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delete my account?
Addie (talk) 20:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Technically you can't delete your account, but you can request a global lock. Marxo Grouch (talk) 23:54, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Addie, are you wanting to have your account globally locked that you can potentially recover later, should you wish to return, provided you either (a) remember your current password or (b) have a valid, confirmed e-mail address on file? Or, are you wanting to have your account locked and anonymized in such a way so it can not be recovered? The account will not be deleted in either case, but in either case, we can either (a) first vanish you by renaming your account, whilst retaining private credentials that allow you to potentially recover your account in the future or (b) anonymize your account by renaming your account, stripping your account of any private confidentials (this is irreversible). Dmehus (talk) 14:37, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

I'd like request for a Global Block
Excuse me, I'd like request for a Global Block on Special:CentralAuth/Kamura-akira, who are for vandalism at fancydiet.miraheze.org. Thanks. 閲覧者 (talk) 14:17, 21 December 2021 (UTC)


 * 閲覧者, firstly, a global block refers only to IP addresses/IP address ranges, so I believe you meant a global lock. In terms of your request, that's definitely blatant vandalism, but they're locally blocked on that wiki. On the other hand, their only other contributions are to, which has recently been reported to Stewards as being a confusingly similar wiki subdomain to another wiki. I will need to take a closer look at that wiki and the user's activity on that wiki, to see whether it's sole purpose is to cause problems for other wikis or otherwise violates Content Policy. As well, I'd look at the user's conduct on that wiki, too. So, in short, I'm placing this  for further review this evening. Dmehus (talk) 14:33, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

The Qualitipedia blocking problem

 * The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
 * This has been ✅. As a reminder to Blubabluba9990, please attempt local resolution first. In this case, I think it did help for a Steward to at least reach out to Blazikeye535 to enquire as to the reason for the cross-wiki blocks. As a reminder to Qualitipedia wiki administrators, blocks should be done based on necessity on each wiki, not withstanding behaviourally likely sockpuppet accounts engaged in blatant disruption and/or vandalism. Otherwise, if a user is being disruptive on one or two of your wikis, that is where the blocks should occur. Dmehus (talk) 21:22, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

As you may know, Qualitipedia has a habit of blocking users for minor offenses, often indefinitely, and blocking users across wikis, even wikis in which they have done nothing wrong or never even contributed to. In addition, it isn't possible to communicate with admins as most of the Qualitipedia admins are not active here on Meta. Also, many of the block summaries do not even describe what the user did. It is time that Stewards try to intervene, since this is a situation that has not only affected me but other users as well. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:59, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
 * If I wasn't welcome on a certain wiki I would consider leaving (I'm not welcome by the community there, what do I do?). Anyway, if this were the only wiki I'm interested in contributing to, I would appeal to the site owner by sending an email without having to open the RfC (send via gmail, etc.). Your case is very similar to the other one here. Users are usually blocked like this on Qualitipedia (not generalizing, there is good content there). I also didn't understand much with your blocking, you don't have many reversed edits per your Special:Contributions and got blocked for wasting "second chance" second this user here in the summary. Even so, a future new admin will perhaps think of your case YellowFrogger (✉ Talk  ✐ Edits ) 20:13, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The prior block before the recent one was out of revenge by 2 former admins anyway. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 20:29, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
 * his block log is a lot, with summaries only about 'chances'. And I see you are an administrator, DMM YellowFrogger (✉ Talk  ✐ Edits </b>)</b> 20:40, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Take out the part where I said a lot of edits to it weren't reverted, these wikis don't display the Edit Tag/Label YellowFrogger</b> (✉ Talk </b> ✐ Edits </b>)</b> 20:54, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Worth noting for the record that DMM is the duly elected top leader of QP, and semantically 'first among equals'. That said, this is one of the various cases I would want to look at early on pending current leader review of the aforementioned 'admin request'. Of course, it would be out of any local hands if the presiding Stewards feel the need to address it personally. --Raidarr (talk) 21:00, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not quite sure where any of the existing bureaucrats/sysops on the Qualitipedia wikis were "duly elected," as the historical practice has been whether a bureaucrat "likes you," so it's very much been an autocratic system, though that is starting to change with their move toward using Requests for Comments. Regarding your statement that you intend to look into this regarding your aforementioned "admin request," are you referring to your Global Sysop request, which I will aim to close some time tonight or tomorrow, or your Qualitipedia wikis' bureaucrat request? If the former, that's not really within the mandate of Global Sysops. In theory, any uninvolved member of the local or global community could engage with a local community as a facilitator/mediator in a form of dispute resolution, provided all parties agreed to the mediation. So it's not really related to the Global Sysop role. It is related to the Steward role, but, on the other hand, it could be useful if someone other than a Steward, attempted some form of mediation, so this can be added the list of local resolution and global community mediation steps that had taken place if the local community feels it's at an impasse and more formal mediation/binding arbitration is warranted. In short, anyone, including Global Sysops (though it's not specific to that role), can engage with a local community in requested, less formal and non-binding mediation, whereas it would be Stewards that would engage in the former as well as more formal mediation and binding arbitration. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 12:47, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I apologize for the lack of clarity and will address this sequentially.
 * It is true in practice that QP has always been an oligarchic entity, and really, my local request is as democratic a way to do it as the wikis ever have been to appointing 'top management', often replacing a retiring user with someone seen as good enough by other managers from the time. In this case I very clearly remember that there was a blog presenting a vote, in which multiple users were presented to be the top leader subsequent to the leader of the time getting into quite a lot of issues and temporarily resigning from management altogether. Unfortunately I believe this was done on Crappy Games Wiki, which was still used as the 'meta wiki' for reception wiki business at the time in most cases, and QP central was only just founded. I'm also afraid it may have been deleted when a number of admins after the fact removed everything pertaining to the controversy, and so along with poor memory regarding the possible/probable title, I'm afraid I cannot show the post. It's only been something I knew and not something I've linked, so now that you've called it and I cannot locate the evidence I'll have to correct that statement. I can only say that DMM is indeed colloquially recognized as the top authority (leader), with Blazikeye as deputy - co-leader, the position I am running for as well that carries implications on top of the usual understanding of 'bureaucrat', which I'm afraid is also only really defined by convention.
 * Indeed I mean the latter capacity of Qualitipedia bureaucrat, which I apologize again for being ambiguous on. The Global Sysop capacity is indeed unrelated to how I would address the topic locally, where the local rights would trump any global ones in conflict resolution (since both GS and Stewards should not have to intervene with local administration resolving the issues themselves in the first place. In the leadership capacity I intend to address the perceived apathy of the current top leadership by being a top leader who facilitates and addresses the issue from an authoritative position, something which is currently exceedingly difficult if there are problems reaching said leadership in the first place.
 * I hope this makes things somewhat more clear. --Raidarr (talk) 14:58, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Blubabluba9990, thank you for your request. I concur with YellowFrogger's assessment of your most recent  block log log entry that the notion of someone having permanently blown their "last chance" or "second chance" is (more than) a bit ridiculous. Some of your blocks have been legitimate, in which you demonstrated competency issues in terms of your making bold changes without first discussing them, but in this case, looking through your local contributions to the wiki, I'm not seeing where you made any edits or log actions since DarkMatterMan4500 unblocked you more than a week ago. So, what we have here is unexplained wheel warring. That being said, I'm not personally seeing a need for Steward intervention here, at this stage. I have, however, reached out to Blazikeye535 on their user talk page and asked them, specifically, why you were blocked on that wiki to which you'd not contributed since your previous unblock and reminded them of the Code of Conduct. Dmehus (talk) 13:00, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That is a huge problem (blocking users from wikis they never contributed on), I was blocked from the Delightful Songs & Music Wiki, Cancelled Movies Wiki, Magnificent Literature Wiki, and the Dreadful Books Wiki. That's the thing. MarioBobFan (talk) 03:41, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That isn't the only wiki I am blocked on. The wiki where this happened was Qualitipedia Meta, and nothing bad happened on any of the other wikis. My good contributions also outweigh the bad on the wikis. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 20:19, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Considering that this entire problem has been resolved, this discussion should be closed. can you close the discussion in the basis that this issue has been resolved and no further replies are needed here. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 21:17, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

I would also like my IP address to stop being blocked accross all of the wikis that I am blocked from. MarioBobFan (talk) 08:09, 23 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I intend to review your block in the coming days in my new capacity on Qualitipedia. Note that the IP blocks are by extension of normal block, and it only matters if you are trying to edit in another/without an account, which circumvents the point of the original block and will not be changed while the original account block is in place. --Raidarr (talk) 16:18, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Raidarr, Unlocking the MarioBobFan? His case is very similar to the one mentioned above, therefore, with less notoriety because the user does not speak up --YellowFrogger (Talk — ✐) 16:21, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Unblock, to be specific. I have some background on his case and an outright unblock on all wikis would be hasty. However, has been left a message on his QP talk page where he should be able to respond, and we can see about correcting the things that caused the issue as well as work towards a lasting unblock. --Raidarr (talk) Raidarr (talk) 20:28, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

I still want and must be unblocked. MarioBobFan (talk) 06:38, 26 December 2021 (UTC)


 * You don't "must" be unblocked. Severe as it was, you were blocked for a reason. I asked questions on QPC, and you more or less ignored them. There's nothing I can work with when you are not cooperative, and likewise it is not the Stewards job to make it so for you. --Raidarr (talk) 11:23, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
 * He didn't ignore it I think, because he edit little on Qualitipedia and he didn't even notice the comments. Unless it uses global notifications. --YellowFrogger (Talk — ✐) 11:47, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
 * He replied to the thread in question, all pertinent content being just above the field he used to reply with. I reiterate the need to consider what was written. --Raidarr (talk) 14:33, 26 December 2021 (UTC)


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Add peculiarwiki to CVT opt-out wikis
I am the only active contributor, as well as the bureaucrat on peculiarwiki. Please add it to CVT opt-out. dross (t • c • g) 00:52, 23 December 2021 (UTC)


 * dross, ✅ per the articulated rationale of your request. Dmehus (talk) 13:17, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

I want to be demoted from the Characters Wikis
I originally made a blog requesting to be demoted, but other admins ignored that request for no reason, so I thought I'd ask to get demoted from those wikis on this noticeboard instead, and hopefully, other admins can get my attention. SuperStreetKombat (talk) 00:08, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello. What does it mean to be "demoted". Do you want to be blocked? --YellowFrogger (Talk — ✐) 00:44, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * It is highly recommendable you resolve this issue locally before escalating it to a level of global intervention as Stewards generally defer action to local administrators. Please leave a message on the talk pages of your local bureaucrats or feel free to them here or leave them a message on their Miraheze Meta talk page.  Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:51, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Consider it done. I'll gladly honor your request. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 00:56, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I have ✅ both actions. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 01:01, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Delete these wikis
Hello. I want to request the deletion of the following wikis: https://svonibus.miraheze.org/wiki/ and https://esonibus.miraheze.org/wiki/; these projects at the beginning were meant to be a stumbling block in another language than the traditional Ônibus Wiki (they even had interwiki tables in them), therefore due to lack of time, and not need (especially due to RfC recent on dormancy policy exception) I came here to request your deletion. --YellowFrogger (Talk — ✐) 00:49, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * YellowFrogger, ✅ (#1 and #2), per your request; however, I'm not really sure how the closure of the most recent RfC amending Dormancy Policy had any effect on whether you wish to continue these wikis. You could've still applied for an exemption on these wikis, of up to two years, and you did, but there was just no content / such minimal content on the wiki that an exemption wasn't justified at this point in time. Nevertheless, have you considered making  a multilingual wiki using the Translate extension, perhaps? Dmehus (talk) 03:05, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Yes I'm using the Translate extension although I'm not that good at it yet. The downside is that you keep creating alternative pages, etc. --YellowFrogger (Talk — ✐) 17:31, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Three accounts that I suspect of being linked.

 * Jhb
 * Niij
 * Bsh

Here is some context for my hunch. The first user, Jhb, was blocked indefinitely for making this disgusting comment. The next day, the second user, Niij, showed up and made an eerily similar comment to the one Jhb made. Having seen the comment that got the first user banned, I decided to question the user on whether they were the first user or not.

Now here's where things get even more suspicious. Not long afterward, the third account, Bsh, appeared to clarify that they were imitating The Angry Video Game Nerd. What made this come off as a confession of guilt to me was that the user was writing in the first person as if they were the one who wrote that comment. Combined with the fact that all three accounts have similar usernames and were made not too far apart from each other according to the CentralAuth pages I linked above, I highly suspect that these three accounts are one and the same. However, I cannot be completely certain of this, which is why I am asking the stewards to look into this to determine their relation. <span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,crimson,indigo, #ADD8E6); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">Marxo Grouch (talk) 17:21, 24 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I get the feeling that you may have witnessed Jabgidge doing his usual trolling in the comments section on pages relating to The Loud House. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 17:26, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Jabgidge also wrote nasty and inappropriate stuff about The Loud House, from these hidden logs on the Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki, which is only accessible by sysops and/or bureaucrats or by a Steward either way. Jeudb, his sockpuppet has done the very same thing. I am listing these in case asks for some type of reference. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 17:32, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I may use this as a means of identifying any future Jabgidge socks, that is if these accounts are in fact related to Jabgidge. <span style="background:linear-gradient(90deg,crimson,indigo, #ADD8E6); -webkit-background-clip:text !important; -webkit-text-fill-color:transparent;">Marxo Grouch (talk) 17:53, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * A CheckUser check here wouldn't hurt as all the listed users have vandalized --YellowFrogger (Talk — ✐) 23:53, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Marxo Grouch, thank you for your report, and for providing both context and contextually relevant evidence in your report. This has now been ✅, with Jhb and Bsh being locked as illegitimate sockpuppets of Jabgidge. While the behavioural evidence from Niij is somewhat similar, and they may well be a sockpuppet, it's at this point. It's also possible, and perhaps more likely, they're a different sock of someone else...there was a user on Meta Wiki that was locked/blocked long ago for vandalism that referenced "Lynn and Lana," but I can't recall the user's username. If you or DarkMatterMan4500 can dig that up for me, that'd possibly be quite helpful. As to a current lock for other reasons, it's like two offensive comments on a single wiki, so it's not a vandalism only account. One potential thought for you to consider, you might want to unblock Niij on   locally, providing them a local warning as to the wiki's rules, and see whether they (a) contain in the same vein, thereby providing further contextually relevant evidence for consideration or (b) improve their behaviour and behave constructively. Dmehus (talk) 19:08, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I have unblocked Niiij. Oh, and speaking of Lynn and Lana, is the user you're referring to happen to be this user, Ihatelynnloudjr2? DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 19:17, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
 * DarkMatterMan4500, ✅ re: the former. Regarding the latter, ah, that user. Possibly one of their socks, but if I am remembering correctly, the user in question vandalized a Meta user talk page or a Loginwiki user talk page, or some other talk page on either, that referenced "Lynn and Lana" and "asses." So, not specifically the one I was thinking of. If our search functionality was better, I might be able to find it, but if you want to look through the block list, excluding IP blocks, of course, you might find something as I'm sure the user was locally blocked. Dmehus (talk) 19:26, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Request to block my account
Hello, it is CapixabaMonteirist, I am here to ask for block/lock my account since I am no longer using Miraheze and I no longer want to use this account anyone. So, I am requesting for my account be blocked/locked in Miraheze. CapixabaMonteirist (talk) 00:01, 27 December 2021 (UTC)


 * CapixabaMonteirist, ✅, per your request. Should you wish to return, you may e-mail  to request an unlock, or create a new account, taking care to oblige user accounts policy. Should you later desire to have private personal information removed from your account, you can e-mail the Trust and Safety team through their process. Thank you. Dmehus (talk) 00:18, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Greetings
I have been alerted that a user impersonated me on multiple mediawiki projects. I have manages to resolve the issue at RationalWiki. I would like to resolve the issue here ASAP. Please rename to Darubrub as the user who registered with the name is not me as the user unlikely used my own email to register such account. Take the time to compare my editing habits on wikipedia and rationalwiki to that user. Thanks. ThereIsACoolLorx (talk) 01:24, 27 December 2021 (UTC)


 * ThereIsACoolLorx, this is a reasonable request, chiefly because, in this case, Darubrub, is locked globally as a vandalism only account/illegitimate sockpuppet account. I'm not sure about the impersonation, but do you go by Darubrub on either of (a) Wikimedia or (b) RationalWiki? If so, can you link me a confirmation edit on said wiki(s)? And finally, if I rename the Darubrub account on Miraheze, do you intend to register it on Miraheze? Or better yet, e-mail me your e-mail address so I can create the account for you and e-mail you a temporary password? Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 02:39, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Creating local IPBE group
Per my close of the RfC here I'm requesting that a Steward creates a local IPBE group on Meta. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 21:21, 27 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Reception123, ✅. I couldn't add the  user right, but I suspect that is because it is on the ManageWiki blacklist, so you will either need to effect this change for   in the   file, or we can just leave it, since Meta Wiki is unaffected by global blocks, as far as I'm aware? Dmehus (talk) 21:27, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Please note that I've also ✅ my mistake. Dmehus (talk) 21:32, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Restore managewiki permission to Administrators
Anterra Wiki

Hello, a while back I accidentally deleted the Bureaucrat user group without giving Administrators the right to add and remove users from the Administrator user group. Admins are also unable to edit the wiki's settings/permissions.

Could I get these rights added? Thanks. BCMatsuyama (talk) 01:20, 28 December 2021 (UTC)


 * BCMatsuyama, ✅, per your request. I've also added the default group add/remove configuration typical of bureaucrats to your sysop configuration. The reason why we strongly advise you to leave off the ability to remove other bureaucrats, or in this case, sysops, is two-fold. Firstly, it provides a second-level check from Stewards, to ensure removals are done in accordance with local consensus of the wiki community. Secondarily, it prevents inadvertent self-removals such as this. :) Dmehus (talk) 01:59, 28 December 2021 (UTC)