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A message from Saikat Patikar1234

Saikat Patikar1234 (talk) 20:42, 19 September 2020 (UTC) what is the reason to remove the link sir?

Saikat Patikar1234, hello. Wikipedia's external links policy is pretty clear on what kind of links are allowed in articles. The one you posted on Cod liver oil is a self-published blog. Links to self-published blogs and personal websites are normally avoided, see WP:ELNO. Please let me know if you have any further questions. -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:51, 19 September 2020 (UTC)


Congrats

I've always been looking forward to this, congrats on becoming an admin! :) NASCARfan0548 ↗ 18:26, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

I'm happy to see you among us!

LuK3! Sorry for the late congratulations! I'm happy that you were promoted and that you will continue to serve the community as an administrator. :-) You deserve this; it's always been great over the years to see you grow, make mistakes, learn from them, and shape yourself into someone who is an example of what users should be in this community, and how we should treat other users. I was like you a few years back; new to the admin toolset (after barely, I mean BARELY passing my RFA), and you might have some questions as to how things go, what the culture is like, how we handle certain cases, and what needs to be done to benefit the community. If you do have any questions, please know that we've all been here - I was a "fresh blood" admin a few years ago... And despite knowing for years how to report vandals to AIV and it should be handled - I caught myself checking, double-checking, and TRIPLE-checking the policies before I took any action. You're probably in the same place and that's absolutely respectable - we should always question everything that we do and make sure that it's done right. :-) I wholesomely and sincerely welcome you to the admin toolset. If you need any kind of help, input, guidance, assistance, or any of the sort - as to what to do, how to proceed, how to handle this situation and that one... please know that my talk page and my email is completely open to you, and you're welcome at any time to reach out to me for anything that you need. I'm happy to see so much how you've grown, and I offer you a bear hug and a firm handshake, and I wish you well! Welcome to the admin corps! :-D ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 02:58, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks Oshwah for the kind message, along with the rest of the congratulations above! I will definitely be asking questions when I'm not sure about something. Again I appreciate all of the kind messages. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:16, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:52, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello LuK3,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 DannyS712 bot III (talk) 67,552 Patrol Page Curation
2 Rosguill (talk) 63,821 Patrol Page Curation
3 John B123 (talk) 21,697 Patrol Page Curation
4 Onel5969 (talk) 19,879 Patrol Page Curation
5 JTtheOG (talk) 12,901 Patrol Page Curation
6 Mcampany (talk) 9,103 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 6,401 Patrol Page Curation
8 Mccapra (talk) 4,918 Patrol Page Curation
9 Hughesdarren (talk) 4,520 Patrol Page Curation
10 Utopes (talk) 3,958 Patrol Page Curation
Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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18:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
This is for your valuable efforts on countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 15:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Path slopu! -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:25, 16 December 2020 (Ur}}

Precious

people in film

Thank you for quality articles about people in film such as Emilia Clarke and James Gandolfini, for List of awards and nominations received by Game of Thrones, for help from 2011, and now including admin services, for a cute user page, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2502 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:00, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, thank you for the recognition, I truly appreciate it. I hope you have a great and safe Holiday season. -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:02, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, and also to you! Try this or that or wait for New Year's Day ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:11, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thank you very much for teaching me how to properly archive my talk page! Cheers! :) Futurist110 (talk) 23:50, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
You're quite welcome Futurist110! -- LuK3 (Talk) 02:11, 8 January 2021 (iv>

A barnstar for you!

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
Thanks for protecting Hurricane Dorian. Some users have campaigned for its protection a few days ago, but were declined at RFPP. The protection really helps. Cheers, ~ Destroyeraa🌀🇺🇸 13:45, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you Destroyeraa! -- LuK3 (Talk) 15:16, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

2a02:c7f:1caa:3d00:4924:781f:cdc7:f8f4

Can user:2a02:c7f:1caa:3d00:4924:781f:cdc7:f8f4 please be blocked ASAP. CLCStudent (talk) 14:36, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

CLCStudent, /64 range blocked. Thanks for letting me know. -- LuK3 (Talk) 14:39, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Rename my account?

Requested User: Alibino Reason- using this account more than my main because I use school WiFi OmegySock (talk) 14:04, 12 February 2021 (UTC) LuK3 plz reply

OmegySock you can follow the instructions at WP:UNC in order to change your username. -- LuK3 (Talk) 14:40, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thanks for telling me! OmegySock (talk) 14:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

LuK3

The IP's Buddies

Howdy, I appreciate you blocking 2600:8800:2000:9C6:9D6F:36F8:FB76:CD8D. Could you take a look at his two accomplices, 134.114.223.253 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and Ltwolfin (talk · contribs)? They've been just as bad this afternoon. Also, any chance you'd consider temporary semi-protection on Gilbert, Arizona and Gilbert High School? I have made requests in the proper places but (like most of my requests recently), they have gone ignored. Cheers! PrairieKid (talk) 21:15, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

PrairieKid, I blocked the IP editor for 31 hours and the registered account indefinitely. I also semi-protected Gilbert, Arizona for 3 days. I don't think Gilbert High School (Arizona) needs protection right now, I see only two edits from the blocked IP. If disruption continues, feel free to post it at WP:RFPP. Thanks for letting me know. -- LuK3 (Talk) 22:15, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Appreciate it. PrairieKid (talk) 11:48, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

A message from Yhdwww

Hi LuK3! I'm mainly active in the German Wiki, so I'm not quite familiar with the procedures here, and the explanations on the relevant pages don't really help. My issue is that the User Toggaftnaig has recently made two changes to the "Masturbation" Article and left insulting edit summaries ("fuck off" and "unsourced shit", see revision history). I was planning on leaving a friendly request on his talk page to stop that kind of language in the future, and if it continues request administrative action.

However, regardless of that I think that the two edit summaries should be removed from the revision history, and I don't know where to request that. I was thinking Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, but they say (in the info box when starting a new discussion) to contact the oversight team for revision-deletion requests. That seems a little overkill to me, as I don't think Oversight suppression is necessary here. What do you think? Thanks in advance. Yhdwww (talk) 12:29, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Yhdwww and thanks for the message. I revision deleted the first edit summary. I don't think the other edit summary needs deletion. In my opinion it doesn't reach the threshold of "grossly insulting" (WP:CRD #2). In the future, you can read Wikipedia:Revision deletion#How to request Revision Deletion on what the best way to request revision deletion. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:45, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much! I didn't find that page for some reason. --Yhdwww (talk) 12:49, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Valentine Greets!!!

Valentine Greets!!!

Hello LuK3, love is the language of hearts and is the feeling that joins two souls and brings two hearts together in a bond. Taking love to the level of Wikipedia, spread the WikiLove by wishing each other Happy Valentine's Day, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person.
Sending you a heartfelt and warm love on the eve,
Happy editing,
NASCARfan0548 ↗ 18:37, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Valentine Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Not advertising

Hello Luk,

Can you please tell me what is wrong in me trying to communicate with users who experienced interest in financial topics? I am not advertising any site or anything, nor am I getting paid for it. I want to get their opinion on a non-profit project which is based on the topic of their interest...

What is wrong with that and why am I threatened with blocking?

Thanks,

TijanaRistic (talk) 14:06, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello TijanaRistic, contrary to popular belief, Wikipedia is not a platform to advertise or promote your new online platform. In addition, user talk pages are used for collaboration among editors about Wikipedia content and discussion. From my point of view posting messages about your new online platform on multiple editor's talk pages is a form of self-promotion, which is strongly discouraged. Please let me know have any further questions. -- LuK3 (Talk) 14:16, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi again Luk, Sorry, I'm not familiar with how the proper reply works :) Ok regarding what I was trying to do/achieve is to get opinions, because the "project" I'm mentioning is also powered by mediawiki and I would love to get in touch with people who have expressed their interest on financial topics... I am not trying to promote or push any site etc... Is there a way I can do this? Without somewhat stepping on wikipedias toes :) I'd really love to speak to these users I've tried contacting and see what makes them and inspires them to write contents etc... Is this anyhow possible? Although I do understand the rules you've laid out, I didnt think there was anything wrong in this because I'm not really "selling" anything or self promoting for gain or any kind of benefit :) Please advise, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, TijanaRistic (talk) 14:35, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
TijanaRistic, don't worry about the formatting of your reply, I have fixed it for you. In general, editors do not really like unsolicited requests about non-Wikipedia related websites. Messages like I would love to share more information about this project with you and also discuss future potential opportunities, hence if you are interested, please let me know so we can continue this on our slack channel. sounds very self-promotional even if that was not your intention. I would suggest taking a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance & Investment, which is a WikiProject related to improving finance-related articles on Wikipedia. That may give you some ideas on how to write articles and content specifically related to finance and investing in general. I would also suggest taking a look at LinkedIn and other related social media platforms to help promote your new website. -- LuK3 (Talk) 14:58, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
yes u blocked that vandal! Alibino (talk) 13:57, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
thanks for keeping wiki factual and vandal-free! Alibino (talk) 13:57, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

I found a legit one

@LuK3:, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/JohnMackerz Shinyeditbonjour. 13:26, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

Go eat, man!

Anyways, thank you for your service. Shinyeditbonjour. 15:56, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

RevDel request

Hello, can this edit be removed from public view? --Ashleyyoursmile! 16:13, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Ashleyyoursmile! 16:44, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much for blocking the user and deleting all the pages. --Ashleyyoursmile! 17:34, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Ashleyyoursmile, you're quite welcome. Let me know if you need anything else. -- LuK3 (Talk) 21:06, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Block needed for LTA, and revoking of TPA

Hello Luk3, could you please block and revoke the TPA of both D Zire Ad Mire and Roland List? They're an LTA. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 17:35, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Pahunkat, all cleaned up. -- LuK3 (Talk) 21:07, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
LuK3, thank you :-) Pahunkat (talk) 21:07, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

added TJMSmith
removed Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

added AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
  • When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
  • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:14, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Probably long-due, but this is to thank you for blocking vandal accounts. This is to let you know that your work is very much appreciated. :) Ashleyyoursmile! 17:51, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Ashleyyoursmile, thank you for the recognition, it is greatly appreciated. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:11, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
LuK3, sorry to bother you but Deniizgzzzmisss77 is evading the block of globally locked account Denizgezmis557761. Self-confessed. Ashleyyoursmile! 18:16, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much, there's another Harunkaradenizz77. Ashleyyoursmile! 18:18, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Ashleyyoursmile, not a problem. I've blocked both accounts locally and a steward will globally lock them soon. Thanks for letting me know. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:20, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much, apologies for requesting your help again - Taylanözgür77 is another sock. I do hope this is the last one today. Ashleyyoursmile! 18:23, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Ashleyyoursmile It's no problem, I've blocked that account as well. Looks like a global lock has been requested as well. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:28, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Ashleyyoursmile! 18:28, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
And they are back again İbrahimkaypakkayaa77. :/ Ashleyyoursmile! 18:34, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Ashleyyoursmile all cleaned up. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:40, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you LuK3, much appreciated. Ashleyyoursmile! 18:42, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

a kitten for being cool!

thanks for being a wikipedian

Anoniimouse (talk) 00:20, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Vandalism resumed

Hi LuK3, we seem to have a resumption of disruptive vandalism at Variants of SARS-CoV-2, previously by User:ZRS2012 then User talk:GaatWild, this time from User:DORKKLOK. Similar disruptive edits and similar comments in the edit summary. I see User:Ifnord has placed a warning template on their user page. Anything that can be done to reduce the nuisance would be most welcome. Thanks, Yadsalohcin (talk) 21:59, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Yadsalohcin, I see that new account has been blocked already. I would suggest reporting blatant vandalism to WP:AIV for a faster administrator response. -- LuK3 (Talk) 23:10, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi LuK3, thank you for blocking the LTA. Will it possible to temporarily semi-protect my userpage? The new accounts just keep copying and pasting the contents from my userpage. --Ashleyyoursmile! 18:20, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Ashleyyoursmile, I semi-protected your user page indefinitely. Please let me know if you need anything else. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:24, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much. They did again, now as Ashleyyoursmile3. Ashleyyoursmile! 18:25, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

im sorry but can you help me move page i don't know how

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Khao_tom Khao tom in thailand mean rice soup not dessert, counter part of Khao tom laos dessert in Thailand is Khao tom mat

this is khao tom (rice soup) and this is khao tom mat Khao tom and chok is not the same, both create in different way this is Chok

i want laos Khao tom move to Khao tom (dessert) and move thai content in Khao tom (dessert) to Khao tom mat. and create Khao tom (rice soup) this is thai page of Khao tom (rice soup) https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%82%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%A1 leave Khao tom as disambiguation page like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chok Lalalulilalia (talk) 03:22, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Big you know what

Thanks for cleaning up. I was going to but first I ran some checks, and saw that a range was already blocked; I removed talk page access, for obvious reasons. Drmies (talk) 21:52, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Drmies, not a problem. Looks like everything has been nuked. Thanks for letting me know. -- LuK3 (Talk) 21:57, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

UPE

Hello Luk3, I saw your username on a list of recently active admins and was hoping for your opinion/help. There's an article (Devadas Krishnadas) with three key contributors, all of whose usernames match the names of employees at the subject's company. There's no declaration of COI, making it undisclosed paid editing. The article itself has ended up looking like an advertisement, and I've put it up at AfD. These accounts haven't edited in a while, but I thought that it would be a good idea to take some action against them anyway, or else the pattern will simply continue through other employees. Is this something you can help with? The accounts are:

Thanks! Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 03:59, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Also, just in case you're able to help, I did have one more issue. Another editor approached me 2 weeks ago about SBS3800P. This user has been adding unsourced (and often inaccurate) content for years. There have been 6 final warnings for disruptive editing on their talk page since at least 2019, which they seem utterly impervious to. The editor who approached me (TheGreatSG'rean) told me here: [1] that he had tried getting administrator intervention in the past but wasn't successful. Their last unsourced edit was 2 days ago. Could you help with this too? Thanks so much. Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 04:05, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
Kohlrabi Pickle, sorry for the delayed response. Unfortunately UPE is not really in my wheelhouse so I probably won't be the best administrator to act on this. I see that you started a section over at WP:COIN so I think that is the best place to continue this discussion. Sorry I can not be more of an assistance. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:49, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply, Luk3. Those at the COIN noticeboard seem to have skipped my section, so I think I'll look around for another admin with experience handling UPE and disruptive editing. Hope you're having a lovely weekend. Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 12:56, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi LuK3!

Just dropping a line to say hello! You're doing good work here! Keep it up! :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 03:58, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

@Oshwah: I agree with you. NASCARfan0548 ↗ 04:16, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you both Oshwah and NASCARfan0548 for the nice messages. Always happy to be helping out. -- LuK3 (Talk) 13:44, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thank you so much for blocking that IP vandal!! I can’t even begin to describe to you how much I appreciate this. :) 3 months should teach him. HelenDegenerate (talk) 01:58, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you HelenDegenerate for the barnstar. -- LuK3 (Talk) 02:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive

Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:25, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Here for blocking ThiccMan69420. Treedrop (talk) 17:54, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
Treedrop, thank you for the barnstar. I appreciate it. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:03, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

removed Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
  • Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

  • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
  • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Houston Astros sign stealing scandal

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Houston Astros sign stealing scandal you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of I'mInterestedInEverything -- I'mInterestedInEverything (talk) 01:21, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Another sockpuppet - User:Slayer of the brown fingers - needs to be blocked

Another sockpuppet - User:Slayer of the brown fingers - needs to be blocked. ElKevbo (talk) 02:20, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

ElKevbo, sorry for the delayed response. They have been blocked. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:28, 20 April 2021 (UTC)


Hello LuK3.

I've just logged in and found I had messages. I scrolled down and found nothing jumping out at me and so I checked the history. You reverted, it seems, an editor who sent me two short-burst messages. Question. Was it also you who amended the visibility, and either way, is there somehow that an editor on whose talk page a comment came is able to view (no less) the comments written to him? I've got to be honest here; I am aching to know what was said to me and why. --Coldtrack (talk) 17:40, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Coldtrack, thanks for the message. I was the one who revision deleted the two edits from that account on your talk page. Only administrators can view those revdeleted edits. Without going into great detail, the edits contained personal attacks against editors that warranted revision deletion according to WP:RD2. Please let me know if you have any further questions. -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:50, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. Was there a specific inappropriate remark directed at me? If so I don't know why. All I can tell you is this: the name of the account and his visible activities gives me to assume that this is that someone who has one purpose which is to harass User:Thomas.W, and this person may or may not be User:Evlekis. What is plain as a pikestaff is that he has noticed the dialogue on the former's talk page and felt the need to write to me, twice. I am just curious what on earth he said, and if you don't mind me saying, he is a twit whoever he is for making an offensive comment. Frankly I don't care about the offensive parts. If there is any substance either side of the offending remark, I would just like to know what was said. You couldn't by any chance paste in reply any segments that might not have been insulting? I'd appreciate it. --Coldtrack (talk) 18:20, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Coldtrack, none of the comments were directed at you. The two edits consist solely of personal attacks that wouldn't be appropriate to paste. I think it is best to leave the edits as-is. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:48, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying this. I feel a bit relieved that I wasn't being targetted. but I just cannot figure out why he'd attack someone else (I probably know whom) at my talk page. I've enabled email now anyhow. If I don't hear anything then that's also fine. Cheers. --Coldtrack (talk) 20:07, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
(watching) Of course, Coldtrack, you wouldn't be able to take my advice until you enable email... ——Serial 19:42, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Denizgezmis557761

Hello LuK3, sorry to bother you. Can you please block Denizgzms5571 and UnkownUser5769, both are LTA Denizgezmis557761. --Ashleyyoursmile! 11:37, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Ashleyyoursmile, no problem, both accounts blocked and global locks requested. -- LuK3 (Talk) 11:39, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Another one Qashleyyoursmile. Ashleyyoursmile! 11:43, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Daenerys Targaryen

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Daenerys Targaryen you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Harper J. Cole -- Harper J. Cole (talk) 14:20, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Daenerys Targaryen

The article Daenerys Targaryen you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Daenerys Targaryen for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Harper J. Cole -- Harper J. Cole (talk) 17:20, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Daenerys Targaryen

The article Daenerys Targaryen you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Daenerys Targaryen for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Harper J. Cole -- Harper J. Cole (talk) 10:41, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Houston Astros sign stealing scandal

The article Houston Astros sign stealing scandal you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Houston Astros sign stealing scandal for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of I'mInterestedInEverything -- I'mInterestedInEverything (talk) 22:01, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

A message from You are awesome123

hello sir . i find that on wikipedia whenever someone search about some comapany they dont get knowledge about the business model of the comapny , users have to wander here and there . i researched months on the business model of the companies , i tried my best to make available best possible information about the companies business model. you can check how much effort i put into it hope you undertand, if i m doing something wrong please inform me . i will never do it again . i really appreciate your work that you are concern about user experience good luck sir You are awesome123 (talk) 13:04, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

You are awesome123, the links you added constitute original research and were removed. Wikipedia does not publish original thoughts or research, instead it relies on secondary sources. I would suggest taking a look at WP:ELNO to see which external links are allowed in articles. -- LuK3 (Talk) 13:09, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

A message from EfficientCamcorder

Hello there, I am sorry for my edits on Hentai juat letting u know

A message from Iamimpeccable

Thank you for your response. I am trying my every bit to understand more about Wikipedia. It's quite tricky!! I totally get your point and apologies if I made unknown mistakes/stepped into COI. I would stop editing that page. Iamimpeccable (talk) 20:25, 29 April 2021 (UTC)Iamimpeccable

A message from 103.109.217.78

HIs real name is Anwar sardar malik. how its not constructive to tell the truth? 103.109.217.78 (talk) 12:15, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Rangeblock please

Hi! You just blocked 162.155.148.70, however if you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/162.155.148.70/24 their /24 range], you can see that an IP in this range 162.155.148.68 back in August 2019 did the same type of BLP attack against Matthew McConaughey. Can you maybe rangeblock the range? Or at least partial-block the range from the article?--Chuka Chieftalk 15:54, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Chuka Chief, I blocked that /24 range for 3 months. We can always either extend the block or re-block the range if disruption continues. Thanks. -- LuK3 (Talk) 16:10, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks.--Chuka Chieftalk 16:11, 6 May 2021

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Pages needing PC settings reset

Hi, you're an admin so I thought I would ask you if you could possibly reset the PC settings on the following indefinitely semi-protected pages?

Kate Winslet and Bill Belichick

Both pages have been indefinitely semi-protected for awhile but their PC settings were never reset for whatever reason. Thanks, Turbine Booster (talk) 18:22, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Turbine Booster, I reseted PC settings on both of those articles. Thanks for letting me know. -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:38, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


An anti-vandal barnstar for you!

I'm not even sure if this is the correct one, but take it!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thanks for dealing with all the IPs and sockpuppets earlier today. People like you are why I'm inspired to edit Wikipedia. Rafplayz001 (talk) 15:53, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the kind message Rafplayz001! -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:28, 13 October 2020 (UTC)(UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

removed Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

removed Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:51, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

U waste man

Hi Luke, just dropping u a message to tell u not to edit my wiki page, many thanks Maxbeckleyy (talk) 13:57, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Maxbeckleyy, I recommend reading WP:OWN. You will be blocked if you continue with your disruptive editing. -- LuK3 (Talk) 13:59, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks for responding so quickly on the Nate Speed SPI and other areas too. IanDBeacon (talk) 23:18, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much IanDBeacon. -- LuK3 (Talk) 23:20, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

St Monica's College Page

Hello Luk3,

I would like to understand how I can edit the Wikipedia page whilst notifying administrators that I may have a COI or am Paid by the organisation (as I am an employee).

Would the best way be to contact you as an admin, send what I want changed OR is there a way were I can edit myself?

Just to clarify, my intent is not to promote the College, rather to update information (fees, house colours, new infrastructure, deleted subjects etc.) and achievements.

Any information would be helpful.

Regards,

Jordan.

Jerry Blair

Hi Luk3 I hope I am doing this right, I was the one editing Jerry Blair's wiki page.can you please help me? Maybe give some direction as to what my next steps are. I can't really respond to anyone because I'm blocked when I sign in. I will create a new account, I didn't mean to do anything wrong I'm really sorry. I am actually not working for Jerry currently, he was my boss 15 years ago. I'm a friend who went to visit him and we spoke about getting his page back up. Would you please help me fix these issues? I really appreciate it. (2600:1000:B14E:7BCB:3DFA:F952:D19E:7F7C (talk) 09:33, 26 May 2021 (UTC))

So there are a few problems with your edits and accounts. The first problem is that GEM MGMT (talk · contribs), which I presume is you, has a promotional username. Wikipedia does not allow company or organization names as usernames per WP:ORGNAME. The second problem is that your edits read like a resume and not an encyclopedia article. Sentences like Jerry Blair's love of music and instinct for business started early on when he helped create a radio station at Camp Laurelwood in North Madison, CT. read like it belongs in a press release which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. In addition, all of information in biographies of living people must be probably attributable to reliable sources, see WP:BLPRS for more information. Based on your connection to Jerry Blair, it looks like you do have a conflict of interest. You have to follow the instructions both at WP:PLAINSIMPLECOI and on your talk page in order for your account to be unblocked. -- LuK3 (Talk) 21:19, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Hiiiiiiiiiii!! Please help me...

LuK3, I'm so glad you're here. I really need your help down at AIV. There's this IP user, 92.40.190.157, and they're going on a vandalism spree again. I say "again" because this is the same person that was blocked about three weeks ago for vandalising pages with "eat cack". They're back at it right now, and I've had to revert almost everything. Could you please block them so they'll stop harming WP? They've done it over 30 times today. Thanks, 🐍Helen🐍 22:46, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

HelenDegenerate, IP blocked. Thanks for reporting. -- LuK3 (Talk) 22:50, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Re: Mayor of London

Hey, I saw you left User talk:Hello Monkey69 some stern warnings. Just so you know, they're trying to evade you by editing as an IP-- same article, Mayor of London. 🐍Helen🐍 (let’s talk) 22:43, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

added Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless
removed Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:45, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Sunshine

Sunshine!
Hello LuK3! Interstellarity (talk) has given you a bit of sunshine to brighten your day! Sunshine promotes WikiLove and hopefully it has made your day better. Spread the sunshine by adding {{subst:User:Meaghan/Sunshine}} to someone else's talk page, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. In addition, you can spread the sunshine to anyone who visits your userpage and/or talk page by adding {{User:Meaghan/Sunshine icon}}. Happy editing! Interstellarity (talk) 20:04, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Happy first day of summer, LuK3!! Interstellarity (talk) 20:04, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

A message from 76.64.21.247

HELLO MY NAME IS GUGNI GILL PANAICH AND SOMEONE IS TRYING TO VANDALISE MY WIKIPEDIA AND IS BEEN MAKING SEVERAL UWANTED ATTEMPTS OF EDITS, WRONG INFO OR DELETING. I DONT KNOW. BUT MY WIKI IS UNAVAILABLE WHEN MY NAME IS GOOGLE SEARCHED SINCE YESTERDAY. I HAVE NO CLUE WHO IS DOING THIS AND IF IT CAN PLS BE PROTECTED AND BE BACK IN SEARCH. THANK YOU

76.64.21.247 (talk) 20:17, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Based on your edits, you removed sourced content without explanation, which is considered a type of vandalism. I'm not sure what you mean by "unavailable", the article is not protected from editing. -- LuK3 (Talk) 23:57, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

A message from Callumsmth re:Matt Hancock

Listen, I have built three articles on this website so if you remove my edit, I’ll remove those articles. Callumsmth (talk) 20:22, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Callumsmth, that's not how Wikipedia works. However, if you do vandalize again, you'll be blocked. -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:23, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

And who are you, some sort of Operator? If you don’t appreciate my edits to your website then I don’t know what to tell you? I’ve built three missing articles from scratch!

Callumsmth, I'm an administrator who tries to prevent vandalism to Wikipedia articles. I don't think any editor who positively contributes to Wikipedia appreciates vandalism, whether you started three articles or not. -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:31, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Protection of R62A (New York City Subway car) regarding Rgalo10 sockpuppetry case

Hi LuK3, thanks for protecting the R62A page. With regards to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rgalo10, Rgalo10 has shown that he will not hesitate to create additional sockpuppets, including sleepers, to edit the page. The history of that page over the past week has consisted mostly of Rgalo socks making edits and their edits being reverted under WP:BANREVERT. This situation may warrant bumping up the protection to ECP or indefinite semi-protection at some point, so I am just giving you and other patrolling admins a heads up. Epicgenius (talk) 20:09, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Epicgenius, hi and thanks for the message. I'll keep an eye out on the article to see if ECP or another form of protection is needed. -- LuK3 (Talk) 01:03, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
  • An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

  • IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:27, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Moving a page with a typo

Hi, I was just wondering if you'd be so kind as to move Draft:Returnshp to "Draft:Returnship"? I couldn't help but notice the glaring typo in the original title. Tried to move it myself, but found myself unable to do so. Thanks, Helen (let’s talk) 16:47, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

HelenDegenerate, I moved the draft. Thanks for letting me know. -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:16, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Page protection on Harvey Weinstein

Hi User:LuK3, I'm User:FormalDude! I was wondering if you think Harvey Weinstein would be a good candidate for pending changes protection, given its persistent vandalism and BLP policy violations. I see you recently gave it permanent semi-protection, which was certainly needed. —FORMALDUDE (talk) 12:23 am, Today (UTC−6)

FormalDude, hi and thanks for the message. While I believe PC protection is useful for some articles, I don't think it worked for Harvey Weinstein. Between the high visibility of the article along with the extensive protection history I believe indefinite semi-protection was needed. Please let me know if you need anything else! -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:20, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Yeah mate that wasn't vandalism

I'm just bringing back part of the page that got removed for no reason at all. It's obvious there must be at least an example of the occurrence 212.106.226.19 (talk) 18:21, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

It's a photo of a dead pigeon with no indication it is related to the article. According to WP:VANDTYPES, using any image in a way that is disruptive is considered vandalism. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:29, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Regarding the citation on Politics section of Teenage pregnancy page

I have already added citation when I edited that section of page last time .. It was citation number 149 , So Please check Mihir0099 (talk) 13:08, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Mihir0099, that reference looks like it is an essay, which is not considered a reliable source per WP:RSSELF. In addition, medical articles on Wikipedia should adhere to a more stringent interpretation of our reliable sources guidelines. You can read more at Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine). -- LuK3 (Talk) 13:12, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Oh! I didn't knew that ,Thanks dude .. I will take care next time . Mihir0099 (talk) 04:16, 6 July 2021 (

Junior Firpo

Hi LuK3, my apologies for this, sort of happened at the same time you protected the page. I'm not sure why Twinkle did not notify me about it. --Ashleyyoursmile! 15:24, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Ashleyyoursmile, not a problem! Looks like we had the same idea with a month semi-protection so no harm, no foul. I appreciate you letting me know. -- LuK3 (Talk) 15:27, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Re: Chad Zumock edit

Hi,

My addition of some pending criminal charges to the Chad Zumock wiki was removed. I have since found corroborating documentation at

https://www.hillsclerk.com/Court-Services/Court-Hearing-Lookup-Details?hearingID=258096802

Is that sufficient to re-add the information?


148.75.82.121 (talk) 18:38, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Court documents and other associated public records cannot be used as references on biographies of living people, see WP:BLPPRIMARY. You would have to find a reliable secondary source, for example the Tampa Bay Times, that verifies the information added to the article. -- LuK3 (Talk) 19:05, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

A message from NicoleSVMX

Hi LukE - I updated ServiceMax's website and industry, but it was rejected. How would I cite those? Do I need to submit a request for Wikipedia to do that?

NicoleSVMX (talk) 21:42, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

NicoleSVMX, before you edit you need to disclose any conflict of interest you having with ServiceMax. In addition, if you are being paid to edit on behalf of the company, you need to disclose that as well in accordance with the Terms of Use. You can follow the instructions at WP:DISCLOSE to correctly disclose your COI. -- LuK3 (Talk) 21:47, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello LuK3:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 1200 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:54, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list.

Daniel Jebbinson

Daniel Jebbinson put on his twitter his birthday is 13th August not what it actually says on his Wiki page Sam Bothamley (talk) 12:36, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Request for temporary protection to my user talk page

Would it be possible to request to have temporary protection to my user talk page? Because I've received quite a few messages recently, and none of them were of any value. (If you check the last ones that I've received, you'll know why I've labelled them as not having any value) I was thinking of requesting that my talk page be temporarily protected so that only users with autoconfirmed status and up can post messages on my user talk page. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 21:38, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

C.Syde65, apologies, I just saw this message. It looks like the disruptive edits have calmed down, do you still want semi-protection? -- LuK3 (Talk) 02:20, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
LuK3 Yes please. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 02:41, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
You've probably seen this already. But the user that I suspected of sockpuppetry has exposed themselves and are likely to try and reach out to me again in the near future. I was going to request that my user talk page is semi-protected for a longer duration. Since I noticed that the protection duration is very short. Though I am open to the possibility that perhaps a longer duration might not be unnecessary at the moment. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 05:45, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
C.Syde65, thanks for the message. If you do see the sockpuppet come back to your talk page, feel free to leave me a message. I'll get to it as soon as possible, thanks. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:29, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
They've come back. Would it be possible for my talk page to be protected now for a month or longer? ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 21:48, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Special:Diff/1035287195

Hello, the edit appears to have only deleted the header template – what was the point in hiding the content? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:25, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

1234qwer1234qwer4, thanks for the message. I meant to only revision delete the edit summary, not the edit as well. Thanks for points that out. -- LuK3 (Talk) 21:43, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:18, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello

I want my personal wikipedia page. pls help Imabhijeetawasthi123 (talk) 08:16, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

A message from 2A02:C7F:7084:6700:2924:1322:9B60:7DC5

Hi. I have been trying to edit the page for Gayle Williams and I think you keep restoring my edits. I have been asked to edit this page by the charity she worked for before she was murdered. This is because, in the current situation in Afghanistan, this information is very sensitive / disputed and seriously endangers the lives of Afghans who still work for the organisation. I cannot go into the details on this pubic forum, but our preference would be to remove the page altogether if possible. If not, I need to edit out some details. Deleting the page would be better. Can you do that please? 2A02:C7F:7084:6700:2924:1322:9B60:7DC5 (talk) 16:08, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, if you believe there is information that should be deleted and cannot be discussed on-wiki, you can follow the information outlined at Wikipedia:Contact us/Article subjects. I cannot unilaterally delete the page in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policies, there are specific community processes to determine if an article should be deleted. -- LuK3 (Talk) 16:16, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. That's helpful. SABSRB (talk) 16:30, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:58, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

readded Jake Wartenberg
removed Emperor • Viridian Bovary
renamed Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nomination period closing soon

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are still open, but not for long. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! No further nominations will be accepted after that time. Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:43, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

A message from Oramfe

Reporting recent malicious edits on the Yoruba people article by a certain user username: Ppdallo who continues act of vandalism unabated after previous discussions on article talk page and several warnings. Oramfe (talk) 14:57, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election voting has commenced

Hey y'all, voting for the 2021 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2021. Voting will be conducted at the 2021 tranche page itself. Appropriate questions for the candidates can also be asked. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:39, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello LuK3,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Protection help

Good day. May I please ask for protection for the articles Miss Universe Philippines 2020 as well as Miss Universe Philippines as an unregistered user (IP address user) is continuously vandalizing the page. It is very disruptive and that user keeps on changing information without abiding with the Wikipedia rules. Thank you. Lemon.public (talk) 12:27, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Lemon.public, I semi-protected Miss Universe Philippines 2020 for 2 years. I don't think Miss Universe Philippines needs any protection at this point, the last edit was on September 15th. If disruption does pick back up, feel free to post the request over at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, thanks. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:30, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Mike Tyson

Hello, I noticed that the page Mike Tyson is indefinitely semi-protected but the pending changes settings for that page haven't been reset. Can you please fix? Graham Mackey (talk) 23:09, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Graham Mackey, done. Thanks for letting me know. -- LuK3 (Talk) 02:27, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Protection of Samay Raina

When User:Drmies' one-month protection of Samay Raina expired in June, within 48 hours you had to re-protect it for another three months. That round expired three days ago. Of the 52 edits it's had since then, almost all edits have been incorrect, have removed sourced content, or have been neutral. Some good stuff is getting through (mainly updates to some statistics), so there's a case to be made for pending changes, but there's just so much cruft that I think PendingChanges would get overwhelmed. Time for an even longer semi? -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 23:35, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Tamzin, looks like Drmies beat me to it. Indefinitely semi-protected. -- LuK3 (Talk) 02:29, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Protection request

Requesting protection for Binibining Pilipinas 2017 as an IP address is vandalizing it. That IP address is the same with the one who vandalized Miss Universe Philippines 2020 recently. Thank you. Lemon.public (talk) 00:04, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Requesting block

49.149.138.0 This IP address continuously do disruptive changes on Wikipedia articles such as Binibining Pilipinas 2017, Binibining Pilipinas 2018, Binibining Pilipinas 2019, and Miss Universe Philippines 2020. I'm not sure if an IP address (unregistered user) is allowed to do numerous edits without the need to create an account. Regardless, this IP should be reprimanded for those acts of vandalism. This IP address has also been warned for many times on his/her talk page but it seems that he/she is still doing disruptive edits (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:49.149.138.0#September_2021). Lemon.public (talk) 00:09, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

That account also did edits on other pages but was reverted for being unconstructive and for vandalism. Lemon.public (talk) 00:13, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Lemon.public, I'll keep an eye on them. I don't see anything recent that warrants a block. As for the above protection request, the only recent edits are from you and the IP editor so I don't think a semi-protection is needed. Feel free to drop me a note if they continue with disruptive edits. Thanks. -- LuK3 (Talk) 01:43, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting period closing soon

Hey y'all, voting for the 2021 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche will be closing soon. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2021. Voting will be conducted at the 2021 tranche page itself. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:33, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Cookies for you!

Cookies!

For revoking User:GiantBob789's talk page access right as I was about to request it. Thank you. JeffSpaceman (talk) 19:35, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you JeffSpaceman! -- LuK3 (Talk) 21:43, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

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Now can you make some abusive contributions from these socks disappear? There are three unreverted abusive edits on the first IP, and quite a bit more on the second.Crboyer (talk) 16:56, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Crboyer, thanks for the heads up. I saw HJ Mitchell took care of the registered account and I revdeleted the IP edits. Please let me know if you need anything else. -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:00, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Request for Protection on My Usertalk

Hi,Luk3 There were disturbing edits made by anonymous on my Usertalkspage yesterday, please check the history of my talks, I request you to avoid editing your talks with new and anonymous members. Best Regards. Maniik 🇮🇳Any Help🇮🇳? Contact Me. 13:01, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Lazy Maniik, it looks like that IP has been blocked. Since that was the only IP vandalizing your talk page, I don't think protection is necessary right now. Please let me know if disruption continues, you can also post a request at WP:RFPP. -- LuK3 (Talk) 13:04, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Sir if you save my user page then i will not face any problem i am a student i just want to protect your talk page from vandalism and disruptive editing otherwise i would not request you.Best Regards Maniik 🇮🇳Any Help🇮🇳? Contact Me. 13:08, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Lazy Maniik there is no current disruption on your talk page so protection would be overkill. As I said, if disruption continues, please let me know and I can re-evaulate it but for right now I don't see a reason for protection. -- LuK3 (Talk) 13:11, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Ok, Best Regards. Maniik 🇮🇳Any Help🇮🇳? Contact Me. 13:14, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Luk3 , This IP Address 2409:4063:6D93:3AC8:97AE:EFBE:AB81:9A4A Vandalism and Discruptive Editing on My talkpage Lazy Maniik, I'm Sad😞 for about that. I've Requested to you Please Protect My talkpage for Longtime for 3 or 6.Months.I'm Wating for Your Reply. Best Regards. Maniik 🇮🇳Any Help🇮🇳? Contact Me. 03:21, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Lazy Maniik, I blocked that IP. I still do not think protection is needed at this time, especially for 3-6 months. User talk pages are usually protected in cases of extreme disruption, I don't think it has reached that point yet. -- LuK3 (Talk) 03:42, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Luk3, Thanks For This Action,I No Need For Any Protection On My Talkpage Because You Blocked IP Address. Can you see my contribution and tell me how I am contributing to wikipedia, because you are more experienced and a Administrator than me, your suggestion will help me in editing.Best Regards. Maniik 🇮🇳Any Help🇮🇳? Contact Me. 03:56, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Lazy Maniik a quick glance at your contributions show no big issues. It seems like you are focused on anti-vandalism and general gnomish work, which is fine. I would suggest to perhaps work on content creation and expand articles on topics that interest you. -- LuK3 (Talk) 11:59, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
Ya! I've Focused on Anti-Vandaslim End on Article of Wikipedia.I have also Mentioned on Our Userpage Which types of topic Creating Article.I'm Request for Rollbackers Right on WP:PERM , but any admin Doesn't Attention on My Request. Best Regards. Maniik 🇮🇳Any Help🇮🇳? Contact Me. 15:12, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
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A message from 107.77.207.217

I mean, you can dispute whether numbers and operators are mathematical, but you're probably wrong. 107.77.207.217 (talk) 01:18, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm not questioning the accuracy of your edits, I am addressing your incivility. You need to act in a more civil, non-confrontational manner or else you risk getting blocked. -- LuK3 (Talk) 01:26, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Natalie Portman and Urban Meyer

Hello, both Natalie Portman and Urban Meyer pages are indefinitely semi-protected but the PC settings for those pages haven't been reset. Can you fix?

Also, John Wayne Gacy is also indefinitely semi-protected but missing a padlock protection icon at the top of the page. Can you fix? Thanks.

Bowdenian (talk) 17:50, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Bowdenian, I reset PC settings on the Portman and Meyer articles. I also changed the padlock for the Gacy article. Thanks for letting me know. -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:59, 11 October 2021 (UTC)


Nate Speed

Thanks for blocking him again. I was about to report him myself but you beat me to it. Luigitehplumber (talk) 19:10, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

LTPHarry, you're welcome. -- LuK3 (Talk) 19:11, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
He just proxied a semi-banned account now. Can you or someone semi protect my talk page and the other user he's targeting? [2] Luigitehplumber (talk) 19:15, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
I semi-protected your talk page for a day. Feel free to let me know if it continues after the protection expires. -- LuK3 (Talk) 19:20, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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Happy Birthday!

Hey, LuK3. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! ~~~~
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Happy Birthday!

Wishing LuK3 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee!   CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 12:39, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
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