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Alt text - concise enough?
Hello, Graham. I see you are active on the alt text project and wondered whether you could check over a few of my recent alt text additions to see whether I am being too wordy. I edit a lot of geographical articles, and have been adding alt text, so there are plenty of images of castles, rivers and other features to describe, hopefully helpful to readers who cannot see the images! Thanks and best wishes, Tony. Tony Holkham (Talk) 14:26, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Tony Holkham: Thanks very much for your alt text additions. I checked the ones you added today ... they sound good! I also fixed a typo on your talk page header; hope you don't mind. Graham87 14:49, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reassurance, and the typo fixes. All the best. Tony Holkham (Talk) 15:04, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Phew
So, all of the ones that I just blocked were operating from one single IP. User:M61 Rocks is undoubtedly the same person, operating from an IPv6 /64 that another admin has already blocked, and I did not see any other named accounts on there. (My guess is that that range is for when they're running around town without logging in, except for that one time.) I don't know if it's worth filing an SPI, but they sure are a nuisance. If I got $5 per block I'd be getting groceries right now. Drmies (talk) 14:57, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Drmies: Thanks very much, wowee ... that's a huge number of sockpuppets! Just ... why ... very much a rhetorical question. Graham87 15:00, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
LTA question
Hi Graham87 -- I have a question about this user (it's one person) who you blocked for three years. It's an LTA and certainly behaves like one. The issue is that he's active on Wikiquote and doing a fair amount of damage pushing anti-vax, conspiracy, and racist rubbish. Which LTA is it? Is it someone banned by the Foundation? I'm not an admin on Wikiquote, but trying to clean up some of the worst awfulness there. Thanks -- Antandrus (talk) 03:02, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Antandrus: I don't think this user has a name or case as such ... but they've certainly been extremely persistent for at least two years, maybe more, and that's what I was trying to reflect in my block log entry. Thanks for cleaning up afther them on Wikiquote ... I did notice they'd done a lot of editing there but by then I was completely drained from dealing with them here, and the edits I'd noticed from them there weren't *that* bad (but I didn't check too many of them). Oh I just noticed this ANI discussion about them ... seems they've been disrupting Wikiquote for a long time too. Graham87 03:34, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you Graham. I'm ... I dunno. Maybe I'm wasting my time there. The more I dig, the worse it looks. This person has been flooding the site with racist and anti-vax rubbish for years, and it just seems like no one there cares. Or none of the regulars, anyway. Maybe that laissez-faire attitude is just the way that site works? It's kind of draining, as you say. When you don't have admin tools, it can feel like fighting a cockroach infestation with a toothpick. Antandrus (talk) 19:53, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- Re that user,"fighting a cockroach infestation with a toothpick" is right, even with admin tools, just because of how prolific they are ... what's so weird to me is that Melbourne, Victoria is one of the last places I'd *ever* expect to find an editor like that. The state's been dubbed the Massachusetts of Australia, after all. I guess it takes all sorts. Graham87 03:23, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you Graham. I'm ... I dunno. Maybe I'm wasting my time there. The more I dig, the worse it looks. This person has been flooding the site with racist and anti-vax rubbish for years, and it just seems like no one there cares. Or none of the regulars, anyway. Maybe that laissez-faire attitude is just the way that site works? It's kind of draining, as you say. When you don't have admin tools, it can feel like fighting a cockroach infestation with a toothpick. Antandrus (talk) 19:53, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
Three Mile Island (disambiguation) RM closure
It seems that when reverting your accidental move, you accidentally closed the RM on the talk page with no result. Could you please reopen it? — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 16:23, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Mellohi!: Huh, I don't really understand ... have these edits fixed things at all? Honestly at this point I think a restart would be the least confusing thing to do, if someone thinks that's necessary ... I really don't want to be involved in this situation any longer. Graham87 03:41, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
James Heather
Hi Graham
Thank you very much for your guidance so far.
I have created my first BIG article entitled James Heather.
Please have a look at it and tell me if I am on the right track!
Thanks again. Stay well.
WAAPHC (talk) 00:11, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for the message about Tigris–Euphrates river system
Sorry for wasting your time but my native language is English and I added links because I saw there were links before and not there so I thought it was inconsistent so I added them, thank you for your time.
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