User talk:Teles/Archive/2018

Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee Election Nomination Phase

Hello again Teles/Archive/2018! As stated in our previous message, nominations for the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group steering committee elections are now open and will remain open until the 9th. If you are interested and have read the instructions, please nominate yourself on the election page. Please forward your queries to librarieslists.wikimedia.org, and for private correspondence, please get in touch with one of the founding members. And finally, wishing you a prosperous and happy new year on behalf of the user group founding members! On behalf of the user group founding members --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:00, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Updates on the user group election and #1Lib1Ref

Hi everyone, two quick but important updates:

Timeline for nominations and voting

• Nominations are extended until 12 January 2018.
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Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee Election Voting Phase

Hello once again! We are happy to announce that the steering committee election 2018 is now open for voting. Because you have joined the user group by 21 January 2018, you are eligible to vote. As mentioned under the instructions for voters, you can vote support for multiple candidates, at most one support for each candidate. Also, oppose votes are not allowed, but discussions are welcome on the talk page.

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Finnish edits.

Hola! You've undone my edit. I see that You live in Brazil, so You might not know our copyright laws. --Risto hot sir (talk) 02:52, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Risto hot sir! Thanks for writing here. Could you please clarify those edits? There is, for sure, no reason for blanking an article. When you blank it, you don't actually delete it as it is still visible on history page. If there is a reason to delete the article, you have to request deletion and a sysop will complete it. On one of your edits, you left a message on the article and signed on it, which is also completely wrong. In this meanwhile, I don't think that a small text, like those quoted could be qualified as copyright. That is why Wikiquote exist in the many languages and I doubt that it would be a problem on your country, but I am willing to learn from you. Regards.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 03:00, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello! I really don't want to delete these articles, but those have to be handled equally. That's why I wrote to Smaug The Golden. Let's see what he/she thinks about this. --Risto hot sir (talk) 03:08, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Main Page/pt-br

Oi Teles, o modelo citado está redirecionando a um link inexistente (por exemplo pt-br.wikipedia.org/wiki), já tentei reverter isso mas minhas edições são revestidas para a forma antiga. Acho necessário analisar isso.wu22222 • (talk to me) 14:58, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

@WikiUser22222: Tem razão. Os links ficam quebrados. Reverti novamente e deixei um sumário um pouco mais.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 20:12, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank You e Obrigado!

Dear Teles, Thank you for your vote of support to have me on the Wikipedia Library Steering Committee. I was selected as a new steering committee member thanks to your support. I hope that I will be able to make an impact on this steering committee. Sincerely, Rachel Wexelbaum RachelWex (talk) 19:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Queridos Teles, Obrigado pelo seu voto de apoio para me ter no Comitê Diretivo da Wikipedia Library. Fui selecionado como um novo membro do comitê de direção graças ao seu apoio. Espero que eu possa influenciar este comitê de direção. Rachel Wexelbaum RachelWex (talk) 19:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

CheckUser inquiry

Hello Teles, perhaps you can help me. I've read in your user page that you've got experience of checkuser and bureaucrat, and that your main task in all wikis is to combat vandalism and let the good faith users edit freely. Well, one week ago I've opened a checkuser request about a very likely (almost 100%) cross-wiki proxy user and sockpuppet user, both in RFCU and SRCU. Since the user that I've identified is going on doing the same edits in the same pages with normal IP ranges (coming from Italy, and I'm Italian too) I'm updating the IP list daily, but nobody has checked about this problem, which is very real and currently continuing, yet. Can you do anything do help me with this request? I've been spending and I'm still spending a long time for that, and still I see no results. I thought at the beginning that this problem would be solved quickly, afterall it's about proxies and sockpuppets so it should interest sysops, I hoped I could do something good for the project and maybe I would be thanked for that; instead, also requests made after mine have already been closed, while the only 2 answers I had for mine were that if I'm an IP user I can't make requests (so I've created an account too) or that the 2 only socks that I've reported can't be linked to IPs because of CU Policy (then what about the proxy IPs and the normal IPs?)... If you can do anything for me, please tell me. Thanks in advance! 151.64.164.185 15:45, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi. If those IP's listed are proxies, all we need to do is block them. There is no need to check them all. We won't be able to publicly link IP addresses to accounts anyway, but you can list accounts that you believe to be related with the reason, then we will be able to tell if a certain account is related to another account. Does that help to answer your request?—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 21:21, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer! Actually, in part you've been helpful but in part you made other doubts come to my mind. CheckUser policy say: "Determine the edits, logged actions and password resets on the Wikimedia wiki of a specific IP (even when logged in)". The current issue is about my suspect that the user behind those proxies is the same user behind the socks and the same user behind normal IP ranges (the reasons of my suspects are that the edits made by such IPs and accounts are the same, in the same pages, and all made recently). What's wrong in my request, then? If this user has used proxies, which is against this project rules, and has used socks for reasons which are different from the only allowed reasons, which is against this project rules, and a part of his cross-wiki edits were inappropriate or disruptive, what should I've done to report his behaviour and prove that he's just one user? On it.wikipedia it's always been done like that: as far as I know, accounts suspected to be related to certain IPs, and viceversa, because of suspicious editing are regularly subjected to CU and then both blocked and reverted. And in CU requests also different IPs are included to be related to each others on the basis of editing similarities even if they're on different ranges, same for accounts editing from different ranges but doing the same edits (in these cases the result is just that it's "likely" that they're being used by one user, not "proven", obviously, but the effects such as blocks and reverts are the same). I've written a long text but I hope I've been able to explain my doubts. 151.64.186.145 12:51, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

I think I understand your concerns. The thing is that checkuser tool is not needed (and actually not that helpful) to link of IP to another. If somebody uses two different IP’s unlogged, both of them are public and we don’t need to checkuser them to do any research. Checkuser information wouldn’t automatically link them for instance. If any, we could compare their user agents, but that alone would not bring to any strong conclusion. Usually the “block, revert and ignore” rule is enough to frustrate them.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 01:22, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Okay, probably I've understood what you mean now. In practice, if a registered user has logged in and edited from a certain IP (static) or IP range (dynamic) it's possible to verify it and consequently identify that user with that IP or IP range when they're used to make similar edits. In the current case, if a checkuser verifies that those 2 accounts have been using one or more among the IPs or IP ranges showing similar edits, then it'll be proven that it's alsways been one person behind all that: so the accounts will be considered sockpuppets, and the normal IPs just substitutes of the partially blocked proxies, am I right? If I am, what can you advise me to do at this point about my request? Perhaps I should open a new request in a different way... 151.64.162.226 14:09, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

You can report the IP list that is being used for vandalism. Please, provide diffs to edits too if possible as when a checkuser/steward is on a case it may be difficult to find them when it is not so clear. You might want to create an account and make a list of IPs on one of your subpage and that is what I would do.
If you see more than one 'account' that may be related and are being used for vandalism, you can request checkuser of them directly. If you believe there are any IP related with them, you can list them together too, but we may or may not comment about the relation between them and the accounts.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 14:33, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I'll do as you say. I've already created an account so I'll use it to submit a new request. In the request I'll ask to link one of the 2 socks to one or more of the IP ranges, provide the full list of IPs and accounts in my own page, and show some differences too as you asked in order to show off similarities, or better identicalness, among edits by different IPs. Not all the edits can be considered vandalisms, but I think the fact that proxies and sockpuppets have been used to do a large part of the edits, added to inappropriate and disruptive edits, should be sufficient to mark the user as a vandal. Since he's still going on editing with new IPs, I'll open the request as soon as I've found all the previous IPs and accounts he may have used. Do you think all I've said will be okay? 151.64.167.75 14:04, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Could you have a look to my new request here and tell me whether there's something wrong or not, please? 151.64.167.163 11:27, 27 January 2018 (UTC) P.S. in case you're not going to help me with my request, just please tell me.

Hi! I saw many of the edits you pointed out. I see that many of those edits are still the most recent ones and were not reverted. I wonder if any local community has already considered these edits problematic, or if any of those accounts or IP has been blocked. Checkuser tool should be avoided whenever possible and I don't see that blocking, protecting and reverting actions have been tried first.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 01:37, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Teles! I understand your doubt. Well, such edits are minor and, since they're mainly about Italian accents, in wikis using different languages most of them went unnoticed. Despite this, some of them were actually reverted by admins, and some of the IPs and IP ranges were actually blocked by admins. I'm providing a few examples here: rv rv rv rv rv rv rv block block block block block (note that almost all his reverted edits were reverted again and that he started using normal IP ranges and sock accounts just after his proxy ranges he'd been using till then were blocked). Apart from this, the user is a proxy user (proven) and a sockpuppet abuser (would be proven with a check). If this behaviour is now tolerated in this project unlike it was before, then I'll just forget this request; but if it's still considered vandalism as I think, I don't see what stewards are waiting for to detect and stop this vandal. I've called on meta community because as you see it's a cross-wiki problem, which must be dealt with as a cross-wiki problem and not as a sum of single problems in single wikis. Moreover, there's also the possibility that the sockmaster is an old registered Italian user, but if he's sly he didn't use the same IPs for his main account and for his socks. All I've written with some more information is resumed in my request in SRCU. Did I clarify your doubt? 151.64.167.110 13:31, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

News: account Myeuurn was blocked in fr.wikipedia with an expiration time of indefinite for sockpuppetry abuse. Was this, perhaps, the event you were waiting for? Let's hope it's enough! I said it from the very beginning a month ago that this cross-wiki vandal wasn't just using proxies but also abusing sockpuppets... 151.64.176.203 17:45, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

I may not be able to reply quickly to this case. It always requires some reading and I would need my laptop to follow up. The whole thing is the need of checking. If they are using open proxies, checking may not help too much, as previously mentioned. If you disagree, please tell me how checking would help. It's not that stewards are not willing to help. My point is that it is still not clear what other useful information that checkuser would provide, concerning that we already know their IP. There are other measures to be taken, like range-blocking those proxies.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 19:11, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you anyway for your time! Well, I think that checking would help by joining it with the so called duck test. The pages edited by that cross-wiki vandal are hardly ever edited. In the last 2 months they've suddently become edited by: proxies, socks and Italian IPs. More, the edits made by all of these identities are identical. This may be enough already. But in order to do things properly, a check to verify what IPs were used for those socks should be done. It'll prove that for one or more of these socks have been used those proxies, and that for the same socks have been used also the Italian IPs, which were used also for other socks. This would link unequivocally proxies, socks and IPs to each others. This would make this user a long-term abuser and cause not only the proxies but also the socks and the Italian IPs to be blocked so that if the vandal restarted with his edits it would be immediately identified and then blocked and reverted again. Have I expressed my point clearly? Do you think I'm committing a mistake in my reasoning? I don't know, tell me what you think. 151.64.181.51 16:12, 16 February 2018 (UTC) P.S. I've noticed just now that yesterday RadiX blocked globally not just one of the vandal's proxies but also 2 of his socks, Myeuurn and Baka Líte, while Onpuryvgr had already been blocked and only Fulgencio Kokomeci is still unblocked; I confess you that I'm so glad of it!

If they were already locked, their future socks can be considered lock evasions and be immediately locked or blocked. If they are lock evasions, they can be checked to confirm relation. It's great that Radix is dealing with that already.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 21:47, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Again, thank you for your help! I think I won't have to disturb you any more :-) 151.64.175.188 17:48, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee Election Results

Hello everyone! The steering committee election for the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group is finally over and the results you were patiently awaiting for is here! We had many great candidates with awesome skillsets and experience, unfortunately not everyone could make it to the final eight. We are grateful to all the candidates for stepping up and boldly throwing their hat in the ring. It was a difficult choice and they made it. Now, the results. The candidates who made it to the final eight are,

• Gamaliel
• Merrilee
• Bachounda
• RachelWex
• African Hope
• Kerry Raymond
• Sodapopinski7
• Aliaretiree

On behalf of the founding members, the TWL team and the user group members, we congratulate the candidates on their successful run and welcome them to the committee. The steering committee and the founding members will soon meet to discuss the handover and next steps of the user group. Thank you--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:56, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Blocage

Votre adresse IP fait partie d’une plage d’adresses bloquée sur tous les wikis.

Le blocage a été fait par Teles (meta.wikimedia.org). Le motif donné est Open proxy.

Début du blocage : 2 janvier 2018 à 01:59 Expiration du blocage : 2 janvier 2019 à 01:59 Vous pouvez contacter Teles pour discuter du blocage. Vous ne pouvez pas utiliser la fonctionnalité « Envoyer un courriel » à moins d’avoir spécifié une adresse de courriel valide dans vos préférences de compte et de n’avoir pas bloqué son utilisation. Votre adresse IP actuelle est 185.156.174.139 et la plage bloquée est 185.156.174.0/24. Veuillez inclure tous les détails ci-dessus dans toutes les demandes que vous ferez.

JE NE COMPRENDS PAS CE BLOCAGE Raphodon

@Raphodon: Hello! Looks like you are using an open proxy to edit. Do you know why you are using an open proxy? Maybe you are accessing through a site that changes the IP address or you made some change on your browser that makes you use an open proxy. If you did, you may want to undo any of these changes and use your own IP. If you didn't perform any change related with that or if you have any reason to use open proxy, please request block exemption here.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 23:22, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

What's new from the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group

Hi Teles/Archive/2018! Greetings from the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group. Yes, you heard that right! We are now officially known as the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group (previously, Wikipedia Library User Group). New group contacts are User:Merrilee and User:Sodapopinski7. The elected steering committee has been meeting twice a month ever since their election, working on the organisation and details of user group functioning. Progress is being made and we'd like to keep the members updated.

• The steering committee invites you to participate in this poll to help the committee plan activities this year.

• The committee decided to use the librarieslists.wikimedia.org and has started making announcements on the list. Please join the list for future announcements and for internal discussions and communications.

• The latest meeting minutes of the steering committee meeting (May 14-15, 2018) is now available on Meta.

On behalf of the steering committee,

Aaron,

via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:47, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Recorrente

Teles, pode verificar se existe algo que possa ser feito sobre este caso? É recorrente, o registro de bloqueios do mais novo ataque. Cumprimentos. GRS73 (talk) 21:56, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

@GRS73: sim, feito. RadiX∞ 01:20, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

@GRS73: O ideal seria verificar os IP's das contas localmente. Infelizmente, não posso fazer isso. O que os verificadores locais dizem sobre isso?—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 23:01, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Apontam que provavelmente é o @Wariowa:, o @EVinente: escreveu no pedido Júlio César Boldrin Júlio Qué Dar: "GRS73 e HVL, sim é o Wariowa. Estou fazendo o mapeamento dos IPs, mas logo na primeira verificação, um bloqueio de faixa não pode ser extensivo e longo, já que o dano colateral é significativo, afetando provaveis 40.000 usuários." GRS73 (talk) 02:35, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

@GRS73: Já apliquei dois bloqueios globais em faixas de IP. O dano colateral existe, porém não é muito significativo. O bloqueio é necessário no momento. RadiX∞ 02:10, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

New community space for IdeaLab on Connect

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Wikimedia and Libraries User Group updates and Wikimania

Hi Teles/Archive/2018! Greetings from the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group. Thank you for participating in the poll to help the steering committee plan activities for the year 2018. We received 84 responses, and the results can be found on the resources page. In addition to that, there are a few more things we'd like to share with you.

If you are attending Wikimania,

• Bring your books! You can participate in the book swapping we have planned, and swap/leave your books on the table. More details here
• WLUG meetup. We'll be mingling with other librarians/Wikibrarians/activists at the Birds of a Feather Lunch: GLAM and Heritage Birds of a Feather Lunch on July 21st, 13:00 to 14:00 in the London room. Come, join us!
• For your convenience and scheduling purposes, we've put together a list of Wikimedia and library-related events in Wikimania that might be of interest to you, with time and venue.

Bon voyage and have a wonderful Wikimania!

If you are not attending Wikimania, we have you covered too!

• Please help us plan activities for this year by sharing your suggestions on how to implement the top two ideas from the poll results. The discussion is open on the user group talk page.
• The latest meeting minutes of the steering committee meeting (June 28-29, 2018) is now available on Meta.

On behalf of the steering committee,

Aaron,

via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:02, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Situation in Brazil

Hello, sorry for not answering before. If you need to contact the AffCom in regards to the situation in Brazil, please email the committee directly by sending an e-mail to affcomlists.wikimedia.org.
Thanks,
--Maor X (talk) 17:04, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

new

hi im new to meta i need guidance. i want to help as best as i can here. Hasiop111 (talk) 00:28, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

@Hasiop111: Hello! Welcome to Meta. What kind of help you need? Is there any specific question you have? You may want to read what Meta is about first. Regards.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 00:35, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

I want to create an free encyclopedia. Hasiop111 (talk) 00:37, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

@Hasiop111: I don’t have too much experience with that and you haven’t fully described your needs, but you may be looking for this page: Requests for new languages.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 01:03, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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Emergency in KaWiki

Dear steward,
Please read my explanation thoroughly. It is about an inexorable situation in the Georgian Wikipedia, the long-established. Every attempt to solve the problem locally fails again and again. So, please, do not be indifferent.
The requests are extraordinary, so I do not write on a general page, but personally.
Best regards, Deu. 18:08, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

no topic

مرحبا Teles أنا واقع في نطاق آي بي محظور ولا أستطيع التعديل في ويكي بيانات، أرجو استثنائي من المنع. ربما يستطيع user:علاء مساعدتي لإيصال الفكرة. شكرا أبو هشام السوعان (talk) 20:19, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello. According to an online translator, you were caught on a block and are asking for help. If that is correct, please send a message to stewardswikimediaorg explaing the situation and providing your IP address or the message you received when tried to edit but was stopped. Thanks.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 20:26, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

The problem is solved, Thanks. أبو هشام السوعان (talk) 22:09, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Solved --Alaa :)..! 05:29, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you (All), أبو هشام السوعان (talk) 21:14, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

localize reasons

Hi, Teles,

Thanks for blocking this ip. Can you please localize reasons? like (Open proxy: Globally used for vandalism )— Bukhari (Talk!) 08:44, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

@BukhariSaeed: Hi! I don’t get your request. What do you mean by “localize reasons”?—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 14:45, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

localization of block reasons are possible in native language?— Bukhari (Talk!) 06:05, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

@BukhariSaeed: That was a global block. The block reason is not automatically translated. I don't think there is a way to do it for different languages as the log is reproduced unchanged globally. If you are a local sysop, you are free to block it locally and add a corresponding reason in local language if local rules allow that. In case you do it, two logs will be available on that wiki: mine and yours. Hopefully, that can satisfy your request. Regards.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 23:36, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

— Bukhari (Talk!) 15:51, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

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No risks !

কামাল আহমেদ পাশা (talk) 08:56, 20 October 2018 (UTC)কামাল আহমেদ পাশা

@কামাল আহমেদ পাশা: Hello! How can I help you?—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 23:36, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

You block My ID. because, open proxy. Please, open my ID & no risks from my IP address.

কামাল আহমেদ পাশা (talk) 05:57, 21 October 2018 (UTC)কামাল আহমেদ পাশা

Hi! You may be referring to a range block performed on an open proxy. Open proxies are not allowed on Wikimedia as they are oftenly used for vandalism and others negative actions. You can try to use a “normal” IP address, that is not an open proxy. If you have a very good reason to use an open proxy, please email Stewards at stewardswikimediaorg with your IP address, account name and the reason for using it. Thank you for understanding and sorry for any possible trouble.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 16:57, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

About IP blocking

Dear Teles,

My IP is blocked by you for using freebasics(open proxy) to edit in Wikipedia. I have been editing Bengali Wikipedia for quite a long time now and have participated in editing many important articles while using freebasics. And there is not a single incident of vandalism by me in this whole time. So i will be really obliged if you unblock my IP (even if it's only for the bengali wikipedia) and let me continue using wikipedia.(2a03:2880:11ff:1::face:b00c this is my IP address).Thanks Reza Rahib (talk) 10:12, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi! The pointed mail address is an open proxy of Facebook. Open proxies are not allowed on Wikimedia as they are oftenly used for vandalism and others negative actions. You can try to use a “normal” IP address, that is not an open proxy. If you have a very good reason to use an open proxy, please email Stewards at stewardswikimediaorg with your IP address, account name and the reason for using it. Thank you for understanding and sorry for any possible trouble.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 16:52, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Well what can i say. Sorry for the trouble.Reza Rahib (talk) 09:34, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

@Reza Rahib: No worries. Feel free to write me whenever you need.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 08:07, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Unblock IP

You have blocked these IP around freebasics: 2a03:2880:ff:6::face:b00c, with the range of 2A03:2880:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 in bengali wikipedia and 2A03:2880:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 in English wikipedia. Please unblock the IP range for other users who did not violate rules. You can block offensive accouts for a certain time or full period, but you can not block the whole IP range, which is completely irrational. I hope you will consider all our users case and unblock the IP range. We all the users got pissed off from getting blocked numerous time in wikipedia freebasics. Can you please consider this? Sharif Uddin (talk) 17:28, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
I agree with you Sharif Uddin. Patiya Road (talk) 20:12, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi! The pointed mail address is an open proxy of Facebook. Open proxies are not allowed on Wikimedia as they are oftenly used for vandalism and others negative actions. You can try to use a “normal” IP address, that is not an open proxy. If you have a very good reason to use an open proxy, please email Stewards at stewardswikimediaorg with your IP address, account name and the reason for using it. Thank you for understanding and sorry for any possible trouble.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 16:52, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Teles thank you. Now, you can unblock my IP adress? Patiya Road (talk) 23:57, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

@Patiya Road: Please, try editing again. I have changed the block and you may be able to edit if logged in your account.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 19:01, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

blocked me

why i was blocked

Hi! You may be referring to a range block performed on an open proxy. Open proxies are not allowed on Wikimedia as they are oftenly used for vandalism and others negative actions. You can try to use a “normal” IP address, that is not an open proxy. If you have a very good reason to use an open proxy, please email Stewards at stewardswikimediaorg with your IP address, account name and the reason for using it. Thank you for understanding and sorry for any possible trouble.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 16:56, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Ban

Hello Teles! I came to know that you banned me from wikipedia.😕 but I haven't edited any of the wikipedia articles since June of 2018.

And what happened to my edit count?

Hi! You may be referring to a range block performed on an open proxy. Open proxies are not allowed on Wikimedia as they are oftenly used for vandalism and others negative actions. You can try to use a “normal” IP address, that is not an open proxy. If you have a very good reason to use an open proxy, please email Stewards at stewardswikimediaorg with your IP address, account name and the reason for using it. Thank you for understanding and sorry for any possible trouble.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 16:55, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Why am I blocked

Good day sir.I have been here on wikipedia for a couple of days now since I've signed up, and I've realized that I have been blocked and I don't understand why. Can you please check that for me to see if I have broke any rule sir. Thank you

Hi! You may be referring to a range block performed on an open proxy. Open proxies are not allowed on Wikimedia as they are oftenly used for vandalism and others negative actions. You can try to use a “normal” IP address, that is not an open proxy. If you have a very good reason to use an open proxy, please email Stewards at stewardswikimediaorg with your IP address, account name and the reason for using it. Thank you for understanding and sorry for any possible trouble.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 16:56, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Bloqueio de faixa

Olá Teles, poderia me fazer um favor? Teria como bloquear globalmente essa faixa? É de um LTA que está vandalizando diversas wikis, inclusive a pt, e como os pedidos estão demorando muito para serem atendidos, venho pedir diretamente a você, já que é um steward. Mr. Fulano! ^Talk 14:58, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

@Mr. Fulano: Vi que há alguns IPs bloqueados, mas não encontrei nada muito espalhado. Um deles acabou de vandalizar a wiki e já estava bloqueado globalmente. Isso pode indicar que talvez os endereços de IP não sejam tão variáveis. Acho melhor observar por enquanto.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 02:04, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

De boa, então. De qualquer forma estou vigiando, e toda vez que ele realiza um novo vandalismo, eu vou lá e reverto. Mr. Fulano! ^Talk 19:33, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Microblogging handles

Hi, are you involved with @wikimediapt as well? Nemo 20:30, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: hi! No. I think DarwIn is.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 01:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: Hi, about 3 of us at WMPT use to manage the Twitter account, including me.- Darwin ^Ahoy! 02:02, 4 December 2018 (UTC)