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Deletion of User talk:Aggiechrist

Please don't be so reckless and delete pages that have legitimate talk messages. Prior to your deletion, I posted a legitimate message to User talk:Aggiechrist. -- intgr [talk] 11:14, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Besides, which CheckUser case was Mdikici5001 involved in? -- intgr [talk] 11:23, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Restored. Materialscientist (talk) 11:30, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Incorrect removal of my page edit

Blake Griffin was the first overall pick of the 2009 NBA Draft, so why delete my edit to the page? 2009_NBA_draft

I made an edit on the "10538 Overture" page, but only because clicking on cello rock redirects you to progressive rock anyways.

I made an edit on cher. In the book written about her it says her mother is of Irish and German descent it how ever doesn't say she has any Cherokee in her cher only started claiming she was Cherokee after the release of her song Half-Breed.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/19782/native-or-not-true-stories-behind-5-american-indian-actors#ixzz2gQVjl7Dg

I don't know why did you deleted the editing made by me in the half girlfriend page. I am an Indian and I know better than you about Indian cinema. But I wrote the right story.

Cayambe Coca

Hello MaterialScientist...I am new to editing Wikipedia, so not sure if this is the proper way to respond to your reversion of my changes to Cayambe Coca Ecological Reserve. The governing agent of Ecuador's protected areas is the Ministerio del Ambiente. If you check their website, you will see Cayambe Coca was converted from an Ecological Reserve to a National Park in 2010. http://areasprotegidas.ambiente.gob.ec/es/mapa-ficha?t=P&id=27

WP:AIV revert

Can you explain your edit-summary-free revert of my report? Lapadite (talk) 15:59, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

You have reported 2 IPs that briefly edited on 20 May and had no prior history - such IPs are called "stale". There is absolutely no use reporting/blocking them, unless there is a solid evidence they are open proxies. Materialscientist (talk) 22:36, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Page waiting for hours

If you've got a minute, would you please take care of Presto Tablet since it's been waiting all day? Appreciate it, thanks, SwisterTwister talk 01:22, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Radon

Why "unencyclopedic addition"? The discussion about the health effect of radon is still going on - few scientific papers presented different findings - thus the short information about that fact is encyclopedic. Czestomir (talk) 05:50, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Sure, any topics are being discussed by some people, yet we don't add this trivial fact to all Wikipedia articles. Materialscientist (talk) 06:43, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Ciao

Uh... You posted something to one of my welcoming pages and I wanted to make sure you weren't talking to me because I actually don't edit much and outside of my userpage I've only made like 4 overall edits... Dinah Kirkland (talk) 00:36, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Requested input

Hello, I frequently see you contribute to articles listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea/Popular culture and would very much appreciate your input on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Korea/Popular culture#Eradication of variety show sections so that a conclusion towards variety show appearances can be made. Thanks. Abdotorg (talk) 18:53, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Clarification request

I'm not quite sure which edit you're referring to, and why it was incorrect. Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.15.128.197 (talk) 22:48, 8 June 2017‎ (UTC)

99.231.136.245

The block you imposed on User:99.231.136.245 expired, and the user resumed their pattern of unwarranted and rapidly reverted deletions of content. Today's was without any explanation. —BarrelProof (talk) 02:30, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

203.100.6.18

• 203.100.6.18 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Would you mind taking a look at this IPs edits and perform a school block? Thanks. 114.180.228.230 (talk) 03:29, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Sobachenkov, Medvedev, Ryabenko and Brezhnev.jpg

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Incorrect revert - it's eighteen irregulars of Jupiter that haven't been named.

Let me count for you.

S/2003 J 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 23 (that's 12) S/2010 J 1, 2 (14) S/2011 J 1, 2 (16) S/2016 J 1 (17) S/2017 J 1 (18)

8.40.151.110 (talk) 17:56, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

IP address Personal Attack

I reverted a possible personal attack on you that was distributed by an IP address. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/784751725 from where I did so. Said IP address was this: 128.97.193.11 I strongly suggest you protect your talk page but it is up to you. Dinah Kirkland (talk) 21:48, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

A beer for you!

As a new account I'm not certain how I have previously interacted with the editor. Thanks for the quick block, but I'd like to know who I've offended and how I can resolve the issue. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:09, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi, its regarding the movie Arambham (tamil) ,I played the role of the Bank manager Christopher

www.imdb.me/drnair

Hello I was the person who was trying to completely rewrite the Michael Recanati page . I am his son. The information is mostly from old articles who got many things wrong at the time . The Washington free beacon is not a reliable source. It is fake news. some on the information while partly true is not relevant. There is also much on the page that is completely wrong. While my grandfather and great grandfather pages are mostly accurate there is still some not relevant information. How can I rewrite the pages without getting blocked . I don't know how to make a new section. I am very new at this.

addition of an echo in the bone production for Winston Duke

Hello, I added in the piece about Winston Duke in the production An Echo in the Bone in Trinidad. You can check this newspaper article as evidence http://www.guardian.co.tt/entertainment/2012-08-12/echo-brings-slavery-life. I am the actress in the picture with him. Let me know if you need any further clarification. Thanks!

Thanks for helping with the "Massotherapy" edit reversions

Hi, I saw that you reverted a bunch of the pages where the category had been wrongly changed. I only got to a dozen or so (plus a warning on the editor's talk page) before I ran out of time the other day. When I went back today I see the work is finished :) Thanks!--Karinpower (talk) 20:39, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Michael Recanati

Hello I was the person who was trying to completely rewrite the Michael Recanati page . I am his son. The information is mostly from old articles who got many things wrong at the time . The Washington free beacon is not a reliable source. It is fake news. some on the information while partly true is not relevant. There is also much on the page that is completely wrong. While my grandfather and great grandfather pages are mostly accurate there is still some not relevant information. How can I rewrite the pages without getting blocked . My Wikipedia name is Flamingoflorida

It is difficult to take your intentions seriously with edits like this. And editting from IPs and a username can be considered sockpuppetry. You might want to be careful with that. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Welfare State ‖ 04:48, 12 June 2017 (UT

He gave away much less then the article states those articles said he was a private person the only reason he has a Wikipedia page is because of the Washington free beacon article Flamingoflorida (talk) 06:44, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Recent edit to Rehmat Farrukhabadi

Which reliable source should I mention for deleted phase "MS - NEDUET, Karachi"? May I send the degree or any other thing, like researchgate or linkedin account of that person. He is my senior in the above degree.

Acnathan

Could you take a look at Acnathan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? User has been removing speedy tags for over an hour now. —Guanaco 07:17, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Hammadsaeed

Hi, I just want your advice on the Sockmaster User:Hammadsaeed who has been renamed as User:BukhariSaeed. Now if we see on the Sockpuppet_investigations the User:Hammadsaeed is not showing any SUL recoed.

I want to check on the another two suspected Sockpuppets but they are only on Urdu ur Wikipedia.

Question is on Sockpuppet_investigations should I use the Sockmaster User:Hammadsaeed or User:Hammadsaeed. Because User:Hammadsaeed is not showing any SUL record Now.

--Tahir Mahmood (talk) 06:36, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Rehmat Farrukhabadi

He is not recently died person. Biography and other related matter is written in his Oxford University Press book in urdu language, this is reliable and proof. Kindly read first then delete. Kindly resume all matter.

Please explain the message you left for me.

I do not add any unverified information and i do not appreciate your attitude. I consider this harassment.

To clarify for you: "Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 00:11, 12 June 2017 (UTC)" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarndra (talk • contribs)

(by talk page stalker) @Sarndra: No one has ever left you that message on your talk page, which makes me wonder what's happening on your end to cause you to make this claim. Did you mean to send this message from another account? Chris Troutman (talk) 06:28, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Apparently, they are referring to his warning left on User talk:103.224.128.94, probably about that IP's edits to Mathieu Raynal. - BilCat (talk) 06:32, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

For this edit? It should go without saying that claims like that need sourcing. To think some editor is going to edit like that, earn a warning, and then claim the template to be harassment is nonsense. Chris Troutman (talk) 07:03, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

It seems Sarndra logged out and saw messages addressed to someone else who edited from their IP (WP:AFG for now). Materialscientist (talk) 07:11, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Oops!

I'm sorry someone in my house thought it would be funny to change the element Holmium to Hoe Element, I just wanted to clarify and say it wasn't actually me and I wouldn't do something like that, I'm sorry and wish to say thanks for fixing what they messed up, as you can see I tried my best to clean it up and messed up on spelling on accident. Thank you and sorry for wasting your time!

I am NOT a stalker thank you very much!!!

File:Screen snap for Materialscientist.jpg

@Sarndra: ... And no-one is accusing you of being one. Did you try clicking the link where it said "Talk Page Stalker"? You should. In your rush to be offended, you are flattering yourself: the TPS or TPW attribution is one that people give to themselves, and this is a good thing, because they are here to help ... in this case, they are trying to help you. Please slow down and get your thumb off the Offended Button - it is honestly not helping. This place is generally nicer, and its people more helpful, than you seem to think. Promise. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 08:18, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

User:The Superme Ultima Warrior

You may also wish to revoke talk page access.--Cahk (talk) 07:40, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

What sources are needed for observations of a 40 year 2-3x week customer of Souplantation?

I am trying to figure out why you removed a thoughful, factually correct edit I made to Souplantation's wiki on 6/12 within hours after I made it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souplantation

I am a 40 year customer of theirs for 2-3 times a week, so who would be a better source? I was present on their opening day having a special invite from the bartender who founded it. He had enticed me and others to try it by saying there would always be plenty of meat in the stockpot soups. Later when Mitt Romey's Bain Capital partner Michael Mack took over he told me that he would keep this "secret weapon" intact since it broadened the restaurant from vegetarian to general market. So this should surely merit a mention about the chain's success as favorites in many locations in California, Florida, Arizona and Georgia?

The idea that such valuable color would not be allowed in a Wiki article is ridiculous. This would be similar to one of the descendants of the space program not being able to add that their grandmother did critical calculations as depicted in "Hidden Figures" movie because they had no official source, since it took 50+ years to have this documented in the movie!

I'm the founder of one of the largest weekly newspapers in the country and also a Microsoft MVP for 7 years, which is the highest award in the tech field. Are my personal observations from 40 years as a loyal customer not qualified enough?

Thank you Greg Carmack — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walkdmx (talk • contribs) 17:43, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hey User:Walkdmx. What is needed is for that 40 year 2-3x week customer to have their opinions published in a reliable source. Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought; all we do is present what quality sources themselves say, and not what we as Wikipedia editors happen to think or believe. Your contribution may be perfectly appropriate for a blog, online review, or even in a related local or industry magazine, but it does not appear to be appropriate for an encyclopedia. TimothyJosephWood 18:00, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Tharavad

Do you konow in the reverted page only the references are just two dictionary link. it actually contains nothing. I have added two proper references. I have actually recreated the old existing file because the other page article was too narrow minded and it containes incorrect details, I hope you will not make further mistake — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.157.13.126 (talk • contribs) June 13, 2017 (UTC)

Continued disruption at Tharavad

FYI– You blocked 134.157.13.126 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) for disruption and they have returned on 23.235.227.106 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). Thanks. 2601:1C0:101:324C:31FA:9FE5:AA2F:17B7 (talk) 21:49, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Nevermind, it looks like you took care of this as I was typing the request. 2601:1C0:101:324C:31FA:9FE5:AA2F:17B7 (talk) 21:51, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	I know you've received dozens of these, but pretty much every time a vandal I've warned gets blocked, you were the one to block them. You're an absolute legend. Cheers. — Tuxipεdia(talk) 03:45, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Wrong (?) Correction

Hi Materialscientist,

I am the guy who tried to make a correction earlier today on the "Quantum confinement in semiconductors" section. First time for me to try to edit a wikipedia page, so please forgive if I haven't properly explained my correction.

I just noticed that the links to the source [75] are not refering to the cited one, "Optical fine structures of highly quantized InGaAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots", but instead to "Power dissipation for systems with junctions of multiple quantum wires".

Which one is the one you wanted to refer ?

Best, Xayros

recent changes on Chhota Bheem page

Hello, thanks for writing. I made the changes as the numbers shown were unreal. I am from Green Gold Animation studio and we just wanted to make sure that the information available on wiki about Green Gold should be accurate.

Feel free to revert if you have any questions.

Collateral damage

Because of this block, for one minor edit filter triggering, there are now a large number of accounts with unblock-auto requests on their talk pages. From what I see, it appears to be a school, but perhaps there is more to it. Please take a look at the account to see whether removing the autoblock is prudent. Thanks ​—DoRD (talk)​ 11:37, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Given that a whole bunch of them have been posting personal information on their userpages, I'd be in favour of the block sticking around for a little while, at least until it's clear that the school understands how to use Wikipedia and how to keep it's pupils safe online. Yunshui ^雲_水 11:44, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Ahh, I only saw that most of the userpages were redlinks. Yes, those were inappropriate, clearly, but having CAT:UNBLOCK suddenly populate with a dozen or so related requests was ... jarring. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:03, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

I've left notes for two of the students. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:16, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps I'm too sleepy and don't understand something - my block was issued on 8 June, and there is a series of unblock-auto requests on 14 June. There was some activity on that IP in between, but only on one day. I understand how an autoblock can autopropagate beyond 24 hours, but not in this case (please do educate me, use email if this page is not appropriate). Is this because some actions are hidden in CU logs? Anyway, I'll go offline soon, and anyone is welcome to remove this autoblock. Materialscientist (talk) 12:00, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

I assume that the blocked user logged in, tried to edit, and reinstated the autoblock. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:03, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

You mean that logging in (which can be done automatically by anyone, provided the login/password was autosaved on a local PC) would be sufficient to reset the autoblock, as we can't see "attempted editing". Hm .. Sorry, got to logout. Materialscientist (talk) 12:10, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Logging in alone might be sufficient to trigger the autoblock, but I'm not certain. If they attempted to edit anything except their talk page, though, it wouldn't leave any traces for CU to see unless it tripped an edit filter. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:16, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

7`ews87p9e

Why are we blocking user accounts indefinitely for tripping the edit filter only once and without warning the user first? I feel like that's a bit overly excessive :-/ ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:52, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Same here. Tripping the edit filter once is similar to making one vandalistic edit. In the latter case, it would warrant a Level 1 warning; why should the former be any different? Unless it's a sockpuppet, even vandals should be given a chance. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:55, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

You assume that we must follow the ladder scheme: issue a level-1 warning for any non-constructive edit, gradually escalate it to level-4, then consider blocking. The current blocking policy does not require that, and I urge editors and admins to use common sense and experience (when time permits), make bold decisions, and be responsible for them. This what I do. I followed the templated ladder scheme in my early years, and still do sometimes, but experience tells that it works well as an exception rather than a rule, i.e., editors should not hesitate to skip some warning levels, or not to escalate warning levels at all, and write a free-text message. Otherwise we end up with users/IPs who get away for years by stopping at level-3 each time, and with poor-quality WP:AIV report (made simply because someone slapped a tag, and often blocked only because of that). Feel free to disagree, I do not require anyone to follow me. I just do know that we fail miserably in dealing with obvious vandalism/spam, and those who don't see that might wish to spend one weekday on patrolling some edit filters (I can give a hotlist). Materialscientist (talk) 00:21, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

In this particular case, they simply added the f-word to an article. That's not an uncommon vandal tactic—what's more fun for an immature child than inserting the f-word that they learned from their older siblings/peers into a Wikipedia article? If they added something grossly inappropriate then an immediate block may be more excusable, but simply adding the f-word shouldn't warrant an immediate block. Feel free to disagree, but I'd like to see your reasoning for it. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 22:13, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

In my experience, those who choose a random-string username come for one or a few edits maximum; their intent varies (many come to improve this Wiki), but in this case was hardly constructive. That said, I won't object lifting any of such block of mine, provided the unblocking admin takes responsibility for that account. Materialscientist (talk) 22:38, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I feel that MS has an extremely effective nose for vandalism and I have had cause to be grateful for it dozens, perhaps hundreds, of times. Without wishing to sound too much like a retired colonel, I think we do far too much giving of chances to people who have no investment in what we are doing and are only here to waste our time. If someone turns up to say Fuck or Tracy Is A Slag or The Illuminati Did It d'you know what I think are our chances of that person ever becoming a useful editor? Around zero. I do not believe that it will happen. Just block them - they are timewasters, and giving them a whole hierarchy of chances just makes a mockery of what the rest of us are trying to do. DBaK (talk) 08:08, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

JakelovPats and others

FYI please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JakelovPats#Suspected sockpuppets -- PBS (talk) 08:27, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Having read some of the other sections on this talk page. I think it appropriate to explain a bit more. I could have blocked these accounts myself but I think that formal Sockpuppet investigation keeps a better record and is easier for others to find in the future. I decided to link these accounts because my experience in the past is that such accounts can be reactivated by a person who is blocked for other infringements in the future, and because they have existed for some time, they make it more difficult to identify such accounts as sockpuppets of a person recently blocked. -- PBS (talk) 08:33, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

I've read it, but have to go. I'll have another look later today. Materialscientist (talk) 08:46, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Recent edit to MSG: The Warrior Lion Heart

Hello, its about the edit I made to the article MSG: The Warrior Lion Heart . It was removed because "noticed that you made a change to an article, MSG: The Warrior Lion Heart, but you didn't provide a reliable source", but the fact is that I only edited out the part of the article having wrong information based inconclusive and dubious information in the references , .

References

73.58.159.17

• 73.58.159.17 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Not sure if this was an accident or not, but you blocked this IP indefinitely. Just thought that I'd let you know. 2A00:1838:37:C1:0:0:0:6A9D (talk) 00:30, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I've amended duration. Any indefinite block that I've issued to an IP is my mistake (misclick), please report here. Materialscientist (talk) 00:36, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Thai boxer names

Hi. I wanted to point out that many Thai boxers use the names of their gym as part of their ring names. Examples include Sor Ploenchit and Banchamek, so technically these pages should be tagged as disambiguation pages and not surname lists. --Paul_012 (talk) 11:07, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for heads up. Materialscientist (talk) 11:17, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Two Questions

Hi Material Scientist! I just bumped into your user page. So... okay, my first question is, what country/city do you live in? My second one is, what are your 'admin stats'? I see them in other administrators' pages but not yours. If you can answer anyone of these, I will me much satisfied. Thanks! — AWESOME meeos ！ * ([ˈjæb.ə ət məɪ])) 11:23, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I want to know... — AWESOME meeos ！ * ([ˈjæb.ə ət məɪ])) 11:14, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Possible sock

Could you check if User:UCLAgirl623 is a sock of User:ThunderFan109, who you indef blocked about a year ago. Aside from the obvious knowing of the ins and outs of Wikipedia right off the bat (such as username customization and starting their talkpage with the talkheader template), what tipped me off was how they both asked for assistance in bringing an article to GA, and then requested that the work be done for them because they "don't feel like" doing it. See here and here. Lizard (talk) 20:15, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Difference is the article edits though @Lizard the Wizard:. I edit Steelers and UCLA stuff. Reason I'm working on Datone Jones because he's from UCLA. I don't edit Packers articles unless it's a player Ted took from UCLA. I am not a sock and I will work on that article myself. --UCLAgirl623 ^{(Whats up!)} 20:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I have no CU records on ThunderFan109, and thus can't technically relate them to any recent account. Materialscientist (talk) 23:24, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Does Instagram count as a reliable source just to be honest?

Does Instagram count as a reliable source just to be honest?115.66.245.50 (talk) 05:41, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Most Instagram posts are going to be disqualified as self-published sources, since nobody has any editorial control over what's posted there; and images could be photoshopped or otherwise faked. --15:30, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Uncertainty parameter

I can see you have deleted my edit about the dimensions - I shifted it (modified) over to the talk page. Possibly there is a hidden conversion in the formula ?? On the subject of your photos , that blue tit or wren looks like a bird that is quite common in Victoria Australia. I can never work out how they survive the Victorian winter (even if only a couple of months long in the really cold period) since they clearly do not migrate.

And as for the kingfisher, another bird photo; that has morphed in Oz to the kookaburra. I think I know why - lack of year round flowing rivers in the vast majority of the continent. Mature KBs look as though they might weigh 700 grams or so - because they eat meat exclusively, lizards, frogs and small snakes and the like. The vicious invisible hand of Darwin has removed all the green and blue plumage and made them a dun colour to blend in with the eucalypts and malee scrub. Mr Darwin has bulked them up so they can handle killing the odd snake, as opposed to eating tiny river fish.

Tim F

June 2017

Just letting you know that I reverted your edit on Sinhalese people because it resulted in two broken image templates. The user that initially made that nonconstructive edit was a newly-registered user not an IP. (121.219.98.127 (talk) 07:37, 17 June 2017 (UTC))

Thanks, I couldn't see that in Stiki. Materialscientist (talk) 07:44, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

@Materialscientist: That's okay. I knew it must be a mistake because you always make constructive edits. (121.219.98.127 (talk) 12:10, 17 June 2017 (UTC))

Thanks

Thanks for correcting me, my dear. Can You please guide how to link correctly? Regards Abrish211 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abrish211 (talk • contribs) 09:05, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Shelly Dass

Citations? Read the newspapers. It is all accurate why don't you call anyone to find out. Kindly return to edit. MediamonitorTT (talk) 13:48, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

FYI

This and this are this spammer -- Dnil123456 who creates various blogspot, wix websites (and now with unique domain names too) and spams it across here. He does it across many actress bios on here. None of them official or anything, just spamming his stuff on here. I've blocked one account and numerous IPs over the past few days (an off wiki investigation is easy too and provides the complete list of spam targets). Don't know if there are other accounts. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 04:52, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Edit wars

Edit wars, again. The page protection has recently expired. 162.245.152.112 (talk) 05:41, 18 June 2017 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who_Are_You:_School_2015&action=history

Disruptive editing

Hello! Please help in preventing edit wars in the page Who Are You: School 2015. Anonymous editors have been deleting information in the page's reception section (things they find unflattering as they are fans of the show) even though a reliable source was provided which explicitly states that the show did suffer from poor ratings. Thank you for your help! 36.8.61.234 (talk) 15:38, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

• There is an army of users like the one above who are hell-bent on retaining only negative information, whereas the rest of us only want to maintain a neutral POV. See: [1].— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:a310:142:8680:9126:97fa:684d:8fc1 (talk) 15:56, June 18, 2017‎ (UTC)

• • These are addressed per my comment here.
     — Berean Hunter (talk) 17:19, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Indonesian Ulema Council

Thank you for your information. I am a wikipedians on Bahasa Indonesia, I am not familiar with english version. I haven't edited ten times yet. therefore I don't see that feature. Would you please move the article for me? The official name for the organization is Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI). I also want to add an image (of its logo), but it is only available in Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia. Mohamadhzanhari (talk) 22:41, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

In general, we use WP:Commonname which appears most frequently in English-speaking literature, not necessarily the official name, thus I'm not sure we need to move that article. Materialscientist (talk) 22:43, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Fried potatoes (perhaps?)

Hello, I was just looking at the French Fry page and noticed the obvious was left out. Sure you have France and Belgium fighting over who fried potatoes first but did anyone even look to see where they came from? Potatoes were being fried in the Americas were they are of origin for 1000s of years before settlers decided to take them to Europe in the 1700s. I can't comment on the page put I think it may be interesting to research more on that and possible make a paragraph prior to all the other discussions on the origin of potatoes and American Indians cooking with them. Seriously? Why does everyone always steal from native Americans lol? I have never made a comment like this so I hope you get it.

(Talk page stalker) Speaking about the French & Belgians - what about the Dutch? No, best if I don't go there. Ignore me please. Pdfpdf (talk) 09:38, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

WP:AIV/TB2

FYI,

I just saw that you recently blocked a couple of IPs for triggering the edit filter, and within the last couple of minutes, the bot just reported some more accounts and IPs for triggering the same filter (Ryan Ross vandalism). Would you mind blocking these ones, too? Regards. 89.216.140.149 (talk) 23:02, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

@Materialscientist: Could you check Talk:Kovur, Nellore district? No replies from anyone even I posted in Wiki India noticeboard.--Vin09 (talk) 05:25, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Reporting spam

Hey, which noticeboard should I use to report spam and spam users like Committee To Elect Jay Craddock (talk · contribs)?-🐦Do☭torWho42 (⭐) 08:24, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

WP:AIV. Materialscientist (talk) 08:36, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Newcastle United F.C.

Why did you fully protect it? Did you mean to semi-protect it? —MRD2014 ( T / C ) 19:54, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Yes, thanks, fixed. The "change protection" page often loads rather slowly, and after it loads, it jumps vertically by several lines, causing misclicks. Very annoying. Materialscientist (talk) 23:53, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Protection

Protecting Designated Survivor was unhelpful, as there was only one troll and now I can't edit the article. Additionally, you forgot to give a reason when blocking the IP. Catalan (talk) 00:16, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

@Nestor Lozano: The page needs protection, you need to use {{Edit semi-protected}}. Why is your signature so different from your account name ? - FlightTime (open channel) 00:22, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

I personally don't think the page needs protection, since only one user vandalized it and that user is blocked. If it does need protection, it definitely doesn't need protection for 1 month. And my signature is different just because I felt like using the nickname as my sig but the real name as the username. Catalan (talk) 00:25, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

@Nestor Lozano: Your account is six hours old, you seem already versed on page protection, which is quite ducky. Happy editing, - FlightTime (open channel) 00:33, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

What does "ducky" mean? I'm not versed on protection, I just think the protection to one of the articles that I'm heavily involved with is unnecessary. Catalan (talk) 00:36, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) See WP:DUCK. General Ization ^Talk 00:38, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

And that's relevant to this discussion because....? Catalan (talk) 00:40, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

The implication being that you are exhibiting behaviors strongly indicative of sockpuppetry and/or block evasion. An assessment with which I must agree. General Ization ^Talk 00:41, 23 Ju2017 (UTC)

I don't know why you think my behavior is inappropriate, but I don't appreciate being attacked like this. All I did is ask for a reduction in protection duration to an article which I want to edit. Nothing else. Catalan (talk) 00:43, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

I did not attack you. I answered your question. General Ization ^Talk 00:44, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Alright... alright... lets cut the guy a break here, lol. I see he's made good edits (hell, even reverted vandalism) on this page - I see no direct evidence (other than maybe timeline) that says this person is a sock puppet account. If he wants to edit the article, fine. Worst case scenario, WP:ROPE comes into play. I've manually set his account as 'confirmed'. If he's really an evil monster sock user (GASP!) and is going to disrupt Wikipedia, he'll just be able to do it in two days anyways... ;-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:49, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Whelp, that sucked... he's now checkuser blocked. All I can say is... with the information I had, I applied the right principles and policies and did what I felt was the right thing to do. It's disappointing to find out that my efforts to try and help others was wasted. Oh well; gotta push on :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:29, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Request to consider an unblock request

There is an unblock request at User talk:Acook1996, for a block you placed on 4 July 2013. After nearly four years are you willing to give the editor a chance to prove that he or she is now more mature, and capable of editing constructively? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:40, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

By the way, I was going to ping you on that editor's talk page, but just as I was about to click on the "save" button I remembered that you have ping notifications turned off. Apart from people like myself forgetting about that, there must be many editors who don't know about it at all and who try to ping you. Would you consider turning pings back on, even if you prefer to disable other notifications? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:44, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

I would agree giving Acook1996 a second chance.

I'll think about pings. Somehow I've missed the whole process of integrating pings into the Wikipedia communication system - I myself always felt that if I want to notify an editor, I should write something on their talk page. Regards. Materialscientist (talk) 23:42, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Hmm. And yet you didn't write something on my talk page, which is why I didn't see this message until a week after it was written. I see that the editor was unblocked by another administrator, but not until several days after the exchange above, whereas I would have unblocked much sooner had I seen your message.

When "pings" first came in I didn't think much of them, because exactly like you I felt that if I want to notify an editor I should write something on their talk page, and I found "pings" rather irritating. However, after a while I found that it really is quicker and less trouble to just include a link in a message that you are writing than to post the message and then go over to the editor's talk page and separately write another message, so I kind of grew to accept them. I say "kind of", because there are still one or two things about them that I don't like, and quite often I prefer to post to an editor's talk page instead, depending on the circumstances. However, even if you don't wish to send pings, disabling receiving them is potentially unhelpful, because, as I said above, whatever your feeling about pings may be, other editors are likely to issue them to you, expecting you to receive them. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 00:09, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

James, I thought you're watching this page, since you've posted a request here.

I would reply on your talk if you asked that. Materialscientist (talk) 00:22, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Chris Bertish

For reason unknown, I don't seem to Have been given credit for this one. Could you help? Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:23, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Please help help improve this wiki page

Hi,

I am new to wiki editing I would like you to please see this article edited by me , would request you to please help improve this page Smriti Khanna (Actress)

Regards, Abhishek Abhishekyadav246 (talk) 04:46, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

TOR enabled account

I believe you are a CheckUser and can enable my account for tor editing. I know of no other way to contact you. Could you TOR enable my account? Cotton2 (talk) 22:08, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Lizarettez (album)

I hadn't expected that. The question that I saw as a New Page reviewer is that the article provided very little information, not that it provided false information. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:27, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

reverting things with no reason

before reverting the chumby page changes, why don't you check www.chumby.com?

which announced, on july1 2014, that they were back, open for business?

Why don't you provide a reliable source for your edits? The reverting admin had a reason, which is that Wikipedia has a policy of verifiability. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:11, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Of course, the most likely reason is that you are working for the company. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:14, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Protection request

Might I trouble you to protect my talk page again for the rest of the month? The trolling no longer amuses me. Cheers. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - General Health ‖ 22:48, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

IP talk page access

Hey Materialscientist, it looks like 172.58.139.58 is continuing their vandalism on their talk page after the block. I think talk page revocation is in order. TIA. -- LuK3 (Talk) 01:20, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Page protection needed

Persistent edit warring on Nam Joo-hyuk's page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nam_Joo-hyuk&action=history 36.8.61.234 (talk) 02:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Vandalism

Please could you consider blocking User:Atesfaye. This person keeps making subtle alterations to numbers in articles. I consider this kind of vandal to be a menace. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:34, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Blocked. Materialscientist (talk) 06:54, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Shaftesbury High Page Question

If I use the community handout book that is allowed re-use and is not copyrighted at all and the book encourages people to re-use the info may I change the information to be encyclopedia friendly. I have read all the copyright policies and from my understanding I can use this information. May you please confirm that with me? But I think I might run into a problem though as the author is not stated. It says written by students and teachers at Shaftesbury and there is not publication company for this handout book, How would I go about citing this source? As I don't anything to appear advertisy either.

Regards, HockeyPlayer17 (talk) 18:20, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

(by talk page stalker) @HockeyPlayer17: No. We do not allow un-published sources and a handout from the subject isn't independent. Because of your conflict of interest, you should not edit the article about that school, at all. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:30, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

IP vandal's talk page access

Please remove this IP's talk page access: User talk:71.251.43.35 for personal attacks here. Bennv3771 (talk) 04:27, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

2601:585:8504:8E00:C15A:6852:FAF0:46FD

Heads up, this IP that you blocked is now using 2601:585:8504:8e00:b475:7033:bdf3:12e5 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). 2601:1C0:10B:1AB8:5445:E841:5DE8:7EDA (talk) 22:58, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Please make 39cr

Please make total collection of jomonthe suvisheshagal 39cr because Charlie dulquer' s Biggest grosser has only42cr then how jomonthe suvisheshagal will have 45 cr Edward kundrapilkas (talk) 13:53, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

@Edward kundrapilkas: Wikipedia doesn't rely on individual editor's opinions for changes to be made. We rely on references from reliable published sources with established reputations for fact-checking and accuracy. If you want anybody to make any changes, bring references. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:53, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Hey there

On this, the previous edit which I reverted because it was just an unsourced and wrong expansion of the persons name, which when I verified turned out that way. However, his birth name is in fact the name of the article, and per Wikipedia:Lead, needs no source. Adityavagarwal (talk) 22:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm his assistant - more edits to come.

Hi, I've never edited anything on Wikipedia before but I'm Tony Alcantar's assistant and I noticed that there were incorrect and/or outdated facts in his Wikipedia page (and a photo of an actor that isn't him). He'd like me to update it and add some pictures as well. I got your message when I went to the page (didn't even know that a message was possible!) so I'm not sure if this is enough or if I need to do anything else....I'll be making more edits on his page. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.86.240.34 (talk • contribs)

Mānuka honey editor

Please review edits at this history for an editor ignoring sourcing quality. Thanks. --Zefr (talk) 04:05, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Mackenzie Ziegler

Would you mind looking into possibly semi-protecting this article again? Vandalism resumed shortly after your previous three month protection. Thanks. 95.52.182.148 (talk) 05:44, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Removal of external link on mycotoxin page

Hi, may I ask why you removed mycotoxins.info from the External links section or why it would violate the wikipedia guidelines? The information on that page is non-commercial and scientifically researched. Each page contains a list of reference literature. I don't quite see why it shouldn't be listed in the external links section. Any feedback would be appreciated. Many thanks!

Joseph Edward Kurtz

Please see the discussion at Talk:Joseph Edward Kurtz § Unexplained reversion. 142.160.131.202 (talk) 01:51, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Not by society

Not by society, self-promotion of non-notable work

Hi I live in Japan, It was not self promotion that article was notable work

Sort of urgent

Hi MS. Hope you are well.
Recently an IP editor contacted me on my talkpage after I reverted his edit User talk:Usernamekiran#REMOVAL OF EDITED ARTICLE. In a nutshell, the user is claiming he is an employee of the University of Lagos, and wants to add phone number of the university in the article. I tried to find guideline/policy/essay which would disallow this; but I couldn't. Could you please tell me how to respond to that editor? Also, the number he is trying to add is different from the number provided on the official website. Thanks a lot, and I apologise for bothering you with such a trivial issue. —usernamekiran(talk) 10:50, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

This is simply an observation, I can't offer a specific policy, but I've seen these phone number to university edits before in this same fashion and have seen them get reverted almost immediately as if it was LTA. See example [2], [3], [4]—72 _talk 10:55, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

@72: Hi. Thanks for the reply. Yes, in the past I have reverted similar edits as well. All these universities belonged to African countries. But this is the first instance when someone contacted me regarding that. By general logic, such addition is not encyclopaedic. And this can be some sort of prank, or even scam as the number is different from the official contact details. —usernamekiran(talk) 11:07, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran: You may be looking for WP:DIRECTORY, which states under point number 3 "Contact information such as phone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses is not encyclopedic." —72 _talk 11:10, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

@72: Thanks a lot. That works. Actually, #4 fits the best in this situation. Thanks again. :)
—usernamekiran(talk) 11:15, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

John Richmond changes User talk:ElenaBerra

Hi, I am new to this so I apologise for any mistakes... :-) I am John Richmond's wife and I wanted to update his Wikipedia page because is missing informations. How do I prove that I am a reliable source? thanks31.48.177.137 (talk) 12:09, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

CheckUser on suspected sockpuppet

Hi Materialscientist. I have a suspicion that the user JustofiedT147AG is a sockpuppet of the banned and confirmed sockpuppeteer Lysvincent (talk · contribs). I was not sure whether this was warranted to go through a long drawn-out SPI case. They share many of the same edit summaries and topics (EDM artists, music charts, discography edits), some of the user page markup is the same (Lysvincent created at least two accounts that he used the Picture of the Day template on). Their edit summaries are also quite similar: one of their habits of "added single" and the like in lower case letters (see here and here). One of their common topics was Weak (AJR song); Lysvincent created the page here, Justofied has edited and uploaded the cover art). Furthermore, Lysvincent created at least one account to update charts; Justofied has already set about doing this so soon after registering. Lysvincent also said one of their favourite artists was Imagine Dragons; Justofied has edited their discography quite a bit as well: here and here). Same with Axwell and Ingrosso, another of their favourites ([5] and [6]), and Adam Lambert (here and here). If you think I should file an SPI, would you please be able to look into it soon if this is not enough? I think if it is (or isn't), it should be fairly open-and-shut. Thanks. Ss112 10:18, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Better ask checkuser who handled Lysvincent and their socks - I don't have CU data on those and can't retrieve them because all those users stopped editing too long ago. Hence I can't connect them to JustofiedT147AG. Materialscientist (talk) 10:47, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

I just did a search and it appears to have been Bbb23. As Bbb23 is quite busy with CheckUser stuff usually, I get the feeling then that the case will probably be asked to go through SPI. Would you be able to drop them a line? I'll send them a version of this message above anyway. Ss112 10:54, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Whoops

Just a heads up on a goof. I just uselessly salted a title that you had already salted. I guess I was in "automatic mode". (Also, since it was just created, that usually means by definition it's not already salted and so I don't think to look; here it was moved to the salted title.) Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:32, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

LTA returns

Hello M. I saw this block of the IP that was adding flags that were unrelated to various articles and I wanted to let you know that this 218.5.162.248 (talk · contribs) repeated that behavior. At the time I am posting this they have only made one edit so a block may not be needed but I did want you to be aware of it. MarnetteD|Talk 03:46, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, this editor should be reported/blocked on sight. Materialscientist (talk) 04:05, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

You are welcome and thanks for the info about what to do if I see their edits in the future. MarnetteD|Talk 20:51, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

hi

would you please tell me what is the standard of IQ trainings which are before SUT?