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Simple English Wikipedia

Please protect Simple English Wikipedia: Vandalism. --Leonidlednev (talk) 23:49, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

The main issues we've had on this article seem from 22 November where 3RR was not really followed, hence it looks like there's more vandalism than there is. There's only been one incident of vandalism since. Not protecting for now. --Ferien (talk) 17:48, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Ferien: can it be protected now? There was a big uptick in vandalism over the last 22 hours. 71.125.36.50 (talk) 16:09, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok.  Done for a week --Ferien (talk) 21:05, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Is there evidence that Simple English Wikipedia is actually used by the groups mentioned on the page? Even if that's who it's intended for, has there been a study about this? Kk.urban (talk) 01:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, we have have run programs for such groups in the past, especially ESL learers. I remember there being a study about simple, but I forget what the study was about so I am not sure on that one. -Djsasso (talk) 01:35, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Requesting a temp flood flag

Hello. I recently got my watchlist spammed by Cewbot about 192 broken anchors after a copyedit on Professional wrestling match types. I'd like to fix the anchors but also don't want to flood Recent Changes. May I please get a temporary flood flag? - MourningRainfall (talk) 02:15, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@MourningRainfall  Done for 48 hours, please remove if you finish before then --DannyS712 (talk) 03:18, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, it looks like flooders cannot remove the group from themselves on this wiki (we should change that...) so please post here when you want the flag removed DannyS712 (talk) 03:19, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks. If I finish it by then I will. - MourningRainfall (talk) 04:00, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure I got them all now and am done. Thanks again. - MourningRainfall (talk) 09:03, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@MourningRainfall: Thanks. I have removed the flood flag. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:34, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Protect Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo is getting vandalized a lot, can we semi-protect it please? XXBlackburnXx (talk) 10:37, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

And just got vandalized again. Really nobody want to protect? XXBlackburnXx (talk) 09:37, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Page Protection for List of Disney characters

Requesting page protection for List of Disney characters, persistent vandalism by IP users for about month now See Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 15:49, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

It might be better to get rid of the articles and start over, it's clear that these articles are being targeted by IPs. Such as List of Pixar movies or List of Disney movies. RiggedMint 16:27, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

I agree. Considering the persistent vandalism on these pages, it might be worth considering a fresh start for articles. Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 14:00, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

I am actually going to nominate it for outright deletion as its fails en:WP:NOTDIRECTORY and should not really even exist. It was deleted at en.wiki for the same reason. -Djsasso (talk) 19:13, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

RfD for Category:Members of the British House of Commons

Can an admin please resolve the issue here: User talk:Fr33kman#RfD for Category:Members of the British House of Commons? Kk.urban (talk) 03:13, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

I second the motion. Frankly this is a perfect example of when IAR should be used. fr33kman 03:19, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, understood what you wanted. Have deleted the redirect nowas no one is going to search on that title. fr33kman 03:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

The contents are still in the deleted category, and the new category is currently empty and still has the RfD template, so it's not resolved yet. Kk.urban (talk) 05:59, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

I removed the template. QuicoleJR (talk) 20:44, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks fr33kman 21:06, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Can you please help me move all of the article to the renamed category? There are also some subcats that need to be moved. QuicoleJR (talk) 21:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Probably relevant

This discussion at Simple Talk is about potentially banning a user, so I think posting a link here would be relevant. Please tell me if it is not. QuicoleJR (talk) 20:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

98.98.206.146

98.98.206.146 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) This user is doing nothing but copying the first few sentences of articles from English Wikipedia. I assume this is not allowed? Kk.urban (talk) 22:35, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@Kk.urban Seems suspicious with regards to the recent mass page creations. Regardless, I have blocked the /16 range for 3 years as they are using a VPN. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 22:43, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@Fehufanga Should the articles be deleted? Kk.urban (talk) 22:44, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@Kk.urban I'll just G5 all of them for now since it's very ducky. Any admin may revert this. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 22:45, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/24.46.161.159

Many creations by this user are enwiki intro copies and possible QD A3 cases. Since the creator is repeating QD tag removal at many pages, I will forward the QD request to here and ask admins to take a look at their creations. MathXplore (talk) 03:15, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

(Question) Can this IP be a proxy? ([1]) MathXplore (talk) 03:16, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

No, but they are evading an indefinite block. I'm just going to delete the unrepaired articles. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 10:09, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Miko Lebak Official

A new user is repeating QD A5 removal from a non-English ad, so I will forward the QD request to here. MathXplore (talk) 09:03, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Already  Done. MathXplore (talk) 09:23, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for checkusership/Fr33kman 2

Please semi-protect the RFA, there has been persistent vandalism and socking on the RFCU, including [2] [3] [4]. Thanks. --170.24.150.113 (talk) 14:43, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Page Protection for Adolf Hitler Uunona

Requesting page protection for Adolf Hitler Uunona, persistent vandalism by IP users for a whle now, See Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 03:50, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

The levels of vandalism in that page are somewhat manageable for now. However, there are few constructive anonymous edits within the last year. I'm not opposed to protecting it but I'm not going to protect it either, as it looks like the recent uptick in vandalism has died down. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 10:08, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Ahmed Shamshul Haque

I want to clarify that I don't have the ability to delete pages on Wikipedia or engage in any direct actions on external websites. However, if you believe that your Wikipedia page is being deleted without proper justification, you may want to consider the following approach:

Subject: Request for Review of Wikipedia Page Deletion

Dear @MathXplore

I hope this message finds you well. I recently noticed that my Wikipedia page, Ahmed Shamshul Haque, has been flagged for deletion. I would like to express my concern and seek clarification regarding the reasons behind this decision.

I believe that the content on my page accurately reflects the notability. The information provided is well-referenced and adheres to Wikipedia's guidelines for reliable sourcing. Additionally, the page has garnered positive attention from reputable sources.

I kindly request a thorough review of the deletion decision, taking into consideration the inherent notability of the subject matter. If there are specific concerns or issues with the page content, I am more than willing to collaborate and make necessary revisions to ensure compliance with Wikipedia's policies.

I appreciate your time and attention to this matter and am confident that, upon review, my Wikipedia page will be reinstated.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

Gautami Shankar 4522 (talk) 11:19, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

It would probably be better to contact them on the user talk page rather than the Administrators Noticeboard, which is mainly for requesting tasks to be done that only admins can do, which MathXplore is not.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 11:22, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

i have contacted him but he achieve my messege Gautami Shankar 4522 (talk) 11:29, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done The page has been deleted. MathXplore (talk) 13:38, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

User talk:Yamla

Please semi protect the page. 2 seperate vandals tried to add OS'd material on the page. Chapter49493 (talk) 13:19, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@DannyS712:, who handled the vandalism. --Chapter49493 (talk) 15:27, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Persistent spamming at Loan

Can someone please add unitedkingdomloans.co.uk to the spam blacklist using Special:BlockedExternalDomains or block the spammers, please? I'm afraid warning them won't help. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 09:16, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Unless there's an extensive history of the domain being added in the past, I'm reluctant to add this. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 09:30, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Afaics the domain has been spammed since 2021: Special:Diff/7696369. I'll put a request on m:SBL because i just realised they have been active cross-wiki. Thank you anyway. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 09:53, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done on SBL. Billinghurst (talk) 00:07, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Closure needed

Could an uninvoled administrator look at this thread and close it? Thank you. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 07:32, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Dilip Maharana (painter)

I think this is a QD G4/G5 case (Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2022/Laxmi Narayan Maharana), but since IPs are repeating QD tag removal I will forward the QD request to here. MathXplore (talk) 07:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Already  Done. MathXplore (talk) 11:38, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Martial arts

Please protect Martial arts: Vandalism by an LTA. --Leonidlednev (talk) 17:27, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

August Michael Peterson

I think this is a QD A4 case, but since several IPs are repeating QD tag removal, I will forward the QD request to here. MathXplore (talk) 11:38, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Md Sunnat Ali Mollik (Freedomfighter)

Please take care of this QD G5 case (Special:Contributions/Md_Sunnat_Ali_Mollik). An IP is repeating QD tag removal so I will forward the QD request to here. MathXplore (talk) 14:30, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Protection request: Hittites

Could an admin please protect Hittites from long-term vandalism/fringe nationalist claim by an LTA? (Fehufanga may know which LTA this is; I don't) - there's an edit war that's been going on for a long time and this person seems neither to want to provide a source or indeed communicate at all. Thanks - Antandrus (talk) 17:23, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

@Antandrus  Done, for reference, en:Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Ararat_arev — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 21:29, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Simpul skitsofreeneea

I have blocked Simpul skitsofreeneea from editing for a period of one month to give us time to think about what to do. fr33kman 23:59, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Ban him permanently. He has given clear evidence that he cannot or will not change. His writing makes nonsense of our claim to be simple. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:41, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrator involvement request

I want some assistance regarding and article where I have added a lot of content using reliable and independent sources a user User: Cyber.Eyes.2005 he first missused the tag of (General research) at the page of Kushan see please ([5]) he even removed the words Afghanistan, Pakistan India from the lead section without proving a reliable source he said this Kushan clan only live in Punjab even those Gurjar ethnic community found in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India and devided into many clan groups so mostly these clans live in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India where this community live. He is trying to remove and disruptive large amount of well sourced and reliable information from the page and he is making many reverts even he made a request for Roll back permission. Further he even Quickly nominated page Gurjar clans for deletion. His intentions is not good and he must have conflict of intrest please help me in this cause thank you May god blessed you and your family. He is just trying to Target Gurjar ethnic related articles and he is involved in miss using of General research tag see here at Baisoya ([6]), Kushan ([7]) every time he is just using one single summary with same tag WP:OR/ possible General research etc. he is also further giving me wrong warnings at my talk page see ([8]) even after the creation of my at Simple Wikipedia after just few hours of creation my account he is wrongly gave me warnings for no serious reason or Disruption. He should be strictly warned or blocked for making unconstructive, Disruptive edits and vandalizing the pages , Including Baisoya, Kushan, and Gurjar clans mostly Gurjar ethnic related pages he is targeting. TalanChopra (talk) 20:33, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Fr33kman please see my request TalanChopra (talk) 21:35, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

I removed unsourced and potentially original research content from this article Kushan. User:TalanChopra reverted my edits and added more unsourced material, including geographic distribution and religion of the Kushan clan, which were not mentioned in any of his cited sources See, Additionally, he re-added languages spoken by the clan without proper sourcing. Furthermore, content that may be one-sided or biased was added, such as the statement "The believer of the myth, that Gurjars are foreigners, like Sir James Campbell, General Crook, Colonel Todd, Mr. forbs, Dr. Bhagwan Lal Inder Ji and all other has agree that present Kasana gotra of Gurjars are successors of great Kushans". The cited source for this information needs verification, Source. User:TalanChopra also added the statement (claim) "According to Vidhya Prakash Tyagi, the Kushan, a sub-caste of the Gujjars, were a native family in Peshawar, which is why Kanishk spared Patna's Ruler Subahu Nagar. The family was known as Devaputra, which means "Aryan," and was part of the Kushan Gujjar tribe". This claim needs verification, a book by Vidhya Prakash Tyagi was cited for this.

Conclusion: Throughout the article, there is a consistent emphasis on Gujjars being descendants of the Kushan Empire with many unsourced and original research additions. Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 03:43, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

User:TalanChopra repeated the same action here, re-adding unsourced and unreferenced claims that I had reverted. I won't be reverting any more of his edits until administrators make a decision to avoid edit wars. Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 03:54, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@Cyber.Eyes.2005 no you mostly removed well sourced material from Kushan page only dedicated to Kushan clan of Gujjars even you removed well sourced content from Baisoya page related to Gujjars again you don't have the authority to remove large amount of content from Kushan page as you did and removed almost 3000 bites from Kushan page even in your all edit summaries you're continuesly using same edit summary with same tags WP:OR etc I think you are not familiar even your behavior is not very cool or you don't have cool temperament you request for Roll back right but unfortunately you don't have a cool temperament you don't even understand Wikipedia's basic policies that large amount of content should not be removed without starting a discussion at Talk page. TalanChopra (talk) 04:10, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Your assertions that I lack the right to remove 3000 bits from an article? and that I removed sourced information are inaccurate. Additionally, I consistently provide detailed explanations in my edit summaries when necessary. Let's await a conclusion from the administrators. Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 04:17, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

I am providing the link that I am not wrong you literally removed 3000 bites of text from Kushan page in your all sumaries you said don't you Kshatriya etc but Kushan clan page is according to Wikipedia Neutral point of view so according to neutral point of only in origin section by using well cited and reliable sources only Kshatriya word mentioned no matter is Kshatriya is an order in Hinduism but this page is for all Kushan Gujjars no matter they're Hindu, Sikh or Muslim so you should not try to labelled Kushan Gujjar page only for Muslim Kushan Gujjars because this page is only dedicated to Kushan clan of Gujjars found in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India among the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh Gujjars so in origin section Kshatriya term can be used according to Wikipedia neutral point of view. And please see this link you removed more then 3000 bites when I improved and add more headings, Content you intentionally removed more then 3000 bites of content. See this link [9] and before any solution my admins Administrators do not make any revert at Kushan, Gurjar clans or Baisoya pages and don't use Same Tage WP:OR etc. just be clam and try to understand Wikipedia is not a battle ground we should try to understand and should try to work together by maintaining Wikipedia basic guidelines, Rules and neutrality Thank you. TalanChopra (talk) 04:26, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Anuj Choudhary Ror may be of interest - a sock farm on EN that's heavily focused on clan articles, including several that TalanChopra has created here. Ravensfire (talk) 04:45, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

• This user

at ver first this user changed context Kushan Gujjar clan of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to clan of Punjab province without proving any sources even every section in the article was well cited before and now. The he Removed 3500 bites in two reverts at Kushan page within 24hours ([10]) and in his 3 of reverts he said don't add Kshatriya because Kshatriya is an order in Hinduism but Kshatriya I removed from lead and was remained in Origin section Because in cited sources clearly mentioned they're Kshatriya according to Hinduism and Kushan And other Gujjars are Devided in Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism even today so this page was according to Wikipedia neutral point of view And not just according to Muslim Kushan Gujjar that's why in origin section mentioned Kshatriya. He also used Original research tags more then 4th times at same page Kushan he even further used same tag at Baisoya (At Baisoya page he removed 500 bites and well sourced ethnography section saying that unsourced [11]) page of Gujjars also for no reason. He even Quickly nominated Gurjar clans ([12]) page just after then creation of few hours. After all he gave more then 2 or 3 warnings at my talk page just to show that I am new user and should be block etc. I also tried to solve issue with him at talk page hi clearly said no to any solution and showed some sort of arrogance ([13]) and he also gave wrong warnings at my talk page. TalanChopra (talk) 05:10, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes, but both users may have used sockpuppets on English Wikipedia. That shouldn't be used as a reason to favor one side or the other. Kk.urban (talk) 19:03, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

It's to point out that there were issues on the English Wikipedia that may be continued over here related to castes. I'm aware that what happens on one Wikipedia generally shouldn't carry over to others, unless the same problematic behavior continues. Even then, it's informative only. Ravensfire (talk) 21:08, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Harassment and Accusations

I request administrators to investigate this matter: User:Rajan Varun 14522 is accusing and Harassing me of sockpuppetry; you can see the allegations here, here, here, and here. I'm requesting a checkuser for myself to ensure that these are not my socks and that I am not involved in any sockpuppetry here. Additionally, I want actions to be taken on User:Rajan Varun 14522 under Wikipedia:Harassment. Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 12:50, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Note: The first link gives an error when opened because the article Omkar Prasad Baidya has been deleted. I was accused in this article's edit summary, which can be verified by admins on deletion logs. Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 12:55, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Striking appeal; User:Rajan Varun 14522 has been blocked for sockpuppetry. Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 09:14, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Please Check this article

An edit war is going on at this article Universe. usr: FusionSub and the FukkNiggers already breached the three reverts rule at this page and the made undo/reverts at the same page for more than three times. Some serious punishment is required against these users, and they've been doing this all for the last few hours or days between more than two individuals.223.123.9.106 (talk) 17:29, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Users are blocked fr33kman 19:39, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Trump Unite the Right Rally

True statement is There were very fine people on both sides, but im not talking about the Neo Nazis and White Nationalists, cause they should be condemned, but there were very fine people on both sides. Why not tell the truth, when the truth is out there. Biden ran on a lie and youre covering for him 8.38.177.4 (talk) 10:36, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Different people have different oipinions on politics; the U.S. has the election system it wanted. There are those who elected Trump, and those who didn't, as there are those who elected Biden, and those who didn't. There will soon be elections, where the people will pick a new president. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and articles are based on facts, references are needed. More controversial topics will need more/better references. So, dear IP what's the point you are trying to make?- The supreme court ruled that a decades-old nationwide allowance for abortions no longer holds; as a consequence, many states made their own abortion laws, which often reflect what party is in power there. If you have aproblem with an article, use that article's talk page to talk about the problem. Thank you. Eptalon (talk) 17:38, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Abuse filter helper user right proposal

I was thinking if we could propose on having a local user right that allows (very) trusted users to view abuse filters and their logs marked as private, but not to change them. The regular English Wikipedia has this in addition to global abuse filter helpers, while the Simple English Wikipedia does not.

For the nomination process, they post the request here (because there is no change filter noticeboard), and it will remain open for a few days allowing users to support or oppose the user listed to get the right. After a few days pass and there is consensus to give the user AFH, an uninvolved admin will grant the right to them and close the discussion.

Any objections? If not, feel free to ask. – 64andtim ^(talk) 18:24, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Honestly, I think that this is not needed. There are very few users dealing with abuse filters, and most (if not all) are admins anyway. Eptalon (talk) 17:28, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

It's not needed. Most of the editors on simplewiki are admins already. fr33kman 17:45, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Rilfacts

Rilfacts (talk • contribs • CA • deleted contribs • nuke contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log) — Reasons: This user has been confirmed as sockaccount of previous not-so-while-ago-appearing Eiskrahablo sockpuppetry. Nyilvoskt (talk) 09:54, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

User:Steevemorgan

Can some administrator look into this, This user has created an account just today and on his user talk page, here, he claims to be an alternative account of mine. This user is not my alternative account. Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 15:04, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

(Non-administrator observation) Also reported to CU. MathXplore (talk) 15:07, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 15:13, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

I have deleted the user page in question, as the claim is unfounded. Eptalon (talk) 17:05, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Cyber.Eyes.2005 (talk) 18:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC)