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Sockpuppet question

At NPP I noticed a new page was created by a user. A page with a very similar title had been deleted for sockpuppetry concerns, which I discovered when I went to link it with a different language, the creator of the page is a relatively new account which has edited a number of pages the socked user edited per the User Interaction Tool. Is this enough evidence to open a sockpuppet investigation? Thanks in advance. SportingFlyer T·C 14:21, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

SportingFlyer, Sounds like it to me. I suggest when you open the SPI, you fill in a few more details, however :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 14:35, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

You should be very careful with IP bans: sometimes they're shared

You recently had me and who knows what other amount be unable to do mobile editing since you banned an IP due to an investigation on a possible sockpuppet. What seemed particularly annoying is that you should have noticed the IP itself (had minimal troubling behaviour). --181.115.61.86 (talk) 05:11, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Txbiassss

Hey Roy, I hope you're doing well. I just archived Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Txbiassss, and, immediately after archiving, realised that the case move was done as a section move as opposed to a case move, with the page history still living under a redirect at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/KIENGIR, which is otherwise empty. Not sure whether that was intentional (and if it wasn't, whether it needs fixing), but I thought I'd bring it up because it struck me as unusual and I'm not entirely sure what to do with it. Best, Blablubbs|talk 19:39, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Blablubbs, I suppose it should have been done as a case move. To be honest, however, I'm sure there are other clerks who are more expert at such process details than I am. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:57, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Blablubbs, I didn't give you a very good answer the first time. My apologies. What I was thinking was that if this was a brand new case, I would have moved the entire case, but since it was an existing case, I just moved the one section. Of course, it was really the one and only section. So, yeah, moving the entire case would probably have been the right thing to do. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:30, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for the explanation. :) Blablubbs|talk 18:05, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

April 21: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with with Environmental focus

April 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Environmental focus

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! As this WikiWednesday is just the day before Earth Day, we will have an environmental focus. If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page. Wednesday April 21 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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SPI

Hello – I started an SPI here. Did I do it correctly? It's the first SPI I've started, so let me know if there are any errors. – DarkGlow • 12:08, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

DarkGlow, It looks fine to me, thanks for filing it. I see you used Twinkle, which is good; that takes care of getting all the fidgetly formatting bits correct. This one looks like a no-brainer. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:36, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm experienced with Twinkle but had never used the SPI tool on it so I thought I'd try it, on like you said, a no-brainer. Thanks for checking it out! – DarkGlow • 12:38, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-16

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• Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon.
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16:48, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

March 2021 GAN Backlog drive

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	Thank you for completing 8 reviews in the March 2021 backlog drive. Your work helped us reduce the backlog by over 52%. Thank you specifically for your clear attention to detail and the resulting high quality review. Best, Eddie891 Work 13:42, 21 April 2021 (UTC)