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Unlock request for 大沼
Hello. I want the steward to unlock 大沼.

He was blocked and global locked as a LTA, but local investigations (identity verification, etc.) revealed him to be innocent.He was not LTA:KOSHIN. クールトレイン７７７ (talk) 14:45, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what "local investigations (identity verification, etc.)" would be. Additionally, I'm personally not comfortable unlocking a user based on the results of said "local investigations" by an involved or uninvolved third party. If 大沼 wishes for their account to be unlocked, please have them present their case to Stewards, via e-mail, to  for consideration. Dmehus (talk) 15:54, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I have to report that the locals there are planning to allow 大沼's lock evasion with another account per this "local investigations."
 * As an ex-Steward and a community member there, I have already pointed out that 大沼 him/herself should contact Stewards and this is not something that the local community can decide.
 * However, since I currently have no additional permissions there, I don't have the power to stop this community if they actually decide to allow 大沼's comeback, and thus would like to report it on SN beforehand that the community might head to policy violations.
 * I think posting a steward's comment there can help them rethink their action, if necessary.-- 00:34, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not familiar with this matter, but I will just echo what 開拓者 ("The Pioneer") said above and just state that I think 大沼 should e-mail  to request an unlock, providing us with any pertinent background information. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 01:03, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Request locking of my account
I would like to request this account (UnLeashedWolfie~) be locked as I do not use this account and primarily use the account Snowie instead of this one. Thanks. UnLeashedWolfie~ (talk) 04:30, 2 February 2021 (UTC)


 * UnLeashedWolfie~ for requesting this from Stewards at Stewards' noticeboard. I'm placing this request on hold pending confirmation from Snowie confirming that UnLeashedWolfie~ was indeed their prior account, so we have a confirmation on both ends. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 13:53, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, this was my indeed my old account and I do not use it anymore as I did not need to. Snowie (talk) 21:09, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Snowie (and UnLeashedWolfie~), . This has now been ✅. Since you've confirmed your account on both ends, any future unlock request can come from either account. Dmehus (talk) 21:26, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Atrocious Youtubers Wiki
Could you re open the Atrocious Youtubers Wiki? I think it is somewhat unfair that it's being closed. The wiki is simply showing the Bad Qualities of some youtubers, it's not hate. Please consider my message carefully. Thank You Tkgaynor (talk) 21:52, 2 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Tkgaynor This wiki in question was closed, locked, and made by private by a Steward, NDKilla, for systemic, unremediated Content Policy issues, and, secondarily, for Code of Conduct-related concerns. This wiki will be deleted in due course per Dormancy Policy. While not a steward at the time, I agreed with NDKilla's decision at the time, and continue to agree with it. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 22:12, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Which Content Policy issues for 1, and what Code of Conduct concerns, for 2. Tkgaynor (talk) 22:19, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Nonciclopedia issues
Hello, I'm a user at this wiki, and on today, the namespaces' language was randomly changed from Italian to English, breaking countless pages. I'm pretty sure this is not the only thing that happened, but I hope that reverting the namespace change will fix everything.

Can we have a fix or at least an explanation of what happened? MrApocalisse (talk) 11:55, 6 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi We're aware of a few issues today with internationalisation. I've not got access to check at the moment but I think I know what the issue might be. I'm trying to get another Sysadmin to look.  ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  13:04, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright, good.
 * I'll be waiting for an update. MrApocalisse (talk) 13:11, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * This should be fixed. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  15:13, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * It's still acting up a bit, I'll wait a few more minutes and I'll clear my cache, the system probably needs to update MrApocalisse (talk) 15:23, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * It's still intermittently bugged, at least from my side MrApocalisse (talk) 22:52, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * MrApocalisse Since this doesn't seem to have been resolved yet and is technical in nature, would you mind filing a Phabricator task for system administrators, adding the  and   projects and triaging the task as normal priority? In your task on Phabricator, be sure to link to this thread on this noticeboard. When you're finished, you can link to the Phabricator task in this thread by way of a follow up reply. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 00:52, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * We already have one. T6826 ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  07:47, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * RhinosF1 ✅! Thanks for linking to that here. MrApocalisse, you can either login to your existing Phabricator account or activate your Phabricator account by clicking the "login" button on Phabricator and selecting the "MediaWiki signin" link. Using OAuth, you will be directed to this wiki (Meta) to authorize the Phabricator application to use your Miraheze wiki credentials to sign in. Once signed in, just hit "subscribe" on the task RhinosF1 linked to, and you can follow along and add any pertinent comments to the task. Dmehus (talk) 10:55, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Recent spam-only accounts are triggering the abuse logs on the World University & School Wiki.
Just look at how many abuse filters were tripped just recently. As you can see, they have been triggered around 35 times within the past several days, and it just shocks me how those accounts weren't even locked when the abuse logs of that said wiki were triggered. Don't you think they should be locked as a result of their constant spam attempts? I think an investigation is in order here. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 19:22, 8 February 2021 (UTC)


 * DarkMatterMan4500 That's a very early wiki, and generates a fair bit of attention from the spam only accounts. I'll try to do an investigation in the next few days unless Void or John beat me to it. (If they do, please be sure to DM me to which account(s) you've checked back to.) Dmehus (talk) 19:26, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, as I didn't think saying it on Discord would be necessary. I will only use the Stewards' Noticeboard for anything to do with spam-only accounts triggering the abuse filter on here instead, so I wouldn't end up clogging up the messages on the  channel. But it's totally up to you,, or  if this action is necessary at this point. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 19:30, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, either channel is fine for spam only account reports. One of us should be able to take a look in a few days. Dmehus (talk) 20:30, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * A brief update on the spam only accounts in the AbuseLog of, the investigation was particularly fruitful, with ✅ and a number of longer term soft global rangeblocks being put in place, nearly all of which were for either open proxies or web hosting companies. It's a bit like shelf reading in a library in that one can only do so much of it at a time before their eyes go crossed. Nevertheless, I'll return to this wiki in the next several weeks to continue where I left off (at the  ) timestamp. Thanks for your report. Dmehus (talk) 14:25, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ And thanks for the update. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 15:26, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

What can we do to prevent any more drama magnetism on the Reception Wikis? Is there something we need to address to prevent it from getting any worse?
Is there something that we could do to save our wikis and stop the rise of drama magnetism? I've tried pretty much a lot of things, but it got worse. Is there a solution to resolve any of this? DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 15:52, 10 February 2021 (UTC)


 * DarkMatterMan4500 I would suggest you review all your articles in  namespace, in particular, and ensure that every claim is cited (usually with a footnote), either by a verified primary source (of the subject, such as a Twitter account of the subject which has been verified by Twitter or confirmed by your wikis' editors) or a reliable, independent source (i.e., generally not a blog post and certainly not other wikis, as that amounts to circular referencing). Additionally, where you have biographical articles of real people, have you received consent to post their photos, or have they posted said photos from a verified account? These are just two ideas, but they're main ones that would definitely be helpful at improving overall content quality and help to ensure Content Policy requirements are met. You would also do well to discuss and implement local content policies that supplement Content Policy, requiring such things as attribution and reliable sourcing in the drafting of articles. Hope that helps. Dmehus (talk) 16:09, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * That sounds good. But we should also try and prevent drama from expanding, so I think I might take some drastic measures by maybe gathering some sort of consensus from other admins. For 1, I'm thinking of maybe banning blogs that makes fun of other Reception Wiki fans from the wikis, and possibly try and save it. And 2, try to get quality control to actually work, so there won't be any terrible pages that looks like it was rushed. Even if it fails, I'm definitely not going to leave Miraheze as I've had a lot of fun here. There's a lot for me to learn, and I hopefully would want to help out with any problems that may persist. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 16:16, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Those sound like good ideas as well. Definitely have a more robust and rigorous content quality approval standard. I wouldn't necessarily say you'd need to ban blogs outright, as they're a reasonable outlet for users to express views, but rather just develop a local policy in terms of outlining the expected tone of posts. It's fine to express negative views, for example, but the tone of the post should have some factual basis and not be completely negative. More balanced, thoughtful opinions, for example. Dmehus (talk) 16:31, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * For the content quality controls, though, you should definitely not just consider only administrators' views, but all of your wikis' regular contributors' views, as they may have some ideas to consider. Dmehus (talk) 16:32, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * That is also helpful. That way, we can save the Reception Wikis from being shut down just because of drama outright. And banning blogs completely wouldn't feel right to me. So, I'm thinking that all the contributors can get involved in the conversation directly. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 16:34, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Request for Dormancy Exemption for research group wiki
Please be so kind as to apply a Dormancy Exemption to https://eucxylo.miraheze.org/wiki/ - this is a wiki that my research group started building last year, with the intention of making it public when/if there is enough good-quality information in it to be useful as a public resource. We let it get inactive in the latter part of the year, but intend to try to make regular use of it going forward (the risk of our hard work being deleted is quite demoralizing!).

Thanks and best wishes. KCMartin (talk) 12:47, 11 February 2021 (UTC)


 * KCMartin You lucked out, as your wiki had only been marked as deleted, so I have now ✅ your wiki per this request. Please ensure you make at least one edit or log action to your wiki before this time tomorrow to prevent your wiki from being reclosed by the inactive wikis maintenance script, though if it were reclosed, you can reopen it at Special:ManageWiki. As to your Dormancy Policy exemption request, with the wiki undeleted, I will assess this request shortly, and follow up with you within several hours. Dmehus (talk) 14:21, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * KCMartin Regarding your request for a Dormancy Policy exemption, I've now reviewed your wiki, and have ✅ your wiki an indefinite, though not permanent, exemption to Dormancy Policy as your wiki clearly has documented research notes, studied by researchers, and later intended to be read by an even larger audience. On the second criterion, with few editors on your wiki, with you providing most of the contributions, as far as I can tell, and because your wiki had to be undeleted, there's a clear need. If you no longer require an exemption to Dormancy Policy because your wiki has an active editing community, please do advise us at this noticeboard. Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 14:29, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you @Dmehus - I've made an edit as requested, and am very happy to be able to report to my group that our wiki is back in the land of the living. We decided at a meeting this week that we want to try to establish a more structured and regular approach to adding content: hopefully our longer-term goal of nucleating a useful public resource will come to fruition (and we will no longer need the Dormancy Exemption). All the best - keep well. KCMartin (talk) 15:25, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Undelete of joepcolerwiki
Hello, can steward please undelete joepcolerwiki per this request? Thx,--MrJaroslavik (talk) 13:04, 11 February 2021 (UTC)


 * MrJaroslavik, Thank you for moving this request from requests for adoption to here. The wiki has now been ✅, per this request. Dmehus (talk) 14:03, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Delete codedarmswiki
Hello, can steward please delete codedarmswiki per this wiki request? Thanks,--MrJaroslavik (talk) 13:35, 11 February 2021 (UTC)


 * MrJaroslavik, thank you for posting this request. As I'd already seen this, this has already been ✅. Should you or other wiki creators come across a duplicate wiki request in future, I believe that the wiki language code can be changed in Special:ManageWiki by the new wiki . Dmehus (talk) 14:08, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * But cannot change subdomain...--MrJaroslavik (talk) 14:11, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
 * True, though it's likely the requestor originally preferred the  subdomain and selected   as a second choice not knowing they could've changed their language code in ManageWiki. If they did want a new subdomain, this can actually be changed by filing a Phabricator request. Any Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure) can handle these requests, though in practice it's usually Reception123 who is usually very quick with these requests as he usually handles them within a few hours of requesting and almost always the same day of requesting. Dmehus (talk) 14:16, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Delete wiki please
Please can you delete my wiki: https://taerelvari.miraheze.org as I moved it to self hosting (I only had it on MH while I was waiting on a host, but now I just did it myself so the Miraheze wiki is not needed any more) TheBurningPrincess (talk) 00:32, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


 * TheBurningPrincess ✅. Dmehus (talk) 00:33, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Re Open Horrible Vyonders Wiki please
Could you please re open the Horrible Vyonders Wiki, because that wiki isn't for hate, it only shows the low qualities of Vyonders like Atrocious YouTubers Wiki, I hope you understand this message Bye FranciscoLol2009 (talk) 06:25, 13 February 2021 (UTC)


 * I am afraid that the wiki had serious Content Policy violations which had not been dealt with by the wiki administrators. The wiki will never be reopened and similar wiki requests will be declined. Thank you. 06:42, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I see, but which articles violates the Content Policy? FranciscoLol2009 (talk) 08:32, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Many of the articles violated the Content Policy, which most are not deleted.  Circley  Does Extracter    ( Circley Talk  |  Global   |  Email the Cloud )  15:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Global lock request for 地震
Hi,

I'd like to request 地震 to be globally locked as a vandalism-only account.

Last night (JST), several Japanese wikis were severely vandalized by him/her, whose account name is probably related to the earthquake which struck Eastern-Japan yesterday.

S/he claims on his/her userpage that he has vandalized those wikis because s/he couldn't vandalize chakuwiki, and I suppose s/he is not only a vandalism-only account but also related to recent LTAs in chakuwiki.

Therefore, I'd like to lock him/her, and have an investigation on possible further cross-wiki abuse as well.

Thanks in advance,-- 01:09, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Locked. Possible investigation leaving for steward,--MrJaroslavik (talk) 14:17, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Global lock for spambot
Please lock Special:CentralAuth/Mindy95C82717 globally as a spambot. Thanks. JavaHurricane (talk) 05:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)


 * JavaHurricane ✅. Thank you for your report. As a recommended best practice, if spam only accounts are flooding local wiki abuse logs, we recommend locally blocking them, at least temporarily, and then reporting spam only accounts to Stewards via this noticeboard in a batch of a half dozen or more&mdash;preferrably listing them in an unordered or ordered list. Dmehus (talk) 06:14, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Request to remove Zppix' Consul bit
Could a Steward please remove Zppix' Consul bit on Public Test Wiki per his stated desire in on IRC to resign from everything? Thanks. Note: Requested in my capacity as a Consul on TestWiki. Dmehus (talk) 08:19, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I said sysadmin only ❌ need to update my sig Zppix (Meta &#124; Sysadmin &#124; talk to me) 08:22, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * RhinosF1, Reception123, and I did infer that you had left Miraheze completely, but I'll restore your rights then. Dmehus (talk) 08:27, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ per your clarification. Dmehus (talk) 08:32, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Adding another language to my wiki
Hey there. I want to add Turkish language in which I can write along with English on wiki. Can I get a separate https://www.tr.pdc.miraheze.org for my existing wiki https://www.pdc.miraheze.org Al-khataei (talk) 18:22, 15 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Al-khataei Yep, you can, but you need to request a second wiki, then have either a Steward or interwiki administrator add an interwiki prefix for your main wiki and interlanguage prefix(es) for your other wikis on each wiki. Do you already have a second wiki? Dmehus (talk) 18:30, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Please request an Interwiki Administrator instead of a Steward in this case since the wiki is public. 19:21, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, yes, ideally, all requests for local interwiki table changes should occur on community noticeboard, which interwiki administrators (sometimes stewards, though, if they're available, and don't also hold interwiki administrator permissions, will respond to such requests). I just said that for a couple reasons, in case it was a private wiki but also to keep the discussion together. Since the requested second other language has now been created, Al-khataei can now just provide us with the requested interwiki prefix (for the local interwiki tables) for the main wiki and the interlanguage prefixes they need. Any steward or interwiki administrator following this thread can feel free to action that portion of the request. Hope that clarifies. Dmehus (talk) 20:06, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Turkish;
 * pds.miraheze.org
 * English;
 * pdc.miraheze.org Al-khataei (talk) 10:41, 16 February 2021 (UTC)