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Welcome to the Administrative Assistance reading room. You can request assistance from administrators for handling a variety of problems here and alert them about problems which may require special actions not normally used during regular content editing. Please be patient as administrators are often quite busy with either their own projects or trying to perform general maintenance and cleanup.
You can deal with most vandalism yourself: fix it, then warn the user. If there is repeated vandalism by one user, lots of vandalism on a single page, or vandalism from many users, tell an admin here, or in #wikibooks (say !admin to get attention).
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Recent w:WP:NOTWEBHOST user page issues related to education
I think User:Vazirabonu is same as the users recently blocked by user:Leaderboard. The blocked users are Special:Contributions/Achilova_Shakhzoda, Special:Contributions/Dinara_Nazarova, Special:Contributions/Dafna98, and Special:Contributions/Nazokatkhon_Abdirashidova. Each user is writing about education for different countries. @MarcGarver, Xania: Can this be confirmed? MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 13:05, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- @MathXplore I had this checked by meta:User:EPIC, who implied that it was likely but not 100% confirmed that they are the same user from a technical perspective; all of them have been blocked for using multiple accounts. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 13:53, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- I also think that Special:Contributions/Dilnavoz-Kh is related. Similar usage of userspace with similar topics can be seen. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 11:22, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Blocked as well. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 13:38, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- I also think that Special:Contributions/Dilnavoz-Kh is related. Similar usage of userspace with similar topics can be seen. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 11:22, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
Vandalism, please delete pages made by this IP. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 00:29, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Note) Pages already deleted and stale. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 01:59, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
Possible VOA, please check the edits. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 21:40, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- (Note) Edits are reverted and currently stale. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 02:00, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
Their edits appear to be xwiki self-ad. Should their edits be reverted? And is this username OK? MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 02:01, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Definitely self-promotion—I've warned them. Cheers —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 02:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Account now globally locked. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 03:36, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
Recently, empty book categories have been deleted by GS action, but empty book images/template categories are still remaining. Should we keep empty book images/template categories or delete them? MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 02:03, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing these out! I can't see any reason to keep many of these—I'll try to go through the list and delete ones that are at least obviously useless. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 02:54, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
Please take care of the sandbox and the author. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 14:02, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
The user from a /24 range is making bad pages, please consider a range block. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 23:54, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- Just blocked for 1 week. Thanks! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 02:43, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Please take care of the sandbox and see Special:AbuseLog/297190. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 06:46, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Deleted and blocked. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 07:08, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Username issues (username named after a company). MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 07:29, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Globally locked now—thank you! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 15:26, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Please take care of their user page. They are hiding external links in red wikilinks. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 07:52, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Seems to be globally locked —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 15:25, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Please have a look at their page creations. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 08:51, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
Done by MarcGarver. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 03:35, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
Please see Special:AbuseLog/297247, Special:AbuseLog/297248, and Special:AbuseLog/297249. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 07:02, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Submitted request to have this globally locked. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 09:57, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- (Note) Already locked. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 13:57, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
This user has username issues (username named after company). MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 10:47, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- No edits for now, but give me a ping if they make an edit. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 11:26, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- They have no edits but have made Special:AbuseLog/297480. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 07:34, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- Done --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 11:13, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- They have no edits but have made Special:AbuseLog/297480. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 07:34, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
Please see Special:AbuseLog/297548 for their behavior. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 07:35, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- Blocked—thank you! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 12:30, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
The username matches a website, please check their reverted edit for details. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 22:25, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Possible block evasion of Special:Contributions/TheoYalur (Special:Contributions/TolgaTheoYalur)
@MarcGarver, Xania: Hello, I think TheoYalur (TY) has started block evasion as TolgaTheoYalur (TTY). According to v:User:TheoYalur, TTY matches the full name of TY. In addition, the profile of v:User:TheoYalur matches The_Freudian_Wit_of_Kültürpark_Izmir#About_the_Author and Atheist_Philosophy#About_the_Author made by TTY. Once CU-confirmed, please extend the block of TY to indefinite. @Kittycataclysm, Leaderboard: pinging as previous blockers. Thank you very much for your attention. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 11:01, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Since this seems like a very blatant evasion, I went ahead and indefinitely blocked the sock and extended the block on the original. Cheers —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 12:41, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. Please note that they may have more accounts. Please see v:special:permalink/2672062#Potentially_affiliated_users (v:Special:Diff/2672062) for details. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 12:52, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Let me check on whether a rangeblock is feasible. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 14:40, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Update: seems like MarcGarver already performed a CU-block. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 14:45, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Let me check on whether a rangeblock is feasible. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 14:40, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. Please note that they may have more accounts. Please see v:special:permalink/2672062#Potentially_affiliated_users (v:Special:Diff/2672062) for details. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 12:52, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
Suspected sock with copyvio issues
I suspect that User:Crystal East is a sock of User:Jay Bolero, who is once again causing copyvio problems despite being warned. See this thread and this previous copyvio issue for some additional context. Tagging @MarcGarver and @Xania for CU help. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 14:07, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- I instituted a short block while we sort this out. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 14:22, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- tbf they look like DUCKs to me, but can't hurt to have CU confirmation. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 21:53, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- CU can't confirm Jay Bolero is the sockmaster as the account hasn't edited for 90 days (when CU data is deleted). However, it can confirm with 100% confidence that Crystal East and Me Lendroz are one and the same. Given the editing pattern, they are clearly socks of Jay Bolero so I have indef blocked both for abuse of multiple accounts. At the moment there are no other sleepers. MarcGarver (discuss • contribs) 07:35, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
Since unacceptable unblock requests are being repeated from here, I think the talk page access should be removed from this range. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 23:22, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Done --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 06:19, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Please check the username, they have "bot" but this is not a bot account. Also, please take care of their page creations. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 05:00, 26 October 2024 (UTC)