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You are allowed to use talk pages if you use them appropriately. If you post anything about Brighton/city status, you will be blocked immediately per WP:DROPTHESTICK. OhNoitsJamieTalk 17:27, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Jamie, I was just looking into some strange IP activity and noticed you previously issued bans on the IPs in question, so I was hoping you might be able to help. Today a collection of IPs have attempted to resurrect a speculative draft Draft:GPT-5 by making a couple minor edits and submitting to AfC, despite previous consensus and clear notices indicating the article shouldn't be moved to mainspace until GPT-5 actually exists. The IPs in question are: Contributions/62.74.32.95, Contributions/62.74.58.35, Contributions/62.74.32.77, Contributions/62.74.56.192, and Contributions/62.74.58.183. This looks clearly to me like sock-puppeting or ban evasion. Could you please take a look? I was also wondering if there was a way to withdraw the AfC submission, since it plainly will fail, but I'm having trouble finding a way to do that, so if you know how I would appreciate a pointer. Cheers! StereoFolic (talk) 19:51, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Upgraded that partial block to a full block, quite possibly the same person. I reverted the AFC submission tags; I think that should be sufficient? OhNoitsJamieTalk 23:40, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks; I dropped several more rangeblocks and sprinkled some salt. Let me know if you see any related disruption from Greek ranges. OhNoitsJamieTalk 16:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I am not but you are WP:griefing me now because I disagreed with an edit of yours. You also only did a few edits of which one is a summary starting with the words "We have been over this many time" in the edit summary of your first edit, implying that you are an alt. Please let's just avoid each other and not bicker with each other. ThanksBleggen (talk) 19:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You don't get to strike out other's comments on my talk page. OhNoitsJamieTalk 19:37, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate people who fight the good fight, like yourself. A frustrating and often thankless job, so Thank You! 2600:1700:1111:5940:FCA7:2D25:D4E5:C28F (talk) 01:00, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
yolo i hope you are having a good day (hope this makes it better lol), btw so much messages!, anyway have a great day and enjoy a picture of this adorable kitten!
He has vandalized multiple articles including Mickey’s Mouse Trap (horror film), Kung Fu Panda, and more without citing a single source. He said March 22 for Mouse yet I searched everywhere and nothing. A couple of other users seemingly joined on this too. Can we ban him from editing? 98.144.64.54 (talk) 06:24, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It seems they are at it again on Vyond-related videos regarding child discipline. Since I already reverted once, and NatGertler appears to be understandably busy on other parts of Wikipedia, I wonder if you can review the second attempt and help me make it clear to the editor that such content is not notable? Sometimes I feel that the whole article may not be notable at all. Best, --Minoa (talk) 12:23, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's that IPs third block for vandalism; many admins such as myself will impose progressively longer blocks on IPs that disrupt frequently. OhNoitsJamieTalk 18:20, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Invitation to participate in Wikipedia study[edit]
Hello, I have been contacting editors with experience in specific areas of editing to participate in a survey study. In order to limit access without forcing editors to disclose their identity in the survey form itself, I have been contacting them via email, which you have disabled for your account. If you would like to participate, please send me an email through Wikipedia and I will follow up with additional details and a link to the survey. Jonathan Engel (researcher) (talk) 13:08, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A remark that you made in the reversion of my capitalization edits in titles is incorrect. I recommend you read the Wikipeda Manual of Style section on it.
There you will find that citations should, in fact not follow capitalization that would be incorrect in Wikepedia articles. And that Wikipedia citations are under no obligation what-so-ever to match the capitalization in the cited original. To the contrary: Capitalization in all Wikipedia (English language) article citations should be "corrected" to follow Wikipedia standards, despite not being identical to the capitalization in the cited source. A classic example of this is excess capitalization in titles of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Only the title of the journal itself, or the newspaper, or magazine, or conference proceedings, is allowed to have full capitalization.
You might find it a helpful clue, that the full-capital titles are usually the fields that are automatically italicized by the Wikipedia "cite" template.
However, there are some cases for foreign language title capitalization that I'm uncertain of: For example all German language sentences have all nouns (whether personal or general) capitalized; it's just a language standard (e.g. "a man from Munich" is ein Mensch von Munchen, not ein mensch von Munchen) so I presume that the normal sentence capitalization is carried over into cited titles (but not into their translation, of course). But to the contrary, I notice that a lot of citations for French and Italian language book titles (neither of which I have any language training in) seem to only start with upper case, and then go lower case for the rest of the title. I'm not sure how to proceed; in edits I've made so far, I've just retained the lower-case in a book title, and applied capitalization only to the translated title. However I might be being deceived by some style used by the citing editor that isn't standard for French or Italian the language, or which might not be standard for the Wikipedia for those languages.
But other than that, I really would suggest that you read up in the W:MOS. After that, you might want to revert your reversion, unless you find other intolerable errors. 107.122.85.58 (talk) 21:12, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You may find it helpful provide links to the MOS policies you allude to. Where in MOS:TITLECAPS, MOS:ALLCAPS, or WP:CITESTYLE does it say that we should "correct" article titles to follow "Wikipedia standards"? The only prescription I see is that we should convert all caps to title case (quoting from MOS:ALLCAPS: Avoid writing with all caps (all capital letters), including small caps (all caps at a reduced size), when they have only a stylistic function. Reduce them to title case, sentence case, or normal case, as appropriate.) Furthermore, please note the discussion at Talk:French_Bulldog regarding capitalization. While the MLA does support the notion that "french bulldog" should not be capitalized, there does seem to be an existing convention in Wikipedia to capitalize dog breed names (e.g., Labrador Retriever; to systematically change all of those titles would require a policy or a consensus, neither of which I'm aware of. OhNoitsJamieTalk 21:48, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
HI Jamie, I had made the original Dholuo language guide J"https://www.freewebs.com/themulders/luoguide.htm" back in 2006 or so. This was on the wikipedia Dholuo site for ages (I didn't put it there, someone else must have seen it was very long/comprehensive and added it). I just noted that the freewebs is defunct and so I updated the link to a duplicate site that I had created years ago as a back-up - http://dholuo.weebly.com/ - but you removed this. I'm not sure why. I don't think there is a better more comprehensive language source out there. I have no interest in the website itself; you are welcome to copy the content and make your own. I just think that the information is helpful to have for the world so please consider re-adding that link in the wikipedia references for this. Helperlady2 (talk) 23:17, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Weebly sites are not appropriate per WP:EL. Please do not add it again. OhNoitsJamieTalk 23:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ok I won't - I have never edited any wiki page ever before and this was my first try to try to help; sorry i didn't know that rule. but if you care about people having access to this dholuo source please consider copying the content from that site and making a new site and adding that new link.
Hello its me Joey. I think we got off on the wrong foot. Firstly Im sorry for not listening to your warning originally from August. After your warning I stopped working on the Wikipedia page, but resumed in February and im sorry, I understand that the salted article rule is in place to prevent an article that has been previously deleted several times for not meeting notability to not be recreated. I should have listened to you.
Also sorry for the mess in the deletion discussion. I just was new at it and I kinda seemed a bit new to it, also you were right about the sources. I couldn't find many on him, their were only 2 kinds of sources, 1: Controversy about Jeffy which the Sun reported on and Good Morning America, but it is rather criticising the show rather than giving an indepth source and infromation and 2: The Tom Brady auction, well good sources on Logan that mention him, they only cover the winning really and not his channel career, just because Logan won an auction doesnt equal Wikipedia notability, I understand that indepth sources from third parties are what equals notability because first party sources could be biased in favor of that person. I understand that my arguements werent good arguments in favor of keeping said article.
I promise to listen to administrators warnings and only create articles using reliable third party sources.
PS: I like the serious business user box thing on your user page with that picture of Gary Busey, he is a good actor. Anyway OhnoitsJamie, I promise I wont recreate that page again, and I promise I will follow all adminstrator rules and take ever warning very seriously. Joey (talk) 01:19, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Everyone makes mistakes, and I'm happy to hear that you've learned from yours and are ready to move on. Feel free to ask me questions if anything comes up that you're not sure about. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Village pump has links to a number of great resources including the WP:TEAHOUSE, and WP:RSP is a great place to check to see if a source meets our reliable sources criteria. Cheers, OhNoitsJamieTalk 11:42, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Joey (talk) 17:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello it's me again...I don't know what this disruptive editor's issue is and I don't care but please can something be done? This drip-drip-drip of persistent vandalism raids on articles is annoying & wearing & takes other editors away from actually creating & editing around here. Either a range-block for this IP or protect/semi-protect all their usual targets - Joseph Yablonski, Henry Lee Lucas, W.A. Boyle, various spree/serial killers, various violent events, etc., a range-block to include IP ranges around 197.157.3--(with Vodafone Egypt). In my opinion these IPs are the blocked editor/LTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Psydodo, otherwise known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Asura_Indra/Archive. Shearonink (talk) 13:49, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've blocked another proxy range, but when persistent LTAs are employing proxies, there's no simple all-encompassing solution other than to block IPs/ranges as they crop up. OhNoitsJamieTalk 13:59, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Last month you gave a user a final warning "Third block for WP:SYNTH". Sadly, right after the one-month block ended he edited Wilson Medical Center (North Carolina). The citation he provided does not support the statement added, once again engaging in WP:SYNTH.
Hi Ohnoitsjamie, I found 2a02:c7c::/32's block settings interesting enough to start a discussion about it; it's at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard § 2a02:c7c::/32 and your input would be welcome. I'm notifying everyone whose name appears in the block log as this is practically a review of a series of admin actions yours was a part of. I hope that, due to the amount of administrators who built the block to the current state, discussing this in a central location directly rather than asking everyone for input on their own talk page is okay. And perhaps there was a past discussion and this is completely unnecessary silliness of me; I apologize in advance if that's the case. Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:11, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I just wanted to inform you that I have provided further references to our discussion on Talk:LiveJasmin#Controversy. Have a great day! Alexfotios (talk) 09:16, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Massage in so-called "Turkish baths" and in the Hammam[edit]
While I'm not prepared to go to the stake over your revert, I am interested to know your thinking. There is increasing unhappiness in the Islamic world about the use of the phrase "Turkish baths" as it implies that this originated in Turkey whereas it is an intrinsic part of Islamic culture worldwide, including Turkey, of course. Furthermore, today's use of "Turkish baths" in The West can include anything from Russian steam baths to gay saunas and day spas. This is one of the reasons why a couple of years ago it was decided to split the article on Turkish baths into two: 1. "Hammam" (about which this part of the massage article is certainly true); and 2. "Victorian Turkish baths", the hot dry air bath (about which the description in this paragraph was only true in a very few establishments, for a very short time, and is certainly not true today). I was merely bringing a specific phrase into synchronisation with current wiki practice. If you've searched wiki recently for "Turkish baths" you will probablyhave found a redirect to "Hammam". However, perhaps I should have taken even this small change to a talk page first. I did not do so since similar changes, with updating the wikilinks accordingly, has raised few objections in other articles. Best wishes, Ishpoloni (talk) 16:06, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It was a mistake and I reverted myself immediately. I'm not sure what else you want me to say. OhNoitsJamieTalk 17:49, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing! I was actually apologising to you! Best wishes Ishpoloni (talk) 18:44, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. In February 2021 you warned an editor twice (1, 2) about COI/Refspam. In the second warning you called it the "last warning". It seems they haven't stopped, as they have continued adding their refspam. Would you be able to take a look at this?
Hello! I noticed you added protection to this article awhile back. FYI, this [1] just happened, I asked oversight to take a look. @Stwalkerster, @Liz, FYI-ping to you too. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:40, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello dear Jamie, I worked with a freelancer to help to publish our VC&MD and CEO pages on wikipedia, and for some reason they were deleted, can you please help in fixing the issue and having the pages back? Or do I need to hire another free lancer to publish new pages?
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Based on CU data, Meless13 appears to be operating from a different location than the LTA. I base this on the assumption that 4.39.232.210 and 2600:8800:4182:4c00:b5e2:27ca:88b5:c24d are examples of that LTA, both of which geolocate to warm areas of the U.S. I'm not permitted to say much about Meless13 but can say they are not on the same continent and aren't using a proxy (based on spur.us and on my own port scan). --Yamla (talk) 17:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Jamie, while reading this I came across this filter hit and while the edit is unconstructive, I don't think it's the filters target. Thoughts? Nobody (talk) 12:37, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that is a false positive; let me see if I can tune it a bit. There have been so many WP:SPA accounts disrupting that article (some of them likely socks that the filter targets), probably should just semi or EC protect that page for a long time. OhNoitsJamieTalk 14:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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