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Merchandise giveaway nomination

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Mediation

Hello ferret. i don't want to repeat a previous edit war mistake[1]. can you tell us if this edit is correct or not? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_War_II&action=history thank you Grandia01 (talk) 09:57, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I roughly agree with Nick D's reverts. Use the talk page to discuss. You're adding the phrase "Empowerment of China" with no context or information on what that even means. China's empowerment comes much later though and not as any immediate result of WWII. -- ferret (talk) 15:17, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

got it. thank you for your clarification and help. Grandia01 (talk) 07:22, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How we will see unregistered users

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18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:42, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Ferret a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Bobherry Talk Edits 11:08, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Ferret a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:46, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question about featured articles

Is there only one featured article per day does this mean that only one article can be featured at a time? Or are there other articles, I was looking at todays featured article and J.K Rowling. And I was wondering if it was a mistake, but before I do anything as serious as that I should probably ask an experienced user. SoyokoAnis - talk 20:35, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, happy late adminship anniversary. SoyokoAnis - talk 20:37, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@SoyokoAnis: Featured articles is a quality assessment. There are many many featured articles, with no limit on how many there can be, but the main page only highlights one a day. -- ferret (talk) 20:50, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, so like very good or good articles but I guess more of quality? SoyokoAnis - talk 01:52, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. FA is a level above GA. It does not mean "Featured on the Front Page", but each day, a "Featured Article" is chosen to appear on the front page. -- ferret (talk) 01:54, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh okay, thank you! SoyokoAnis - talk 13:04, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DOSBox

Please see Talk:DOSBox#Discontinued, thanks. -Cardace (talk) 16:41, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Possible IP sockpuppetry and harassment by Tkcmgl12

Greetings! Thanks for your tireless admin work...I see at User talk:Tkcmgl12 that you banned this user last year for edit warring and sockpuppetry. Today I got this weird message on my user talk page. Based on the dubious nature of the request and the complaint at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive_1136#Advice to protect myself about IP addresses harassing User:Suuuuuuzu, I suspect that these messages from IP users are actually the banned Tkcmgl12. I'm not sure what to do next, like if IP bans are in order or if some sort of checkuser needs to happen to confirm this? Thanks, Beland (talk) 01:46, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Beland: Yes, that sockmaster has been active today. I've blocked 5-6 IPs of them today. -- ferret (talk) 01:47, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Very strange behaviour

Greetings and all the best in New Year, for a few days now there are unsourced changes in lots of wikipedia articles, some of them were already noticed by admins, it started with this ip [[2]] after few days it continued with this ip [[3]] and today it continued with this ip [[4]],All 3 have the same target articles, the last 2 ip have the similar geolocation, could it be that they are the same person, could you run a quick SPI check ? Thank you. Theonewithreason (talk) 17.January 2022 (UTC)

@Theonewithreason: Checkusers cannot comment on IPs. Recommend posting to ANI and someone can look at the case and block as needed. -- ferret (talk) 20:44, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks. Theonewithreason (talk) 17.January 2022 (UTC)

about MOS:VG

See the "lost ark' article. Why do titles and flags exist on that document? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocco30 (talk • contribs) 15:38, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Rocco30: I'm already looking at it. It's in violation of MOS as well, and it looks like there may be conflict of interest editing there. -- ferret (talk) 15:39, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

i understand. thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocco30 (talk • contribs) 15:42, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Rocco30: I've completed cleaning up Lost Ark. There was a lot wrong. -- ferret (talk) 15:53, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting help and outside opinion

Hi Ferret,

I was an active editor of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision_Amico page but quit because it appears a user by the name Daltonsatom is connected to the source material and has a vested interest in continuing to keep the page free of critical articles or anything that may make the subject appear unfavorable. Another moderator has been present there but Daltonsatom continues to do what he is doing. Requesting your help or any other help a moderator can provide. Thank you. 50.88.235.139 (talk) 02:34, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]