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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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  • Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
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Mobile blocked, desktop ok

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Hello. In addition to the email I sent you, I posted about this issue at Village Pump Tech. Perhaps you can add insight there. Or message me directly. DonFB (talk) 07:52, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

777357234@DonFB 94.26.211.115 (talk) 00:30, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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  • An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

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  • Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:41, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

range block

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Hey ST47, you blocked this one, and this is them too. Oh, and this. Can you see if one of your fancy longterm range blocks is appropriate here? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 19:24, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

none of those three IPs are in the same /16 (share the same first two octets), so I'm not sure what we would rangeblock here. ST47 (talk) 23:54, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Drmies: ah, I see that some of them are proxies. I've blocked a couple of ranges associated with this. ST47 (talk) 23:57, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I clicked on that proxy check button and I thought it told me they weren't. Ha, I appreciate your expertise. Drmies (talk) 00:29, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

... and another range block

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There's an unblock request at User talk:Wattyirl for a range block you placed on 84.203.0.0/16. Can you have a look at it? JBW (talk) 20:47, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Some rangeblocks

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These are both related to ACC requests; please take a look at them:

Best, — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Done ST47 (talk) 00:38, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 23 October 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

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Accursed Mountains

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Hi,

The topic related to Accursed Mountains should consider of changing the name. The article consists of information regarding the Albanian Alps. Its designation Accursed Mountains is a poetic and metaphorical name that stands only for a part of the Albanian Alps. Albanian Alps are located over inner and outer geological formations labelled as Albanide (south eastern extensions of Dinaride). Accursed Mountains is only a region in the Albanian Alps.

If another article needs to be created for the Accursed Mountains than it should be a separate topic. They are related, but Albanian Alps cannot be labelled as a second alternative name for Accursed Mountains. Albanian Alps are much bigger that include in their geological formation many regions. Accursed Mountains are part of Albanian Alps. The way the article it written suggests that Albanian Alps are an alterative name of Accursed Mountain. Albanian Alps have many places and regions within them, and one of them is the region called by its poetic and metaphorical name Accursed Mountains. The article about Accursed Mountains is misleading and provides wrong information. The current article about Accursed Mountains talks about Albanian Alps.

Thank you. 69.166.116.149 (talk) 21:29, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 November 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

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Arbitration

  • Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
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The Signpost: 24 December 2023

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My IP is not in 103.212.224.0/22

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I Have a Different IP ArtemisandLouie (talk) 07:16, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A rangeblock

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Mind taking a look at your {{webhostblock}} of Special:Contributions/37.148.216.0/21? It may be overbroad: Special:Contributions/37.148.216.0/22 appears to be a residential/business ISP with a different ASN from the one you blocked. Note that this range is also gblocked, so if you determine a change/unblock is warranted please either let the stewards know or ping me so I can tell them. (As usual, this is related to an ACC request.)

Also, an aside: the archives in User:ST47/Head are out of date: you're on 0d28/0x1C now. I'd try to fix it myself but it's protected :). — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping thread for 60 days. :) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Please also take a look at Special:Contributions/43.241.146.0/24 and the pair and the Special:Contributions/39.40.241.0/24 subset of Special:Contributions/39.40.192.0/18 when you have a chance. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Unarchived, Bumping thread for 30 days. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC) :) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

12.172.251.102

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Hi--I think this is a proxy? Maybe there's a range you can block. These edits are from a longterm disruptor, a really childish one. Thanks in advance! Drmies (talk) 13:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping thread for 60 days. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:40, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

range block

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[1] UTRS ticket [2] is the reference. Shouldn't that /22 block be a /24 block? The /22 seems to be walking into a range that is not a webhost. I haven't reserved that ticket in case you want to handle it. Dennis Brown 2¢ 07:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dennis Brown: Looking at each of the constituent /24s, they are all proxy or cloud hosting services. In order, hostinger, packethub, and two by heficed. I think they're all eligible to stay blocked, and I note that the full /22 is also blocked globally. ST47 (talk) 22:12, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That was my thing, I noticed that ISP is on a /24, not a /22, so there seems to be some collateral damage with a /22 block. I have no issue with the /24 being blocked, but I don't quite understand why the /22 is needed. Maybe it is just my misunderstanding (always possible), but it seems the ISP you are trying to block is only /24. The *.*.93.*/24 that the user is using isn't HOSTINGER-HOSTING (*.*.92.*/24), it is a different ISP altogether, TEFINCOMSA-AS-AP. Both are using /24 only. Again, maybe you did this on purpose and I just don't understand, but it *seems* that the /22 is walking outside of HOSTINGER's range, which is only a /24. Are we sure TEFINCOMSA is a relay? 02:57, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
@Dennis Brown: the 93 range is Packethub which is a cloud service provider closely associated with public vpn services. google shows that tefincom is also closely associated with nordvpn. ST47 (talk) 04:10, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, gotcha. Thanks for the info. Dennis Brown 2¢ 04:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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blocked 'DENOSIO' related..

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Hello. Thanks for blocking users related to 'DENOSIO'.

As someone who has contributed to many visa policies and map production over the past 2 years, I have recently been focusing on defending and cleaning up the suddenly increasing number of successors to "DENOSIO."

I plan to continue to defend editors who deface visa pages in the future. Lades2222 (talk) 06:20, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

CheckUser changes

removed Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

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Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why am I blocked?

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I don't understand why I keep on being blocked. I have a deadline to finish up work and this block is preventing me from doing so Similar is still different (talk) 09:49, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 13 February 2024

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Hey!

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Please check again your ban to IP:113.23.0.0/17, Ban code:#18785109. My IP is:1.53.216.245. Why is my IP affected by your ban, when I was just editing my profile? Vp08122010 (talk) 11:46, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A rangeblock

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Mind taking a look at your {{webhostblock}} of Special:Contributions/37.148.216.0/21? It may be overbroad: Special:Contributions/37.148.216.0/22 appears to be a residential/business ISP with a different ASN from the one you blocked. Note that this range is also gblocked, so if you determine a change/unblock is warranted please either let the stewards know or ping me so I can tell them. (As usual, this is related to an ACC request.)

Also, an aside: the archives in User:ST47/Head are out of date: you're on 0d28/0x1C now. I'd try to fix it myself but it's protected :). — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping thread for 60 days. :) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Please also take a look at Special:Contributions/43.241.146.0/24 and the pair and the Special:Contributions/39.40.241.0/24 subset of Special:Contributions/39.40.192.0/18 when you have a chance. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Bumping thread for 60 days. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Vanamonde93: could you please take a look the IPs listed above (along with Special:Contributions/41.66.199.156) when you have a chance? They are all blocked as proxies/webhosts, but they each seemed to not be proxies/webhosts and should likely be unblocked. (I'm not picking on you, just saw you were recently active and a CU :)) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:04, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In matters of proxies, Mdaniels5757, I'm always going to defer to ST47; they know what they're doing, and I'm very green. I will note there is also a global block on your /21, whether that was placed independently or is based on the same information as ST47's, I don't know. If you would like, I could kick this to the CU mailing list, but I'm not going to take unilateral action here. Vanamonde93 (talk) 21:41, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Vanamonde93 Sorry for the delay in responding. Mind if I send you a wikimail that you can forward to the list? That way I can summarize my reasons for believing each of the 7 current requests are no longer proxies for easy review by the list members. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:21, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, go ahead. Vanamonde93 (talk) 01:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C

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Blocked IP

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Hi, I'm unsure if I'm blocked myself from editing or is it my IP, I sometimes use VPNs for Netflix and do the odd scroll on Wikipedia and noticed that my I'm blocked from editing of the range of 84.21.168/8.0/22

Thanks! EmiliaPains24 (talk) 00:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@EmiliaPains24. It appears to be a block of a colocation facility or web hosting provider, you are not the intended target. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 11:22, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 July 2024

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Hi there. Any plans to restart this bot? There's a wave of proxy vandalism in the administrative areas. Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#"Me_getting_attacked_by_a_bunch_of_users"_etc.. – robertsky (talk) 18:53, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
removed

Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

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removed Barkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

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