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NotHere editors, likely same person

If you would rather I take this to WP:SPI or to WP:AIV I will do so.

Would you have a look at the users User:Agustin1Costa, User:A.iig123, User:Yohana22412577777, and IP 181.85.184.68? I believe they are the same person based on their near exclusive editing on User:Agustin1Costa/sandbox. While they have not had overlapping editing periods, and multiple accounts are permitted for valid reasons, their behavior indicates they are WP:NOTHERE ("exclusive editing in userspace") and that they are the same person with undisclosed multiple accounts who all refuse to communicate when asked about this situation.

The case for NOTHERE is predominantly based on Agustin1Costa and A.iig123's behaviors. The case for socking is on all due to each's behavior and exclusive interest on User:Agustin1Costa/sandbox.

Agustin1Costa is the only one of the set to have edited in mainspace. However, those were early account edits. They then went on to do about 5000+ edits exclusively in their sandbox for 21 months (February 7, 2023 to November 12, 2024; the account's last edit).
A.iig123 made a few edits to their own profile, then exclusively edited Agustin1Costa's sandbox with 1700+ edits from November 17, 2024 to March 12, 2025.
IP editor enters April 13th and does similar, making 22 edits of the same nature. Then leaves with no comment when I revert and inquire what's up.
And now today Yohana22412577777 has done the same behavior; creating a few edits of table content on their userpage (some deleted), then goes directly to Agustin1Costa's sandbox with table creations, and continues to do so despite clear reverts.

Since all have focused on Agustin1Costa/sandbox with building various tables (usually sports and/or reality tv cast eliminations), and have the same behavior of adding some tables to their profile then exclusively editing Agustin1Costa/sandbox, I believe them to all be the same person. I was willing to initially assume good faith with A.iig123 and the IP on the possible basis of forgotten password or they didn't log in, but with today's appearance of Yohana22412577777 repeating the behavior of major edits on someone else's sandbox without any communication between the parties, the continued vow of silence from each, and the continued editing after my notices on A.iig123 and Yohana22412577777 have caused my good faith to wane.

I think this behavior is clear without diffs since it all revolves around a single page and others majorly editing another's sandbox without permission, but if not, I can share some diffs of similar edits that I've spotted.

Thanks, Zinnober9 (talk) 23:57, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, SPI would probably be a better place for this, I do have a few {{tps}} that might look into this but there will be more eyes at the noticeboard. I've been slammed at work lately and haven't had a chance to really look into this. Primefac (talk) 11:47, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, will do that in a little bit. Hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend! Zinnober9 (talk) 21:36, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You too! Primefac (talk) 21:55, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zinnober9, I'm not sure you need SPI here since if they're all just mucking about in sandboxes we can just block them as not here (I'm on it). -- asilvering (talk) 21:59, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Asilvering Great, thank you! Zinnober9 (talk) 22:33, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks by the way, this was very exciting, I've never had to request bigdelete before. -- asilvering (talk) 22:41, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know that even existed, learn something new every day. Zinnober9 (talk) 23:35, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac, can I bother you to have a look at Archaeologist1234? Similar-ish edits to userspace (as in, tables about sports that aren't ever going to be a real article). I have no idea if this rises to "worth a CU" or "looks like an LTA". I've never seen anyone other than these four accounts doing this kind of thing before. -- asilvering (talk) 22:50, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done, plus another three. Primefac (talk) 00:04, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. And... wow. Very strange behaviour. -- asilvering (talk) 01:05, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Revisiting Template:Edit COI

Hi Primefac, in April I posted here about proposing some changes to Template Edit:COI, and you recommended posting to the template's talk page, which I did. There have been no replies, even after trying to get eyes on it via the WikiProject Edit requests talk page. There seems to be no objection, at least, and I would like to WP:BEBOLD about it, if possible. Since you're the primary maintainer of the template, I'm wondering if you agree and would be willing to help implement it. Best, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 17:21, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure; feel free to sandbox it, make sure everything is working right, and then put in a {{TPER}} to get it implemented. Primefac (talk) 00:50, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'm a little green when it comes to this kind of thing, but I'll see how far I can get on my own and then come back to you for advice if I get stuck. WWB Too (Talk · COI) 12:37, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, let's see if I've got anything here: User:WWB_Too/Request_edit_template. As previously noted, template coding is outside my comfort zone, but I gave it a shot. In the interests of disclusure—and humility—I consulted with ChatGPT to help me make sense of it. As a result, I don't expect the coding I've come up with to work exactly as planned, but I do think it provides a logical structure for how I see Template:Edit COI improving. I also took the liberty of trying to name some of the parameters that are currently unnamed in the existing template. Meanwhile, just today Encoded voiced support for this idea at WikiProject Edit requests, so perhaps they can be of help as well. Let me know what you think! WWB Too (Talk · COI) 17:03, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Hi there, While reviewing drafts, I came across Draft:Shashwat Singh. The subject appears to meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines, as there is significant coverage in reliable sources, and he has performed notable songs for prominent films. However, I noticed that the creator of the draft has been blocked for undisclosed paid editing. Given this context, I’d like guidance on whether we should proceed to review and consider moving the draft to the mainspace, assuming it meets content and sourcing standards, or if the involvement of a blocked user should affect this decision. Please guide. Afstromen (talk) 15:43, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While it's not a valid reason for deletion, it's ultimately the call of the reviewer whether to approve or decline. If the draft is neutral, well-sourced, and otherwise meets the notability/neutrality criteria, then I see no reason to decline. That being said, since you know the creator was blocked for UPE, I would suggest you to go back over the draft with a fine-tooth comb, in particular the references, to make sure the sources provided aren't native advertising or other pay-to-publish sources, which would appear to be RS used to give the appearance of significant coverage. Primefac (talk) 16:04, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the guidance. I’ll review the draft closely and ensure all sources are reliable and meet Wikipedia’s standards.

Afstromen (talk) 16:29, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Primefac, I hope you are doing well. I’m facing an issue while attempting to review Draft:Naale Rajaa Koli Majaa. An error appears during the review process, and I’m not sure what’s causing it. Please guide.Afstromen (talk) 09:09, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please be more specific? I do not see any issues with AFCH, at least as far as functionality prior to final button-pressing goes. Primefac (talk) 09:10, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Error moving Draft:Naale Rajaa Koli Majaa to Naale Rajaa Koli Majaa: "titleblacklist-forbidden-move"

it appears, when I click on accept button. Afstromen (talk) 09:15, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. I'll be around all day, accept the page to Sunday Special, let me know, and I'll move it to the proper location. I'm not sure why it's giving you a title blackllist error but as an admin I can move it for you (I just want you to do the review itself). Primefac (talk) 13:10, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have reviewed the draft and noted that the film has received coverage in multiple reliable sources, including reviews from notable publications. Based on Wikipedia's notability guidelines for films, it appears to meet the criteria for inclusion and is suitable for moving to the mainspace. Afstromen (talk) 13:15, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:AfC statistics

The indef admin only protection seems to be unsupported by policy and not warranted for one case of vandalism where the editor involved wasn't even warned about it. Fram (talk) 07:36, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Primefac (talk) 22:46, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AfC graph

Hello, please see this. AfC folks want me to update the graph on a daily basis (whenever needed), so if you can give permission and amend the BRFA accordingly, that would be appreciated. – DreamRimmer ■ 08:51, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, go for it. I'll do the paperwork later. Primefac (talk) 09:16, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question on the probation thing

So it has been about 4.5 months since I've requested AfC rights, and I was placed on this probation thing. Do I have to reapply for the evaluation to happen or is it going to be random? 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 16:30, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The latter. Primefac (talk) 17:18, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ah, thank you 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 17:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Attention needed

I have requested AFC right and you have marked it Not done and raised your concern.
Kindly see once Special:Diff/1292357482, in this I have given a valid reason for your concern. If possible, please give me some time in probation period to demonstrate my knowledge. If my rationale is not sufficient kindly let me know, what I should do to demonstrate my knowledge.
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blp=no should be retained

Hi, it's a known issue with AWB "general fixes", but "blp=no" shouldn't be removed from the banner shell like your bot did here. The-Pope (talk) 07:24, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just came to say almost the exact same thing, but to point to Talk:Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr. It's happened in various instances in the past day it seems, which is populating Category:Biography articles without blp parameter. -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:24, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

it's a known issue with AWB "general fixes" - I run my bot with genfixes, so this is an issue that is largely outwith my control. Feel free to ping the folks at WT:AWB about it. Primefac (talk) 10:37, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Flagged over a year ago with AWB (here), came up again a bit later, then started to believe it was fixed (Oct 2024), and code looked promising. Not seen much of it happening this year, but I don't always pay attention. :-) @Primefac: before I flag it to WT:AWB again, please could you confirm you're using the latest version? Thank you. -Kj cheetham (talk) 08:15, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Huh, I thought I was. Am now. Primefac (talk) 15:53, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User_talk:166:109:26:47:0:0:0:0:0:0:0/32

Hi @Primefac. I'm a bit confused by the page just created at User_talk:166:109:26:47:0:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 . I'm guessing you don't have anything to do with it, but flagging just in case since it says you blocked that person. meamemg (talk) 20:57, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Someone probably just copied a block notice from somewhere else. Thanks for the note. Primefac (talk) 09:06, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Rafael

I am wanting to make an article of the given name "Rafael" that is a form of "Raphael" since it is my name. :) But it said that you made a deleted version of the same name. Was it about the given name or not? Rafael Hello! 15:19, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This is not about me Rafael Hello! 15:19, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We already have Raphael (given name) which includes all variants of the spelling. As such, we do not need another article on the subject. Primefac (talk) 20:29, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 June 7#Template:Chart

I am now remembering that WP:XFDC doesn't actually ping people. (Or at least, it doesn't ping in {{relist}}s at CFD. I know that for a fact.) I closed that RFD as delete, and the outstanding uses of the three remaining redirects need to be bypassed (that's the extent of the cleanup), which you graciously offered to do.

I'm curious if that ping actually worked. If so, apologies for bothering you again; if not, apologies for neglecting to informing you sooner! As always, thanks for all your do :) House Blaster (talk • he/they) 22:47, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The ping did work, I thought I did it, apparently I did not, I will do so. Thanks for the reminder. Primefac (talk) 00:07, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Boreas

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hello mrPrimefac.Can I add every informations about the god Boreas for his stories,symbols,attributes,cult etc but with details please??? 2A02:586:8D28:1A00:658E:601D:7C92:E1F6 (talk) 21:05, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you? Probably. I don't to what page you're referring; if it's a protected page, you will likely need to make an edit request. Primefac (talk) 23:25, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK how can i do that??? 2.86.113.160 (talk) 19:14, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, you still haven't really told me what you want to do, or where you want to do it. Primefac (talk) 00:40, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Also, the answer you'd give in any case is probably something like "no, you can't, since you're really quite banned from editing" - I'm assuming this is Akaora again.) -- asilvering (talk) 05:36, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

oh, well in that case... Primefac (talk) 08:56, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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gibi

i don't know why you needed to rephrase it and also i posted the same video so i don't get what you mean by better link Astrawiki3203 (talk) 21:25, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you're referring to Special:Diff/1295969963. The wording was odd, and we didn't need a sentence saying basically "she didn't give the exact date of birth". As far as the link goes, you gave a bare URL with no extra information, so I expanded the reference to make the link better. Primefac (talk) 23:22, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template unprotection request

Please unprotect {{Aichi-railstation-stub}}, my reasoning stemming from the facts that there are only 92 mainspace transclusions now, and templates like {{Chiba-railstation-stub}} have slightly more transclusions but aren't protected. Thanks for your help! - OpalYosutebito 『talk』『articles I want to eat』 23:21, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This template has the lowest protection level possible, which means you should be able to edit it but IP editors will not. I see little to no reason to remove the protection. Primefac (talk) 11:57, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Secondary Account

Hello, Primefac. This is to notify you about creating this secondary account for privacy reasons, as per instructions on WP:AC: My primary account was I3manja. This is bc my real world identy was possibly compromised by lawyers of the BM, and I was intimidated to not edit there anymore. I had also informed the WP Legal Department . I hope this will be okay with you. Juremaa (talk) 15:21, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi

Sorry about doing the edit, but was my edit vandalism? Rafael! (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 02:51, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you're referring to Special:Diff/1300651927. Not vandalism (never called it that) just unnecessary. Primefac (talk) 08:47, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Before requesting at WP:REFUND: draft list previously rejected

I thought about requesting undeletion at WP:REFUND, but then Draft:List of Survivor (American TV series) finalists (seasons 1–10) was rejected as "too arbitrary", and I was told that even changing the list's scope still wouldn't resolve notability issues of the list. Actually, I couldn't access the dialogue of the draft talk page, so I was hoping that someone with access to deleted pages, like you as an admin, would help me decide whether or not to request undeletion there.

(Actually, I thought about very hostile Survivor community, especially from Reddit, flooding all over, especially at Talk:Survivor 43, and feeling distraught over increasingly many Survivor winners being no longer considered notable.) George Ho (talk) 02:04, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind restoring and moving it to your userpage if you would like to look at the content. Primefac (talk) 08:36, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, no. Just the talk page of the draft. That way, my memory can be refreshed by reading the feedback about the draft. Would that do? George Ho (talk) 09:12, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done as a talk page archive here. Primefac (talk) 09:30, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Now that I see the responses, I can't help wonder whether narrowing down the scope to just winners and runners-up, especially without including others who appeared in season finales, would make the list less "arbitrary". I also know that a list of winners is already redundant and already exists as part of an overview. Do you still agree with the volunteer's assessment about the list, even when narrowed down? George Ho (talk) 10:06, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Clarityfiend's comment is still valid; we already have a list of contestants (which indicates winners) and those with articles are bluelinked. Having blurbs about each contestant that doesn't already have an article does seem a bit unnecessary. Primefac (talk) 23:45, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Help me template

Thanks for finding that bug! I'd actually reported it to WP:LLMN earlier because I'm jumping to that conclusion too often these days. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 03:46, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem, glad I could help (though I will admit, I saw the issue but didn't realise it was an issue until someone else pointed it out to me!). Primefac (talk) 09:36, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Non-AfC reviewer accepting drafts

Hi Primefac, I want to ask what should be done in this case since it seems pretty unclear whether this is something that should be discussed between the user or that this is something that needs to be at somewhere else. A non-AfC reviewer has moved a pending draft to mainspace and placed an AfC accept template on the creator's talk page. What should be done here? Thanks. Tenshi! (Talk page) 15:18, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is no requirement for drafts to go through AFC so as far as someone moving a draft into the article space... not much that can be done other than sending the page to AFD (if necessary). As far as placing an AFC accept template goes, I suggest leaving them a nice note saying that only AFC reviewers should be leaving AFC acceptance templates. Primefac (talk) 09:16, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selangor_F.C._Under-23&diff=prev&oldid=1302605432

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ydlp19#ANI

Please can this vandal be banned, and mess reverted 93.140.39.137 (talk) 13:07, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Those are two different editors; are you saying that they are the same person? I guess I need a bit more information before I can say whether or not I can do anything. Primefac (talk) 13:13, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reply tool

It's lovely when it works but right now I cannot respond to your little snark (which I don't think actually is snark). S0091 (talk) 21:05, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, true, I do suppose it's more cheeky than snarky. Primefac (talk) 21:16, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Saisai227

Is evading their block as 103.129.79.134. Lynch 44 01:49, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Primefac (talk) 08:54, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]