User talk:Cabayi

promotion to full SPI clerk

Congratulations! After discussion with the functionaries, you've been promoted to full SPI clerk. (We actually did it while you were gone and we were waiting for you to come back before we announced it. Surprise!) This means you can ditch the CAW template and consign it to the nether regions, never to be heard from again. You also get a raise. We don't yet know how much that will be, but it's commensurate with the compensation that nobody else gets. ;-)

Thanks for your hard work – you're doing a great job and it's much appreciated. Yay! Katie^talk 17:26, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Katie to you and the other functionaries. I appreciate the vote of confidence and I'll try to live up to it.

Should I subst out the existing CAW uses, or blank the CAW then subst, or just G7?

Finally, I'd never want to be greedy. How about a 40% rise? Cabayi (talk) 18:09, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Just leave it all as is. Future clerk trainees could want to have a look. (Ditching means you don't have to use it going forward.) And everybody else got a 10% raise and liked it, buddy. It goes down 1% every time you complain. ;-) Katie^talk 18:45, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Lacking any witty quips, so I'll just say congratulations, Cabayi :) GAB^gab 02:29, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mcook66

Hey Cabayi, pls take a look a this SPI opened by me.Andrew Base (talk) 06:04, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Andrew Base, there's a 4 month gap between the two accounts. Where's the WP:ILLEGIT behaviour? Cabayi (talk) 07:15, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Sucking eggs

While I appreciate the advice was given in good faith, I am not really that stupid!! My watchlist is set up correctly to display edits from Wikidata and I can do see occasional Wikidata edits on my watchlist. But yesterday, when I made some changes to Shaun Micheel (Q1755828), these were not picked up by my watchlist. It would be nice if you could try it, to see if there actually is a problem. I know Wikidata watchlist integration has been problematic in the past. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:57, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

MSGJ, that wasn't my intention. Personally, I turned off the wikidata notifications long ago as my watchlist was drowning in them, driving the signal-noise ratio down to the point of making the watchlist useless. I was certainly not implying anything like, [1].

I turned on wikidata notifications in my prefs - & saw nothing.

I altered the watchlist filters so that "Wikidata edits" wasn't omitted, then so that "Wikidata edits" was the only filter selected, and finally removed all filters. In all 3 cases I saw wikidata changes on Operation Varsity, Operation Varsity (Q1360624), but not on Micheel. I've tried watching both the enwiki article & the corresponding wikidata, no difference.

There seem to be as many wikidata changes settings as there are Facebook privacy settings.

Since I seem to be in danger of adding more heat than light to the discussion, I'll shut up now. Cabayi (talk) 10:07, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

LOL to Father Ted! Thanks for confirming that there does indeed seem to be a problem with watchlist integration. It is disappointing that this is still a problem after so many years of Wikidata. I will find somewhere appropriate to report it. No, it's definitely more light than heat ;) Cheers — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:46, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Great minds think alike ...

Hi Cabayi, sorry I didn't realise you had opened an SPI already into the Flytime Promotions accounts. Mine has been merged with yours, so probably unnecessary and duplicative, but I'm sure will be sorted out. Thanks for getting onto it so promptly! Melcous (talk) 12:42, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Melcous, triplicate in fact, SpicyMilkBoy also spotted it. I've started an AFD to clean up the UPE at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cecil Hammond. Cheers, Cabayi (talk) 16:33, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

SPI case

Hi, I was the one who filed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vishnu jayadeep/Archive. It was supposed to be a check-user case, but I forgot to add that. Could you do that now? I have also found out some IPs this user is editing. 2409:4073:19D:4FFB:BCEF:2FF:FFD8:AA09 (talk) 14:39, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

2409:4073:19D:4FFB:BCEF:2FF:FFD8:AA09, Checkusers will never confirm a connection between an IP address and a named user account. It's part of the deal that comes with creating an account.

Edit without revealing your IP address (which can be used to trace your physical location) to the public.
— Wikipedia:Why create an account?

If you have new evidence you're welcome to file a new report. Cabayi (talk) 18:11, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

So where can I report logged-out editing (it's very obvious) by this user? 2409:4073:99:55F:49A8:2C81:215B:2E4A (talk) 10:40, 3 November 2019 (UTC)