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Gino D'Acampo

Would it be possible to protect the Gino D'Acampo article again, as it is subject to persistent vandalism? Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 08:40, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Apologies, I missed this earlier. I've semi'd it for three months. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:37, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

A reproductively viable female worker ant that is able to reproduce with mature males when the colony is lacking a queen

I've been distracted by other things (especially preparing for a Friday job interview) and had gotten away from that situation. I can get back to it and add a "not going to happen" note after checking (please pardon me for doubting, but I just want to satisfy myself that you're uninvolved), although I'll not if someone else comes along. Nyttend (talk) 18:11, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Dude

Dude !! I didn't know you could revert all of a vandal's edits ... I thought I was going to have to hit 'em one by one. Guess I should get more familiar with AIV. I am curiously watching today's TFA, and see that a vandal IP edit stood there for 26 minutes. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:24, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Handy bit of javascript (though I think it's a little bit slower if you're not an admin. Or a bot.). I spot-checked a few and they were all junk, so I thought I'd save you some time. And that diff is a perfect example of why people dread TFA! Dear oh dear. I've stuck on my watchlist, but the horse has well and truly bolted. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:31, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:34, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) What's this sweet Javascript code? How can I get involved? Every time I deal with the "Marhc" vandal I have to manually revert through Twinkle. (Which of course adds every rollback to my watchlist...) Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:55, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

First line here. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:42, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Oh cool! Thanks! How come nobody told me about these secrets before?! :D Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:28, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

PArt of the problem is there's no central repository of these things, and a lot of them have minimal or no documentation. So we end up with hodge-podges of bits of javascript, which I gather makes the devs' lives a nightmare because when you're dealing with experienced editors, no two editors' interfaces are the same! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:38, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

I remember when I first learned about Twinkle. I was mostly pissed that I had been copy/pasting UW templates and doing all that crap manually for MONTHS. That's hard work! Anyhow, thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:50, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Please enlighten me

Hi, I am curious as to why you reverted the 26 edits, to separate articles relating to autism, on 9 December, by 198.188.6.56, after which you placed a school block. Although the IP has engaged prolifically in vandalism there has been none since 5 December - four days ago - and those 26 edits do seem to be constructive ones. Richard Harvey (talk) 00:05, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Some of the edits weren't vandalism, but these two certainly were (which is what led me to block the IP), and I rolled back their edits en masse none of them appeared to be unambiguously constructive and, given my extremely limited knowledge of the subject, I took SandyGeorgia's word. The thread above is related. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:39, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Richard Harvey, there were two subtle vandalism edits (link to child abuse as description of treatment, and "eliminating autistic people" as description of an organization) , which were a concern, and the rest of the edits all replaced autism spectrum disorder (or some variation thereof) with autistic, which is a redirect back to autism spectrum. There may have been other subtle vandalism, but after I saw two instances, I chopped checking. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:53, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi, to both of you. Thanks for the clarification, although I looked through all 26 edits, those two subtle changes slipped past me. Had I spotted those I would have done the same. I am begining to feel that all anon edits should be approved before taking effect. Richard Harvey (talk) 09:18, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, unwatching here now :) Ping me if further info is needed! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:39, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

continue semi-protection

You semi-protected 2014 Indian Super League season page for a month. Recently the protection expired and disruptive editing has begun from unregistered users. Could you protect it again, please? Coderzombie (talk) 07:24, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

I've semi'd it again for three months. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:44, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

RevDel request

HJ, I'm the current coordinator over at DRN would you consider RevDel'ing this edit which without citation accuses an IP user of criminal activity and comes perilously close to outing him? I've deleted it under GRAPEVINE but I think it might be well if it were to disappear. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 17:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, it is the risk you run if you edit without logging in, but since it serves no constructive purposes I've RevDel'd it. The text is still available in intermediate revisions (between that edit and yours) though; would you like those RevDel'd as well? I only ask because those edits are all legitimate and editors might want to refer back to them or link to the diffs in the future, which they wouldn't be able to do if they were RevDel'd. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:30, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Why don't you just zap my removal edit since the edit summary provides a flag and we can take a risk with the rest? Thanks, TransporterMan (TALK) 17:34, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Your wish is my command. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:40, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

You're a mensch, my friend. Thanks, TransporterMan (TALK) 17:49, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Ta

No12345abcd was one of three plus an IP working on Maverick Holiday Party Spaghetti Riot Of 2k14 which I deleted. I suppose they thought I shouldn't have done that. Melanie has my page on her watchlist, so she caught the later ones, and then got her own... Peridon (talk) 18:32, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Harry, (and Peridon), FYI - I have already blocked User talk:No12345abcd User talk:Yes0139 for VOA and obvious socking. I came to it from an entirely different route. Rgds, Chris. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:31, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Chris. And you're welcome, Peridon. You might want to indef the rest of the accounts if they haven't been blocked already. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Yvette Fielding

It is semi-protected and pending changes. --George Ho (talk) 01:58, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

It's on an IAR PC2 because of serious issues with obscene vandalism and misogyny from sockpuppets of an incredibly disruptive editor. And that an admin who deals with abusive editors and obscene vandalism day in day out, the very fact that I'm using adjectives like those should tell you that there are issues. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:04, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Eleazar Avaran

Hello HJ Mitchell, I'm involved in an issue concerning the article Eleazar Avaran against User:Aharonium in the discussion page of the article. The editor is as adding original research via website: http://opensiddur.org as a source. I have warned the editor about using original research but failed. We both have violated 2RR but editor is persistent on adding the website: , and is now publicly trying to build a case using Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Judaism via this edit: . — JudeccaXIII (talk) 08:04, 12 December 2014 (UTC)