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== Reporting BoxxyBoy ==

{{user|BoxxyBoy}}

This editor has a bad habit of getting into edit wars with other editors . The editor has been blocked for edit warring in the past and continues to do the same thing as before. ] (]) 07:03, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

:You have started an unneeded edit war due to your reverting of my edits. First off: don't stalk my history. That is weird. Second: don't change the formatting; I am following the accepted format that is seen on many, MANY other music pages. Leave me be, and take your disruptive editing somewhere else. Thank you. Do not mention or contact me again. If you do I will delete it. ] (]) 07:07, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
::{{re|BoxxyBoy}} Watch your attitude. I wasn't being disruptive; I reverted your edits because they go against Misplaced Pages's guidelines. Maybe you should read it (]). You can't edit articles in your own way. ] (]) 07:20, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

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I hope you find my addition to your talk page aggravating and stressful, just the way you like it! :) Natureium (talk) 20:14, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Note: I rarely check my email, so if you send me something important, you should probably let me know.

Bored? Check out User:NinjaRobotPirate/Games for a list of video games that are probably notable. I listed most of the sources, so you don't even have to find them.

Please move the article from LLC to entertainment company

For this clear reason here, I reported through Misplaced Pages:Requested moves the technical request to see if you could move the article from LLC to entertainment company in Crunchyroll LLC for example, and the truth is that it is uncomfortable for me to see how Google compares Crunchyroll with that of the parent company of the same name and Funimation for its part with Crunchyroll the corporation, but days after this the request was rejected telling me that there were several Crunchyroll companies here. Natural disambiguation would work better than parenthetical disambiguation. And as if the entire disambiguations did not exist after all and there is a possibility to see if there is a consensus on whether or not to move the article from the aforementioned parent company. 190.167.118.147 (talk) 07:01, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

It's difficult to understand exactly what you want, but try Misplaced Pages:Requested moves/Controversial. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 14:30, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
I want the article to be fixed by moving the topic from LLC to an entertainment company so that I can first correct the comma in the initial part, and even though, having requested the move, there has been a confusion in the Google search between Crunchyroll and Funimation, I would like you to The situation between the corporation (Funimation) and an entertainment company (Crunchyroll) should be resolved and so many unnecessary disambiguations or redirects created by various users should be deleted.

Something for example my review here: https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages:Requested_moves/Technical_requests&diff=prev&oldid=1162912520 190.167.121.71 (talk) 02:20, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Dude, just follow the instructions in the page I linked above. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:33, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

False disrupting accusations.

I should mention that my partial block wasn’t fair. If you think requesting a move on Talk:War in Donbas (2014-2022) as a non-ECU is disrupting, you’re wrong! Plus, this rule is nonsense as talk pages are not affected by vandalism and many other non-ECU users who have requested a move on that type of page weren’t partially blocked. So I suggest you remove my block, as you are currently targeting new users. I advise you read Misplaced Pages:Please do not bite the newcomers. If you feel offended by this, I can guarantee I also feel offended by your actions. BestWikiDog (talk) 12:36, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Blocked for sock puppetry. But to make things clear, I have the best wiki dog. She's pretty big, so arguing with her about this probably isn't wise. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 15:13, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

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AFDs and possible sockpuppets

Hello, NinjaRobotPirate,

I saw your recent block of Meegvun and their sockpuppet Gerblinpete. Almost daily, I review all of the week's AFD discussions and on occasion notice editors who create an account and then head right over to AFD land to share their opinions on whether articles should be deleted or kept. I often go to their talk page to discourage them from participating in AFDs until they have more editing experience...sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The other day, I came upon Whinyharedy and thought I'd alert you in case they looked familiar to previously blocked editors who were active in AFDs. So far, they've only participated in one AFD so they are unlike other editors whom I've given warnings to but after seeing your block of Gerblinpete, I thought I ask you what you thought.

If it would be okay, maybe I could share these observations when I see newly created accounts dive straight into discussing policies and notability in deletion discussions after having an account less than a day. I run into a couple of these precocious editors every week. Thanks and I hope you had a great weekend. ;-) Liz 02:29, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

I don't know, it's hard to say. If you look at Special:Diff/1162913732, the edit is dated incorrectly, as if Whinyharedy is manually typing out the timestamp. I've seen people do that sometimes because they don't realize that a signature adds it automatically. The edit also copies the previous vote, which sometimes indicates a newer user who's unsure of protocol (or a very lazy sock). The "enwikilink" edit summary sounds like someone who has cross-wiki experience. This is a bit odd for someone with no linked global accounts, but it could be an IP editor who created an account. I think there's probably enough justification to take a peek at the CU data, but, then again, it can all be explained away, too. So, I guess on this editor, I'd probably learn toward keeping an eye out for further suspicious edits instead of doing anything right away. It's odd how so many new editors go directly to AfD. I tried to collect some of my thoughts at User:NinjaRobotPirate/Identifying sock puppets, though it's not really deep.

I don't mind looking at suspicious editors if you happen find them. I think you're somewhere around my age, so you probably remember a time when you could just turn off your computer, and the internet went away. It's so hard to get away from the internet now. When you turn off your computer now, the internet is still there, beeping at you and sending you texts on your smartphone, tablets, and everything else you own. But I'm only a CU for as long as I'm logged into Misplaced Pages. I can at least get a rest from that if I go outside. So, I generally don't feel overworked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:41, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Okay, here's another new editor who raised my suspicions just now, Gus1001. They have only been an editor for two days and their first edits were to a DId you know template! I don't even know how DYK works, how would a new editor know about this obscure, backstage part of Misplaced Pages, much less decide to edit there after creating an account. I almost wish there was an encyclopedia of sockpuppets and trolls so we could leaf through it and say, "Oh, that X again, editing DYK (or ITN or creating categories or football templates, etc.) ! They are back as account Y!" Since there isn't an open directory to send us to the correct SPI case, we editors just hope that CUers and SPI clerks have an encyclopedic recall of socks they've encountered in the past. But I'll take a look at User:NinjaRobotPirate/Identifying sock puppets, thanks for letting me know.
Oh, and Gus1001 stopped their DYK activity to post a "Happy July 4th" message on Deepfriedokra's talk page so they might have either helped them in the past or blocked their previous accounts. Again, strange that a 2 day old account would know where to find a holiday template. Thanks again. Liz 23:53, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
There's a private wiki accessible to checkusers and stewards, but that doesn't really help anyone else. It turns out this is Eltomas2003 (talk · contribs). I cheated and found a tagged sock on the same IP address, so I can't really claim to have an encyclopedic knowledge. But it turns out the previous sock was pestering ProtoDrake about DYK, so that makes it pretty obvious in retrospect. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:37, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
@Liz, Eltomas2003 shadows video game related media with a focus on pushing to GA/DYK, usually harassing/stalking Protodrake's efforts in the same area. @NinjaRobotPirate, I got glock handled. -- ferret (talk) 01:02, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
I generally don't have a good instinct for spotting socks, especially ones that have had successful second careers at Misplaced Pages, but I do notice brand new accounts that head drectly for administrative areas like AFD and DYK. Glad you have ways of "ferreting" out new socks when they show up. Liz 03:53, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello, NRP,
I just came across User:ウィ貴公子, an account created years ago but you just came to life tonight creating categories and category redirects which is not a new editor activity. Their interest is baseball but their editing didn't seem familiar to me. Just running it by you. Thanks. Liz 05:31, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
NO ウィ貴公子 (talk) 05:34, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Wow, editing for one day, I'm impressed you found this mention of your username. Liz 06:24, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
From Special:CentralAuth/ウィ貴公子 you can see the editor has almost 12K edits on Japanese Misplaced Pages, which I think would go a long way toward explaining their skill at editing. That's a quick way of seeing how experienced an editor is across various projects. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:06, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
@Liz As info if you link a user directly, that will ping them and alert them to the mention. If you don't want to draw their attention use a template like {{noping}}. -- ferret (talk) 14:30, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Oh, my well, I guess I owe them an apology. I'll post on their talk page.
Here's another one, I think Krijtat is blocked editor AISORESNAVY (whose account is stale). Krijtat continues to write false articles about himself (he's 18, a CEO and handles Grammy award winners) and if you look at the deleted history of Noahkrijtat, both accounts created this article. Thanks. Liz 05:18, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
One can only assume that they're socks of Noahkungsin, who created Krijtat pages. I gotta go to sleep now, but I could look deeper later. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:30, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
It looks like if you do a search for krijtat, the only hits are related to this. We could probably salt or even blacklist these titles, but sometimes it's easier to just give younger sock puppeteers their own personal draft article they can use like a sandbox. Hopefully, we can channel all (or most of) their disruption there instead of somewhere else that might be more tedious to clean up, like trying to find hoaxes they added to mainspace articles. The downside is that the draft sometimes wastes the time of other volunteers, who treat it as if it's legitimate and try to help the sock puppeteer write it. So I usually get tired of it and salt the titles eventually. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:53, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Pretty ducky but

Would you be willing to check these two? -- ferret (talk) 01:26, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

 Confirmed to User:AardWKIA9A. I want to poke around a bit more, though, because it looks like there's more. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:33, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
All confirmed to Rickwas99:
Several of these accounts are blocked on ar.wiki for socking, too. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:52, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
I forgot I duck blocked one before. Didn't quite expect the nest though. Thanks -- ferret (talk) 02:47, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

off-wiki discussion?

I unsure about the propriety of notifying other (any?) editors about this, but I thought I'd run it past you, first. If I shouldn't've, and shouldn't notify further, please let me know; I just thought off-wiki mischaracterization of editors' discussion might warrant a heads-up:

As a participant in the AFD of William David Volk, I wanted you to be aware of this essay mischaracterizing your collective conclusion, which was further posted here. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 16:13, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Well, it's too late to canvass people to the deletion discussion, so I doubt it's an issue for Misplaced Pages. Honestly, I didn't click the link. If it were The New York Times, I'd probably click it, but Medium is a glorified blogging website. Does it really matter what some blogger says? Because I've never really thought so. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:40, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

One more thing about User:Rickwas99

He's also made User:LancedSoul. So can you blocked User:LancedSoul cause User:LancedSoul is a sockpuppet made by User:Rickwas99 too, can you do that?--~~ MLJ 657 (talk) 16:46, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

That's a rather strong accusation. I just checked for socks of Rickwas99 and didn't see anyone like that. What evidence do you have? NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:59, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
It appears MLJ657 is going around making baseless allegations of this nature. They are probably revenge attacks. I have had to revert several factually dubious edits by this editor in recent weeks, such as was the case here. Therefore I wouldn't put any stock in these accusations; they can go to the SPI page and file a case with appropriate diffs if they have a genuine case. Betty Logan (talk) 19:24, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Block evasion by User:DiscoSlasher

Has been inserting incorrect information to articles where sources do say that. YourBidz (talk) 20:49, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

No, Dudenik69 is definitely not Emiliogogo. It's User:JShanley98 if it's anyone. But you're pretty obviously Sinlu22. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:26, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Follow-up on User Block

Hi NinjaRobotPirate,

I wanted to seek your assistance on User:Amaury's actions, noting that you have previously blocked Amaury. I initially contacted Administrator Beeblebrox who referred me to you, and expressed some agreement with the issues presented. A brief review for the reasons for your block shows some similarities with this case, in that Amaury refused to constructively engage in warnings made as part of the dispute resolution process. Further, Amaury questioned the actions of an admin is this case, similar to the case you previously handled.

I recently posted a warning on a third users (User:IJBall) talk page requesting IJBall to stop making personal attacks on various other editors. Amaury reverted the message twice , , falsely claiming the message was illegitimate, and minimizing the IJball's actions, while quoting WP:DTTR, when I didn't actually use a template. Given that I'd had to revert Amaury twice , and warned Amaury against disruptions of WP:DR attempts in the edit summaries, I posted a warning to Amaury's user page. Only then did Amaury stop reverting my warning. IJball was later blocked after ignoring the warning, in part due to the personal attacks which I warned for.

More recently, Amaury showed up at a WP:AN3 discussion relating to me. Amaury doubled-down on the previous accusations made relating to WP:DTTR . Amaury further casted aspersions , accusing me of having "a history of edit warring" and "dragging another user to ANEW over some supposed technical violation seems to me like it was just done out of spite, despite not having any interaction me beyond the above-mentioned incident. Additionally, Amaury criticized User:Daniel Case, the admin who blocked IJball, saying "I personally don't think the block was warranted to begin with, nor do I agree with the rationale given for the block, especially considering he wasn't given the chance to respond to the ANEW report", which seems to be WP:IDHT, when the user has been blocked for the violation.

As I pointed out at WP:AN3, WP:DTTR is a essay, not WP:PAG. A user's right to contact or warn another user is not diminished simply because the user has been on WP longer then the other. I find Amaury's actions to be a clear disruption of WP:DR process. I believe that this attitude of simply reverting/blocking a less senior user's attempts at conflict resolution to be extremely disruptive. I further note that this both times I have interacted with Amaury, Amaury has inserted himself into good-faith attempts at WP:DR, and disrupted the attempts, without being initially involved.

Please let me know what you think and if further action is warranted. Thank you for your assistance. Carter00000 (talk) 16:53, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

I don't understand why you keep referring to people as "this user", "the user", and "a user". I gave up trying to figure out who you're talking about. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:06, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
I apologize for the confusing prose. I have corrected the references to people to use their usernames. Please help to take a look again. Thank you. Carter00000 (talk) 17:17, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
OK, well, Amaury seems to be putting a whole lot of weight on some random essay. I edited the essay to explicitly state that nobody is bound by it. If people want to wield it like a weapon, they can get consensus to promote it to a guideline. I get that this is probably a lot less than you were hoping for, but maybe it will resolve the issue in the short term. If it devolves into wikihounding, like constantly showing up to berate you in various forums, an admin could take further steps. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:40, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for amending the essay to clarify it is not WP:PAG. I'm sure this will be useful not only for this case, but for many other users as well, as the essay is often similarly cited. However, it seems that another editor, Oiyarbepsy, has already reverted some of the changes, including the clarification that the essay is not policy.
Additionally, I feel that Amaury may need further guidance to disengage from this issue. As you mentioned previously, I should take further action if Amaury showed up at various forums to wikihound me. I note that after you replied, Amaury has shown up at various pages , , , posting essentially similar entries, in an attempt to wikilawyer and minimize his actions. I note that Amaury was aware of your reply, given that one entry was placed under your reply.
I further note that an IP has shown up at Amaury's talk page, seemingly in an attempt to troll/harass me, by posting a baseless accusation that I'm a sockpuppet of Simulation12, a user banned more then 14 years ago. Given that there are no other talk page messages relating to this case visible on the talk page, this is likely either logged-out editing by Amaury, or a meat-puppet (potentially IJball, who was blocked during this incident). A search of both usernames on the SPI case page shows that they are both involved in multiple previous SPI investigations on Simulation12. I further note that Amaury has edited after the message was posted, yet he has not removed the message.
Please take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks. Carter00000 (talk) 05:24, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Well, that's the problem with Misplaced Pages: anyone can edit it. There's a header at the top of WP:DTTR that says it's an essay, so someone might think that my change was redundant. I obviously disagree, but if someone thought it improved the essay, they could add it back or start a discussion on the talk page. If people keep citing this essay like it's some rule that must be followed, maybe it should be rewritten from scratch over the objections of the people who are wielding it like a policy – but that would require consensus. You're not posting diffs, so I'm not really sure what you're directing me toward. You're talking to the wrong admin if you want someone to go searching for a key sentence in a sea of words – I'm visually impaired, so it's not something that I can do comfortably. Furthermore, the links seem to go to existing discussions that you already mentioned. The IP editor is definitely stirring things up, but why would IJBall request to be indefinitely blocked, then start stirring things up by posting as an IP editor? Yes, it could happen, but I don't really see the point. IJBall could simply take back the request to be indefinitely blocked and would probably be unblocked within minutes. I can block the IP if it continues posting random accusations without following through on them at the appropriate noticeboard, but I'd recommend you just stop watching everything that Amaury does and everything that happens around Amaury. You're just going to get yourself worked up over little things. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 14:17, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply. I will keep an eye on the IP and will let you know if there are any further issues related to the IP. Carter00000 (talk) 14:24, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi, NinjaRobotPirate. Please note that there is already a discussion about this at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Carter00000 reported by User:GWA88 (Result: ), where everything that the OP has said here was already said there in some form or another. In my opinion, this appears to be some form of canvassing. In this particular case, my block log is irrelevant, so no idea why they're bringing it up. There is no pattern of whatever here. I only reverted the OP twice on IJBall's talk page, which IJBall himself later reverted the next attempt. The inappropriate warning left on my talk page that I reverted doesn't count, as per WP:BLANKING. I stopped reverting because I wasn't going to play games and also because of EW, not because of the inappropriate warning. Additionally, the reason given in IJBall's block log was edit warring and incivility, so I don't know why the user keeps claiming personal attacks, as incivility and personal attacks are not the same thing. Generally speaking, neither should happen, but they are not strictly the same thing. I should also note that, despite the OP's claims, I did not criticize Daniel, I said I disagreed with the block. I didn't even mention Daniel's name because I was talking about the block itself, not who did it. Even if I had been talking specifically about Daniel being the one who did the blocking, disagreeing with an action he did does not mean I am criticizing him, it just means I am (respectfully) disagreeing with it. In any case, unlike the OP, I am not looking for any of kind action to be taken against them by coming here and posting this and am just replying. I am also not interested in discussing this in three or four different places and will stick to making any further comments at ANEW, so this will be my only comment here on this particular subject. Amaury • 19:22, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Reporting 50.84.157.62

50.84.157.62 (talk · contribs)

I can't tell that this IP might be Rishabisajakepauler because they have a bad habit of adding "singles" to articles . And it appears they are doing again in Honestly, Nevermind , what do you think of it? TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 02:43, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I wasn't really sure, either, but going by the response at User talk:50.84.2.226 from a while back, it does seem a whole lot more likely. I'm convinced enough to block. When you're not sure, sometimes it helps to try finding other IP editors on the same IP range who've made similar edits. It's not always easy to spot them, but they occasionally leave more evidence behind. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:59, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, if you looked at those two refs next to Falling Back, it says “single”. the Beibs in the Trap edit that User:TheAmazingPeanuts reverted is perfectly well-written per WP:SINGLE? from the Billboard ref although it was not me. Can you please explain this? 24.173.65.146 (talk) 04:24, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Concerning Abuse Of Misplaced Pages Email

Is there anyway to block a user from using Misplaced Pages email? Blocked user HounganC (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is continuing to harass me via Misplaced Pages email--Mr Fink (talk) 20:26, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, that can be disabled, but don't reply to the emails. Replying will reveal your email address, and there's nothing that Misplaced Pages can do to stop someone from emailing you if they already know your email address. If you want to reply to emails from Misplaced Pages users, it might be best to set up a separate email account dedicated to just that purpose. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:32, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Understood. I've sent all of their harassing emails to the trash without replying, either way.--Mr Fink (talk) 20:40, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Teslagrad 2

You accidentally uploaded a duplicate of the cover for Tails of Iron instead of the cover for Teslagrad 2. Waxworker (talk) 18:47, 11 July 2023 (UTC).

Oh, I'll look at that. I usually delete the files after I upload them, but I might have the original here still. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:48, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Re Damolisher/Skyler Lovefist

Just a note - I mentioned in the SPI in the title about how the sock was created two days after the blocking of the sockmaster. Are you able to initiate a sleeper search just in case? I don't know how long the IP block that goes with the account block goes for but I assume it's not long. Addicted4517 (talk) 05:38, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Whens someone is blocked, the last IP address they used is automatically blocked by the software for 24 hours. I already looked at the CheckUser data, though. As I said at the SPI case, the two accounts geolocate to the same city. The automated blocks are a bit pointless, and I don't know why we even do them. When it's appropriate, I usually do longer blocks on my own once I see the CU data. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 14:25, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

July 2023 "warning"

Now that Nyxaros got the last word and put me in my place with some stinging criticism (ouch! I hope it's not WP:DBO behavior to call someone's behavior "bizarre"), I think we're done here! NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:48, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I don't understand your extremely rude attitude. I don't think it's OK to delete a sentence without even reading the corresponding section and then threaten to block a user (you previously said that I should be "banned" because what I wrote was "stupid" before) by accusing them of adding "unsourced information" for reverting to the already existing information to the page. If this exaggerated aggressive attitude continues, I'm sure it will be taken into account by other admins. ภץאคгöร 20:04, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Ooh, digging up old wiki-drama. That's one my favorite games! "should Nyxaros decide to unretire, they will need to clean up their act". In another discussion, two people supported indefinitely blocking you, and nobody opposed. Next time someone reports you to an admin board, you're probably getting site banned. I doubt you can wiggle out of it three times in a row. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:26, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
I didn't dig any "drama", I remembered our last interaction as soon as I saw your offensive statements on my talk page and pointed that out as it is clear that you have a personal problem with me from something that I don't know (and frankly don't care about). You are obviously hostile for no reason that you have spent your time finding "old drama"s (for some reason) that have nothing to do with your invalid "final warning" or your bizarre behavior. Keep doing what you're doing as long as you don't bother me or interact with me, especially in this WP:DBO and WP:SARC manner. ภץאคгöร 22:37, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

You've got mail!

Hello, NinjaRobotPirate. Please check your email; you've got mail!
Message added 16:03, 14 July 2023 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

-- ferret (talk) 16:03, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

TTT24 sock block

Thanks for the latest block. The recent spate of activity by the most recent sock seems to be overlapping with user:OwlHousier, another recently created account making significantly more advanced edits than a new user would. I don't know if you checked that one, but it smells suspicious to me. oknazevad (talk) 16:53, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, looks like there's a few of them on that IP range:
I blocked them all. Thanks for mentioning that. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:10, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Socks of Juan Branco, again

You are the admin that blocked user:username1789, the last sock of Juan Branco. Now, user: Imagritte is a further sock (after Brancojuan, Elahadji, Username1789, RoxxorOscar, Paulk12, and probably several others):

  • It was ceated on 28 April 2023, after username1789 was blocked on 14 March 2023.
  • All these socks are WP:SPA focused only on Juan Branco, except that, because of the semi-protection of the article, Imagritte edited other unprotected articles before.
  • The unique objective of these socks is to embellish the article in favour of its subject.
  • All these socks show a unbelievable knowledge (for new users) of Misplaced Pages rules; see for example).
  • All these socks are very aggresive against opponents and distords WP rules for denying good faith to them. This is to be compared the the behaviour of Juan Banco (see Talk:Juan Branco#Threads).

I believe that this is sufficient to block Imagitte as a sockpuppett. If you are no willing to do this block, please, let me know here. D.Lazard (talk) 14:36, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello @NinjaRobotPirate, please tell me if I really need to respond to this. Anyway, please also take a look at these 2 singlepurpose very occasional accounts that both woke up 2 weeks ago: @Ebtpmus (only edits Juan Branco) and @Delfield (almost only edits Juan Branco and the schools he attended : Sciences Po, Ecole Normale Supérieure..; to add controversies). And especially the second one, which I recently noticed has the same first and last letters as @D.Lazard and both have 8 characters. Please also keep me in touch, Imagritte (talk) 14:57, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, looks like the same person to me. Same IP range as a previous sock, though he was trying to get around some of my range blocks by using a VPN. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:19, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Paulk12 seems to have been a earlier sockpuppet. Active until end of Feb when he disappears (blocked).
Then appears username1789, active in March only.
And when blocked too then appears imagritte in April. Which has since scored 85+ edits of Branco's article, in the span of 3 months.
None of those 3 users actually overlap in time in editing this article.
imagritte in the process deleted any information on the page which is NOT favorable to Branco such as :
- accusation of manipulation of WP article,
- information that he posed as a WP administrator to threaten another contributor by writting a letter to his employer
- indictment for rape. Ebtpmus (talk) 18:12, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
I think all the accounts are already blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:48, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Indeed. Thanks.
But good to keep track of the sequence: I am afraid it won't be long until yet another brand new user starts dedicating a lot attention to this article and posting the very same controversial text, word for word. Ebtpmus (talk) 20:10, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
To editor Ebtpmus: It is because of previous such sequences that the page Juan Branco is semi-protected. So, such a disruption cannot be done by IP-users and new users. It is probably for this reason that Imagritte edited first other articles. As sockpuppets cannot be detected before disruption, the best method is to keep the article on your watchlist, and, when you suspect a new sockpuppet, to open a WP:SPI or to ask an administrator or a WP:checkuser. WP:extended confirmed protection would also be possible, but, with it, you will not be able to edit the article. D.Lazard (talk) 00:25, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
To editor D.Lazard: Thanks for the info. Happy to learn about the nuts and bolts of WP. Out of curiosity I was looking at the other activity of imagritte and a lot of his edits consist of creation of "new" articles but barely any content in it, often a mere couple of lines and nothing more. This indeed corroborates your interpretation. Ebtpmus (talk) 08:28, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Looking at fr:talk:Juan Branco, I see posts by two socks of Juan Branco, namely "imagritte" and "brancojuan". I suspect also "chouette bougonne" to be a third sock. Maybe, you could signal this to French checkusers. D.Lazard (talk) 12:31, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

From Special:CentralAuth/Brancojuan, you can see that Brancojuan is already blocked on both English Misplaced Pages and French Misplaced Pages. You can enable an option to see when editors are blocked in your preferences. This only affects English Misplaced Pages, but it's helpful when you're looking for sock puppets here. After all, I can't make people any more blocked than they already are, and the checkuser data is purged after 90 days. I retagged the sock puppets of Salmasalma2 as sock puppets of Brancojuan, but if someone is already blocked, I think our job is mostly done already. You don't have to report them to me.

If you want to report an account on French Misplaced Pages as a sock puppet, I think you can do so at fr:Wikipédia:Vérificateur d'adresses IP/Requêtes. I'm honestly not very familiar with how French Misplaced Pages is run. I don't have any evidence that Chouette bougonne is a sock puppet, so I can't really pass along that name to anyone. You should post whatever evidence you have at French Misplaced Pages. I can pass along the checkuser data I've seen from Imagritte, though. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:21, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks D.Lazard (talk) 17:12, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
As to your comments on "chouette bougonne". I had exchanges some time ago with that user about the French version that made me suspect sockpuppetry as well. Typically, modifying article in a war edit pattern without talk, suppressing first account sources and replacing them with less complete sources, rephrasing / summarizing that first account source but that happened to be painting Branco in a more favorable light.
However, the activity pattern is much less "Branco centric" and a lot less suspicious, generally speaking. Ebtpmus (talk) 18:17, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Imagritte has been blocked on FR:WP.
I don't think Chouette Bougonne is a sockpupett. Durifon (talk) 11:53, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Reporting 68.134.192.160

68.134.192.160 (talk · contribs)

I believe that BlaccCrab might be block evasion yet again by using this IP . TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 07:15, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

BlaccCrab has a history of editing Gucci Mane discography, so this is likely him . TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 15:36, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, looks like him. Blocked for a few months. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:55, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

New message from Picard's Facepalm

Hello, NinjaRobotPirate. You have new messages at Picard's Facepalm's talk page.
Message added 15:01, 20 July 2023 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Picard's Facepalm (talk) 15:01, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Mic check 1, 2.... is this thing on? Picard's Facepalm (talk) 21:35, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
Well, if you leave some talkback thing on my talk page, it'll probably get put on the backburner indefinitely as I get distracted by pings, backlogs, and admin tasks that need to be done. I'll take a look once I'm done creating a category for Netflix games. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:38, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
Cool - no worries. I'm sure you are busy - thanks for your consideration. Take your time. :) Picard's Facepalm (talk) 21:39, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

PA from IP

Mind taking a look at this edit? Seems like a personal attack, thanks. --GoneIn60 (talk) 15:47, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

It looks like that IP editor has been repeated blanking sourced content. The personal attack is just icing on the cake, I guess. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:08, 23 July 2023 (UTC)


How to confess to sockpuppetry without really trying

It always amuses me to see such total giveaway edits as this one, asking "why did you block me", from an account which had never been blocked. It is totally obvious to me which block it referred to, and I would have blocked the account in response to that giveaway post, but as it turned out it was irrelevant, as you made a CU block anyway. Still amusing, though. JBW (talk) 15:43, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, sometimes they're a bit obvious about it. When they're too obvious, that also makes me a bit suspicious. Usually those are children (the kind who lie about eating chocolate when their faces are covered in it), but sometimes it's a joe job from a troll. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:22, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
Yes, and it's important to be on the lookout to avoid being caught out by those trolls and joejobbers. This time, though, there was no doubt at all. There were two accounts and an IP range which I was 95% certain were the same person, on behavioural evidence. I have in fact blocked many editors with lower degree of certainty, but this time I had a feeling that the editor might cooperate in removing the remaining 5% of doubt if I gave them an opportunity to do so. I put a non-anon-only block on the range for a while, specifically to see whether one or both of the accounts would say anything indicating they were blocked. Sure enough, they walked right into the trap. That removed the residual element of doubt, and I was ready to follow through with the block, but found you had got in there first. What made me think this was the kind of person who might be naive enough to do that? I don't really know, just an impression from what I'd seen of them. JBW (talk) 08:07, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Re:Damolisher/SkylerLovefist 2

First off - if I found the right block I noticed that you gave his range a three month holiday. Good move. But I think we need to watch out for new accounts in October, judging by his current conduct on the SkylerLovefist talk page. He won't let it go. Maybe Czello should have left it alone but I don't blame him for responding. I recommend Skyler's talk page access be revoked given his conduct will also prevent any unblock request from going through to the point of it being so obviously an abuse of process. Addicted4517 (talk) 00:00, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Well, I can't comment on any IP addresses because of local and global policy. Generally speaking, though, people can usually evade their block if they are either persistent or patient enough. They usually get caught regardless. I like to think of my philosophy as the "ghost theory of sock puppetry" because sock puppeteers are a lot like how ghosts are portrayed in classic ghost stories. They're obsessive about completing unfinished tasks they started while they were unblocked, and they haunt the same articles forever, where they repeat the same actions forever. If they could escape this depressing fate, they wouldn't be engaging in sock puppetry in the first place. So, I'm not usually too worried about whether we'll catch them. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:25, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
That's all fair, but what about revoking his talk page access? Addicted4517 (talk) 00:38, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
I generally don't like doing that just because someone is being a bit argumentative with random users who show up on their talk page. If people stopped posting, the sock puppet presumably would, too. If someone leaves racist rants, posts offensive images, or pesters people with repeated pings, that'd be different. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:48, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Blocking IMMAGRITE

Hello,

This is Juan Branco. I just discovered that you blocked User talk:Imagritte, thinking it was me. It isn't.

How to prove it ? I don't know, you let me know.

I haven't participated on WP on any other account than brancojuan and another explicitly linked account (cambodiacambodia), thus never using SP, unlike what is being purported.

On the other hand, two French individuals, User talk:D.Lazard and Ebeptmus have waged a campaign on WP EN since the "Griveaux Case" and february 2019, making hundreds (litterally) of edits on this page, which was until then consensual. They systematically distort sources, add false information, and produce derogatory comments on my behalf, thus having an important effect on my career and reputation.

I have refused to intervene other than in a assumed fashion on the discussion page, and with WP teams. But this is producing heavy political effects, as I'm involved, as a lawyer, in the defense of important causes with international impact, as with Senegal recently.

I do consider that there is an important issue here and suggest you look at it closely. 198.167.211.53 (talk) 16:44, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Right, an IP editor on a VPN service comes to my talk page to tell me that someone I blocked isn't a sock puppet. That's totally believable and not sketchy at all. Blocked for legal threats, and thanks for letting me know about the VPN. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:59, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Please, look also on talk:Juan Branco#Intervention of the person involved. I think that this section must be deleted. I do not believe that these "criminal complaints" may be accepted by any court. But, if they are, what should I do? D.Lazard (talk) 17:04, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
@D.Lazard: you could delete the post; it was presumably made by a blocked editor, and WP:BANREVERT lets you remove their edits. As far as the legal threats go, you should probably contact the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust and Safety group. They would probably know better than us what to do. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:23, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
I would kindly suggest NOT to delete it. Indeed, there are several disparaging and obviously false statement made here and under the article talk page which in itself constitutes defamation. It would be useful to keep that for the record, to shed light on the character and coming in continuity of previous threats made to Misplaced Pages editors. And as proof, should that defamation lawsuit ever come. Ebtpmus (talk) 14:02, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I learn that people are talking about me here on the French Misplaced Pages without having the elementary politeness to notify me.
For information, I am not making a favorable contribution to Juan Branco (nor unfavorable). I am neutral. If I revoked the changes, it's not that I'm in favor of him. It's that Ebtpmus's modifications are bad and mostly irrelevant.
By the way if you check the history, you would see that I restore negative information that is deleted by ip and disposables accounts. Chouette bougonne (talk) 09:11, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
@D.Lazard @Ebtpmus for information. Chouette bougonne (talk) 09:20, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Discussion moved

I recently pinged you at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (technical). The discussion has now been moved to Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#Massive wide-ranging IP block on Airtel India users. JBW (talk) 17:30, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

OK. You might consider leaving a {{Moved discussion to}} pointer behind. It helps people find where a discussion went. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:38, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 Done Thanks for reminding me about that template, which I had forgotten about. If I had remembered it, it would have saved me the trouble of posting to each individual user talk page about it. JBW (talk) 18:00, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, I had to do a search or two to find it. It's not really the sort of thing you memorize. I've got half the speedy deletion criteria memorized, but the others don't really matter. If I need to know what A2 is, I can look it up. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:54, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Weirdness at Ali Cook

There's been some suspicious editing from the IP 59.103.216.187 (talk · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)), as well as the brand-new accounts KerzneR.T (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) and Zahid Mujtaba (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). I noticed that you've previously blocked some accounts that edited the page for UPE/socking, so I figured I'd give you a heads-up in case you weren't already aware. — SamX 23:40, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I forgot I blocked those accounts. The registered accounts are almost certainly Asad.Alam, who seems to create a few throwaway single-purpose accounts for each article he edits. no No comment with respect to IP address(es). NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:23, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Smile Kids Jr. with TeenNick Sockpuppet

Hello, NinjaRobotPirate,

We have another sockpuppet of that Smile Kids Jr. with TeenNick variety, User:Hey Did (see Deleted contributions). I don't remember the name of the sockmaster to file this request at SPI so I'm just looking for an active checkuser and you seem to be one right now! Everyone else I checked took the weekend off. Can't blame them! Liz 03:33, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

That's Jeremiah Caquias. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:14, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
That's right. I'll try to remember that name. He's pretty easy to spot. Liz 03:13, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Abusing multiple accounts

These accounts (User:Bevertus, User:AlKastO, User:Markuss86) continue making the same pattern of disruptive edits, by going from page to page altering image sizes unnecessarily in info boxes, after being asked to stop. SpinnDoctor (talk) 18:50, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

These guys are  Confirmed to a bunch of accounts. I'm never going to remember this, so I'll just note that I tagged them as sock puppets of BouwMaster. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:15, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Sock of TotalTruthTeller

New user User:Norgwendoll already restoring non-notable articles, with the same edits like User:Nurseline247. GreenishPickle! (🔔) 22:01, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

That and a couple more. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:31, 2 August 2023 (UTC)