User talk:Mdann52

An article I created was highjacked, so I recreated the article and it got deleted.

An article I created in 2018 downball was hijacked, so I recreated the article last month as down-ball and it got deleted. I handled the AfD Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Down-ball and Deletion Review Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2024_July_5#Down-ball like a newb which resulted in my article staying deleted and moved back to the draft space. Draft:Downball_(wall_and_ball_game) It was not a good experience and left me quite flat for a short time.

I've been taking part in a number of AfDs recently and am interested in looking into how others who nom AfDs vote and whether they have created many articles. You appear to be one of those who nom AfDs but have been quite prolific in creating articles too.

I'd like to ask for your input. Now it seems to me that the best thing to do is to undo the downball hijack. Any advice appreciated? thanks, Rockycape (talk) 03:11, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

@Rockycape: firstly, no need to ping me here :) Just to note I've seen this, I'm going to do some cleanup to the draft now, but please give me a couple of days to get my head around the situation! Mdann52 (talk) 04:41, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Yep - understood and thanks, Rockycape (talk) 05:04, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

@Rockycape you've been told that AfC is the way forward. Please don't reach out to individual editors to go around that. It's not productive use of anyone's time. cc @Drmies @Alalch E. Star Mississippi 17:36, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Star Mississippi,

I don't want myself or others to burn out so I take your comments about staying productive with everyones time at face value. As a courtesy and show of good faith I don't intend to continue this discussion on User talk:Mdann52. 21:54, 26 July 2024 (UTC) Rockycape (talk) 21:54, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

HBC AIV helperbot14 down?

Hi!

I've noticed that the AIV board currently has a lot of accounts/IPs listed on it that have already been blocked. Is the bot down? — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 14:34, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

@Red-tailed hawk: - bot was happily chugging along - but wasn't doing anything on that page as this entry upset it due to the extra space. Fixed and patched. Mdann52 (talk) 14:39, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Stuck again? At AIV Yurikhunt123, Anon10210 and the last IP have been blocked for half an hour now without removal (permalink).

It removed Anon10210 from AIV/TB2 without problems. – 2804:F1...E9:11BA (talk) 05:58, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Sorted. It was the rangeblock in the template, which for some reason the API thinks is a registered user. Range support to be added.... Mdann52 (talk) 06:38, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Oddly it works when the range in the template is already blocked (bad example: diff, from a user talk post).

I'll just say that this situation mentioned in the user talk already happened with the previous bot, and while it could be improved - I'm not asking for that (just using it as an example of the bot working with a range IP in the template). – 2804:F1...E9:11BA (talk) 06:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Indeed, but PWB doesn't recognise a range as a anonymous user, so won't bother trying to handle it nicely. Now, I'll add some handling to it, but I think I'm going to struggle to handle it without an elaborate use case for something that seems to be rare. Mdann52 (talk) 07:43, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Mdann52. Simple message. Thanks for getting a new AIV helperbot up and running. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 19:43, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

HBC AIV Helperbot 14 removing partially blocked users from AIV

Please see [1] [2] [3] [4]. The bot was repeatedly removing users with a partial block who were vandalizing on pages outside of their partial block. I ended up reporting to WP:ANI instead. Beagall (talk) 18:47, 11 August 2024 (UTC)