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Report concerning User:217.156.4.37

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Creating too many promo items Midleading (talk) 04:08, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Range-blocked for three months. All his creations nuked Estopedist1 (talk) 06:23, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please delete the items created by the following IP and block:

Midleading (talk) 16:36, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Estopedist1: Your rangeblock doesn't cover the latter IP. Consider expanding it to /24.--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:23, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Range-blocked to /24. Discovered creations nuked Estopedist1 (talk) 06:20, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Wolverène (talk) 08:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Q2034898

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Прошу поставить защиту на правки от незарегистрированных на элемент Q2034898, ибо какие-то пользователи не один раз добавляли в Место рождения квалификатор "административная единица" и "государство", хотя в случае с городом Львовом это не нужно и даже лишнее. Artur Random (talk) 17:45, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Почему не нужно? Ymblanter (talk) 19:07, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Они же автоматически в статье подгружаются. УССР и СССР. Artur Random (talk) 18:49, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Report concerning User:Awinsongyababa

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Awinsongyababa (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Erroneously merging people with the Distributed Game. I left a message on their talk page but they are unlikely to see it if they are using an external tool. Please block to get their attention. ―William Graham (talk) 20:44, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

shock-blocked for one week Estopedist1 (talk) 21:19, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Due to massiveness, he is likely some LTA. Checkuser case for e.g. user:Matlin? Pinging user:Jasper Deng Estopedist1 (talk) 06:39, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I finished proofing all the merges, took me a bunch of hours. Erred on the side of reverting when there wasn't enough information to compare biographies/publications. William Graham (talk) 14:57, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @William Graham:! Unfortunately there were 2 other users doing many such merges yesterday - Suglo20 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) and Deishini Mariam (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)). I can review the latter, but User:Suglo20 had hundreds of merges that might take many days to resolve. This is a "duplicate" of the problem we had last month with another new Wikidata user - Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/2024/06#Please revert June 20 edits by User:Jephtah Ogyefo Acquah. The error rate there was close to 50%, so I think it would be easiest here if User:Suglo20's were just all reverted. Magnus claimed he had shut down this feature in his "game" but evidently it came back somehow. ArthurPSmith (talk) 16:02, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've taken care of the Deishini Mariam merges; reverted 5 for being wrong one way or another. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:47, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
BTW I had a similar problem recently with Nkpelawuni (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)); the problem mainly involved the "Merge items" game; I blocked the account once for 1 day and checked all the merges (nearly all were wrong); then there were a bulk of new wrong merges, so I blocked the account for 1 week and chacked all the new merges (nearly all wrong as the previous time). I fear somehow all of these account could be connected; maybe the same person creating a new one after the previous is blocked; it could be useful a look by the checkusers IMHO. Epìdosis 18:06, 22 July 2024 (UTC) See also Topic:Y8vvrrfnnminerl2 (asking to deactivate the "Merge items" game) and Topic:Y71rogb5cqh25uiw (asking to deactivate the "Duplicate authors" game). --Epìdosis 18:07, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, I had been assuming this was somehow just new Wikidata users trying to be helpful. I've had interactions with some of those who've used the game in the past (via their talk pages or undo comments) and they don't seem to act like a LTA person, but I haven't had much interaction with those types so maybe I just don't know. In any case I think there's a fundamental problem here of calling merges in Wikidata a "game" - merges need to be thought through carefully, they have significant follow-on consequences (changing items that refer to them) that become very hard to reverse after a week or so. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:12, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also taken care of the Suglo20 merges; I reverted 54 out of 134 of them (40% error rate). So anyway hopefully we're done with this problem for good now. ArthurPSmith (talk) 20:57, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Estopedist1: There's strong technical evidence that this is an (unannounced) hackathon. Out of caution I will not make any blocks related to this without that clarification. Otherwise it is Likely that Awinsongyababa = Suglo20 and Possible that they are Deishini Marium. CheckUser isn't perfect.--Jasper Deng (talk) 22:49, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ArthurPSmith@Epìdosis@William Graham: only smart solution here is that new users (without autopatrolled status) are not permitted to merge items Estopedist1 (talk) 06:24, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Support is that something the interface allows setting? ArthurPSmith (talk) 13:47, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Probably Estopedist1 intended merging items through the Wikidata game - which is now solved, cf. Topic:Y8vvrrfnnminerl2 and Topic:Y71rogb5cqh25uiw (all the merge games in the Wikidata Game have been canceled) -; disallowing doing it through Wikidata itself (using Special:MergeItems or the merge gadget) would probably be possible only through Special:AbuseFilter and would anyway require a wide discussion (probably a RfC). Epìdosis 21:15, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Q59657831

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Hi! Can someone please check whether the research topics listed at Q59657831 are valid? There's not much material online and it seems like a novel research. --TadejM (talk) 18:40, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I'm misunderstand, but are you talking about the statements related to notable work (P800) claims? i.e. "has this person published about gasocrinology (Q127038678) as a notable work"? If that's where you're going here, yes, all of these "notable works" are not works at all and are just subtopics of research or topics of some kind. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:56, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. These seem like novel hypotheses that have not yet gained credibility in the scientific community (e.g. Q127603341 which is described as a "theoretical hypothesis by S. A."). If there are no secondary references to support them I consider it best to not have them as standalone items and propose that they are deleted. --TadejM (talk) 19:07, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
At a minimum, calling these "notable works" is inaccurate. Are you suggesting that the individual items like gasocrine signaling (Q127038535) should be deleted or are just crankery? As it stands now, I'm not seeing any of the claims at Savani Anbalagan (Q59657831) being actually problematic except for the official website, which I fixed with an undo because it seems like that was just a typo from the beginning. I'll defer to others who may be more knowledgeable about biology or who can suss out exactly what to do with these claims. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:13, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am not in the position to reliably judge whether they are crankery or not. I wanted to point out that these concepts (unlike some others in this field) are new to me and on the first sight they seem like an eager scientist pushing hard for their hypotheses to gain ground. In my opinion we should only have items on scientific topics that have been discussed in reliable secondary sources independent from the researcher. There is no such source cited and I also haven't been able to find it online. --TadejM (talk) 19:22, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bergenblues, Praveenarasurajan: You seem to be behind a lot of these edits. Can you please comment here? Have these topics been discussed in multiple sources? Can you at least cite one source for them? Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:22, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On a tangential note, @Bergenblues, Praveenarasurajan: have you seen Wikidata:Conflict_of_interest and the related sources there? We do not have a policy exactly equivalent to w:en:Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest, but there are still some possible concerns with sponsored editing or being particularly close to a topic. Do you have a relationship with this person? Have you engaged in any paid editing here on his behalf? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:25, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Probably canvassing

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Soufiyouns asking other users (Jsamwrites, Lionel Cristiano and Clemens Dulcis) to support property proposals! I found the following property proposal Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, and Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID. Please see Soufiyouns's contributions, Topic:Y9059pujcdduhzcr, and my user talk page for reference. As Wikidata:Canvassing not implemented yet, I raised the issue here. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 10:03, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @ZI Jony: I invited users involved in the creation and editing of lexemes and interested in French and German languages, and I considered this to be beneficial for Wikidata. I hope that notifying and informing users about the presence of proposed properties is not harmful but rather beneficial. I therefore invited several users to comment on my requests and creative proposals because they are already involved in the subject. I think that my requests were not aimed at my personal interest and that I did not request permissions or privileges, but these are subjects linked to bilingual dictionaries and contributions of an encyclopedic nature. Regards. Soufiyouns (talk) 10:27, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Soufiyouns, I saw messages on their talk page, it's not an invitation, it's canvassing! Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 10:36, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment There is no explicit rule against canvassing, but I believe it is followed de facto. I would say it's more serious if it happens in a request for permissions or a policy vote. The question is then if it becomes spammy and disruptive. I would say that asking unrelated users on their talk page to vote in support is not something we would want. It also calls into question the validity of the consensus, which arguably does harm to the process. But to be fair, a number of property proposals would fly under the radar these days if we didn't poke people somehow. I don't think anyone would mind if you used Template:Ping project or Wikidata:Project chat or any of its localized pages for this. You should also avoid language that could be interpreted as soliciting votes. Infrastruktur (talk) 22:54, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Infrastruktur: Thank you for these valuable details regarding the property proposals which would have gone unnoticed if we did not contact the potential users involved in their theme. I take for example the bilingual English-Italian proposal Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID which was going to be archived without favorable approval because of the absence of a positive vote. I then contacted the user Luca.favorido who is active on lexemes in Italian, and he thanked me for notifying him about it and strongly supported this proposal which was then created (Italian-English Dictionary ID (P12885)) and will be very useful to him in his work. Regards. Soufiyouns (talk) 05:38, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Soufiyouns, the best way is to ask their opinion (not to support) by ping them in property proposal discussion, talk page of lexicographical data, or related project pages. You have done the same is wrong way! Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 05:54, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ZI Jony: I thank you for allowing the entire Wikidata community to open the discussion on this type of incident, and I will try to ask users' opinions on topics of general interest, and I will avoid using the crude word Support which can create ambiguity and nuance constructive debate. Regards. Soufiyouns (talk) 06:15, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For transparency reasons, I have precised this in the support message. John Samuel (talk) 11:04, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jsamwrites, I noticed your remarks, and I appreciated you for that. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 05:57, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

vandal

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/اضاف has vandalised 2 pages. I've reverted the changes to one. Vicarage (talk) 12:42, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

user is warned. No additional edits after warning Estopedist1 (talk) 20:05, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Probably they are just a newbie on Wikidata, the most recent edits are made in the sandbox pages. --Wolverène (talk) 07:54, 29 July 2024 (UTC) [reply]

I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Wolverène (talk) 07:54, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Report concerning User:Azajkhan41

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Azajkhan41 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Falsifying my RFD (https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions&diff=prev&oldid=2213783418), probably did the same as 122.177.107.68 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) (https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions&diff=2213783793&oldid=2213783418). ―Dorades (talk) 10:25, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2 removed requests. Please block this user/IP and decline this request. --Wüstenspringmaus talk 11:18, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done DR closed, user warned by Matěj Suchánek. --Lymantria (talk) 07:20, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Lymantria (talk) 07:20, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Report concerning User:Dorades

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Spam User making wrong removal requests @Dorades Azajkhan41 (talk) 10:35, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done @Azajkhan41: Blanking the RFD page and falsifiying the RFD request will not get you anywhere. If you believe that the item is notable and should not be deleted, please find verifiable sources to prove its notability. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 16:49, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Lymantria (talk) 07:20, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Report concerning User:All the way to motown howdown

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All the way to motown howdown (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: LTA XReport ―Leonidlednev (talk) 04:08, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked indef. –FlyingAce✈hello 04:20, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Lymantria (talk) 07:21, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Q122791572 and Q106103956

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Pages mentioned in Q122791572 in enwiki and mrwiki should be in Q106103956. Can someone please fix them. The pages were moved from dab recently but somehow mover didn't fix it here. ShaanSenguptaTalk 04:22, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed now, thanks for bringing this up. --Wüstenspringmaus talk 13:40, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Estopedist1 (talk) 19:44, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Report concerning User:IRFakeFreeAN

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IRFakeFreeAN (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: A vandalism-only account, for several months it changes names of places to outdated ones. I suggest blocking. --Orijentolog (talk) 05:51, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: last edit was one month ago. Let us know, if he will continue, @Orijentolog Estopedist1 (talk) 06:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Estopedist1: OK, I will. Thanks. --Orijentolog (talk) 06:18, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Restoration of Q127000000

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Hello. It was me who created it (not connected), I wanted a page in my name (that I will complete) with an easy to remember number. Thank you. Gzen92 (talk) 20:41, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, are you saying that you want a vanity Wikidata entry just because? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:50, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Are you notable? --Wolverène (talk) 23:51, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As part of Gzen92's effort to snipe that QID, they (and their bot User:Gzen92Bot) created a bunch of additional items. For each failed attempt at a QID, they redirected them to Unterlinden monastery (Q15117344). I believe many other of the redirects were failed bot runs. Q15117344 has at least 400 redirects to it. If you look at their edit history, they attempted to capture Q128000000 today, and failed. I believe this kind of editing, creating mostly empty items for the purpose of sniping a QID and not managing their bot correctly, is a violation of Wikimedia policies and deserves some kind of sanction. William Graham (talk) 01:06, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is wildly unacceptable and best case scenario, this bot is malfunctioning, so I have blocked it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:17, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It seems patently obvious that he's trying to game the system for some kind of vanity URIs or something ridiculous. I have locked that page and blocked the user for two weeks. That is ridiculous, disruptive, and obviously inappropriate. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:19, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Report concerning User:Tm

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Tm (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: user is vandalizing this page by repeatedly adding [1][2] a nonexistent X profile and an irrelevant porn link. Their talk page history shows that they've been warned multiple times about edit warring, adding unsupported data, and disruptive editing. Lapadite (talk) 01:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And the above account has the bad habit of removing historical social media accounts that should be marked as obsolete instead of being removed, as i have done, removed several sourced statements, like political party, in particular removing them again 4 minutes, after i pointed several other sources in my talkpage like the source or others like ‘Parks and Recreation’ Cast Reunites for Wisconsin Democratic Party Fundraiser or Celebrities who support Joe Biden for president
For whatever reason, this same user keeps removing sourced statements, when it even has the text quoted, like "Plaza started out in entertainment as a “Saturday Night Live” set design intern and an NBC page." as not once, but twice.
His full actions of massive removal of sourced statements. Tm (talk) 01:19, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But his actions of removing sourced statements extends to more items like Charlie Puth (Q19810390) or Amy Lee (Q172632) Tm (talk) 01:28, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That isn't sourced content, and I know because I've been an active contributor to the WP article of the latter page you linked. But do try your hardest to attempt to distract from your disruptive bordering on vandal edits and your history of edit warring (for which you were warned by an admin). Lapadite (talk) 01:35, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Curious decision to not link to that discussion in full in Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive/2021/11#Tm where on can see what was really happening for several months prior with the continuos actions of one user, despite several previous enlarged discussions, but good try. Tm (talk) 07:49, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As the user has been told at least once before, a celebrity endorsing a presidential candidate does not translate to us determining that the celebrity is a member of the political party of that candidate. Wikipedia has a strict policy on BLPs (biographies of living persons), and not including original research or synthesizing content from sources ("Do not combine material from multiple sources to state or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources"). The actress does not state in the link that was present that she is a member of any party. Endorsing a political candidate does not automatically make someone a member of the candidate's party. Moreover, given TM's sidestepping here, I'd like to stress that this report isn't a content dispute, it is about the user repeatedly and knowingly re-adding a porn entry and a non-existent X profile. Lapadite (talk) 01:36, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
First thing, this is Wikidata, not the english Wikipedia, so what policies it might have, as no standing in here
Again, one does not remove an deactivated twitter profile or any other social media accounts that should be marked as obsolete instead of being removed. And that is exactly what i did and did not not removed it like you did.
And she was a history of endorsing different democratic party candidates in different USA like democratic party candidate Beto O'Rourke in the 2018 United States Senate election in Texas against the republican Ted Cruz or a Matt Meyer, democratic party candidate to the New Castle County Executive, Delaware. Tm (talk) 08:21, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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