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Long-term abuse

Special:Contributions/しね --WikiBayer (talk) 07:01, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Gone by using my global power. Stryn (talk) 07:04, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Aieroel

This looks a lot like SEO spam: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Aieroel -- all contributions are either for a SEO company or for websites they (presumably) support? Maybe this is legit but it doesnt look like it to me. I suspect it is this person based on the username (no clue why this now redirects to a german destroyer).--Hannes Röst (talk) 15:51, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

2A01:79D:4699:AC90:5155:DE0C:9CC0:55E1

Please, take a look at: 2A01:79D:4699:AC90:5155:DE0C:9CC0:55E1. I have reverted in Eide Municipality (Q493296). I think there is good faith here, but the case of Eide was a total disaster. More eyes have to take a look. 62 etc (talk) 05:56, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

I think this will be solved (see Talk:Q493296) by the help of a nowiki sysop. 62 etc (talk) 07:22, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Mikhail Peres

Mikhail Peres (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)), Reason: Mass delete without reason after warning and have added unrelated claim. --SCP-2000 (talk) 09:18, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Globally locked --Esteban16 (talk) 18:24, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

User:24.104.204.96 & User:2604:2000:C815:E00:148E:D399:9C87:C4E0

Request of block of IP 24.104.204.96 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) because of ongoing vandalism and creating fake entries, it might be the same user as 2604:2000:C815:E00:148E:D399:9C87:C4E0 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) who shoulkd be blocked, too, because of same reasons. -- MovieFex (talk) 00:41, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism still continues, please protect Planet Terror (Q1165050) , Santos (Q6121386) , Machete (Q128493) and Robert Rodriguez (Q47284) . -- MovieFex (talk) 09:51, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Blocked both IPs for a week, semiprotected the mentioned items for a month, except for Robert Rodriguez (Q47284), which IMHO did not (yet) suffer excessive vandalism. Lymantria (talk) 06:29, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

semi-protection of Mariana Ochoa (Q3437637)

Reasons: Vandalism-- Valdemar2018 (talk) 06:20, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month--Ymblanter (talk) 18:51, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Request for protection of Ju Ming (Q714363)

Reason: Vandalism. --Xiplus (talk) 12:35, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month--Ymblanter (talk) 18:55, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection of Romania-related items

Semi-protection is needed here, these items are under heavy vandalism:

✓ Done, both for 3 months--Ymblanter (talk) 19:00, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
I have semi-protected both items for 1 month. Pamputt (talk) 11:54, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:137.101.15.9

137.101.15.9 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Inserting hoaxes into items, please nuke. LiliaMiller2002 sockpuppet. --Trade (talk) 19:32, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

I came here also to report this IP. It has created several items with what appears to be fictitious data. —capmo (talk) 21:32, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, he is another puppet from User:SoulMiller90, User:LiliaMiller2002 and User:Angelmunoz50, he is a common problem on eswiki.Baldic23 (talk) 21:42, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done Blocked the account as well as the related User:31.4.179.204 for a year. Reverted/deleted contributions. Lymantria (talk) 08:40, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Block this user : Himanshubansal1

This person is using wikidata for his personal promotioanal purpose . His first edit was Q98016300- creating a wikidata page for himself and his company Q98016573 . Both the person and his company are non notable . I request you to block this person to prevent further spam related to him . Rockpeterson (talk) 07:53, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 15:37, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Test Wikidata spam

Semi protect 1918-1920 flu pandemic (Q178275)

IPs keep vandalizing 1918-1920 flu pandemic (Q178275) --Haansn08 (talk) 20:26, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 21:07, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:DaniloLimaisBACK

The Username is DaniloLimaisBACK. I'm not linking them, because the first attempt led to them removing this report. — Reasons: Dozens of bad faith edits in the last hour or so. Just one example: [[1]] Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 19:23, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. —MisterSynergy (talk) 19:37, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 21:36, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Pontepreta1234

Pontepreta1234 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism-only account.  Hazard SJ  04:01, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 21:00, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

unable to fix sitelink

I'm unable to update Q15831447 with the correct sitelink to my -- w:my:တမ်းပလိတ်:Infobox_Chinese/Footer. --Yurik (talk) 04:12, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Yurik, unfortunately footer pages should not have items on Wikidata (see the exclusion criteria, which is a part of our notability policy). As such, I've requested deletion of that item.  Hazard SJ  04:58, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Hazard-SJ, thanks for the quick reply, that's totally fine, just wanted to fix broken sitelinks. Almost done with ~15 sites. --Yurik (talk) 05:08, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi protect Martín Ruggiero (Q97422359)

Vandalism from different IPs --Ovruni (talk) 05:31, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month. --Sotiale (talk) 05:37, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection of Ty Dolla $ign (Q7859785)

It might be worth considering semi-protection of Ty Dolla $ign (Q7859785), given the history of vandalism from various IP addresses and single-use accounts. Hazard-SJ (talk) 15:07, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 6 months. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 15:26, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

deletion page is broken

Template limits. I removed a section temporarily, now it's working. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 00:01, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done One request had 291 items and was "breaking" the page. I moved to a subpage and now post-expand include size has been greatly reduced. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 01:25, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

semi-protection of New Black Panther Party (Q2640783)

Reasons: POV edits. --Trade (talk) 16:32, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done IP blocked for 31 hours. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 19:05, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Doesn't really help when he just keepsk changing his IP @Stanglavine:--Trade (talk) 13:36, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
@Trade: really doesn't make sense protect a page with three editions of the same IP in months. In this case, IP is blocked. Today, with more than one IP and insistence, ✓ protected. Regards, Rafael (stanglavine) msg 16:36, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection of Matteo Salvini (Q1055449)

vandalism-Trade (talk) 12:26, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done protected for a month. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 14:02, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

P357

Hej!

I have found a template adapted for Property:P357. As you see, it is deleted. Can you tell med what it was and what datatype it used to be? 62 etc (talk) 12:57, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Going through old templates was a good idea. How about Property:P387? 62 etc (talk) 15:28, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  • P357 had the English label "title" and datatype "string". title (P1476) is the replacement, but with "monolingual-text" as datatype.
  • P387 had the English label "quote" and datatype "string". quotation (P1683) is the replacement, but with "monolingual-text" as datatype.

—MisterSynergy (talk) 16:41, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

vandalism and account creation blocked

Report concernin LaraMiller2015. (AngelMunoz50, and several more sock beads that evade the lock).

--Ytha67 (talk) 14:25, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Please nuke the --Trade (talk) 15:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Is AngelMunoz50. --Ytha67 (talk) 18:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. Account item creations nuked. Account is locked, so no further action is needed. --Wiki13 (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Restore old edits

User:Actoractressworld74 and User:117.202.200.194 removed sitelinks and other statements from Rohit Khandelwal (Q22005807). Kindly restore the edits to [2].-❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 21:43, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

I think you should be able to do this by yourself using the "restore" links in the item history, right? ---MisterSynergy (talk) 08:31, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
@MisterSynergy: No, that was not possible here. I had taken a look at this before but not had any item to rectify the situation here. What happened here basically is that the above mentioned two users repurposed the item by deleting sitelnks. As a result of that new items for the same person were created by bots, preventing restoring the item to how it was before. I deleted the duplicate items and restored this item to the version Gnoeee requested. This now means the request is ✓ Done. --Wiki13 (talk) 09:02, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
Note: I have tried making redirects afterwards, but that will yield errors about an already used sitelink. --Wiki13 (talk) 09:03, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Jordanene7498

Jordanene7498 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: newest incarnation of blocked puppeteer User:Jordanene7/User:Ngozikalu799 (see Category:Wikidata sockpuppets of Glorykal7). Has been editing under various IPs over the last days, including Special:Contributions/2601:8C:4682:2AA0:2960:7521:C5A9:B378, Special:Contributions/2601:8c:4682:2aa0:1c53:d1b0:20b:88ed and Special:Contributions/2601:8C:4682:2AA0:8D60:EDAA:B467:8CBC, now they switched to a new account. The same pattern of adding end time (P582) statements to television shows that are either inbetween seasons or haven't been officially cancelled, as well as re-adding the dates via reverts after they've been removed. --Kam Solusar (talk) 02:02, 7 August 2020 (UTC) Kam Solusar (talk) 02:02, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

@Kam Solusar: Mahir256 blocked the account earlier. I just blocked 2601:8C:4682:2AA0:0:0:0:0/64 to stop them from editing with the IP addresses. Please let me know if they continue after this block. ✓ Done for now. --Wiki13 (talk) 07:44, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection Mauricio Macri (Q561837)

multiple vandalism Mauricio V. Genta (talk) 02:30, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

@Mauricio V. Genta: ✓ Done for 3 months. Wiki13 (talk) 07:24, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:47.60.35.3

47.60.35.3 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Repeated vandalism with the addition of fake content (Long-term abuse Angelmunoz50) Ytha67 (talk) 10:03, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:31.4.210.225

31.4.210.225 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: IP vandalism (Angelmunoz50 lock bypass). Adding fake content Ytha67 (talk) 16:16, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Reporting 31.4.210.225

31.4.210.225 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Reasons: As above, he is adding fake content, (And again, as above, Long-term abuse Angelmunoz50) Βαldιc 23 16:17, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Please reconsider bot permissions for User:GZWDer (flood)

Based on recent discussions at User talk:GZWDer I think it's necessary to reconsider bot permissions for User:GZWDer (flood). We can't allow someone who doesn't bother checking for duplicates and doesn't bother asking individual Wikipedias for permission before importing their new articles to run a bot like this. --Hjart (talk) 08:06, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

This is a job for the bureaucrats. You are specifically referring to Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/GZWDer (flood) 4, I guess. ---MisterSynergy (talk) 08:29, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
For the record: I have removed the flag yesterday--Ymblanter (talk) 21:22, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection Néstor Kirchner (Q170899)

multiple vandalism Mauricio V. Genta (talk) 21:23, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Already semi-protected twice in the past. Semi-protected for 1 year this time. Pamputt (talk) 10:14, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Request to block this ip 101.0.34.30

The person is here on wikidata just to do promotions , check his recent contributionsQ98118478,Q98118547 which clearly emphasis about spam . To prevent further promotional activities by this person I suggest to put a block on him. Rockpeterson (talk) 07:24, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

User warned: User talk:101.0.34.30. @Rockpeterson: We don't have a policy to block on sight here, expectialy for only two items, you should read Wikidata:Vandalism. If the come back, then we can block. --Fralambert (talk) 15:32, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

School boards of Quebec (and some sockpuppettery)

Hi, I seen this morning that LC70 unlinked half of the french school board of Quebec (Q2986739). This is partly because of transformation of some of these administrative units into School service centre (Q86732061). We have a debate in frwiki if the latter id notable there, but they are notable here, so this is not really the point. I warned him about this and reverted if modifications. This is more that he is notorious and permanenttly blocked on frwiki for using sockpuppet (Faux-nez/LC70). And I see in the revision history of [3] and [4]. That he used at least one of his sockpuppet, Ogredesplaines on the same articles. I just ask if this is possible to block him on this behaviour. --Fralambert (talk) 14:04, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

@Fralambert: See Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/LC70 / Voir Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/LC70.--Jasper Deng (talk) 19:20, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
@Jasper Deng: Thanks! --Fralambert (talk) 21:28, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Preemptive protection request for some pages

Just a heads-up: It'd be a good idea to protect the page for the following items:

There's a lot of stuff going on with the group, and there may be some buzz around these items by anons.

I don't know if it's going to be necessary, but it'd be nice to keep an eye on the items.--CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 18:18, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Template:Pp-protected

{{Pp-protected}} (currently just a redirect) should be protected indefinitely. Thanks! —Hasley 18:27, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

@Hasley: ✓ Done. Full protected this redirect. There is no need for it to be edited by normal users. --Wiki13 (talk) 19:07, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Report User:31.4.242.75

31.4.242.75 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Puppet vandal IP of Angelmunoz50. Adding fake content. Βαldιc 23 19:11, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

I add IP User: 31.4.242.133 diff. --Ytha67 (talk) 14:11, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
I add IP user: 47.60.38.75 diff in a few hours the user has changed IP to carry out the same vandalism edits. --Ytha67 (talk) 15:26, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Natascha Strobl, Q55786127

There is an Editwar in german language Wikipedia that should not be pepetuated in Wikidata. --Drahreg01 (talk) 07:09, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

This report lacks merrit, is wrong in its beliefs about the subject and dishonest in it's account. I have listed a source according to which the person this item is about is an activist. There are numerous other sources confirming this, i.e. this one. Factually, there is nothing wrong with my changes. The fact, that at least parts of my changes were restored by another users shows, that there was nothing wrong with them.

The claim by the reporting Drahreg01 that I was perpetuating an editwar from DEWP is wrong. While there was an editwar in the corresponding article in DEWP, that was about a maintenance template, see here. While i certainly believe that Drahreg01 made that claim due to beeing mistaken, I don't know why he has not corrected it.

Drahreg01 had no valid reasons to revert my edit. His argument was not based on the content but rather ad hominem. There no rule banning anyone from editing an item because he is involved into a corresponding Wikipedia article - there is a Consensus that things happen seperately from.each project. Even a arbcom-sanctioned topic ban does not restrict another Users ability to edit the same topic in another project. Therefore, the idea that a User was not allowed to participate in an article due to beeing involved into a discussion in another project and could therefore be reverted ist frivolous.

Reverts can therefore not be based on the editing user and giving the User as a reason for reverting comes close to trolling and I request Drahreg01 to be at least reprimanded for doing so. -- Liberaler Humanist (talk) 16:18, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

The claim by the reporting Drahreg01 that I was perpetuating an editwar from DEWP is wrong.

It strains credulity to assert that an edit is independent, and should be judged without regard to, a discussion with 200+ comments in less than a week, on exactly the change you are making, and in which you participated. And while I'm unfamiliar with the details of cross-wiki extradition practices, the common law doctrine of res judicata comes to mind: as a small and multi-national project, it is essential to make use of the larger user base and localised knowledge other projects have. In that sense, it is not so much any judgement of you as a person that one defers to, but the judgement of dewiki on the content. That practice is entirely in line with the millions of edits that are being done based on content in other projects, and also reflected in core practices of WD (trying to) align its structures to other projects. --Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 20:24, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Dewiki doesn't make decissions for any other project. Neither is a discussion on Dewiki part of Wikidata. It is an idea, that Wikidata aims to align its structures to other projects, one that does not manifest itself into reality when it comes to data imports. Aligning content isn't practical and is excluding users when the process is happening in a project with another language than english. I think it is possible to determine attributes using sources and in this case i refer to the multiple sources supporting the use of activist (Q15253558). -- Liberaler Humanist (talk) 22:41, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Please block Amagency and associated accounts

Amagency
Melisa009112
Zagota009

Sockpuppet accusations belongs at Wikidata:Requests for checkuser. Please fill a request. @Infogapp1:--Trade (talk) 00:08, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi!@Trade: Sorry, but I thought since it was already proven through EN SPA, this project can just piggyback on the results. But of course, knowing that now, I'll do that instead. Thanks!
UPDATE: All set and this has been taken cared of in Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Amagency CU thanks! — Infogapp1 (talk) 11:24, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

User:BrnoSilveira12 creating hoax articles

BrnoSilveira12 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))

I'm an administrator at en; this user came to my attention on the vandalism board there. They're in the process of making Wikidata entries about a non-existent film here ("The Penguin and Me" is not a real film). Recommend global locking (according to the report at en AIV, they've been banned at fi Wikipedia as well). Ohnoitsjamie (talk) 00:47, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

I've warned him/her. Hope that will be enough. Pamputt (talk) 05:38, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
@Pamputt: Now recreated as Q98057791 with an article on itwiki. Possibly linked to Brenorsilveira123456 (talk • contribs • logs). Bovlb (talk) 20:11, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
It seems this user is not here to contribute positively. Blocked indef. Pamputt (talk) 20:24, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/BrnoSilveira12--Trade (talk) 22:07, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Esteban16 (talk) 18:28, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Block request: 138.121.104.22

This IP address has been changing English descriptions to start with capital letters, despite warnings at User talk:138.121.104.22#July 2020. —Hasley 17:46, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done, 3 days--Ymblanter (talk) 21:24, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Ymblanter: they were warned again yesterday, but have continued today making the same changes. —Hasley 19:52, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Blocked for a month--Ymblanter (talk) 19:58, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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Semi protecion of Simon Cowell (Q162629)

The item Simon Cowell (Q162629) is being vandalized and needs protection. Thanks. Montgomery (talk) 23:31, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 23:40, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
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Protectection of Q662703

Please protect Hotel for Dogs (Q662703) because of ongoing vandalism. -- MovieFex (talk) 17:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 17:48, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
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Protection of Q7921377

Please protect Veritas, Prince of Truth (Q7921377) because of ongoing vandalism. -- MovieFex (talk) 18:08, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:55, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:186.178.44.31

186.178.44.31 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: vandalism (replacing data with false information) Meiræ 20:48, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Only 4 edits done at the same time. No activity since then. Pamputt (talk) 18:44, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:151.46.56.103

151.46.56.103 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: adding vandal descriptions Meiræ 21:29, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Only one edit. No need to do anything for now. Pamputt (talk) 17:55, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:Consultants_limited

Consultants_limited (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Every single edit of theirs was nonsense. They are also blocked indefinitely on enwiki and others. Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 21:35, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Globally blocked. Pamputt (talk) 17:54, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Semi protection for Julien Bam (Q23817186)

I ask for semi protection because IPs are constantly changing the description in German by adding kind of nonsense. Thanks. Raymond (talk) 09:22, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 09:24, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Q27721

Probably should be semi-protected forever, because somehow it is a target of test(?) merges. --Infovarius (talk) 12:34, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done, let us try 1-year protection first--Ymblanter (talk) 12:37, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Davejohnhotels123 (talk • contribs • logs)

Created promotional items for car dealerships. Same activity on Commons. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:35, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked and nuked. --Sotiale (talk) 14:13, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Q6087802

Please semi-protect Below Average (Q6087802) - persistent hoaxing from several IPs. Thanks. —Hasley 14:01, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month. Thank you for reporting :D --Sotiale (talk) 14:08, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Camila Cabello (Q18810940)

The item Camila Cabello (Q18810940) needs a semi-protection. Repeated vandalism by IPs. Thanks - Premeditated (talk) 14:36, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 15:14, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Block of IP-range

There is a user who creates fake objects one after another. His IP changes, but may be it is possible to block his range:

See also Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q97959132 / Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q97959162 / Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q982706282 And please delete every edits he made. -- MovieFex (talk) 00:10, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

@MovieFex: At first glance, not quite. Q98140294 is a real Pixar short based on The Incredibles.--Jasper Deng (talk) 00:21, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
@Jasper Deng: No, not this one, check data https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455565/ . He gives a little right information mixed up with bad faith edits as he did in Q98000194, too (director Robert Rodriguez. E.g. Machete (Q128493) and Veritas, Prince of Truth (Q7921377) are protected for now and several other objects, too. I added one more IP above. -- MovieFex (talk) 00:38, 12 August 2020 (UTC) PS: Two more.-- MovieFex (talk) 01:26, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done and blocked 2604:2000:C815:E00:0:0:0:0/64 for a month. Lymantria (talk) 05:56, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please semi Q534234 for some time

Seems to be popular these days --- Jura 09:10, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for 3 months. Hazard-SJ (talk) 14:43, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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Reporting User: MentionMandela

Till now has created 4 wikidata items , all of those are promotional and are requested for deletion . Two of them Q98342344(Was deleted twice in this week), Q98342213 were deleted previouslyRockpeterson (talk) 06:23, 14 August 2020 (UTC) .

The user is again and again creating wikidata items for the same entity check Q98381470, Q98342344 . I request to put a block on this user .Rockpeterson (talk) 11:22, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done - Deleted the items.-❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 12:44, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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Vandalisme [5] ip [6]

Thank you

✓ Done Blocked 31 hrs. Lymantria (talk) 10:11, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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Reporting spam edits on this wikidata items Q52988361 , Q92528701 , Q57412892

For this wikidata item Q52988361 :
Previously a wikidata item was deleted of the entity (Nishant Patel) ,then he tried to claim this wikidata item who was of a researcher named (Nishant Piyush) Q52988361 , check the edit history from 12 August 2020 ([1]) , unusual edits made by the IP: 2401:4900:5231:291:b46c:b032:9294:7e45 , changed occupation , gender , date of birth , place of birth and added a fake website .
For this wikidata item Q92528701 :
The user again claimed some other researcher wikidata item and converted it into a fashion designer entity check edit history from 12 August 2020 ([2])

For wikidata item Q57412892 :
The user converted this wikidata item which was of a researcher named (C Bondor) to make-up artist item , check edit history from 12 August 2020 ([3]
)

For wikidata item Q56011786:
The user converted this wikidata item which was of a researcher named (Marian Esquivel) to entrepreneur (Marian Esanu) item , check edit history from 12 August 2020 ([4])


Please block this ip:2401:4900:5231:291:B46C:B032:9294:7E45 as till now has only done spamming on wikidata by completely changing researcher's wikidata items to some one else as mentioned above .

Rockpeterson (talk) 12:55, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done- Edits has been reverted and blocked the IP.-❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 13:11, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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References

  1. ↑ https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q52988361&action=history
  2. ↑ https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q92528701&action=history
  3. ↑ https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q57412892&action=history
  4. ↑ https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q56011786&action=history

Semi-protection for Q19800980

Please semi-protect Aidan Gallagher (Q19800980) - persistent vandalism. Thanks! —Hasley 18:34, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done -- Semi protection about a week. Wagino 20100516 (talk) 19:09, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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Q232514

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Blocking User:Mzikitap

Please block User:Mzikitap. They are a spambot. See contribs. Prahlad balaji (talk) 02:13, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

And delete their created pages as well. Prahlad balaji (talk) 02:16, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. Hazard-SJ (talk) 03:07, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. Prahlad balaji (talk) 03:54, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:Hotdogsquid

Hotdogsquid (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism-only account. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 02:22, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Hazard-SJ (talk) 03:05, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protect President of Belarus (Q1049659)?

Multiple instances of vandalism over the last couple of days, and I suspect that's going to continue in light of current circumstances. --Oravrattas (talk) 13:44, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month, I hope they will sort it out within a month--Ymblanter (talk) 19:12, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
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Louis-Charles Laroche (Q98397273)

Q98397273 needs to be deleted. It's not notable, plus was created by a rude vandal user who just wants to spam Wikidata with details about Louis-Charles Laroche. See history of page and contribs of user. Prahlad balaji (talk) 04:56, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Deleted by Hazard-SJ Jianhui67 talk★contribs 05:14, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you. Prahlad balaji (talk) 13:06, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
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User:Jrm1993

User is repeatedly editing Q92341591 that was solely created for self promotion. Went as far as to revert edits by @Quakewoody:. Blocked on Commons for repeatedly uploading out of scope images. Could do with a warning IMO Gbawden (talk) 10:36, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

  • in fairness, I am in the wrong for my edits. The user shouldn't be punished for reverting them. But, yes, the user's behavior on commons, which then required him to edit here (linking of repeatedly deleted images and category) is an issue - which is in addition to the initial self-promotion edits. Quakewoody (talk) 14:26, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
  • this user is now globally blocked. But there are 2 socks. Jrm2020 is obvious, but Melisa537 is either a sock or a duck. Quakewoody (talk) 14:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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Reporting pages about this person Q98398603 , created 4-5 times in last 3 weeks

I had almost requested for deletion of this entity item named Manish Singh , and all the wikidata items (3-4) were been deleted since past 2-3 weeks . Someone is again and again creating wikidata item for this entity who has all the paid articles as references .
The entity has uploaded his images on wikicommons to prevent the deletion of wikidata again . I would request you to block this User:Spartan2298 to prevent spamming and advertising .Rockpeterson (talk) 12:55, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Page listed at RfD, we'll see how that goes. Prahlad balaji (talk) 15:08, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done by Fralambert. Page deleted by Fralambert, but user was not blocked. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me.) 15:37, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please semi-protect Q63348069

Commons started using it massively. [7] --- Jura 15:25, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Semiprotected indefinetely. Lymantria (talk) 06:09, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning 124.13.146.136

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87.17.82.163

87.17.82.163 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Keeps making test changes to Wikidata items after I told them not to. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me.) 20:01, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 31 hours. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 04:48, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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Delete Q98398801

some non-notable spam Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me.) 20:15, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done by Wiki13. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 04:50, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:2401:e180:88a2:686c:383c:be8:3f38:1167

2401:e180:88a2:686c:383c:be8:3f38:1167 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism. uw-vandalism4 warning issued. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 11:18, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for 31 hours. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 11:39, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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Q91584901

created from merge, no longer needed. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me.) 16:35, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

@Prahlad balaji: As per Help:Merge, merged items should be redirected (as you have already done), not deleted, so no further action is needed. Also, in the future, please use Wikidata:Requests for deletions to request deletion of items. Hazard-SJ (talk) 17:42, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
@Hazard-SJ: I did take it to RfD, but I couldn't find the section, so I just said, "Well, ok, it's safe at AN, so just leave it there." I will remember your advice though. Thanks, Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:48, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
@Prahlad balaji: Definitely feel free to bring things here if you're confused or uncertain! As for RfD, there should be a blue button at the top of the page that, says "Add a new request" in English (there doesn't seem to be a Tamil translation yet, so I assume that's what you're seeing). Hazard-SJ (talk) 17:57, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
@Hazard-SJ: No worries! I don't really read Tamil, I just speak it. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:59, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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Obsolete translations

Please delete the following translated titles, as their source is no longer translatable:

Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard/Header/text
Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Header

Posting here because those pages do not appear in Category:Wikidata:Deletion, and will probably go unnoticed for a while. Thanks. —Hasley 02:03, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Hazard-SJ (talk) 06:11, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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solicitar desbloqueo

Issue #2008110656088
(describe the issue for which you need an administrator's decision; don't include "Cyaneztoledo (talk) 06:56, 11 August 2020 (UTC)")
Author and time of the request
Cyaneztoledo; 15:43, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Decision
(to be filled in by an administrator)

solicitar desbloqueo para poder responder a una solicitud de borrado

@Abián, Andreasmperu, Esteban16: could you have a look? Muchas gracias. Pamputt (talk) 17:52, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Cyaneztoledo: Tu cuenta no está ni nunca ha sido bloqueado. Por la forma en que planteaste la solicitud, pienso que fue un error, además de que el ticket que diste no existe. ¿Qué querías hacer exactamente? Esteban16 (talk) 19:24, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
For the record, this looks like a test request. The user has never been blocked and there is no such ticket.--Esteban16 (talk) 19:24, 12 August 2020 (UTC)


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Protection of Sky High (Q858508)

Please protect Sky High (Q858508) because of ongoing vandalism. -- MovieFex (talk) 01:34, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

{{not done}}: The edits in question are from only 2 IP addresses, both of which are currently included in a range block by Lymantria. We can re-evaluate this if the situation changes, but for now protection does not seem necessary. Hazard-SJ (talk) 14:37, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
@Hazard-SJ: Are you going to watch this object and spend your time taking care of it? This guy has an other IP.[8]
--> 24.104.204.96 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC))
These edits and creations are also faked and should be deleted, e.g. after vandalizing in Planet Terror (Q1165050) which is protected now he created this hoax Q97995469 -- MovieFex (talk) 16:04, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
@MovieFex: A reason for protection is excessive vandalism. On this item the vandalism is not excessive. I blocked User:24.104.204.96 again. Lymantria (talk) 16:22, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:Welcome leter

Welcome leter (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: The user tried to repurpose Creative Talent Hunt (Q25112320) (a competition) into an item about an Indian actor named "Anan Islam", which I reverted.. Then Final CEO (talk • contribs • logs) reverted me, turning it back into an item about the person. Looking through the edit history, I've found the account Ananislam (talk • contribs • logs), who also edited this item and a template to also add something about someone named "Anan Islam". That account was globally blocked by User:Jasper Deng for sockpuppetry. Final CEO is also creating/editing items like the similarly named Q98177131 (and others for new organizations with fresh social media accounts and non-working websites), which might be related. Not sure how much of all of this is maybe legit or good faith edits, or how/if it is connected to the sockpuppet account. --Kam Solusar (talk) 04:35, 13 August 2020 (UTC) Kam Solusar (talk) 04:35, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

@Kam Solusar: They are Confirmed to be the same as Ananislam; please add future reports of this to Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ananislam138.--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:46, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
@Jasper Deng: Might wanna consider changing the reason for their block. --Trade (talk) 07:49, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
@Trade: The sockpuppet tags should suffice.--Jasper Deng (talk) 08:20, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, will do. --Kam Solusar (talk) 20:13, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:137.101.89.177

137.101.89.177 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: account to vandalize and bypass lockdown by Angelmunoz50 Ytha67 (talk) 16:37, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

@Ytha67: you should open a request on Wikidata:Requests for checkuser to check whether it is the same user. Pamputt (talk) 08:03, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
@Pamputt: Request made, the user has been carrying out these actions for 6 months with a daily puppet (he usually uses a combination of Miller-Lili or the IP that I have in monitoring) and acts under a clear pattern. Their vandalisms affect other wikis, and the tasks that editors do, so greater agility would be necessary to solve this situation. My request is based on the evidence of the user's pattern in global, so I preferred not to load the chekuser with work. It was checked on eswiki and it was positive, so I transferred it to the board directly. Thanks for the help --Ytha67 (talk) 12:12, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
@Ytha67: globally blocked for 1 week by Sotiale Pamputt (talk) 09:15, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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Semi protection request for Eritrean–Ethiopian War (Q832273)

and please send an avertissement to 2804:7F7:DC80:621:299E:F9EC:C93F:EF00 (talk • contribs • logs) Bouzinac (talk) 16:47, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

I don't think protection is necessary, since has only been vandalized by that IP over the past year. I did, however, leave a warning on the IP's talk page. Hazard-SJ (talk) 03:04, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
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SBK Bardhan

Please block SBK Bardhan (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)). They are only interested in promoting, not building Wikidata. I had already warned them. Prahlad balaji (talk) 15:07, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

It seems that they have stopped, hence I think a block is not necessary. Please report again if the user continues to self-promote. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 04:43, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:2806:1000:8004:525D:1402:9A38:DC37:DC25

2806:1000:8004:525D:1402:9A38:DC37:DC25 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Repeatedly removing good claims after final warning. ImprovedWikiImprovment (talk) 02:57, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 24 hours. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 03:07, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:124.218.16.45

124.218.16.45 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Reason: Spam. --SCP-2000 (talk) 04:13, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Hazard-SJ (talk) 04:39, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:Ydvraushan

Ydvraushan (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: spam; User:Ydvraushan and Talk:Q18465085 should be deleted Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 11:55, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

@Lucas Werkmeister: Talk:Q18465085 blanked and User:Ydvraushan tagged for deletion. User isn't blocked though. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 14:45, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
I have also asked somebody to revdel this revision and block the user and delete their page. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 14:52, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Almost everything is ✓ Done, but iser isn't blocked. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 19:29, 18 August 2020 (UTC)


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Report concerning User:78.98.44.55

78.98.44.55 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: continuing to remove claims after final warning ImprovedWikiImprovment (talk) 15:47, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done, for 3 days--Ymblanter (talk) 18:21, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Спасибо Ymblanter. :) ImprovedWikiImprovment (talk) 19:31, 18 August 2020 (UTC
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Urgent Deletion Request

Hi all, Q98462219, Q98462288, Q98462128, Q98462108, Q98461795, and Q98461729 need to be deleted urgently. They are double redirects created from merging, and the item that they (eventually) retarget to is really quite nonsensical. I have also posted this at RfD; however, this is urgent, and as we all know, RfD is not urgent. I'm just posting this here because it's an urgent matter. Thank you. Regards, Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 21:22, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Not urgent, but ✓ Done. Please just report these cases at WD:RfD and do not create such a mess again. —MisterSynergy (talk) 22:19, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
@MisterSynergy: Thank you, but how do I not avoid creating such a mess when there are so many? Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 22:24, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Leave all items as they are, and mention them on WD:RfD. If it is too much to list, you can also simply point to the user's or IP's contributions lists and refer informally to something like "all items created on 2020-08-19 by that user" or so, whatever describes the situation appropriately. Besides that, there is really no need to hurry in case of test items such as this ones. —MisterSynergy (talk) 22:29, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
@MisterSynergy:, thanks. I didn't really know that this was a test item. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 22:31, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
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Request for Investigation

I would like to report a person User:ItsVaibhuuu . The person is tricking wikidata by creating a fake bot like user page User:BotxVaibhu . I found this person and his edits suspicious so I took a look at his editing summary (check) . He has created a fake bot like user page (a replica of bot) . Rockpeterson (talk) 07:27, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

I do not see any vandalism or other improper edits.--GZWDer (talk) 07:51, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
@GZWDer: the problem isn't the user's edits. It's the fake bot that worries me. I have tagged its page for deletion. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 00:35, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
It currently have no edits, so I do not think it is something we should worry about. Even if it have edits we do not need to take action unless the edits are controversial or have other issues.--GZWDer (talk) 01:25, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
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Reporting spam edits with item Q56440858

This wikidata item Q56440858 was created in the year 2018 . From 13 August 2020 onwards there were few edits made to this item by IP: 2405:204:3390:947e:dc8a:3777:cdfd:ce5b . There were two wikidata items deleted about the person who was here to promote himself and his digital marketing company . Both his wikidata items got deleted . The person then used this item Q56440858 who was about Dr.Sunil Kumar [1] , he made several edits such as : (added his twitter handle , added his google knowledge graph id and added his date of birth) . I would request to undo previous edits made by the person who wants to use this item Q56440858 for his own promotional purpose as name being the same .Rockpeterson (talk) 07:27, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

  1. ↑ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7632-7251

Special:Contributions/Marcelo

I just cancelled one suspiscious sitelink removal from this user, seen he’s been blocked elsewhere and checked it’s contribution list, mostly suspicious sitelink removal. Can someone double check ? author  TomT0m / talk page 19:47, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

@TomT0m:- The above said user has deleted sitelinks to eswiki where currently he has bureaucrat and sysop flag.-❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 20:01, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Please note that the most recent revisions of w:es:Críticas al psicoanálisis contained copyright violations. Marcelo deleted copyrighted revisions and then partially restored the article, but did not restored the sitelink from Q2363409. —Hasley 20:45, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

User:Ashu8375982804

Ashu8375982804 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - spam/advertising only account --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 22:56, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef. Lymantria (talk) 06:33, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
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User:27.111.71.134

27.111.71.134 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - vandalism after final warning. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 01:56, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 31 hours. Lymantria (talk) 06:38, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:181.55.178.218

181.55.178.218 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: replaces valid statements by insults Peter17 (talk) 13:03, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Blocked --DannyS712 (talk) 13:11, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
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User:Aaaaaaaax

Aaaaaaaax (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - vandalism-only account Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 15:44, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:21, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please semi-protect Bobby Fischer (Q41314)

Bobby Fischer (Q41314) should be temporarily semi-protected for vandalism. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 19:50, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done by Bovlb Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 20:03, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
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User:186.216.181.174

186.216.181.174 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - vandalism after final warning, plus likely block evasion of block evasion of Aaaaaaaax. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 21:48, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 00:18, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
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Q96870739 +++

This and other edit pages seem problematic to me. Looks like global terrorist organisational stuff. But I could be wrong. Someone with Farsi is probably a good starting point, I tried a user, however, they do not seem to be at home.

If there is global blacklisting that I need to do, please let me know. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:55, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

I deleted the item, I do not see how it is notable at this point.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
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User: 2600:1700:3720:3770:F184:DC55:CFD4:80BA

2600:1700:3720:3770:F184:DC55:CFD4:80BA (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - vandalism after final warning --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 22:41, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for a week, and I fixed one problem you missed. Bovlb (talk) 23:54, 20 August 2020 (UTC)


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User:Perlwikidodo

Contributions seem to be test edits or mild vandalism. Could somebody check this user out? --Haansn08 (talk) 15:09, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done locked by a steward --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 00:29, 22 August 2020 (UTC)


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User: Daxterpewpew

Daxterpewpew (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - spamming on their user talk page --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 04:04, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done by Hazard-SJ --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 00:20, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection for Q8605

Please semi-protect Simón Bolívar (Q8605) - persistent IP vandalism from various IP addresses, popular theme. --Jklamo (talk) 18:40, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:47, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Lisa tern

Somebody block all of the accounts at Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Lisa tern. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 00:30, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done --Lymantria (talk) 17:19, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:Gazi Sa Rana

Gazi Sa Rana (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism of items' descriptions Meiræ 00:44, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Cross-wiki abuse, global lock requested. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 19:04, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
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Request closure for Wikidata:Properties for deletion#Property:P8531

Hello,

This request has no basis. Would you be kind enough to close it prematurely?

Follow the debates to realize it:

  • Jura1's opposition has been answered and it turns out that it is irrelevant.
  • The creation of the property is due to an administrator and no error is to be deplored.

Thanks in advance. Cordially. —Eihel (talk) 14:34, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Nearbey

Nearbey (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: deliberately adding false information, cross-wiki spam Bodhisattwa (talk) 07:24, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

In the future please report all Anan Islam spam to Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ananislam138--Trade (talk) 19:16, 22 August 2020 (UTC)


✓ Done locked by a steward. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 20:15, 23 August 2020 (UTC)


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Semi-protection for Q22080762

Requesting semi-protection for Chaturbate (Q22080762); anon spammers have been changing official website (P856) to unrelated/affiliate sites. Trivialist (talk) 19:37, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a year--Ymblanter (talk) 19:55, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Requesting semi-protection for Stripchat (Q76564381)--Trade (talk) 00:46, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Semi-protected for 3 months. Pamputt (talk) 16:23, 23 August 2020 (UTC)


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Semi-protection for Q463877

Please semi-protect Melinda Gates (Q463877) - persistent IP vandalism from various IP addresses, living person, popular theme. --Jklamo (talk) 22:21, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Semi-protected for 6 months.-❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 23:33, 23 August 2020 (UTC)


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Mike Novikoff

I warned the user for personal attacks (in Russian), they have chosen to continue. I applied a short block. They said they retired, and, indeed, disappeared for a while. However, today they posted personal attacks (this time in English) against me on their talk page [9]. Whereas these personal attacks are kind of mild, I am not sure I like the language that I "killed" someone. Their "well-known" link leads to a site created as an attack site against ru.wp admins about 10 years ago, when I was still active in the Russian Wikipedia (the site tracks the visitors IPs). May be an administrator can have a look and, if appropriate, help the user to keep their promise to retire. Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:18, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Removed and warned. Bovlb (talk) 15:56, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:24, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

It would be unfair not to ping the involved user @Mike Novikoff:--Trade (talk) 07:57, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Trade. It's really not fair to act in a non-transparent way, unless dealing with a blatant vandal (that I'm certainly not).
Yes, I do have a series of concerns regarding the issue, although I'm not sure whether it helps if I express them now. But just in case... First, is the phrase "One more message like this, and I am going to block your account" a proper way to warn a user in good standing? It's more like a policeman dealing with a criminal, and it doesn't even allow the user to explain himself. Second, is 3 days block really a short one for a user with almost 6 years of WD tenure, ~5500 of flawless edits and a clean log? It just ruined my motivation, and it makes me feel like I'm no longer a decent member of the community. Third, is it civil to say "help the user to keep their promise to retire"?
Last but not least, I'd rather not be handled by any sysop with Ruwikian background. I have left ruwiki in February 2019 for much the same kind of handling, and I thought I am a member of a much larger and healthier community instead. After all, my home is enwiki, and I never had any conflict there ever since 2012.
I don't really know why wikireality.ru is called "an attack site", afaik it's just a meta-informational one dedicated to various MediaWiki-based projects and blogs, and even to Web 2.0 as such. And I don't know what's wrong with "the site tracks the visitors IPs"; doesn't any website in the world have its access logs? — Mike Novikoff 18:30, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
Is it true that nobody, no one says me a word of encouragement? No one even says that WD needs quality more than quantity? — Mike Novikoff 21:10, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Nuke request

See Wikidata:Project_chat#Undoin_accidental_mass_creation_of_blank_items.--GZWDer (talk) 08:26, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done, All removed. —MisterSynergy (talk) 09:11, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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User:Hayavusa

Hayavusa (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - vandalism-only account, vandalism after final warning, plus probable block evasion of 2600:1700:3720:3770:f184:dc55:cfd4:80ba (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)). --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 23:33, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:05, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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213.221.251.2

Only vandalism. Please consider some break for this IP. Thanks. --Wurgl (talk) 14:22, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month--Ymblanter (talk) 18:17, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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Walls (Q72121713)

Please protect Walls (Q72121713) for vandalism/disruptive editing. Thanks, --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 16:15, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:18, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please protect Jimin (Q20947093)

Please protect Jimin (Q20947093) for persistent vandalism/disruptive editing. Thanks, --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 23:18, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done one year. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 01:42, 25 August 2020 (UTC)


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Report concerning User:Carrot670

Carrot670 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Adding gibberish to pages / vandalism CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 01:02, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked indef. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 02:16, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:75.142.245.14

75.142.245.14 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: randomly removing statements, please revert all Haansn08 (talk) 04:57, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

User has been ✓ blocked by Hazard-SJ. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:43, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

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user 194.239.103.54

194.239.103.54 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) has over the last year increasingly often vandalised various items. Has 1 warning. --Hjart (talk) 07:54, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for a year. Bovlb (talk) 16:04, 25 August 2020 (UTC)


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Fie Laursen (Q28167755) 

Can someone semi protect this item--Trade (talk) 14:27, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month Bovlb (talk) 15:27, 25 August 2020 (UTC)


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User: 186.216.179.210

186.216.179.210 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - block evasion of Aaaaaaaax. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 16:03, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for 31h for vandalism (after two warnings). Not taking a position on the block evasion. Bovlb (talk) 16:52, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
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Potentially abusive behaviour by Jura1

At Wikidata:Requests for deletions#Q98077491 Jura1 is repeatedly berating a user to add a reference for the statement instance of (P31): position (Q4164871), or else have the item be deleted. This appears to be little more than a continuation of his long-standing disagreement over a widely-used approach to modelling legislative positions. Last time Jura tried this same approach (at Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive/2018/08/06#Q52474426 (and following) and Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive/2019/04#Q33129158:_unreferenced_statements_addition), a topic ban was mooted. Despite being directly reminded of this, Jura continues to engage in what seems overly-aggressive, if not outright abusive, behaviour towards Gettinwikiwidit. Would someone mind having a look at whether this is acceptable behaviour? --Oravrattas (talk) 12:14, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

  • I think most of your concerns can be explained as - there is a language barrier which often makes some people come across as bullying/hostile/aggressive/abusive. Quakewoody (talk) 15:44, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
    • I think there's certainly an aspect of that, but this goes well beyond tone and language. This is repeatedly demanding references for a modelling choice on a structural item — behaviour for which Jura has previously been warned. The linked discussions above, and other discussions linked from these, show a long history of opposition on Jura's part to this modelling approach, despite it being widely and successfully adopted by multiple editors for the legislators of many countries, and explicitly documented as an acceptable model within the relevant Wikiproject. This sort of attack on a new editor attempting to do likewise to improve the political data for another country seems to be part of a repeated pattern of behaviour, rather than a simple disagreement hampered by a language barrier. --Oravrattas (talk) 18:24, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
  • I've closed the deletion discussion as not deleted, no comment for now about Jura1's behaviour --DannyS712 (talk) 00:07, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
  • For my part, I admit I'm new here and may need some orientation. I attempted to start a discussion here [10]. I brought this attempt to Jura's attention in the middle of the discussion. As I mentioned to him more than once, I'm open to the discussion, but forcing the issue by threatening to delete doesn't seem like the right way to have the discussion. I'm still open to redirection and happy (eager even) to discuss my work. -- Gettinwikiwidit (talk) 04:03, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Also, reading the threads to which Ovrarattas has referred, it seems that the source of Jura's frustration is the affiliation of the data model with a WMF grantee. FWIW, I have no such affiliation. My interest started with noticing that the example given on the SPARQL examples page produced less than 100 senators. I started manually cleaning up that data following what appeared to be common practice and have since fetched all historical senator data and plan on doing a complete backfill. As mentioned in this discussion with Jura, I'm currently corresponding with the U.S Assistant Senate Historian for clarification on differences between their bioguide data and what was gleaned from Wikipedia. (Wikidata itself is extremely spotty on senator information.) -- Gettinwikiwidit (talk) 04:29, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Report User:Jimy5298

Report concerning User:2600:1702:31B0:9CE0:6D13:ED3:2587:8325

2600:1702:31B0:9CE0:6D13:ED3:2587:8325 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Troubled interventions on religious affiliation in biographical articles. If the community checks my contributions (Special:Contributions/Hallel), it will realize that I spent a lot of time to reverse the actions of an IP that classified countless rabbis or Jewish leaders as apostates to Catholicism. It seems to me prejudice and, at the same time, religious proselytism in the project, which violates Wikimedia project policies. Searching the internal links of item Q55004488 (Special:WhatLinksHere/Q55004488), there are many historical figures classified like this, apparently all labeled as apostates by the blocked user @Bossanoven. As his main account was blocked, he possibly used IP's to continue to fulfill his objectives that he had previously accomplished. An example of problematic editing is in entry Q11613 about Harry Truman. He is a Baptist and was classified as an apostate of Catholicism, even though there was no source that he had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church, or even participated in the Catholic Church previously. I ask the community to analyze the problem and I suggest programming a robot to reverse similar actions. Hallel (talk) 12:58, 20 August 2020 (UTC)


Report concerning User:Leonardo Chiquito

Leonardo Chiquito (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Keep vandalising items despite several warnings. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 00:57, 21 August 2020 (UTC) Kirilloparma (talk) 00:57, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

That account has been globally locked. Hazard-SJ (talk) 23:49, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Hazard-SJ (talk) 23:49, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:James malcom sewanyana

James malcom sewanyana (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: vandalism in items' descriptions Meiræ 00:36, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

User warned. Can be someone lost. Rafael (stanglavine) msg 18:56, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
No activity from the user since the warning, so I'm marking this section resolved. Hazard-SJ (talk) 23:51, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Hazard-SJ (talk) 23:51, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Morita1225

Morita1225 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: vandalism-only account CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 21:41, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:49, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please semi-protect boy band (Q216337)

Please semi-protect boy band (Q216337) for vandalism, thx --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 02:46, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done by Hazard-SJ. Bovlb (talk) 19:02, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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User:Edodaroo

Edodaroo (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - impersonation of Edoderoo. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 03:05, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Globally locked--Ymblanter (talk) 18:55, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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Torontopedia

Recommend that you all have a look at Special:Contributions/Torontopedia - we blocked them on enwiki a few months back for undisclosed paid editing (see w:en:Special:Permalink/947951524#Potentially_an_undisclosed_paid_editor_account) and they appear to be continuing that on Wikidata by creating a bunch of items relating to the "Ben Sabic Foundation". May also need a mass deletion, many of the items they've contributed are orphans. GeneralNotability (talk) 11:59, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

@GeneralNotability: pls fix your signature; you're not creffett anymore. Best regards, Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 03:47, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Please file a Wikidata:Requests for checkuser. @GeneralNotability:--Trade (talk) 15:37, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

@Trade:, I'm not clear why I should request checkuser - this looks like a simple case of promotional or paid editing and I don't see any evidence of sockpuppetry. Apologies if I'm missing something, WD isn't my main wiki so it's entirely possible I'm unaware of some policy here. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:32, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
Nevermind. I read you --Trade (talk) 16:58, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
@GeneralNotability: Thanks for letting us know. They don't seem to have created many items recently, and those are of borderline notability. (Our criteria are more tolerant than ENWP's.) There are a couple of Wikimedia Commons links, a handful of identifiers, and a clique of inter-item links. If the Commons categories were deleted, they would probably fail notability. Undisclosed paid editing is another matter, of course. I will leave them a warning. Bovlb (talk) 18:54, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:55, 26 August 2020 (UTC)


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semi-protect gray (Q17245659)

The vandalism affects a large amount of items. --Trade (talk) 15:39, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

My impression is that this is not vandalism, but good-faith incompetence. A new user is attempting to change the eye color on a person and instead changes the label on the eye color. Nevertheless, you are right about the disruption, so I have added indefinite semi-protection as a "highly used item". Bovlb (talk) 18:29, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
I'm marking this request as ✓ Done, plus resolving it. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 20:39, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please fully protect

my user page. It keeps getting edited by other people and I don't plan to edit it. --- Jura 06:19, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

See User:Jura1/old. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 06:28, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
@Jura1: You should move your user page content to a User:Jura1/userpage.css and transclude it to your user page.--GZWDer (talk) 13:50, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
@GZWDer: even then people can blank the page and so. I think that transcluding it and fully protecting it is the best idea. Regards, --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 13:55, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Ty. I guess that would allow me to edit it .. I don't think I'd actually need that. Not sure if it would work for the termbox thing though. --- Jura 13:57, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Please check this user Wikisingh01

Looking at the edit history of this person (check[1]) , the person is creating wikidata items as well as uploading images to commons of not notable entities .One of the the entity created by him was previously deleted Q98162597 named as Pro Singh . The person may be a sock too .

The person is here only for promotion and advertising kindly block this user .Rockpeterson (talk) 15:36, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

This belongs on Wikidata:Requests for checkuseri instead of here@Rockpeterson:--Trade (talk) 16:12, 21 August 2020 (UTC)


References

  1. ↑ https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Wikisingh01&offset=&limit=500&target=Wikisingh01

Report concerning User:GLEB3630

GLEB3630 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Ideological vandalism: adding vandal descriptions to items connected with Belarusian political opposition structures and figures. Meiræ 00:24, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Jonotam Mandia1

Can somebody block the accounts at Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Jonotam Mandia1? Thanks, --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 20:37, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:25, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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Template:Userbox

This template has been vandalised a bit over the years, and I think it should be protected. It's used on 200,000+ pages, and instances of vandalism have occurred that disrupted it, like here, here, and here. Thogh the vandalism isn't frequent, it could affect 200,000+ pages. Please protect, thanks. Regards Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 23:59, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Semiprotected indefinitely. Lymantria (talk) 18:06, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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Protection Request

Josep Maria Bartomeu (Q15639420) should be protected for vandalism. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:50, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Semiprotected for 3 months. Lymantria (talk) 17:52, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please notice 126.93.122.77 (talk • contribs • logs)

Creatived some not have notable company's item. 轻语者 (talk) 01:46, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi , I can not add link among some pages in wikipedia in different languages pages name is Ahmed Ghanem ( in spanish ) and other links with the same name in different languages in wikipedia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Ghanem So I want to add the link in italian also to the other languages in wikipedia

The Generic property proposal page doesn't show the last three items perfectly

I've seen that the property proposal page WD:PP/Generic doesn't show the last three items, just a link to them. Is that some broken template? --CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 19:00, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

@CrystallineLeMonde:. No the template is not broken, it just can't be rendered by the parser used by MediaWiki. In the source text of the page I could find "Post‐expand include size: 2097152/2097152 bytes", which basically means the amount of templates breaks the transclusion on the page. Any templates being parsed after the limit was reached, will not completely render. Please see the Wikipedia:Template limits page on the English wiki for more info on this problem. It could be solved by moving templates to a subpage and link to it, instead of transcluding it. Hope this helps. --Wiki13 (talk) 20:40, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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User: Wobbyevent

Wobbyevent (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - promotion-only account; wishes to edit only about their company. See deleted contribs. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 03:23, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Wiki13 (talk) 06:52, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
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Spam / Sockpuppetry Jonotam Mandia1 / Jonadan doon

Jonotam Mandia1 / Jonadan doon Creating new items with very similar styles and obviously paid PR articles in the same publications ElliotPadfield (talk) 21:59, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

@ElliotPadfield: Please file this at Wikidata:Requests for checkuser.--Jasper Deng (talk) 22:22, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
@Jasper Deng: ✓ Done filed an RfCU. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 22:30, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

DAHR ID removals

Does anyone know what is going on here with DAHR ID removals? I don't see a discussion anywhere on what was wrong with the identifiers requiring their deletion. --RAN (talk) 05:15, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

I have randomly checked most of the removals. The DAHR artist ID removals by the user seems to be the links to the pages that ends up with a 'Error 404' page on the external website. Can you just check and confirm on that.-❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 07:31, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
As a rule it's better if broken identifiers can be marked as deprecated, rather than outright removed. This allows them to be investigated as a group, to see whether they may have been systematically changed to some new values on the source website -- for such a search, it's quite useful that the item did once have an ID on the site. Jheald (talk) 09:27, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protection

Requesting semi-protection for Marge Simpson (Q7828) and Bart Simpson (Q5480). Someone keeps adding wrong DoB to the items. --Trade (talk) 15:44, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: ❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 04:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Consider blocking these accounts

  • Aflantwo
  • Feloniii
  • Rewmad

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vilty for more details. --Infogapp1 (talk) 18:52, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata:Requests for checkuser--Trade (talk) 19:08, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Ah, does this help? Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Aflantwo No technical overlap since last CU, but with the SPI and overlap in edits here, it may be a candidate of duck test? --Infogapp1 (talk) 01:12, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism by 2806:108E:19:5654:F001:9CD:EDB0:6CD1

Please block 2806:108E:19:5654:F001:9CD:EDB0:6CD1 (talk • contribs • logs) for repeated removal of the content. Thanks. --Superpes15 (talk) 01:43, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Wiki13 (talk) 06:14, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: User blocked. Wiki13 (talk) 06:14, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

User: Original Wines

Original Wines (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) - promotion-only account. Only edits are to modify Llopart Winery (Q29391855), and the username looks fishy too. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 15:04, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Please restore the red link/links in this family tree

More red links may appear once the gap is restored. Someone is nominating the fringes of these noble families for deletion, as they get deleted they damage the family trees by creating gaps in the tree. There is a structural need for these people, despite them not being "famous". The nominations only say "non notable" or "notable?" without recognizing their structural need. I have noticed that the nominator has been removing the interlinks between people before nomination so that the "On hold This item is linked from X others" does not show up. For instance look at these edits I restored: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q75891084&action=history We as a group decided to upload the data from The Peerage, if we want to delete the people on the fringes of the family or earliest ancestors, we should discuss this as a group to gain consensus, and create a bot to do it, rather than do it on an ad hoc basis that creates gaps in the family trees. I see the rationale "No genealogy" when I challenge a deletion, but it is a concept from English Wikipedia, with no equivalent rule at Wikidata. --RAN (talk) 16:17, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

See [11] for other RFD requests make by one single user.--GZWDer (talk) 17:14, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
To be fair to User: Iamthecheese44, I don't think they have been removing any more statements, after you said to them that this was not appropriate immediately prior to nomination.
Some current discussion relating to items from ThePeerage import can be found at WD:RD#Bulk deletion requests for The Peerage entries, WD:RD#Q76302537 and WD:RD#Q75891095. Jheald (talk) 17:20, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
See also (non-Peerage cases) opinion by User:Esteban16 and Topic:Vjv9jgwcazqokt7s by User:MisterSynergy, but both received comments by few users.--GZWDer (talk) 17:24, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
@Wiki13: as deleting admin: Were you aware that Iamthecheese44 had deleted these inter-item links before requesting deletion? See discussion for Q96202812 and discussion for Q76302538. Bovlb (talk) 17:46, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
@Bovlb: No, I was not aware of this prior to this request. I personally looked at the content as it was when I reviewed the item and judged based on that it doesn't meet WD:N. Per request here I have restored the items. --Wiki13 (talk) 17:56, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
No one is blaming you! It would be more helpful if we displayed the trees here at Wikidata so that it would be easier to visualize the connections. We have a rule against adding a property that is synthesized from other properties. That is why we don't have a property for age_at_death. --RAN (talk) 18:05, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
  • All the deleted items should be restored, they have a clear structural need. The structural need isn't obvious unless you are looking at the graphic of the tree (see above) which is displayed at Commons. Removing the interlinks between people before nomination so that the "On hold This item is linked from X others" does not show up appears to be a deliberate gaming of the deletion process, so it gives the appearance that there is no structural need. There appears to be no rationale as to why one individual in a tree is deleted and others retained, its appears to be random. I only noticed it because the red links and breaks in the trees were showing up in Commons, which brought me to the deletion debates. --RAN (talk) 18:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
We also need an automated way to restore the relationships between entries that were deleted before nomination. Is there a way to do this? See for example https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q75891091&action=history where I had to restore a link to a parent. As I mentioned earlier, I believe these were done to prevent the "On hold This item is linked from X others" flag from appearing in the deletion nomination. --RAN (talk) 19:04, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Working from the list of Iamthecheese44's deleted contributions, I have restored 7 items that were deleted after removal of inter-item links, on the grounds that their requests for deletion were similarly made under misleading circumstances. I have attempted to restore the links to them removed from other items, but I may have missed something. Any there are other deleted items we should be looking at? Bovlb (talk) 23:17, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
I hope that is the extent of it, it appears to have been caught early, thank you. I think the editor only started recently, as way to get around recent deletion saves. --RAN (talk) 05:19, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
I apologize for any chaos I might have caused--it was very much unintentional. I am relatively new to Wikidata, though I have worked on English Wikipedia for a number of years. I assumed that privacy and notability guidelines were the same across all Wikimedia projects, and I thought I was helping by requesting deletion and removing those statements. I didn't realize those pages had been deliberately imported from The Peerage--especially given many of them only had mother and father statements--not even given name/surname statements or sibling statements. I actually added a number of these statements on a number of pages. Many of them were mostly empty (aside from parental/spousal statements), and a couple of the pages were for stillborn children; and so I had thought a genealogy enthusiast had just been a little overenthusiastic and was just entering available data as one would on an ancestry site. This is why I stopped when it was brought up to me, and I did go back and undo a few of them--I would have undone more, but I've been out of town with family for a couple of weeks. I'll double-check and make sure everything is put back. It honestly wasn't intended as malicious, although in hindsight I can see how it might come across as such. Again, I apologize for the trouble and for the misunderstanding.
~ Iamthecheese44 (talk) 05:15, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
In my opinion as how Wikidata is worked, mentioned in a Wikipedia article which is supported by a reliable source is enough for inclusion.--GZWDer (talk) 09:29, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Removal/AmaryllisGardener

Some IP created this request, but it is clearly in wrong venue.--GZWDer (talk) 15:17, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I'm not familiar with how this process works and whether or not I'm doing this right, but it has been brought to mine and other's attention that this user has created thousands of translations of articles into a fake, completely made-up variation of English which they are attempting to pass-off as the Scots language; thus threatening the survival of an already endangered language. I therefore think that their right to control these pages should be removed.
@Bovlb: please remember that you can't ping IPs. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 16:05, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. That's much more informative, especially the Reddit thread. Despite (or perhaps because of) being a native Scots speaker, I choose to stay out of scowiki. Bovlb (talk) 16:42, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection request for Q903343

Requesting semi-protection for Brazzers (Q903343), as it's a frequent target for spammers. Trivialist (talk) 00:33, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

--Trade (talk) 14:59, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

 Not done I see no excessive spam on Brazzers (Q903343), in fact I see only one time checked back to October 2018. ✓ Done I do see excessive spamming on on BongaCams (Q39057054), sempiprotected for a year. Stripchat (Q76564381) was already protected. Lymantria (talk) 18:03, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:

[nil ] ([[User talk:|talk]] • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Tjrstrl (talk) 17:38, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

1= 81.106.57.90 2= Vandalised the https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25206290 Monzo wikidata page by changing the name and description of the bank in English to "thieving bank"

 Not done One time edit of August 8th. Stopped since. Lymantria (talk) 18:08, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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Investigate this page Q88641437

The person has totally changed a researcher wikidata item to a non notable entrepreneur item . I request you to please check the edit history of this item([1]) from date 6th August 2020 . I would also request to block this person to prevent wikidata from such type of vandalism. Rockpeterson (talk) 06:23, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks; I restored the old version. —MisterSynergy (talk) 06:32, 28 August 2020 (UTC)


@MisterSynergy: Thanks a lot Rockpeterson (talk)

Hi @Rockpeterson: please remember to put {{reflist-talk}} in sections where you are citing something (like this one for example). Otherwise the references will go to the bottom and may be confusing for people who don't know where it came from. I did it for you this time but next time I encourage you to do it yourself. Thanks. Best regards, --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 15:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
@Prahlad balaji: Thanks a lot , I will keep this in mind .

References

  1. ↑ https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q88641437&action=history
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Semi-protection of suicide by hanging (Q7883956)

In recent days, there have been repeated attempts by new editors to change suicide to murder. This relates to the death of Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput, whose suicide by hanging last June has been widely reported by sources such as The Times of India. Here are diffs of changes:

Please semi-protect this item to ensure that Wikidata does not help spread conspiracy theories. NedFausa (talk) 20:05, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Semiprotected for 3 months. Lymantria (talk) 09:44, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:2405:4800:12D6:C6E2:2101:8FC:13FA:F824

2405:4800:12D6:C6E2:2101:8FC:13FA:F824 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: active vandal, edits need to be undone Haansn08 (talk) 06:18, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for a week. Lymantria (talk) 09:35, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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Again, constant vandalism and insults on Samuel Doe (Q294618)

I report the same thing that I have reported here, a few weeks ago here: A vandal arbitrarily modifies content and adds images nominated for quick erasure due to copyright violations. Once reversed, it insults in edit summaries. I think this element should be protected.

✓ Done, semiprotected for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 19:54, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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Report concerning User:Article writer kartikey1

Article writer kartikey1 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: repeated vandalism after two warnings Meiræ 13:21, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef. Lymantria (talk) 14:09, 30 August 2020 (UTC)


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Protection request

Both Q19800980 and Q11330972 are under attack by IPs for some time now, both should get a long-term semi-protection. --Denniss (talk) 10:13, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done, semiprotected both for next 6 months-❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 11:24, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks --Denniss (talk) 13:09, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please, delete hoaxes

It's hoaxes, similar items was deleted on WD earlier. MBH (talk) 11:01, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-protection request for list of most-followed TikTok accounts (Q64538833)

Spam--Trade (talk) 11:50, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done by Hazard-SJ for 1 month. Wiki13 (talk) 19:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)\
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Google Play Music's shutdown / transition into YouTube Music, and making changes to associated properties

Google Play Music is starting its shutdown sequence in September 2020, and by December 2020, the service completely ceases operation, which is now being replaced by YouTube Music. The properties associated with GPM should be transitioned / renamed to their YTM counterparts where it's applicable.

As it seems like, Property P4199 (GPM album ID) could be transitioned to YTM. The formatter URL needs to be changed to https://music.youtube.com/browse/$1, but I guess it also needs some other tweaks as well.

On the other hand, I think Property P4198 (GPM artist ID) couldn't be transitioned that easily, because the YTM site uses the autogenerated channels (YouTube auto-generated artist channel (Q72108010)) for the artists featured (for the one I've checked).--CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 00:26, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

@CrystallineLeMonde: Shouldn't this be brought to PfD? --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 14:44, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
@Prahlad balaji: made PfD request for P4198.


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Request for deletion of Q97577273

The person who created this item is suspecious of being a sock , I have reported it to request for check user . The user who created this item has given references of ORCID ID to prevent its deletion from wikidata . The item Q97577273 was put on deletion on 20th August 2020. The reference articles cited are all paid articles .Rockpeterson (talk) 06:53, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

@Rockpeterson: they may be a sock of Aakashchandani18. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:36, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
And please also report this to WD:RfD next time. Thanks, --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:45, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Mass deletion nomination

User:Baby come mass nominated items created by me for deletion within minutes. I don't think they are able to comprehend criteria #2 of the Wikidata notability policy or actually checking for sources. I would appreciate it if administrators actually look at the sources before deleting the items. Criteria #2 was satisfied on all the items but they still got deleted. Kunal Shah, for example, had dozens of high quality sources like [13] [14] and linked from Freecharge which even has a Wikipedia article. But this too got deleted within two hours from the nomination! The deletion process here needs a serious relook. Karatesausage (talk) 05:59, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

As the deleting admin I feel I need to reply here. I find it to be slightly disrecpectful to say that admins should look at the items, while in reality that already happens. I did review the item with the notability guideline in mind and based on that it didn't meet it. Concerning the links' quality, those links aren't exactly "serious and publicly available references", which is required by policy. Times of India has reliability issues, as does livemint, which makes them not a good and serious source. If any admins are reading here and disagree with my reasoning, please feel free to undelete the items. --Wiki13 (talk) 07:45, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
@Wiki13: I'm reopening this, because I don't feel it's appropriate for the deleting admin to close a request for deletion review like this, regardless of the correctness of the deletion.
@Karatesausage: It's hard to respond without more specifics. I'm looking in your deleted contributions and I see:
  • Q98236246 (Qamar Zaman, American entrepreneur)
  • Q98000110 (‎Kunal Shah, Indian entrepreneur)
  • Q97958819 (‎Vivek Teja, Martial artist)
  • Q97667218 (‎Michael Muthu, Indian actor)
  • Q97657487 (‎Nupur Parulekar, Indian television actress)
Is this what you're talking about? For one or more of these, could you please explain specifically why you feel they meet our notability criteria? Bovlb (talk) 15:39, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

User:Karatesausage I see your all wikidata Item. Your 98% Wikidata Item is Not Notable, advertising and Social media promoting and also you did use unreliable reference that did violation wikidata policy . And also i think you do paid edit because only paid editor make more not notable, advertising and promoting Item. So you should stop advertising item create. And also you should read carefully wikidata notability policy. Remember wikidata not marketing place. I think you will stop promoting itam create.Baby come (talk) 17:16, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

@Bovlb: The intention of closing this was more like "this question has been answered". I do however understand where you are coming from and I agree that the way I handled it could have been better. I will try to avoid to have another "involved closing" of a review. Wiki13 (talk) 17:32, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
@Karatesausage: Since Baby come raised it above, I wanted to draw your attention to our Terms of Use, especially the rules on "Paid contributions without disclosure" and the related FAQ. I make no judgement about whether you are a paid editor, but I leave it to you to ensure you are in compliance. Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 17:45, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Kunal Shah is the founder of the Indian online company Freecharge which is undeniably notable. Criteria #2 is met as there is a plethora of "serious" sources on him. It's weird that TOI and Mint are considered to be unreliable on this site because they are two of the most widely circulated newspapers where I come from. Regardless of that, here are some more sources. Take your pick:- Economic Times, Business Standard, Quartz, Financial Express, VC Circle Entrepreneur, Forbes, The News Minute. Please Google "Kunal Shah Freecharge" or "Kunal Shah Cred" if these are also not enough.. Criteria #3 is also satisfied because "Founder" is an important parameter in the item of a company (correct me if my interpretation of criteria #3 is wrong).
  • Michael Muthu has acted in major Indian films like 2.0 and Dil Bechara, and is a veteran theatre director and producer. Check [15], [16], [17] for proof of criteria #2 being met. Being on the cast of notable films also makes him eligible to pass under criteria #3 (?).
  • Vivek Teja is an international karate champion [18]. There are many sources on him:[19], [20], [21].

There's over a dozen items that got deleted last night. I shall be back to address the supposed notability issue on the other items when I have more free time. If other users had checked the references used in these items before hastily deleting them off, I wouldn't be wasting my time collecting sources and typing these lengthy comments. Karatesausage (talk) 18:52, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

The nominator is now making bad faith accusations (that's what I can understand from their comment). I see no useful contributions from their edit history. All they have done here is nominate items for deletion with faulty understanding of the notability policy and make incorrect assumptions on the motives of other users. Karatesausage (talk) 19:00, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

@Karatesausage: Do you want this thread to be about accusations of user misconduct, or about getting these items undeleted? I recommend the latter, and suggest that bringing in the former (even if you feel provoked) will prove to be an unhelpful distraction. I don't have time to dig into the details right now, but will check back later. Bovlb (talk) 22:58, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
For the record: I undeleted Kunal Shah, as it fulfilled a structural need to some other items. --Wiki13 (talk) 06:20, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
  • I think everyone reading this, at one point or another, has been accused of "not making any useful contributions, and only nominating items without understanding the notability process". Quakewoody (talk) 18:45, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Please ban Mạc Thái Tổ

This user use hate language systematically in many items in Vietnamese.

I have reverted some of them, but now he's rampant. Please stop him. Thanks. Tuanminh01 (talk) 06:46, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Could you give use some examples, please? The only case I found where you reverted them is Special:Diff/1265645241, where their description (relying on Google Translate) seems accurate and free from hate language, if not an ideal description. @Arkanosis Bovlb (talk) 18:39, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
@Tuanminh01: I agree totally with Bovlb on this. The one example that you reverted wasn't at all hate speech; literally translated (with google of course) it means "A revolutionary, the Korean patriot was famous for assassinating Itō Hirobumi - Japan's first prime minister." If somebody did a bad thing (take Derek Chauvin (Q95693632) for example) would you shower them with sugar and roses? Obviously not. I looked through this guy's edits, and they seem pretty OK. Just stating the facts is not "hate language". --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 20:24, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I haven't seen obvious hate speech either, but my Vietnamese if far from good and I'm certainly not able to detect anything like doublespeak. I'd rather trust examples from Tuanminh01 :) — Arkanosis ✉ 19:12, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Please ban this guy Mạc. He continues to vandalize. 2604:3D08:4E7F:F7E0:286B:CDD1:9E72:EAD7 17:53, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Are you Tuanminh01 logged out? Anyhow, please give us some examples, as stated by User:Bovlb and myself, above. Thanks, --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:56, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Here is another reversion, removing text that apparently says In Vietnam there is no such thing as a prisoner of Luong Tam, which is an odd description to place on a prisoner of conscience (Q4667873). Other recent edits may have a certain point-of-view, but do not seem egregious. Today appears to be the first time anyone has brought a criticism to this user's talk page, and it is unactionably vague (Stop vandalism // Plus you ruined you, idiot.). Please make an effort to explain to this user how they should improve or, failing that, give us a better case for action. Cheers Bovlb (talk) 18:07, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Reverted the warning, as IMHO there was no vandalism. Feel free to revert me if you disagree. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 23:21, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
@Prahlad balaji: No, I'm not Tuanminh01, but I find user Mạc's edits vandalism. He changed the description about a Vietnamese political dissident and prisoner of conscience as (in Vietnamese) "There is fucking no the so-called prisoner of conscience in Vietnam". This behavior is clearly unacceptable. 2604:3D08:4E7F:F7E0:545A:5657:AC71:7A53 03:09, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Diff, please. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 03:38, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Special:Diff/1263215146, Special:Diff/1263213700, Special:Diff/1266466252 These three are serious hate speech/defamation/offense. All of them are political related. This user has a biased political motive to vandalize Wikidata. 2604:3D08:4E7F:F7E0:545A:5657:AC71:7A53 04:24, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Okay, we'll need your help with Vietnamese, please:
  • First diff says he's a deceiver selling the country;
  • Second diff says he's a thug selling the country;
  • Third diff says that there's no such thing as a prisoner of conscience in Vietnam.
Is that correct? Anyway, even without taking the replacement into account, the first two diffs look problematic as the description was correct before.
Thanks — Arkanosis ✉ 09:06, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
@Arkanosis: your translations show only the general meaning but not offensive connotations. Mạc used swear word and slur: éo (fucking), ba que (to direct at South Vietnam, it's like saying nigger to African Americans, except that this word is not used among South Vietnamese themselves, only communists use this towards nationalist South Vietnamese), and serious accusation: bán nước (traitor of the country, which is very grave in Vietnamese political culture). 2604:3D08:4E7F:F7E0:CDEE:8DAC:7C49:D3C0 16:02, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
TIL… That's definitely something you don't learn in books… Thank you 2604:3D08:4E7F:F7E0:CDEE:8DAC:7C49:D3C0! — Arkanosis ✉ 16:24, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi @Arkanosis, Tuanminh01: and 2604:3D08:4E7F:F7E0:545A:5657:AC71:7A53, many thanks for the diffs. I will now let @Bovlb: handle this. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 15:08, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your patient and understanding. 2604:3D08:4E7F:F7E0:CDEE:8DAC:7C49:D3C0 16:02, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, I meant @Tuanminh01: --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 15:09, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Is there a way to see these descriptions on the non-mobile version or override them altogether from the article itself? Most of the active users don't use mobile so these vandalized description go on for days before being detected. DHN (talk) 00:43, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
@Bovlb: User is at it again, reverting someone else's reversion of their vandalism. DHN (talk) 00:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

@Bovlb, @Arkanosis: It appears that user Mạc had other vandalism behaviors in the past. All of his edits in Q5874387 were vandalism, including Special:Diff/1227570381 which can be translated as: "a damned reactionary with fantasy about overthrowing the [Vietnamese] government". In Vietnamese communist propaganda rhetoric, calling someone phản động (reactionary) is synonymous with labeling them the "enemy of the regime", and the connotation of this term today has become like dehumanizing that person. Looking at the history of the page, I suspect that this user also used sock-puppets to vandalize as well.

In the Facebook discussion group of Vietnamese Wikipedia, we have got multiple questions and complains about these vandalism behaviors related to Wikidata's description, such as https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=195934831951073&set=g.320344071353929 , https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=700448813840577&set=g.320344071353929 . Please help us to fight against vandalism. 2604:3D08:4E7F:F7E0:F08C:7A9F:E468:9ACA 15:11, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

It appears that they have stopped. I will close this thread within September 6th unless they vandalize again. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:15, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Per above. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:42, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Q98642667

Would you explain why Q98642667 was merged to Q98649703, instead the opposite way? Thank you, GualdimG (talk) 15:42, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

::@GualdimG, Bovlb: I think it has to do with the default settings applied to merge.js. You see, unless a certain box is unchecked, it will automatically merge into the older item. I think User:Tm didn't pay attention to this and merged the wrong way. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 03:42, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

@Bovlb, GualdimG: actually, on second thought, is Q98649703 not the newer item? Anyhow, @GualdimG: I'll merge them together still. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 14:55, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
@Prahlad balaji, Bovlb: It´s a kind explanation for what happened. Is it possible yet to correct what was wrongly done? I would appreciate that the Q98642667 (that I created e developed) could be alive. Thank you, GualdimG (talk) 06:55, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
@GualdimG: I'll unmerge it and do it for you. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 14:52, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 14:57, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
I will resolve this thread within September 4, 2020, if there are no further discussions. --Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 19:07, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Per above. Prahlad (tell me all about it / private venue) (Please {{ping}} me) 17:43, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

RfDHelper.js

Hello, just a notification for other admins that I revamped MediaWiki:Gadget-RfDHelper.js. If there are any problems with it, please tell me. It still mostly includes code from the times when merged items were deleted. If it isn't useful anymore, it can be disabled, or new features that admins currently need can be added to it. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:41, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Matěj Suchánek, Thanks! Can we also add a feature so that when someone clicks delete link it automatically includes Special:Permalink/ to reason. I have previously added that to {{Rfd links}} template itself, but it no longer work and I think implementing it via the gadget is the best option. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:46, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
It should be possible (but it would obviously make an inconsistency between deletions done with and without JavaScript). --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 10:10, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Removing the abuse filter

Hello. An anti-abuse filter is unfortunately still in force against me on WD (except French and English). I hereby make the express request to you to remove this blockage. All my involvement with Wikipedia (and the other projects of this wiki group) is based on editorial rigor, adherence to generally accepted editorial conventions, common sense and the reader's best interest. And hereby, I pledge to continue in the future with the same rigor and the same values. Looking forward to your response, receive my greetings! -- Veillg1 - 2020-08-31 03h31 CEST.

@VIGNERON, Fralambert, Pamputt, Abián:.--GZWDer (talk) 06:55, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 Comment for now, I'm  Neutralchanged to  Oppose see below. Veillg1 did a lot of mistake at first (some very obivous like Special:Diff/732551305 or Special:Diff/748595395, some more minor - wrong uppercase, too lenghty description, and so on) but he did learn and understood at least some of the rules ; it seems to be more acceptable now but I still see some mistakes in his recent edits. @Veillg1: to prove that you really understand the conventions, could you correct and clean your own old mistakes on French and English labels and descriptions? Could you also pledge to never ever use Google Translator anymore for label and description? Finally and optionally, out of curiosity, why do you only edit label and descrption and never properties? (this is perfectly acceptable but highly unusual) Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 09:03, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 Neutral per VIGNERON. For the old error, we could do a Querry, like for the long descriptions and descriptions begining by a article. If @Veillg1: correct them, and promise no never use Google Translator anymore, he will gain my trust. --Fralambert (talk) 11:59, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Let us put in historical perspective that the litigation mainly concerned the descriptive fields on WD (except English and French); I was little involved in other aspects of WD except the hyperlinks. The complainants of the time on WD exaggerated the situation of the descriptive fields; themselves made a lot of mistakes in deleting the good descriptive fields on WD of my design, often to replace them in their style. Following this blockage on WD, the two complainants continued to make hundreds of other errors each by deleting my work on the descriptive fields (except French and English). For example, one of the complainants erased the Spanish descriptive fields of my design even if the text was appropriate. I was so insulted by this unfair blockage to which I was a victim, to the point of boycotting participating in any WP project for about nine months. Note that Wikipedia has become a life project, although I am currently questioning it. I fully understand the rules of WD; and I am committed to comply with it. If you consult my past involvement as a designer on the whole of WP, you will notice my editorial rigor and my concern to respect the generally accepted rules in research and writing. I intend to continue to design with rigor. However, for now it is not my intention to be very participatory on WD.Veillg1 (user talk 01:10, 31 August 2020 (CEST)
So, to sum up: you don't want to correct your past mistakes, you call the official convention « their style », and you don't intend to take part in Wikidata, then I clearly change my position to  Oppose. Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 13:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
On September 2, 2020, VIGNERON presented on his French talk page five examples of the most important alleged errors made by Veillg1 among its last 500 contributions to WD. One is by no means a mistake. The others relate to small details (eg: article "one" at the beginning of the description field on WD, or the removal of the capital letter from the word "Serbian"). It makes a mountain with details that shouldn't even be the subject of a talk page. In short, VIGNERON has no convincing argument to support the request for this blocking. Besides, on his talk page, he attacks me in a very rude way without justification. I reiterate my request to remove this complete block which I consider to be based on flawed arguments. I reiterate my commitment to continue my editorial rigor within the parameters of WD.Veillg1 (user talk 17:00, September 2, 2020 (CEST)
It's maybe « detail » (I disagree but let's assume...) but it's still points that are not following Help:Description, and for someone to claim to have « rigor », details should matters. Plus, Veillg1 is cherrypicking the examples, I gave 8 (not 5) examples on my talk page, there is 2 more on this page (see supra) and there is many many more. The is starting to getting tedious, he know start to threaten me so I won't take part in this discussion anymore. Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 11:12, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

AmaryllisGardener

Considering the ongoing discussion regarding AG's edits on Scots Wikipedia i think it would be best for us to revert his edits to Scottishs labels and description on Wikidata. This is has caused serious trouble to websites that scrabe from Wikidata: I quote from the above discussion:

The user contributed to many other wikis, including the Scots Wiktionary in Incubator, many entries adding translations for Scots on English Wiktionary and has almost as many edits on Wikidata as on Scots Wikipedia of which (almost) all relate to Scots translations.

He also has notable number of contributions to Norfolk-Pitcairn, Kapampangan, and Novial Wikipedias.

Please check Special:CentralAuth/AmaryllisGardener for potential vandalism on any projects in languages you know. Tracerneo (talk) 15:58, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

  • I brought up the Wikidata problem, and the knock-on effect that this is having on WWW sites that scrape Wikidata, on Hacker News. One thing that has already come out of that is that the title and Wikidata entry for even are suspect. Yes "Laird's Prayer" (landowner's prayer) is what is telling the world to be the Scots translation. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (talk) 05:47, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

What do you others think? --Trade (talk) 11:48, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the ping GZWDer. I have been doing some work on this alongside the people currently working on cleaning up Scots WP. One thing that's important to note is that while the original RFC focused on a single user, it's become clear that a lot of Scots WP content from other users has similar problems - it's a systematic issue across the wiki, so focusing on one user isn't necessarily the way to go.
For the moment, what I'm doing is focusing on cleaning up items where the Scots page has been deleted, usually by removing the labels but sometimes by confirming they're OK (notes). I believe this will probably deal with most of the worst cases. For articles that are moved to new titles by scowiki, I'll run a script to make sure the labels are consistent with the names scowiki has chosen to use (this renaming will mostly affect places, I think).
Assessing items that have Scots labels/descriptions but never had a scowiki page is a little trickier (since it's harder to do through the query service). The majority of these are "default" entries - labels on family names, descriptions on categories, etc. But there are some "normal" items with Scots labels (eg painter (Q1028181)), and these will need sorted out - either manually or by mass-blanking. I haven't looked at any Scots localisation (which MisterSynergy mentioned above will still need assessing) or any Scots lexemes (are there any?).
I hope this sounds OK to everyone. Potentially we could go for wiping all Scots labels/descriptions/aliases and then rebuilding from confirmed scowiki article titles, but from my understanding of the situation, I don't think we need to consider that just yet. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:06, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
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