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(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, GeneralNotability,

I see you've encountered our celebrity vandal who typically edits from newly created accounts and IPs that typically geolocate to Louisville, Kentucky but can be from neighboring states. He posts the exact same content on celebrity bios, although the content differs on women's pages vs. men's pages. I'm afraid that in 3 days he will just return to this article, he seems to pay attention to when protection ends. There are literally dozens of biographical articles that are protected anywhere from 3-12 months because of his persistence. Just look at Betty White to see another recent example. I wish we could use range block to end his vandalism streak but he seems to jump around quite a bit. Any way, if you haven't seen his work before, now you have and he just reuses the same content over and over again so he's easy to recognize. Our page patrollers do a good job reverting his edits quickly but it can take a while for his accounts to be blocked and the page protected.

Hope you are otherwise having a good weekend! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:48, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi, the last two times I blocked a sock at this SPI, the helper script revoked TPA and disabled e-mail even though I didn't check the boxes (and I don't believe the boxes were checked when I ran the script). In both cases, I undid those actions. What's "special" about this SPI?--Bbb23 (talk) 16:20, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Bbb23, the SPI archive notice has the param "|notalk=yes" (added sometime last year). When that is set, spihelper will automatically check the no-talk and no-email boxes. ^{SubjectiveNotability} _{a GN franchise} (talk to the boss) 22:28, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Didn't see it, didn't know it existed. RoySmith added it (I think you meant last month). Thanks for your help.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:36, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Meant the parameter itself was added as an option to the template last year. Happy to be of service. ^{SubjectiveNotability} _{a GN franchise} (talk to the boss) 22:40, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi GeneralNotability, can you please take a look at Ghadamakhouls talk page where there is an ongoing discussion between us about UPE? This is also in relation to Freshup666, an account you blocked back in June for UPE. Not sure where to go with this next but Ghadamakhouls seems to be quite upfront about the matter. I have already file an SPI. S0091 (talk) 23:35, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

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Lightburst (talk) 03:35, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

	Many article
	Well aren't you just the cleverest? [FBDB] — TNT (talk • she/her) 05:21, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

RamzyM (WMF) 01:39, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

I thought sandboxes were for doing whatever the user wants, and it's not an actual article, it's a sandbox. The only reason I had all that in my sandbox was because it would be a place to put inside jokes and give them backstories and all that. I like to use sandboxes to test my creativity with our dumb characters me and my friends make up. I spent a lot of time on that and now it's all gone and I can't recover it. Sodapoppers (talk) 14:47, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Sodapoppers, you have a lot of latitude in your sandbox, but it is for Wikipedia-related things. It is not a free webhost. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:42, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Alright, I understand. But is there any way I can get all of that back? Sodapoppers (talk) 18:05, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Sorry for my gauche edit at the archived SPI. Anyway, the account made some confessions at [9]. tgeorgescu (talk) 23:19, 25 July 2022 (UTC) 19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

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