User talk:Billinghurst/2022

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Vandalism at Simple English Wikipedia

Hello @Billinghurst:, I'm an editor at the Simple English Wikipedia. We're having an issue over here with a vandal who is continually removing information about Hermione Granger from Harry Potter articles. Could you please indefinitely block this user [[1]] because we don't have any administrators online at the moment? Cheers, Hockeycatcat (talk) 06:24, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

@Hockeycatcat: You will need to ask a steward as global sysops have no advanced rights for simpleWP.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:27, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Delete user page

When I edit user page User:198.17.32.0/24 about school district. You just delete user page. This is not avertisment. Is that user page User:198.17.32.0/24 was delete is out of scope? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.17.32.159 (talk)

It is not a user page, please do not recreate it.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:11, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

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2031-08 archive?

Well I'm asking problem regarding Talk:Spam blacklist/Archives/2031-08, for what reason we need an archive page with titled year 9 years after to-year? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 06:44, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Clearly it was f-up in the archiving process. Please don't tell me the problem when there is a pretty evident solution. Anyway   fixed  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:29, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

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AF 119

Hello. I think Special:AbuseFilter/119 needs a couple of tweaks in order to deal with this new trend. I tried something different but I did not succeed :-( Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:22, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

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Global Block Request

@Billinghurst: Block this IP range spamming on my talk page [2]. Thanks Slehertz (talk) 16:36, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I am not a spammer. Slehertz is Susovan aka w:User:Blogs19. I only asked for help in Bengali language at the talk-page. Just see their wikidata contribution history of d:Q111285844. Please find evidences from global contribution history from Slehertz (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date (alt) • CA • gblock • ST • lwcheckuser) and Kroutdefer (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date (alt) • CA • gblock • ST • lwcheckuser) 2409:4061:81:B82C:B08A:E586:A35C:6942 18:17, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
IP address 2409... please don't edit on Slehertz's user talk page. Best you try for some separation. Slehertz, please do not ask for blocks on my user talk page, please use Meta:RfH.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:03, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Question about mass deletion of pages in the Ladin Wikipedia

Dear @Billinghurst: I am Asenoner and an active user on the Ladin Wikipedia. I have recently created a few pages for calendar years (years of the Gregorian calendar) in the Ladin Wikipedia and several times I saw a notification that many of those pages had existed before and had been deleted by you in October 2020 as part of a mass deletion of pages created by 2600:1700:1E0:6B2F:FD26:36BF:FF4C:64A2. I wanted to ask if you could please clarify the reason for why you deleted these pages and generally what is happening here. Were these pages created by a bot and is that the reason why you deleted them?
I am just afraid that if I re-create these pages manually now, that you might one day delete them again. I would like to avoid that of course.
Thank you and best regards, --Asenoner (talk) 10:28, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Bot and pointless. User was creating them xwiki. If a community creates them thoughtfully and with community consensus, then a global sysop wouldn't touch them.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:04, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

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Your GIE request

Hi Billinghurst, would you review the oppose and possibly provide some context at Steward_requests/Global_permissions#global-interface-editor_and_abusefilter-maintainer_for_billinghurst_(2022)? — xaosflux Talk 14:14, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Addressed.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:20, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you! — xaosflux Talk 10:08, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

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Cf. kywiktionary

Has this report lead to any further conclusions? It seems this IP user resumed activity after expiry of your 1 month block. --Vogone (talk) 16:01, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

@Vogone: Thanks for the contact, I had forgotten to get back there following the block expiry. There was no contact, which is unfortunate. I have been and tidied up, and blocked for an extended period. I also note 189.6.16.72, and think that it may be related, though will watch more closely.

I also see a little activity at tgwikt from one of the IPs which is probably related.  — billinghurst sDrewth 20:49, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

I see you blocked 2804:14C:6585:429A:E9B4:A405:E5FF:F8C0 on that wiki, but have not deleted (all of?) their recent contributions — specifically the ones from March 10th, which I'm pretty sure are the exact entries that caused the wiki to pass 30K again on that date (I announced it with no "reservations" because I forgot I had just questioned similar activity in that same wiki just the month before [as linked to by Vogone above]). Any particular reason you left those pages alone? - dcljr (talk) 02:17, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Same goes for the following users on the same wiki:
These 5 IPs have been blocked as part of your March 24th block of "2804:14c:6590:8cec::/64" but their contributions from early January of this year have been left on the wiki. Have I just "jumped the gun" on this, and you're still in the process of deleting stuff over there? Or are you not sure they're actually the same person? - dcljr (talk) 02:33, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Mass delete failed due to db error, and I didn't have the time to do singly. The older are not in RC, so cannot be mass deleted.  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:39, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
OK. So, should I request this at SRM? (You would have deleted those pages if you could have, right?) - dcljr (talk) 06:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
They are deletions that are going to need to be bot'ified or handled individually, which takes a little time and patience. These are shared tasks, so either at SRM, or a link to list at SRM are always an option.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:38, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

I think I got caught up in this ip block Famouskiwi (talk) 20:50, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

@Famouskiwi: if you were editing from this account, that seems unlikely. If you weren't editing from an account, then I would suggest that you do.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:02, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

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Abusefilter 103

Hello Billinghurst. In AbuseFilter 103, on line 8, the sixth text (name of a French luxury fashion house) creates false positives on fr-wp. I think it should be removed, as it's not enough specific.

Best, — Jules* talk 15:14, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

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Template question

Hello!

Please let me know if this question is best redirected elsewhere or has already been explained, but I saw that you'd recently edited [[7]]. Is there currently an easy to pass all parameters from one template to another without specifying them one-by-one, kind of like *args and **kwargs in python? For instance, if I have some template called by parent|a=hello|b=world|c=my|d=name|e=is, I would like this parent template to be able to call child|**all_args** easily without needing to specify what a, b, c, d, and e are individually to child — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dragonoid76 (talk)

@Dragonoid76: Probably better to reference w:Help:Template or address yor questions to Mediawikiwiki. I am currently time poor.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:22, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

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Subject of your block on Wikisource

Hello Billinghurst Pinging @Billinghurst,

I think my IP address has switched recently, and I noticed, while attempting to edit Wikisource, that I was not allowed to edit or log in with my account. The message stated that IP 2600:1700:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 was the intended blockee. The message also stated 2600:1700:2f00:cb60:2d3c:b939:bc27:9017 is my current IP. I knew I was not the intended subject, as I haven't edited in Wikisource before, but I would like to ask you to resolve this issue (not sure how admins do that).

I couldn't leave this on your talk page on Wikisource because of the block.

Thank you, Augusthorsesdroppings10 (talk) 17:05, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

@Augusthorsesdroppings10: Please try now.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:27, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
@Billinghurst: Works now, thanks!--Augusthorsesdroppings10 (talk) 18:34, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Around, sort of

Wave to the world. Have to love happenstance and circumstance, and the curve balls of life. Should be back though in no way to previous extents. <shrug>  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:01, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Good to see you again. Kind regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:06, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

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‪Template:Discouraged

Shouldn’t it say 'Wikimedia' instead of 'Wikipedia', since we are on meta and not Wikipedia? Thanks. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 12:11, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

If it was aimed at all Wikimedians then it would say Wikimedians. If the Wikipedians decided that it was Wikipedians, then it is Wikipedians. Don't presume to know what others think or are trying to say and double guess them.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:22, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
Well, I assumed the template was just directly copied from Wikipedia without a proper localization, so I tried to 'fix' it. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 12:24, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
Don't presume.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:25, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

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parimatch.foundation

This URL is blocked by your global entries:

pari-?match
log entry: pari-?match #: Billinghurst # change
log entry: parimatch # Billinghurst # addition; see User:COIBot/XWiki/parimatch-bet.co.tz change
log entry: pari-?match #: Billinghurst # change

Was that your intention? Asking with reference to wikidata:Q113989772. Bovlb (talk) 18:07, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Parimatch was spammed to the shithouse, in a zillion variations, and no apparent useful means at the time that it was blacklisted. As per any item where someone thinks that the blacklist is either too soft or too hard, then please make a request for change at the appropriate place with the appropriate information.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:39, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

COIBot XWiki Request

I previously requested COIBot addition for uopeople.review. The person behind that website changed the URL to uopeople.reviews. It was recently added by an IP editor to the Simone Biles talk page on enwiki. SimoneBilesStan (talk) 01:20, 19 September 2022 (UTC)



Hi SimoneBilesStan. I have set that new domain to report and to be monitored  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:05, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

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Align the codes on the admin/crat/cu/... and sisters user templates to have a base, and a build

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Hi

Can you give me a link (or email) to contact? Everyone has been ignoring me for a week now. Whom or where do I contact to start an investigation? Nguyentrongphu (talk) 23:23, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Foundation: should have the guiding details that you need depending on the avenue that you wish to take. It is not to me to guide you, all I can say is that it is nothing for which stewards have carriage. 23:36, 11 November 2022 (UTC) — billinghurst sDrewth
That is fair, but the bureaucracy of the Wikimedia Foundation is overwhelming. It's quite difficult to get in touch with anyone if one doesn't know where to look. Yea, I'll do some digging on my own. Thanks! Nguyentrongphu (talk) 23:40, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
Casting aspersions of corruption at the steward's noticeboard is the completely the wrong way to do something. Resorting to that because you didn't get attention elsewhere never makes it acceptable. There are plenty of forum pages on meta that are significantly more relevant and explained at Main Page.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:55, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
First, I "didn't know" it's not steward's job. I'm not familiar with all steward's responsibilities here, so you can't blame me. It's not an aspersion when I actually have evidences. Are you saying my accusation is fake? Main Page has like a hundred different links, and I'm not too familiar with where to go from there. It's easy for you to say because you know Meta very well in and out, whereas I don't. It's like a jungle here, and it's very hard to navigate if one doesn't know where to look exactly. If you can just tell me a page (a link) that I can express my grievance. That's all I'm asking. Thanks! Nguyentrongphu (talk) 00:05, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
If you don't know whether it is a stewards' role, the expectation is on you to check, not just put such statements to a high profile page; the stewards pages is very clear on their role, and is easy to find. As an administrator and a bureaucrat at a WMF wiki, you should know better.
wikt:aspersion makes no claim about truth or falseness, you made an aspersion. As an administrator and a bureaucrat at a WMF wiki, you should know better.
Main Page has some very clear and explained links of better pages than Steward's noticeboard. As an administrator and a bureaucrat at a WMF wiki, you should know better.
Claims of corruption that you make need to be made to WMF, they are the only people who can act. My looking for the appropriate place is no different an action or different in time taken. Think of the question more generally as what breach of rules of Wikimedia Foundation would be in play, and I am sure that such a page will have the contact information that you seek.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:27, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
I made an accusation, not an aspersion. Aspersion is synonymous to calumny, slander. Yes, I've made a small honest mistake due to a lack of knowledge, and you have reverted that. No one is perfect here. Now, I know that WMF is only one who can act. Thanks for your advice in the last sentence! Nguyentrongphu (talk) 00:51, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
I am sorry, however, I disagree with your analysis, your statement is stronger than an accusation; of that I am allowed. In my response to your honest mistake, I quietly did so and provided general direction. My further feedback has come from your defences for why you did what you did. I have no expectation of perfection nor requested it, though don't expect my delight with your approach. Stop digging a deeper hole seems the appropriate advice.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:05, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
Accusation or aspersion -> we can agree to disagree respectfully. The investigation team can make their own judgement in the future. Your further feedback seems to be overblown compared to my small honest mistake. There is no hole to begin with. Thanks! Nguyentrongphu (talk) 01:12, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Vandal at Wikimedia Incubator

Can you please block a vandal on Wikimedia Incubator:. He's rather persistent. Steinbach (formerly Caesarion) 00:37, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. Steinbach (formerly Caesarion) 00:48, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
  Done you're welcome. If we are having ongoing issues, then we may need to put in place some newbie anti-vandalism filters.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:52, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

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HELP

Greetings @Billinghurst I need your help. Advice, steps, guides, whatever. How do I get a Wiktionary in my own langauge available? Been working on incubator of my language (Wiktionary) for few months. My wiktionary is here. I am an admin on its wikipedia of the same language (tumwiki). Thank you. Tumbuka Arch (talk) 16:50, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

@Tumbuka Arch: The LangCom is the arbiter of creation of language wikis among the sisterwikis, and presumably they have information on when something progresses from there to a full wiki. The language stuff is not my area of expertise. You could try a question on its talk page, or approach one of the current members, or one of the active past members.  — billinghurst sDrewth 20:54, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

User page

Hi Billinghurst, I am looking to get this huge user page, User:Metsfan67 on the en-wiki, deleted: it's over 5,000. The user has some article space edits, but their history shows they're not here to improve our project, if they ever were. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 02:30, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

@Drmies: You will need to get a steward to do it via SRM. I would suspect that they would be looking for clear authority to delete compliant with enWP's policies (a pointer would help them).  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:24, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Ah thanks for that link; I'm saving it. I came to you via a Steward page--I thought you were one too. Take care, Drmies (talk) 04:26, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
@Drmies: Not for 6+ years have I been a steward, so we may need to make an edit to a page if it is saying that I can assist.  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:32, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Hmm--sorry. I can't remember which page it was that led me there--it came up after clicking links on Steward_requests/Checkuser. Drmies (talk) 04:34, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Possibly landed on a page where meta admins can do local things with global impacts like title or spam blacklisting. <shrug> No issues.  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:44, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

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Requesting access to linkwatcher Cloud VPS project

Hi — I have requested access to the linkwatcher VPS project in this phab task, and would welcome any comments  TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 03:53, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

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