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IP socking

If you remember, you blocked Omdo (talk · contribs) awhile ago. Since then, they've continued to sock as IPs. However, it seems the IP changes very regularly, so it's not easy to track all their edits. I certainly cant. The history of the Malaysia Agreement article for example, has different IPs to the one which recently edited The List of sovereign states. Somehow they're coming from two different ranges as well, a 36 etc one and a 180.253 etc one. Would a rangeblock be effective in this situation? Semi-protecting the pages would work for the individual pages, but would address symptoms not causes. Regards, CMD (talk) 13:12, 5 January 2014 (UTC)(Ms;;BlAcKhEaRt);)

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Deletion review for QMobile

An editor has asked for a deletion review of QMobile. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. UBStalk 22:00, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

YOLO swag filter

Are you sure this filter was properly implemented? This edit got through, and I tested a similar edit against my sandbox while logged out, and it also worked. Thanks — MusikAnimal talk 17:42, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

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Undoing one of your blocks

Well, sort of... see User talk:Route20 and User talk:Nhwxtracker (and User talk:Writ Keeper for a related conversation). I figured from your comment on Route20's talkpage, and from the fact that you left Nhwxtracker unblocked, that you'd be cool with what I'm doing; if not, let me know. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 22:16, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

UrbanNerd

New IP activity from this sockmaster: 70.53.104.222. This IP did an UrbanNerd connected personal attack on an admin at Commons. INeverCry 02:30, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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Duck attack

I translated, duck attack on the German Main page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:33, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 January newsletter

The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Disabling filters

When you disable a filter, that act doesn't show in the hit log. That means that I am left seeing that all is well when in fact, all that has happened is that you disabled the filter without bothering to tell me. If you feel that you have to disable a filter I created, please mention it to me.—Kww(talk) 14:48, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Okay. Please don't create so many filters too, though. We don't need a bazillion edit filters for every sockpuppet master. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:47, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Self-requested blocks

Hello, Reaper. For some time I have been considering possibly adding myself to Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to consider placing self-requested blocks. Before doing so, I thought it might help to see what a few of those already in the category think about a few matters. I should be grateful if you would give me an idea, via either talk page or email, of your ideas on the following questions.

  1. Why do you impose a list of requirements, rather than just saying "I will block you if you ask me to"? (I am not disagreeing with you, just wanting to know your thoughts on the matter.)
  2. In your experience, how often, if at all, do you get such requests?
  3. Do such blocks ever cause problems of any sort, and if so, how? JamesBWatson (talk) 15:27, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
To answer your questions:
  • I don't want people gaming the system. Additionally, it's not part of the blocking policy, but WP:IAR and all that. I also want to warn people that it will reflect badly on them for having to be blocked to leave Wikipedia.
  • I can't remember getting a request.
  • I vaguely remember some admins and editors getting in trouble over some apparently self-requested blocks via email. I can't remember any more, unfortunately.
Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:51, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

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Hi there, just saw your notice that you'll be away more due to your impending release from prison, I mean, graduation. That's way more important than Wikipedia! I do hope we'll see you back after graduation, though! Your contributions here are valuable! Heimstern Läufer (talk) 02:36, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

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GOCE February blitz wrapup

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Request for rangeblock

I am writing to you for two reasons. 1. You list yourself as willing to perform rangeblocks and 2. your� involvement, about six months ago, in a sockpuppet investigation into 089baby (talk · contribs). (See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/089baby/Archive), as I feel a rangeblock is necessary for containing his sockpuppetry. Recently he has taken to IP hopping, using registered accounts only for creating articles. All the IP's he's used are in the 36.27.0.0/16 range, with the third number ranging from 192 to 203.

As evidence, I point to the timeline of account usage. From 6 November to 4 January, 9 different accounts of his blocked were blocked in as many weeks, and then he stopped all of a sudden. Assuming I haven't missed any, the next sock wasn't registered until a month later. From 10 January onward, there was dramatic increase in edits to articles frequently edited by 089baby from IP's in the range in question, there having been only around 20 edits to article on Cambodian football (his subject of interest) in all of 2013. Add to that the fact that the only edits made by the two most recent socks Kakalara (talk · contribs) and Nevercare12345 (talk · contribs) were to create the same five articles, with all other edits to these article, except some routine maintenance, coming from IP's in the range.

I have already posted on the Administrators' noticeboard about this, but the post has gone unanswered for two days. Additionally, I have also contacted @Someguy1221: and @NativeForeigner: who both also have some involvement in this case. Thank you in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 08:03, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 February newsletter

And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
  2. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
  3. United States WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

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Thanks for the offer, but no thank you! Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 00:27, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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Filter question

I posted this at ANI a few days ago: We have had problems in the past with editors promoting concepts and terms from Europa Universalis - creating categories, renaming articles, changes of government types within articles, etc. Several socks were blocked last September over this and copyvio issues- see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Turgeis/Archive. Yesterday I discovered some page moves relating to this and today I have found a number of IPs doing similar edits, all geo-locating to Rio de Janeiro. Two IPs in the same range were involved last year. Recently - that is from January until yesterday, other IPs have been making the same type of edits. Most recent ones are 187.15.70.13 (talk · contribs), 187.14.224.110 (talk · contribs) and 187.15.48.73 (talk · contribs). Others include 187.15.54.135 (talk · contribs), 187.15.53.42 (talk · contribs) 187.15.54.135 (talk · contribs), 187.15.38.249 (talk · contribs), 187.15.8.12 (talk · contribs), 187.14.230.20 (talk · contribs), 187.15.71.7 (talk · contribs), and 187.15.73.173 (talk · contribs). I'm still searching for recent additions of "Noble republic", Administrative republic, Republican Dictatorship, Revolutionary empire, Administrative monarchy, all of which can be found at the game's wiki[1] and were part of a now deleted template here which Admins can view.[2]. Part of the tactic is to add sourced text to force the phrase into an article, eg [3]. Note this is copyvio from [4]. Some edits have misrepresented sources, eg [5]. These are all throwaway IP addresses.

I spent some lovely hours (and ended up buying Charles Esdaile's Peninsular War, Kindle edition, when I found more copy from the same 187.15 and 187.14 ranges - the same problems we faced before with Turgeis (talk · contribs) and his socks. See my edits at Mutiny of Aranjuez (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). I've ended up giving these long term semi-protection, but that won't work with the Europa Universalis vandals.

A range block would have to much collateral damage, so I'm wondering if filters would be the solution. One would look for the addition of the words Esdaile and "Peninsular War", another (if one would be enough) would look at the addtion of various phrases to articles. I'm not clear how filters work for an editor who isn't actually watching all the articles - ie how I would find out if someone tripped a filter. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 14:10, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrapup

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2014 Blitz wrap-up

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I need your help!

I need your help on something. See my talk page. Paquito490 (talk) 04:54, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

I hope my request for help doesn't waste your time or anything. I've kind of been waiting a little while for a response, but I don't want to waste your time if you're busy. Paquito490 (talk) 01:05, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Never mind. Already put a "help me" template on my talk page. Maybe someone else can help me. Sorry for wasting your time. :( Paquito490 (talk) 03:05, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congrats on your graduation! Heimstern Läufer (talk) 04:56, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! That's what I've been doing for the last several months! Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:19, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Welcome to the rest of your life! Life is quite different post-school! ;-) Liz Read! Talk! 19:34, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's United States ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Washington, D.C. Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Canada Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Minas Gerais Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Nepal Czar (submissions) and Indiana Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone!

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UTRS

Hey - we still have a UTRS ticket that needs a bit of attention from you, can you help?--v/r - TP 21:26, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Scotland Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to Florida 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪ ߷ ♀ 投稿 ♀ 07:41, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, you volunteered to help, so I was wondering: I tried to fix a dead link on 2013 IRS controversy but the citation page is hidden. It's #12, today, and in pgraph 1. It's an AP story the Globe no longer hosts but there are 3 other sources hosting it. I put replacements in the talk section ("targeted, etc." bottom of talk page)I am not skilled at the HTML and didn't know the citations edit page could be hidden anyway!Mydogtrouble (talk) 15:59, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 04:14, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
I did not get a copy of the mail I sent to you, despite checking the check box to get it. If you did not get the mail either, please let me know and I will re-compose it. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 23:17, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, I didn't get the email. You'll need to re-send it. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:43, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
I'm having trouble sending email. I sent an email to you again and didn't get a copy. I sent myself a test message and it never arrived. Earlier today though I was able to send a message to a different user. It was received but the copy I sent to myself didn't arrive. So, did you get the email this time? If not, consider emailing me and I'll email you directly. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 03:13, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

FiendOfLight

Do you remember me? moluɐɯ 22:44, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Yep. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:43, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Any plans to come back to RS then?? :ɔ moluɐɯ 14:44, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Mr Wiki Pro

I just blocked Halo reach player (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), Halo 3 gamer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and Halo 2 player (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) as sockpuppets for making three edits to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band. Now I get this claiming that all three are Mr Wiki Pro. I'll leave it to you to decide if you should apply the magic pixie dust. Cheers. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 14:36, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

I checked and blocked the IPs. Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:43, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 14:53, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

Just blocked IP 212.253.186.156

Hello. The just blocked 212.253.186.156 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), who vandalized articles relating to the Israeli military, and pr WP:DUCK is a sock of blocked user Alhakim007 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), is now back as Alhakim008 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Thomas.W talk 16:04, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Sigh. I've protected the page now. Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:24, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Allenroyboy

Created by Binksternet, I've added the contents of my email to you. Dougweller (talk) 21:03, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

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