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Thank you for this. I just felt there were too many red flags. best wishes 82.39.96.55 (talk) 22:46, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up the mess here but it's probably worth leaving it unprotected as a honeypot ;) Praxidicae (talk) 21:08, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
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I really want to thank you for blocking user:Vivekshukla21. This user has been messing up Wikipedia for months. CLCStudent (talk) 20:42, 21 June 2019 (UTC) |
Hi,
I don't think the edits made to User Talk:49.150.112.179 is patent nonsense. The user was clearly trying to create an article.
Whether or not the article was any good, probably not, but I think it would have been better to not delete it outright. Rockstonetalk to me! 02:44, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
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thanks for your feedback on my name. i have requested a name change. Vseospecialist (talk) 02:25, 27 June 2019 (UTC) |
At User talk:1.144.108.193, in answer to a query of mine about whether a block was too long, you said "In retrospect, I agree the block should have been made shorter. I will unblock the range." Perhaps ironically, reading your message there made it seem rather more likely that the length of the block was not too long, and might even be considered too short, because having seen the edits from the other IP range that you linked to I could see that a disruptive editor had been active for close to a month. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Unfortunately once again the disruptive edits have returned, for example 1.144.111.219 & 1.129.105.137 + many more on a lot of different dates. This person just seems to write down on their calendar when their block expires and continue ignoring everything... -Redalert2fan (talk) 09:30, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
[1] Johnbod (talk) 21:12, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
This user has accused me of being a paedophile and being a severely sick individual. He also accused Wikipedia personnel of harboring and protecting me. This is libellous and a violation of BLP. can you take action against them please? Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 02:06, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Howdy, I should welcome your views at this appeal, please. Thanks. Just Chilling (talk) 01:43, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
Just giving you a heads-up that this editor has also used 37.248.161.175 and 83.23.239.38. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 13:12, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
Can you merge the following 2 titles Madhuraswapnam and Madhura Swapanam. Both are same movie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.197.164.181 (talk) 07:09, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of My Baby Burger requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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Hi Sasquatch! On another user's talk page, you recently told them not to "delete other user's comments". To my knowledge, it's totally acceptable to do so. Am I wrong? Firefangledfeathers (talk) 17:30, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
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Please Don't Block Me 2Rhwjt (talk) 19:00, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
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Dear Sasquatch
I am utter novice to editing pages on Wikipedia. I created my account of 3 July in order to protect the biography of a living person (myself) from vandalism. I recognise the COI in this case. I utterly respect the need for neutrality and the sharing factual information. However, the page on me has, over time, been edited in such a way that information on my scholarly achievements has been stripped back in order to make other information about my involvement in the creation of new degree program - a BA in Western Civilisation at the University of Wollongong more prominent in unbalanced and non-neutral way. The page is missing other important details, currently contains factual errors, and spelling mistakes. I would like to provide a substantial, accurate update for this page but I do not wish to run foul of your COI rules. How can I best do thatDanhutto (talk) 22:35, 4 July 2021 (UTC)?
Sir, I want to ask you, can I apply for rollback rights now, Please see my edit history? ItsSkV08 (talk) 13:10, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello Sasquatch. Thanks for your note on my post regarding Martin Bresnick. I'm completely new to Wikipedia, so I appreciate your message. I'm a fan of Martin's music, but perhaps I should understand more about Wikipedia before I go editing things. The references for the information I added are from Martin's own homepage and from the website of his publisher, Carl Fischer. But I'm afraid I'm not sure how to proceed from here. I guess one question I have is whether it's possible to revert to the form of the page before I added my edits and to start over. I'd appreciate your advice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Orkney94 (talk • contribs)
Hi Sasquatch. You just blocked 174.196.197.6 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) for their vandalism on gun articles. They have popped up again as 174.242.77.61 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) with the same edits on the same articles. Could you apply a block to that one as well? Many thanks, Laplorfill (talk) 00:58, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
Suggest you revisit Prakrit, as your revert reverted, but with somewhat different wording and more refs. David notMD (talk) 08:04, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Sasquatch. Hope you are well. Incase you didn't get the ping, or my edit gets reverted, I've added these comments in regards to A.A Prinon's unblock. If you need anything else from me, please get back to me. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 09:40, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello there. I just wanted to let know my apologies for asking another editor which country they are from. Won't do this kind of mistake anymore. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chynapras (talk • contribs)
You are welcome. And I will obviously go through the policies that you gave me. And I just ended my rivalry and my fight with Mr. Prinon. So no more personal attacks. Just peace. And I am sorry again for asking another editor his living country. Will obviously try to show more professionalism from next time as you asked me. Thank you for rectifying my mistake. 👉Chynapras👈 (talk) 20:03, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I think I had done grave mistake by apologising Lugnuts. I have promised that I wouldn't stalk their edits. And I am really not stalking. But they have recently reverted my edits at Will Buttleman. As I have said earlier, I will try to discuss with them politely. I have tried to leave them a message on their talk page. But they reverted my edit saying me an "idiot". So, isn't it a personal attack? As I have promised, I won't attack them in any circumstances, but I need help in these situations. So, please help me what shall I do? — A.A Prinon Leave a dialogue 07:52, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
A.A Prinon I'm dealing with that separately. There's nothing further for me to do at this point from my perspective. If there are further issues please take it to the appropriate noticeboard. Sasquatch t|c 10:25, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
@Lugnuts: I don't care who created the article or else. Ok, to prevent accusations on stalking, from the next time I will see if it was recently edited by you or not. I even didn't know that 1955 Copa America was created by you or you were working on it. Apart of it, As I have told earlier, I save page into watchlist for 1 week after editing. I assure you I am not stalking your edits. Please show some WP:AGF. — A.A Prinon Leave a dialogue 11:45, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
And all the diffs you cited, there is a one day gap between my and your edits. So, it can't be stalking. If it was stalkibg, I would edit minutes after. My and your edit has big difference, none of those are causing you annoy, those aren't hounding. — A.A Prinon Leave a dialogue 11:50, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
This was just an edit request. I had to ping to get you notified. And you have the ability to mute me. You can do it for not getting further Notifications — A.A Prinon Leave a dialogue 13:26, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Sasquatch - hope you are well. For info, this user started to edit under another account after this one was blocked. More info can be found at this SPI report. I don't know if that requires an update on A.A Prinon's block log from yourself. Thanks for your help with this matter earlier in the year. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:34, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
There has been a request for help at User talk:2600:1000:B019:41D:280C:73F3:5309:FAD0 ,relating to a block you placed on the range 2600:1000:B000:0:0:0:0:0/40. All the editing apart from that request for help has come from the smaller range 2600:1000:B040:0:0:0:0:0/42, as far as I can see. I have reduced the block to that range. Changing a block without consulting the blocking administrator is something I scarcely ever do, but I saw that you had not edited for about 5 hours, and since it seemed like a clear-cut situation, I decided rather than leave the editor waiting I would deal with it right away. If there is a good reason for the wider block that you know of but which is invisible to me then please restore the block, and accept my apologies. I will also check back myself from time to time in case I have unwittingly open the floodgates, and of course jump on the block button if so. JBW (talk) 16:39, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
You deleted all of the books as self-published. I'm not sure exactly how books published under one's own imprint makes it ineligible for listing, but I know some of his two titles on Practical Zen are published by Singing Dragon, which Wikipedia says is an imprint of Jessica Kingsley Publishers. --JakusanZendo (talk) 15:24, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
On the issue of "self-published," Some of his books are published by Zenways, a Zen center that he runs. Here in the US, some of major Orthodox publishers are St Vladimirs Seminary Press. A goodly number of their publications are by their faculty -- does that make them "self-published"? If so, we would have to strip almost all of the books by Orthodox theologians such as Alexander Schmemann, John Meyendorff, Paul Meyendorff, John Behr, Thomas Hook, etc. There seems a relevant distinction to be made between vanity publishing (where one pays to have one's work published) and institutional publishing where the author is part of the institution. --JakusanZendo (talk) 15:34, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi, just FYI. An anonymous IP address deleted your additions to the Anthony Merchant page as being "not well-sourced nor NPOV, and violates policies". Interestingly they didn't also delete the longstanding unsourced statements about how he's appealed his disciplinary suspensions. Seems to be a long history of anonymous edits deleting unfavourable content on the page. I wonder if it isn't people from his firm. I've also suddenly had over 100 invalid attempts to login to my account since I added the disciplinary sanctions section, which had never happened to me before.Macho Philipovich (talk) 22:31, 17 July 2021 (UTC)@Macho: Thank you. I will keep monitoring the page. I'm not sure there's much we can do about idiots trying to access your account other than to suggest that you use 2FA (if you aren't already). Sasquatch t|c 23:36, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
My password is 36 characters long and includes special characters, so I'm not too worried about someone making 100 wrong guesses. It's more just the whole thing strikes me as very sleazy. Macho Philipovich (talk) 01:44, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Sasquatch, will it be possible for you to increase the protection on various Springfield firearm pages? The articles have been the target of vandalism and sock puppetry for over 4 months and I think an indefinite protection level like you did on the Charleville musket, Potzdam Musket, and M1752 Musket would be effective in stopping further misuse. I've filed a formal request as well and please feel free to have a look. [2] Thank you Gunhawk91 (talk) 22:20, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I started some editing of Marion Carll Farm then noticed your revert. Shall we stick with removal of the unsourced comment? Neils51 (talk) 01:38, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
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Wiki is supposed to be factual. Opinion should be marked as an opinion. There are suggestions that sound race biased in this article. It should be mentioned that Opinion on JoJo's(Joanna Noelle) vocal style is that of the one wiki writer, only. Her style is subject to interpretation, and opinions are subject, exclusively to ear of beholder. 173.75.43.9 (talk) 19:43, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
The article on JoJo the singer has opinions that suggest race bias about her singing. That comes across as offensive. Wiki is about presenting facts as opposed to opinions. 173.75.43.9 (talk) 19:48, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
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