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User considering retirement
I expect to retire and hence shut down my user accounts on wikipedia. When you have time, could you delete all of my sandboxes, talkpages, archives etc. My main account has been as shaidar cuebiyar. Secondary/additional accounts included User:Ulterior aurum and User:Road to Oblivion. Thank you.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 22:30, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- No need for me to be involved. You can tag the pages you want deleted using Template:Db-g7. Provided you are the only one who made substantial edits to the page, it will then be deleted. Where others have made substantial edits, there are likely no grounds for the page to be deleted. --Yamla (talk) 11:18, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for your consideration and clarification, bye.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 04:14, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Oversighter changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past
. - A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
- Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
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SockPuppet Investigation
Hi @Yamla: you blocked NEET Scam indefinitely another similar account appears in the name User:Das capitalist. what is interesting the day you blocked @Neet Scam, this @Das capitalist account was created in the same day. Please do an investigation it appears to be a sock. And also revert his edit. If its an sock. Thanks 2409:40E0:101B:EB73:8DAD:12EC:1066:59BF (talk) 09:27, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yeap, though already blocked by a different admin. --Yamla (talk) 10:44, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
Cognition
In one ticket, he was looking for someone courageous enough to unblock. Maybe now he understands it will require a community discussion with little likelihood of success. I'll carry it over, but I doubt it will carry. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 22:53, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know! --Yamla (talk) 10:44, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 September 2024
- News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
- Recent research: Simulated Misplaced Pages seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment
- News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
- Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024
- Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year
- Traffic report: After the gold rush
New and unusual users
You're going on another vacation? I hope you realize you've used up the amount of vacation Misplaced Pages permits administrators, so this one won't be paid. Camping again?
See the deleted Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/S0091. There's no merit to the allegations of socking by S0091. I'm not as sure about SunnyScion, but the one that principally concerns me is StrongDeterrence. Their activity is not the stuff of a new user. Enough to take a look?--Bbb23 (talk) 17:23, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- Partly camping, partly visiting friends and in-laws, partly observing the dark night sky. I'll expect the Foundation to cover my fuel costs at least. Or alternatively, pay me the standard vacation rate. As that's zero, that's probably what they'll go with :) This time, I'll probably have my laptop with me so won't be completely offline.
- StrongDeterrence reminds me of Shewasafairy. The last sock there is probably Comintell. There's at least one other LTA who targets articles like this, I just can't recall off the top of my head. What is your opinion? Honestly, I'm inclined to seek a second opinion before running the CU tools here. --Yamla (talk) 19:43, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- I agree with you about Shewasafairy in terms of kinds of edits, but although there is a significant amount of article intersection among the confirmed socks, StrongDeterrence intersects on only one article, Writesonic. See report. At the same time, the intersection on Writesonic is pretty telling. Comintell was trashing the article's notability and promotional content, and ShowDeterrence nominated the article for deletion. Are you talking about a "second opinion" of another CheckUser?--Bbb23 (talk) 20:01, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah. I'll email someone. If the overlap was tighter here, I think it would be a slam dunk. But it's a case where I'd like someone else with CU to agree before running a check, to avoid problems. I'll let you know what they say! --Yamla (talk) 20:08, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- See Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Shewasafairy. Inconclusive due to proxy use, but that's sufficiently suspicious so a temporary indefinite block is now in place. --Yamla (talk) 22:53, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:52, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- I would look at User:Brandon too.. ive seen the exact same editing and focus from his account.. its so blatant i wonder if the account was hacked. SunnyScion (talk) 15:04, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- That's a pretty serious charge to make against an administrator without a speck of evidence.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:52, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- Your right, i didnt do any interaction history to find specific pages they edited on but they were talking about editing focus on tech and depreciating the pages while removing sources. T
- His account seems to be doing the same thing, over the same period, in the same field. SunnyScion (talk) 16:39, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- That's a pretty serious charge to make against an administrator without a speck of evidence.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:52, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- See Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Shewasafairy. Inconclusive due to proxy use, but that's sufficiently suspicious so a temporary indefinite block is now in place. --Yamla (talk) 22:53, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah. I'll email someone. If the overlap was tighter here, I think it would be a slam dunk. But it's a case where I'd like someone else with CU to agree before running a check, to avoid problems. I'll let you know what they say! --Yamla (talk) 20:08, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- I agree with you about Shewasafairy in terms of kinds of edits, but although there is a significant amount of article intersection among the confirmed socks, StrongDeterrence intersects on only one article, Writesonic. See report. At the same time, the intersection on Writesonic is pretty telling. Comintell was trashing the article's notability and promotional content, and ShowDeterrence nominated the article for deletion. Are you talking about a "second opinion" of another CheckUser?--Bbb23 (talk) 20:01, 4 September 2024 (UTC)