User talk:DoRD

Indef block of User:Mr. Nijwmsa Boro

Hi. I'm a sysop and 'crat on Incubator, and Mr. Nijwmsa Boro has applied to become a test administrator there. Would you mind sharing with me why he was indeffed? It seems like it was a checkuser issue, but I need to know if this will be a problem. You can reply here. Thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:30, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Of course, the decision is up to you, but I wouldn't recommend giving any permissions to them. They have a history of creating many sockpuppet accounts to create numerous unencyclopedic articles here. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Niezwmxa Boro/Archive for some of the evidence. Cheers ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:50, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

I should add that they consistently fail to communicate when approached about their editing problems. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:20, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

That was helpful. Thanks. I more or less told him "not yet, and beyond that you'll have to convince me". I suggested he continue to create content. (See incubator:I:RFTA.) Part of the problem is that none of us actually read Bodo, so we have little way to judge whether the content itself is legitimate or encyclopedic. But at least I can try to start looking for patterns of behavior a little. Again, thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 15:44, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

StevenJ81, I was just following up with this and saw the Meta request for a new language project. The wording of the request seemed to be far above his usual English writing level, and to little surprise, I found that it was lifted wholesale from indianetzone.com/44/bodo_language.htm. Besides the other issues, copyright isn't a very strong point of his, either. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 23:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Hey, uh ... was this just trolling?

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I get weirded out when edits to my talk page get suppressed while I'm asleep, so I'm curious. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 22:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it was some inappropriate trolling, but that's about all I can say about it. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 22:48, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Blocked IP address

DoRD, I noticed that you blocked an Amazon based IP editor not long ago, [[2]]. I've noticed that a large number of articles I've been involved with over the years were all of a sudden bothered by a series of Amazon IP editor starting in late 2016. I believe the editor behind the IP addresses is user HughD who was blocked for 6 months in June. I presented evidence that this was block evasion last December. Initially the evidence was inconclusive since we couldn't use checkuser on an IP address (the original IPs were all Chicago area based, then they switched to Amazon based). Later a number of the comments and phrasing were very similar to statements made by HughD. I've presented information here [[3]] and here [[4]]. I would be interested in knowing why you decided to block that Amazon IP. Thanks, Springee (talk) 02:40, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

I blocked that entire range of addresses (52.60.0.0/16) because it is a web hosting range that can be used like an open proxy, and because the range was being abused by a troll (unrelated to the HughD case). ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:30, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

McAusten sock

You blocked this user last week Special:Contributions/Fairy_Hills. This person (originally User:McAusten) has been vandalising the same talk page for six years, this is probably yet another Special:Contributions/Soup_Führer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.214.167 (talk) 09:40, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

The obvious sockpuppet of someone is now blocked. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:45, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Vicious cycle: A long-term vandal gaming the system and problems regarding the SPI cases

Hi DoRD, I hope you have enough time to read the report and problems regarding a SPI case below. The case is a bit complicated, since the editor is a " professional" and knows well how to escape "hard-block". 

There are ongoing problems regarding a disruptive hateful editor who was indefinitely blocked last year per WP:NOTHERE. Hassan Rebell, justifiably, was blocked by @JzG: on 14 December. After his "long" messages and apologies on his talk page, user @Beeblebrox: gave him a "chance" and reduced his block on 24 January. However, only a few weeks later, I noticed that he began editing thorugh his "confirmed" ips (see Rebell's talk page) with exactly the same agenda [1 for months 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8,9 (...) After his "Swiss" ips became "notorious", he abandoned them for a while and since June 2016, he has been editing from Germany 1, 2. As I proved on the SPI with dozens of diffs, those German and Swiss ips belong to the long-term vandal Lrednuas Senoroc/Hassan Rebell. Plus, the checkuser also agreed that those ips belong to the same editor. However, no action was taken since his sock account was  already "soft-blocked" for impersonating user:Kintetsubuffalo and he has not edited via his other account, Rebell, for a long time, despite he is very active with various ips and proxies. As I mentioned on the SPI case, the sockmaster "intentionally" impersonating other editors in order to escape "hard-block". It seems to me that, impersonating other editors is the "tactic" of this sockmaster: When his disruptive/suspicious accounts are noticed, they are first blocked for impersonating other editors, before blocked for socking or disruptive editing. And thereby, they become "soft-blocked", instead of "hard-blocked" Exactly the same problem has occured in the 09 January 2016 case (Kinetsubuffalo). Plus, he uses this situation as an excuse. Two of his accounts were blocked for impersonating other editors, it is obviously not a "coincidence", but a tactic. 

The same disruptive sockmaster was warned many times by various users for his problematic, "hateful" edits targeting a minority ethnic group: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (...) And finally, he was warned @Doug Weller: for the same reason 1, 2. Despite all these warnings and SPI cases, exactly the same problem continues 1. The last SPI case was closed on 22 February, and he has came with a "new" ip range on 25 February. On the SPI case, I have proved with multiple diffs that the proxy ip "81.253.60.172", German ips and Hassan Rebell are the same editor and thereby the "new" ip "130.180.67.198" from Germany, obviously the same vandal. In other words, he is still active on WP and continues editing as if nothing has happened. If he had used an account, he would have been banned 100 times, but no one can do anything because he is abusing plenty of ip ranges and only "soft-blocked" because of "impersonating" other editors. This is unfair. 

In order to solve this problem I request:

• Re-blocking for Hassan Rebell, since he continues "exactly" (even worse) the same behavior/edits that was led to the block and he is still active though he edits when logged-out. Also, I request hard-block for his impersonator accounts Lrednuas Senoroc and Kinetsubuffalo, since it is not a "coincidence", but a tactic. 
• Semi-protecting certain articles that were often targeted by him. Since he uses "plenty of" ip ranges and proxies, the range block does not work and semi-proctecting is the most effective solution in this case. In fact, he edited numberless articles but it is impossible to protect all of them. But, at least, certain articles that are constantly targeted by him should be semi-protected. Namely: Kurdish women, History of the Kurds, Origin of the Kurds, Kurdish mythology, Kurdish culture, Kurdistan, Persecution of Christians, Christianity in the Middle East and Christianity in Iraq. 

Bests, 46.221.220.189 (talk) 08:33, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

• 88.128.80.108 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)} and he's back with the same agenda, since admins/checkusers do nothing about him. This "helplessness" of admins simply encouraging him. But as i mentioned above, I suggested simply 2 solutions to stop this vicious cycle. What do you think? 46.221.220.189 (talk) 08:33, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

In fact, I have contacted some admins and Vanjagenije regarding the problem but, maybe because they are busy, they did not interest with it. I have explained my concerns on Vanja's page. I hope you understand. 46.221.220.189 (talk) 08:49, 28 February 2017 (UTC)