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Effect of Apple’s iCloud Private Relay

Hello!

Communities typically block edits from IP addresses that obscure individual users. Usually, it has been about “open proxies” or virtual private networks (VPNs). Now, there's a new Apple service called iCloud Private Relay that obscures the IP addresses of desktop and mobile users of the Safari browser.

As Apple users adopt this new service, we estimate that 3-5% of all logged-in and logged-out editors will have these obscured IP addresses. If we don't change anything, they may be blocked within a few months. This wiki may be severely affected. A lot of people editing here use the Safari browser. Next, other browser providers may do the same. The problem will grow.

The communities, users with advanced MediaWiki permissions, the Wikimedia Foundation and others need to work together. We all need to decide how the security of the wikis can be maintained. At the same time, the pathways to editing should remain open for all good-faith participants.

Read more on Apple iCloud Private Relay. Answer the questions and comment on its talk page.

Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 21:34, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect discussion

I recently modified the WP:H redirect to go to Help:Contents, but with that came the idea to have a page for discussing redirects; e.g. whether a given redirect is needed or whether to change what page a certain redirect goes to.

Similarly, I'd like to request a page where we can give ideas for the Simple English Wikipedia.

Thank you, 209.232.149.23 (talk) 18:32, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That is done on our WP:RFD page as far as deletion goes, changing them would happen on the talk page of the article affected or at WP:Simple Talk. We try to keep talk centralized here as we are a small community. -Djsasso (talk) 18:33, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

LouisAlain

LouisAlain who has been banned from the English and French Wikipedia for machine translations and personal attacks is now active here.

His translations also lack the appropriate transwiki attribution. --94.46.24.59 (talk) 03:04, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

LouisAlain has now just been banned from the German Wikipedia for "translates without proper crediting".

His recent creations on Simple Wikipedia are still lacking proper transwiki attribution. --94.46.24.56 (talk) 10:45, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Protection

Transferring request from meta. No personal opinions. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 08:11, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

POV pushing by socks from en.wiki

I edit on en.wiki and found one of the users with a history of disruption and long term socking is creating articles that were deleted there and uses simple.wiki for their POV pushing. The IP range 157.49.*.* was reported on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sweetindian in en.wiki is editing along with multiple accounts blocked under this SPI here. This same behavior is mirrored at other multiple other language wikis when their POV pushing is not given a chance at en.wiki.

157.49.*.* created Uthiyur which was edited by the same IP range and multiple socks of this SPI in en.wiki.[1][2][3].

Annamalai Kuppusamy was created here by 157.49.*.* and edited by Tamil098(blocked sock in en.wiki). This article was recreated at least a dozen times with different names by multiple socks of this user and was deleted all the time in en.wiki.[4][5][6][7] This user appears to have a high COI with this subject as a number of socks have requested to create this article in en.wiki.[8][9]. This article was also edited by Someuser1234(blocked sock in en.wiki)
L. Murugan was created here by 157.49.*.* and significantly expanded by Tamil098(blocked sock in en.wiki). In en.wiki there were POV pushing by multiple socks of this user.[10][11][12].Same in Vanathi Srinivasan.
Tamilianda(blocked sock in en.wiki) edited Indian religions along with 157.49.*.*.

The articles above are created with a POV version of this user filled with WP:OR and fictional references which this sock master has a history of. Requesting admin action against these socks and articles especially Annamalai Kuppusamy which was deleted multiple times in en.wiki due to its lack of notability. I hope the same applies to Simple wikipedia. Thanks Suneye1 (talk) 15:16, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fountain request

Please add user MdsShakil as a jury member on the Fountain page for the Simple English Wikipedia's Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021 edit-a-thon: Fountain MdsShakil's request.

MdsShakil is trying to fix Fountain errors that are preventing me from updating the contestants' scores when they improve previously not-contest-ready articles. Many of these users have selected excellent topics to add here at Simple, and some have had to work very hard to understand what we mean by simple English. I want them to have a fair chance at winning the prize. Darkfrog24 (talk) 15:23, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Darkfrog24 and MdsShakil:

Done --Ferien (talk) 15:27, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hundabt

Hello. While trying to find additional sockpuppets of RAJNEESHKSAXENA, an account that is globally locked, I stumbled upon the Rajneesh Kumar Saxena page on simple wiki. The page on simple wiki was made by Hundabt (talk · contribs).

RAJNEESHKSAXENA is known to do cross-wiki sockpuppetry; evidence of past sockpuppetry can be found in English at w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RAJNEESHKSAXENA. All of the user's past sockpuppets seem to have an interest in creating an article on "Rajneesh Kumar Saxena".

The article has previously been deleted at Requests for deletion and re-created by several users. These include K7U22554 and Kavita.kumarsharda. Currently, Kavita.kumarsharda is globally locked as a sock of RAJNEESHKSAXENA.

Overall, this group of editors appears to be a part of the same sockfarm that has been repeatedly engaging in cross-wiki abuse. Mikehawk10 (talk) 15:45, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure whether blocking would be necessary as they last edited 2 months ago. --Ferien (talk) 16:01, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Would it not be useful to tag them as a sockpuppet? The master is globally locked. Mikehawk10 (talk) 17:15, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Many RfDs, admin side...

Hello, I closed a few (10-15 I think) RfDs which would have timed out today, or which were clear cases. Since there are still a few left, I would invite other admins to also look over the listing and close a few. I have also put html comments on the RfD closure page to make it easier to keep days apart (for counting the 2-3 days worth of Rfds to keep. --Eptalon (talk) 22:33, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Eptalon. Different issue with this page: if we could suppress the "Discussion" headings from the TOC, it could make working with this page easier. I tried using the {{TOClimit}} template to do this, but didn't get it to work. (Maybe it's the wrong template?) Does anyone else know how to do this? --Auntof6 (talk) 08:15, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6: I have suppressed the "Discussion" headings from the TOC. Can be changed to how it was once the number of RFDs decrease. BRP^ever 09:01, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@BRPever Thanks, it looks good. I don't see a problem with leaving it this way even if we get back to having fewer requests. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We only generally keep the last 5 rfds that are closed, sometimes more depending on the admin who closed them, but we don't go by number of days ago they were closed so the comments aren't really necessary. -Djsasso (talk) 11:19, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possible edit war at Avian?

It seems like 3 IP's are just ganging up on Stang are reverting Stang's edits over and over again. Kolva (talk) 01:49, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I protected the page. The IP's edit summary makes this look like vandalism.-BRP^ever 01:59, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Stang's Userpage It now looks like two extra IP's are attacking Stang. Kolva (talk) 02:20, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

POV pusher

Hello everyone. It seems that the POV pusher is active again. To those watching recent change, it might be a good idea to take a look when you see frequent edits in multiple articles where they add POV content or links. Some recent account/IPs are:

Mx. Clarks (talk • contribs • CA • deleted contribs • nuke contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log) - Globally locked
2A00:23C5:8D98:E201:4976:E3F7:BE87:BB (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) - Blocked by me.

Thanks, -BRP^ever 22:30, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@BRPever Isn't https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2A00:23C5:8D98:E201:ED4C:47F2:2C96:9233 the same? Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:27, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked.-BRP^ever 12:29, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I also blocked the /64 range for 3 months, this should help reduce the vandalism. --Ferien (talk) 15:55, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting protection of George Reeves

There has been vandalism from multiple IPs and block evasion on the article on George Reeves. I've reverted the page to what it was before all the disruption, can an admin protect the page to stop the vandalism? 209.232.149.23 (talk) 18:56, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok nevermind it's been protected. 209.232.149.23 (talk) 22:36, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User continually recreating promo page for himself

Hi. Wikipedia user User:Mlungisisbongiseni085 has continually remade an entirely promotional page about himself, even when warned not to do it, blatantly ignoring this. This user is clearly not here to build an encyclopedia and I think a block is due. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 12:31, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The page User:Mlungisisbongiseni085 has been create-protected by Macdonald-ross. Should be clear now. 209.232.149.23 (talk) 22:32, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request to delete redirect

Hello,

I have just renamed the "climate change" article to "climate variability and change". But I am having trouble renaming the "global warming" page to "climate change" as there is a redirect called "climate change".

I don't come here often (I am usually on English Wikipedia) so I am not sure how to delete the redirect myself. Or is that only for you admins? If so please could you delete it and rename the "global warming" page to "climate change". As you can see this has been discussed on the talk pages.

Regards

Chidgk1 (talk) 14:32, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]