Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Current issues and requests archive 16

User:Pio

Just a heads up that PIO, who is banned from editing Wikipedia [1] has come over here as User:Pio, and has been pretty active today [2] after the blocking yesterday of his latest two socks from the English Wiki. It's simple ban evasion, as, without regard for the tenets of the Simple Wiki, he has been copy-pasting his favourite articles from English Wikipedia, such as Istrian-Dalmatian exodus, on English Wiki as Istrian exodus [3]. I'd also point out a problem with copyvios, such as Dalmatia, a copyvio from here [4] and here [5]. Sorry if I'm dragging issues over here from the English Wiki, but I thought you should know. Alasdairgreen27 (talk) 18:22, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Banned on English Wikipedia only means banned on English Wikipedia. Quite a few users here (Da Punk '95, ChristianMan16, and formerly Swirlboy39) were banned on the English Wikipedia but became regular contributors here. Swirlboy was in fact unbanned after demonstrating good work here. Cass andra 18:25, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, that's fine, but copy-pasting articles from English Wiki and copyvios probably are not. Alasdairgreen27 (talk) 18:27, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And also, just spurred from this discussion, should he be allowed to link to a porn site like that? Especially when he says that it is a page of "some my friends." -- America ^†alk 18:31, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm one of the En-Wiki admins whose dealt with and been harassed by PIO, currently he's banned from en.wiki, spanish wiki, meta, I believe commons and I think quote and italian wiki. I know the projects are independent and Simple may make its own ban's as it sees fit, but I would urge the Simple admins reviewing this matter to carefully review his behavior here in deciding which actions to take. MBisanz (talk) 21:32, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, definitely also blocked from Italian Wiki [6] Alasdairgreen27 (talk) 21:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, we'll just see if this user does anything wrong or against our policies, and then we will go from there if we need a block or ban. Cheers, RyanCross (talk) 21:41, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Thank you for your attention. :-) When I brought it over here I was thinking that "banned from editing Wikipedia" meant all of it. Happy to see he's got the chance to redeem himself here, and maybe head back to en.wiki after a period of good editing. However, the early signs (wholesale copy-pastes of his favourite en.wiki articles without the slightest attention to Simple guidelines, copyvio copy-pastes from other websites, and turning his attention to very active editing here the day after his latest two socks got busted) lead me to suspect - possibly unfairly, you never know - that the wellbeing of this site might not be his top priority. Anyway, I've drawn it to your attention, and now I return whence I came. Best wishes, -- Alasdairgreen27 (talk) 22:29, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(unindenting) His contributions seem okay at the moment, but the link on his user page might be inappropriate. I know this may be against WP:CENSOR, but this is Simple English Wikipedia, and we have plenty of teens and kids around here. Chenzw Talk 02:00, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At least one. I'd say he should be asked to remove it, it is an unneeded porn site link - not his "friends." -- America ^†alk 01:54, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(unindenting) I think that some of the articles that he has ported over here from the English Wikipedia including a few copyright violations, combined with the porn site link on his userpage may be grounds for a block, but probably not. We would probably need a few more incidents with this user before we can do anything as drastic as a full site-wide ban. Let's just watch and wait and see what this user does. Cheers, Razor flame 02:03, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone explain to me the warning I've received at [7]? Is this standard operating practices at this wiki? MBisanz (talk) 14:07, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a template. He just put the stop hand there and wrote out his own message. I find it abhorrant that Pio would issue a warning himself, since he is obviously not a neutral party. The notion of "personal attacks" requries another user to say this, not just the person who feels that way. Cass andra 18:08, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh thank you, does Simple permit me to remove comments from my talk page? MBisanz (talk) 09:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do believe so, yes. -- RyanCross (talk) 09:25, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are allowed to remove comments from your own talk page. I find it strange that a user such as this would go ahead and issue his own warnings when it is obvious that he is biased towards certain users. Cheers, Razor flame 17:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Alasdairgreen27

I consider Alasdairgreen27 a sockpuppet on English wiki and in violation for vandalism, incivility, canvassing, harassment, POV, edit warring, disruption, stalking and personal attack against me. Yesterday Alasdairgreen27 like as a strange child logged here only for personal attacks against me. Luigi and Ciolone are not PIO socks and Luigi is valid editor in Italian wiki: nobody suspect him as a sock! I am editor in Spanish and French wiki too. I elected MBisanz as admin in English wiki but he insulted me. You all consider this: in my user page I linked a calendar of Italian soldiers. Best wishes,--Pio (talk) 12:36, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have to be a sockpuppet of someone. Whose the master account that's allegedly harassing you? Alasdairgreen27 is not an account on the English Wikipedia, so who do you think this person is on en, and why do you think he is harassing you? Provide diffs, please. They've proven that you've been banned on the Italian (Pio) and English (PIO) Wikipedias. There is no PIO or Pio account on the Spanish Wikipedia, so unless you disclose that user name, we can't prove who you are. Cass andra 20:22, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the interwiki links on his user page his spanish account is Jxy. -Djsasso (talk) 21:34, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On Eng Wiki I am AlasdairGreen27. I'm nobody's sock, and nor is PIO; he's a banned user [8] and multiple sockpuppeteer. His known puppets at Eng Wiki, all blocked, are User:Agazio [9], User:Ciolone [10], User:Luigi 28 [11] and User:Jxy [12]. Best wishes, Alasdairgreen27 (talk) 14:08, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am an old editor in this project for many languages then I have many accounts too. In English wiki Alasdair logged during this case and restriction against DIREKTOR which is account involved in several edit warring pushing fanatic anti-Italian POV and harassment, canvassing, stalking against me and Luigi then like as this precedent harassment. But some inappropriate admins banned Italian accounts of Luigi, Jxy, Ciolone for simple suspects and no evidence! I consider Alasdairgreen27 a sockpuppet of DIREKTOR or Kubura or banned user N.13: I suppose Alasdair is from Lubiana or Zagreb; in fact DIREKTOR/Alasdair are either shadows like as one person solo! They suspect Alasdair as sock then like as DIREKTOR and Kubura but admins not yet ban them. DIREKTOR/Alasdair/Kubura is in all articles pertinent Dalmatia and Istria pushing fanatic anti-Italian POV in English wiki and now stalking me here! I request to admins for advice Alasdair in connection with his inappropriate or insane stalking against me in this language of the project. Regards,--Pio (talk) 16:10, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Take this dispute off this noticeboard. This is for contacting administrators about editing on this wiki, not others. All the above links go to English wikipedia, not simple. We've been warned about these users, we get it, move on. - EchoBravo contribs 14:42, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

birefringence

This word, "birefringence" appears under the "b" section on the simple english word list. Others have commented on the talk page about it. Should it be removed or am I missing something?? Peterdownunder (talk) 09:27, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This Probably should have been on WP:ST but I agree it should be removed.-- † Christian Man 16 18:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quick deletion request

Can an Administrator delete Treaty of Waitangi? It's been tagged for about 4 hours. Thank you, Ryan†Cross (talk) 03:44, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done by Oysterguitarist. - Huji ^reply 07:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. -- Ryan†Cross (talk) 07:52, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RFPP

Wikipedia:Options to not see an image/badimages.js; page protect please, as it is easy to simply change the code to malicious content. Microchip 10:17, Sunday, June 22 2008 Utc

Done although I doubt it will be vandalized any time soon either way, but safety first, eh? --Gwib^-(talk)- 10:27, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted contribs

Can an admin please e-mail the history of my deleted contribs? Thanks, Maxim_{(talk | editor review)} 22:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually we can't; you did not set your Email address in your profile. --Eptalon (talk) 13:48, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Srsly? Strange... Dunno how it got disabled. Try again. Maxim_{(talk | editor review)} 13:51, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Oysterguitarist 20:36, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please rename User:WW to User:Dwi Secundus

Please rename me from WW to Dwi Secundus for SUL. --WW (talk) 09:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done --vector ^_^ (talk) 09:16, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would an admin...

Please fix the redirect for User talk:Schlechter Wolf doppelganger, it is very annoying because it has been the only double redirect for a while now and is protected. Thanks -- America ^†alk 23:11, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Increased Copyright Violations

There has been an increase of copyright violations from new pages, so please remember to check them, thanks Oysterguitarist 00:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1709 again

Two days ago, a user was replacing pages with "1709" again. Thinking that it was the 1709 vandal again, I soft-blocked the IP range for a week (refer to the post on top). Please keep a lookout for this vandal after his block expires. Chenzw Talk 12:21, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. I always watch recent changes anyway, and if the IP did start vandalizing again, I would just report it to WP:VIP when appropriate. Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 12:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:VIP

By the way, I have created Template:VIP, copied from EN's en:Template:AIV. Please tell me what you think of it. Thanks. Chenzw Talk 12:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I actually think it could be useful. But I don't think we will be using them often or at all. WP:VIP generally gets about 1 or 2 reports per day (although there were 4 reports so far today and they were all mine :D) which again are generally accurate ones. {{done}} and {{not done}} are the only templates used currently. {{not done}} is used for any case that turns out to be a no block no matter how the report was. If no block was issued, that would be the template used no matter what was the reason why the user was not blocked. Chenzw just gave us more icons to use for different cases and situations. Some users might think that those two templates we use already is enough. Comments on that? -- RyanCross (talk) 13:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

VetäkääKäteen!‎

This user has been extremely abusive. He first started by redirecting a user talk page to the article Penis, which I reverted and gave a level-two warning for (page since deleted). He then lifted RyanCross's userpage and tried to pass it off as his own [13] He changed the last part of my name to "Gay" [14] and spoke something in Finnish which I have roughtly translated to "Hello the whore mua does not interest sun, a shit" [15] He then proceeded to call me a "a pussy ämmä stuff a slut in the ass, sun," again in Finnish [16] after I warned him for trying to impersonate RyanCross. In another deleted edit, he asked me to give fellatio to him. This is very upsetting, but it's not the easy kind of VIP report, so I'm bringing it here. Cass andra 03:57, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I used sunda to translate his Finnish. Cass andra 03:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Possible socks of the last 2 VIP reports, according to his deleted contribs (both blocked user's talk pages). Blocked 72 hours for now. Chenzw Talk 04:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed socks. I extended to block on the account to indefinite. -- Creol(talk) 05:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Grateful thanks to both of you for solving this problem. Cass andra 05:41, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The "Removing all content from page." vandal

I've been noticing off and on that there's a vandal that will always hopefully tell us when he/she is vandalizing with an edit summary that says "Removing all content from page." Is thia annoying? Is this being done by one person only? They seem to be changing their IP addresses; the last one, by 71.161.38.171 (talk · contribs), is the user's only edit. Would a CU or rangeblock be out of the question? Cass andra 01:36, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's an automatic edit summary, like this

. You can read en:WP:AES for a bit more info. Maxim_(talk) 01:39, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhh. I was used to seeing the "Blanked the page" message over on the English Wikipedia. Cass andra 01:42, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also en has the left-pointing arrow to indicate that the software did it. Cass andra 02:35, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Both of those are caused by MediaWiki: namespace messages, though I forget which ones. If anyone's interested I'll go searching. —Giggy 06:12, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Move account User:Petar Petrov

Hi. As SUL is now enabled, please do the following:

Unblock my main account User:Петър Петров
Move my account User:Petar Petrov to User:Петър Петров (if it is possible, as User:Петър Петров is a SUL unified account). --Petar Petrov (talk) 10:56, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have requested confirmation of this change on the user talk on the home wiki of the SUL account. Not entirely certain if this can work, but the bug susposedly was fixed, so this will test it for me. -- Creol(talk) 12:22, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done - confusing, and not exactly certain where the talk page from Petrov went (not in any of the histories, it does not appear there was an original user talk page..) -- Creol(talk) 12:44, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed. I reunited both accounts to SUL. All works fine. Thank you. P.S. I think there was no talk page for Petrov. --Petar Petrov (talk) 15:13, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalised Page

Hi,

I just noticed that this page has been a bit vandalised.

[17]

I'm not sure if I'd do more harm than good trying to fix it, so I thought it might be best to post here to let someone know.

cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.170.255 (talk • contribs)

That page (en:Kelly Jones) in on the English wikipedia, not here. -- Creol(talk) 15:26, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We have no control of the regular English Wikipedia.-- † Christian Man 16 01:02, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be fine now anyway. - tholly ^--Turnip-- 20:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]