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A barnstar for you!

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	I'm so glad you are an administrator. There can be a tendency among some admins to be a little trigger-happy and I prefer your attitude of letting discussions evolve as sometimes disputes can be resolved without sanctions being imposed. It's nice to the human side of administrating. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:15, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! It’s a big contrast between ANI and AIV, where speed is sometimes useful. I’m trying to keep balanced, which is hard when you see so much ill-willed vandalism going on in AIV. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 06:21, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Blocker

Hello Rsjaffe, I was only issuing a vandalism warning for a page, but I was blocked without a clear reason. Could you please review my case and clarify why this happened? Many sources in the Rendang article are inaccurate and even discuss fried chicken instead of Rendang, making them unreliable references for the page. Moreover, some citation sources were recently published to distort history, which they fabricated using their own logic. This is not the true historical account that has been reported for a long time. I kindly request a review and a clear explanation regarding this matter. Thank you for your attention.

The block I issued was for edit warring. See WP:3RR. It was for your behavior. Whether you’re right or wrong wasn’t the reason for the block. See WP:AVOIDEDITWAR for advice for future disputes. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 14:13, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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		For taking care of the talk page abuse here. Thanks! JeffSpaceman (talk) 19:08, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pending changes protection

Hi. In January you protected 500 Series Shinkansen with pending changes protection after a request at RFPP. If you look at the recent edit history of that article, would you say that pending changes protection is the right fit? The CBANned editor still regularly returns to editing that page, bunch of reverts are made, rinse and repeat. On some occasions, the edits get confirmed by other editors and later still reverted on the basis of WP:BANREVERT by editors recognising them as ban evasion. Is this the desired outcome of pending changes? Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 22:47, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, that page history is a mess. I've changed the protection to semi- for three months. Thanks for telling me about the issue. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 23:16, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 21:52, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:138.217.179.50

You left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/examine/log/40362212. Though it isn't so public, it still contains the same material that was revdelled earlier. Jay Cubby 05:58, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't done anything about the filter in past events. Don't even know if I could. Random people aren't going to be looking for that. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 01:29, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

Hey there! — Earlier today I rolled back edits by User:TheDepotMuseum and left a COI warning on their talk page. Since it's clear from their username that they didn't know about they were doing anything wrong, should we maybe unblock to see if they are willing to edit in accordance with policy? Cheers, Patrick (talk) 00:04, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Most promotional editors don't know the rules yet get blocked for a combination of a promotional username and promotional edits, particularly in mainspace. This user has a promotional username and put links to the museum in several articles, which is the sort of behavior that gets promptly blocked by many admins.

For them to successfully edit, they're going to not only address the COI you warned them about, but also their username. The warning I look for to see whether someone is trying to address this combination is {{uw-coi-username}}, which addresses both the COI and username issues. If I see that warning, depending upon the user's prior behavior, I may hold off on blocking to see the response.

I'll withdraw the block (and I added the warning). Please monitor the user and I will try as well. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 01:28, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I appreciate it. Your instinct is probably right, but it's nice to provide them a chance to make better informed edits. Cheers, Patrick (talk) 14:52, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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	Thank you for blocking my second vandal! 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 03:52, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A goat for you!

Be sure let your goat socialise often!

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Edit request

Hello mr Rsjaffe. Can I edit dosojin, Tennin, Otsuchi, kanabo and Sasumata pages by adding more interesting informations about those articles please??? 2.87.68.196 (talk) 16:40, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I suggest you look at WP:NEWBIE first. Your edits need to be supported by reliable sources and need to be relevant to the article. Good luck! — rsjaffe 🗣️ 17:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Protecting WP:RA

Hello, reaching out directly as you were involved in this discussion. Since then, I started an AN thread tracking the IP user's block evasion, which aged out until a recent SPI, and they have once again returned as an IP (see also assistance from Malcolmxl5).

As I see it, this user is committed to evading any block via proxies. Most likely, they will find ways to evade specific page protections, but if possible I would like to raise that request again - starting with the most recent evasion:

Rather than protecting all WP:RA subpages at once, I could continue to update this request list if you see this as an acceptable solution. Cheers, Tule-hog (talk) 18:04, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've blocked that IP as a compromised proxy per https://proxycheck.io/ . I think we should wait a few days before deciding to protect the pages. The change to registered accounts, as seen in the sockpuppet investigation, is sort of encouraging, as that means that the ip blocks had an effect. I'd like to see if we can limit the ability of this person to cause disruption before we decide on a more blunt tool like page protection. OK? — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:34, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You deleted my page

Today I uploaded a theoretical concept that I'm working on to prove a new method of English language assessment which is a new type of test system that can be used around the world by teachers of any school for free. Is there any violation of publishing something that no one else has done in the world and you are the creator of this concept, practice or theoretical framework. Synergism77 (talk) 06:02, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not for more about this. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 12:53, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Possible WP:OUTING

here. --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:37, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I took care of it to the admin level, but it will need OS. DMacks (talk) 20:48, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. @Kansas Bear, have you reported this for oversight? — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:39, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, since I'm not sure what that means. This is my first involvement with WP:OUTING. --Kansas Bear (talk) 23:24, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Open Special:EmailUser/Oversight and contact them with the diff

and the reason it should be oversighted (which is a string method of hiding the info). — rsjaffe 🗣️ 00:20, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hello @Rsjaffe, I had a bit of a question. Isn't WP:CANVASSING and WP:NOTAVOTE contradictory to the essence of each other? If consensus is not determined by counting votes, then why does it canvassing affect it? Wouldn't more arguments benefit the discussion?

Also, how exactly is consensus determined? Is it determined by counting the number of arguments? Or the number of people supporting the argument (which would make it a vote)? PadFoot (talk) 13:42, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to get into a debate about the policies. If you want to have a discussion about them, I suggest the Teahouse. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:29, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

user:KARUNA- Yoga With Compassion

Maybe it's worth soft-blocking them? They went so far as to use the mentorship module to ask a question, which, to me, says they're not a deliberate spammer (just someone misled on the nature of Wikipedia). Jay Cubby 20:10, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It was a pretty spammy page. No attempt to be anything other than an ad. There's a narrow difference between soft and hard block, mainly in that for the soft block the user can ignore the old account and set up a new one without addressing the block issue. I'd rather see them address the issue. The odds of someone who starts out this way becoming a useful contributor seem pretty low. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:28, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

About your block of 103.182.167.206

Did I hear a quack from Sumavasumathithottakkattukara? –Skywatcher68 (talk) 19:20, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Closure on ANI

On your closure of this discussion - a WP:CBAN discussion was ongoing. I think either the close should be reverted or reclosed enacting the (unanimous per the "over 24 hours without any objections") ban? - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:43, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the discussion was wandering all over the place, so I don’t think I can reclose as cban. I’ll reverse my close and let the discussion proceed. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 12:16, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciated! - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 21:19, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Remaining revisions at R. S. Hatcher

Hi Rsjaffe, two more revisions need to be revdel-ed, I guess I didn’t tag them when I was requesting revdel. Happy admining :) Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:40, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It looks good to me. I don't revdel the edit that deletes the copyvio as, after revdel of the preceding copyvio text, that edit won't show anything in the diff. Am I missing something? IF so, please give the diff so I can look at it again. Thanks. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:44, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhhhh, this looks good to me too ;) Vanderwaalforces (talk) 18:21, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

JT Pettigrew

FYI a bot has been used to remove the page protection you added to the JT Pettigrew page earlier today. Anxioustoavoid (talk) 22:11, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I checked. The bot removed the lock symbol, but didn't change the protection. It's move protected, but the bot is a little confused. No big deal, though I agree it's confusing. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 23:07, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New message to Rsjaffe

Hello Rsjaffe. Could you unhide the edit Tzar's suspected sock made, so that everyone can see it? Thanks. Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 06:16, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are you talking about Special:Diff/1288879188? Admins can already view that if they need to. I’m not sure what good uncovering that would do. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 06:23, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that diff. Whoever is under that account, whether it's Tzar or not, should be shamed on, rather than being suppressed. Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 06:34, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 06:39, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's a thought that the sock-fest is a joe-job. CU matched the recent ones to each other but could not definitively link to TzarN64. I think the close of WP:ANI#User:TzarN64 might need a little more nuance.

I also disagree with unhiding that edit (was my action), since WP is not in the business of shaming (instead DENY-like and making the situation worse). But I don't feel strongly enough for the rev-del issue to go any further than leaving this note here. DMacks (talk) 12:18, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve reworded the close request now. Even when I closed it, the possibility that it was a Joe job was being entertained, which is why I worded it as I did, but I should have been clearer. I had quickly closed the discussion to hopefully stop the socking.

As to the rev-del, I had interpreted the request as not active shaming but rather of leaving the attack in the history in case others wondered what happened. Lots of other attacks are just deleted without being revision deleted and I saw this as similar, keeping this in the history per the target’s request. However, I do see your point, and I should have inquired more about what @Freedoxm was going to do once it was back in the history. I’ve pinged @Freedoxm so they can see our concerns about that. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 13:12, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. DMacks (talk) 13:36, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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