User talk:HJ Mitchell/Archive 139

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Archive 139

Lakestan & Simko shikak Revolt

I wanted to apologise for the crap I did in the pages ,,Lakestan Incident & ,,Simko shikak Revolt 1918-1922 I will stop with that the reason for that was because most of the sources was Fake and I have proof of it, could you maybe unban me from your two sides? Canoooo.4 (talk) 00:06, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

As a suggestion, you're blocked from the article, not from the article talk pages. An excellent option that falls in line with WP:BRD would be for you to start a calm and reasonable discussion with high quality sources on the article talk page. If needed, the Dispute Resolution page has some further options if there's no agreement on the article talk page. Ravensfire (talk) 02:32, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Blocking 86.175.131.212

I've added a comment on this IP talk page as to why I think your decision to block is unjustified. Pmbma (talk) 01:38, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
Hi.... could you perhaps give some advice as to how to handle an editor who seems to add citation-needed tags regularly to material that's been in place for many years, (almost) never adds citations themselves, deletes primary references and regularly reverts the (good faith) edits of others ? It's been going on for many months and seems to be scaring off other editors so that they no longer want to make good faith edits to wikipedia any more. In effect, large numbers of pages which used to get regular edits from a wide variety of people are becoming relatively stagnant and edited by only a few people. In effect rules are being applied so strictly by one person that many people just don't want to edit wikipedia any more. Pmbma (talk) 14:17, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, HJ Mitchell. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! Randompersonediting (✍️•📚) 05:12, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Spam farm question

Hi HJ Mitchell, can you tell me more about this block Special:Contributions/Buck Nehru? There are other accounts which match the profile and I haven't run across a "spam farm" before. For context I realized they were blocked when I went to slap a COI notice on their page. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:38, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

@Horse Eye's Back In general, I use the term "spam farm" in block logs to refer to a group of accounts that are connected by checkuser data and used for spam/undisclosed paid editing or similar activities. That's quite an old one but I'll shed what light I can infer from the CU logs: the account that first caught my attention appears to be Ranahamzauae (talk · contribs). I often check spammers because spam often comes from professional PR/SEO operations and they often use multiple accounts (often one account per client or commission). I don't remember much more about this one in particular but the block log for that day (ctrl + f for {{Checkuserblock-account}}: spam farm) shows quite a few simultaneous blocks. All those accounts will have been on the same range, likely with identical or very similar user agents, and usually with some behavioural overlap. Hope that helps! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:01, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

A little while after Buck Nehru was blocked a comparable account named Sanija Dulmika came along and that makes more sense in the context of a spam farm/promotion ring. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 20:08, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Frank Fritz

You locked this redirect in September 2014 due to repeated restoration of the article. There is a draft which has information that is not in the redirected article. I am requesting that the protection of the redirect be downgraded to ECP so that a reviewer can accept it if they think it should be accepted. I have not conducted a detailed review and do not have an opinion on whether the draft should be accepted. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:32, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Robert (@Robert McClenon). Seems reasonable. ECP didn't exist back then. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:08, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I don't expect to review it, but when I see a redirect that was locked for admin protection before ECP was introduced, I think that the protection should be downgraded so that a reviewer can review a draft. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:39, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure we should downgrade all those protections en masse but it's certainly reasonable to review them when they come up and downgrading them to ECP is usually the right thing to do. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:47, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thank you for your help with getting Veiqia to FA Lajmmoore (talk) 09:30, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Lucy! I was really pleased to see the article was promoted. You put a lot of work into it and it shows. I hope you're proud! Will this be the first of many FAs? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:43, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the cleanup

I appreciate your modeling to me correct response to this specific form of disruption. In my haste to block, I failed to include these obvious setting choices. As always, thanks for your continuing service. BusterD (talk) 11:38, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

@BusterD always happy to help! I got there from your oversight request but someone else replied to the ticket before I got back to it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:44, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

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Michael Myers

Can you fix the Michael Myers article remove Ghostface from his Popular culture section Michael Myers is part of the big three alongside Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. 2600:387:F:5C34:0:0:0:7 (talk) 15:55, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Territorial Supply Constraints

Hi. I'm new to Wikipedia. You undid my edit to the Territorial Supply Constraints article. Please let me know why so I can improve my edit. Kind regards. 2A02:A03F:75CB:1B00:9C54:29F0:A96E:8ED1 (talk) 16:00, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

You removed a large amount of content, including references, without explaining why. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:02, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

My apologies. My understanding was that bold moves were encouraged. Especially in cases where overt bias is being corrected. 2A02:A03F:75CB:1B00:9C54:29F0:A96E:8ED1 (talk) 16:10, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Bold, maybe, within reason, but not completely without explanation. Removing chunks of content looks like vandalism if you don't explain yourself in the edit summary. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:13, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Noted. Would I be able to restore the edit and continue working on it? On the bold edit, the answer is simple, the original article is overly reliant on a single report, and is in fact framed by it - it's a press release in effect for it. It has no mention of quite a famous comprehensive study done in 2022 that challenges its premises - and it needs significant restructuring as the term in and of itself its very hotly debated.

By all means, but I would advise you to use an informative edit summary or you're likely to run into the same problem. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:23, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Many thanks. 2A02:A03F:75CB:1B00:9C54:29F0:A96E:8ED1 (talk) 16:27, 9 April 2025 (UTC)