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Happy New Year, Nick!

Happy New Year!

Nick,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. -- Dane ^talk 02:28, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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TheSuix socks

Hi, you blocked a couple accounts earlier Mancharg and Mentoap stating they are socks of TheSuix, as you subsequently blocked several others as socks of Aaron j christopher 101 for creating the same/similar content was the labelling of the first two a mistake or have we got two masters copying each other or possibly being the same person? Thanks Nthep (talk) 18:55, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Just me picking the wrong block summary when blocking. I'll fix it. Nick (talk) 18:57, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

NP, pain in the ass vandal whichever it is. Nthep (talk) 19:12, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Self revert warring

The user is at it again. I think they are at exactly 4500 edits. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 16:25, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Just to clarify Samtar (21:11, 13 January 2017), you (15:21, 8 January 2017), me (21:38, 7 January 2017) 2 have warned him already. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 16:30, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

(tps) That's peculiar enough that I had to take a look. I found these other accounts, but they're not using any obvious automation. I'm not familiar at all with wrestling topics and the multitude of sockmasters there, so I'll leave these for another admin to sort out. Yes, they're all  Confirmed to one another. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:09, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

ANI Notification

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Odd editing behavior at User talk page. -- Dane ^talk 00:06, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Cat-adding IP

Greetings!

At 14:51 UTC on 14 January, you blocked 63.143.229.195 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) for block evasion. Precisely 15 hours later, Paul Erik blocked 63.143.232.92 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) for the same thing. Additional IPs making the same edits since your block include:

It appears that a range block may be in order. Thanks. —ATS 🖖 talk 23:09, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Range block might not work, here is one of several of my lists (some of these are super old)

I have several more lists of these IPs (I can say with a fair amount of confidence these are all related) that I can add later. Chrissymad ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 23:43, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't see any point in range blocking - it's not going to stop any of this behaviour, but risks inconveniencing legitimate users. Nick (talk) 23:47, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

David Dylan

Thank you for saving me from having to create a long CIR ANI on that editor. Meters (talk) 00:00, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for deleting that user page, and thanks for all the useful admin tasks that you have done. ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 18:52, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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db-move

Thanks for that btw! Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:11, 3 February 2017 (UTC)