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Please lock NapierTouchdown's account
If you see the reason that he's been blocked on the Crappy Games Wiki, it's because he's an edgy troll. Not only that, but he also wishes to commit genocide. You can also see his death threats that he sent in the comments log of Rotten Websites Wiki. Trashanimal (talk) 02:41, 22 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Trashanimal Thank you for the report; however, I'm not seeing a need for a global lock. Certainly, this comment is not appropriate, but it's one comment. Moreover, the user is locally blocked and hasn't edited since. Thus, all I feel needs to be done is to remind NapierTouchdown of our Code of Conduct, a global policy to which all Mirahezians must oblige, and to review user accounts policy with respect to what to do and what not to do if locally blocked on a given wiki. If local talk page access has been revoked, NapierTouchdown, you may contact one of the local wiki administrators via their Meta user talk page. Dmehus (talk) 02:53, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Trashanimal ✅. Dmehus (talk) 03:02, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Encantadia Rules Est. 2016.....
There's been some reports of this user using these following sockpuppet accounts to move sandbox pages without permission, and make weak pages with no effort put into it:
 * MartinTeves
 * AltMarteeVENO
 * AltMarteeVEVO
 * MarteeVENO

Could you guys either lock all the accounts up or warn Encantadia Rules Est. 2016 about misusing/abusing multiple accounts on his talk page when you get a chance? What those 4 accounts have in common with Encantadia Rules Est. 2016 is that they constantly keep moving sandbox pages without anybody's authorization, and making very weak pages without any thought put into it whatsoever. Not sure if this is enough, so I suggest adding in some additional details if you have any to share with me. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 00:39, 22 March 2021 (UTC)


 * DarkMatterMan4500 Certainly the username similarity between the latter three accounts suggests there's a link, but can you provide three to five of the most compelling diffs between either of the four suspected alternate accounts and the account which you suspect is the main account, Encantadia Rules Est. 2016? Editing or moving users' sandboxes is quite weak supporting behavioural evidence, as this could be any particular user. Dmehus (talk) 02:46, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Not sure if these help though, but here they are: This one (although you can read the deleted revision anyway),
 * this one in particular, this one as well, (not sure if this is enough though), this one as this is where he messed up a page, and finally some of his contributions on a particular wiki. (I'm not sure if this is evident enough however). For what it's worth, happens to know more than me in this case. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 11:47, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * DarkMatterMan4500 Thanks, but none of those diffs are for the user you've reported, Encantadia Rules Est. 2016, which is essential to establishing your thesis that MartinTeves and AltMarteeVENO, et al., are likely related to Encantadia Rules Est. 2016. At best, we may conclude that AltMarteVENO, AltMarteeVEVO, and MarteeVENO, are likely related to MartinTeves, but as with some of your other recent reports, it's not clear what local policy violation has been made, and you've also not made it clear to the original user on the reason(s) for their local blocks. Additionally, by revoking their talk page access, you've made it difficult for them to properly appeal their block. Finally, as the user is locally blocked on all wikis they've contributed to (and then some), there's little, if any, immediate need for a global lock. As such, I'm hesitant to take any action here as the user appears to be a good-faith user who just needs some proper guidance, which I can try and do later today if you like. Dmehus (talk) 12:00, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay then. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 12:02, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * However, I took the liberty of allowing Encantadia Rules Est. 2016 to have access to his talk page for appeal on 2 wikis. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:07, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * DarkMatterMan4500 SGTM, but what about the user talk pages of MartinTeves? Since you've not established that MartinTeves is likely related to Encantadia Rules Est. 2016, wouldn't it make sense for you to leave that user's user talk pages open as well? Dmehus (talk) 13:16, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'll look over it a bit later. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:23, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, sounds good. Dmehus (talk) 15:37, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Request for big deletion
This page has more than 1000 revisions and should be deleted according to local policy. Reason for the deletion is "No longer need this page since it is not deleted on zh.wikipedia.org". Tiger (talk) 08:04, 22 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Tiger ✅. Dmehus (talk) 11:09, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Request for mass deletion
Hi, could someone do a mass-deletion of all pages created by Larryding on the Horrible Music & Songs Wiki? All of them are completely blank, and as we all know, blank for the sake of "fill in later" does not warrant an article. TtA (talk) 09:04, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Should be done,--MrJaroslavik (talk) 09:11, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

managewiki-restricted extension requested.
I am requesting to add PageDisqus to, as I do not have the   user right. Wiki JS 18:00, 22 March 2021 (UTC)


 * WikiJS With apologies for the delay and for the configuration difficulties, this has now been ✅ for you. Dmehus (talk) 22:24, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * It's fine, I prefer quality rather than how fast it gets setup. You guys were very helpful on IRC, so that's amazing. If I have any other questions, I'll ask on the appropriate noticeboard, or on the IRC. The quality of the staff support was extraordinary! Wiki JS  00:33, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Lock March 23
I notice a few spambots in the AbuseLog (Meta), anti-spam and external links on the userpage. There is also one among them who has had the same purposes on the Public Test Wiki, but which I blocked there: testwiki:Special:contributions/CLMCary0166069. I didn’t get links to the external links vandals here in Meta now, but presumably the same thing I had before. I will give the list again and the stewards can go through the accounts in peace: Special:CentralAuth/LiliaAvery49, Special:centralauth/BethListon98, Special:CentralAuth/Enriqueta25H, Special:CentralAuth/Krystyna7334 and testwiki:Special:Contributions/CLMCary0166069 (CentralAuth) Thanks. --Anton (talk) 12:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Done,--MrJaroslavik (talk) 12:56, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Global lock for Trevorrulz
Vandalism-only account, blocked on both Crappy Games Wiki and Terrible TV Shows Wiki. MarioMario456 (talk) 15:47, 23 March 2021 (UTC)


 * MarioMario456 Only three global edits, only one of which is blatant vandalism. Secondarily, the user is locally blocked on several wikis, and there's no indication disruption continues onto other wikis, so I'm going to mark this as ❌. Please appropriately warn the user on their local talk page(s), and advise us if disruption continues. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 15:54, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

There's an LTA on who's been disruptively vandalizing pages on that wiki.
ABsjddhsf has been causing disruption on the Worldpedia Wiki, in which I've had to tirelessly revert their vandalism edits as they have been disruptively making redirects to nonsensical pages named "This wiki is closed", which is absolutely baloney, as that wiki has been more active as seen on the Recent Changes page. Should there be a lock made against this user for disrupting that specific wiki? There's plenty of evidence of this as listed here:
 * https://worldpedia.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%AD%A4%E7%B6%AD%E5%9F%BA%E5%B7%B2%E9%97%9C%E9%96%89_(This_Wiki_is_closed)&oldid=15413
 * https://worldpedia.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E5%A4%A7%E5%85%B8:%E9%A6%96%E9%A0%81&oldid=15414
 * https://worldpedia.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E5%A4%A7%E5%85%B8:%E9%A6%96%E9%A0%81&oldid=15415
 * https://worldpedia.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E5%A4%A7%E5%85%B8:%E7%A4%BE%E7%BE%A4%E5%85%A5%E5%8F%A3&oldid=15422

If that's not enough, have a look at this user's edits on that wiki. Please feel free to take any action if necessary. :) DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:37, 25 March 2021 (UTC)


 * DarkMatterMan4500 I'm not sure how you've concluded the user is LTA, but I've ✅ them as a disruptive, vandalism only account. Dmehus (talk) 13:42, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * That's kind of easy. The way they made their edits to me, it seems like the user has used this service sometime before. I also found that 2 IP users caused the exact same disruption, but weren't too major. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:45, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * DarkMatterMan4500 This wasn't specific vandalism, though, to any other users or anonymous users, and you've not identified those users in your report, so this just seems like random text replacement, redirect, and page blanking vandalism. Dmehus (talk) 13:49, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I apologize if it wasn't much help, but  and   are the ones I'm referring to. I redacted the IPs for this report out of respect of the Privacy Policy, but should they be globally blocked at this time? DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 13:55, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * DarkMatterMan4500 Thank you. That's helpful and illustrates the vandalism only account likely engaged in logged in and logged out vandalism. However, that doesn't indicate the user is an LTA. An LTA, to me anyone, would be a person who repeatedly creates many alternate accounts and engages in persistent disruption and vandalism across multiple wikis over a prolonged time period. I've soft blocked the first IP's globally per no open proxies policy, and will locally soft block the second's range as vandalism. Additionally, there's no need to redact the IPs of either (a) open proxies or (b) anonymous IP vandals. Dmehus (talk) 14:03, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay. Thanks anyway. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 14:05, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Make Wiki immune to inactivity
The Shoemaker ImmunoSystems wiki is infrequently updated, but is referenced frequently as part of an academic lab at the University of Pittsburgh. Would it be possible to make this wiki immune to the 60-day inactivity closures? The wiki is located at https://immunosystems.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page. Thank you! JJW102 (talk) 15:49, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * JJW102 Though your wiki is a bit light on the content part of our exemption to Dormancy Policy assessment process, particularly in  namespace, your wiki has research in its   namespace that are not necessarily publicly available elsewhere and would be potentially detrimental if lost. In terms of need, indeed only you and several other other users edit this wiki fairly infrequently, so I'm going to ✅ this exemption request indefinitely as an academic research notes wiki used as a resource by real people that is infrequently edited. Please note, though, that this exemption request grant is indefinite, not permanent, so please try and add a number of additional content pages over the next year should your exemption request be reevaluated by Stewards at some point after that. Additionally, should you no longer need an exemption, please do advise us of this via this noticeboard. Dmehus (talk) 16:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Default Permissions & Default Groups restore
Hello Can be permissions & groups restored to default on https://wiki.aridia.space/

Or restore wiki to default starting template, i have no data yet so nothing to lose

Im new to wiki, was checked features and deleted it for some reason Thank you Aridiaspace (talk) 19:24, 25 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Aridiaspace I've ✅ your inadvertently removed  rights per this request. This will allow you to manually correct your wiki's permissions to the prescribed defaults. Alternatively, if you prefer to have your wiki's permissions reset to the default, you may file a Phabricator task for system administrators to do this. Dmehus (talk) 19:32, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Vector.css and Common.css not loading
For some reason, on my wiki, both the |Vector.css and the |Common.css MediaWiki pages have stopped loading. I know this was recent because yesterday it was working just fine. Snowie (talk) 22:43, 25 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Snowie Do you mean the CSS pages will not load at all? If so, can you please file a Phabricator task for system administrators to investigate? Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 22:47, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, the CSS pages do not load, and I will make a Phabricator task. Snowie (talk) 22:59, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That's strange. I'm not certain whether it's related to a problem with the pages not loading (necessitating system administrators to look into it) or a problem with the code in your CSS pages (something you can ask about at community noticeboard and hopefully someone can help you out). Worse case, system administrators will investigate it, and refer you to community noticeboard. Dmehus (talk) 23:02, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Apologies, they appear to be working now, not sure why it wasn't loading at first. Snowie (talk) 23:01, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Snowie Ah, that's great. Sounds like it was a temporary issue related to the server load. Dmehus (talk) 23:03, 25 March 2021 (UTC)