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{{You've got mail|dashlesssig=<span style="font-family: Arial; padding: 2px 3px 1px 3px;">] ]</span> 15:08, 12 December 2024 (UTC)}} Hello there. May I adapt your talk page's welcome message for my talk page, with attribution? —] (he/him) <small>If you ], add <code><small>&#123;&#123;reply to|Eyer&#125;&#125;</small></code> to your message.</small> 21:17, 25 December 2024 (UTC)


:@] Yes, of course. Happy editing. -] (]) 21:40, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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:::@] A quick suggestion, you might want to remove references to admin stuff from your copy of the talk page notice. Merry Christmas. -] (]) 00:59, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
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::::Oh — I'll read more closely and do that. Thank you. —] (he/him) <small>If you ], add <code><small>&#123;&#123;reply to|Eyer&#125;&#125;</small></code> to your message.</small> 01:03, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::Done! I had stripped it out of a first draft, but messed the formatting up... I went back to your page to get a fresh copy and forget to strip it out again. Thank you for following up with me about that. —] (he/him) <small>If you ], add <code><small>&#123;&#123;reply to|Eyer&#125;&#125;</small></code> to your message.</small> 01:06, 26 December 2024 (UTC)


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:@], Thank you and a blessed feast to you and yours. -] (]) 00:57, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
Hi can you reduce the protection in ] because it is very outdated and impley that there the bashar government still control ares in syria i already changed all in the other template for bigger towns but for smaller towns and hills it was protected by you back in 2017 ] (]) 18:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC)


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Hi, as one of the pagewatchers, I just wanted to let you know that situation with a user you have warned recently, hasn't improved, but rather doubled down in their edit summary when removing your warning and subsequent discussion (see ]). Just wanted to point it out in case you have missed this one, but I don't want to escalate it to an appropriate venue myself. Best regards, ''']'''<nowiki>|</nowiki>] 11:34, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
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:That edit summary was not appropriate, but I'm not disposed to press the matter. Users are allowed some latitude on their talk pages and that thread was probably due for archiving. I've already had one disagreeable experience with a hyper-political editor that ended with my having to take them to ANI recently and am inclined to let this go for now. -] (]) 15:34, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
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== Help with an IP editor ==
I have come across some editing that seems to me to be problematic...but maybe I'm wrong? If you could take a look I'd appreciate it. This editor is digital re-creations of flags from history from their descriptions in sources, for an example see the editing history at ]. I reverted that edit-image because this all seems to me to be a violation of ]. Anyway, would appreciate your feedback/insight. Thanks, ] (]) 05:00, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
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There's seems to be a dispute with me and an IP address regarding ]. Could you just please look at the sort of war (im not at fault) on the article and the ip's talk page and resolve this please? Thanks ] (]) 18:17, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:@] I'm inclined to agree. I will have a word with them. -] (]) 16:34, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
::I posted on their user talk as well, but don't know what can be done beyond that. Personally, I think these various digital reconstructions/digital remakes of historic flags should be removed from their various articles and ''also'' from Commons even though that seems harsh... But it seems to me WP really shouldn't have these images being represented as reliably sourced in Misplaced Pages articles when they are 1)previously unpublished and 2)created by a fellow editor. Another danger is that these images will get regurgitated within the various information systems as actual flags and will poison future search results.- ] (]) 17:39, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
:::@] They seem to have accepted the advice. In the past this was not a big issue. However with our constantly evolving technology and AI, I think we should probably add a line to NOR clarifying that self created images of this nature, are excluded. -] (]) 19:20, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
::::I agree. If I can get to it this week I'll raise the issue on NOR's talk page. If you pass through that way & it's not been done, feel free to remind me. - ] (]) 03:41, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
::::A related issue is that they are uploading these images to Commons and then posting them over here. Are there any Commons guidelines that these self-created images are in violation of? Is there an admin here that I can get in touch with and get some advice? I don't do much over at Common and it is...different there. Any advice or a roadmap would be appreciated. Thanks, ] (]) 03:53, 24 December 2024 (UTC)


:@] I'm on my way to an appointment. Will have a look when I have a few minutes later today. -] (]) 18:21, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
==Al. M. G. 2004's vandalism==
::@] Thank you very much ] (]) 18:21, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Just to add, this IP address also has violated the three revert rule on ] ] (]) 19:15, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
::::@] I've restored the pre-edit war version and left a note on their talk page. -] (]) 23:35, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::Thank you. ] (]) 07:35, 8 January 2025 (UTC)


As far as I can tell, this user has had no previous interaction of any kind with you. They contact you out of the blue, with a post riddled with grammatical errors, baldly claiming "im not at fault", and then they falsely claim that I violated the three revert rule, and you just take them at their word and revert on their behalf? If you had done any basic research of the situation and the user, you would have quickly established that they are sockpuppeting, having used an IP address to add some irrelevant, badly written text to an article, and then used their account to revert my removal of it. They have falsely claimed that an administrator has given them permission to sockpuppet in this way. I find your actions on their behalf to be completely astonishing. ] (]) 11:45, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
Hello. Al. M. G. 2004 began to vandalize pages and purposely misquote citations within them. example of this is related to ]. He's already been warned five times for months and isn't stopping. He cited ''Male circumcision' and 'female genital mutilation': why parents choose the procedures and the case for gender bias in medical nomenclature'' but the article itself says that anthropologists, ethicists, and doctors almost never consider it mutilation, particularly if it's performed consensually by adult individuals with penises. He then proceeds to overwhelm editors with 16 references in order to make it seem like a false consensus. (]). He needs, at the minimum, to be banned for a month.] (]) 02:42, 23 December 2024 (UTC)


:Please don't randomly accuse others of sockpuppeting without decent evidence <span style="font-family: Arial; padding: 2px 3px 1px 3px;">] ]</span> 14:36, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:@] This appears to be a content dispute. Please see ] for tips on how to handle that. If you believe their editing is ], and they have been adequately warned, you may take the matter to ]. The warning I issued on their talk page was in response to a personal attack, where they told {{u|Martinevans123}} to "go to Hell" in Greek. I haven't seen that repeated. ] (]) 03:04, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
::I did nothing randomly. Don't randomly barge in on conversations and make assumptions of bad faith. If you want to know what evidence there is that the user is sockpuppeting, ask, or do some basic investigation - it is not hard to confirm. ] (]) 15:42, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
::Courtesy ping @{{u|Martinevans123}}. -] (]) 03:08, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
::@131.251.8.82 Good morning. A few quick points. I have zero interest in the content dispute between you and @]. I checked the page history which showed you removing content three times. The last time was after being twice reverted. That is borderline edit warring. I reverted the page back to the state of affairs before your initial removal of content. In doing so I cited ] in my edit summary. When an edit is reverted, the correct procedure is to go the article talk page and discuss the proposed changes and seek consensus. On the other point, editing while logged out ] if you have an account. However it does happen sometimes for one reason or another. In this instance, I'm not seeing any evidence of bad faith on the part of FR who quickly identified themself. FR and I have in fact crossed paths a few times, so their contacting me was not out of the blue. That said, I am an admin and I have people that I have never interacted with in the past contacting me all the time. It comes with the job. My talk page is open to anyone who wants to discuss something with me or has a point to add to an ongoing discussion. In closing, I have no reason to believe either you or FR were acting in bad faith. However the repeated reverting is a no no. The only exceptions are for naked vandalism, obvious copyright violations or serious BLP violations. At this point you should both discuss the matter on the article talk page. Best regards... -] (]) 15:51, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
::: It's not limited to it.
:::If you have zero interest in the article, you should not have edited it. You say "I checked the page history which showed you removing content three times". But if you looked properly, then you also saw content being added three times, once by an IP address, and twice by an account which did not disclose that it was the same person as the IP address. So why only mention my removal of it? And why revert on the user's behalf? Why revert to before I removed the substandard text, and not to before they added it? Where is this prior interaction that has led you to act so favourably towards this user? ] (]) 18:24, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
::::@131.251.8.82 I am an admin and part of my job is to deal with disruptive editing, of which ] is a specie. The substance of your dispute is not relevant to the fact that beginning on January 6, you were edit warring to preserve your preferred version of the article. See also ]. I have already addressed your unfounded allegations of socking. See above. Failing to ] makes constructively contributing to a collaborative project difficult and I do not appreciate the implication that I have been biased in my handling of this situation. If you have concerns about the article quality, please discuss them on the article talk page and seek ]. This is turning into an unnecessary time sink and it is time for everybody to move on. -] (]) 18:48, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:::] ] (]) 16:44, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:A administrator has helped me. It is just that its deep in my edit history. ] (]) 16:40, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
::@] @] If Misplaced Pages's guidelines classify that as sockpuppetry, I am very and truly sorry. I didn't know if I could just log in with email or I had to accept an email that says i tried to log in from a different location. If you want, i could give a link to the discussion ] (]) 16:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Or I could ping the user theirself ] (]) 16:45, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
::::@] Editing while logged out is something that should be avoided. Sometimes it happens inadvertently. And there may be other times where for very unusual reasons it happens. I have on very rare occasions done so if I am using a public device such as a computer at a library. This is for security reasons to protect my username and password. But in general this is something that really should be avoided to the extent possible. It is only considered socking if it is done with the intent to conceal your identity for improper reasons, such as trying to sway community discussions and the like. If you do edit while logged out, either by accident or for some unusual reason, make sure you identify yourself in order to avoid any questions. Reiterating my point from above, I have no reason to believe anybody here was acting in bad faith. It's best to just move on and discuss the proposed changes to the article on the talk page. -] (]) 16:50, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
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== Books & Bytes – Issue 66 ==
::: 23 December 2024:

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::: 22 December 2024: . He then proceded to REFBomb it with 16 individual citations. The claimed sources (including the first) either directly contradict the claim that it is a significant minority or majority viewpoint or are cherrypicked.

::: 10 November 2024: about "Colorado pundit" (he's not) ] claiming that Donald Trump has convicted sexual predator Bill Cosby "on tap" and will play a leading role in his administration.

::: 7 November 2024: . Celebrated Trump win.

::: 6 November 2024: .

::: 5 November 2024: .

::: 30 September 2024: .

::: He's also written about "" in Greek. Which is an antisemitic phrase often used on the Russian 2CK, 4Chan's /pol/, and 8chan.

::: This is a ] situation. {{ping| Ad Orientem}} ] (]) 06:03, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
::::@] Yeah, there is a little too much there. I have blocked them indefinitely. -] (]) 06:16, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::Thank you! ] (]) 19:13, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

== Daniel Dungca's Vandalism Issue on LTO License Plates ==

Hi Ad Orientem,

We have a suspected that ] who typed and posted some disruptive edits due to mistyped and misinformation under the Misplaced Pages English article: ] as of now on the timeline.

In reason of this issue and reviewed, CAZ 4401 has supposedly CAZ 4301 as I saw the parked vehicle at the restaurant has registered in Pampanga (Region III). Meanwhile, CBO series has registered last April 2024 with second hand and newly registered vehicles (ex. Light Truck).

Please banned and block the suspected user who annoyed the posted did not understand the guidelines on Wiki community.

Thank you. ] (]) 00:50, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

:@] I am sorry but I do not understand your message. -] (]) 00:55, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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Hello there. May I adapt your talk page's welcome message for my talk page, with attribution? —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 21:17, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

@Eyer Yes, of course. Happy editing. -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:40, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! Happy editing to you, too. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 21:41, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
@Eyer A quick suggestion, you might want to remove references to admin stuff from your copy of the talk page notice. Merry Christmas. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:59, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
Oh — I'll read more closely and do that. Thank you. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 01:03, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
Done! I had stripped it out of a first draft, but messed the formatting up... I went back to your page to get a fresh copy and forget to strip it out again. Thank you for following up with me about that. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 01:06, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

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Help with an IP editor

IP has been cautioned about edit warring. FeistyRooster is cautioned about editing while logged out. No further admin action is required at this time. Discussion regarding article quality or related content disputes should proceed on the article talk page. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:52, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

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There's seems to be a dispute with me and an IP address regarding Hampstead Garden Suburb. Could you just please look at the sort of war (im not at fault) on the article and the ip's talk page and resolve this please? Thanks FeistyRooster (talk) 18:17, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

@FeistyRooster I'm on my way to an appointment. Will have a look when I have a few minutes later today. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:21, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
@Ad Orientem Thank you very much FeistyRooster (talk) 18:21, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Just to add, this IP address also has violated the three revert rule on Hampstead Garden Suburb FeistyRooster (talk) 19:15, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
@FeistyRooster I've restored the pre-edit war version and left a note on their talk page. -Ad Orientem (talk) 23:35, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Thank you. FeistyRooster (talk) 07:35, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, this user has had no previous interaction of any kind with you. They contact you out of the blue, with a post riddled with grammatical errors, baldly claiming "im not at fault", and then they falsely claim that I violated the three revert rule, and you just take them at their word and revert on their behalf? If you had done any basic research of the situation and the user, you would have quickly established that they are sockpuppeting, having used an IP address to add some irrelevant, badly written text to an article, and then used their account to revert my removal of it. They have falsely claimed that an administrator has given them permission to sockpuppet in this way. I find your actions on their behalf to be completely astonishing. 131.251.8.82 (talk) 11:45, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Please don't randomly accuse others of sockpuppeting without decent evidence Gaismagorm (talk) 14:36, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
I did nothing randomly. Don't randomly barge in on conversations and make assumptions of bad faith. If you want to know what evidence there is that the user is sockpuppeting, ask, or do some basic investigation - it is not hard to confirm. 131.251.8.82 (talk) 15:42, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
@131.251.8.82 Good morning. A few quick points. I have zero interest in the content dispute between you and @FeistyRooster. I checked the page history which showed you removing content three times. The last time was after being twice reverted. That is borderline edit warring. I reverted the page back to the state of affairs before your initial removal of content. In doing so I cited WP:BRD in my edit summary. When an edit is reverted, the correct procedure is to go the article talk page and discuss the proposed changes and seek consensus. On the other point, editing while logged out is strongly discouraged if you have an account. However it does happen sometimes for one reason or another. In this instance, I'm not seeing any evidence of bad faith on the part of FR who quickly identified themself. FR and I have in fact crossed paths a few times, so their contacting me was not out of the blue. That said, I am an admin and I have people that I have never interacted with in the past contacting me all the time. It comes with the job. My talk page is open to anyone who wants to discuss something with me or has a point to add to an ongoing discussion. In closing, I have no reason to believe either you or FR were acting in bad faith. However the repeated reverting is a no no. The only exceptions are for naked vandalism, obvious copyright violations or serious BLP violations. At this point you should both discuss the matter on the article talk page. Best regards... -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:51, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
If you have zero interest in the article, you should not have edited it. You say "I checked the page history which showed you removing content three times". But if you looked properly, then you also saw content being added three times, once by an IP address, and twice by an account which did not disclose that it was the same person as the IP address. So why only mention my removal of it? And why revert on the user's behalf? Why revert to before I removed the substandard text, and not to before they added it? Where is this prior interaction that has led you to act so favourably towards this user? 131.251.8.82 (talk) 18:24, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
@131.251.8.82 I am an admin and part of my job is to deal with disruptive editing, of which edit warring is a specie. The substance of your dispute is not relevant to the fact that beginning on January 6, you were edit warring to preserve your preferred version of the article. See also WP:WRONGVERSION. I have already addressed your unfounded allegations of socking. See above. Failing to assume good faith makes constructively contributing to a collaborative project difficult and I do not appreciate the implication that I have been biased in my handling of this situation. If you have concerns about the article quality, please discuss them on the article talk page and seek WP:CONSENSUS. This is turning into an unnecessary time sink and it is time for everybody to move on. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:48, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
131.251.8.82 FeistyRooster (talk) 16:44, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
A administrator has helped me. It is just that its deep in my edit history. FeistyRooster (talk) 16:40, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
@Ad Orientem @Gaismagorm If Misplaced Pages's guidelines classify that as sockpuppetry, I am very and truly sorry. I didn't know if I could just log in with email or I had to accept an email that says i tried to log in from a different location. If you want, i could give a link to the discussion FeistyRooster (talk) 16:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
Or I could ping the user theirself FeistyRooster (talk) 16:45, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
@FeistyRooster Editing while logged out is something that should be avoided. Sometimes it happens inadvertently. And there may be other times where for very unusual reasons it happens. I have on very rare occasions done so if I am using a public device such as a computer at a library. This is for security reasons to protect my username and password. But in general this is something that really should be avoided to the extent possible. It is only considered socking if it is done with the intent to conceal your identity for improper reasons, such as trying to sway community discussions and the like. If you do edit while logged out, either by accident or for some unusual reason, make sure you identify yourself in order to avoid any questions. Reiterating my point from above, I have no reason to believe anybody here was acting in bad faith. It's best to just move on and discuss the proposed changes to the article on the talk page. -Ad Orientem (talk) 16:50, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
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