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LTA
Hello. I hope you are doing well. Do you think Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oluwa2Chainz can be considered an LTA, and does it require an LTA page? It looks like a above average socking case to me, but not an LTA page deserving case. What do you think? —usernamekiran (talk) 16:14, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
- Oh my! Celestina007 (talk · contribs) creates an essay in April 2022 about an SPI which has been quiet since Dec 2019, and casts it in an adulatory tone, "Oluwa2Chainz was a brilliant Nigerian editor by and was arguably the most intelligent corrupt editor this collaborative project witnessed". It may be suspicious, or may be Celestina's habitual florid & hyperbolic phrasing. It also makes me wonder who she's hinting at with "the overzealous ones ... might be the very ones perpetuating it".
- I'm torn between suggesting MFD for the LTA page right now (it doesn't add any actionable or useful tips for any subsequent investigation) or leaving it there 'til the ANI thread has wound up.
- The shortcuts will also need tidying up - WP:O2C, WP:Oluwa2Chainz, WP:O2CFACTOR, WP:TO2CF, WP:THEO2CFACTOR, & WP:THEO2CFA. - Cabayi (talk) 10:11, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
- I had the exact same thoughts. I was more confused because the current ANI discussion, I don't want to cause stress to her, make her feel like she/her contributions are being attacked. I think I will do it after a week or two after the ANI thread is closed. There is one more essay like that about UPE, and advanced perms - which in my opinion isnt much helpful to anybody. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:57, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
- Following up with you and usernamekiran after looking at "what links here" for the essay. In your judgement as an admin, does Oluwa2Chainz merit being called an LTA? In looking during the AN/I at Celestina's statements on user talk pages, I saw that they recently considered another editor to be a sockpuppet of Oluwa2Chainz, but there's nothing at the SPI case page since 2019. The link to the LTA page in the templates at their user page and the SPI front page appears to be automatically generated. If in your judgement the editor merits being tagged as an LTA, then I think the page should be overwritten with a dispassionately toned report like other SPA case pages. (I'm aware that the community is trying to reduce the creation of LTA pages as troll feeding, but it seems to be agreed that some continuing threats to the encyclopedia justify having such a heads-up. You may well have info I don't, such as deleted edits you can see that link to the user name.) If not, then I think it should go to MfD as an attack page. I would normally ping Celestina to this discussion, but I think discussing the issue would violate their recently enacted topic ban. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:56, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yngvadottir, I'd suspect even O2C would be embarrassed at the praise heaped on him in that LTA page. I see no merit in keeping the page under any form. Cabayi (talk) 19:46, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
- I took your response as confirming you hadn't found any deleted edits that might warrant keeping it in more standardized form. So I've gone ahead and MfDed it. @Usernamekiran: informing you here of the same, as the only other editor of the page. Yngvadottir (talk) 00:34, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yngvadottir, I'd suspect even O2C would be embarrassed at the praise heaped on him in that LTA page. I see no merit in keeping the page under any form. Cabayi (talk) 19:46, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
- Following up with you and usernamekiran after looking at "what links here" for the essay. In your judgement as an admin, does Oluwa2Chainz merit being called an LTA? In looking during the AN/I at Celestina's statements on user talk pages, I saw that they recently considered another editor to be a sockpuppet of Oluwa2Chainz, but there's nothing at the SPI case page since 2019. The link to the LTA page in the templates at their user page and the SPI front page appears to be automatically generated. If in your judgement the editor merits being tagged as an LTA, then I think the page should be overwritten with a dispassionately toned report like other SPA case pages. (I'm aware that the community is trying to reduce the creation of LTA pages as troll feeding, but it seems to be agreed that some continuing threats to the encyclopedia justify having such a heads-up. You may well have info I don't, such as deleted edits you can see that link to the user name.) If not, then I think it should go to MfD as an attack page. I would normally ping Celestina to this discussion, but I think discussing the issue would violate their recently enacted topic ban. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:56, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
UTRS appeal #55140
was closed in February, so I've no idea why they waited so long. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:04, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- I've no idea either. Given we still get rename requests as a result of SUL unification 7 years ago, it's almost speedy. Cabayi (talk) 20:23, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- OMG. So-- delightful. Anyway, the UTRS instruction to direct checkuser blocks to arbcom is outmoded. There are checkusers in the unblock team and on UTRS. So, I think it best to leave it alone. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:27, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
I see that ticket was never verified, so I wonder if it was really them. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:06, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Discussion 6:CC-BY-SA 5.0
Is there a CC-BY-SA 5.0 yet? Or the license will not exist? I am Rjsb0192 (talk) 09:39, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
UTRS appeal #59035
Hello, not sure what direction to send this user. Is this a user name block? The block summary is odd. Thanks --Deepfriedokra (talk) 10:01, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
- WP:ACC is the way to go. They deleted the user's talk page! --Deepfriedokra (talk) 10:06, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
- Good call Deepfriedokra. The earliest deleted revisions of the user talk were {{UsernameBlock}}. Coming at the talk page from outside gets you a "Bad title" error. The account has no edits to its credit. I don't see any benefit to anybody in doing battle with the software which isn't friendly to syntactically meaningful usernames[1] in order to recover a zero-edit account. Cabayi (talk) 10:41, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
- Yes. That whole deleted user talk debacle slowed me down. I finely got to it and that confirmed the situation. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 13:17, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
- Good call Deepfriedokra. The earliest deleted revisions of the user talk were {{UsernameBlock}}. Coming at the talk page from outside gets you a "Bad title" error. The account has no edits to its credit. I don't see any benefit to anybody in doing battle with the software which isn't friendly to syntactically meaningful usernames[1] in order to recover a zero-edit account. Cabayi (talk) 10:41, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
References
- ^ I used to be for (;;) (talk · contribs), intending it to be my forever username, so I've experienced the inconvenience & pain first hand.
Request for IP Block Exeption
Hello. I have been blocked for a day or two by a bot awhile ago... with some explanation about IP address issue or something like that. An admin reviewed my unblock request and suggested that I request for IP Block Exeption .
My IP address is 41.223.74.157 when I'm not logged in. And I can honestly state that I did not do anything wrong... it just came as a surprise that I couldn't edit for a period of time. While I am aware the block was just just temporary and it has since been lifted, it's very certain that I will encounter the same problem in future. Hope you will consider my request. Thanks Volten001 ☎ 05:53, 7 June 2022 (UTC)