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Sockpuppet

Hello Ferret, I'm contacting you in regards to a possible sockupuppet. There is a user named "Darthnote" who primarily edits track listings in music articles. Their track record of editing is eerily similar to a banned user named "EmeraldWicket9947". Throughout the years "EmeraldWicket9947" has created multiple accounts that are now blocked/banned. Whenever this user creates a new account they target music articles and edit track listings/album covers. A few accounts made by "EmeraldWicket9947" includes "Friendlyhelper9949". I might be wrong but could you look into this and see if "Darthnote" is "EmeraldWicket9947" A.K.A. "Friendlyhelper9949" A.K.A "BeDefining" etc. OkIGetIt20 (talk) 17:25, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@OkIGetIt20

Confirmed and blocked. @ToBeFree just as info, this sleeper became active after you blocked the underlying IP. Might need more sweeping but I do not have time right now. @Ad Orientem as info. -- ferret (talk) 18:49, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:54, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:54, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ferret "EmeraldWicket9947" A.K.A. "Friendlyhelper9949" A.K.A "BeDefining" etc is now back under the name "Theanchoviesaver". this user makes it obvious that it's them because they only edit tracklistings in music articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OkIGetIt20 (talk • contribs)

@OkIGetIt20: Wanna clean up the latest sock, Grabthejuggle? -- ferret (talk) 19:54, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mass creation of non-notable articles

User:Beqwk immediately started creating large numbers of non-notable stub articles and barely-populated categories right after joining the site. Their instant knowledge of Wikipedia editing (and using "inside" terms like "non-notable" on their first edit) strikes me as odd and meriting some sort of check. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 23:06, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Zxcvbnm I've looked into this and there is no CU action to perform. Issues with their stubs and categories will need to go through normal processes/channels. -- ferret (talk) 18:50, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, understood. It's a bit daunting where to start given that nearly everything they have made so far is non-notable though, or should probably not be a standalone article. If they get blocked for disruption, which it seems they might, perhaps some large scale reversion of their edits can be enacted? Otherwise I'll see about PRODing or deleting them via AfD. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:36, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Zxcvbnm: Generally you'd need a clear AN/ANI consensus for that, and I doubt that would be easier to get than just PRODing or AfDing them, especially for the relatively small number of page creations here. Also, not sure all these pages even should be deleted. Elli (talk | contribs) 19:50, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category user

While we're at it, User:QuantumFoam66 has been engaging in disruptive editing. Not only constantly nominating perfectly fine long-standing categories like Category:Killzone for deletion, then usually backtracking or saying the reverse of what they initially suggested, but deleting all the legitimate complaints on their talk page with the summary "nobody cares". While a few of their nominations were somewhat correct, they are clearly exhibiting WP:NOTHERE behavior and it's getting to be too much to manage, CfD wise, and warning them is pointless due to aforementioned scrubbing of their talkpage. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:46, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Zxcvbnm I left them a message. -- ferret (talk) 13:36, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Be polite

I don’t like your tone with me on the Blizzard page. Please, be respectful. If I’m wrong you can correct me but keep your sarcasm to yourself. Thanks PaulUsuloo (talk) 15:45, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PaulUsuloo Stop editing logged out every time someone reverts you for your unsourced edits then. There's a long pattern here of disruption here. -- ferret (talk) 15:56, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You undid correct information about King. Go check LinkedIn and see for yourself. PaulUsuloo (talk) 00:14, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Block evasion

You recently blocked 2402:ad80::/40 however it turns out that they are evading their block from this range( 2402:ad80:139::/48 or 2402:AD80:130:0:0:0:0:0/44), see this chain of edits Ratnahastin (talk) 02:40, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

King.com

Just so we're on the same page, https://king.com/ redirects to https://www.king.com/ on all devices and browsers I tested this on, not the other way around. Does it do the opposite for you? Either way, since both variants work, this is not something I deeply care to fight about, so we can leave it as-is. IceWelder [✉] 13:17, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]