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White to move, so it's deadbeef's turn – check back later!

Hello, I'm 0xDeadbeef!

Feel free to ping me in reply to any comment made by me.

Administrators: if you disagree with any of my actions, feel free to revert it and leave a talk message so we can discuss it.

Guptalab SPI

Hi, Following the recent Guptalab SPI, I've nominated the effected article for speedy deletion (on the basis that it was created by a user who was evading a block). This has now been contested by an account which opened a couple of hours ago and which I'd suggest is obviously another sockpuppet. Is there anything that can be done to prevent the subject from continually creating new accounts and preventing the deletion? Last time (2017) he created several to try to influence the AfD, albeit unsuccessfully. Would, for example, page protection be the way to go? I'm not sure that I see how that would prevent it, do you have any other ideas? Best wishes, Axad12 (talk) 17:26, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article now deleted, so problem gone (until the sockmaster re-emerges, as he no doubt will one day).

Many thanks for your help with the SPI. Axad12 (talk) 19:21, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AfD stats

https://afdstats.toolforge.org/ lists Enterprisey and Σ.

Neither have edited recently. Enterprisey's talkpage lists you as a maintainer of apersonbot on Toolforge.

Since afdstats is also on toolforge I am hoping you can keep that alive as well.

Am I making any sense whatsoever? Am I in the right place? Polygnotus (talk) 09:36, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are in the right place. I an just busy at the moment. I can't give an ETA for this, so feel free to nudge me however frequent you see appropriate. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 03:12, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! No worries, Ahecht restarted it and that fixed it. Polygnotus (talk) 04:38, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended content

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data/project/afdstats/pyvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 644, in connect sock = socket.create_connection( File "/usr/lib/python3.9/socket.py", line 822, in create_connection for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM): File "/usr/lib/python3.9/socket.py", line 953, in getaddrinfo for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags): socket.gaierror: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data/project/afdstats/public_html/afdstats.py", line 112, in main db = pymysql.connect( File "/data/project/afdstats/pyvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 358, in __init__ self.connect() File "/data/project/afdstats/pyvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 711, in connect raise exc pymysql.err.OperationalError: (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'enwiki.web.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud' ([Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution)") None Fatal error.

Help me? About a educational Institute.

hi, I want to add a schools information in Wikipedia. How can I create a page for this Educational Institute. The institute is known as Khagrabondo Adorsho Bidda Niketon,Badargang.Please help me to create the article. মোঃ আহসান হাবিব রিফাত (talk) 06:57, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@মোঃ আহসান হাবিব রিফাত: Feel free to take a look at the Article wizard and make sure you have reliable sources that can help establish its notability. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 09:38, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I want to report a problem

Greetings. I am Risantana, a self-confirmed user of the Spanish Wikipedia with 15 years on the platform. I collaborate mainly by making vector images for the articles on the Dominican Republic on Wikipedia.

I would like to report a user who is making drawings of flags and bodies of the Dominican armed forces in SVG format that are not faithful to the originals that these institutions show, and are even poorly drawn.

The "user" in question is 0Username1233451

Is there a way to block this user and delete their contributions?

i think is a good measure to stop this graphic vandalism.

Take care. Risantana (talk) 16:58, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Risantana: I am not a commons admin so I can't help with that. Try going to commons:Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems if there is a problem with the uploads by said user. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 08:00, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Something interesting..

Look at the following AfDs:

If you went through everything in Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of important publications, you'd see that all the recent ones had been closed as Delete.

But in Special:PrefixIndex/List of important publications, a lot of articles still remain. I personally like how the list for biology was turned into a valid article: bibliography of biology which collects notable works instead of the others that are full of OR. I don't think that can be done for all topics, where there might not be a lot of publications that are notable. Like List of important publications in data science.

I don't know if a mass AfD should be started, but there are plenty of problematic articles. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 10:09, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BS

		The Original Barnstar
		For your patience, aplomb, and forbearance in dealing with the trolling by ZeehanLin-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:27, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the barnstar! And thank you too for the tireless work you put into dealing with unblock requests. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 08:04, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mikey551415

Hey well it’s kind of hard to even re appeal if admin abused powers and indefinitely blocked me. Also I know the email I wrote and i assure you that it was not abusive or threatening. 173.68.149.67 (talk) 02:37, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also since we can’t come To

resolution to anything and everything I do is a problem and leads to issues can we just remove my Wikipedia account permanently. Tired of feeling like a target 173.68.149.67 (talk) 02:38, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We can mostly courtesy blank his user talk page, leaving only the last block notice. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 09:35, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or just specifically me?

I think it is your imperious mien.😜 I'd just stay off his talk page and let someone else review the unblock. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 09:42, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's probably wiser. I sometimes have a weird tendency to provoke problematic users.. Interestingly, one admin got desysopped recently for "abuse of admin powers", with one of the justification for that being not communicating to a user they blocked while the user was requesting unblock. I didn't feel like that admin should have been desysopped, but oh well. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 09:53, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I should have specified zhwiki. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 10:46, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not just you. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 15:52, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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