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Sock

Hi, Could someone block ~2026-57576-95 for being a sock of RepIying account and delete all of the IPS creations please, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 19:31, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

 Done Ternera (talk) 19:38, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Thank you Ternera much appreciated, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 19:40, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

i am not RepIying (CU if you want) but i gotta say i feel the deletion of Galfoy was wholly unjustified

i kindly ask for a proper deletion request so the community can discuss it properly ~2026-57421-50 (talk) 11:17, 29 October 2026 (UTC)

Page move req

Hi, Could someone move Paramount Skydance to Skydance please as per Enwiki,

I did Qd the Skydance page yesterday with the intention of moving it myself but no one's deleted it which I'm assuming is because admins disagreed? Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 21:59, 31 October 2026 (UTC)

Done. -Barras talk 23:26, 31 October 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Barras much appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 10:58, 1 November 2026 (UTC)

I saw it and was just confused what was trying to be moved there. It makes sense now. Garsh (talk) 04:37, 2 November 2026 (UTC)

Ajanaku Aliu Babatunde

Hi all, I'm struggling a lot with this one. It meets a lot of our QD criteria, not least WP:A4, WP:A7 and possibly even WP:G11. It contains obvious LLM commentary like His reported date of birth should be supported by a reliable source before being included as a confirmed fact in a Wikipedia biography.. The issue is that I've tried tagging it for QD but the article creator keeps finding a way to remove it. See, for example, this and this, both occasions using a misleading edit summary Added biographical information about Ajanaku Aliu Babatunde to give the illusion of legitimacy. Please could an admin potentially stop this TA from being able to remove the QD before someone can assess it? Spiderone (talk) 09:56, 3 November 2026 (UTC)

I also note that the same account is blocked on en.wiki for block evasion and the same draft has been deleted on en.wiki for block evasion as well so this is clearly some LTA anyway. Doing a bit of digging, this appears to be globally locked accounts Alination1 and Babatunde001. Spiderone (talk) 10:04, 3 November 2026 (UTC)

The article was deleted as WP:A4 but restored today (word-for-word identical) by an obvious sock. Spiderone (talk) 17:24, 4 November 2026 (UTC)

Yisrael Ariel

Please semi-protect Yisrael Ariel. It's being targeted by KryptonSuperDog23 socks (named and temp accounts). Ravensfire (talk) 14:23, 3 November 2026 (UTC)

 Done Ternera (talk) 17:29, 4 November 2026 (UTC)

Page protection request

Hi, Could TLC (group) be protected please as an IP is edit warring and is inserting unsourced content to the article, I've initiated a discussion on the talkpage but this IP is only interested in edit warring, thanks –Davey2010^Talk 22:38, 6 November 2026 (UTC)

I’ve temporarily protected the page. If they don’t engage on the talk page in that time and then continue changing the page, they will be blocked. Garsh (talk) 02:34, 7 November 2026 (UTC)

RfD move

Hi can someone take a look at this RfD page move? Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2026/Protik Barua is currently a redirect to User talk:Requests for deletion/Requests/2026/Protik Barua as it was blanked and moved by @Protikctg and I can't revert the move they made. In addition, Protikctg's user pages were also moved to User:Extremer/User talk:Extremer (unregistered user on this wiki), so someone might want to revert that move as well (They were warned once back in June 2025 for making the same move to another username). Jolly1253 (talk) 06:59, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

 Done Thanks! Let me know if they continue this sort of behavior. Garsh (talk) 07:12, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Garsh! I'll keep an eye on them. Jolly1253 (talk) 07:27, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Persistent ST item that does not get archived

Hello, There is a discussion on simple talk that does not get archived. It is close to a month old, and I think the archival setting is at 10 days Eptalon (talk) 11:24, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Eptalon, it looks like someone added a smart comment <!-- 23:59, 31 December 2999 (UTC) -- Added to stop automatic archiving of this section -- Remove this comment to reenable archiving --> as that section was an issue that took a while to resolve and kept on being archived! I've now removed that so it should archive normally next time. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 11:26, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Please protect Angry Grandpa

For several weeks now, the same TA has vandalised Angry Grandpa. They keep getting blocked but they manage to circumvent it by creating a new TA and restoring the previous vandalism. It doesn't seem that blocking is deterring them. Please can we consider protection? Spiderone (talk) 10:16, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Spiderone, I will keep an eye, but I placed a couple more IP blocks that had been put in place before but expired over the last few months. I think this should, for now, be a level we can handle. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 10:27, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Review of possible LTA edits

Please review the contributions of User:~2026-59583-19. I've found especially edits like Special:Diff/11062882 made by LTAs in the past. NDG (talk) 13:35, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

~2026-59918-24

~2026-59918-24 (talk · contribs) has created fair number of articles and redirects in the past couple of days. Most of the articles seem to be unsourced, or have a relatively few sources. There's POV language in them (see Pakistan–Hyderabad state (1947–1956) relations where India is referred to as Seceded India (a redirect they created). That article is a mess at best - complex language, one source that's actually about different countries entirely some 4 decades after the events it is used to source. One article I spent over an hour digging into and finally tagged for speedy deletion as I kept finding entire chunks copy-pasted from other sites. To save time, I think anything they've created beyond a short copy-paste from an en-wiki article needs to be deleted as complex and unsourced. Ravensfire (talk) 18:40, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Hmmm, highly likely this is ~2026-54194-27 (talk · contribs) evading that block. Compare from the -27 temp account and from the new -24 account. Ravensfire (talk) 18:44, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Disruptive user on enwiki moved here

w:Wikipedia:ANI#User:XYRIYSX is making changes on my userpage, please tell him to stop, see this, pretty obvious block evasion with a history. Tankishguy (talk) 19:14, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Not an admin, I'm all for second chances but it's clear from the users contribs at Enwiki there's CIR issues here and it won't be long before they're doing the same crap here, They were a time sink there and chances are they'll be a time sink here. –Davey2010^Talk 19:54, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

I was the blocking admin on Commons. They seem to have basic competency issues, a limited command of English, and simply hop from project to project after a block. A global block is probably needed. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:22, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Yeah Because He Blocked me Myself. XYRIYSX (talk) 22:35, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

I am seeing the WP:CIR concerns, but they haven't really done anything locally that's blockable even under WP:ONESTRIKE. Preemptive blocks are a bit of a slippery slope. I will keep an eye.

@XYRIYSX please read and understand our policies before changing here. WP:Simple start is a good place to start. While we are a Simple English version, if you can't write English enough to change articles, this may not be the wiki for you. Garsh (talk) 22:51, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Hi XYRIYSX (talk) 00:29, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

I Mean "Ok" XYRIYSX (talk) 00:30, 13 November 2026 (UTC)