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MakaveliReed is back again

Do you remember that editor who keep changing the date ranges of album articles? Well it appears that the editor is back again with a new IP 2601:240:CF80:2F61:83D:D572:EB53:D5A4. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 01:39, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Already blocked by Widr -Ad Orientem (talk) 14:34, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tjdrum2000 is yet again using another account 2600:1702:B20:3240:44A9:B8C4:D367:61AF. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 11:14, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Rangeblocked x 1 year. -Ad Orientem (talk) 16:20, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

MakaveliReed is now using another IP 2601:240:CF80:2F61:395B:C384:BFF3:F99D. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 17:58, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked x 1 month. -Ad Orientem (talk) 23:02, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

MakaveliReed has a sleeper account DizzyReed. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 23:43, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Black Gold Stakes

Although I don't know how much info was recorded, the Black Gold Stakes race should never have been deleted. Please undelete and I will take care of it. To help you understand, this race has been run for the past sixty years and is an important part of the Fair Grounds Race Course stakes program. All races properly done at Wikipedia should contain the winner's name, jockey, trainer, owner, time, purse, historical info and more. All of these can interconnect, either now or later at Wikipedia, to multiple things in multiple articles in the United States and even to Europe, Japan and Hong Kong. I'm sure there are times when a horse race should be deleted. However, I think there needs to be a way that any question about horse related articles should simply be posted to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Horse racing where someone with knowledge on the subject can examine it and respond. Thanks for your help.Stretchrunner (talk) 12:09, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Stretchrunner The article was restored and userfied on July 21. It can be found here. Best regards... -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:40, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for the info. Stretchrunner (talk) 11:34, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

BlaccCrab block evading again

Hey AO, hope you're enjoying your vacation. Tried ANV, but it was removed by Materialscientist as being "unactionable". I suppose it isn't urgent anyway. BlaccCrab's back using 96.244.213.210—editing hip hop articles, still concerned with what is/isn't a single. Just from their edit summaries alone, it's quite easy to tell. But failing that, the IP geolocates to Maryland, where BlaccCrab previously had on their userpage they were from. Ss112 04:51, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ Ss112- blocked x 1 month. I probably won't be online again before Thursday. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:44, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Talk:United States elections, 2018

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:United States elections, 2018. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Au revoir!

I am leaving. An email has been sent if you wish to remain in contact. It was good to contribute a bit of knowledge to Wikipedia, and despite the ugly blocks and warnings on my talk page I did write a few things myself. Happy to translate the Austrian, French, and Portuguese pelates. Good to have the commanders of the Bastille and Garde du Corps published. Sadly, I left my planters in shambles. Hopefully someone can pick-up where I left off. :) Au revoir! – Conservatrix (talk) 17:33, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conservatrix I'm sorry you have gotten frustrated. I suggest taking a long wiki break. We all get fed up with issues and biases here, both real and imagined. Sometimes you need to walk away for a while. A few years back I had to leave. At the time I was not sure I'd be back, though eventually I did return. But that six months away was really pleasant. If/when you are ready to return do drop me a line. In the meantime I wish you the very best. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:36, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please undelete Still the Same Tour

It was perfectly fine where it was and was not any kind of issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BandGoBlue2020 (talk • contribs) 20:30, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BandGoBlue2020 The article was deleted as a result of this discussion at AfD. I took a quick look at the deleted page and it is pretty bare bones with not much in the form of reliable source coverage. So I would have to disagree with your assertion that there was nothing wrong with it. That said, things can change and if you think there is now enough RS coverage to ring the WP:N bell, I might consider userfying the page. But I am not prepared to restore the article to the mainspace in its state at the time of deletion. Alternatively you can recreate the article as it has not been salted. Just take note of the issues raised in the AfD and make sure they are addressed or the newly recreated article might end up being deleted as well. Anyways let me know. Best regards... -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:48, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Everything is perfectly reliable. There was a setlist and Dates were sourced reliably. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BandGoBlue2020 (talk • contribs) 02:34, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 :::::Blocked x 1 month. -[[User:Ad Orientem|Ad Orientem]] ([[User talk:Ad Orientem#top|talk]]) 23:02, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 ::::::MakaveliReed has a sleeper account DizzyReed. [[User:TheAmazingPeanuts|TheAmazingPeanuts]] ([[User talk:TheAmazingPeanuts|talk]]) 23:43, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
-== Management firm making edits to their clients' articles ==
-Hi AO. The user {{noping|Adamklein84}} has been editing Wikipedia for several years, oftentimes with the edit summary that their major removals are "minor edits by [act's] management". They have now done so at [[Bananarama]], [[Alison Goldfrapp]] and most recently, [[Claire Richards]]. It is troubling they've gone this long without being warned about [[WP:COI]] (which I have just done) and seem to think removing between 2,000 and 4,000 bytes of information is in any way a minor edit. Do you think this user can edit constructively or that they're purely promotional and should be blocked? <b>[[User:Ss112|<span style="color: #FF6347;">Ss</span>]]<small>[[User talk:Ss112|<span style="color: #1E90FF;">112</span>]]</small></b> 17:49, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
-:I suspect this is a promotional only account based on their editing. However they have not been warned before today and some of their edits do appear to be constructive. But yeah, their overall raison d'être looks like promotion to me. If you see anymore obviously inappropriate editing let me know. [FYI I am going to be offline most of next week and first couple days of the week following.] -[[User:Ad Orientem|Ad Orientem]] ([[User talk:Ad Orientem#top|talk]]) 19:11, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
-== I smell a sock... ==
-Hi AO, there's been a user, {{noping|Before the Storm}}, making contentious edits to [[Miley Cyrus]] edits for a few weeks now. They were blocked by Black Kite for disruptive editing two weeks ago after being reverted by three users (including myself) over and over across various pages, and in the past two days they've gone back to doing much the same thing. I've just reported them at ANV again but I'm getting the feeling this would not be the first instance of this if I went back through the histories of the articles they've been editing, and that this kind of persistence around one singer's articles is sockpuppet behaviour. Can you maybe drop a line to Bbb23 and ask if they have some time to check? Thanks. <b>[[User:Ss112|<span style="color: #FF6347;">Ss</span>]]<small>[[User talk:Ss112|<span style="color: #1E90FF;">112</span>]]</small></b> 18:14, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
-:Taking a look now... -[[User:Ad Orientem|Ad Orientem]] ([[User talk:Ad Orientem#top|talk]]) 18:18, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
-::Ok, I have blocked them for 72 hrs for disruptive editing. As for socking, the evidence is thin at best. Only 221 edits and they do look SPAish. But they have been around since 2012. It is possible they may have used an IP to tag team editing but again the evidence is not conclusive enough for me. If you have an idea of who the master might be or can round up enough diffs to show they have been editing while logged out in support of their logged in edits you could open a discussion at ANI. But for now 72 hrs is as far as I am ready to go. If this pattern of editing continues however, then a long term block is not far off. -[[User:Ad Orientem|Ad Orientem]] ([[User talk:Ad Orientem#top|talk]]) 18:27, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
 == Deletion of Black Gold Stakes ==
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 I am leaving. An email has been sent if you wish to remain in contact. It was good to contribute a bit of knowledge to Wikipedia, and despite the ugly blocks and warnings on my talk page I did write a few things myself. Happy to translate the Austrian, French, and Portuguese pelates. Good to have the commanders of the Bastille and Garde du Corps published. Sadly, I left my planters in shambles. Hopefully someone can pick-up where I left off. :) Au revoir! – [[User:Conservatrix|Conservatrix]] ([[User talk:Conservatrix|talk]]) 17:33, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 :{{u|Conservatrix}} I'm sorry you have gotten frustrated. I suggest taking a long wiki break. We all get fed up with issues and biases here, both real and imagined. Sometimes you need to walk away for a while. A few years back I had to leave. At the time I was not sure I'd be back, though eventually I did return. But that six months away was really pleasant. If/when you are ready to return do drop me a line. In the meantime I wish you the very best. -[[User:Ad Orientem|Ad Orientem]] ([[User talk:Ad Orientem#top|talk]]) 18:36, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 == Please undelete Still the Same Tour ==
 It was perfectly fine where it was and was not any kind of issue.  <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:BandGoBlue2020|BandGoBlue2020]] ([[User talk:BandGoBlue2020#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/BandGoBlue2020|contribs]]) 20:30, 24 August 2018 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
 :Hi {{u|BandGoBlue2020}} The article was deleted as a result of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Still_the_Same_Tour this discussion] at AfD. I took a quick look at the deleted page and it is pretty bare bones with not much in the form of reliable source coverage. So I would have to disagree with your assertion that there was nothing wrong with it. That said, things can change and if you think there is now enough RS coverage to ring the [[WP:N]] bell, I might consider userfying the page. But I am not prepared to restore the article to the mainspace in its state at the time of deletion. Alternatively you can recreate the article as it has not been salted. Just take note of the issues raised in the AfD and make sure they are addressed or the newly recreated article might end up being deleted as well. Anyways let me know. Best regards... -[[User:Ad Orientem|Ad Orientem]] ([[User talk:Ad Orientem#top|talk]]) 20:48, 24 August 2018 (UTC)