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彗星はすい星です@ysmwikiwiki

 * I have performed a CheckUser and there is no clear technical evidence to match the users, except the same UA. There is clear behavioral evidence (WP:DUCK) that shows it's the same users. While they've only vandalised one wiki and minimally which would usually not warrant a global lock (as a block will be sufficient) given their usernames which clearly also indicate trolling I've decided to lock both accounts for violating the multiple account policy. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 13:10, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for check and lock this up. 1108-Kiju /Talk 00:10, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

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Lasagna
I don't need this account so please block it. Lasagna (talk) 14:03, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Lasagna, can you please clarify whether you would like your account blocked on Meta Wiki (this wiki), globally locked (recoverable at a later date, provided you have a registered and confirmed e-mail address associated to the account and/or you remember your account credentials), or anonymized and renamed, with any personally identifying information stripped from the account (irreversible)? Dmehus (talk) 22:58, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I believe they're referring to a global lock, as a block doesn't really do anything and GDPR-ing it is an extreme case, which isn't supposed to be requested on SN anyway. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contributions • global • rights) 16:26, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅. Please email Stewards in the future if you wish to unlock your account. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 02:35, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

The Witch Of The Woods

 * User self-requested lock can be found at this diff. Moved here for categorization purposes. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contributions • global • rights) 19:40, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * User self-requested lock can be found at this diff. Moved here for categorization purposes. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contributions • global • rights) 19:40, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

= Permissions =

Administrator/Bureaucrat access
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Commetia@customcountryhumanwiki
When I requested a CountryHumans OC Wiki, it was declined saying that there was already one. When I tried to contact the owner, (using the link given) the Main Page was deleted. I tried to contact the owner/Bureau, but it kept saying that my edits were going to show publicly once it was approved.) I used a little trick I know to find them on other Wikis, and I contacted them on a very active Wiki. (They have only made five Global Edits, four of them on the Wiki

That was four days ago, and no answer. I gave them very big details on what I would want, and what I would do.

(When the Wiki was declined, it said that I could request to become an Admin on Wiki if it wasn't active.)

What I'm saying is that I would like to become an Admin or even a new Bureaucrat, and "Adopt" the Wiki.

Link to Wiki:

Link to talk: Commetia (talk) 14:00, 24 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Please follow the process outlined on the Local elections page to gain Bureaucrat rights on that wiki
 * --NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 22:14, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

I would like to run a local election, but I cannot edit on that Wiki. It always says when you press Save Changes,

"PENDING REVIEW

'''Success: your edit has been sent to moderation. You can continue editing your version of this page."'''

This happens with every edit I make; so I can't actually edit the Wiki. So, where would I have the election, and is there a way you can shut that off? (So other users who would want to edit and I could edit) Commetia (talk) 23:41, 27 January 2023 (UTC)


 * At this point, private/niche wiki rules for local elections may need to apply... hmmm.
 * @Agent Isai and @Reception123, thoughts?
 * TL;DR:
 * User's request was denied under CP11 as duplicate of wiki scope
 * Existing wiki has had no major content added since creation, but wiki is still live
 * Owner of existing wiki is non-responsive
 * Existing wiki is public, but Moderation extension prevents running of a local election
 * --NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 00:08, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I should note that my genshinimpact.miraheze.org wiki was approved, despite technically being a duplicate of genshin.miraheze.org, due to the genshin.miraheze.org wiki being entirely abandoned and having no contributions, along with having a vague/incorrect subdomain and name. Collei (talk) 00:53, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I've turned off Moderation and also approved all your edits beforehand. Let us know if you need anything else. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 05:21, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, I have put the election on the Main Page. I have also sent the link to some people who said that they had interest. What do you think I should do when the election has "ended"? Should I message you the results? 《Commetian_Empire》 (talk) 17:10, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I believe so. Collei (talk) 22:38, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Okay, it has been a while now. Looks like no one has opposed it. I think that the election should "close" now. 《Commetian_Empire》 (talk) 20:15, 7 February 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅. Congratulations and happy editing! Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:05, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

BugCatcher2019@guichuwiki
Well, there is no another user in this wiki, so I can't take an election. As the creator of this wiki (but I forget the password of my previous account which created this wiki), I make a statement of the appointment of the bureaucrat, and the link is above. Now I want to serve as the bureaucrat in this wiki, please. BugCatcher2019 (talk) 11:13, 29 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi there! Please also send a message to Korbsov on their talk page on the wiki to inform them of that election and let 7 days pass. If no one opposes, I will grant you the rights. Thank you! Agent Isai  Talk to me! 14:45, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * done. But actually Korbsov is just myself, but I forget the password of the account Korbsov, so now I register the account BugCatcher2019. I think no one will oppose because it seems that there is no another user in this wiki except myself. BugCatcher2019 (talk) 17:24, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It's 7 days left now. Please come and help. BugCatcher2019 (talk) 16:47, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅. Let us know if you need anything. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 02:47, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I think it's enough. BugCatcher2019 (talk) 07:30, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

NiVol@pianohistorywiki
Hi! Lost access to wiki after an upgrade of the Miraheze wiki engine in January! I'm the only creator and reader of this wiki yet. NiVol (talk) 15:15, 3 February 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 02:47, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

KumihoWolffey@kingdomwiki
On January 24th, 2023, I have hosted a local election to become a bureaucrat and an administrator on an abandoned wiki, Cookie Run: Kingdom Wiki, although I didn't mention when it will end, the election ends in 7 days, however it been past 7 days. I would like to have bureaucrat and administrator rights on the wiki due to inactive administrators. Thank you. Financier (talk༆) 17:45, 4 February 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅. Congratulations and happy editing! Agent Isai  Talk to me! 02:49, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

BioUnitCurator@biologicalunitwiki
Wiki was created by me in the midst of the 1.39 update and I couldn't access it for a few days. I recently came back to start working on it and found I didn't have the permissions I once did. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BioUnitCurator (User talk:BioUnitCurator • Special:Contributions/BioUnitCurator)
 * ✅. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:06, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Ghost Taker@motorhoaxwiki
Per this removal diff, user deleted all local roles and needs rebuild of roles + reassignment of bureaucrat/admin rights. NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 14:05, 26 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Pinging @Agent Isai and @Reception123 when they have a moment, as I think this one got lost in the shuffle.
 * --NotAracham (talk • contribs • global) 17:20, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Reece2o19@reece2oo9wiki
Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contributions • global • rights) 19:44, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

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The New Reception Wiki

 * Will you be working alone or also be helped by other users? In addition, if this is approved the wiki would remain private until Stewards verify that that is done.
 * Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 21:24, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, I will be working alone. Also that's fine if it will be private. Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 21:28, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I think I have asked this before but before agreeing to this, please also clearly describe what the scope for the wiki will be. Something like "just a general reception wiki for miscellaneous topics" would not really be acceptable, it would have to be less vague. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 08:28, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * It is a reception wiki that generally focuses on content that can't be on other reception wikis. I plan to use it to revive pages from the old wiki. Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 20:24, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * That's still too vague. You could list the topics that your wiki would cover to be more specific. Tali64³ (talk) 22:45, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if this was a recreation from a previous deletion or not, but if I remember correctly, the two most active bureaucrats on that wiki, who were also its most active community members, supported deletion. So you would likely need to gain the consensus of at least one of them. One of them was VosVosKitsune, but I don't remember the name of the other one off hand. Dmehus (talk) 22:48, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The wiki in question was a recreation of a previous wiki that was shut down by its administration. Money12123, the user who made the undeletion request in this thread, was the founder of the recreation. Tali64³ (talk) 22:50, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hrm, I'm not sure it should've ever been recreated in this case. The only advantage to that would be to use the same subdomain, and that's a pretty weak reason to justify undeletion, particularly if the administration of both the original and its recreation supported deletion. I would recommend Money12123 request a new wiki, articulate a clear purpose and scope for the wiki, as suggested by Reception123, and move forward. Dmehus (talk) 22:55, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually, Money can't request a new wiki. The creation of new reception wikis was prohibited per this RfC, so even if he did, there's no chance it would be created unless the ban was overturned by community vote, which is unlikely.
 * The closure of the recreation wasn't done with the support of its administration. It was closed for Content Policy violations because it was forking content from Qualitipedia when it was still technically readable. This thread is asking to undelete the wiki so that all the policy-violating content could be removed and the wiki reopened. Tali64³ (talk) 23:01, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That's true. While that RfC had a weak consensus in favour with respect to proposal 2, which Agent Isai noted in his close, because there's no definition of what is a Reception wiki, that does not mean a wiki similar to a Reception wiki could not be created. I think in broad terms what the community is saying is they don't simply want wikis created that merely copy/paste content from other wikis and whose purpose set up to merely express personal opinions on why a certain is the most awful or sooo awesome. Someone that wanted to create a wiki, though, that discussed, in a largely objective and neutral fashion, the advantages and disadvantages of would still be permitted, based on my read of the RfC and Agent Isai's interpretation. As to the second point, that was indeed a valid reason for closure, then. :) Dmehus (talk) 23:09, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * After that RfC was closed, a discussion occurred on what a reception wiki was (archive). It was decided that a reception wiki was a wiki that lists the reasons why a product was good/bad/average, with the good and bad reasons separated into two headers and reception wikis usually being in a positive/negative pair. The RfC banned the creation of any wikis that fall under the above description, including wikis that fall under what you described. However, it would not include wikis that are set up like review sites (each article has several sections criticizing/praising each part of the product separately, with each section set up like a paragraph instead of a list); for example, if the Bad Webcomics Wiki decided to migrate to Miraheze, there would be no issues in it doing so. Although its scope (to explain why certain webcomics are bad) and name are similar to reception wikis, it's different enough from them to not be considered a reception wiki. Tali64³ (talk) 23:21, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * and Something I should also mention is that I'm pretty sure only Maddox121 (the founder of the original New Reception Wiki) was involved in the closure, and other bureaucrats did not get a say and I believe were even fired as part of the closing process. Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 23:28, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, Maddox121 was the other bureaucrat I was thinking of, and they were one of the ones that supported the original closure. Dmehus (talk) 23:30, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * ,, and Hello? Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 23:45, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Astronomy Wiki Database

 * Since you mention merging, have you already retrieved an XML dump for the wiki? --Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 21:25, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

verserale.miraheze.org

 * ✅ Agent Isai  Talk to me! 15:07, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, it worked fine. Really quick Enricomartoglio (talk) 14:52, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

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Constant Noble

 * This is ultimately out of the scope of the Stewards' noticeboard. There is nothing Stewards can do to deploy it or hasten the pace of it being redeployed into production, that is all in the hands of the technical team who has been unable to tackle this task due to the complexity of it plus them being severely understaffed. Apologies. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 16:33, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

= Wiki reports =

Destruipedia is suffering several attacks from an illegal Proxy user
Eu não sei se é aqui para se reportar, mas Destruipedia vive sofrendo diversos ataques feito por um único sujeito, mas que aparenta usar open proxy aberto. Eu já tentei banir diversas faixas de IP dele, mas ele está voltando direto com uma nova f&%$k faixa de Proxy.

Translation: I don't know if this is here to report, but Destruipedia lives suffering various attacks made by a single subject, but which appears to use open proxy. I've already tried banning several IP ranges from him, but he's coming right back with a new f&%$k Proxy range. Pérola Maniaco (talk) 17:12, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

After a long time, it looks like the guy has given up attacking here. But I would suggest some staff apply a global ban on these IP ranges to make sure it doesn't attack the other wikis. Pérola Maniaco (talk) 11:01, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

= Discussion closure =

= Miscellaneous =

Issue with the AMYTW staff
On mh:amazingyoutubers:Amazing YouTubers Wiki, the staff are, in my opinion, rather lacking in competence and are not very reasonable. To be specific on this story, when Qualitipedia was on the verge of closing, DuchesstheSponge, a bureaucrat who had not contributed to the wiki in a year, attempted to close the wiki. After two failed attempts, he, for whatever reason, decided to abandon his plan to shut down the wiki and started legitimately contributing to it - however, I can't say the moderating has been particularly legitimate. Not long after returning to contributing, he edited the SMG4 page and removed "War of the Fat Italians 2021" from the list of good episodes and moved it to the list of bad episodes without any good explanation - he just said "fuck WOTFI 2021". When a user reverted this, he reverted them and gave no further reasoning to his actions. In addition to this, he also created a page on the SML video "Jeffy's 18th Birthday," which I put up for deletion because I felt it would fit better on Terrible SML Videos Wiki. However, Duchess reverted my edit with no explanation. I then created a topic on his talk page, questioning these two edits along with his apparent rule about the necessity of plainlinks, but he ignored me for a while, before eventually deleting the topic because it was "making him uncomfortable," which, to me, is just pure ignorance.

Meanwhile, thePCGamer, an administrator, is another staff member who has shown a lack of competence. Before DuchesstheSponge even closed the thread mentioned above, they marked the thread as resolved before Duchess could even answer, even though it was not their concern what was going on. Although I cannot prove exactly what they said due to Duchess deleting the topic, I believe their reasoning for closing the thread was that I was "annoying everyone," even though I was asking Duchess questions I believe are important. When I added a second topic about Duchess' behaviour due to his previous complete ignorance, thePCGamer again closed it, questioning why I had to keep asking questions when Duchess doesn't want to reply, and my reasoning why I have to do that is because there is no good reason he doesn't want to reply - it is realistically laziness. After a while, they blocked me because I am asking questions that "nobody seems to care about". When another user questioned this, they claimed that I stalked someone with no evidence, and also used many of the same lazy excuses they and Duchess constantly use. Raidarr and other users thankfully defended me, though thePCGamer has not yet ended their tactics, as they have again closed a thread unrelated to them since.

Pacsonic9000, the owner of AMYTW, although not as bad as Duchess and thePCGamer, still has their issues. They added me to the admin blacklist because I was "annoying" and thought that links and images don't qualify as evidence (which I have reasons for, also I never said links don't qualify as evidence), and also later said I had stalked Duchess (which again, there is no evidence of) and "made him uncomfortable" (which is quite pathetic) and also criticised me for adding Duchess' rant to the New Reception Wiki, which proves that they cannot handle people criticising Duchess, and also called me out on trying to revive Qualitipedia even though the RFC did not directly prevent people from doing that, nor did it necessarily attempt to do so. They also deleted a topic on their talk page questioning their actions, and marked a thread as resolved because I was "annoying," even though the thread was months ago anyway.

I am reporting this here because I have not been able to make any negotiations with the staff, and therefore I now see the only option is reporting it here. Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 00:01, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I should also note I opened a discussion regarding their rights (this), but that has generated little discussion, despite a topic notice being posted on PCGamer and Duchess' talk page. --Blad  (talk • contribs • global) 20:17, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Do you have any comment here? Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 23:18, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not quite sure what you're asking us to do here. Either way, the general rule is that local communities are responsible for electing their own administrators and Stewards would only intervene in internal matters if it's serious enough. Though these seem to be separate incidents which involve discretion so I'm not sure what Stewards could do, especially not knowing the policies and conventions on that specific wiki. What I would suggest would be to try to ask the users you mention to reply to this thread and explain their side of the story/explain why they took the actions they did. Otherwise I would note that administrators are accountable to their communities and shouldn't in any case try dismiss or hide dissent just because it makes them "uncomfortable". Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 13:10, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I highly doubt that would work. ThePCGamer constantly marks threads made my me as resolved even if it's another admin's thread and they don't request for it to be closed, and the other two are still likely to just resolve the subject with no direct response. Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 00:42, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Warn them against closing threads without valid reason and tell them Stewards are aware. Should they close another thread invalidly for the sake of suppressing local legitimate feedback, raise it up in this thread and we'll send them a message. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 00:45, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * That's reasonable, I suppose. Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 23:03, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Pacsonic has banned me. Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 01:22, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Agent Isai This is a bump. Collei (talk) 16:42, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? Money12123 (contribs | CentralAuth) 22:52, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * They're probably alerting Agent Isai to this thread, since it hadn't received a reply in a few days and that mentioning a user by name alerts them. It's the same principle as your posting of "Hello?" when one of your threads doesn't receive a reply in over a week. Tali64³ (talk) 23:05, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Tali64³ is correct. Collei (talk) 00:11, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Exemption request
I'm the bureaucrat of this wiki. It is a private wiki and read constantly. It does not need to be updated frequently. Please grant an exemption from the dormancy policy. Thank you. --Revival (talk) 06:35, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

I Can't Visit Real Life Villains Wiki
I received a permission error when I revisit Real Life Villains Wiki, 1 day after I signed up and requested the deletion of their pages about the Marcos Loyalists and Rodrigo Duterte. I didn't even do anything that could lead me into being banned or blocked from visiting it. 4lepheus B4ron (talk) 05:49, 11 February 2023 (UTC)


 * This wiki has been ❌ by Stewards/Trust and Safety due to multiple copyright violations. Please contact bureaucrats for access. Thanks - BrandonWM (talk • contributions • global • rights) 06:14, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * That's where you are completely incorrect. The Real Life Villains Wiki were actually locked and made private for a different reason. The reason says, and I quote: "Content Policy § '3. Unsubstantiated insult' violations—Direct enquires to stewards[at]miraheze.org: Per repeated reports to Stewards over time; systemic violations are present and most pages are entirely unsourced despite dealing with very sensitive topics and real people. Bureaucrats to be notified of any steps to take on local talk page.)" The reason had nothing to do with copyright in this scenario. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 14:04, 11 February 2023 (UTC)