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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bali myna

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Bali Myna 0A2A9443.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:39, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Naba Kailash Mandir

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Concentric temples of Kalna.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:43, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

Hello MER-C: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

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MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

new spam

Noticed a recreated spam page (it was declined on AfC and was deleted a few times); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G5_Entertainment. It has also cross-wiki spam signs(was uploaded to Ukrainian wiki a few years ago and simultaneously to Belarus wiki and after one day to English wiki under this name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G5_Entertainment_Group but go deleted by GSS admin). And recently, it was added to Simple wiki. 2003:E7:5F18:53F5:90C9:4043:7CB0:638 (talk) 13:49, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sabella pavonina

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Sabella pavonina - Hippocampus hippocampus - Porto Cesareo, Italy (DSC2314M).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:15, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas, MER-C/archives! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 15:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ugandan kobs mating

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:035 Uganda kobs mating at Queen Elizabeth National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:06, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

~~~ Merry Christmas! ~~~
Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua!
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สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành!
Весела Коледа! ~ Meri Kirihimete!

Hello, MER-C! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Chris Troutman (talk) 23:16, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Great blue turaco

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:017 Great blue turaco at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:15, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Little ringed plover

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Flussregenpfeifer im flachen Wasser 01.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:02, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

spam

This page is a paid spam Buoy Health and I have evidence of it. 23.164.184.64 (talk) 19:03, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Blocked and quarantined. Thanks for reporting. MER-C 03:31, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Betterme (app)

Hi MER-C. I noticed that you previously G5ed BetterMe, so I just wanted to bring this to your attention. Cheers! Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 16:30, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Looks like a sock. Article is a clear derivative of the deleted text. Blocked, thanks for reporting. MER-C 19:29, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Ukrainians again

Hi, please take a look on templates being deleted in Nick_Bilogorskiy by Максим Огородник in September Diff. Why would one do this without adding any content... Anntinomy (talk) 18:40, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

It could be a WP:PROXYING thing - the Qq8 account dates back to 2007. I need more evidence than this to block. MER-C 19:36, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

ok, may be COI template then? since Qq8 is Ihor Markov Igor L. Markov, who is on the board of Nova Ukraine with Bilogorskiy and Ostap Korkuna. Anntinomy (talk) 22:28, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Sockpuppet blocks

Hello, MER-C,

I was looking at User talk:SergeyAntloy and noticed that there was no notice that this editor was blocked for sockpuppetry. I was surprised because this has been the practice for the checkusers and SPI clerks I have worked with in the past. If you are following up the closure of an SPI case and blocking sockpuppets could you take a moment and put a notice on the User talk page? It helps editors who are following up their edits with questions also a block notice tells the editor how to appeal their block and I don't think it will take more than a minute or two of your time.

I wouldn't make this request if I didn't think this was standard practice for admins who help with SPI cases but I think it is. You can ask your fellow admins if my perception is accurate. Many thanks for all of the work you are doing, especially with some of these very large sockpuppet cases. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:13, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

I do a lot of blocking outside of SPI but will keep this in mind. MER-C 19:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Steamboat Willie (2)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Steamboat Willie (1928) by Walt Disney.webm, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:19, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Graceful pitta

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Graceful Pitta 0A2A8564.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:22, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Red-chested cuckoo

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:024 Red-chested cuckoo at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:20, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Trisopterus luscus

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Faneca (Trisopterus luscus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2022-07-29, DD 43.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:22, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nam Dok Mai

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Mango fruit Nam Dok Mai.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:23, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

paid account (SPA)

https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/NamanNomad/all#0 please review highly promotional articles. I know that this user is paid (I can share more details via email). 2603:7000:3FF0:9480:84BB:6445:F225:F5A8 (talk) 12:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eva Nogales

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Eva Nogales in 2023 06.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Grey-headed kingfisher

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:044 Grey-headed kingfisher at Queen Elizabeth National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:07, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Upper Belvedere

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Palacio Belvedere, Viena, Austria, 2020-02-01, DD 93-95 HDR.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:10, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

recreated page in violation of G5

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/G5_Entertainment_Group This page created by Bodiadub sock in Ukrainian Wikipedia was created by another sock (already blocked for socking) in English: G5 Entertainment, while A412 user is always there to defend the page. 80.139.9.212 (talk) 15:16, 28 January 2024 (UTC)