User talk:DoRD

Quick checkuser

Would you mind running a quick checkuser on Osarius? This is a WP:SPI#Quick CheckUser requests situation, but I'm making it privately because I'm about to go on the road with family, and I'd like to respond to Osarius before I leave instead of waiting for someone to check the SPI page. Osarius has seemingly been caught in an autoblock, and I'm inclined to grant IPBE at his request; I just want to make sure that everything's clear to grant the right. Please leave me a talkback, and if I don't respond quickly (I don't know when I'm leaving; I'm not the driver), I'd appreciate it if you'd grant the right or deny the unblock request. Nyttend (talk) 14:50, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I see nothing that would disqualify Osarius for IPBE. Please make a note at WT:IPBE/log if you grant it. Cheers ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:00, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Weird: I didn't get any Notification, so I only saw this by hitting Refresh. Thanks for the help; I've unblocked and logged it. Nyttend (talk) 15:05, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

That is odd. Well, have a safe trip! ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:07, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Giatharodaki is back

I am suspicious that giatharodaki has built a new account named Daki122,I request a checkuser,I am sure the account is a sock puppet.Alhanuty (talk) 22:01, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

I have just filed a report about his new account Daki122.Alhanuty (talk) 22:01, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm a bit pressed for time at the moment, but I'll take a look at the report later if someone else doesn't do something about it first. Thanks ​—DoRD (talk)​ 23:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

The report has been out for three days and nobody is responding or using the checkuser to confirm that Daki122 is a sockpuppet.Alhanuty (talk) 18:22, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	To DoRD, for diligently and quietly updating the functionary activity statistics, I award this Admin's Barnstar. Thank you for all your work! AGK [•] 11:48, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you ;) ​—DoRD (talk)​ 13:06, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Hear! Hear!--Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 20:26, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Autoblocked user - checkuser powers required

Hi DoRD. Would you mind taking a look at WilliamH's block of the 68.247.0.0/16 range here? I'm currently looking into an unblock request from User:Etonmessisthebest, who's caught in that particular rangeblock. Please could you amend the block to remove autoblock or grant him IP exemption if you deem it wise? Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 09:09, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

I modified the block to allow logged-in users to edit, so they should be good to go now. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:08, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Odd socks

Hi DoRD,

• Over at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cognoscerapo, you said that User:Cannot be detected was likely to be Sinbad Barron.
• How did you make the Cognoscerapo - Sinbad Barron connection? I'd like to detect socks better, and I'm not very familiar with Sinbad Barron. Presumably Sinbad Barron is stale from a checkuser perspective so there are fewer privacy concerns, but if you're not allowed to say, you don't have to.
• In the past there has been some confusion around who controls which socks - there are several examples like Neutral Fair Guy. I'm certainly not criticising other people who have tried to identify sockmasters and clean up the mess - it's just that an environment with multiple overlapping sockmasters (and a few false-flag accounts) makes it very difficult to be certain of the owner 100% of the time...

Have fun; bobrayner (talk) 20:04, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, after going back over the evidence, I have had to change my conclusions in the case. I'm not very familiar with Sinbad Barron, either, but I did see one possible connection from Cannot be detected. However, the account's contributions and some other technical evidence point squarely at Evlekis, so I amended my statement. Granted, it is sometimes difficult to sort out the true master behind sock accounts, particularly with certain ISPs, but I took my best guess. Unfortunately, it was wrong this time. Thank you for prompting me about this. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:29, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Is a user being a jerk and kicking up a huge fuss about things against any rules?

I have send user Niteshift36 a message about his behaviour that was just so horrible that I just could not resist speaking up. He responded by calling me a troll. So I do not think he'll respond to users calling him out on his behaviour. I'm not sure if there's a wikipedia policy handling douchebaggery, so I'm asking you here. :)

An example of his lovely demeanour: Talk:Fox_News_Channel --2001:980:A4CB:1:C4D6:2A5D:5305:7D91 (talk) 18:28, 13 December 2013 (UTC)