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I first registered this account - my first - April 20, 2007. Since then, I've gotten involved pretty deeply in AfD work. I see it as a chance to triage articles that are flawed, but may yet have potential.
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False positive. Edits are not vandalism. I will note that this is a new account who has clearly been around before. Ad Orientem (talk) 04:55, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Againgames123(talk· contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs ·filter log· block user ·block log) – Tripped filter 61 five times in the last 5 minutes (New user removing references, details). . DatBot (talk) 04:23, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
No disruption since being warned. -Ad Orientem (talk) 04:53, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
This username matched "role account?" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 18:30, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
Note on file Usernames containing this string are often role accounts - check if this is the case -- DQB (owner / report) 18:30, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
This username matched "role account?" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 18:10, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Note on file Usernames containing this string are often role accounts - check if this is the case -- DQB (owner / report) 18:10, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
This username matched "grief(er|ing)" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 19:20, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Note on file in gaming slang a "griefer" is an aggressive player that gets their kicks from disrupting others -- DQB (owner / report) 19:20, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
This username matched "Used i instead of l attempting to skip filter: huggle. Violating string: huggle99" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 02:40, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Note on file reference to Wikipedia antivandal tool -- DQB (owner / report) 02:40, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
User-reported
Maurice Vellacott (talk· contribs ·deleted ·filter log ·SUL·Google)• (block · soft ·promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a misleading username. WP:IMPERSONATE; claims to be the subject of the BLP Maurice Vellacott, currently engaged in a content dispute. I do not see anything that indicates his identity has been verified. Drm310🍁 (talk) 21:52, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Middlesboroaremid (talk· contribs ·deleted ·filter log ·SUL·Google)• (block · soft ·promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a disruptive username. "Middlesboro are mid" - disruptively editing an association football team article. Aspening (talk) 01:00, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
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Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Persistent vandalism to this BLP since 04:32, 10 February 2025. Alith Anar 01:32, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Nearly every edit has been vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 01:54, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Not done Already pending changes protected, and rate of vandalism seems appropriate to handle with pending changes. — rsjaffe🗣️ 03:01, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: This is the fourth time requesting protection for this page, with times one and two lasting two weeks, and time three lasting one month. Each time the page's protection expires, there are an overwhelming amount of vandalism edits. Requesting indefinite autoconfirmed or confirmed access protection. Cheers! Johnson524 03:51, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – As per my previous requests for page protection here, here, and here for this exact same page, there are several IPs adding a variety of blatantly false, meme movie titles to the page (e.g. "Mohamed the Movie"). This issue has been ongoing for almost four months now. Temporary page protection has been done in the past, the IPs have been blocked, and yet the vandalism continues. λNegativeMP1 04:20, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: In recent weeks, there has been multiple changes made by the anonymous user 95.156.158.2, in which they keep vandalising the page of Jelena Karleuša, and if possible to switch protection to at least semi-protected or auto-confirmed users. SatelliteChange (talk) 05:48, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
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Reason: After 11 years of protection, vandals would have long gone. Admin who protected this page no longer active. LibStar (talk) 02:48, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
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In the "Resumption of hostilities (December 2023 - May 2024)" paragraph, I think that a comma should be added between "On 6 December" and "Reffat Alareer". Janan2025 (talk) 20:09, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Their user page has topics they were topic banned from in the arbpia5 case, so these should be removed or commented out until they get unbanned 128.193.36.41 (talk) 22:55, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
If ArbCom wanted this done they could have done it. As long as they don't add further content not them touching the existing content is not a topic ban violation, and this request reeks of kicking someone when they are down. * Pppery *it has begun... 23:42, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Declined per above. Daniel Case (talk) 00:18, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
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Hello, I have created 75+ articles, since I got autopatrolled mostly focusing on television series. For transparency, I'm still working on the feedback received from @Schwede66 in my last request. And I intent to keep doing the good work. Thanks for your consideration. Wishing the community a prosperous new year. C1K98V(💬 ✒️ 📂) 06:56, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Automated comment This user was granted temporary autopatrolled rights by Schwede66 (expires 00:00, 23 January 2025 (UTC)). — MusikBottalk 07:01, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Could you please point to where the date of birth of Gautam Vig is referenced, C1K98V? Schwede66 08:14, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Hi @Schwede66, I hope you enjoyed your vacation. I have sourced the DOB in the early life section as per WP:INFOBOXREF. I followed the editing style of Geniac, the way he improved Sheezan Khan and tried adapting the same. Thanks C1K98V(💬 ✒️ 📂) 08:48, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Thanks, I had a fab wee holiday. I don't understand your answer. I see that there is one ref in the infobox, and that reference does confirm the date of birth, but it is attached to the spouse only. Could you please explain what you mean, and how the referencing confirms the date of birth, C1K98V? Schwede66 08:59, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Schwede66 In the above mentioned article I have sourced the date of birth in the Early life section, see here. And the spouse's source is just about their marriage. I'm following the editing style of Geniac, the improvement he did in one of my previously created article see here. Thanks C1K98V(💬 ✒️ 📂) 09:38, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Sorry, which reference states the date of Vig's date of birth? I cannot see it. Schwede66 18:29, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
Schwede66, I have used two sources for DOB, Colors TV and India Today. You can find both the sources in the Early life section. Hope it helps, if you still can't verify the birth date, you're most welcome to remove it. Thanks C1K98V(💬 ✒️ 📂) 18:50, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
@C1K98V Is it just me or the webpage you're linking to from colorstv.com is redirecting to a /mena/ directory making it impossible to see what you're talking about or citing. As for the indiatoday.in, you did not initially position the citation as of when Schwede66 started reviewing your request, you only repositioned the citation today. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 19:07, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
Hi Vanderwaalforces, I'm not sure if the Colorstv website works outside of India. Let's wait for Schwede66 to confirm if they're able to verify it. I'm sharing a screenshot of the website for reference [1]. While searching for sources related to their academics, I found IndiaToday and added it later in the Early life section. I repositioned the named citation as I wanted to highlight it for Schwede66, so I left an edit summary too. Thanks for your consideration. C1K98V(💬 ✒️ 📂) 03:43, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
(Non-administrator comment) I can access the colorstv source and confirm that it mentions Gautam Vig's date of birth. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:18, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
That's good to know, because I have the same problem that Vanderwaalforces talks about. I will have to get back to this item. Schwede66 07:44, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
Concise, well-written and sufficiently articles, mostly with a royal or Church of England focus. I looked at an articles of theirs as part of NPP, and found it to be up to standard without editing. Others look reasonable too. Klbrain (talk) 12:15, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
It is my 8th year of editing (4th with this account). I have written a number of articles of various types and none have been permanently deleted. I have made mistakes, but understand what they were and how to avoid them. About to publish many geography stubs (manually written, differing in content, not violating MASSCREATE - see Ledenice and Zapeć for examples). Articles like Cirsium greimleri, First Vrbnik Breviary, Petər Klepəc and Veternica are more representative of my work, though. Ivan (talk) 17:48, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
91 main space articles, 45 rated above stub, no deletions. I mostly create articles for albums or BLPs of musicians. GanzKnusper (talk) 09:26, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
The user has created 189 articles, and only two have ever been deleted—with one later restored. They have a strong understanding of reliable sources (WP:RS) and are well-versed in BLP policies (WP:BLP). I've reviewed one or two of their articles, and I believe they truly deserve the rights. Baqi:) (talk) 13:03, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
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I am requesting confirmed (autoconfirmed) rights for my account, SmartChimpanzee. I have already contributed two entries to the talk page for the article "2025 Potomac River mid-air collision" regarding a proposed update to the helicopter model information. However, since I do not yet have confirmed rights, I am unable to edit the main article directly.
My contributions on the talk page have focused on adding information supported by reliable sources—specifically, evidence that the helicopter involved in the collision is a UH‑60M (the “gold top”) rather than the currently listed UH‑60L. Being able to edit the article directly would allow me to incorporate this important information and improve the overall accuracy of the entry.
I have followed Wikipedia’s guidelines and have provided verifiable sources in my talk page entries. Granting confirmed rights would enable me to continue contributing effectively to the article and other related topics.
Thank you for considering my request. SmartChimpanzee (talk) 22:51, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
Hi SmartChimpanzee. I am marking this as Not done, but you will automatically become autoconfirmed in the next day or two. We don't really skip this period for new accounts barring extraordinary circumstances, but the good news is that most articles are not protected and could use your help right now! Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:02, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
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Hello. I am requesting this permission mainly in order to perform certain page moves myself (including some bold ones), instead of raising the issue at WP:RM/TR, and basically bothering others to do my work for me. It would be very helpful to being able to use the delete-redirect right, as well the suppressredirect right, without leaving
redirects behind my moves (which I would mainly use when reverting page move vandalism).
If granted, I intend to use it responsibly (and just occasionally – when needed), in the same way as I am using other permissions that were granted to me so far. Over the years, I have made quite a few moves and 76 edits
at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. I have file mover permission since 2014.
As for my general experience, I have been around for almost 15 years, with c. 150,000 edits. — Sundostundmppria(talk / contribs) 23:32, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
One observation is that you haven’t participated or closed many RM discussions recently, and we haven’t seen any RMTR or CSD requests for over a year. TiggerJay(talk) 06:30, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
@Tiggerjay: Yes, I am aware of that. I tend to participate in a RM discussion when I am interested in its subject, and/or when I have enough time with my other work here. Neither of that simply didn't happen too often, recently. Also, I have the habit of never closing a discussion myself, as I'm always thinking that someone might stumble upon and leave their two cents at the last moment. As for RMTR requests, I didn't find a valid reason (or need) to file one in awhile, but there were periods when I was very active in that department. — Sundostundmppria(talk / contribs) 12:09, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
DoneElli (talk | contribs) 15:46, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
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I'd like to request pending changes review rights because I am familiar with the policy and this would help me with my vandalism patrols. Furthermore, I am currently trying to accept a request, but I do not have the permissions. Thanks! Ali Beary(talk2me!)(stalk me?!) 13:29, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
@Ali Beary Given your recent WP:CUTPASTE move, I'd like to see a little more time for you to demonstrate your knowledge of Wikipedia policies and procedures before granting additional permissions. --Ahecht (TALK PAGE) 22:44, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
@Ahecht, ah, apologies. I didn't realize a "request moves" page existed, and I do not have move or merge permissions. I was simply undoing something that wasn't correct... hence why I requested move perms earlier so I could fix it. Ali Beary (talk) 12:38, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
@Ahecht just curious, would you object to a grant here? If so this should be declined for now. Otherwise I'd consider granting since PCR is a pretty newbie-friendly permission. Elli (talk | contribs) 17:35, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
@Elli I haven't re-reviewed their history, but if there have been no significant red flags since mid-January I'd be fine with granting. --Ahecht (TALK PAGE) 17:54, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
I have been editing for a while and I think I have a decent understanding of the basic policies. I'd like to help review pending changes. Aŭstriano (talk) 07:53, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
DoneElli (talk | contribs) 19:02, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
I've been actively editing and reviewing contributions for a while, and I’m familiar with Wikipedia's guidelines. Having pending changes reviewer rights would let me help ensure that new articles meets our quality standards. Vellutis (talk) 13:41, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Not doneHaving pending changes reviewer rights would let me help ensure that new articles meets our quality standards. Please reread WP:Reviewing pending changes - that's not what that right does. * Pppery *it has begun... 17:58, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
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I am requesting rollback permissions. While I don’t edit often, I know how important it is to quickly address vandalism and fix problematic edits.
This account is an alternative to Randompersonediting, but I’m requesting rollback here for transparency.
I understand how to use rollback responsibly, and I will only use it to fix vandalism or obvious errors. I know misuse could lead to losing this privilege and will use it carefully. AnAltAccount (✍️•📚) 04:27, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
Automated comment This user has 150 edits in the mainspace. — MusikBottalk 15:20, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
The majority of my edits are either looking through recent changes for vandalism, or fixing references. Rollback seems like it would help do the former more comfortably. Purplemontart (talk) 06:05, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
Not done Too little recent activity - you've made a few reverts yesterday, and before that had been gone for months. * Pppery *it has begun... 17:13, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
Hi, I want to add request about to be a rollbacker. This is because I were used WP:Twinkle a week ago and I want to make sure the page isn't broken by other irresponsible users. Secondly, the reason that I want to be a rollbacker is to protect the safety of other users and avoid vandalism in the page.
Thank you if I become rollbacker.
MAS0802 07:04, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
Not done No recent changes patrolling in history, one edit with Twinkle is not sufficient for this. * Pppery *it has begun... 17:15, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
After starting with Recent Changes Patrolling I found myself in a very rewarding position, seeing that I can help other Wikipedians and the Wiki as a whole. But I also experienced the limitation of not having the Rollback right so I'd like to switch to AntiVandal or Huggle. Squawk7700 (talk) 22:20, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
I'm actively patrolling articles on countries, political figures, and political parties that are frequently vandalized. Rollback permissions would help me quickly remove harmful edits and maintain articles accuracy and quality. Vellutis (talk) 13:48, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
(Non-administrator comment) Have you monitored Recent Changes at all? / RemoveRedSky[talk] [gb] 17:25, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Not done No recent changes patrolling activity. * Pppery *it has begun... 17:57, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
Hi. I've recently come across several instances where rollbacking would be faster than manually reverting nonconstructive consecutive edits. I don't patrol Recent Changes, but I am quite active and have more than 3,100 pages on my Watchlist. Thanks for your consideration. PRRfan (talk) 04:11, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
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I come across bugs in template-protected templates from time to time, and I think I'm proficient enough to fix them without someone else checking it over. For instance, I recently submitted an edit request to fix {{Huggle/warn-unsor-2}}'s substitution behavior, and I found a similar issue in {{uw-editsummary2}}. I understand that edits to widely-used templates should be tested in a sandbox first, that they should reflect consensus, and that they can have nontrivial performance costs. jlwoodwa (talk) 01:51, 8 February 2025 (UTC)
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