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Username Violation

User:The Real Khabar Username matches a news website; username appears to represent company PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 17:31, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Direct copy by IP from en to sim

User Talk:78.147.221.239 is directly copying numerous articles from en to sim without any attribution simplification or even cleaning them up some. I have notified them with helpful advice, however, they are not responding in the fashion they should as they are still doing it. At this point I am not sure what to do besides going and tagging them all QD for either copyright or from another project. Can an admin please advise me? The articles are 96% to 100% matches. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 21:25, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I nominated some of his articles for QD. One of them is Tournament of Elements. Animalguy7 (talk) 21:37, 3 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]
I think we need a mass deletion. I have tagged a lot of his articles with QD tags and it is getting monotonous. Animalguy7 (talk) 21:43, 3 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]
@Animalguy7 Sorry just catching up. Yeah, just let them go and await an admin. They have tools that one or two clicks and they are all gone. I wouldn't waste your time because the user is not caring. I also tagged them at VIP just now. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 21:51, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@PotsdamLamb: Thanks. Animalguy7 (talk) 21:53, 3 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

yuppers PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 21:54, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi Protection of Wikipedia:Notability

Hello. On the wikipedia policy about notability there as been a lot of vandalism. A bunch of IPs are adding notability tags to it and changing the template "nutshell" to "nutcracker". Many of them have been blocked for long-term abuse and block evasion, but the long-term abuse user keeps hopping onto different IPs. I suggest indef semi protection so all these abusive IPs can't edit the page. Thanks, Animalguy7 (talk) 01:02, 5 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Just a thought, an admin may still decide to protect, but it's a relatively low number of edits probably from the same person on different IPs. Makes me think protecting the page will just move their vandalism to another page. It's probably less about the page itself and more about just messing with us. Continuing to block is probably the more effective solution. --Gordonrox24 | Talk 05:42, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done Yeah, we try to protect only when the amount of vandalism is hard to keep up with. This is not at that level. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:48, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Auntof6 - I noticed you did put a SP on that page, however, it expired on the 6th of this month. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 17:03, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@PotsdamLamb: Look again. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:31, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you ma'am! Why don't we do that to all of our policy and guideline pages? PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 20:33, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@PotsdamLamb: On Wikipedia, protection is seen as a last resort; as little as possible should be protected. I try to look at it as a necessary evil. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:40, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Okies. That is one way to put it. Watching everything going on simple is def GIGO. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 20:41, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possible global lock evasion

There is a global lock on a user who keeps creating the Muhammad Zaid article. I started researching this and found the global sock leads back to en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Zaid_Zayd/Archive. I have seen this article has been created by the same globally blocked user. It was created again today by Logogresta (not tagging user at this point). They also created Mahmood Ul Hassan (I put in for an RfD but based on what I see on EN wiki, this is indeed a fictitious person, so I am going to QD instead.) Based on the history of the globally locked and en wiki 100 sock puppets, I am assuming this is the same person. Here is the global information on the locked account. They show this as a spam only account. I am wondering:

  1. What do others think?
  2. Should I do a global request for checkuser?
  3. Can we temporarily block the user?

Thanks in advance for giving me thoughts, PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 17:30, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect arrow Global lock(s) requested: User CU blocked on en-wiki. Darubrub (Let me know) 13:34, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Open Proxy

  • 5.188.213.88
  • 51.254.16.112
    • Not a proxy - 88.105.95.54

88.105.95.54 - Constant edit war to insert ethos-nationalist views. However, the ones that are proxies are supporting the non-proxies ethos-nationalist views. Thanks, PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 16:47, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment: I have put in a request on Meta/Stewards for a global block on the two open proxies. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 17:04, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

SP for Cheese

Due to an ongoing edit war with numerous IPs, can we SP Cheese please? PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 19:27, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Warning Templates

For some reason, when I posted a mos warning level 1 on a users talk page, the page name in the warning was malformed. It displayed on the warning as {{:Leonardo da Vinci}} instead of just Leonardo da Vinci. Can an admin go through the templates please and ensure they are correctly formatted? I am not sure what to do with them or the coding behind them (yet). Thank you so much. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 00:23, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@PotsdamLamb: Can you help us out and link to the page with the specific problem so we can get an idea of what to look for? And besides that, are all those templates protected? Does it really need an admin to do this? --Auntof6 (talk) 01:18, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 I put it here so anyone can help rather than on simple talk where it will get more visibility from everyone which could lead to further problems. I wish they were protected as I have run into this problem on numerous occasions. The page I put the warning on is original formatting --> https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bizarreeditor&oldid=7600471 and the after my manual change https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bizarreeditor&oldid=7600472. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 01:23, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@PotsdamLamb: Well, please post things here only for things that require an admin. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:25, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ok It is my hope you would protect these (or even SP) as they do see some vandalism (maybe not much) but people go and change them and then this happens. Most edits I see are from IP editors for ones I have found because they come up in huggle. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 01:27, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Replace user page

Could an admin replace User:Russavia and User talk:Russavia with {{WMF-legal banned user}}? These pages are currently sysop-protected. Thanks. --Ferien (talk) 18:27, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Any particular reason you think we should switch away from the exact code the WMF placed on their pages? (and I realize its essentially the same thing) -Djsasso (talk) 02:27, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also, I think people are spending too much time and effort flagging user and user talk pages this way. The pages don't have to be flagged at all. Admins, stewards, etc. will decide if they need flagging; other users can just leave the pages alone so they don't "rub salt in the wound". --Auntof6 (talk) 02:39, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yep this is very true, non-admins shouldn't really be adding any templated flags like sockpuppet etc to pages of already blocked sockpuppets. Often such things are left off by admins on purpose. -Djsasso (talk) 02:45, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The logo used in WMF-banned notices has changed to a black Wikimedia logo. And also it adds the page to the correct category Category:Wikipedians banned by the Wikimedia Foundation. I agree, I don't think that we should spend time sock tagging. The reason I requested this here was just to fix the issues. --Ferien (talk) 15:48, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
 Done but I wouldn't worry too much about changing such things. -Djsasso (talk) 20:06, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Page Delete

The article was deleted, the talk page was not. The user who created it is globally locked. Page is Talk:Nima_Owji_(Developer). Thank you. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 21:32, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I nominated it for QD with G8 criteria. Animalguy7 ("Message me! · What have I done?) 21:44, 8 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Fake/Non-notable article IP editor.

User:27.109.115.155 User:27.109.115.158 These accounts (probably socks of the same vandal) are dedicated to creating hoax/non-notable articles. This has been going on for quite some time, so it's an LTA problem now. I'm requesting a block. Etoza (?) 09:43, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

.158 - Blocked for one week on June 9 by Peterdownunder; .155 blocked for 2 weeks by Macdonald-ross. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 18:44, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Spam articles

I'd recommend blocking the Farhan Rana Rajpoot Youtube title (I forgot the actual name for this process, I hope it's understandable) since it's getting recreated by the same editor over and over (one copy was already deleted today). Etoza (?) 16:38, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Operator873 connect 16:41, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion request

Hi. Could you please delete this page‎ as the creator keeps on removing the QD template? The page has been deleted several times at QD and a couple at RfD. Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 17:19, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done by Macdonald-ross, thanks! --Ferien (talk) 19:34, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Temp SP Please

As I am doing major changes to the article Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany I would like to request temporary semi for a couple of days. While working on it, an IP vandalized it 3 times, including one blanking. This will help me so I do not have to stop and revert it back. I would appreciate it very much. 2 or 3 days is fine with me. I plan on being done tomorrow but may go until Saturday. Thanks. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 18:43, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We generally don't protect for very low amounts of vandalism like this. -Djsasso (talk) 02:25, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And you can always copy it to a sandbox to work on. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:40, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not allowed access

No one I allowed access to data files pictures messages changing accounts passwords passcodes are anything that has to do with owners privacy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nolovejoe44 (talk • contribs) 23:33, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Jimmy Hibbert page semi-protection required

Jimmy Hibbert has been subject for months to two warring IPs attempting to add conflicting dates of birth without any citations to a reliable source. There are zero reliable sources for a date of birth for this person (I have checked extensively) and this is a biography of a living person. The IMDB bio, which is not a reliable source, actually contains both conflicting DoBs. The IPs even remove "citation needed" tags. This article should be protected from IP editing ideally for the foreseeable future. The IPs have pulled the same thing on the English WP article which is now configured to allow only autoconfirmed registered users. Voceditenore (talk) 09:47, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done Page protection (semi- or otherwise) is usually called for only when the amount of vandalism is hard to keep up with. That isn't the case here, so I'm not going to protect. I have added the page to my watchlist so I can help watch for future vandalism. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:14, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Auntof6. The thing to watch out for is not strictly vandalism. It is the repeated addition of various conflicting dates of birth (e.g. 25 Nov. 1955, 23 Nov. 1956, and 25 July 1955) none of which have a reliable source. Nor can a reliable source be found. I have now removed the latest addition. Voceditenore (talk) 09:39, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia as autobiography-in-real-time

Shariful Islam Naik is writing his own article in lieu of becoming notable in real life. All the "sources" are self-generated by the article's subject/author. I have tagged for speedy deletion. GPinkerton (talk) 05:50, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Strange RfD

Hi! Please review this RfD because something is very fishy there: it was closed by a fresh account, I kinda suspect sockpuppetry per PotsdamLamb's comment @wikidata. Thanks in advance! Bencemac (talk) 08:14, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Bencemac: Thanks for the note. I have undone the non-admin closure and left a message on the user's talk page. Even if it's not a sockpuppet, non-admin closures should be done only when there are no votes to delete. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:32, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request for protection

My user sandbox User:Haoreima/sandbox has been vandalized multiple times by anonymous. Please protect my sandbox page so that anonymous and user of less than 10 edits couldn't perform edit. Haoreima (talk) 12:43, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done It hasn't been vandalized very many times, but I've protected it because it's in your userspace. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:28, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

open Virtual Private Network

https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Simple_talk&oldid=7626640#Open_proxies --122.155.174.77 (talk) 00:54, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Files brought over from Commons

Someone has brought over one or more files from Common to this wiki without any commentary: eg: File:2005-malabar-parkeet-p.jpg

As I can't delete it, I'm unsure of what action to take. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:26, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(Non-administrator observation) @Macdonald-ross: all photos from Commons are automatically here. If you go to a random file on commons and then replace "commons.wikimedia.org" with "simple.wikipedia.org", you'll notice every file is transcluded from Commons to here. These are all the files that have been uploaded to this wiki. --Ferien (talk) 06:31, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Macdonald-ross: If you look at a file and see a tab at the top that says " View on Wikimedia Commons", then the file is not hosted here. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:55, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possible IP sock.

I noticed an IP editor User:82.132.184.83, which struck me as his edits are similar to the blocked User:82.219.17.65. Both did nonproductive edits, which got reverted, and then did a serious one. Both did edits on British (England) towns related to Yorkshire. The blocked account did edits on Todmorden, which is in West Yorkshire, while the non-blocked one did Doncaster, which is in South Yorkshire. Any thoughts? Etoza (?) 22:56, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Main page

Just a heads up, looks like the main page is broken. The selected articles section just shows a red link. Looks like it was deleted and not changed, perhaps. An admin will need to update. Thanks. --Gordonrox24 | Talk 02:19, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded. GPinkerton (talk) 18:51, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
(Non-administrator observation) @Gordonrox24 and GPinkerton: What seems to have happened is Anna Kournikova was demoted to a regular article and therefore Wikipedia:Very good articles/Anna Kournikova was deleted by Eptalon. Auntof6 deleted the redirect to that page – which is the Main Page/Article 9 we can currently see on the main page. No administrator moved a selected page for 9 and therefore we have no article for today. Main Page/Article 10, Main Page/Article 12 and Main Page/Article 13 have also been deleted and I believe we go through very good articles in a consecutive order, so this will be an issue tomorrow and next week too. --Ferien (talk) 19:07, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed, yeah we usually move articles to fill the gap when this happens. For some reason this time I started moving them all down instead of just moving the highest number to the gap. Apparently I wanted to make extra work for myself. -Djsasso (talk) 12:42, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks!--Gordonrox24 | Talk 20:59, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection request

Please semi-protect Word_processor as LTA GRP vandalism. Thanks. --SCP-2000 (talk) 08:47, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(Non-administrator observation)  Done by Chenzw --Ferien (talk) 14:24, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Superman

Please can an administrator semi-protect Superman for a few days due to constant editing from a WMF-banned editor? Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 15:58, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Could an administrator protect Talk:Superman as well? The vandals seem to be vandalizing that instead now. Thanks! —TypicalWikimedian (talk • contribs) 15:53, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

83.26.157.248

83.26.157.248 (talk · contribs) is continuously playing around with their talk page after being blocked. Please revoke talk page access. Thanks. —TypicalWikimedian (talk • contribs) 20:11, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(Non-administrator observation) Talk page access revoked by Bsadowski1. --Ferien (talk) 07:54, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2 pages that need protection

These two pages are being constantly targeted by LTA'er socks, so they should be protected:

Additionally, these pages may need to be create-protected:

Thank you. —TypicalWikimedian (talk • contribs) 18:28, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

LTA

Please clean-up and check for sleepers. Trijnstel (talk) 09:26, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Protection for Wikipedia:Introduction

You probably know why.I am unable to keep up with the two vandals, so I request protection for this page. I'm surprised it isn't already 30/500 protected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elytrian (talk • contribs)

This page is a test page for people to test their edits. Would defeat the purpose. The edits you reverted were not vandalism, we want people to make edits such as that there. There is a bot that regularly resets the page. -Djsasso (talk) 11:29, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also, just so you know for future, we don't have 30/500 protection here. --Ferien (talk) 12:42, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of deletion tag on Ezequiel Matthysse

Non-logged in users have made many edits to the above article. They are deleting the deletion notice at the top of the page.

This is probably the creator, who is getting around a global lock. See here and here.

Quick deletion may be allowed. The page is copied from an enwiki page. See here.

Can I ask an administrator to protect the page so the tag does not keep getting removed, or delete the page (QD-A3)

Thank you

Local Variable (talk) 14:47, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Editor note: The page has been deleted through a request for deletion. This request may be ignored. Local Variable (talk) 13:21, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for semi-protection of Google Sites

Obvious from the article title, this page is about Google Sites. Although we have several IPs who want to write about Sesame Street with spam links. Therefore I would like to suggest semi-protection to this page for several months. I would like to hear about opinions from others. MathXplore (talk) 02:42, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Protected by Eptalon. --Ferien (talk) 07:15, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed protection, thank you for the response. MathXplore (talk) 07:26, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for semi-protection of Reza Homami

Too stop people from recreating this article yet another time --Trade (talk) 00:38, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done @Trade: I don't think it has been created often enough to protect for that reason. It was created in May this year, but the time before that was last year in November. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:00, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

@2600:387:6:80F:0:0:0:6F: has a history of vandalism on this Wikipedia. Today, he blanked my talk page out of nowhere. He also blanked another page. Just take a look at his contributions and figure out a way to make him less disruptive. —JTZegers (talk) 02:59, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, he’s now vandalizing his own talk page. Revoke TPA!!! JTZegers (talk) 03:15, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@JTZegers: Blocked by DannyS712. Please report to WP:VIP, our dedicated vandalism reports page, in future and you may get a quicker response. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 08:44, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Ferien and JTZegers: should I clear the warnings since he won't respond -- Kunjarpunch / [ t ] 15:37, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Kunjarpunch: There's no need to clear any messages just because someone won't respond. Blanking talk pages is something that shouldn't really be done. --Ferien (talk) 15:38, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Kunjarpunch:...and his edits show that he's clearly not here to build an encyclopedia. Obviously, I'm too inexperienced to be an admin, but he's demonstrated two major issues: vandalism and poor judgement. He's under the impression that black people are like gorillas, which is just racist and wrong. He knows he's under intense scrutiny yet he continues to vandalize those pages. This couldn't have gone on for much longer before it became a serious timesink. Good block, Danny.--JTZegers (talk) 15:43, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@DannyS712: You did a good job blocking that racist JTZegers He is indeed racist look this showes that he is explicitly racist and if you look at the top it is even worse -- Kunjarpunch / [ t ] 15:45, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Kunjarpunch:, I was the one who caught him, so I guess I should get some credit too.--JTZegers (talk) 15:48, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you should -- Kunjarpunch / [ t ] 15:49, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The first time in history where I did something and no one threatened to block me.--JTZegers (talk) 15:50, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Can the W:WP:GRAVEDANCING stop? Darubrub (Let me know) 15:52, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  (change conflict)  There is nothing more for admins to do here. @Kunjarpunch and JTZegers: This is a relatively high traffic noticeboard so you are giving the vandal the attention they want or gravedancing. Please stop commenting on their behaviour, they are blocked. --Ferien (talk) 15:53, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferien: I guess I celebrated too early. Cheers.--JTZegers (talk) 15:54, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Gylfi Sigurðsson

I'm an admin at en-Wiki. I've just placed a template on the talk page of en:Gylfi Sigurðsson and created an edit notice as Sigurðsson has been arrested on suspicion of sexual offences involving a minor. As such, the subject of the article comes under en:sub judice rules. Just a heads up so that admins can assess as to whether or not a similar course of action is needed here. Mjroots (talk) 18:41, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. We're probably a small enough wiki to avoid much disturbance here. Will add it to my watch list to monitor. --Gordonrox24 | Talk 20:31, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Impersonation case

These accounts were created for the purpose of making the english wiki admins distrust me and reset my standard offer. Can you please block them and prove it's not me? Thanks! Darubrub (Let me know) 18:06, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Darubrub: An en.wiki CU can assist you better. Leaderboard (talk) 18:14, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Leaderboard: I don't have TPA in en-wiki, so how am I supposed to do that? Darubrub (Let me know) 18:15, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Darubrub: Message an en.wiki CU from this wiki, for instance. Or use the UTRS system to get back TPA. It is likely that simple.wiki cannot see the data you need. Leaderboard (talk) 18:24, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Leaderboard: I am banned from UTRS until August. Do I go to Ponyo I guess? Darubrub (Let me know) 18:25, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Darubrub: I'm not sure - I would consider waiting till August. Other users here may be able to better assist you, but asking simple.wiki CU is not the way to go. Leaderboard (talk) 18:31, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I think I'll try IRC. Darubrub (Let me know) 18:35, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked all the accounts. --Ferien (talk) 18:42, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As the IP suggested elsewhere, it was indeed Android 1123581321. --Bsadowski1 18:56, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Ponyo: What do you mean by Block evasion in these accounts? Darubrub (Let me know) 18:58, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
All locked now SHB2000 (talk) 12:01, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppets

I noticed some group of editors that were really similar (similar userpage, editing patterns). The editors first edit unrelated articles, then they edit something related to tech and companies, after which they stop editing. I suspect these might be socks that edited for promoting the articles.

These were added after this first post was made

I also found two IPs that created company articles, which are probably socks too.

I only found these today, and there are probably more of these. Etoza (?) 15:56, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are indeed more of these. Unfortunately mostly all of them are stale, and beyond technical evidence it's the username style and editing behavior to match. I think all of the above are socks, though I don't currently see much benefit in blocking. If they edit again, please feel free to send it to RFCU as we'd have newer data to look at. Best, Vermont (talk) 03:13, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection request; Donald Trump

There has been vandalism occurring on the Donald Trump page for several months. These edits have been mainly made by IP users.

A person with his political status is bound to be messed with. I am requesting a semi-protection on that page. Thank you :-) Kellis7 (talk) 15:13, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have semi-protected the page for two months (despite the fact that the bots do a good job at reverting graffitti edits). --Eptalon (talk) 16:32, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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