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Freddy?

Per these I'm wondering if this is Freddy considering he said he made John Paul II a VGA, and this is one of Freddies known articles. ?? fr33kman t - c 22:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is. Majorly talk 23:03, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Protection for

User talk:Filper01, because he doesn't understand, that sockpuppets aren't allowed. He spams with unblock-templates. 2 unblock requests today and one on February 26. Barras (talk) 19:30, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Already  Done by Djasso. Thanks, Goblin 19:34, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can an andim decline the request or remove it? Barras (talk) 20:18, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Done by Djsasso fr33kman talk 02:29, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An unexplained yearlong rangeblock is causing collateral damage

On July last year, Gwib (talk · contribs) range blocked Special:Contributions/89.241.0.0/16 for a year because of 'mistake unblock'. User talk:89.241.77.90 is requesting an unblock and I think it's causing a lot of collateral damage. Could some look into this and unblock the range? - Æåm Fætsøn /ˈaɪæm ˈfætsən/ 11:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The administrator who blocked it first is Creol, due to socking issues. A checkuser should look into this instead. Chenzw  Talk  12:09, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I believe the autoblock setting is turned on for these users. Versus22 talk 17:18, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Fairfield has answered the unblock request, a review of the block settings might be warranted. I'm not comfortable with doing it myself, perhaps one of the seniors could review? fr33kman talk 17:26, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that checkuser should probably be done first. -Djsasso (talk) 17:35, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. Versus22 talk 17:38, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(<-) As to the range 89.241.0.0/16, we currently have two users in that range; one of them is the IP mentioned above, the other is currently blocked user Samlaptop85213; but please note that currently checkuser records only go back like 3 months.--Eptalon (talk) 18:22, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original Comment was Abusing multiple accounts (socking). I think it would probably be ok to undo the range block. --Eptalon (talk) 18:25, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The IP can create an account on de/en or what every for a wiki. Than he/she can uses SUL and can create the account here. We should be hard and don't unblock the range. Barras (talk) 18:30, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just get the IP to give an admin their email and an admin can create an account for them. -Djsasso (talk) 19:47, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It should be noted that this range resolves to ripe.net in Amsterdam and I'm personally aware that they are a major internet hub that serve many seperate ISPs. I wonder how many people are really being affected by this range block? fr33kman talk 20:04, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That's not actually correct. RIPE is the overall for Europe, but if you go to the Ripe site, you'll see it's actually Opal Telecom, based in Manchester, England. Though UK IPs often do not geolocate to anywhere near where the person actually is. Soup Dish (talk) 23:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe the correct way the handle this situation is by introducing the account-creator group here and allowing certain trusted users to flag as account creators for instances like these. I would suggest that the rangeblock stay instated and that we get some account creators flagged and let users who want to create accounts from this range know that they can ask any one of our administrators or account creators to create accounts for them, provided that they can provide proof that they won't use it to harm this Wikipedia. Thoughts? Razorflame 17:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The user page is an article created by a user indef banned by en who has used socks for ban evasion. Please see en:User talk:Ohnoitsjamie#Question about University of the City of Manila. The article doesn't appear simplified at all, and while this revision(s) was deleted from en, is presumably identical to the en version deleted. We already have an article at University of the City of Manila. I'm not sure if you want to ban this user, apply a one-strike rule, or what. Toliar (talk) 21:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think that the one-strike 'rule' would be appropriate. The user page will have to go however as it is technically a copyright violation of enWP and not attributed under GFDL, unless it is their intention to imporve and move into mainspace; in which case it should be a subpage really. Thoughts anyone else? fr33kman talk 21:29, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Having dug a bit more, I'd support a ban of this user account as a sockpuppet and a one-strike rule on Richard Relucio (talk · contribs) fr33kman talk 21:50, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The article is currently mirrored at User:Richard Relucio and User:Richard Relucio/University of the City of Manila. Toliar (talk) 21:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have added the appropriate sockpuppet templates to both users and am waiting for the results of a checkuser. If this comes back positive I shall block the sockpuppet and propose a community ban on the puppeteer. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. fr33kman talk 22:34, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The two accounts have been confirmed by checkuser, but two accounts is not disallowed; so no block or ban will be enforced. Please report if disruptive sockpuppetry starts. Thank you fr33kman talk 00:43, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]