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Dear Sir, this IP just won't stop vandalizing
List of universities by number of billionaire alumni, and it has been doing it for more than a month (please see
page history). Could you please block this IP or semi-protect the page. Again, thank you for your help.
Non admin heads up
Hey Bongwarrior. I know you are an admin and I am not, so this might not be my place, but I wanted to do an unofficial friendly warning to you. Please don't post an ITN nomination 20 minutes after it starts. Don't take that the wrong way, but yeah, you posted it way too fast...almost showing a lapse in judgement. Please don't be mad at me.
Elijahandskip (
talk)
21:28, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Yeah, no. This was obviously going to be posted, and there is absolutely no need to wait x number of hours to give everyone a chance to filibuster because the story isn't important enough to people in Tonga or wherever. --
Bongwarrior (
talk)
21:32, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
And as an aside, admins aren't special. If you ever see one making a mistake - and many of us do - absolutely ask them about it. Most will welcome the scrutiny, as I do. --
Bongwarrior (
talk)
21:43, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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You probably don't remember me, but back in 2010 (when I was a very young child) a classmate used my account to make some especially inflammatory remarks. You blocked me from editing. Then later on when I wanted to use this account, I petitioned to you to unblock me and explained my situation. You unblocked me.
I'm wondering if you are able to delete those contributions from April of 2010 (which I, again, did not create when my account was stolen) as an admin? From what I understand from
Wikipedia:Revision deletion this is a thing you can do. And it seems reasonable.
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This is an encyclopedia. STop adding silly names, especially without any kind of sourcing. This was explained on your talkpage: please read the warnings. Acroterion(talk)21:06, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
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Would you mind Semi-Protecting George Harrison's page. Its a pretty popular page and is the only beatles page that is unprotected. Thank you. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
9Revolution (
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contribs) 8:49, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
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Chidgk1 (
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16:15, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
please do not undo the changes
Hi,
Kindly requesting you to please do not undo the changes we applied by us.
Hope you understand.
Thanks for dropping in and ending that. You could probably block the IPs too as they are almost certainly proxies. This seems to have been one person behind these edits, and the speed that were changing IP ranges at would suggest that those IPs are proxies.
Mako001 (C) (T) 08:06, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
I doubt it's one person. More likely it's some forum somewhere or Twitter or something. Usually I go through and block a bunch, but I'm not going to bother unless it continues .--
Bongwarrior (
talk)
08:09, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
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That part of it is currently being discussed on the talk page, and it's the reason why it was move protected in the first place. --
Bongwarrior (
talk)
01:45, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
141.237.8.245 (LTA)
Thanks for blocking them for 1 week - this is an LTA who is currently traveling Greece (
WP:LTA/WKHF). I told Widr to not block for just 31 hours due to the history of disruption and this LTA's tendency to wait out blocks, but they got unblocked normally and did it again.
I'll try to keep an eye on them. I don't think all of those pages need semiprotection, but some of them probably will. --
Bongwarrior (
talk)
04:47, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
It's me again, just editing as an IP (I do so sometimes because lazy). Thanks for protecting two of the pages. Can you block 79.103.60.119, the newest IP, a little longer? The history of the LTA shows that they simply wait out blocks. Thanks, Wizzito [IP] 16:50, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
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Said user is being disruptive at
Chevrolet Corvette (C7), where it has been established that the Equus Throwback & IsoRivolta GTZ are built upon existing C7 & C7 Z06 chassis, as such qualifies to be placed under the related section, akin to the Lotus Exige & Hennessey Venom (or whatever its called). Said user has removed this, despite a past discussion on the talk page regarding this subject & has included insults in their edit summary. Seeing as you have previously blocked them for disruptive editing, I unfortunately have come here again to say that it doesn't seem to have changed. I don't really know where to report vandals so I thought I'd reach out here & see what you can do
X-750I've made a mistake, haven't I?09:32, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
The content edits don't bother me, and they might be correct. The conduct isn't super great, but it hasn't been a huge ongoing problem from what I can tell. Lots of various noise from that IP, but probably not all the same person. --
Bongwarrior (
talk)
03:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
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