Testwiki:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/2020/03

Vandalism

Template:Vandal vandalism-only account. Adding unreadable labels despite warnings. --Kostas20142 (talk) 14:02, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done --Sotiale (talk) 14:21, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Квартет вандалов в одной статье

Template:Ping Template:U Template:U Template:U Template:U. Kalendar (talk) 15:22, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done--Ymblanter (talk) 20:58, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

translations of 151.81.77.220

Hello, can someone please mass remove the translations that Template:U created? They are all either gibberish or swearing. --Kostas20142 (talk) 19:56, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done --DannyS712 (talk) 00:09, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 15:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

special:contributions/85.192.92.205 problematic editing

Hi. Two spouts of edits with just vandalism, and a month apart. Probably worth a medium term block.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:21, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done Blocked (second time) for 6 months. Lymantria (talk) 10:33, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 15:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:69.178.192.27

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Vandalism --Trade (talk) 13:32, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked by DannyS712--Ymblanter (talk) 20:42, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Admins' notice needed: 74.215.106.197

74.215.106.197 is continuously removing zh-hant labels from items. They have been blocked for similar behavior in the past. Soon after the last block expired, they started removing things again.--Tigerzeng (talk) 01:06, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for a month --DannyS712 (talk) 02:04, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Пустая страница

Template:Ping Пустая страница. Ссылок сюда нет. Kalendar (talk) 05:01, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

• Вмешательство администраторов тут не обязательно, я объединил с Q2592539. Мне непонятно, почему в Википедии название этой группы переведено на кириллицу (кириллические алиасы с Q2592539 убрал). --Wolverène (talk) 05:53, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Block User:194.168.44.218

Template:Vandal Persistent vandalism. Kirilloparma (talk) 12:13, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done Blocked for 3 days.‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:10, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Block Template:U

Please block this IP for a while, just primitive vandalism. --Wurgl (talk) 21:20, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:29, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Jericho Missile and the squiggly lines

am i the only one that sees black lines across the page anywhere his name appears? for example, the history page of this board and his contribution page. Quakewoody (talk) 01:57, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done deleted all revisions by them. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:51, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Please Block ip 62.20.62.208

Template:User (vandalism only)--WikiBayer (talk)

Template:Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 08:31, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:103.91.160.147

Template:Vandal — Reasons: three vandalism edits, two of them marketing spam on project chat Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 17:56, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Just rolled back another, even more disruptive project chat edit. Please block immediately. --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 17:57, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 17:59, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Report for User:日本男児と大和撫子を守る会

Crosswiki abuse, see SUL, here changing all items proper ja name to 八島良太のオナペット.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:27, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Comment No action needed, account locked. Minorax (talk) 13:42, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Block User:69.178.192.27

Template:Vandal --Trade (talk) 08:35, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 08:37, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Template:Ping and Template:Ping the duck test is clear: the IP range Template:U is used by the same vandal since at least 24 September 2018. Is is appropriate to apply a block to this range? Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 08:59, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping Yes i think a block to this range would be appropriate. --Trade (talk) 14:36, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping, could you please block the IP range Template:U --Trade (talk) 16:48, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done, 6 months —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:26, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q29860177

Template:Q: persistent vandalism. — Mike Novikoff 03:20, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done for three months. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 04:01, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: — Mike Novikoff 04:25, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:205.123.251.62

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Long term cross-wiki vandal. Was blocked for 1 decade on enwiki. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 11:11, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done, blocked for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 20:28, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Report 187.138.174.149

• User:Template:Vandal
• Reasons: Vandalize. Warnings: 3 times. Txs.--Eihel (talk) 15:11, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

  This is likely a dynamic IP which would never return--Ymblanter (talk) 20:29, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

  Template:Not done per above and since there is no more activity since the last warning. Please report again if they continue. --Kostas20142 (talk) 20:54, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Main Page .VEC (VENETO)

Hello, I am using the Venetian language (vec) inserted in the interface. Clicking on the Wikidata logo or on "Main Page" at the top left, takes me to a non-existent page. Most likely it was placed in the wrong link of the main page in my language. Can it be corrected? Thank you very much for reading! --Fierodelveneto (talk) 09:58, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Template:U-, if I understood correctly, you have to translate this page in Venetian. Pamputt (talk) 16:20, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:U- Yes, but when I click on the Wikimedia logo, it should take me to the main Wikidata page, but it brings me here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Pajina_prinsipa%C5%82e --Fierodelveneto (talk) 18:18, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

corrected. --Pasleim (talk) 18:43, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:74.215.252.170

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Removing contents since 23 Feb. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 04:42, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping Please warn the user first. No action needed otherwise.--Jasper Deng (talk) 09:22, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Пустая страница

Template:Ping Пустая страница. Ссылок сюда нет. Kalendar (talk) 10:56, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done--Ymblanter (talk) 19:59, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q1000592

Template:Q (history) :: persistent vandalism. -- Ahmad Kanik 💬 13:14, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done for 3 weeks --Kostas20142 (talk) 14:07, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Suspicious posts by user AnthonyM698

Hello. Can we kick a user out of wikidata? I don't like the postings I see from user AnthonyM698. At best they are unnecessary, misleading, wrong and confusing. I suspect though that there is a hidden vandalism agenda. Who would change the label of the metal band Anthrax (Q109871) to Antrax? Right, nobody in their sane mind, but this user did. Insane. -- Egermundson (talk) 00:02, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Looking over their contribs shows mainly correct edits, unless I'm mistaken. Have you seen other mistakes from this user? Can you provide more specific examples (and diffs)? -- Ajraddatz (talk) 02:49, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:User

Thank you Ajraddatz. You are right that the contributions look mainly correct. Some of AnthonyM698's changes that I find concerning because the expressions added do not belong to the item:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q3870&diff=prev&oldid=1093855361

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q6663522&diff=prev&oldid=1062951431

but that is not an attempt to vandalize anything. In fact, I see this user having fixed some vandalisms, for example:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q37230&diff=prev&oldid=1114566356

I overreacted and this user appears to be ok. I apologize.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I agree with OP that the change to Template:Q is inexplicable, but also with Ajraddatz that most of this user's other edits seem to be correct. In such a case, it's usually best to raise it with the user directly and ask what they were thinking. I see their user talk page only contains a welcome message, and no complaints or warnings.

Also, a quick tip: I notice that it took you four edits to restore the Anthrax page. If you look at the revision history of Anthrax, and use the two columns of radio buttons to bracket a group of changes, then you can get a diff comprising multiple consecutive edits. If you click on "undo" here, then you can revert a sequence of edits in one edit. Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 03:39, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Bovlb. I will contact AnthonyM698 about the change to metal band Anthrax (Q109871)

That is a GREAT quick tip. I did not know this, and will use it hence forth!

Good morning everyone, sorry for the bad edit of the Anthrax band. I must have been tired or overfocused on another research project. I think at that point I thought that someone confused the band and the bacteria. Thanks for having corrected it, and please accept my apologies.

Regarding the aforementioned links and edits: I thought It would be interesting to add Kenya's capital city and its different variations to further disambiguate Nairobi. As for the Lob bomb, the items added as synonyms are the latest iterations of this improvised weapon (also mentioned on its wikipedia page, History section, 5th paragraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lob_bomb). Template:User

Hi AnthonyM698. The problem is that those expressions belong into a different item. The expressions you added for Lob bomb are instances or subcategories of Lob bomb so should be moved. Egermundson (talk) 13:39, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Bxgdish

Template:Vandal --Trade (talk) 15:44, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done--Ymblanter (talk) 20:44, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Locking up a page

Could you please lock up Q79349341? It seems like there is an effort remove a macron from the name. It's possibly connected to this. The name should have a macron - see eg. official name in the NZ Heritage List website. --Podzemnik (talk) 03:49, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Insufficient disruptive activity to warrant protection.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:24, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Botcrux and maxlag

Looks like that this bot operated by User:Horcrux is not respecting maxlag. --Succu (talk) 13:02, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

The problem persists. --Succu (talk) 09:11, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

I am still watching the situation, and made a script which gives me real time edit rates for all users. User:Botcrux goes at ~10 edits per minute while maxlag>5, which does not matter much in terms of server load (i.e. I won't block that bot, but if other admins do so, I won't complain either).
The situation currently is that there are two QuickStatements users (User:Njzjz and User:Vladimir Alexiev) who go at ~50 edit per minute while maxlag>5, and this should not be the case. They seem to slow down to this rate from 90/min while maxlag<5, but this is not sufficient in my opinion. User:Magnus Manske has to fix this. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:04, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Botcrux's Template:Code was set to 6, now I have set it to 5. --Horcrux (talk) 13:03, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

user:BigChungus 42

Most of the descriptions by this user (in Russian) look dubious, at best non-neutral, provocative and generally unsuitable. Maybe not a clear-cut case, but it's worth noting that he's already got an indef in enwiki for WP:NOTHERE. — Mike Novikoff 01:37, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

I don't have time to thoroughly review the user's contributions now, but I've reverted one very clearly POV en description and think the Russian ones deserve some scrutiny. I favour an indef. block if similar issues are found. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 04:04, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Most Russian descriptions they add are not acceptable. They probably need to be warned first and blocked if they continue.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:27, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that's exactly what I've thought of. I've even looked for a warning template but could not find a suitable one. Ok, I'll write a custom warning then. — Mike Novikoff 20:50, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

I have warned the user, let's see what happens next. — Mike Novikoff 21:32, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Вандализм

Template:Ping Template:U. Kalendar (talk) 18:34, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Динамический айпи, уже всё--Ymblanter (talk) 21:19, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

User:FREE DRAWING SCHOOL OF VIDYANAGAR COLLEGE

Spam-only account. -- CptViraj (📧) 08:02, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked by Jasper Deng --DannyS712 (talk) 18:19, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:85.255.233.21

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Removing correct long-term and adding incorrect unsourced data on historical persons items. Someone needs to revert and patrol all contributions from that IP, I reverted last 50 or so. --Obsuser (talk) 16:46, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping Please warn the user before requesting a block; I will look into their edits.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:25, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Block Vandal

User:154.47.75.66 vandalism only --WikiBayer (talk) 12:05, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping You have not warned them; please do that first and report again if they continue after that.--Jasper Deng (talk) 12:11, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

ok--WikiBayer (talk)

Abusing Multiple account

• Template:Vandal
• Reason: The sockpuppet of Template:U. SPA. Same editing behavior which remove the sitelink.

--SCP-2000 (talk) 03:08, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked by Jasper Deng, both accounts have been globally locked as well --DannyS712 (talk) 04:05, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Tele12

Tele12 is probably a sock of Vele_123. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 16:09, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked; their master is getting their block upgraded to a full one.--Jasper Deng (talk) 20:49, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Many Vandalism-Edits by Template:U

This IP begs for a lock. Thanks. --Wurgl (talk) 21:05, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

They haven't edited since yesterday morning and were not warned --DannyS712 (talk) 21:11, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Protect queries examples

Hi,

The page Wikidata:SPARQL query service/queries/examples is used by https://query.wikidata.org/ for propose queries examples. But this page is not protect. It's a important page. And IP blanked the page in october 2019 and in march 2020. Is it possible to protect the page, with a semi-protection ? Thanks --Manu1400 (talk) 10:39, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done; thnx, good point. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:55, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Report 5.238.69.21

• User:Template:Vandal
• Reasons: Vandalize. Warnings: 4 times. Txs.

—Eihel (talk) 15:43, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

And here too Template:U' —Eihel (talk) 15:55, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked before I saw the ping --DannyS712 (talk) 15:56, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Txs Template:Smiley —Eihel (talk) 16:02, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

More bots ignoring maxlag

• User:Twofivesixbot
• User:ListeriaBot
• User:KrBot

At the moment (and that for some days now) there is a 5 minute slot were bots are allowed to edit, followed by a 30 minute period (or more) were max lag is to high. --Succu (talk) 17:31, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

I blocked User:KrBot, as it was indeed running at 100 edits per minute since 2PM today, including several phases of maxlag>5. See these Grafana charts, particularly the "Max Single User Edit Rate" panel. The other bots run at <10 edits per minute or do not operate in an entity namespace, which effectively does not matter in terms of load. —MisterSynergy (talk) 17:52, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Given the decision about the other bots, would you consider blocking it just from editing items? --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 10:03, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Good idea, done. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:07, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

• Can we exempt KrBot and ListeriaBot from this? They are maintenance processes of Wikidata similar to (missing) Wikibase software features such as User:MediaWiki_message_delivery. --- Jura 12:38, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Well, we do already handle this entire thing considerately on an individual case-by-case basis. In this case, KrBot has added descriptions to category items, which is clearly not an essential task that urgently needs to be done at 100/min when everybody else waits for server capacities. It would be hard to justify such an exemption. Mind that KrBot can meanwhile edit all namespaces but the main namespace, so I guess it should be able to do most of its "maintenance processes" right now. —MisterSynergy (talk) 17:48, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
    • I see. Maybe the duplicate statements and redirects cleanup process should go on an (exempt) KrBot3 account. --- Jura 17:52, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
• I concur that KrBot performs essential maintenance, I particularly rely on its redirect fixes, they will be sorely missed if this continues. ArthurPSmith (talk) 14:32, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
  • It is up to Ivan to fix this, however he is unfortunately barely active these days. He has received warnings regarding KrBot's edit pattern before this case happened; neither maxlag nor the limited server resources are a new thing; and implementing a policy-compliant bot is not that difficult either. --MisterSynergy (talk) 15:58, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

It's indeed not difficult, you'll just need to drink one more cup of coffee to wait for the job to complete. — regards, Revi 19:30, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Some people drink more than one cup a day .. --- Jura 20:50, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

one more. Drink one more than you currently do :D — regards, Revi 12:26, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

well, I'd still have to wait till tomorrow for KrBot to finish. --- Jura 12:31, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

My bot is doing it every Saturday, so in the meantime it can serve as a backup. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:19, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

• User:Uzielbot is the next candidate to look at. It currently ignores maxlag completely, thus I issued a warning and requested a change. —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:10, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Issued a block now. The operator was responsive and apparently willing to fix this yesterday evening, but as of today, the bot is still ignoring the maxlag parameter. Will unblock when they confirm that everything is fixed. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:44, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
    • Unblocked again. The operator is responsive, but they've "raised the maxlag" yesterday. Hope it's fine now. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:50, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
• User:Elhuyar Fundazioa bot ignores maxlag completely as well; I have asked the operator to implement a maxlag throttle. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:39, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
• User:Edoderoobot still uses maxlag=6; I asked the operator to go with the less-aggressive maxlag=5 value as all others. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:39, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Q6683097

Can Q6683097 be undeleted if the contents was about the band "Los Plantronics"? The band now has a LCNAF record and I would like to add a different from the company Plantronics. William Graham (talk) 21:30, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:34, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:74.83.220.178

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Removing contents and adding incorrect site links. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 02:40, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done Done, blocked for a week. Thanks. --Sotiale (talk) 05:25, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Ninja toada

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Cross-wiki vandalism WhitePhosphorus (talk) 04:45, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done, blocked indefinitely. --Kostas20142 (talk) 10:36, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Vandal, please revdel

• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata%3AProject_chat&type=revision&diff=1135100963&oldid=1135087983 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:34, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Revision deletion is not warranted. This is run-of-the-mill spam.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:35, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Although I did do the revdel last time Template:Ping, and while I am deferring to Jasper's inaction in this case rather than overriding it myself, I will be less inclined to perform a revdel if all you do is simply state "Vandal, please revdel" without explicitly stating what motivates the revdel in the first place. (It does not matter to me that I as an admin can view the offending edit myself to see what might possibly motivate the revdel, or that you've explained your reasoning regarding such revdels to me before, or that the admins may be expected to somehow infer the same reason every time you do this; there is a difference between abbreviating a reason--which at least provides some transparency to the outside observer regarding the underlying cause--and omitting it entirely--which, absent other extraordinary circumstances, is unconscionable.) Mahir256 (talk) 06:59, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
    • Template:Ping We shouldn't host spam here. Who knows what kind of crazy malware is at this site? It adds absolutely nothing to the Project Chat to keep it in the history and someone could end up going to this dodgy nonsense. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:13, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
      • Template:Ping Thus, thanks for removing it. However, there's no harm in leaving it visible in the history. One can easily see why the edit was removed, and it does not appear to be blatantly dangerous (such as extreme pornography). By your argument, all spam should be revision deleted. That is overkill and isn't conducive to transparency and accountability of admins. What if I reverted and hid all your comments under the guise of spam and all the other admins did the same? I wouldn't actually do that, but it's still a reason why I think transparency is important.--Jasper Deng (talk) 07:36, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
        • Template:Ping I don't know if it's malware or not: no way am I clicking on it. But your argument is "What if admins used their tools in ways they shouldn't?" and the answer is, "They should be de-sysopped". I don't understand the point that you're making with hypothetically calling all my posts spam: they aren't, and this is. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:15, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
          • Template:Ping The point is, we should not hide edits that are not blatantly offensive, and other users must be able to hold admins accountable; call me the devil's advocate but hiding edits from them is one hypothetical way to sweep things under the rug. Your only option is to get explicit consensus against my decision here.--20:56, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Пустые страницы

Template:Ping Template:U создал 4 пустые страницы. Ссылок сюда нет. Kalendar (talk) 10:25, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

• (comment) Исходная сущность - Q29786452. Можно превратить эти страницы в перенаправления на неё, хотя смысла немного, наверняка по ошибке создано. --Wolverène (talk) 10:43, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

  Template:Done, все удалил. Можно было поставить редирект, но, так как созданы они сегодня, большого смысла нет.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:29, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Please protect User:Killarnee

Please protect so that this page can only be created by administrators. Thank you, --Killarnee (T•1•2) 12:38, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done, let us know if you want it unprotected so you can create a local page --DannyS712 (talk) 15:52, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:64.138.250.192

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Vandalize after warning. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 16:23, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done Blocked for 31 hours for external link spamming. Bovlb (talk) 16:52, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Вандализм

Template:Ping Template:U. Kalendar (talk) 17:56, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done--Ymblanter (talk) 19:40, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Bababooooo

Template:Vandal Just spam. Blocked indefinitely in English Wikipedia. --Foguera (talk) 21:22, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done by User:Jasper Deng. --Kostas20142 (talk) 22:59, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Vele 123

Since joining Wikidata a few days ago the user Template:User has been vandalizing Macedonia related items by removing the interwiki links to articles in Greek and Bulgarian. It's quite clear that each nation (and its corresponding Wikipedia) has its own historical bias especially on such sensitive subjects but removing the appropriate links to other Wikimedia projects is downright vandalism. After being warned several times by me and other users he just kept on engaging in a revert war. Please take corrective measures. Thanks. --ShockD (talk) 10:30, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

I have blocked them from editing items or properties until they discuss the issues here. I agree: disagreeing with the content of a particular wiki's articles is not grounds to delink them here.--Jasper Deng (talk) 10:40, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Please note that the inter language links of the following articles: https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8_(%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F) and

https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0

belong to another category https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linguistic_controversies

and thus should be removed from Macedonian Language (Q9296) and Macedonians (Ethnic Group) (Q2436423). They are in contravention with the notions of Language (wrongly referred to as a Norm in the first article) and Ethnic Group (wrongly referred to as NorthMacedonian in the other) which is the basis for being linked in the first place and thus should be removed or otherwise moved to a different Category or disambiguated. Only then could they be assigned to another interlanguage link. As proposed to ShockD maybe the example of this category could serve in the resolution of this dispute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linguistic_controversies. or introduce a Category:Contested Ethnic Groups.

I wish to urge to bg wiki editors to refrain language interlinking bg wiki Categories and Portals containing fabricated facts such as NorthMacedonians (Ethnic Group)(Северномакедонци) or Македонска литературна норма (referring to the Macedonian Language). Consensus exists that the Macedonian is a language. There is no consensus that North Macedonians (Ethnic Group) are an ethnic group. Subjective views of bg wiki editors should be considered as acts of vandalism towards the rest of the community, since they fail to substantiate their claims with credible references and fail to enjoy the consensus of the rest of the community about these 2 issues.

Please restore my credentials or otherwise propose other remedy or refer us to Dispute Resolution on these 2 issues.

Vele 123 (talk) 11:24, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q84263196

Reason: IP user vandalism. Thank you. --SCP-2000 (talk) 19:32, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Done for a week, please ping if it reappears (or if there is vandalism from confirmed accounts). Template:Q is extremely high profile at the moment. --DannyS712 (talk) 19:46, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:2607:FB90:2066:727F:0:2:B89F:B401

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Spam after warning. --Trade (talk) 18:43, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Change of sorting the identifiers

It seems that somebody has added a type of sorting alphapetical at the identifiers. In my opinion this makes no sense, especially for film objects e.g. Template:Q. Is there any consens for this or is it just again an opinion by one single user? -- MovieFex (talk) 20:32, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

This was done based on Wikidata:Requests for comment/Sort identifiers. There is a section for comments on that page where I already suggested to make this "feature" opt-in. —MisterSynergy (talk) 20:33, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 16:13, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Deleting Property:P3722

Could an administrator delete Template:P? It was replaced by Template:P. Thanks. --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 17:10, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Doing remaining uses --DannyS712 (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Deleted I updated the remaining uses, and have deleted the property. Since Template:Q has a sitelink, I sent it to requests for deletion so its processed once the frwiki category is deleted. First time deleting a property, so please let me know if I messed up. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:22, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q34424

Reason: IP user vandalism. Thank you. --Trade (talk) 21:34, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 3 months; let me know if anything else is needed (such as blocks of users).--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:39, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Создание рекламных страниц

Template:Ping Template:U. Весь вклад - создание рекламных страниц. Ссылок сюда нет. Kalendar (talk) 17:30, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Только одна страница, я её удалил--Ymblanter (talk) 18:53, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:NickJefferson12341

Template:Vandal — Reasons: This user have repeatedly tried to re-create the same promotional item over and over again and as such i believe him to be a sockpuppet of Template:Vandal and Template:Vandal.

Please see Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive/2020/03/20 for more information.

Template:Ping as he's the person who blocked the two former accounts. --Trade (talk) 19:10, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Obvious sock, so blocked indef. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 10:13, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Recreating item

This user is recreating promotional items about himself, although he is clearly not-notable. I kindly ask someone else to check it. Pinging DannyS712 who also got a message from the user. Thanks in advance! Bencemac (talk) 08:16, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Deleted, warned the user --DannyS712 (talk) 08:18, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! Bencemac (talk) 09:08, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Divyansh Rajput singh3250

Template:Vandal — Reasons: I believe this user to be a sockpuppet of Template:Vandal. --Trade (talk) 12:33, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Please see Deletion Log for more information.

Blocked both. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 14:02, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, just to report this, the vandal has been blocked on French wiki. This vandalism is an insult "Si-bête" meaning something like "So stupid". It may be useful to put some level of protection on the page too, if possible. Regards, LeSuedois (talk) 17:28, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done Blocked. Bovlb (talk) 21:09, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:민병국

Template:Vandal - Reason: adds inappropriate personal opinion and his name. Sftblw (talk) 02:44, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done --Sotiale (talk) 07:15, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Restore semiprotection of Template:Q

After the previous protection expired, the vandal is back. Changing the IP address, so probably cannot be blocked. Are there other options? Can Abuse Filter detect such edits? If not, then please semiprotect again. --Mormegil (talk) 06:46, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected for another month. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 07:08, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Vandalisme

Bonjour, voici une IP vandale à bloquer. Frakir (talk) 18:34, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Not done Template:Ping Il faut d'abord lui donner un avertissement.--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:12, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Вандализм

Template:Ping Template:U Kalendar (talk) 10:53, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done--Ymblanter (talk) 20:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q46134670

Reason: IP user vandalism. Thank you. --Trade (talk) 13:45, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done by Kostas20142--Ymblanter (talk) 20:26, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q39487082

Template:Q: excessive vandalism, and additionally an edit war regarding the foundation date. — Mike Novikoff 15:10, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done, 2 weeks--Ymblanter (talk) 20:27, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q26334949

Template:Q; IP vandalism. Thank you. - Premeditated (talk) 16:38, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done Semi-protected for a week, and one of the IPs blocked for 31 hours. Bovlb (talk) 18:30, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Abusing multiple account

• Template:U
• reason: Template:U 's sockpuppet. Both edit item Q11416787 and delete the link. --SCP-2000 (talk) 15:35, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked both. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:47, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Вандализм

Template:Ping Template:U половина вклада - вандализм (ru, kk). Kalendar (talk) 10:48, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for a week--Ymblanter (talk) 19:39, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:ItsMario97

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Odd one, removing www from some URLs and converting URLs from https to http SilentSpike (talk) 09:14, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Gave them an explicit warning. Please report again if they continue.--Jasper Deng (talk) 10:24, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

We need to keep an eye on them. There are still some of these edits being made. —MisterSynergy (talk) 17:56, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Editprotected – MediaWiki talk:Wikibase-SortedProperties

I would like to ask one of the administrators to review the page MediaWiki talk:Wikibase-SortedProperties and approve two sections:

• MediaWiki_talk:Wikibase-SortedProperties#More_logical_sorting_for_chemistry
• MediaWiki_talk:Wikibase-SortedProperties#Chemistry_IDs

Especially the second section is really pressing due to the fact that alphabetical sorting has been introduced without any time to prepare sorting order for specific fields and for non-English users that sorting... is quite ineffective. Wostr (talk) 22:28, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Is there anything I can help to make this easier for admins? Wostr (talk) 16:20, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Вандализм

Template:Ping Template:U. Kalendar (talk) 17:27, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Тут на первый раз вполне достаточно предупреждения.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:08, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Первый, второй. Будем ждать третий-пятый-десятый? Kalendar (talk) 09:16, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Да. Ну, или ищите другого администратора.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:51, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Жаль, что даже предупреждения я не вижу. Благодарю за долгое сотрудничество в борьбе с вандлизмом в Викиданных. Kalendar (talk) 14:45, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Request explanation for why my item is not notable

I see that an item I added has been marked as "spam" (https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions&oldid=prev&diff=1140292898) It's an entry for a legitimate company. I don't understand why it is marked as a spam entry. Thank you. Casey Arendt casey@snakeandpig.com

• wouldn't the deletion discussion be a better place to bring this up Quakewoody (talk) 01:03, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

  Template:Ping From Wikidata:Requests for deletions 'This is not the place to request undeletion. Please use Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard instead.'--Trade (talk) 23:00, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

It hadn't been deleted at the time of his (or my) posting. Quakewoody (talk) 00:22, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping Welcome to Wikidata! I'm sorry if your first experience here has left you feeling frustrated and discouraged. As Quakewoody noted above, the right place to dispute a request for deletion is in that discussion but unfortunately you have left it too late and the item has now been deleted. This page is now the correct place to request undeletion but, before you do that, I recommend you come up with an explanation of why your item meets our notability criteria. Specifically, I think you need to show that this subject Template:Tq. For example, has "Snake & Pig Sports" been the focus of an article in the New York Times? Also, your focus on this one item suggests that you may have a conflict of interest and that you may be a paid editor. You should be aware that our terms of use require disclosure of paid editing. I hope this helps you! Bovlb (talk) 16:15, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

"Section resolved" on Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard

Hey everybody, I am a seriously annoyed by the plenty of Template:Tl edits that particularly non-admins make on this page. Can we please be a little more careful with this procedure, please? I have difficulties to follow current cases when they are removed too quickly from this noticeboard. Clearly not everything which might seem resolved is actually resolved.

Does anyone feel the same, or different? Should we change something regarding use of Template:Tl on this noticeboard? —MisterSynergy (talk) 18:01, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Things do disappear pretty quickly. Would it be worth changing the archive bot to leave "resolved" sections up for an extra day or two? And try to not tag sections that aren't completely/easily resolved immediately. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 19:09, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

They are actually archived after one day. Putting three days in Template:Tl instead of one will be a good idea. --Fralambert (talk) 19:38, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

• I think the edit summary should indicate what section is resolved. --- Jura 20:07, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping I think that non-admins should be limited to using that template for routine requests, defined as vandalism reports that were answered with a block (many "false" vandalism reports like above should not be closed hastily as there is often still an underlying issue), undeletion requests, and protection requests answered with protection (excepting edit warring cases since again, there's often still an underlying issue). How does that sound?--Jasper Deng (talk) 20:58, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:PingI think that non-admins should be limited to using that template for routine requests, defined as vandalism reports that were answered with a block What about requests to Semi-protect items that were answered with a semi-protection? --Trade (talk) 22:01, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping "Protection" includes "semi-protection" here. Semi-protection is a subclass of protection.--Jasper Deng (talk) 22:13, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Is there any benefit to resolve a problem here via Template:Tl? I doubt that. --Succu (talk) 22:11, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps there is, since the resolved topics are archived faster and don't clutter the page. I nearly always use it on my own requests as advised in Template:Tl, provided that the answer (for a block or a protection request) is exactly what's been requested. — Mike Novikoff 16:20, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

As a side note, I'd mention a minor technical issue. Apparently it's meant that upon the archiving the template doesn't go there as such, but is replaced with a shorter note: "This section was archived on a request by: ...". It always works with my own signature, and with many others too, but not with all of them (see the current archive for instance). I'm not sure whether the cause is in template itself, or in the signatures, or in the way that archiving is done. Anyway, it would be nice if this flaw is fixed. — Mike Novikoff 16:20, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Popolon

Template:Archive top Template:Vandal — Reasons: vandlism on page The Epoch Times (here and here) and page Falun Gong (here). You can see on the user page that he or she claims to add non neutral content on Wikipedia. Nibbler869 (talk) 08:37, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping You have not warned or even attempted to discuss with this user. No action will be taken until you attempt to do so, since these good-faith (though erroneous) contributions are not vandalism.

Template:Ping Pourquoi ajoutez-vous le statement "Template:Q est 'propriétaire de Template:Q'"? Vous avez tort.--Jasper Deng (talk) 08:48, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Newspaper is clearly linked to the falun gong, as us congress reported and Falun Gong.pdf. "On April 20, 2006, at the officialwelcoming ceremony of PRC President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington, D.C., Ms.Wang Wenyi, a reporter for the Epoch Times, interrupted Hu’s speech by shoutingin support of Falun Gong for more than two minutes before being hustled away by U.S. security agents.". I was perhaps wrong saying it was the property of the sect. This is what is generally said in chineses shops where this newspaper is distributed freely, here in France. Perhaps an other element could be more appropriate, linked to this movement ?) but it seems important for me to be clear for Wikipedia readers about this relationship. Popolon (talk) 11:24, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping Linked to $\nRightarrow$ "owned by". "what is generally said in chineses shops" is not sufficient sourcing for such a claim.--Jasper Deng (talk) 11:38, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping, I agree, I will try to found better source and better tag. It is clearly linked to the sect and this can't be omitted for users. The en wikipedia article about Epoch Times link to this WSJ source too https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB108190438992282143 "Falun Gong is fielding two new weapons: a small New York-based, Chinese-language television production company -- New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) -- and the Epoch Times, a New Jersey-registered Chinese-language newspaper." Popolon (talk) 12:08, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Nibbler869 I just seen than all contribution from Nibbler869 user on Wikidata (from 2014 to 2020) are linked to Falun Gong sect.Popolon (talk) 12:27, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

It is not really honest to say that it's only a discipline, it's first a religious organization having some religious/spirtual practices.Popolon (talk) 12:33, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi all, I have been contributing to french Wikipedia for several years on various topics. However, I still discover new stuff, especially in Wikipedia side projects. So thanks to Popolon who offers me the opportunity to dig deeper in Wikidata.

Template:Ping I always talk with people who openly contribute to Wikipedia, even if we disagree. On the Falun Gong topic, I created a neutral page discussion following a neutrality dispute. There is a consensus about Falun Gong from scholars who actually study it, as I explained in that discussion page. The consensus is that declaring Falun Gong is a cult is part of the persecution strategy of the Chinese Communist Party. See for instance:

• this quote from Template:Cite book
• and this quote from Template:Cite book

So modifying the wikidata description of Epoch Times to "journal de la secte d'origine chinoise Falun Gong" is at least POV pushing. And, as this change was not visible on the laptop version of the Wikipedia page, I considered it was sneaky vandalism ("Any vandalism that is not immediately obvious, such as subtly changing links or statements.") when I discovered it. This is why I reverted it and did not discuss with Popolon. The description on the user page strengthened my analysis ("Popolon est un contributeur de wikipedia non-neutre, qui fait tout ce qu'il peu pour l'être et tente de remplir ce qu'il peut."). --Nibbler869 (talk) 20:59, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping, You can't say you discover because of me as you participated to it for years now, and on this unique subject of falun gong... This a really a movement, with a leader, Li Hongzhi, and as said just previously there are strong relationship between falun gong members and Epoch Times, avoiding to show this relationship is probably a strategy of the secte movement, as editors are also sect members and Falun Gong.pdf and [1]. They are at least very actives for years in touristic places to try to gain new members, in Trocadéro near Effel Tower in Paris and in most touristic place in Taïwan, with strong and aggressive evangelistic stance, as Jehovah's Witnesses and some other American evangelist sects. They are also know to use en:Shen Yun ballet to try to get new members and hide them in their billboard en:Shen_Yun#Billing_and_promotion, this is not really fair one more time. I'm not a Chinese citizen (not from China nor Taiwan), I'm French from French family for lot of generations, and don't look at the China's government stance, but only describe the sect stance independently. That's sad to see a movement only existing because it has an enemy… When I say on my page I'm not neutral, it's only a cynical point of view to recognize that, has every human or living form, I can't be 100% neutral, even if I try as most as possible when I edit Wikipedia. But your contribution on french wikipedia are in most case related to Falun gong (like fr:New Tang Dynasty Television a Falun Gong TV channel, fr:Histoire du Falun Gong, fr:Falun Gong hors de Chine continentale, fr:Bureau 610 and as every Falun Gong members, some other topic related to HR/censorship in China. My edits are mostly in Asia culture/history/geography (mainly Eastern Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia and Siberia), Central Asia, South and South-East Asia) a part in Europe too, and since at least 2003 that I edit wikipedia, various subjects as painting, music, engraving (more generally arts), computer science, electronics, Template:EtcPopolon (talk) 22:10, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:JefferyOneil

Template:Vandal — Reasons: This user have repeatedly tried to re-create the same promotional item and as such i believe him to be a sockpuppet of:

• Template:Vandal
• Template:Vandal
• Template:Vandal.

Please see Report concerning User:NickJefferson12341 and Q88037201 for more information. --Trade (talk) 22:42, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

The sock has been blocked. We may want to look into requesting CheckUser for these accounts in case some IP blocks could help.--Jasper Deng (talk) 22:47, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Is there any way we can filter whenever someone created an item labeled 'InScane'? I think that would make him easier to catch. Template:Ping --Trade (talk) 23:19, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

This is possible using the abuse filter, but abuse filters come at the cost of performance. I'm hoping Titleblacklist can be extended to cover the labels of an item.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:43, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

IP is blocked, and another sock account. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 23:21, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

• Added this to Special:AbuseFilter/history/107/diff/prev/1131. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 07:43, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:EziaMorvi

Template:Vandal — Reasons: This user have repeatedly tried to re-create the same promotional item over and over again and as such i believe him to be a sockpuppet of Template:Vandal.

Please see Wikidata:Requests for deletions#Q88383657 for more information. --Trade (talk) 13:21, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Update: EziaFashion have been globally blocked for being a sock puppet. EziaMorvi have been indefinitely blocked on Wikimedia Commons and FAWP but not on Wikidata. --Trade (talk) 11:57, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done, nuked and requested lock. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 12:21, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:74.83.220.178

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Still removing contents, so please extend their block. WhitePhosphorus (talk) 03:04, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Done -- Ajraddatz (talk) 15:34, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:113.20.22.XX

Template:Vandal — Reasons: This user has added meaningless content by zh in several pages. You can see the records in 113.20.22.67、113.20.22.71、113.20.22.89、113.20.22.94、113.20.22.96 、113.20.22.99、113.20.22.103迴廊彼端 (talk) 11:09, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

5.125.67.154

IP 5.125.67.154 is being used by mh6ti and needs globally blocked. Quakewoody (talk) 16:02, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Not everyone here is going to know who 'mh6ti' is and what's going on with him. Adding some context would be appreciated Template:Ping --Trade (talk) 23:07, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

POV description vandalism in Vietnamese

Just a heads-up that we seem to have a problem with one or more users adding or changing Vietnamese descriptions in order to push a political POV. I have so far blocked Template:User and Template:User. I would appreciate assistance, especially from a native Vietnamese speaker. (CC Template:Ping) Bovlb (talk) 15:34, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Tick Vandals confirmed, thank you. Tuanminh01 (talk) 08:42, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping Here one Template:User. Tuanminh01 (talk) 10:14, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping Thanks. I'm mostly sure this is the same person (and hence block evading), but the pattern of edits is different: there is more English and I have the sense that, while low-quality, they are less POV-extreme than before. They seem to have paused after receiving a warning. I note that they are blocked on VIWP and heading for a block on ENWP. I'll keep an eye on them. Bovlb (talk) 16:44, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

CU requested Bovlb (talk) 17:01, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping I've been reviewing Japanese555's edits and, while some are not good quality, others (e.g. Special:Diff/1144345061) seem to be clear improvements, and I do not see the same level of unacceptable POV that we saw in the edits of the other two users. I could be wrong, of course, as I am reliant on translation tools for the Vietnamese text. Bovlb (talk) 15:46, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping No, he is a vandal. See this edit [2]. Other edits are not so correct and I fixed them. Alphama (talk) 08:26, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:EziaMorvi

Template:Vandal — Reasons: This user have repeatedly tried to re-create the same promotional item over and over again and as such i believe him to be a sockpuppet of Template:Vandal.

Please see Wikidata:Requests for deletions#Q88383657 for more information. --Trade (talk) 13:21, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2020/03/25#Q88383657 Bovlb (talk) 00:21, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:103.199.41.35

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Spam and vandalism on a high-profile property, possibly sockpuppet of Template:Vandal. --Trade (talk) 23:03, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

This is a dynamic IP, most likely is gone forever.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:26, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Report concerning User:137.101.89.101

Template:Vandal — Reasons: Vandalism on many biographies, adding fake data as "place of death: Marina d'Or", acting during several days. Revert all their editions, please. --Pompilos (talk) 20:26, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked one week. All their additions appear to be reverted at first glance. Normally I would ask for a warning to be given first, but in this case several violations of Wikidata:Living people occurred.--Jasper Deng (talk) 20:34, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Spam filter blocking legitimate edits

I'm trying to add the Template:P with the value of [redacted to pass spam filter for this post] to Template:Q, but I get the error "Could not save due to an error. The save has failed." Looking at the request in my browser's console I can see the error from the API which is "The text you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to a blacklisted external site. The following text is what triggered our spam filter: [redacted to pass spam filter for this post]". I'm logged in, but still unable to make the edit. Could the spamfilter be adjusted to allow edits like this or should I create a phab ticket? Thanks! U+1F360 (talk) 16:41, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

• It looks like Template:Q is missing a way for users (like a user right?) to bypass the blacklist. U+1F360 (talk) 17:17, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Even the admins are unable to bypass the blacklist. I wouldn't be surprised if stewards and oversighters were unable as well. --Trade (talk) 23:05, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
    • Template:Reply to I found T36928 which appears to be the problem. U+1F360 (talk) 23:26, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

If PornHub has an "About us" sort of page, you can apply for the local whitelist of the about page on MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. — regards, Revi 08:31, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

LTA on items related to China politics

Previous discussion: Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive/2019/10#Persistent_vandalism_on_China_politics-related_items.

This LTA using IP addresses located in Hunan, China has been actively vandalizing items related to China (or Greater China) politics since last year. In Oct 2019, we (editors from zhwp) noticed this user and reported it here. Since then, "the level of vandalism in this period is likely lower than it might have been because of short-term blocking of some IPs, and protection on many of the articles". But this tendency does not last long. During the last several months, this LTA makes disrupting edits, sometimes with fairly insulting words in edit summary, every a few days. The LTA does not seem to be possible to cease without further actions. I think it is the time to reconsider that the necessarity of long-term block of IP ranges used by the user.--虹易 (talk) 12:28, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

• ccTemplate:Ping.--虹易 (talk) 12:31, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
• I made a couple of short-term blocks, and did some reversions.

User:Bovlb/china Here is an updated set of /16s I have been monitoring on and off. Not all are equally busy, but they all seem to have the property of being used solely for this type of POV-pushing description vandalism.

While I agree broadly with what 虹易 is saying, I do not necessarily attribute these edits to a single underlying person. Bovlb (talk) 23:52, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

As I indicated in the last thread, I am open to placing a long-term block on some or all of these /16s, but it is a fairly drastic step, and I hesitate to pull the trigger without some show of support from the (admin) community. Bovlb (talk) 20:38, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

If this can not be solved by an edit filter, then, yes, probably we need to go for a range block.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:28, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping I'm not sure whether an edit filter would be a good solution. The problem changes are primarily changing Chinese (but also sometimes English) descriptions (but also sometimes aliases). An edit filter that looks for additions or modifications of Chinese descriptions would catch most of them. We could also make this filter operate only for IP users, or conceivably even for these specific /16 blocks (if I can work out how to do that). One reason we have to be careful of wide IP blocks is that it causes chaos when blocked users rename pages (and hence attempt to change sitelinks) on other projects. Would the prevention of Chinese description changes by IP users be an acceptable compromise? Some level of throttling like one per day (to at least prevent the edit warring)? Bovlb (talk) 17:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

I have created Special:AbuseFilter/131 but I'm not very happy with it. Currently it is log-only. Bovlb (talk) 00:14, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Only one hit so far, and it's a positive. Special:Diff/1149031902 Bovlb (talk) 21:19, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Four more hits, all positive. I made the filter disallow edits. Bovlb (talk) 22:11, 4 April 2020 (UTC)