User talk:Sergecross73

Vandalism pt 31

Serge's 30th iteration of his own personal WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. Feel free to report anything you feel may need admin intervention. Sergecross73 msg me 18:57, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

WanakoDX (talk · contribs) This is a totally robotically pointless 3x edit warrior over violating the MOS in Donkey Kong. Plus using virtually no edit summaries, and never responding to Talk page. Including not explaining how he just started an account with moderate skills as if like a sockpuppet. He only edits in trivia or tiny vital details like release dates and sales figures[1], and never with any sources. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk) 19:36, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

I don't think I can really take any action beyond the warnings you've already rightfully issued. He just made some questionable edits at Super Mario too, but he seems closer to "new and misguided" than "vandal". Sergecross73 msg me 21:50, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Okay but bro I can't imagine why you'd think that. You've basically disavowed enforcing WP:3RR, which says 3 is the limit and the limit of the edits shall be 3. Four is right out. This guy is edit warring so hard that he's done *multiple* edit wars, each beyond 3 edits, and then you warned him on his second edit war. You warned him long after his third time of that second edit war, then he continued doing it anyway on an IP address. If you can't block him right at the first report I made, then nobody could ever be blocked for anything. This has continued specifically because not only does WP:3RR tell you to have long ago already blocked him, but it tells me not to keep reverting him and to report him to you for blocking or else I can be blocked. OK? Then you also simply didn't revert his violations that I reported. So you tried nothing but it hasn't worked! This has happened many times over the years with different users! I can't keep reverting! So again, he also pointlessly deleted the "start date and age" and edit warred the "Main series in '''bold'''" violation of MOS:NOBOLD. And I can't figure out if the sales stats change was done by him in yet another one of his source-less sales stats changes. — Smuckola(talk) 05:21, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

If you are unhappy with my efforts, I recommend you start reporting edit warring editors to WP:AN3 instead then. But please note that this editor has not edited in 4 days, and all their troublesome edits were undone through reverting and consensus-building on talk pages. Disruption was completely prevented. Sergecross73 msg me 13:34, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

As I very carefully enumerated, no his edits were not all deleted or I wouldn't have specifically named them and asked you to delete them. :) OK I'll do it. And I didnt know about that AN3 notice board, thanks! — Smuckola(talk) 21:02, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

• 69.123.101.227 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) This block evader is back. Immediately identified him from a non-sensical edit summary "Race on!" plus edits to Times Square Ball. --ThomasO1989 (talk) 16:07, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

  Yeah, I just came across him too, but got pulled away before I could take action. IP is now blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 17:15, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

• 208.104.196.53 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Using talk pages for bizarre role-playing. --ThomasO1989 (talk) 22:42, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked. Made it longer since it's the 4th block this year already. Sergecross73 msg me 23:07, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

• 81.104.128.234 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is still vandalising Can't Tame Her [2] after the page was unprotected. Ss112 13:55, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

  Protected. Sergecross73 msg me 14:52, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

• 208.104.196.103 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) This is the same WP:NOTHERE person as above. --ThomasO1989 (talk) 19:21, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked and reverted. At least they seem to relegate their nonsense to talk pages, which get comparatively few views from the general public, so their silly edits are largely going unnoticed. Sergecross73 msg me 15:41, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

• IP vandals are at Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation — Smuckola(talk) 06:30, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

  I missed this one. Another editor got it though. Sergecross73 msg me 15:39, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

• WanakoDX (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) I'm sure you can guess why I'm reporting this user JOEBRO⁶⁴ 19:12, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

  Wow, that's as blatant as it gets. Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 19:49, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

• For two years now an IP editor has been editing Nightmare Creatures to describe the unfinished Nightmare Creatures III as a "third sequel". Initially this could have been assumed to be a good faith edit based on either a mistaken belief in a non-numbered entry or a simple brain fart, but his edit summaries instead feign either an inability to understand that the first in a series is not a sequel or an inability to correctly count to two, and ever since I pointed out that that's not a credible explanation, the editor has simply been edit warring without edit summaries at all.--Martin IIIa (talk) 15:05, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

  I'm a bit torn. You're obviously 100% right and it feels like a bit of a CIR problem with the IP, but it's such an infrequently occurring issue, that tends to get caught pretty quickly, that it's hard to rationalize page protection for that alone... Sergecross73 msg me 18:17, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

  Define "pretty quickly"; on this latest occasion I didn't revert until four months later (checking the article every few weeks just for this issue is hard to keep up for long). I understand that page protection is not something to be used lightly, but the only alternative I can see at this point is to let the baby have his bottle. Say the word, though, and that's what I'll do. Martin IIIa (talk) 04:51, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

  You're right, apologies, I kept seeing that the disruption was often few and far between, but didn't realize the cleanup didn't always come right after it. That said, its still a bit tough to warrant protection. I think its best to just keep an eye on it unless it gets more frequent. The other alternative could be rewording it so that even this IP can understand. Maybe something like "second/third entries in the series that continue the story/game" or something like that. (Whatever's true to the series, I'm not super familiar with this franchise.) Sergecross73 msg me 17:45, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

• 80.208.64.212 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Adding useless crufty tables to Mario Kart articles. Same person as 80.208.69.192 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), got blocked previously for same edits. ThomasO1989 (talk) 16:32, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 17:15, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

• Speedymcfly (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Edit-warring on the SMB movie article with a plagiarized "official synopsis" from the summary of a trailer YT video, which the user was already blocked for. --ThomasO1989 (talk) 18:25, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 18:55, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

• Thrakkx (talk · contribs) Mass deletion wrongfully, no edit summaries, no response to talk page. See talk page. Thanks! — Smuckola(talk) 21:02, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

You Removed My Edit

Hello Sergecross73! I'm Jasmine, a recent Greta Van Fleet Wikipedia page contributor. My college professor assigned me to contribute to any Wikipedia page and use our contributions, which must still be up, as evidence for our Wikipedia breakdown presentation. Unfortunately, as I returned to prepare my presentation, I noticed that you had removed my contribution because of "miswording from a YouTube video." Please double-check that. I'm going to re-upload my edit, and if there is anything I need to edit or source, please let me know, as I need my work up for my presentation. Thank you so much for your understanding. I hope you have a great rest of your day. Regards, Jasmine Jasmine.Porres.100 (talk) 20:40, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You can't use YouTube videos as sources on Wikipedia. They are not considered reliable. ThomasO1989 (talk) 20:45, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Oh, so should I use an article instead? Jasmine.Porres.100 (talk) 20:53, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Yes, part of my concern was that you used WP:YOUTUBE as a source, which often isn't usable depending on where the video is from. The other problem was that it was was pretty informally worded. The last line wasn't even a complete sentence. It needs some work if you want your content to stick. Sergecross73 msg me 20:53, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Okay, I will completely remove that last line as well as i also believed it felt incomplete. And would it still be considered uncredible if it was an interview with a member from the band? Jasmine.Porres.100 (talk) 20:59, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

I've streamlined and reworked it, as has another editor. Sergecross73 msg me 13:54, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Email

Hi Serge. Not sure if you've seen but I sent you an email the other day about a user who seems fine to mix constructive edits with vandalism and unnecessarily profane edit summaries, who, despite several run-ins with admins, seems to have never been formally warned for their behaviour. For example, this is very clearly not appropriate. Ss112 23:50, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

I've left them a warning, but there's not much else to be done right now. Certainly uncivil and bizarre, but he's made less than 50 edits in the last 3 years, and about 10 of them were nonsense edits in their own sandbox, so there's really not all that much in the way of disruption here. Sergecross73 msg me 04:06, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, they act...weird, that's for sure. Let me know if you see them causing disruption anywhere else... Sergecross73 msg me 02:05, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Madden 23

If you are going to talk to me with that attitude, I’m quitting Wikipedia. The fact that you are an admin and you talk to someone with that attitude is disgraceful, both to yourself and all of Wikipedia. The site says that they want everyone to contribute, but that is not the case. I QUIT!!!! Are you from New York, because you sure are rood. Manny Manatee (talk) 01:46, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

I don't mean to be rude, but your edits (and rejected draft) are far from what belongs in an encyclopedia. We want everyone to contribute, but that doesn't mean all contributions are good and worth keeping. There's plenty of people willing to help you if you want it - myself included. Sergecross73 msg me 03:07, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

I am still trying to decide, should I stay on Wikipedia? Manny Manatee (talk) 14:19, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

I will forgive you, if you teach me how to edit articles. Manny Manatee (talk) 14:37, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, your second comment was way less rood. Manny Manatee (talk) 15:02, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Here's some places to start:

• Check out WP:ADVENTURE - its a good interactive thing you can do to learn the basics.
• WP:5P is the basic ideas of the website, while WP:REFB is a good place to learn how to use sources in articles.
• If your plan is to keep contributing to video game related stuff, MOS:VG is a massive resources of guidance on how to write/edit articles. WP:GAMECRUFT in particular is a good one to read - it's a list of common things to not include to video game articles.
• You can ask me specific questions whenever you want here on my talk page, or if you'd like input from a variety of editors, you can post questions at WT:VG (that's where we first interacted.) Sergecross73 msg me 20:51, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Manny Manatee (talk) 22:24, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

I am stuck on the watchlist teaching thing from first link. I tried it, what do I do? Manny Manatee (talk) 22:47, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

I am unstuck, and finished it. Manny Manatee (talk) 23:54, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Good, nice work. Sergecross73 msg me 00:11, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Manny Manatee (talk) 02:12, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Chilean discography vandal is back

Hi Serge. I'm not sure if you blocked the IP editor previously, but rather protected some of the discographies they were editing, but they've come back full force especially in the last week. There are now way too many discographies to protect so I think blocking is the only answer. They are obsessed with separating singles sections into decades, repeating citations, often replacing sourced charts with unsourced ones....it's all a mess. I know you try to avoid blocking ranges but maybe @Ferret: could help out? I'm not seeing anything constructive other than discography vandalism on the ranges 181.203.160.112/16, 191.126.141.178/16 and 191.125.172.41/16. Maybe those are too broad, maybe Ferret could shorten the ranges, I'm no IP range expert but something needs to be done as they were still actively editing today and finding more discographies to do this to. At the very least they're not explaining themselves, being a nuisance, and clearly IP hopping. Thanks. Ss112 11:33, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

The 181.x is indeed a /16 range. Unfortunately... 191.x is actually a /14 range. That's a bigger pain to deal with. -- ferret (talk) 13:30, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

I don't mind playing "whack-a-mole" if you let me know of prominent affected articles or IPs. Sergecross73 msg me 18:36, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

The problem is they keep finding new discographies to do this to. Like last time, they've hit up Gary Barlow discography, Robbie Williams discography, Take That discography, Morrissey discography, Celine Dion singles discography, Jamiroquai discography, Elvis Presley singles discography, Cher singles discography, Gorillaz discography, Blur discography multiple times. But they're still actively editing today (I've reverted multiple rounds of edits to more discographies I haven't mentioned), and they've been at this since at least March 1, which is why I think multiple range blocks are needed because it's showing no signs of stopping. Ss112 00:22, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Static-X

"That doesn't make any sense, how could someone reasonably believe something was announced 6 months in the future" You know these articles often go years untouched, right? The edit clarified the text regardless. Now it says there was an announcement in the future, whether people should reasonably believe that or not. Lizmo (talk) 00:56, 1 April 2023 (UTC)