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Ego

I just want to be first.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:48, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You're always #1 in my books!--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 17:50, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How to solve plagiarism problem in an article

Good morning,

I need to discuss this with someone and hope you can get involved or direct me to an Admin who can.

I was reading an article today, Har Gobind Khorana and made some edits.

Within a few minutes, I realised that some of the existing content is copied from a book, Physiology Or Medicine, 1963-1970, edited by Jan Lindsten. The personal life section is almost verbatim. You can see relevant pages of the book at https://books.google.ca/books?id=O5jQ-GRTvPUC&pg=PA370&lpg=PA370&dq=mahan+singh+professor+researcher+Punjab+university&source=bl&ots=vXbrdAsnTG&sig=hrmK6ZPr8wMcH4Q5rHdqtCBFrqw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcnPChp8vYAhVY1GMKHZTcABUQ6AEIOzAD#v=onepage&q=mahan%20singh%20professor%20researcher%20Punjab%20university&f=false

The book was never cited, until I did so, before realising that previous editors had been copying verbatim from it.

Regards, Peter K Burian (talk) 16:44, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Problem solved, for the most part. I deleted most of the content that had been copied from the book and added facts that are now fully cited from sources such as MIT and obituaries in major news media. Peter K Burian (talk) 17:41, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A protection request

Hello Ponyo, I have requested for protection of Jaana Na Dil Se Door due to vandalism by IP. Especially this one has crossed all limits, 2405:204:B309:C033:0:0:1DD8:98B0 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). This IP is always giving fan based plot to the serial's article and violating talk page discussion about the cast [1] and had removed citation tag from Shashank Vyas article. He is trying to use wikipedia for Vyas's promotion. As a admin can you protect the page plz??? Could do anything about the IP??? ABCDE22 (talk)

Ponyo, plz give the page proection, it is being vandalized and edit war has waging everyday. Its quite depressing plz.ABCDE22 (talk) ABCDE22 (talk) 15:45, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ABCDE22: As noted in the notice box at the top of my page, I am on a bit of a break and am only checking my talk page intermittently. If you would like to request protection, please do so at WP:RFPP.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 21:43, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Suspicious "new" account

No one with this username is likely to be a newbie... Thanks, GABgab 22:52, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Let's watch a bit and see where they go...Softly, softly catchee monkey.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:55, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My sockpuppets.

Monteyaga was created because I lost my password, but I retrived it back.

and Mastar Crash and Fire Mario779... they were created for no reason.

sorry dude. --GG

@Great Gonzo: That doesn't really explain why you were talking to yourself as if you were two different people at User talk:Monteyaga, but I'm not overly concerned as long as you stick to the Great Gonzo account moving forward. If you create additional accounts in the future due to a lost password, please link the accounts as described at WP:ALTACCN.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I wont do that. I promise. --GG

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Stormy Daniels & Nicole Eggert edits

I was already going to look more carefully into this being a possible SPAM situation (editors using recent media events to promote their blog). I'll definitely do so now and let you know what I find. --Ronz (talk) 23:38, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good Ronz. I imagine they'll be back to it once the short protection and block expire. --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 23:41, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like spam.. I found very little, but it's the type of material that gets removed quickly. 2604:2000:7020:1800:523:3C62:FC68:5183 (talk · contribs) 13 Aug 2015, 2604:2000:702b:600:a58d:3039:cbd9:47b5 (talk · contribs) 16 Aug 2015, 2604:2000:702B:600:70A9:5E12:78C5:4218 (talk · contribs) 14 Sep 2015 plus some edit-warring. Only one of the edits was not made on the same day as the publication of the reference (two days later instead). --Ronz (talk) 01:40, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sita Kund

@Ponyo, Kautilya3, and Sitush: Under the Galary section of the Sita Kund page, file names of certain pictures is misleading. Sitamarhi is in Bihar, India but several files are wrongly named as ".... Sitamarhi, Nepal...". I don't know how to correct it. Could you please help? Thanks. Jakichandan (talk) 08:45, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The files seem to be in Commons now. You can do a "page move", which will become a request to the Commons maintainers. I suppose you would need to provide evidence that it is in Bihar rather than Nepal. Perhaps best to initiate a discussion in the talk page of the images first, and ping the original "author" so that he/she can object if necessary. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:37, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Kautilya3: Well, the wiki page itself mentions that the place is in Bihar. Moreover, this source which clearly mentions Sita Kund as part of Bihar. Thanks. -- Jakichandan (talk) 11:31, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't establish that the particular images are of the places in Bihar. "Sitamarhi" seems to extend into Nepal as well. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:57, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No, Mithila region extends but not Sitamarhi district. I have requested page move. Jakichandan (talk) 12:00, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

+ IP sock

re: Indigowestern.

It looks like 2600:1001:b12c:89ec:be42:4195:e0f1:d535 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 2600:1001:b11a:327c:a64e:6b9a:f454:a67f (talk · contribs · WHOIS) are from the same barrel. Are they blocable? In any case I requested semi-protection. Staszek Lem (talk) 19:58, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As a checkuser I'm limited in what I can say regarding IP use by sock accounts. If you do think you've found additional sock accounts, please list them at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bulgarian Archer. --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 20:02, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Muneesh Sappel

Hi,

I would like to inform you that this article is false and utter rubbish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muneesh_Sappel and should be deleted immediately. In future, we should make it the point that only admin can create this article.

I am sending you because I was told that you are honest and senior admin and takes the quick action. Muneesh Sappel took advantage of this and written more rubbish than his previous articles.

He is using wikipedia page for his publicity and propaganda. I am quiet shocked there is no article about him on Indian newspapers and on google, what you find one …. Is only one liner. Even images on google also posted by him….. not a single newspaper photos.

In his article most of the awards has won by other cast/ crew but he is showing in his article like he won!!!

Please do see his sixth article which he has written again in 2015: He says he is “Indian and International production designer, art director, costume designer, hair and make-up artist” but there is not a single hint about AWARDS. In his recent updated version he won so many awards, he has become now Indian production designer, art director and costume designer from previous claiming being INTERNATIONAL production designer…

Now he has become an actor, writer, director, poster design, publicity set construction, theatrographer, production assistant, art director… blah blah….

His article deleted many times since past (10 – 12) years and I see he writes article about himself again…. than some same user:Sapna Shrivastav: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SAPNA_SHRIVASTAV who use to write earlier on fake name user:Shruti Narayanan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shruti95Narayanan takes-over…..

“CONFLICT OF INTEREST”

He is a paid IMDB member, which you can understand… if you are not IMDB paid member. You can’t write anything. Rediff References are bullshit because Sapna Shrivastav works at Rediff. Just see how cleverly he created and designed false newspaper article for reference on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=551791188210278&set=a.345572122165520.79274.100001382062100&type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=542341122488618&set=a.345572122165520.79274.100001382062100&type=1&theater

How someone could use his website as reference, he used it: http://www.indianproductiondesigner.com/PL/profile.php?ref_=nm_awd


For your reference (since 2010 his articles are getting deleted.): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Muneeshsappel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Muneeshsappel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jac Frost (talk • contribs) 20:54, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

Hello Ponyo, you're a checkuser so I'd like to signal a problem to you. There's an Italian user who's been abusing sockpuppets and using open proxies since december in several wikis, among the which there's en.wikipedia. In some project one or more of his proxies and socks were blocked, and now he's using also normal IPs to restore the edits which had been reverted. His accounts are, probably, these: Baka Líte, Fulgencio Kokomeci, Myeuurn, Onpuryvgr. His proxy IPs are: 66.160.128.0/18, 72.52.64.0/18, 74.82.0.0/18, 204.246.56.71. His normal IPs are: 151.18.0.0/16, 151.34.0.0/13, 151.65.0.0/14, 151.82.0.0/16. There's also a concrete chance that the sockmaster is an old registered Italian user, who normally has always used IP 195.206.3.188 to log and edit and whose edits are similar to all these IPs', proxies' and socks' edits, while the overwhelming evidence should be this: [2]. How should this cross-wiki vandal be dealt with, on your opinion? I hope that my report was helpful. Please, answer as soon as you have time to write a reply, thank you! 151.48.200.90 (talk) 10:40, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For cross-wiki socking you can make a report at Meta.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 18:14, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I know that only registered users can open CU requests. I don't think they'll consider the first anonymous requesting to investigate about so many accounts and IPs in several wikis. And registering an account just for that could be seen as an even more inappropriate behaviour. Is there anything you can do yourself about it? Even just reporting the problem to an admin who could take care of it himself. The problem is real as I've shown you and some accounts and IPs were already blocked in some wikis. Let me know whether you could do something or not please! Thanks anyway. 151.48.220.241 (talk) 09:42, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose you could include your evidence at WT:SPI and a clerk could open a case. This won't help with the cross-wiki disruption though. --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:18, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much! I'll do as you suggested. 151.48.208.208 (talk) 09:21, 7 February 2018 (UTC) (EDIT: done)[reply]

Thanks!

You're awesome. :) The Interior (Talk) 22:35, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I know, right?--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:42, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Michael 182 & new IP

Hi Ponyo, regarding User:Michael 182, there is now this IP account doing very much the same changes [3] and giving the exact same arguments [4]. However you decide to tackle this (or not), thank you for your time. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 15:08, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Hoverfish: That's obviously the same user. I've blocked the account and the IP for 72 hours for WP:SOCK violations.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 16:48, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Ponyo. The user seems to insist through another IP (also located in Buenos Aires). [5] Hoverfish Talk 16:13, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
They will have hopped to another range by now, so blocking won't be effective. With editors like this reverting and blocking as they pop up, combined with semi-protection, usually is the only deterrent available.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 18:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NI Rape addict

Hello Ponyo, Do trust you are well? Just to let you know I have posted an entry on ANI regarding the latest "contributions" from the NI Rape addict, now posing as 31.49.30.126 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) with the usual silly and questionable sexual content. I have also posted a entry on the Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/109.151.65.218 page. With best regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 21:19, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Already taken care of David.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 21:24, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ponyo, Many thanks and warmest regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 21:26, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bjoergenbestever

Hi, thanks for your checkuser actions today on sockpuppets of Bjoergenbestever. Can you also have a look at user: Samanthastevenson40 whom I reported together with user: NatalieTenerelli? Given the conduct and editing history I am fairly certain that these two accounts are from the same editor. --Wolbo (talk) 22:43, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the head's up Wolbo; the account is  Confirmed along with the sleeper account Nickdavies they created today.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:56, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

POV socks/meatpuppets?

Hi, my little Ponyo. This is a query about three accounts, Niele~enwiki, Druckmaschine and Gani zanyar. They look like possible socks/meats to me, because of this sequence of events:

Niele~enwiki added a lot of text about Ezidkhan being an autonomous region to the article Ezidkhan on 5 September 2017. It was reverted as POV. Druckmaschine re-added the text yesterday, Doug Weller removed it, and an hour and a half later, Gani zanyar created the article Autonomous Region of Ezidkhan, which consists of the same text again. The new article has been AfD'd at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Autonomous Region of Ezidkhan. So.. I was just wondering if the three accounts are the same. What speaks against it is that none of the three is brand new. Frankly, if Gani zanyar had been new, I might would have duckblocked, but as it is, I'm baffled.

Oh, btw, I noticed you were asked to "calm down" on Feb 9[6] and became so calm you vroomed away on holiday. Hope you had a good (and calm) time, and hope you're back — if not, young User:Bbb23 may perhaps take a look? Bishonen | talk 15:58, 13 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]

@Bishonen: Druckmaschine and Gani zanyar are probably unrelated. Druckmaschine is  Confirmed to FC Bayern M1 (talk · contribs · count), but thus far, all the account has done is repetitively edit his userpage, although it's possible that was to become autoconfirmed. I don't feel that a check of Niele~enwiki is justified.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:18, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, little Beeb. I see FC Bayern M1 had made twelve "edits" within three minutes of registering the account. That looks so shady — but then they did nothing with the autoconfirmed status, once the four days had passed. Well, good. If they had plans I guess they forgot about them. Bishonen | talk 19:27, 13 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]
Thanks for stepping in with the assist Bbb23. And Bishonen, I am always calm; my message was the equivalent of an emphatic "oh puh-lleze" eye roll. My zen-like aura remained bubblegum pink and raspberry scented whilst I wrote it.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 20:30, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

119.180.232.128

My initial impression was that 119.180.232.128 (talk · contribs) was mostly making good faith edits, but I'm not so sure after looking closer. Could this be another sock? Do the edits look familiar to you? --Ronz (talk) 18:23, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ronz: Why do you care? The IP hasn't made any edits in months.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:16, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I just ran across the ip's edits today, reverted some, and noticed that the articles are areas of regular problems where Ponyo keeps a much better watch than myself. What do you think of the edits where the actor categories are being changed to child actors? --Ronz (talk) 19:27, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Ronz: I don't remember ever tying this behaviour to a specific user or sock master, I just reverted the majority of the edits as they popped up as not meeting WP:BLPCAT and/or WP:CATDEF. Not sure if that helps you much though...--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 20:38, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Good enough for me. Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 03:57, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Evlekis is back...

... and in need of a range-block. See Special:Contributions/Max Pumpkin Defeats Brownfingers Every Time. Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W talk 19:12, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like Zzuuzz took care of this! --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 20:40, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...
sock expert
... you were recipient
no. 1588 of Precious,
a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:04, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Gerda! You're a star that makes this place shine a little brighter...--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

IP:119.14.62.94

Hello Ponyo, I am re-inserting this comment, as another editor transferred it thinking you were not around. A IP you recently blocked as re-surfaced 119.14.62.94 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is now inserting unsourced changes on the American Airlines, but not only that is making obscene comments when asked for sources. Can I leave this with you please. Regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 21:03, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@David J Johnson: can you provide a pointer to the IP I previously blocked?--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 21:21, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
My mistake, it was Oshwah who made the block.... Apologies, David, David J Johnson (talk) 21:24, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. It didn't look familiar, but I do have a rather nasty head cold and am not firing on all cylinders.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 21:35, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've been rushing around today - hence the confusion. Do get well soon. David J Johnson (talk) 21:46, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hot tea-honey-lemon helped when I had this last month Ponyo. I hope you get to feeling better soon!! MarnetteD|Talk 22:11, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If I drink anymore lemon honey tea I will float away! It's the only thing that brings any relief right now. Thank you for the well wishes :)--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:14, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcoming new users

Thanks for saying to me about it, my apologies for not realising. Thanks.

Do the Danse Macabre! (Talk) 20:54, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No problem; as I said, I don't your good faith in doing so.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 20:57, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ncube03

Ah, those "numerous accounts".. - TNT❤ 21:25, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

They just can't help themselves...--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 21:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Gaines socks

This is the second time in two days you've had to block a Jack Gaines (talk · contribs) sock. I'm tired of playing whack-a-mole with this lunatic. What do you suggest we could do? Would there be a way to add some of his key editing tactics ("bro-country" in the genre field of Infobox Song, setlist.fm, "Look at the lyrics" or "#AlanJacksonKilledCountry" in the edit summary) to the edit filter? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 21:59, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

One of the socks was using the hashtag yesterday here.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:52, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There's a discussion right now about changing the banning policy so that repeat sockmasters are automatically considered banned, which has near-unanimous support. It's obviously going to pass; I say consider this person banned and act accordingly. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:48, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
TenPoundHammer, if you're experience personal harassment from this sockmaser I suggest you contact The Support and Safety team.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 19:41, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

User Page blanking

(Duplicating response from my talk page)

Thank you. I was never entirely sure of the policy. I've read it now and will know not to mess with it.
--KNHaw (talk) 21:00, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

added Lourdes†
removed AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V
† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

  • The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
  • Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
  • A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
  • A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

  • CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
  • The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Obituaries

  • Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.
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UTRS Ticket 20611

Do we have any update on UTRS appeal #20611? It's been sitting in the backlog a while, so thought I'd ping you. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:36, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Message of additional citations on Yumna Zaidi

Hi, i saw your updation on Yumna Zaidi page about blp source i mean citations u did almost years ago in 2015, i am worked on citations and added some reliable citations, will you please check whether they are suitable or not, if not please guide me SanaNawaz (talk) 20:18, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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