User talk:Galobtter

An editor you gave perms to

@Galobtter, I noticed that you granted perms to a user named Otuọcha on March 4th, 2024.

I have decided to reach out anonymously due to the controversial aspect of this request, but I am asking that you seriously reconsider and investigate this user.

Their edit history indicates that they have made over 4,700 edits in the span of two months, and further the edits show classic signs of gaming Wikipedia's edit system.

1. This "new user" immediately demonstrated knowledge of how to use tools on wikipedia as well as policies. For instance using XFD Closer, Draft moving, and ONE DAY after creating his account, he voted in an AfD with a diff that reads "The page in question clearly did not show any sign of notability. No notable alumni or any significant achievement as a school. Simple put that it fails WP: ORG." This "new user" is not new to Wikipedia at all.

2. The user engages in frequent draftification, tagging, and deletion nominations-- activities that experienced editors typically engage in..

3. This user's edit history indicate frequent periods of a rapid successions of edits. From early edits up until recent, the user has engaged in segmented editing to increase number of edits per subject.

I am also going to tag DanCherek who pointed out edits that were made to game the system on the users talk page.

There is also an SPI that was submitted against the user: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Sockpuppet_investigations/Otu%E1%BB%8Dcha 172.58.231.31 (talk) 04:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Request new article

Ramkripalyadvg Can you create a page and add it to Wikipedia You can get the material from here Draft:Ramkripalyadavge Muskang375 (talk) 03:52, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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Galobot Lint Inquiry

Hello, hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend. Messaging you to see if there was any chance your "articles/pages by lint count" bot reports could ignore the new "night-mode-unaware-background-color" non-lint tracking "category" like you did (I assume) for the similar non-lint tracking annoyance category, "Large Tables"? Articles by lint has gotten a bit too fluffy with all top 1000 pages reporting a solid 22+ errors, when they actually only have at most, 2 missing end tags, or are any fresh catches of the day with other errors/more than 2 errors. Same with pages by lint count, but those were still a healthy 42+ errors, so those displaying here are still easy to know which need addressing. Thanks for considering, Zinnober9 (talk) 02:22, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I second this request. Thanks for taking it on if you have time. If you do not have time, can you please provide the SQL query that generates this report? – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:09, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

the queries are at https://github.com/mmiyer/galobot/blob/master/articlesbylintcount.py. I wonder if my report can be replaced with {{Database report}} so it can be easily updated by people as needed. Galobtter (talk) 22:46, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

oh yeah this can be definitely done by the row_template parameter of it, let me see if i can do this. Galobtter (talk) 22:55, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Nice. That was my plan if I could get my hands on the query. That new template is a brilliant addition to reporting. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:15, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

yeah, I can never remember how to log in to toolforge to update my bot, so this saves me some hassle :) Galobtter (talk) 00:24, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@Zinnober9 @Jonesey95 how's Wikipedia:Linter/reports/Articles by Lint Errors look like now? you can now edit the sql query right on the page so it should be pretty easy to exclude categories as needed - feel free to update the queries to your heart's desire :) Galobtter (talk) 00:05, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Beautiful, thank you so much! The only odd thing (and I was seeing this the other day as well but thought it might have been a hiccup related to the nightmode addition) is that I'm seeing is the Lint Links on Wikipedia:Linter/reports/Pages by Lint Errors are all going to nonexistant pages like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors?titlesearch=User_talk::Master_of_Puppets/Talk/Archive/Archive20&exactmatch=1

instead of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LintErrors&wpNamespaceRestrictions=3&titlesearch=Master+of+Puppets%2FTalk%2FArchive%2FArchive20&exactmatch=1

The Lint links on Wikipedia:Linter/reports/Articles by Lint Errors are still all fine.

Zinnober9 (talk) 10:04, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah I saw the issue but wasn't sure how to fix it, should be fixed now. Galobtter (talk) 14:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

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