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Undo unexplained page moves[edit]

Alex, can you help me undo the mess that user Saisagione has created and that I just compounded? The editor moved Help talk:Getting started to User:Dr.Sagi Satyanarayana. I submitted a technical request at WP:RMTR to reverse that move. The editor then also moved User talk:Saisagione to User:Dr. Sagi Sathyanarayana (note that this target contains a somewhat different spelling). I attempted to undo the latter move, but have now inadvertently moved it to Talk:Saisagione instead, and cannot overwrite the existing page User talk:Saisagione which contained a redirect. General Ization Talk 05:30, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(P.S - There are no actual Wikipedia user accounts named "Dr. Sagi Sathyanarayana" or "Dr. Sagi Satyanarayana". I'm really not clear on what the editor is trying to accomplish with these moves; perhaps an attempt at publishing an autobiography without understanding the difference between userspace and mainspace.) General Ization Talk 05:37, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I think I have done what you have asked: moved the mainspace talk page to the user talk page without leaving redirects. Alex Bakharev (talk) 05:48, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Alex. General Ization Talk 14:04, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Alex, in 2006 you deleted this page, saying "nn-web". Do you mind taking another look and seeing if this article was about the journal Traditio (Cambridge Core link), or about something else? Thanks, --Usernameunique (talk) 03:10, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It was about the Catholic website, traditio.com, which, as far as I see, is a different thing.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:42, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Ymblanter. I agree that it looks completely different. --Usernameunique (talk) 20:08, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I have not changed my opinion about the catholic site. If you are talking about https://traditio.wiki/ if sobeone could demonstrate that is passes WP:WEB I certainly have nothing against creating the article Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:37, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Помощь[edit]

Здравствуйте. Прошу Вашей помощи. Взгляните пожалуйста на эти статьи: Draft:Aviasales.ru, Draft:Victor Orlovski, Draft:Positive Technologies. Первая статья имеет статус хорошей в русской Википедии (дословный перевод); статья о Орловском - маленький стаб, где вкратце описана его биография (значимая персона); третья статья является переводом из русской Википедии, где статья существует уже более 10 лет и была признана значимой. Пожалуйста, окажите помощь! Спасибо! 93.77.161.95 (talk) 15:46, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I guess this comes from a currently permabanned Namerst (talk · contribs) for the benefits of the non-Russian readers here is my understanding of the situation. A user translated from ru-wiki the article about one of the Russian largest air ticket aggregators Draft:Aviasales.ru and wrote or translated two related stabs. On ru-wiki the article was graded as Good article, but here it was considered a spam. I guess this is the difference is because of the expected readership. Most of users from Russia either use this aggregator or consider to use it and so they have some interest to its history and features, 99% of en-wiki readers do not and will not use it but very well aware of SEO efforts to promote internet sales. The company is certainly not the largest in Russia. The notability is only supported by Russian sources, etc. Thus, a large article about a hardly notable for the readers of en-wiki subject looks like spam and handled correspondingly. As the author so far has shown only interest to this company some sort of a Conflict of Interests cannot be excluded also.

Here are the questions:

Should we put some efforts and salvage the article or is it inherently not-notable?
The user looks like he or she could make positive contributions. Should I try to negotiate unbanning for him (maybe with the promise not to edit articles related to aviasales.ru?

Let's first discuss it here because I might be unaware of some important details Alex Bakharev (talk) 01:35, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles of Pogoń and Pagaunia[edit]

Hello, you recently locked the article of Pahonia as there was an intensive edit war. Now the Belarusian nationalists are fighting yet another edit war against recognized Wikipedians at the article of Pogoń: Onel5969 (his edit), Elmidae (his edit), and myself all expressed a clear opinion that it should be a redirect page because this article is worthless alone and is just another duplication of the article of the coat of arms of Lithuania. However, user Лобачев Владимир persistently fights an edit war with me and other Wikipedians there. By the way, the same user Лобачев Владимир is also pushing exactly the same thing at the article of Pagaunia, which I recently created as a redirect page, so it needs protection too in order to avoid an edit war. Best regards, -- Pofka (talk) 15:26, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    • Seems to be already taken care of. Alex Bakharev (talk) 04:05, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • @Alex Bakharev: I suggest locking Pahonia once again as Belarusian Лобачев Владимир, already known for edit warring, is persistently reinserting unrelated information and images of unrelated horse riders (Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, etc.) to the section "Grand Duchy of Lithuania" (e.g. one, two), so I think yet another edit war begins in this article. -- Pofka (talk) 18:24, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Same IP, diff article[edit]

I saw you semi protected Douglas Tottle. Same IP has now followed me to the Great Purge article [1]. Volunteer Marek 02:14, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

your not being a good Volunteer— Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.36.116.120 (talk)
Well the IP is blocked at the moment, so no action is needed at the moment Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:40, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Volunteer Marek: BTW The IP disrupting Douglas Tottle User:156.202.47.108 is different from the one disrupting Great Purge Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:51, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
They’re back with yet another. Article needs semi protecting. [2]. Volunteer Marek 03:04, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Done Alex Bakharev (talk) 06:22, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Help with coding[edit]

Hello, I've never done coding in my life but I'd like to add some topics at User:AlexNewArtBot/Romania, page that you created. I did two changes [3] [4], I imagine the first one is correct but I don't know about the second one. I'd also like to add several topics relevant for Romania: Aromanian(s), Vlach(s), Megleno-Romanian(s), Istro-Romanian(s) and Morlach(s). These are all Eastern Romance peoples related to Romanians that aren't really included in any other WikiProject or alert page. I hope you can help me out with this. Thanks in advance. Super Ψ Dro 20:04, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    • The new page classification is now done by InceptionBot operated by User:Bamyers99 but the syntaxes of the rule pages is the same. I was trying to accomodate your request by this edit, I saw you currectly added a rule for Transilvania yourself. Let's wait for possible abnormalities in the next few cycles of the bot, otherwise the mission is accomplished Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the help. I did again some changes to add all the templates that there are for the Balkan Romance languages (Romanian, Moldovan, two for Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian) and also to add Transnistria and all alternate names. These are the last I pretend to do. Are they correct? [5]. Super Ψ Dro 09:18, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good to me Alex Bakharev (talk) 03:10, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

He's at it again[edit]

[6] - LouisAragon (talk) 11:10, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Once again.[7]-[8] - LouisAragon (talk) 13:44, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I month Alex Bakharev (talk) 00:40, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request regarding your full protection of Roman Protasevich[edit]

Hi there. I'm wondering why full protection was applied on Roman Protasevich today. Looking through the history, it appears that after semi-protection expired on 2 June 2021, that an IP made two vandal edits. I think that the article is likely a magnet for anonymous IP trolls, but I'm wondering why this sort of disruption would justify prohibiting, say, extended-confirmed editors from making edits to the page until 11 June 2021. There was certainly a lot of disruption on the page by more experienced between its creation on 23 May and the end of May, though it appears to have subsided by the end of the month. I'm wondering if you would be willing to lower the protection level on the page to extended-confirmed, in light of the nature of more recent disruption. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 01:42, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Mikehawk10: It was my mistake, I have used TW automatic tool and selected semiprotection but for some reason the tool appliyed full protection. I hope I have fixed it now Alex Bakharev (talk) 03:04, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BOLD on Vadim Backman[edit]

Hi, this is a notice that I exercised WP:BOLD and removed the notability tag from Vadim Backman. I realize that there was no link to this google scholar, which I have added now. In my view it is a clear-cut pass of WP:PROF based on his high citation metrics in peer-reviewed scholarly publications. If you feel like I'm in the wrong, feel free to reinsert the tag and we can continue the discussion on the article's talk page. Cheers! nearlyevil665 08:13, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • It is OK with me still I would prefer for a researcher not a list of the positions held nor a list of publications but a single notable result: e.g. discovered a principle later named after him or invent a method, etc. Alex Bakharev (talk) 09:33, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Travis R. Jaico[edit]

Have you seen their edit history? Seems to warrant a bit more than the level 1 you just gave them, no? Brycehughes (talk) 01:46, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I gave him a final warning. I am still not sure if it is trolling or newbish incompetence. I assumed the later so gave him one more chance. Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:33, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that's fair. I'm not sure that it's either... I have a feeling it's more just like a bizarre obsession that should be stopped. I reported them to AIV, which will be flushed eventually so I'll see what happens. Anyway thanks and enjoy your vacation. Brycehughes (talk) 02:39, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Bots Newsletter, December 2021
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
  • TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
  • Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

  • What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
  • What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
  • Will reFill ever get fixed?
  • What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
  • Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

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Bots Newsletter, January 2022[edit]

Bots Newsletter, January 2022
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Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with Dark red X symbolN2 8 denied, Blue question mark? 2 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

January 2020

A python
A python
A python
0.4 pythons
Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

March 2020

April 2020

Listeria being examined

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots

June 2020

A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos

Conclusion

  • What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?
  • Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
  • What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?
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  • What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?

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