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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

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The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
  • Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
  • Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report
Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review.

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Group-IB Page Protection

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Hi Vanamonde,

You might have seen in the talk page of Group-IB that I declared my conflict of interest as someone associated with the company. I'll also openly state I'm a Wiki rookie - how does page protection work? There are some edits I would like to see on the page and I'm more than happy to make those edit requests, provide suggestions and justify them with reputable evidence and source material. Would that still be possible? Happy to work with the wider community on this. Thanks! JacobP2710 (talk) 01:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JacobP2710, page protection - in this case, extended-confirmed protection - means that only editors who have extended confirmed rights can edit the page. Anyone can make edit requests on the talk page, which, as an employee of the company, you are strongly encouraged to do anyway, per WP:PAID - so protection should not directly affect you. Best, Vanamonde93 (talk) 03:21, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Got it, appreciate the explanation and candour. Thanks! Will be making edit requests in the talk page in due course. JacobP2710 (talk) 01:18, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Vanamonde,
First off, thanks for sharing the guidance on page protection and what it entails. I've been making edit suggestions for awhile now, but no editors in the community have responded yet. Am I doing something wrong, or do I have to continue waiting? Appreciate any insight you might have, and thanks! JacobP2710 (talk) 01:15, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Jacob, for better or worse COI edit-requests can be bothersome to deal with, so it can take a while. It's best to be patient. It can help to make sure you are giving the clearest and most succinct rationale possible. Vanamonde93 (talk) 04:13, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Understood, and appreciate the candour Vanamonde. Thank you! JacobP2710 (talk) 13:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment

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Kindly see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Ekdalian; would like to request you to comment as an uninvolved admin! Thanks & Regards. Ekdalian (talk) 08:04, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Klan sock?

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Hey, Vanamonde, you're a CU, right? In case you're around: A very unusual user, BryanKaplan, hasn't edited since they were blocked from Gulf of Mexico on 20th Jan, compare this admin review. Today, a new account very much sharing BryanKaplan's views, Krucial Khristian Krew (now username blocked by Black Kite), posted an unblock request on Bryan's page (Bryan being apparently too proud to do it "himself"). Is it a sock? Bishonen | tålk 21:10, 1 February 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Bishonen: Odd as it is, it's not an obvious sock. I imagine it's meatpuppetry though, and the newer account's general behavior almost suggests trolling. Vanamonde93 (talk) 21:37, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks very much. Nice revert by our friend Andy here. :-) Bishonen | tålk 21:44, 1 February 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

Administrator changes

readded
removed Euryalus

CheckUser changes

removed

Oversighter changes

removed

Technical news

  • Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
  • A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

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Potential sock

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I noticed a new user Skellyret, who created this draft "Institue for Family Studies" [1]. They were editing on this IP address prior to account creation [2] and confirmed they are this IP editor here [3].

The IP editor added: "not to be confused with the Institute for Family studies" to the Family Research Institute article: [4]

The edit before that was ChopinAficionado adding a category tag to the page [5]. You blocked ChopinAficionado for socking [6].

The Family Research Institute is a very obscure group, so I felt this a little odd.

Skellyret and the IP are editing in some of the same areas as ChopinAficionado and their sock accounts (e.g. heritability of IQ). I could be way off here, but ChopinAficionado didn't have much overlap with their other confirmed socks either. 'Fringey' editors do have a narrow topic interest I guess.

Zenomonoz (talk) 06:59, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree there is suspicious overlap, but technical data suggests the two are not the same. Vanamonde93 (talk) 00:53, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Sockpuppet case help

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Hi. My account was recently locked for being a suspected sock puppet. You were patrolling admin on my case and said my involvement is unlikely. Thank you. I am not involved with any of those users and have no idea why i was even dragged into it. There can't possibly be any technical link between us. Can you help me get my account unblocked? I don't know what to do now. Thank you so much! Here is my profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BostonYadSox 75.67.112.21 (talk) 04:01, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I said nothing of the sort, and technical and behavioral data makes it clear that BostonYadSox is in fact a sock of those other accounts. Vanamonde93 (talk) 05:32, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Patgregs88 - SPI investigation

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Hello. I would like to ask for your help with an SPI investigation. You made the following comment "I'd say Unrelated. Different continent, different technical signatures otherwise, different editing style. I'll let the unblock queue handle Patgregs88. Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:44, 10 February 2025 (UTC)" I am Patgregs88. How do I get my account unblocked. How does the unblock queue work? Thank you 5.69.118.176 (talk) 22:11, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My comment at SPI related specifically to the unblocked account reported there, which was not Patgregs88. If you are in fact Patgregs88, then you know how the unblock process works, seeing as you have already filed multiple unblock requests on your talk page. Vanamonde93 (talk) 22:38, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Casesolved unblock request

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Just an FYI, I'm not on nearly as frequent as I prefer, so I may be slow to respond if there are further questions. RickinBaltimore (talk) 17:26, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RickinBaltimore No problem, I think we see the behavior the same way, I wanted to check if there was a technical detail I was missing. Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:25, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New Alon sock

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201.227.220.197 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), which has only participated in AFDs, used the word "notoriety" in an AFD - commonly used by Alon - and the IP is from Panama City. I'm quite certain we have another block evasion by Alon9393 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) on our hands. Geschichte (talk) 22:25, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another one: 201.226.200.41 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Geschichte (talk) 22:33, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that is probable. I've blocked one of them - the other was blocked and hasn't resumed editing since. Vanamonde93 (talk) 00:53, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Another suspect, jumping straight into AFD, being from Panama and editing Israel: 201.225.5.63 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Geschichte (talk) 15:18, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
... and even more: 201.226.200.75 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), 201.225.7.18 (talk · contribs) Geschichte (talk) 15:26, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I placed a few range blocks, but it would appear that this user can hop IPs at will, and they aren't trying to hide. At some point it may become necessary to post these at AIV for quick action, as no single admin can keep up. Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:58, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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