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Thank you!

Thank you very much, Ansh666, for your help with this page deletion!  Painius    09:06, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you Ansh666!

Thank you and very much appreciated but the page you resurrected is being deleted again and it seems like by anyone who sees it. Is there a way to get this article protected? ] and Basically its up to you if you can and possible please transfer this article to the original article ] but don't have administrative access so that will be awesome.

Have an awesome day. Wiki Gainz (talk) 04:49, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

JLJ001

I noticed that you are cleaning up after this one. Thank you.

He peppered WT:WPPORT with messages. How should that be handled? With strike-outs? Deleting his posts will disrupt all the discussions he participated in.

You may also wish to read this related report on JLJ001: User talk:TonyBallioni#He also hacked JWB

He contributed throughout the Portals WikiProject. Please explain what other clean up will be done, so we are not surprised when it happens. Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:52, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ansh666 and The Transhumanist: Could you please not delete the templates and other project pages he created? Sock or not, he has made significant contributions to the WikiProject, and I'd rather not see them get the axe just because. Also, how do I go about undeleting those templates? — AfroThundr  09:10, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

I can't delete, I'm not an admin.    — The Transhumanist   09:17, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

That was mostly directed at Ansh666, but I figured I'd pull you into this too. — AfroThundr  09:52, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Please restore the pages you deleted

Please re-create the templates, without the sock's name in/on them. Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   09:17, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

If an admin would be so kind as to halt this mass deletion and restore those pages, I'll take ownership of them if necessary. Also could we not rollback his edits to our portal pages? He was heavily involved in collaboration on several projects and you'd be axing a large chunk of our work. I trust you won't revert me if I redo some of your rollback changes? Also could you at least discuss this with the WikiProject next time? If there is cleanup to be done we'd probably know best what the damage is and how to fix it. You don't have to use a chainsaw when a scalpel would suffice. — AfroThundr  09:52, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Also for cases like these, where the blocked user has made significant positive contributions to an area or project, we should consult with the community for that content before deleting it. Several of the templates were spared deletion because they were already transcluded on many portal pages, however, they form part of a set, and the unused ones were to be used for tagging portal pages in an upcoming maintenance run. That will be held up until we have the necessary templates restored or recreated.

My main question (for this comment, at least) is: Why are we just deleting any page created by the blocked user. He doesn't WP:OWN those pages and in many cases, others have contributed to them as well. Would you delete a C-class article that half a dozen other editors had put work into improving because the creator was a sock? I certainly hope not. That goes for reverting entire sections of our other pages too. This is something that should require manual inspection and judgement, not a Twinkle d-batch run.

Not trying to attack you or anything, just annoyed. — AfroThundr  10:18, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Please re-create the Selected Quote Sections in Portal:Latter Day Saints and Portal:Right-wing populism and restore Portal:Geert Wilders to its previous state. I am shocked that you delete good content on wikipedia only because of some sock, which I have never heard of.--Broter (talk) 09:55, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

I also support keeping most of this content. Despite their origin, the edits have already been built on as part of a project with 89 active members which can fix, revert or tag for deletion where appropriate. Certes (talk) 13:28, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I am not going to restore the illicit work of an effectively globally banned LTA. Perhaps someone else will, but not me. ansh666 16:12, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Do you intend to delete further pages? That information would be very useful in deciding whether it is worth continuing to revamp the portals. If more foundations are going to be destroyed from under us, it is probably time to give up. Certes (talk) 16:27, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't think so. All of the tagged pages have been deleted. ansh666 16:31, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the speedy reply. That at least puts a limit on the damage we need to repair. Certes (talk) 16:46, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

For the record, none of the pages I deleted had any contributors other than Dysklyver and the speedy tagger. You can try asking another admin to restore them, I only said I wouldn't. I know I'm a lot stricter on G5 than many admins, especially regarding this particular LTA. In regards to his talk page comments, there's probably no need to strike them on account of there being so many. ansh666 17:22, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism by consensus is still vandalism, and I'm not seeing consensus here - several users have asked to restore the information, and now I'm going to join them. You can't just delete thousands of edits worth of content because you don't like the editor. Smartyllama (talk) 17:40, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

What part of global-lock-on-sight LTA do you not understand? ansh666 17:42, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

I may be alleged to be bastard LTA, but I will provide new templates on request to anyone that wants them. :: Editing as 109.147.115.71 (talk) -- The late JLJ001 (off wiki talk page) 18:43, 31 May 2018 (UTC)