Wikiversity:Notices for custodians
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- Please look at Special:Unwatchedpages and add some pages that are of interest to you to your watch list.
- Please review the archives for past discussions.
- See also: Wikiversity:Request custodian action
Vandalism. – Tryvix1509 (discuss • contribs) 14:42, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- CC @Antandrus: since you were deleted a vandalism page. – Tryvix1509 (discuss • contribs) 15:23, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- I'm not able to block, only protect and delete - I can protect it from re-creation though. Antandrus (discuss • contribs) 15:25, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- Blocked and hidden. Thank you, —Hasley talk 16:10, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
- See also Special:Contributions/Goggdoggdetroyer. This is a long-term abuser who will edit from several IPs. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:54, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- Special:Contributions/201.146.32.131 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:55, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- Please make sure to revdel all of these as well. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:56, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- Special:Contributions/201.146.32.131 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:55, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- See also Special:Contributions/Goggdoggdetroyer. This is a long-term abuser who will edit from several IPs. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:54, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- Blocked and hidden. Thank you, —Hasley talk 16:10, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Long-term abuse. Tryvix1509 (discuss • contribs) 08:05, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Done by GV. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:33, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Long-term abuse. – 2405:4802:1AB:E140:91F9:4320:8977:E239 (discuss) 14:59, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
- Globally locked. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:17, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
Long-term abuse: Globally+WMF banned: w:en:WP:LTA/GRP. – 2405:4802:36C:3B0:1C90:9B74:603F:E6F (discuss) 13:02, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
- I will take no action on this because I am confused: One IP user is requesting that action be taken against another IP user. Who is User:2405:4802:36C:3B0:1C90:9B74:603F:E6F?--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 00:43, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Block and revdel, please. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:29, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Vandalism, please block. Blua lago (discuss • contribs) 08:29, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
- Done The user has been locked. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 09:15, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Revdel, please. --Jan Kameníček (discuss • contribs) 19:12, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Jan.Kamenicek: Done -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:13, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
GRP socks
[edit source]- 170.83.119.121 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
- 181.115.60.123 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
Long-term abuse: w:WP:LTA/GRP. Leonidlednev (discuss • contribs) 02:13, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
- Done -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:26, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
- Revdel request: Special:Contributions/154.246.203.175 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:44, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
- 189.223.144.31 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
- Report reason: Open proxy (used by GRP), left an abusive edit summary on my talk page.
Leonidlednev (discuss • contribs) 01:50, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
- Done -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:09, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
- 2601:206:8580:35D0:714E:77DC:EAE3:DFE3 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
- Report reason: Edit warring on Types of Dinosaur (see 1, 2, 3, 4)
Leonidlednev (discuss • contribs) 23:10, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- Now blocked, thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:56, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
- I Join john (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
- Report reason: spam
Leonidlednev (discuss • contribs) 02:58, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
- Late notice, but for recording purposes: blocked by Dave Braunschweig on June 17. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 14:52, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
New special page to fight spam
[edit source]Please help translate to your language
Hello, We are replacing most of the functionalities of MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist with a new special page called Special:BlockedExternalDomains. In this special page, admins can simply add a domain and notes on the block (usually reasoning and/or link to a discussion) and the added domain would automatically be blocked to be linked in Wikis anymore (including its subdomains). Content of this list is stored in MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json. You can see w:fa:Special:BlockedExternalDomains as an example. Check the phabricator ticket for more information.
This would make fighting spam easier and safer without needing to know regex or accidentally breaking wikis while also addressing the need to have some notes next to each domain on why it’s blocked. It would also make the list of blocked domains searchable and would make editing Wikis in general faster by optimizing matching links added against the blocked list in every edit (see phab:T337431#8936498 for some measurements).
If you want to migrate your entries in MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist, there is a python script in phab:P49299 that would produce contents of MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist and MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json for you automatically migrating off simple regex cases.
Note that this new feature doesn’t support regex (for complex cases) nor URL paths matching. Also it doesn’t support bypass by spam whitelist. For those, please either keep using MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist or switch to an abuse filter if possible. And adding a link to the list might take up to five minutes to be fully in effect (due to server-side caching, this is already the case with the old system) and admins and bots automatically bypass the blocked list.
Let me know if you have any questions or encounter any issues. Happy editing. Amir (talk) 09:41, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Vandal: User:Ceoalphonso
[edit source]They were spamming on Wikipedia, later claimed that their account was hacked. They were blocked for having a compromised account. They have started editing Wikiversity. High risk of future vandalism. They should be blocked for having a compromised account, in spite of the fact that this is dubious, because of AGF. Janhrach (discuss • contribs) 07:45, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- This user hasn't edited since February. Unless their editing picks back up and becomes problematic, there's no action necessary at this time. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 12:47, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Atcovi: They have not been active here since February, but they have made several edits across other wikis in the meantime. Their edits include highly visible vandalism, such as spamming in TemplateData. I would highly recommend a block. Janhrach (discuss • contribs) 14:52, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- Since I still personally disagree, I'll leave this another custodian to take whatever action they deem reasonable. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 17:06, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Not done user has not edited since February 2023, so for record-keeping purposes, I'm marking this request as stale. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Since I still personally disagree, I'll leave this another custodian to take whatever action they deem reasonable. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 17:06, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Atcovi: They have not been active here since February, but they have made several edits across other wikis in the meantime. Their edits include highly visible vandalism, such as spamming in TemplateData. I would highly recommend a block. Janhrach (discuss • contribs) 14:52, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Cross-wiki vandalism. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 01:21, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:22, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, Koavf! --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 01:26, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Maintenance vs administration
[edit source]Bumping a redirect for discussion concerning custodianship. Tule-hog (discuss • contribs) 09:50, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
Vandalism
[edit source]Please block Special:Contributions/76.121.217.240. --Tres Libras (discuss • contribs) 03:09, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
- Not a local sysop here but Done. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 03:18, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
Comment Page deleted. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 03:21, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi it's me again. Please block Special:Contributions/216.186.51.108 — @MathXplore @SHB2000. Tres Libras (discuss • contribs) 19:54, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:58, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hello. Again and again. Please block Special:Contributions/152.22.75.23. Tres Libras (discuss • contribs) 19:48, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Already done by Aramil. I think Wikiversity should take action against proxies. I suspect that these IPs are proxies and belong to the same person. Tres Libras (discuss • contribs) 19:52, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Possibly @Mu301: has some experience dealing with proxies? —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 16:58, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- Already done by Aramil. I think Wikiversity should take action against proxies. I suspect that these IPs are proxies and belong to the same person. Tres Libras (discuss • contribs) 19:52, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hello. Again and again. Please block Special:Contributions/152.22.75.23. Tres Libras (discuss • contribs) 19:48, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hi it's me again. Please block Special:Contributions/216.186.51.108 — @MathXplore @SHB2000. Tres Libras (discuss • contribs) 19:54, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Import of aiCAMstir
[edit source]
The aiCAMstir project is a non-commercial collaborative project on using Artificial Intelligence in Welding. We want to create a mirror of the www_aicamstir_com web site, before this will be taken down. We do not want to add the links to the project partners but include references to published papers. However, the software settings seems to restrict the use of web links, and recommended to get in touch with an admin (By the way, I am an experienced Wikimedia user). Do you want to allow me, to insert weblinks into references? 'aiCAMstir' (discuss • contribs) 11:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Block of MarsSterlingTurner
[edit source](Deleted and reposted to Wikiversity:Request_custodian_action#Block_of_MarsSterlingTurner. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 04:42, 10 April 2025 (UTC))
Edit warring by User:Harold Foppele
[edit source]Harold Foppele (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account) is edit warring at Is LGBTQIA+ being forced on society? (wikidebate) to add some long AI-generated text with broken wikisyntax and insists on my talk page they don't need to address my 4 specific reasons for the removal (Special:Diff/2784967) such as the broken wikisyntax. Prototyperspective (discuss • contribs) 14:51, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
- You do not revert an editors contribution.
- You done that before, See here I do not have to address your 4 reasons, that is where a discussion/talk page is for. What Wikidebate Is Not: Explicitly, it's not a platform to defend preferred points of view (similar to WP:NOTSOAPBOX or WP:NOTFORUM). Focus on gathering all sides neutrally, not advocacy. This is not a discussion. Removing edits that you do not like in a debat is not done Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 14:41, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
- I've moved the LLM-generated text to Is LGBTQIA+ being forced on society?/Response from an LLM. The contribution breaks the wikisyntax and doesn't follow the applied format as the other arguments. Perhaps for the resource, a subpage with an input from an AI (which afaik tries its best to maintain a NPOV) could be useful. I'd advise User:Harold Foppele to provide a link to the conversation on said subpage. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 23:18, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks, I think this is solved now. Hopefully, the user will interact more constructively in the future. Prototyperspective (discuss • contribs) 11:40, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
- If you talk to a user before acting that would prevent problems. Beside a curator, no one is allowed to edit users contributions. Esp. in debates. Files are even stricter there. Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 13:05, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
- That is not true. I talked to you in 1. the edit summary and 2. on my talk page where you insisted "this is not a discussion" and that you don't need to address my 4 reasons. People are not free to dump anything they want onto pages and then have it stay there with reverts and removals being impossible. Contentious edits like that need consensus for inclusion or the removal reasons to be addressed. Your interaction has been very nonconstructive and hopefully this is not a wider phenomenon on the site which if so would cause massive quality problems. Prototyperspective (discuss • contribs) 11:35, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- You did mention it in the edit while deleting it. The 'contentious' comment is still there with an expansion to a subpage. It is not you who decide what is dump or not, or what is contentious, that is what custodians are for. A simple comment with a ping at the talk page or the user page would be sufficient to start a discussion and reach consensus. If no consensus is reached, the help of a custodian can be sought. You are not the discussion leader on the subject. Wikiversity lives by AGF (Assume Good Faith). So I assume that for you as well. I admire @Atcovi for a brilliant solution. Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 12:24, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- One can remove contents and the burden is on the person who wants to add the new info to address the reasons in a comment and/or to address the reasons via a new way. Adding it to a subpage and then linking that is what you could have done, not requiring me to go here to get help. You are not the discussion leader on the subject. You aren't free to add any content to any page and have authority for it to stay there. I'll once again close my comment that your interaction has not been constructive; you did not address points or suggest or implement a solution but just insisted you don't even need to address them and just went to do edit warring. Prototyperspective (discuss • contribs) 12:59, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- Indeed, you are not constructive. Just stuborn. Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 14:09, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- One can remove contents and the burden is on the person who wants to add the new info to address the reasons in a comment and/or to address the reasons via a new way. Adding it to a subpage and then linking that is what you could have done, not requiring me to go here to get help. You are not the discussion leader on the subject. You aren't free to add any content to any page and have authority for it to stay there. I'll once again close my comment that your interaction has not been constructive; you did not address points or suggest or implement a solution but just insisted you don't even need to address them and just went to do edit warring. Prototyperspective (discuss • contribs) 12:59, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- You did mention it in the edit while deleting it. The 'contentious' comment is still there with an expansion to a subpage. It is not you who decide what is dump or not, or what is contentious, that is what custodians are for. A simple comment with a ping at the talk page or the user page would be sufficient to start a discussion and reach consensus. If no consensus is reached, the help of a custodian can be sought. You are not the discussion leader on the subject. Wikiversity lives by AGF (Assume Good Faith). So I assume that for you as well. I admire @Atcovi for a brilliant solution. Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 12:24, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- That is not true. I talked to you in 1. the edit summary and 2. on my talk page where you insisted "this is not a discussion" and that you don't need to address my 4 reasons. People are not free to dump anything they want onto pages and then have it stay there with reverts and removals being impossible. Contentious edits like that need consensus for inclusion or the removal reasons to be addressed. Your interaction has been very nonconstructive and hopefully this is not a wider phenomenon on the site which if so would cause massive quality problems. Prototyperspective (discuss • contribs) 11:35, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- If you talk to a user before acting that would prevent problems. Beside a curator, no one is allowed to edit users contributions. Esp. in debates. Files are even stricter there. Harold Foppele (discuss • contribs) 13:05, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks, I think this is solved now. Hopefully, the user will interact more constructively in the future. Prototyperspective (discuss • contribs) 11:40, 14 January 2026 (UTC)