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Carobonator

Hi MuZemike. I was just talking Jeske_Couriano on IRC and he said that you are the admin that was able to help with the sockpuppeteer I've been dealing with. I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to do that. It's been wearing on me and this will definitely help. Thanks again! OlYeller^Talktome 22:34, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like he's back. Here's where he's placed a db on the same article again [1]. Here's where he made his usual buffer edit with hyphens [2]. OlYeller^Talktome 19:20, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. Looks like you're on top of it. Much thanks. OlYeller^Talktome 19:21, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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User talk:LongLiveReagan

I think I see a second account there, but the contributions are unrelated. What do you think? Cheers! TNXMan 18:51, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't look like, either; the editing patterns do not match up at all. –MuZemike 19:24, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also what I thought. Thanks. TNXMan 19:48, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

false positive on abuse?

I've been seeing a bug with Twinkle where pages I'm tagged were getting added to my watchlist despite me using the option meant to stop that. The extra pages I've been tagging and working on as part of new pages partol and backlog work were diluting the pages I was actually interested in watching. To keep them separate, I started a new account User:Not_your_siblings'_deletionist and started using it. I'll admit that I failed to WP:SOCK#NOTIFY and picked a WP:USERNAME that might be considered trolling. After two edits (adding references to pages from the back of the unreferenced backlog) my account was blocked for abuse. I've can see no evidence of any abuse by myself and none appears to have been given. None of my recent edits appear to have been reverted (although my edit of Berleşti was partly rolled back, and appears not to have been my best work). My reading of WP:SOCK suggests that there are valid times to use sock puppets and even valid times to use sock puppets without notification. Merely using sock puppets without notification cannot thus be abuse. I would like to see: (a) The blocklog edited/amended to clarify lack of abuse and (b) The message on my talk page edited/amended to clarify lack of abuse. Alternatively: (c) a link to the edit or edit(s) which constitute abuse. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:07, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can unblock the account (we don't have the ability to edit block logs), but that's all I can do. Please clearly label the account as an alternative account so that others know of the account. –MuZemike 16:22, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AlexBrownGarcia

I've added an IP address that's just appeared on the same articles. Dougweller (talk) 08:29, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And after he started quacking, creating Alex Brown-Garcia (illusionist), I blocked him. Can you do something about the IP range, he left a mess to clearup? Can you tell me about the technical issues? Dougweller (talk) 13:24, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Rangeblocked. –MuZemike 19:34, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 05:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2011 June newsletter

We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was Casliber (submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by Wizardman (submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by Eisfbnore (submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by Hurricanehink (submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.

No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.

We would again like to thank Jarry1250 (submissions) and Stone (submissions) for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.

Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:36, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

SaturdayMight1000

You deleted SaturdayMight1000, why? I created The Saturday Third Studio Album in my user space. With Admin Lil-unique1 helping me! There was alot of work put into that you go and delete it! Thanks Alot! --92.30.192.7 (talk) 18:01, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are evading your block, LadyLashes, and as such, I have blocked your IP. If you feel I have made a mistake, follow the instructions I have placed at User talk:SaturdayMight1000; as such I am blocking this IP address. –MuZemike 18:05, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For those others wondering, I did not delete the article outright, but instead moved it to the article incubator under Wikipedia:Article incubator/The Saturdays' third album, as a userfied article on an indefinitely blocked user's page will do nothing except sit there and likely indefinitely. The incubator helps mitigate that problem. –MuZemike 18:37, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sherman3D

Hi, MuZemike! Thank you very much for responding to my 30 June 2011 deletion review at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review I am so glad I found an admin who writes about games and JRPGs too for that matter! I am sure you can understand my frustrations when my article on Sherman3D and my picture of Arevan was deleted when I got permission from the game developers to write about them. As a RPG Maker game fan, I have done them a great disservice because I can't seem to re-post an article about Sherman3D or re-upload an image of Arevan. I hope they are not universally banned. I am not sure if it is because of some previous spam posters but I did my research and got permission to write about these companies and their games. I don't think it is fair that I got my postings/uploads banned because I fixed them as soon as I can and I really did get their permission to post them. My only consolation is that my article on Aldorlea Games was posted without problems and the developer is very happy. I was planning to write articles on more indie RPG Maker companies and games but I am a bit afraid that it might cause these independent developers irreversible damage on Wikipedia now. Please do help me as I am sure you will understand that these developers of games which bring back the nostalgia of those classic JRPGs should be supported! Thank you very much, MuZemike!