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After an absence of near a year and half I have returned. If some of you are surprised, well so am I. When I left, I'd have bet good money that my departure was permanent. But here I am again. Apparently, there is not a 12 step program for Wikipedians. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:27, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- Glad to see you back Ad Orientem! Signed,The4lines |||| (Talk) (Contributions) 02:13, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- As Hotel Wikipedia goes, "You can log out any time you like/But you can never leave!" bibliomaniac15 04:14, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- LOL Ad Orientem (talk) 04:16, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- As Hotel Wikipedia goes, "You can log out any time you like/But you can never leave!" bibliomaniac15 04:14, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- Very nice to see you back. Jip Orlando (talk) 14:18, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Welcome back! Amaury • 17:40, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- I knew you'd come back someday. Hooray. Scorpions13256 (talk) 03:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
- I didn't know you'd come back someday. I'm very glad you did though. :) Girth Summit (blether) 16:18, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
Wow, 15 actions at RFPP! Way to clear out the backlog! Welcome back to RFPP, and to adminship. -- MelanieN (talk) 22:17, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks everybody for the kind words. -Ad Orientem (talk) 22:33, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
- Glad to see you back after a long break. Severestorm28 14:46, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
- Also very pleased that you have returned, saw the online note in my watchlist. Best wishes to you! Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 23:00, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
- Welcome back! I remember being sad when you turned into your mop and toolbelt so I'm glad your admin departure wasn't permanent. I just noticed you had protected some pages being regularly attacked by one of our long-term vandals and so I had to check WP:BN to see if you had asked for your tools back and you did! This is great as WP:RFPP regularly gets backlogged plus I value your voice of experience about all admin matters. Such good news! Liz Read! Talk! 19:20, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Hey, good to see you back. There have been a couple of occasions where I thought I was completely done with Wikipedia, but what keeps me coming back is seeing work that needs to be done on articles. It looks like we're all here for the long haul. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 20:49, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
A belated welcome back! I guess you finally did reach the end of Netflix. Ss112 17:15, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Good to see you back with the tools! Cheers, SpencerT•C 03:10, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
A cup of coffee for you!
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Thanks for your contributions as an administrator. I especially appreciate you blocking vandals, protecting pages, and reverting vandalism. LPS and MLP Fan (Littlest Pet Shop and My Little Pony Fan) 02:28, 30 March 2022 (UTC) |
- Thank you. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:07, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Woodland Café
Now that Woodland Café has been protected, the IPv6 has redirected their attention. Could you do a rangeblock on them? –Skywatcher68 (talk) 01:49, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
- Taking a look. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:59, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Range Blocked 2600:1005:B000:0:0:0:0:0/40 x 2 weeks. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:07, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi
Hi. I just checked the page White Colombians and I see user Merchancano has completely vandalised the page. It was complete and full of information last time I checked.
This user has been inflating the number of Afro Colombians and apparently reducing the number of White Colombians. Don't know what's the motive behind this.
According to him, anybody who is part African or have a fraction of Sub-Saharan ancestry even if it is as low as 15% of their ADN, counts as 'Afro-Colombian' but then again, he says people who are 60% or more European (genetic-wise) can't be 'white Colombians'. Check the page's history, that's what he says. So he has double standards for the figures he wants to impose.
He's been editing all pages related to Colombian ethnic groups (English and Spanish) and selling the idea of an Afro Colombia. Crazy thing.
I don't know if you could please help me out raise awareness about this and take some actions if possible. I'm no expert at Wikipedia but I think this user has an agenda. He's not happy with inflating Afro Colombian numbers, he also goes and vandalises other ethnicities' pages, like the one dedicated to White Colombians.
He also deletes content instead of asking for references.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Opita garzon (talk • contribs) 01:44, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Opita garzon. I don't have enough knowledge of the subject to feel comfortable getting involved with a content dispute. I suggest you drop a line at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Colombia and ask for help. If you believe this editor is behaving disruptively, you may request intervention at WP:ANI. But you will need to provide specific evidence including edit diffs and so on. I'd start with the project I linked. You can also request help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Latin America. I hope this helps. Best regards... -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:58, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Happy April 1
Don't open this!
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In need at ANI
Hello. I have opened an ANI here. Could you have a look at it and, if possible, impose sanctions where needed?
Last time I opened an ANI for this user, no action was taken until three days later after I asked some admins to have a look at it, so this time I decided to start asking sooner. The admin Ymblanter does not want to intervene for - from what I understand - ethical reasons. Thanks in advance. Veverve (talk) 23:57, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
- Will Monitor the discussion and review edits. Ymblanter has taken part in the discussion and may view himself as INVOLVED and therefor be reluctant to take admin action. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:12, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
- Topic Banned for one year. Courtesy ping Veverve. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:59, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Suspected sockpuppetry
I had just placed a report on AIV for this IP which you just blocked 78.54.117.35 but I looked into it a bit more carefully and ran into this account, User:Sport0934, who I also believe is a sock of User:Charli 250. I've no idea how to file reports for sockpuppetry or the proper place to do so, so I was just wondering if this could be looked into. Adamtt9 (talk) 18:24, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Adamtt9 I'm new here and don't have the official app, and I followed it up and there was grad matchball sorry for undoing that was not intentional Sport0934 (talk) 18:27, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- This will need to be referred to SPI or a check user. Sorry I can't be of further help. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:38, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Revdel
Hi Ad Orientem, sorry to bug you but I noticed you were online. An IP added a comment on an article talk page in which they inserted a signature to impersonate SPECIFICO. Would you be able to revdel that edit, plus the two subsequent revisions, per REVDEL criteria #3 (purely disruptive material) if they qualify under that criteria? These are the diffs: [1], [2], [3]. Thank you. Aoi (青い) (talk) 19:14, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Checking -Ad Orientem (talk) 19:27, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Done User blocked x 72 hrs. -Ad Orientem (talk) 19:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Jamal's dad
You blocked for 31 hours instead of indef as VOA. Snazzy. That encourages me to go lower. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 15:34, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
- Ack. That should have been an indef. -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:36, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Does this break a TBAN?
Hello. Does such a message constitute an indirect avoidance of the TBAN you enforced? The message is about an article directly named in the reproaches at the ANI which led to the TBAN. I found nothing at WP:BAN. Veverve (talk) 11:16, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, I have issued a formal warning. -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:35, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
RevDel - email
Hey there, just pinged you via email with a revdel request as I saw you were active. Cheers! Tony Fox (arf!) 00:20, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Done -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:25, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
Thanks for protecting the Wikipedia against vandals. For your efforts, I award you this barnstar. Williamwang363 (talk) 21:05, 11 April 2022 (UTC) |
- Thank you! -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:13, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
I find it humorous that one editor I admire thanked me
And another editor I admire says the closer should ignore my "bizarre" and "odd interjection". And they are not wrong. I can't explain this much more clearly than I did. There are people who grew up calling the aircraft carrier upon which they stood "she" and those who read about them in book who call such a vessel "it". If you trust the ship with your life, the culture tells you to serve her, not it. I can't be the only sailor on the board. Am I overstating? Unquestionably. Should we base any process closure upon my upbringing? Absolutely not. Was my assertion based on policy? I quoted BADNAC and NACPIT, so no. But NACD says basically the same thing. The essay just says it more clearly. Appreciate your appreciation. Welcome back! BusterD (talk) 23:50, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- This really comes down to the question of how far should we go in regulating speech. Language does evolve. But it does so organically. Trying to dictate to others how to speak (or write) in order to satisfy some sort of socio-political agenda is almost always going to accomplish little other than exacerbate tensions. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:05, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- I have recently made peace with User:Dicklyon, a person I undervalued for some time. I just don't want to go toe-to-toe against such MOS "enforcers" on a local consensus basis on the issue of "it/she". I assert "un-ask the question." Regulating modes of speech is a way of making the encyclopedia unreadable to normies. Didn't Orwell write something about the dangers of over-regulating speech? Somewhere in my college notes... BusterD (talk) 00:18, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- There are far too many people who think they are endowed with enough wisdom and moral clarity to give them the right to tell others what to think and how to express themselves. And those who dare to challenge this new orthodoxy do so at great risk. McCarthyism has been fully embraced by the mob. They just call it "canceling" as opposed to black listing. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:31, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Just when I think I know where I stand, an editor does something incredibly kind. Why can't I be allowed to hold resentments against people? It used to be such a workable strategy for me. BusterD (talk) 17:21, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- There are far too many people who think they are endowed with enough wisdom and moral clarity to give them the right to tell others what to think and how to express themselves. And those who dare to challenge this new orthodoxy do so at great risk. McCarthyism has been fully embraced by the mob. They just call it "canceling" as opposed to black listing. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:31, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- I have recently made peace with User:Dicklyon, a person I undervalued for some time. I just don't want to go toe-to-toe against such MOS "enforcers" on a local consensus basis on the issue of "it/she". I assert "un-ask the question." Regulating modes of speech is a way of making the encyclopedia unreadable to normies. Didn't Orwell write something about the dangers of over-regulating speech? Somewhere in my college notes... BusterD (talk) 00:18, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Note
I have removed spam or unrelated material from talk page(s), as you requested. Regards,178.148.119.189 (talk) 22:04, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, but who are you? -Ad Orientem (talk) 22:17, 12 April 2022 (UTC)