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Another sock of Newestcastleman

Hello, I realise that you're away on holiday, but I just wanted to bring to your attention another sock of Newestcastleman.

SportsGamer1 has been blocked already, but if you could please add to the SPI archive/tag etc., when you're free, I would appreciate it as I'm not entirely sure what to do. Happy New Year, JMHamo (talk) 12:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

The template on their user page will do the job. Thanks for letting me know. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:41, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Possible socks

I see you seem to know about this topic. In reviewing some images on the commons I see the uploads of Krishnakant Arunkumar Mishra which have been put up for deletion as Out Of Scope but those images are used in the following 4 user pages: User:Ikkakm, User:Krishnakant Arunkumar Mishra, User:Krishna Arunkumar Mishra and User:Krishna Mishra A which I suspect are all the same person. Can you deal with it or advise me? Please drop me a talkback if you want me to take some action. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 18:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi ww2censor, the best place to go for this is WP:SPI. But make sure there is a recent (which I don't think there is) abuse of multiple accounts before you report. At the moment I think the best option is to wait and see what happens next. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:44, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

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Ds template

I noticed you edited this on Dec 22; I tried to give someone a warning per the spec in the template:ds page, with: {{subst:Ds|topic=cc}} and got a blank page. Did your adding the signature stuff break the template? Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:34, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Template:Ds is an information page so is designed so it can't be substituted. {{Ds/sanction}} is the one you're after. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:07, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Deletion of Allen Wastler

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Lukabri

Lukabri has agreed to your conditions for unblocking. Since you're offline, I'm going to post on my talk page, asking another administrator to look into it. —rybec 00:11, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Callanecc

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Ip-hopper

Hi Callanecc. The ip-hopping vandal on the protected Puntland presidential election, 2014‎ page is now vandalizing Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, one of the candidates in the race. Can you please intervene? Best regards, Middayexpress (talk) 15:37, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

I've range blocked them for a few days. Hopefully that'll do the job. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 15:41, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

talkback

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Thanks

Prompt and efficient.

Merci bien. Begoon  16:55, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Regarding the IP user you didn't take action against

Admin User:Mark Arsten is aware of the situation. I have sent him personal messages, so we'll see. This guy (the IP's user) is also harassing me now. So it has become more than just edit warring or what not. But I still appreciate you taking the time to review my complaint. --DendroNaja (talk) 17:08, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Are they harassing you onwiki? If so if you give me diffs I can take action now. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 17:12, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

After Mark protected the Inland taipan page because I discovered all his WP policy and guideline violations, he began to follow the pages I edit to try to attack my integrity. For example, Talk:Black_mamba. After all the work I did on it, went through a rigorous review and got upgraded to GA status he immediately went there to try to discredit my work. He is doing it on Snakebite too (look at the talk page there too, the very end). The issue is that the list of 10 most venomous snakes was left there by User:Jmh649, who is a physician and an global administrator on here. But yet, he is going after me. That is harassement. It has become distracting to me. I have two GA noms that I need to begin my work on, but his constant reverting of anything he doesn't like or agree with and his veiled attacks on my integrity are so distracting that I have told the user who is reviewing both the articles I nominated to wait so I can deal with this. I don't believe this IP user will stop. It may not have been an ANI3 issue, but he should be blocked for reasons of first showing no care at all for Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines, for following me around now because he's angered that I discovered his violations and making veiled attacks on my integrity should be enough grounds to block him. I told User:Mark Arsten, but have not told User:Jmh649 (Doc James). I think his edit summary remark like "you cannot remove a major source just because you upset your favorite snake (black mamba) isn't on it" (diff) is a direct attack on my person. I hold two degrees that are related to the stuff I'm working on here. He's effectively trying to ruin my reputation as an editor with comments like that. That is not just harassement, but it is character assassination as well. He is just useless on Misplaced Pages, I'm sorry to say. He has wasted so much of my time and energy that I have even considered just giving up and quit working on the snake articles. It has become distressing to me and I don't know how to deal with it. I ignore him, but he follows me to wherever I edit. Now he reverted the snakebite page to the way he wanted it and I cannot do anything about it to correct it. It's just frustrating and difficult to deal with. Following me around is harassement - he is doing it out of anger at me for discovering his violations on the inland taipan page and having it subsequently protected. --DendroNaja (talk) 17:40, 4 January 2014 (UTC

Given the complicated and historical nature I think it'd be better if I leave it for Mark Arsten to deal with. Though in terms of a noticeboard to get help at WP:ANI is your best bet. But I'd suggest seeing if Mark;s talents can help resolve it first. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 17:48, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Honestly, I don't think it is that complicated. It is like this: ask yourself what value does he have here on WP? Then answer to the question (I think you already know the answer to that). He is distracting a user (me) that is trying to put expand, improve and upgrade to GA status two articles at the moment (forest cobra and many-banded krait) - why? Because I have to deal with this IP user who is hell bent on "getting me back" for all the violations he committed, least of all the copyright vios. I have a short list you can look at (I can't list them all, way too many). He is clearly a troll, a vandal and he's trying to bait me into situations that can get me into trouble (but I am not stupid). It's just too much for any editor to have to deal with, while trying to work on the articles I need to work on. I enjoy expanding and improving snake articles, because it is my field of work. He's sucking the joy out of my experience here. It isn't fair. Not to me and not to Misplaced Pages as a whole, in my opinion. Something HAS to be done or else he won't stop, which means I won't be able to contribute because it is tiresome to deal with someone stalking your edits and following you around everywhere to argue. --DendroNaja (talk) 17:58, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Oh, and the list of copyright vios:

• Duplicate detector
• Duplicate detector
• Duplicate detector
• Duplicator detector
• Duplicate detector -

Meh

Go ahead, if they confirm. Also make sure to explain how to get a username change. DS (talk) 18:13, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, don't mean to be a bother but just another thing...

I once got blocked for simply suggesting on the Angelina Jolie talk page that a section on her mental health status should be made because her mental health has been in question since AT LEAST her father made that public plea for her to get psychological help for her "severe psychological problems". I got unblocked the same day, but that's all it took. This guy violates every policy in the book, follows me around and no action is taken at all. That isn't fair. I think. But I respect your opinion and I am only expressing my frustration at the situation. --DendroNaja (talk) 18:21, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

other nonsense

Thanks for the Russian American page action. The same nonsense is occurring on the Belarusian American page by an IP user who wants to be the sole decider of images to appear on the page. Hmains (talk) 01:34, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I could probably have semi protected, but there seems to be more of a long running issue there. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:38, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes, we have an IP editor (with a dozen or so IP addresses-but same person) who first wanted to put non-Americans on each page (insisting by his own research not the content of the WP articles that they were American or alternatively that you didn't have to be a citizen to be American) and now seems to want anyone except Jews on the pages (doesn't like them 'pushed' on him). Basically, he just wants whatever he wants, the excuses do not matter. As of right now, the articles reflect his last edits and not what they contained prior to this activity, including gaming the WP rules to his own benefit. Hmains (talk) 01:45, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

The main issue is that they are content disputes. If after the protections expire I'd have no issue blocking or semi protecting. But let's see how these relatively short full protections work. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:48, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

No way to block an IP editor using an ISP that changes IP addresses with every logon as this IP editor claims happens. Only way to fix is edit-only by auto-confirmed-editors on these articles--for a long time. Hmains (talk) 02:30, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

We can rangeblock, but it's way to big. So semi protections are the only way to do it. But we'll see what happens. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:32, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

The IP editor may be perfectly happy with his last edits and so not edit, so it will be other editors who have to expose themselves to trouble by editing the articles to get them back to where they were prior to this outbreak of editing nonsense. Hmains (talk) 02:38, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Unblock request response

Thanks for the email.

No. The IP block would not have expired by the time you responded, but it would not have mattered because it was a weekend and no one was in the office that needed to edit Misplaced Pages after the end of business on the day the request was made.

Yes, I was able to use my home account to make a request to the blocking admin who removed the block on the IP.

Glad it wasn't an emergency (can someone have an emergency because they can't edit Misplaced Pages?), and thanks for the help anyhow! Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:58, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Plus it would have needed me to be online when you replied to the email asking for more information. But glad it got sorted out anyway. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:52, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Snakebite report at AN3

Hello Callanecc. You left open this case for comment by other admins: Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:79.182.111.44, User:79.182.49.102 being reported by User:DendroNaja (Result: ). Since the 79.* IP-hopper has been reverting across snake articles and has made a number of copyright violations, I think it's within discretion (of AN3) to do semiprotection of the articles he has been editing. During the period that Black Mamba has been semiprotected, User:DendroNaja has been able to take the article to the GA level. That article was most recently semied by User:Mark Arsten but the log shows it has needed frequent protection over the last few years. In my opinion it's a valid use of semiprotection to enable good-faith editors to make article improvements. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 07:25, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Sure, sounds like a good reasoning to me. Feel free to semi protect. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:36, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Eastern Europe sanctions

Hi Callanecc, I just received notice here and on my talk page of sanctions regarding editing on Eastern Europe. I'm wondering if this is because I sometimes edit on Eastern Europe generally, or because of specific edits I made, or discussions regarding them? All best, -Darouet (talk) 03:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

It was editing the topic area generally. But it was editing Svoboda (political party) which popped your username to me. I clarified that the page is under discretionary sanctions on the talk page and notified the recent editors. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:33, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions notification)

Please bear in mind that NONE of the administrators supposedly applying discretion sanctions is above the WP rules or free of review. And the balder such admins are in their "discretions", the harder would they be hit by the community;) My 10+ years of Wikipedianship dictate me this knowledge.

Please note: This notice does not imply wrong doing, it is used in an advisory capacity only. Grateful you for your interest in Eastern Europe, Ukrained2012 (talk) 08:19, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Proposed Topic blocking for IRR

I will definitely be more careful to leave 24 hours (rather than 22 hours) between edits in the future.

I had believed that I had left a day between the edits, although I hadn't timed it carefully enough (hence why I state that I didn't notice an IRR violation). But I will count the hours more carefully next time.

As for the content of the edit. I would think it is uncontroversial (as per WP:V) that we should use the name in the article that the sources that we are citing use. Avaya1 (talk) 16:34, 6 January 2014 (UTC)