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NinaJoyfan323456353@avidwiki
Here are some recent sockpuppet accounts whose sockpuppeteers may require an IP lock on the AVID Wiki:


 * Added Nina Joy Fan 39499585829493r5 to the chopping block here. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 12:19, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Another sockpuppet, Not Heather Fan, has been added to the chopping block. --DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:36, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Void  Whispers 22:04, 13 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Could either of you look into this as soon as you can when you get a chance to? DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:10, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * It has been ✅ by Agent Isai. --DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:11, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Texas Rose 1988@testwiki

 * should be noted that all users (-Texas Rose 1988) have been locked as suspected sock puppets of @ApexAgunomu, a user who was globally banned from Miraheze. Texas Rose 1988 has yet to be locked. The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 19:23, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * as for Texas Rose 1998, it appears that they are a sysop in Public Test Wiki, judging by their CentralAuth The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 19:29, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I've updated your request title to put what I think you meant.  doesn't exist, and if it did it would be found at https://publictest.miraheze.org. To find the name of a wiki that's using a custom domain, just open the browser console and type :  . In this case, it's   which is why you can find it at https://test.miraheze.org Naleksuh (talk) 00:14, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ it seems like Texas Rose 1998 is now locked by @Agent Isai The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 02:08, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for help! AlPaD (talk) 05:34, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

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追悼・矢野妃菜喜

 * Inappropriate username富士見野男 (talk) 06:02, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Inappropriate username富士見野男 (talk) 06:02, 11 November 2022 (UTC)


 * The username is translated to Memorial - Yano Concubine Naki The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 18:20, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

= Permissions =

Other access
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Removal
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Dmehus@devwiki
Per a Request for Comment requiring bureaucrat and administrator confirmation within one month from closure, I am now requesting that two bureaucrats who failed to confirm please be removed. Thank you. Universal Omega (talk) 06:12, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 06:28, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Southparkfan@devwiki
Per a Request for Comment requiring bureaucrat and administrator confirmation within one month from closure, I am now requesting that two bureaucrats who failed to confirm please be removed. Thank you. Universal Omega (talk) 06:12, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 06:28, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Bukkit@metawiki
Please remove my Wiki Creator and Interwiki Administrators rights, please. I'm going to ultimately be inactive due to personal reasons I do not wish to disclose at this moment. Thank you. -- Bukkit  [ cetacean needed ] 20:14, 1 November 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅ by User:Agent Isai. --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 20:43, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

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COSN Wiki

 * Do you remember if the wiki was public or private? Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 18:49, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The wiki was public. Stanisolt (talk) 00:55, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Please cancel this request. I will be requesting a new wiki domain. @Stanisolt Stanisolt (talk) 01:04, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

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Constant Noble

 * Score is active on Wikipedia, so obviously there is a solution for the security issue, otherwise Wikipedia would have been hacked by now. Just because I do not file a phabricator request every week that does not mean that I would not love to have Score back on my wiki. Of course there are not that many Lilypond editors around, even in Wikipedia there is only a small number, --LilyLilyu - smile.svg talk and I will listen · Lilypond Wiki 07:43, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Ucronias Wiki

 * --Hispano76 (talk) 21:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, this is now done. -- Void  Whispers 22:12, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Remove Dormancy exemption for darkwitch.miraheze.org

 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 19:31, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

= Wiki reports =

Real Life Villains Wiki Potential Content Policy Violations?
At least 95% of the pages on there, do not have a source for reference. Considering that this wiki also features Internet users, I believe the wikis need to be warned for not having references to what they did wrong (EX: News report, or Wikipedia info) and they should delete pages that do not have sources. Nidoking (talk) 19:47, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Moved to wiki reports. --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 20:37, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree with Nidoking, there are some pages throwing the kind of accusations you don't want to throw without solid references. Some sanction is in order. OrangeStar (talk) 21:27, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Can you provide some examples? Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:22, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * There are various pages on there that don't have any references at all, like this page for example https://reallifevillains.miraheze.org/wiki/Jake_Martin and https://reallifevillains.miraheze.org/wiki/Heather_Martin Nidoking (talk) 11:56, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Any update? Nidoking (talk) 14:41, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I believe at this juncture it would be ideal to raise the idea locally and see how receptive local managers are to cleaning up sources. Seeing how willing they are on this in public could give Stewards some ground to raise this topic as a priority if their intervention is required. --Raidarr (talk) 15:42, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

= Discussion closure =

Adopting REWW
A month ago, I asked what I should do to become a bureaucrat on Reception Wikis Wiki (REWW), and I was told to start a local election and give it two weeks. I did so, and it's been a month and has not received any replies. What should I do now? Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 20:39, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Was a notice posted on the main page or anywhere else of high visibility? Agent Isai  Talk to me! 04:22, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh. I forgot I could do that.
 * It's been two weeks since I updated the sitenotice, and users seem to be pretty approving of me being a bureaucrat. Could I please become a bureaucrat now? Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 19:21, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually, I think Raidarr and/or DMM are better candidates for becoming a bureaucrat. TF3RDL (talk &#124; contribs &#124; FANDOM &#124; Wikipedia) 23:19, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Bureaucracy was already granted. I'm not personally interested in operating this wiki. --Raidarr (talk) 02:02, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually, it hasn't been granted. Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 20:27, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmm I thought it was, apologies. --Raidarr (talk) 20:58, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * You still haven't given your opinion on this. Could I please become a bureaucrat now? Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 23:16, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I've closed this request as successful. Cheers -- Void  Whispers 22:16, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Close RfCs where no local bureaucrat is available
I am requesting that Stewards close my 2 RfCs on Reception Wikis whenever possible, as there are no local bureaucrats to close/act on them. --Blad  (talk • contribs • accounts) 16:07, 23 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Both RfCs will be closed once it reaches the 5 day mark or at least 1 or 2 more days depending on if something SNOWballs. As for the first RfC however, I would not feel comfortable closing it as successful due to the nature of the wiki. It would be very premature to close any of these RfCs at this moment, especially Bluba's revocation. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 16:54, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The 2 RfCs have now hit the 8 day mark, can they be closed now? --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 22:12, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * This is ✅, for reference. --Raidarr (talk) 15:44, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

= Miscellaneous =

I would like to be globally renamed.
Hello, I'm Kris Valdespino. I designed the Audiovisual Identity Database logo and want people to credit me in the wiki more accurately. I want my account to be renamed to "KrisValdespino." Thanks. Pudsp (talk) 18:21, 14 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Please request this at Special:GlobalRenameRequest. Thanks, --Blad  (talk|contribs|accounts|email) 19:07, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
 * This appears to have been ✅. --Raidarr (talk) 18:36, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Ban of information about users
While I get that wikis with negative information about users are banned, or at least, frowned upon, are users allowed to have pages about them on wikis if the pages are written in a neutral way and all information is sourced? Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 21:18, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't see why not. The current Content Policy only prohibits slanderous claims against (groups of) people. As you said, the content would be sourced, and I believe the page you are talking about was adequately sourced and not really all too negative. --Blad  (talk • contribs • accounts • email) 21:30, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * If I am aware Real Life Villains Wiki has pages that are not fully sourced. And some pages are about Internet Users. Nidoking (talk) 19:26, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Tell the sysops to delete them if they're problematic. There's a delete template somewhere. --Blad  (talk • contribs • accounts) 20:27, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Indeed, per clause 3 of the Content Policy what isn't allowed is "unsubstantiated insult, hate or rumours against a person or group of people." It also says that content which is "fairly balanced, meaningful or substantiated by independent referencing" is allowed. If pages are "neutral" and "sourced" there is no issue and there wouldn't be a violation of that clause. Regarding Real Life Villains, if there are pages which are not sourced they should indeed either be sourced or removed. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 10:32, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I should point out though that wikis that seem like 'reception wikis' are currently on hold per the RfC. While not explicitly defined there, it would usually be a wiki that states positive and negative qualities about users for its main purpose. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 10:35, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * At least 95% percent of the pages on Real Life Villains are not sourced. Nidoking (talk) 11:43, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * If that's true, then open another thread here for potential content policy violations. What you are talking about is completely unrelated to what FatBurn is. --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 12:16, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Exemption policy for "RisingBeat Wiki"
Hello, I am the owner of the RisingBeat Wiki. For several months, my staff and I have extensively followed and covered the English release of this game, as can be seen on the wiki. However, the English version of the game shut down on May 2021. Although we have attempted to shift our focus from just the English release to also include the original Japanese game, it is undoubtable that since the game's closure, our activity has gone down significantly. In addition, I have several other projects that I'm preoccupied with (including admining other Miraheze wikis) and have not been able to devote as much time to this particular wiki. Still, our wiki is probably one of the most comprehensive documentation of the game, especially as it includes story text from the game that is no longer accessible due to the game's closure. My worry is that with the dormancy policy and the possible deletion that can result from it, this runs the risk of losing all of this documentation. Therefore, I would like to formally request a Dormancy Exemption for this wiki. Thank you for your consideration! Kiwibasket (talk) 15:25, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Apologies for prodding, but I was wondering if there was an update to the possibility of dormancy exemption? Kiwibasket (talk) 11:46, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * @Agent Isai and @Reception123 can you look into this when you have the time? The user who loves human heads on alien/animal bodies in cartoons for no reason (talk to me uwu!) 15:52, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 19:27, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Question
hi excuse me but in my wikitrash I can not see anything and I am told that in order to see my wikis or even the contributions I have to be part of my group. can anyone help me out of this situation ?? when I go to wikitrash the only thing I see is "NOT SUFFICIENT PERMITS" A1cb3 (talk) 22:15, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi! So, a quick look at CentralAuth reveals that the issue is exactly that, you don't have the necessary user rights to access the wiki because it is a private wiki. The people that can help you are the Stewards, this is the Meta admin noticeboard, they can't help you. I'll move your thread over to the Stewards noticeboard.
 * I also noticed that you're not the original founder of that wiki, checked using the farmer log. If local admins decided to remove you, it is very unlikely Stewards will intervene. OrangeStar (talk) 22:23, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thread moved from the meta administration noticeboard . OrangeStar (talk) 22:24, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Dormancy Policy exemption for
After an anonymous user made a report about Decyclopedia on this noticeboard in October, I announced that Decyclopedia was moving to an independent domain. That issue has since been resolved, but I still went ahead with the move, completing it by importing the images to the new domain last night. I would like a Dormancy Policy exemption for the Decyclopedia on Miraheze, since that wiki has now been archived and is no longer meant to be edited. Tali64³ (talk) 21:05, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * If the wiki moved, why does it need an exemption? Wouldn't a deletion be better? Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:38, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * If the wiki were to be deleted, visitors would be confused on why the wiki suddenly disappeared. Google's search results still show the Miraheze version, so it would be necessary to keep it up until the new domain appears in search results and all the relevant links are updated. Tali64³ (talk) 14:24, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Exemption Request
Can you please add an exemption to our The Lion King wiki? It's private and meant to be viewed by us and our other irl friends only. Admittedly we don't have much on it yet, but we will be adding more content to it soon.

https://thelionking.miraheze.org/wiki/ Keznen (talk) 17:17, 3 November 2022 (UTC)


 * ❌ I myself revoked your Dormancy Policy exemption as you had not used the wiki in years per Special:Log. Before today, you had 1 page with 2 sentences on the wiki. As such, I will not be inclined to grant it until much later once you have a good number of substantive pages. 1 page after 4 years of a wiki being open does not justify an exemption. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:18, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * If we add more full pages next week, would we still have to wait until "much later"?
 * Also, what would "a good number of substantive pages" be? We can go ahead and copy off one of the public TLK wikis and edit out the stuff that doesn't adhere to our canon if need be.
 * But we can't add something like 50 pages with full paragraphs when our TLK universe doesn't have that amount of content yet. It simply isn't possible. Most characters are minor and wouldn't have that much to be said about them.
 * Please clarify so we can decide whether to keep our The Lion King wiki here or try to find somewhere else to host it (ShoutWiki if that gets fixed, not sure where we'll move it otherwise since Wikia/FANDUMB is unusable). Keznen (talk) 22:07, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, you would have to wait. You've held an empty wiki for 4 entire years without any need to have activity on it, a privilege none of our 5,000 other wikis and 10,000 wikis ever created on Miraheze had, have, or will ever have, and would've probably not returned to it any time soon had your exemption not been revoked and an email sent to you about your wiki being closed. Please read Dormancy Policy for information on how we determine requests. We will be inclined to grant a request once your wiki has a good number of pages and once time has passed. Your pages don't have to be huge paragraphs but the wiki has to be of substantive value and not just the one singular stub page your wiki had for over 4 years. For example, if your wiki discusses more topics in depth and more aspects of your universe then that'd count as substantive and I'd be inclined to regrant the exemption. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 01:46, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Well we will not wait another 4 years or even 1 year. We couldn't if we wanted to. We don't have that time even with schoolwork and writer's block aside.
 * If we have to wait a long time even after adding more content, we might as well not add anything at all. Why go through the effort for basically nothing? If the wiki is still in danger of being nuked we might as well not risk losing anything substantial. Especially infoboxes, which we don't have for our TLK Wiki yet and don't have any backups of. Maybe we'll add a little occasionally but we won't go adding tons of stuff if there's a looming threat of it being deleted.
 * Also, again, we mostly just have character pages in mind right now. We have a couple things of our own lore written down, but most stuff about the first movie (the only fully canon movie in our TLK universe; the sequel movie and show aren't for the most part) would have to pulled from elsewhere. We can only post what we have already and what we can find elsewhere that's usable. (Writer's block is a pain.)
 * We'll touch up the pages with some much-needed pictures and some basic info, and then just keep bumping it every few days until ShoutWiki finally fixes their broken creation wizard so we can move it there and delete the one here. Keznen (talk) 02:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm very glad to hear that 4 more years or even 1 more will not pass. As a reminder, you can backup your own wiki at Special:DataDump and Miraheze wikis are only deleted after 6-12 months of inactivity. If you add character pages then that'd be wonderful and would certainly help build your case towards an exemption. Hope to see your exemption application in a few weeks. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 03:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, phew! We'll continue adding more character pages, then. The templates should be working now so hopefully we'll have at least half of the character pages up in the following weeks.
 * Sorry for jumping the gun on you like that. It's been stressful for us all lately. Keznen (talk) 04:50, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Adding steward on my wiki for my account
I want to add steward on my account for my wiki easwiki.miraheze.org Please and thank you. Lolkikmoddi (talk) 14:50, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Please read User_groups. This group is only self-granted to Stewards on extremely rare occasions and you are not a Steward. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:13, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ohhh ok sorry Lolkikmoddi (talk) 16:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Please revoke dormancy exemption for modular.miraheze.org
modular.miraheze.org is not in use, it can be deleted. Rob Kam (talk) 18:50, 10 November 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅ Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 19:30, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

i'd like to be globally locked
my time in miraheze has finally come to an end. with qualitipedia gone and nothing else to do here, i want my account to be globally locked for good, with no chance of appealing the lock

RokettoPanchi (talk) 09:28, 12 November 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅. Please note that should you decide to come back you should email stewards[at]miraheze[dot]org and not create a new account. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 11:05, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

My wiki lost its immunity to the Dormancy Policy
Hi there, I'm the creator of the Crazybloxian Empire info wiki, which was one of my oldest worldbuilding projects. I had informed the people here many years ago that it was meant to be read and would not be updated for months, which gave it immunity to the Dormancy Policy. I recently found out when checking my mail that the immunity was revoked when I got an email saying the wiki had been closed. May I know exactly why it was revoked?

I don't use this website much, but I do wish for my wiki to remain up for archival purposes.

And yes, I did download a full data dump of the site. •• Fair0002 • Bureaucrat and Administrator of Crazybloxian Empire Wiki 07:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)