant publishing wars. For example, with Wikidata, a brief description of each topic is now allowed in any language and wiki, with the only requirement that an article be in a single language. [[18]]. This will allow a 100 percent increase in wikipedia. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 07:57, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

By the way, you can stop the personal attacks and the name-calling, see Meta:Civility. If you want to block me, use another argument. You were the one who used the word "Garbage" and that of: "People who I would say are trolls took over. Prisoners started running the asylum" says Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger. See here: [[19]]. As you can check EVERYTHING I write, I do it with references.

I deal with your problems and present the facts without deception. By the way that is NOT what you have been doing to address the problems in any of the dozens of wikis. What you have been doing is influencing, misinterpreting the rules with deliberate deception and skipping the rules of not intervening by requesting removal and continually skipping the rules of the 3 reversals, among many others. [[20]] — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 09:54, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

What tripe, misrepresentation and exaggeration, but you go at it fella. Let us make it all about me, for alerting the communities. You never want it to be about your self-promotion and your conflict of interest editing, nor the following of the WP processes, oh no, that is inconvenient. If you truly think that Wikipedia is dead, then why are you adding your autobiographical articles. Nope, we will make all the focus about all the evils here and me. Dear oh dear.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:04, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

I do not find any inconvenience in the follow-up of the processes, but without any misrepresentation and manipulation. Fonts are provided that cannot be called 'self-promotion'. No conflict of interest. You accuse, judge and condemn me of self-promotion, conflict of interest, of not having an account in which to edit and of not having a user page. Any more "unfounded" accusations?

1. I do not believe and I only add information about the author.

2. I make edits to dozens of wikis, clearly contributing to the general wikis.

3. I do not add information about myself, but about the author, clearly it is not a conflict of interest.

4. Repeated removal of "just for you" tags is not a clear conflict of interest. It is a clear example of an edition war caused by a vindictive user.

5. I cannot tag articles in which I have a conflict of interest so that the community can notify the autobiographical conflict of interest that it presents, because there is no conflict of interest.

6. If you had an account to edit and a user page. See here: [[21]]

With her I made my contributions to all wikis. As you can see multiple very diverse articles. This account was blocked as you can see, since then I edit without an account. There are hundreds of articles of the most varied in all wikis without a user account, with IP and that is not illegal on wikipedia. You continually insist on self-promotion and conflict of interest when it is not, this can be seen in the previous reference where you can see my user account with articles of many kinds and not only from this author. So I do NOT have any conflict of interest. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.84.0.104 (talk) 12:24, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Disney Spam

5.77.64.0/19,62.11.3.128, 5.179.128.0/19 and other ranges. Can it be that the Italian IPs are socks from Bambifan101? 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 06:42, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

No idea, not particularly following it, and it is many years since I have wrapped my head in that data.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:45, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

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Edit interface at small projects

Hello. If I want to make some changes to the interface of a small project such Persian Wikibooks which does not have any interface administrators, how should I do that? Should I ask a global interface admin such as you? Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 04:17, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

@4nn1l2: Hi. Firstly consider whether consensus of the community should be gained, even if it is along the lines of "I propose that we do ...." and leave it in a prominent place on the wiki for a week. For anything non-minor we would like to see a community consulted. You can ask a global sysop, or drop a note on Steward requests/Miscellaneous to get it done. If it is at all controversial then SRM is a better place so we can demonstrate that nothing is being hidden.  — billinghurst sDrewth 08:27, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
To add, if it is a change to a generic interface message in a specific language (that is, not limited to one project), you might want to go to translatewiki: and fix it there. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)
22:28, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

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Unblock response

In Special:Diff/21992939, why did you put the whole template in <nowiki /> tags rather than using start-unblock declined-end? This looks quite messy and does not get interpreted correctly by Convient Discussions, for instance. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)
11:06, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Without looking, if there is no local block then I will obliterate the use of the template as it is an inappropriate use of the template, so not a case of granted or declined. I care not that it looks messy, I directly address their needs.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:18, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Request for IP block exemption

Hello, hope you are doing good. I've requested for global IP block exemption here. Could you please help? Sreeram Dilak (talk) 09:49, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

@Sreeram Dilak: No, only stewards. Please see Global blocks/FAQ and SRGP  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:53, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Okay, thank you Sreeram Dilak (talk) 09:56, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

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User:Jhsteel

Good morning, Billinghurst. I don’t know if it is the usual practice on meta-wiki but would you full-protect the user page of deceased user User:Jhsteel please? She died in November 2017. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:58, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

@Malcolmxl5: All user pages are restricted at metawiki—due to their being global pages—to autopatrolled users and above, and that right is less handed out than other wikis, partly due to this fact. It shouldn't be necessary to further protect it.  — billinghurst sDrewth 08:31, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
Ah, thank you. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:57, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

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Just notifying you of my change, since you made this addition. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)
15:07, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the note. No need to notify me of shuffles, it is the major escalations or decelerations that are worthy of discussion prior.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:04, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Well, the parts of the regexp you had added just couldn't have any match whatsoever, so this "shuffle" will cause some new hits that you might want to monitor. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)
09:12, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Need your help de-escalating an edit-war happening:

Hello, I am here to inform you that there is an edit-war happening on someone's user talk page which was flared up by an LTA who recently revived an old account made by someone else. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 11:34, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

  Already done and noting that Meta:RfH is a better place to ask.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:56, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

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Mass usurpation

(post composed for Enwiki Village Pump, but decided to post here first, in case you might know anything)

A clever way to spam Wikipedia and SEO: make a list of all domains in use on Wiki and determine which are no longer registered. Register them and redirect to your spam site. You now have a mass number of spam links and SEO without having to edit wiki. It appears this is being done.

Kudos to User:Lyndaship for detecting this through an unusual loophole that exposed one mass usurper (or possibly an agent who sold/leased the domains to a buyer).

Any suggestions how to detect them? Domains go unregistered all the time exposing Wikipedia to industrial-scale usurpation.

-- GreenC (talk) 21:15, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

COIBot has some capacity to detect redirects, so if they go to active additions then there will be some catching. However if they are old static links, then they are what they are, I am unaware of any means. Cannot image how many domains are linked from the WPs, I know that COIBot already runs into some capacity limits at WMCLOUD for its large subset. We can retroactively run reports though that is probably less likely to capture redirects. If there is commonality in them, like using a common IP address then we can grab them, however there is no tool to capture a range of IPs backlinks. @Beetstra: as he runs COIBot.
Have you looked at some of the IPsummary reports on meta? They haven't been modernised for a while, so we could look at some of the external linking places if we can find something useful out there.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:36, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
@GreenC: this is something rather common, see e.g. en:MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#Copyvio_websites (@Platonk:), people are making a business out of this. Pinging @Lyndaship: here as well.
I would suggest as actions: blacklist the domain(s), use an archive of the links (if it exists) for all links added before the registrar change, remove the original links (at best these are now content farms or advertising, at worst you have phishing or similar - imagine that the old site has a login ...), and whitelist all archive links. (blacklisting can be done last if there is no active addition is going on, COIBot will tell a bit there). If the links are used on multiple wikis that would need to be done everywhere, and blacklisting may need to be global.
There is a bot (on en.wikipedia at least) that tags 404s .. but obviously these are not 404s, I don't think we have a bot for this. My solution for detection would be a bot that scans through ALL domains on Wikipedia on a regular basis, asks for the header information (which is something LiWa3 also does, but it does it for redirect detection and getting '404'-like data) and registers some key data like registration date and registrar (dump it in MySQL or something). Say you do that on the first of January, then again on the first of February. If the registration data is different you make a new record, if the registration data is the same you update the 'probe date' of the January record to February. First of March you do it again. Then you can do a rather simple SQL dump of all domains that have more than one record. You can whitelist CNN, BBC, Youtube, facebook and similar to speed up your bot. I expect that that list needs human evaluation, but if these records are good enough you could do on-wiki tagging by bot for all links on that domain added before the registrar change. --Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 05:40, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
One would think that enWP could be a universal flagship and sole check place, and just let that data flow. @Beetstra, would there be value in crosschecks with some of the data in COIBot, say for checking cleared domains, at least as a greylist/2nd layer of better quality domains?  — billinghurst sDrewth 06:51, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
Flagship I don't know. There are likely domains on other wikis that are rather specific there and are hardly used on other wikis (e.g. some domain with material in Russian will maybe not or hardly be used on en.wikipedia, but the possibility is still there that some Russian company is usurping the domains and cause the same damage). En.wikipedia is certainly the biggest fish and you would take out most, including many domains that are used elsewhere.
COIBot could certainly track future additions (though I still insist that blacklisting is something that we should seriously consider, so there will not be new additions - consider that a webpage with member login moves to a new domain, the old domain is usurped and the new owner puts up a similar looking page with a member login so they can collect member passwords ...), and the reports can help in seeing if all uses are cleared (depending on number of additions that are there, it does it only for smaller numbers). -- Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 07:46, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
I was unclear my apologies. I was not commenting about blacklisting, which should indeed continue. I was meaning a robust exclude list based on those that COIBot has already cleared. My reasoning is that these big and clear domains will be evident pretty quickly if they go offtrack, we don't really need to track them and check them monthly.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:30, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Filter 200

Hello, what's the point in adding capitalisation variants for a case-insensitive match? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)
16:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Because something got through and I was in a hurry and didn't have time to figure it out.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:13, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

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es-wiki edit and a long-term vandal

Hey mate, you reverted an edit on es-wiki.[1] The same IP edited the university article on it-wiki and another IP added the website shortly thereafter.[2] The website first popped up in a discussion on the Simone Biles en-wiki talk page[3]. The domain had been registered just a day before it was posted.

The evidence ties the site and IP's behavior back to an editor who has been abusing Wikipedia for almost a decade to promote himself and his projects. He has been blocked numerous times with different accounts on en-wiki, it-wiki, simple-wiki, and ja-wiki. That's what I've managed to find so far. The more I dig the crazier the story gets. SimoneBilesStan (talk) 05:05, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

@SimoneBilesStan: User:COIBot/XWiki/uopeople.review and it is on monitor. I cannot write a global filter as these are all major wikis. Blacklisting may just get a new site, and this domain has been set that to monitor, so we can just watch. Follow the "gs" link in the linksummary template will show that it is only on talk pages.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
@Billinghurst: Oh, very excellent! I was not familiar with this tool. Uopeople.review's predecessors were presto.news (gs) and evidence-based.review (gs). They both now redirect to uopeople.review. Evidence-based.review is still a source on several articles.
May I suggest adding another? boyfriendhusband.men (diff). The website/page originally included a link to giuseppemacario.men (COIBot/XWiki) in its footer. SimoneBilesStan (talk) 15:14, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Massive thanks for your help! The COIBot reports and Global Search are huge! This editor is all over the place with socks known and unknown. I've discovered hundreds of previously unknown IP edits spanning 10+ years that can be tied back to him. It's time to start cleaning up some of his mess. SimoneBilesStan (talk) 00:10, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
Glad that I could point you to the relevant tools. Thanks for your help in getting rid of conflict of interest and problematic edits.  — billinghurst sDrewth 02:37, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

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I appreciate the ping, but this isn't the best way to notify the stewards that GIPBE may be required for an affected user. My availability has been slim to none this week and their request shouldn't rely on one steward's availability in a team of 36. Jon Kolbert (talk) 16:37, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Jon. I guided them to the relevant help page and the request page in direct response component after I granted them local IPBE so they could make that a request. If you read it, then you would have seen that your component was FYI. The ping was courtesy as you blocked it and so you could be aware of the consequence of that action. I don't believe that if you are blocking ranges with active users that you get to set and forget.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:12, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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