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Dotonj (perhabs sock of banned user: Iaaasi)

Dotonj used fake references without URL in East-West schism article. The map was modified by chauvinist romanian user:Iaaasi. (Iaaasi depicted the political dreams of ultra nationalist Great Romania Party in that map, that party tried to prove that most territory of present-day Hungary was romanian and therefore Orthodox. That laughable ultranationalist extreme national political fantasies and claims are not supported by even romanian scientific academy and academic historians too.) I removed the fake refrence ("reference" from without any URL is not reliable) Everybody can write fake citations with book titles and authors without existing URL in the citation)--78.92.110.45 (talk) 09:08, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Please remove Iaaasi's map from the article, until he can't give a real reference with URL.

Stop your personal attacks. The map is well-sourced Dotonj (talk) 09:14, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

It is not personal attack, the sock puppets and his maps of banned users (user:Iaaasi) must be deleted/removed from wiki, even if they changed their internet providers. Fake references without URL in the citation are not reliable references.--78.92.110.45 (talk) 09:24, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not the place where extremist ideologies (and maps) of chauvinist political organisations are spreadable. (Great Romania Party) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.92.110.45 (talk) 09:28, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

78.92.110.45, you removed the map from the article 6 times during one hour, without even trying to discuss it on the article's talk page. What you have done is edit warring. Users who engage in edit wars risk being blocked or even banned. Go to Talk:East–West Schism, start a new topic and voice your opinions there. Thank you. —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl (talk | contribs) 09:31, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

And don't forget the Three revert rule. Dotonj (alias Iaaasi) was the first who stepped over this rule. (check it in the history of the article). New sockpuppet of Iaaasi and his map which was inspired by the map of "Great Romania Party" must be remove delete. Don't forget his non-reliable fake reference without any URL. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.92.110.45 (talk) 09:43, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Have you written about it on Talk:East–West Schism? —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl (talk | contribs) 09:46, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Please refresh the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:East%E2%80%93West_Schism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.92.110.45 (talk) 10:07, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

"Content dispute/edit warring" protection

I believe that reason of protection is for FULL protection. pp-dispute is for full-protected pages. LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!) 13:48, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Also, I am refering to the protection you made on this page. LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!) 13:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, the page could get fully protected (and still can be by other administrators) but here what I noticed was that even though it definitely was a matter of content dispute and edit warring, in this case the edit war was between registered users and what seemed to be an anonymous user connecting from many different IPs who hadn't written a single line on the article's talk page but instead removed the same content 6 times during 1 hour, only to get reverted every time. I decided to only make a semi-protection to not disrupt other edits that other editors may be doing and it turned out to be a good idea because there were few minor edits since the protection, including yours, which would be impossible if the page was fully protected, but there was no single revert and the dispute in question moved from edit warring to a discussion on the talk page where it belongs: Talk:East–West Schism#E-W schism map of Iaaasi and its unreliable reference. All in all, I think that a semi-protection was enough in this case. Best regards. —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl (talk | contribs) 23:06, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

The user from Pécs, Baranya, Hungary

Hi! The "anonymous user" from Talk:East--West Schism is in fact the banned user Stubes99. He is avoiding to create an account for a very simple reason: he knows that it will have the fate of the other tens: [1] [2]. As a consequence, he prefers editing through IPs. He is very disruptive and I have recently asked for a range block against him, but no one seemed interested in my report. Daccono (talk) 14:17, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Daccono, your proposal was to block nearly 25 thousand (!) IP addresses that would pretty much silence the entire city just to block what you say is just a single user. You provided links to his two edits as the worst examples and the worst that I've seen from them is accusing some users of being in his opinion sock puppets of user Iaaasi. If that is the same user (and you didn't show me any proof for that and 25000 addresses across 10 different networks being controlled exclusively by one single user is a somewhat big claim you must admit) then he also accused the user Dotonj of being a sock puppet of Iaaasi here on my talk page which turned out to be true according to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Iaaasi/Archive and resulted in Dotonj account being blocked indefinitely, see: User:Dotonj, so as you can see not all of his accusations are unfounded. The anonymous user from Talk:East–West Schism that you are talking about (whether this is the same user who controls your list of 25 thousand IPs or not) has already registered, has not done any edits to the article itself, and has started a civil discussion on the article's talk page. In your contributions I see almost as many posts about sock puppets, blocking and various accusations as any other serious edits. You accuse users of being sock puppets, other users accuse you of being a sock puppet, you ask administrators to block users, other users ask administrators to block you, some administrators are already getting frustrated and understandably so. I suggest that you focus more on improving the articles because at the end of the day this is what Wikipedia is really all about. —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl (talk | contribs) 05:15, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Rosetta Code

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I couldn't "consider improving the article to address the issues raised" simply because no improvement on my part could possibly make the Rosetta Code itself any more notable, but I'm glad that it was finally rewritten even though all of my original contributions were lost with the deletion. —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl (talk | contribs) 11:24, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Rosetta Code for deletion

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I'm glad the article is back online, even if without my original contributions. —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl (talk | contribs) 11:29, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

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Welcome back!

Welcome back to the mop. I am just coming back from a long break too. Chillum 04:24, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks and best regards. —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl (talk | contribs) 12:12, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

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Randi listed at Redirects for discussion

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Tunisian Arabic

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Rosetta Code

I've left you a message at User talk:Beeblebrox, explaining that I've fixed up Rosetta Code so that your first revision is now restored to the history. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:16, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Delete this orphan page

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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Delete this orphan page for deletion, because it seems to be a test. Did you know that the Wikipedia Sandbox is available for testing out edits?

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• Yes, as a matter of fact, I do know that the sandbox is available for testing - I am a Wikipedia administrator since 2004. The page you are talking about was created by me as a redirect to an article almost 14 years ago - see its history. Talk to the User:USN007 who has apparently blanked my original redirect, renamed to a different title, and created another redirect of the same name and pointing to the same article as my original redirect. If you want to help then revert the mess done by USN007 instead of nominating the original page for deletion. —Rafał Pocztarski, Rfl (talk | contribs) 22:41, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Xevus11 and Rfl the intent is to delete the redirect page and move the article to that name space, as "the Final solution to the Jewish Question" should be the title of the article, Not Final Solution which should be an disambiguation page. I have just been having difficulty with the move. USN007 (talk) 23:37, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Do you have consensus for this move? Can someone undo the mess that USN007 has made, the original page has now been speedy deleted, this should be undone and the new page deleted if possible. Polyamorph (talk) 09:39, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

@RHaworth: who did the speedy, perhaps this mess can be reverted? Polyamorph (talk) 09:41, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

• USN007, learn to provide links and learn the difference between an article title and a name space. Final Solution is the best title. No moves are needed.

Polyamorph, you are equally vague what do you mean by "original page" and "new page"? I do not see any tidying up needed. All that lurks in the deleted edits at delete this orphan page are redirects and blank pages. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 09:58, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

• Neither USN007 nor Polyamorph deserves any action but I have partially restored delete this orphan page so that Rfl can have credit for creating a redirect way back in 2005. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:14, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

@RHaworth: what you have done (restoring the history to show Rfl's original redirect) is exactly what I meant, sorry for my lack of clarity on this I will try and be clearer in the future. But thank you for restoring the original redirect.Polyamorph (talk) 16:01, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

FYI this message is an automated part of the page reviewing toolset, and is not something I did manually. Xevus11 (talk) 16:19, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

PolyamorphXevus11 and RHaworth : I disagree with all of you that "Final Solution" is the best title because "Final Solution" can mean many different things. Final solution "of what?" Therefore, "Final Solution" is a disambiguation NOT a title per WP policy defining the differences between the two. Therefore the best title is "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" because that is how it is referred to in nearly all of the historical references, and there is no reference to Hitler or the Nazis of ever having used the term "Final Solution" by itself without an adjective / adverb modifier of some kind or another. Therefore because the title represents a flagrant violation of WP policy and naming conventions, "consensus" is not needed to move it, and I intend to make the move unilaterally and immediately forthwith, absent any of you stating specific WP policy reasons to the contrary. USN007 (talk) 21:03, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Wait, what do I have to do with this? Xevus11 (talk) 00:04, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

That made me lol :) Polyamorph (talk) 12:20, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

User:USN007, there is no policy regarding what you claim. There is a guideline, and there is instead a policy that we step back, discuss, and seek consensus when we become aware that one's desired edit is disputed by someone else. You are now aware that this is the case. The article-name actually has been discussed before (see archive of its talkpage, in light of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC). You will be blocked if you perform this page move rather than going through the WP:RM process for contentious move proposals. This is true regardless of whether there is any policy for the naming you desire because your action is disruptive and contrary to process. You can make your case for your desired name, with links to specific policies and guidelines, in the RM discussion. DMacks (talk) 02:28, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

DMacks Sorry, but NOPE, I'm not buying it, unless you can point me to a place where it specifically says "Guideline" NOT "Policy". And also, I'd counsel you not to violate policy as to making threats. USN007 (talk) 05:30, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Well waddayaknow, Wikipedia:Article titles is a policy. And it's exactly on that basis that others have made a case that the current name is proper. And nobody (especially you, as you dispute the current status) has made a case that this is an exception that demands urgent and out-of-process/unilateral change (for example, WP:BLP or vandalism). So you are into page renaming process standard. Not following that process is disruptive. Disruptive editors get blocked to prevent disruption. That's not a threat, that's also a policy. DMacks (talk) 05:45, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

DMacks First thing, you can adjust your smartaleck attitude and treat others with respect-- and yes, the way in which you made the statement can be taken, and was taken, as a threat. If you don't want to be interpreted that way, I'd suggest you choose your words carefully to be non-threatening in the future.

The exception actually is urgent and called for in my opinion, because as such, I find the current title to be deeply offensive to some on a patent and obvious basis that it propagates revisionist-dilutionist (not to mention, incorrect) history. There's nothing "disruptive" about the proposed edit as you claim. I find that such is an offensive personal attack intended by you to cause unnecessary quarreling, and I will not tolerate that kind of conduct out of you, or anyone else, so please STOP before you are reported using the appropriate grievance procedures. Thank you. USN007 (talk) 06:02, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

You are welcome to file at WP:ANI. DMacks (talk) 06:18, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, Rfl. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised. Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

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Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:55, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next month.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:11, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next several days.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:03, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:42, 1 June 2022 (UTC)