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Hi, Could someone block ~2026-57576-95 for being a sock of RepIying account and delete all of the IPS creations please, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 19:31, 28 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

 Done Ternera (talk) 19:38, 28 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you Ternera much appreciated, Thanks –Davey2010^Talk 19:40, 28 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

i am not RepIying (CU if you want) but i gotta say i feel the deletion of Galfoy was wholly unjustified

i kindly ask for a proper deletion request so the community can discuss it properly ~2026-57421-50 (talk) 11:17, 29 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi, Could someone move Paramount Skydance to Skydance please as per Enwiki,

I did Qd the Skydance page yesterday with the intention of moving it myself but no one's deleted it which I'm assuming is because admins disagreed? Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 21:59, 31 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Done. -Barras talk 23:26, 31 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Barras much appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 10:58, 1 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

I saw it and was just confused what was trying to be moved there. It makes sense now. Garsh (talk) 04:37, 2 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi all, I'm struggling a lot with this one. It meets a lot of our QD criteria, not least WP:A4, WP:A7 and possibly even WP:G11. It contains obvious LLM commentary like His reported date of birth should be supported by a reliable source before being included as a confirmed fact in a Wikipedia biography.. The issue is that I've tried tagging it for QD but the article creator keeps finding a way to remove it. See, for example, this and this, both occasions using a misleading edit summary Added biographical information about Ajanaku Aliu Babatunde to give the illusion of legitimacy. Please could an admin potentially stop this TA from being able to remove the QD before someone can assess it? Spiderone (talk) 09:56, 3 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

I also note that the same account is blocked on en.wiki for block evasion and the same draft has been deleted on en.wiki for block evasion as well so this is clearly some LTA anyway. Doing a bit of digging, this appears to be globally locked accounts Alination1 and Babatunde001. Spiderone (talk) 10:04, 3 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

The article was deleted as WP:A4 but restored today (word-for-word identical) by an obvious sock. Spiderone (talk) 17:24, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Please semi-protect Yisrael Ariel. It's being targeted by KryptonSuperDog23 socks (named and temp accounts). Ravensfire (talk) 14:23, 3 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

 Done Ternera (talk) 17:29, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi, Could TLC (group) be protected please as an IP is edit warring and is inserting unsourced content to the article, I've initiated a discussion on the talkpage but this IP is only interested in edit warring, thanks –Davey2010^Talk 22:38, 6 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

I’ve temporarily protected the page. If they don’t engage on the talk page in that time and then continue changing the page, they will be blocked. Garsh (talk) 02:34, 7 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi can someone take a look at this RfD page move? Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2026/Protik Barua is currently a redirect to User talk:Requests for deletion/Requests/2026/Protik Barua as it was blanked and moved by @Protikctg and I can't revert the move they made. In addition, Protikctg's user pages were also moved to User:Extremer/User talk:Extremer (unregistered user on this wiki), so someone might want to revert that move as well (They were warned once back in June 2025 for making the same move to another username). Jolly1253 (talk) 06:59, 9 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

 Done Thanks! Let me know if they continue this sort of behavior. Garsh (talk) 07:12, 9 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Garsh! I'll keep an eye on them. Jolly1253 (talk) 07:27, 9 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, There is a discussion on simple talk that does not get archived. It is close to a month old, and I think the archival setting is at 10 days Eptalon (talk) 11:24, 9 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Eptalon, it looks like someone added a smart comment <!-- 23:59, 31 December 2999 (UTC) -- Added to stop automatic archiving of this section -- Remove this comment to reenable archiving --> as that section was an issue that took a while to resolve and kept on being archived! I've now removed that so it should archive normally next time. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 11:26, 9 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

For several weeks now, the same TA has vandalised Angry Grandpa. They keep getting blocked but they manage to circumvent it by creating a new TA and restoring the previous vandalism. It doesn't seem that blocking is deterring them. Please can we consider protection? Spiderone (talk) 10:16, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Spiderone, I will keep an eye, but I placed a couple more IP blocks that had been put in place before but expired over the last few months. I think this should, for now, be a level we can handle. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 10:27, 10 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Please review the contributions of User:~2026-59583-19. I've found especially edits like Special:Diff/11062882 made by LTAs in the past. NDG (talk) 13:35, 11 November 2026 (UTC)Reply