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SPI Investigation

Hi, I just wanted to flag up that I'm concerned to have been brought into this SPI, without being informed so - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/NorthLondoner

A lot of it seems to relate to an SPI closed months ago, with no socking found. I'm trying to be a good editor here, focus in on my area of expertise, build up my edits. I've even created what I feel is an important page - Moskovski Korrespondent. In this SPI, I'm being connected to a subject Graham W Phillips who forms a very minor part of all my edits, and whose page seems to have recently been attracting vandalism / strange edits. Thank you for your time. Moscow Media Man (talk) 10:16, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm an admin with relatively little experience of SPI, but Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GrahamWPhillips looks like a miscarriage of justice to me. Am I too late to comment? – Fayenatic London 14:08, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Never mind, somewhat to my surprise I now think the accusers were right. I have added my comments at the end of the page. – Fayenatic London 19:54, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

3E1 Elimination Ceremony

I wanted to bring it to your attention. The user (under a new name) has recreated the page BUT on the old "talk page" I tagged it with G4 but wasn't sure what to do in this case. Talk:3E1 Elimination Ceremony. Tyros1972 Talk 10:19, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

nm someone deleted it. Tyros1972 Talk 10:20, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk page protection

Hi. I noticed you semi-protected my Talk page. Thanks for that. In fact, if you could extend that protection for a (very long) time, I'd be really happy. Being an active vandal hunter, the amount of vandalism my Talk page receives is stunning. Thanks,  Yintan  10:35, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

We generally don't semi user talk pages unless there's a heavy amount of vandalism - so that newer users can communicate with you. Sorry about that :( --Rschen7754 10:41, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Three, four times a day isn't heavy enough? O well, at least I have two days rest.  Yintan  10:45, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

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Pssst...

You blocked Changingfilms for 2 weeks but tagged them as indeffed. While I'm here, kudos for all the clerking and assistance you provide at SPI!--Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 21:32, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that - too used to dealing with LTAs instead :/ And you're welcome! --Rschen7754 21:45, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Pirokiazuma

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Pirokiazuma&diff=561472321&oldid=561472295

Okay… now I remove Pirokiazuma’s socks and all articles which have an interest for him from my watchlist. Hunt for them with Mathsci, but without me. No my actions of whatever kind will ensue. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 06:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Well, that's not a very good attitude to have. As Mathsci stated, you are welcome to open a new report. However, you should not be reverting the actions of a clerk. --Rschen7754 06:15, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Possibly, it is you who can revert a detrimental action of a clerk? Or correcting clerks’ errors is not a clerk’s competence? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 06:38, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Well the larger problem is, you added an account without adding any evidence of any sort. If you had actually added evidence, I might have considered letting it slide, but making a seemingly random accusation was not okay. --Rschen7754 06:40, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Checkuser

I'm not sure if an SPI case can be opened if I don't know what other accounts or accounts that the suspected sockpuppet might have. The editor that I started a case for nominated an article for deletion as their first edit, nominated another one after that, edited their user page, and never edited since the day that they joined on June 17. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dan12w. SL93 (talk) 07:57, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

There's other possible explanations for this, such as they edited anonymously but needed to start an account to AFD. No signs of abuse of multiple accounts, and certainly not grounds for CU (which I do not have access to). --Rschen7754 08:01, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I would say that there are also possibilities when even possible linked accounts are mentioned, but I don't really like discussing such issues with admins so I will leave it at this. SL93 (talk) 08:11, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm not saying that you're a bad admin, but most of my experiences with admins have to do with ANI where I was insulted. They also made a joke out of my username so I had request a change. SL93 (talk) 08:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Well, before we block someone, we have to be very sure that they're really a sock. That's definitely not true in this case. --Rschen7754 08:35, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Occitan, Deutsch or French who care about U.S. roads

Hi,

I really care about U.S. roads, particularly about Californian ones. ;) LOL

In reality, I had created like you had seen stubs using informations from WIKIDATA to test and improve the Infobox who give access to statements of Wikidata.

The oc:Rota 78 de l'Estat de California show the actual "state of art" of these infobox for roads since I improve it after your comment. Boulaur (talk) 22:36, 25 June 2013 (UTC) (Wikipedian gascon from Aush)

Well, it does look better, but there are other articles such as oc:California State Route 56 and oc:Interstate 8 that need attention - there's almost 20,000 new articles that need attention. The apparent issue is that it appears you were trying to create articles for all 12 million Wikidata items without local consensus, which may not be desirable due to the sudden influx of articles that need to be maintained by a very small base of editors. Something like that should have been decided by the local community before the bot was run. --Rschen7754 22:50, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Greetings!

Hi, Rschen! I hope all is well!

I have recently acquired a 1932 Pennsylvania Department of Highways Tourism Map, a 1933 Texaco Road Map of Pennsylvania, and a 1934 Esso Road Map of Pennsylvania. I wanted to make sure that it would be acceptable to upload pictures/scans of these maps to Commons, and I figured I'd check with you first.

Best wishes! --hmich176 23:16, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Good to see you back! Unfortunately I'm not familiar with complicated permissions issues, so it might be better to ask at WT:USRD. Ultimately Commons has its own rules, but hopefully someone at USRD will know more about this. --Rschen7754 23:25, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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New possible sock

Previous sock, now blocked: Isaacsirup (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Possible new sock: Ashhhfann (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Page in dispute: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello Rschen7754. Please see the recent history of this article on the Indian movie star, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, where both Ashhhfann and Isaacsirup have participated. Recently you modified the block of User:Isaacsirup, who is noted to be a sock of User:Mangoeater1000. The sudden creation of the User:Ashhhfann account right after the block of Isacsirup suggests to me that he could be another sock. I blocked Ashhhfann for edit warring, and put two months of semiprotection on the article to discourage newly-created registered socks. If you think there is probable cause for a checkuser, I'm sure the data is still fresh :-). Thanks EdJohnston (talk) 18:44, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

It's probably best to send this to SPI, since it would need to go there anyway as I'm not a checkuser. --Rschen7754 19:56, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. It is now filed at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Mangoeater1000. EdJohnston (talk) 14:07, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

SPI case archive merge

Since you did the original merge, can you look into the merging of the SPI case for LanguageXpert and Maria0333? All of the socks have been labeled under the LanguageXpert and I recently filed a case under that name. The archive for the LanguageXpert SPI is a redirect to Maria0333. My recent case got archived to LanguageXpert where it has gone invisible due to the redirect. So things are kind of a mess. I think the canonical name for the case should be LanguageXpert as that is the earliest account identified and is being tagged under as also DoRD asked for the Maria0333 case be merged to LanguageXpert back in March. I'd take a shot at cleaning things up myself, but I don't want to mess up the usual procedures. Thanks! -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 18:54, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

I think it should be good now. --Rschen7754 20:24, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

User:NPK14051969

I think you probably meant to enter {{sockpuppet|SwedishSven|blocked|evidence=[[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SwedishSven|SPI]]}}. _W^\|/_haledad (Talk to me) 21:51, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. --Rschen7754 21:52, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

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14:20, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Edwards bot cleaning up

Rollback might not be the best option for this, as you will potentially revert other messages from the bot (e.g. as happened here) - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 23:14, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I realized it a few reverts in. --Rschen7754 23:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

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A sugestion

Hi Rschen7754. I'm not in any way passing judgement on the block. However, as the insinuation was serious, especially concerning an employee, and as the issue was neatly swept under the carpet, I do feel it requires some further investigation. That said, it seems very much as if the user is a sock account created especially for the purpose of escaping identification. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:41, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

It's an obvious SPA. There's proper venues for raising issues regarding misconduct on the part of staff members, and I personally think that some of his comments were a bit unbecoming for a staff member, even if not on the clock. That being said... there's proper venues, and creating a sock account to express this view is not one of them. --Rschen7754 02:11, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Banneforth, Come Here!

Was that a sockpuppet of Technoquat? Robert McClenon (talk) 22:13, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

It's possible, yes. --Rschen7754 22:15, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

ANI removal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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What is all this about? PumpkinSky talk 13:07, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

@PumpkinSky: Based on the other IPs that Rschen blocked, I'm pretty sure that's Cmach7. Legoktm (talk) 14:21, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Still, given the circumstances .. probably would have been better to let another admin. handle the details. — Ched :  ?  14:37, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

If you look at my contribs (including the deleted ones), he posted to multiple pages with a dynamic IP - what else was I supposed to do? Keep bugging another admin to delete everything, especially at a time of night when there are very few admins online? This is just one of the harsh realities of dealing with socks and LTAs, just as there are harsh realities of writing content - sometimes you will have to do blocks, deletions, and reverts like that (check out the deleted history of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rschen7754). --Rschen7754 19:11, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

It's never good form to remove a complaint about yourself, even if it's from a sock. Just post your side below the complaint and if it's as clear cut as you say it'll get taken care of soon enough. You did yourself more harm by doing this. Things like this are why the admin corps has such a bad rap these days.PumpkinSky talk 19:44, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Well, you're welcome to your opinion, and you can even take it up to ArbCom if you disagree. --Rschen7754 19:47, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Thats's a preyty lousy comment considering you know how the Arbcom voted on the last one and that Arbcom is basically inept when it comes to desysopping. Kumioko (talk) 19:52, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

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18:31, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

RFA

It appears I stepped on your feet in protecting that RFA. I just went with the default time limit right after you, without seeing you had already done so. Feel free to revert back to any other time if you feel it best. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 00:22, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

No, we editconflicted on the protection Not a problem. --Rschen7754 00:23, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Intense edit warring

Hello, Firstly I'm kinda new here. I edited an article (section: Potential Superpowers) which user Subtropical-man keeps reverting. The article has a section that lists possible future superpowers, but the list has a misleading title "Present day states [link to article about sovereign state] that currently are or have the potential to become a superpower within the 21st century," and then someone included the European Union (EU) on the list, misrepresenting the organization as a sovereign state which it's not. The European Union is a supranational union - a supranational organization or entity. Here's the misleading list on the left below.

Present day states that currently are or have the potential to become a superpower within the 21st century.

  United States of America- Existing superpower

  Brazil

  China

  European Union

  India

  Russia

So I asked Subtropical-man to do any of these: (A.) Cite a source that claims the EU is a country or sovereign state, and then the list would be okay. Or: (B.) I'll correct the list by clarifying in parenthesis that the EU is a supranational entity, like the list on the right:

Present day states that currently are or have the potential to become a superpower within the 21st century.

  United States of America- Existing superpower

  Brazil

  China

  European Union (a supranational entity)

  India

  Russia

Or: (C.) Change title of the list to simply say "Potential superpowers" instead of beginning it with "Present day sovereign states..."

This problem is also found within the third paragraph of the entire article that starts with "Additionally, it is widely believed that the European Union and India..." Also found on potential superpowers article, but at least it is clarified within the first paragraph: "...the European Union (a supranational entity)..." But the list on the top right side of that article is still kind of misleading, yet he keeps reverting my changes.

The EU is not recognized as a sovereign state by any country. Moreover, the UK, a member of the EU, does not use EU's currency "the euro." Furthermore, a member state of a sovereign state cannot have a system of its own monarchy, unlike the UK does. No known sources affirm that the EU is a country or a sovereign state, yet he keeps reverting the edits. I believe you're an administrator, so please help us out with this situation. Thank you so much in advance! --Nosugarcoating (talk) 22:27, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Blocked for 3 days because he has a long-term pattern of edit warring. But next time, please start discussing earlier rather than continuing to revert, or you could get in trouble too. --Rschen7754 23:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I have now made the article as accurate as it should be. Hopefully he'll take a peaceful break before resuming the war. I didn't know I shouldn't revert without first discussing, until I saw a warning on my talk page. I have a question, though. Since my talk page is new, and I haven't had anything going there, am I free to delete content like the warning, since I'll never be involved in edit warring in the future? --Nosugarcoating (talk) 03:03, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

It's fine to revert once generally, but the general norm is WP:BRD. That editor has a known history of reverting just to revert and push his own POV, which is why I blocked him. You are free to remove the warning, although it does make it look like you are hiding something... --Rschen7754 03:08, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the tips. I'll be a good Wikipedian. --Nosugarcoating (talk) 16:35, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

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	For resolving an aggressive edit war. Nosugarcoating (talk) 15:33, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18. [35]
• The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the __DISAMBIG__ code to disambiguation templates (see example). [36]
• The Universal Language Selector was added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacing the Narayam and WebFonts extensions. [37]
• The CommonsDelinker bot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016).
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• A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [38]
• The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [39]
• Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [40] [41]
• Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [42]
• Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22. [43]
• A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [44]

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17:31, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Simple, huh

My reference to Simple Wikipedia refers to an adult having an inappropriate discussion with a child, not to the stuff I'd saved. Please read it again.

That stuff was saved when TParis was revdeleting most of the material from a "Block Party". when I was in a hurry, and I forgot about it. I think I deleted a similar collection of quotes from that "Block Party" because getting the block cleared would have been a waste of my time. When did you learn of the cut and pastes at Simple? Why didn't you tell me before?

Feel free to update your accusations. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:44, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

I've removed the second diff, but... other wikis are really not a holding space for stuff that you can't have on the English Wikipedia, such as accusations against other people and/or revdeleted content. It doesn't show respect for the Simple English Wikipedia or whatever wiki that you're using, and it imports a dispute to the Simple English Wikipedia that they really don't want there, since they like to be a drama-reduced wiki and don't want any of the English Wikipedia's problems. --Rschen7754 21:58, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

I forgot why I saved it there rather than in an open office document. Maybe time was short, as usual?

It was in an innocuously named page in my user space, with everything in hats (and maybe additionally collapsed). I would be surprised if anybody looked at it. (Check the page views?!?) Hardly drama inducing. Thanks for removing the now irrelevant criticism. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 22:51, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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I added the e-road-shield, ahn-shield, and tahn-shield parameters to the documentation and template data, and so another null edit is required to update it for VisualEditor - Evad37 (talk) 11:55, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Rschen7754 20:58, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

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Interwiki bots on Wikivoyage

Hi. Regarding this message, I would like to use the bot to update interwiki links on the bot's user page only because updating those links by bot is easier than manually. Is this OK? --Meno25 (talk) 15:09, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

I suppose, but if you won't be using the bot to update interwikis anymore, it seems pointless. -Rschen7754 18:36, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

URGENT DELETION MESSAGE

DEAR ADMINISTRATOR,

I request that my account be deleted with immediate effect, and that all my edits in the past, and past edit histories, be permanently removed from public viewing. Deletion of my account, City of Lukington, would be immensely appreciated.

I hope that this reaches you soon and that you are able to act upon my request.

Yours sincerely, Unknown user (formerly City of Lukington) — Preceding unsigned comment added by City of Lukington (talk • contribs) 20:59, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

I am sorry, but we cannot do this. --Rschen7754 21:00, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Technoquat's sockpuppet??

I am unaware whether I should start an SPi investigaion on Technokumquat or not, it seems eerily similar to Technoquat, which as most of you know is a banned user here. Should I let this one be or should I file an SPi? Thanks in advance :) Prabash.Akmeemana 14:57, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

• Update: I have just filed the SPi investigation. Prabash.Akmeemana 15:06, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

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A Barnstar!

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It looks like you may have accidentally not blocked. NativeForeigner ^Talk 18:35, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

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Merging SPIs

Hey; I'd do it myseld but I don't want to mess something up and create more work for you clerk: [[55]] needs to be merged to the master case [[56]]. Thanks for the small maintenance. :) ·Salvidrim!· ✉ 16:10, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Rschen7754 20:24, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Cheers! And damn, I messed up the above (intended) wikilinks. :p :) ·Salvidrim!· ✉ 22:37, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Pssst,,,

Regarding this SPI, User:Snowball657 isn't actually blocked yet; they added the blocked sock tag themselves. Cheers, --Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 20:54, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I had a bit of futzing around with the script... It helps if you use {{user}} when giving results, as that's what threw me off. --Rschen7754 20:55, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Noted, and a huge "thanks" for all of your assistance clerking SPI.--Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 20:59, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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Block on 194.80.224.14

Perhaps a little too quick to block 194.80.224.14? He's right, the subject Stuart Hall (presenter) was convicted of sexual relations with minors. I was too quick to judge this, and I should have done a good faith revert of his edit. The title "pedophile", whether true or not, should not be in the first sentence of the article, as is it was not his career, per se, furthermore it is defamatory wording for a fact already covered elsewhere in the lead section. Falls somewhere inbetween WP:BLPCRIME and WP:POV, I presume? At any rate I think this user edited in good faith and should merely be notified that his change might not be as welcomed in the fashion he presented it. What are your thoughts? — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:06, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm going to let the reviewing admin for his unblock request make the determination - in retrospect it probably was a bit soon to block, but it seems that the editor has no understanding of how to write neutrally about the subject, so I'm reluctant to unblock now that I've blocked. --Rschen7754 20:10, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Streamboxmarketing

No link to the archived case is displayed, in spite of the presence of {{SPIarchive notice|Streamboxmarketing}} {{SPIpriorcases}} . —rybec 21:42, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

You need to purge the page. --Rschen7754 22:10, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Really Sorry

Sorry, it's was only test of functionality AWB. No any other reasons. Vanquisher (talk) 00:11, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Okay, well you shouldn't test AWB on live articles. --Rschen7754 00:15, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

I see something at that time! AWB is really power tool but it still needs for me. I understand one major thing - before pressing "save" read your changes. I know you don't want to revert your changes but I hope... Thanks Vanquisher (talk) 00:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

User:Drspresents Sockpuppetry

Why is it misfiled? Where else do you report an obvious sock? Harry the Dog WOOF 09:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Well, for starters, it didn't even have the name of the sock. Anyway, a properly filed report was done a few minutes ago. The proper place to file a report is using the form at WP:SPI or using Twinkle. --Rschen7754 09:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Cheers. I did it using Twinkle so not sure what went wrong. I'll be more careful. Harry the Dog WOOF 09:17, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

You need to use the ARV link, not the Warn link. --Rschen7754 09:21, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

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SR 52/Cuyamaca Street interchange access

Is there anywhere in the SR 52 article worth mentioning the alternate access of westbound 52 to southbound Cuyamaca? Because if there isn't, it might as well be shaded pink (the incomplete access shade). –PhATxPnOY916 (^{talk to me}) 03:30, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Generally "incomplete access" has only meant that one of the four standard ramps (on/off in each direction) is missing. You're welcome to start a discussion at WT:USRD if you disagree, however, as it is definitely not "set" in the guideline. --Rschen7754 03:33, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Okay, got it. Don't really have a need to start a lengthy discussion about a minor lack of access at a interchange. I think the general public can figure it out anyway. –PhATxPnOY916 (^{talk to me}) 11:23, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Just out of interest

Hi. This is about a side-issue with the Infobox RFAR. I wonder if you could help me with some background information. I've only recently become aware of the existence of WikiProject:Quality Article Improvement (see my comments beginning half way down this thread [75]). It's been very hard to find out about this project as it has only nine active members and very limited visibility on Wikipedia. However, I did notice that you had made a couple of comments about WP:QAI at the end of last year, describing it as a "clique". Since this squares with my observations of some of the project's recent activities, I was curious to know about your experiences with WP:QAI. Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 08:07, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Originally it was an underhanded way of bypassing WP:TFAR, but nowadays I don't know that it actually does much. --Rschen7754 15:49, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. --Folantin (talk) 16:11, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

@Folantin:: I seem to have missed Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Infobox. --Rschen7754 22:02, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Europefan

you blocked the user due to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Europefan. Can you point me to a discussion that highlights the abusiveness. Is there something on Meta, as cross-wiki abuse was mentioned. To my knowledge the user has been active for quite some time (long before the Europefan account) and I found his new articles useful and his MO was always to correctly link the source of his translation and touch the same couple of honeypots on Portal:Germany. But I was mostly absent for more than 6 month so I missed any problematic development. A pointer would be appreciated. Agathoclea (talk) 19:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

The problem is that he was using multiple accounts to push his points of view regarding inventions and people who made those inventions. As far as the crosswiki abuse, you can check the CA (CentralAuth) links for more information; a steward decided to lock many of the accounts for crosswiki abuse out of their own initiative. --Rschen7754 19:09, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I see the issue, pity how people seriously go south after being good contributors. Agathoclea (talk) 19:31, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Away

I will be away from August 6 through August 13. I will try to reply to time-critical matters as soon as possible while I am away, but there may be delays. If you need help from an admin or SPI clerk, it may be better to find another one to receive a timely response. --Rschen7754 19:14, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

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Reply

Thank you for your concern, I totally understand that I may not be experienced enough, but I do believe that I am good at CSD on the new page feed but I'm a bit inexperienced on the others. Anywho, I will read about the guidelines more and practice a little bit before continuing with GAN and AFC (which I think I'm slightly ok with now).

Anyway, thank you for your feedback. Kadzi (talk) 21:34, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

@Dr. Kadzi: The problem is that you have very little experience creating actual content and applying these guidelines. Please, do some work creating content so that you understand what these guidelines really mean. --Rschen7754 21:45, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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Alameda Street

85% of Alameda Street isn't part of SR-47, and all of that part is a major traffic-carrying street. So why should it redirect to something that is only 15% of its length? pbp 01:12, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Please keep discussion to that talk page, rather than here. --Rschen7754 01:15, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Then actually respond to the points I've made since your last comment. pbp 01:23, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Kumioko accusing other users of trolling and harassment for asking him to provide evidence for his claims. TCN7JM 00:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

• Rschen, thank you for your comment at that ANI thread. Good luck with your nomination. Drmies (talk) 13:19, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
  • No problem. While I would agree that something needs to be done about the overall situation, that's not the best time or place to do it. Meanwhile, my phone died just as my TFA was beginning, and I did not return to Internet access until several hours later. :/ At least there was no vandalism until this morning. --Rschen7754 13:28, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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CMD

I have recently got a message saying someone has mentioned you here. who is rajaputbhati. please tell me. I have recently joined Wikipedia.help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Estonian1 (talk • contribs) 13:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) At Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Rajputbhatti someone said that you edit in the same way as Rajputbhatti. If you can explain why that's wrong, it may help. —rybec 15:18, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Need Advise

Just saw, you are active administrator on here, especially on the sock puppet investigations. As it can be seen, that one case is related to me on there. I would like to know, that if i would tag the sock on my main page, it will help? Thanks Capitals00 (talk) 04:47, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Could you please link me to the case? --Rschen7754 04:53, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Here. Capitals00 (talk) 05:06, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately it will not. You cannot use socks to edit war, per WP:SOCK. I might be more inclined to take no action if this seemed more of an innocent mistake, but seeing that it was clear that you deliberately created socks to avoid the edit warring blocks... I have to take action here. --Rschen7754 05:51, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Follow up

Hello Rschen7754. I do agree with your sentiments on the Grandiose RfA page; especially that extending a discussion there would be improper. I did want to follow up on a point if you will indulge it here. When I stated that I intend to modify my steps I did not mean to imply I was abandoning the position all together and I do still agree with the points you had raised. I simply meant to acknowledge the fact that significantly more others than I would have imagined, including many offering support, did express reservations. The modifications I would incorporate would include ensuring a more through explanation than I would otherwise have thought necessary. I did not intend to sound as if I was in debate against you; and where I may have, I apologize. Cheers. :) John Cline (talk) 06:09, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I understand. I personally don't fall into the "admins = bad" camp, being an admin myself, and I have many admin friends who are primarily admin tasks-only and who are quite sensible. That being said, I've seen some bizarre things said by admins (and even functionaries and arbitrators!) who have little experience writing content, and that particular view of INVOLVED is one of them, which is why I reacted a bit strongly to the opposes. If I never used the tools in the roads subject area, we would have been overrun by vandals and sockpuppeteers long ago, and have backlogs of maintenance-related deletions and protected page edits. However, I do consider whether an action could be controversial, and if so I either decline to take action or seek assistance elsewhere. --Rschen7754 06:19, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Again I agree; hating to admit that bizarre is a fair characterization. But it does seem so on numerous levels; notwithstanding the policy itself which seems to go extra lengths to dispel the misnomer. Oh well. :) John Cline (talk) 09:14, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Sock

User:Estonian1 is a clear sock of User:Rajputbhatti. Regards, CMD (talk) 13:16, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Someone else beat me to it :) --Rschen7754 15:32, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

User:Julia patrick is a new one. sigh --Merbabu (talk) 13:47, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

I've opened a check user request. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rajputbhatti cheers. --Merbabu (talk) 06:13, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm looking at it now, sorry for the delay. --Rschen7754 06:13, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

thanks. :) --Merbabu (talk) 06:17, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

By the way, how long does it usually take for a check user to be undertaken once endorsed? While I note that Julia Patrick is now blocked for two days for disruption, he/she were still very active while we sat and waited for a check user. Even now I’m not reverting their edits even though I’m 99% certain they are a sock. Cheers --Merbabu (talk) 02:12, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

We had a nasty backlog over the weekend, so it'll be a while :( --Rschen7754 02:14, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

OK, thanks. :) --Merbabu (talk) 02:19, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

I think we might have another sock: User:Pablo iscobar. But I'm not sure. If I'm correct, it means we have a Muslim pretending to be a Jew to put us off the scent. ha ha. Let's wait and see. --Merbabu (talk) 06:34, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

PS - oh, this is getting funny, albeit a time sink. see User:Jewishnights --Merbabu (talk) 06:37, 20 August 2013 (UTC)