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Sheriffs of Devon - date style to use

Hi Smalljim, over on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:High_Sheriff_of_Devon#New_style_or_old_style_years_before_1752? I am seeking some advice on dating issues - in particular around the use of old style or new style dates before 1752. I would welcome your thoughts over there if you have time to comment.NHSavage (talk) 09:39, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

I've posted a brief apologetic reply there. Best wishes for 2021.  —SMALLJIM  11:19, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

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Devon parishes

Over the last 11 or so years the number of missing parishes in Devon has been reduced significantly. You have also created some such as Merton, Devon as well as split some like Loxhore from the manor. There are only 4 left, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (1)#Devon which you may be interested in. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:03, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, but I'm pretty much retired from Wikipedia now. I do like the lists of surrounding parishes in the article leads though, by means of which one can take a virtual tour around the county. Expanding those would be another benefit, I think.  —SMALLJIM  23:16, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

I tend to use the OS linked data, see Monkton, Devon and perhaps it could be added by a bot. Wikipedia:Templates with red links/104 from 2011 lists 92 missing of which only 1 (Isle of Man) is still red but that is "Lands common to Axminster and Kilmington". Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:05, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

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Victorians

Presumably you didn't get as far as the last section... Johnbod (talk) 15:45, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

I did, and what it says was not accurately reflected in the addition to the lead. Since you think something else is needed, I've rewritten it.  —SMALLJIM  21:19, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

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Reverting spam links

Thanks for reverting spam links and apologies for messing up some of your fixes - I think I have restored all your edits correctly now and (after sorting out my incompetence) carried on reverting his edits all the way back. But if I have still made any errors do feel free to restore! Jonathan A Jones (talk) 16:51, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

No problem - and especial thanks to you for completing the job that I did poorly by not looking beyond the 50 edits on his first user contributions page! I've just found and fixed two more on page 2, and using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch has confirmed that there are no more from this domain.  —Smalljim  19:17, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Smalljim!

Happy New Year!

Smalljim,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Thank you. I hope your new year is a good one too!  —Smalljim  16:35, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Wait how are you here I thought you were a dead wikipedian

how!!!!!? 50.109.155.222 (talk) 19:28, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

i remember it said you were deceaced, WTF??? 50.109.155.222 (talk) 19:29, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Teignbridge wiki page

Hi, The information is specifically personal knowledge. I’m aware of the machinations as I was one of the LD group who was bullied out leaving the authority in no overall control. I might be able to find newslinks and revise with hyperlinks when I have time after the election. OddJobLot (talk) 17:20, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

@OddJobLot: an editor's personal knowledge has no place in Wikipedia'a articles: we only publish material that can be verified in reliable published sources. We also strive to be vigorously neutral in our reporting, taking no side in any disputes, but rather describing them based on what reliable secondary sources have written about them. You admit to being personally involved in this matter, and our guideline on conflicts of interest strongly discourages such people from editing affected articles. I hope this helps,  —Smalljim  13:34, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Feudal land tenure in England

In the article Feudal land tenure in England, a lot of its original text having been created in 2011 by a now-blocked user and subject since to numerous edits, I notice that an anonymous user has started reinstating deleted material. Do you think a block is being evaded? Belle Fast (talk) 10:21, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the alert. Obvious per the duck test. I've contacted the blocking admin.  —Smalljim  13:12, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks for your prompt response and action! The user has been blocked (again) and the text deleted. Belle Fast (talk) 16:20, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

And many thanks to you for spotting and raising it.  —Smalljim  22:42, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

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@Filmssssssssssss: I haven't had a warning like that for a while! I blocked User:Stuntrider99 and my block message was the first edit to their talk page, so it appears that has caused you to warn me in error.  —Smalljim  20:17, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Oh, apologies for that Filmssssssssssss (talk) 20:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

No problem! The vandal is blocked and the talk page is blanked - that's all that really matters :)  —Smalljim  20:22, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

User talk:CEO Buster

I think it might be a good idea to revoke talk page access here as well, given that the user is abusing it. JeffSpaceman (talk) 15:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks - pipped to it by JBW.  —Smalljim  15:46, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Spermworld

Evening,

I've reinstated the block on Jerrykolt123 as despite your comment they went back to editing the article with no discussion. Blocked the other user as well as no valid exemption I could see to WP:3RR and they'd been warned enough. Amortias (T)(C) 18:58, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Amortias, for dealing with that for me. I really shouldn't take time off!  —Smalljim  21:59, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Blocks

Hey, thanks for the recent blocks you've done of accounts with with doxxing in the username. However, please can you not create a talk page for those accounts when you block them? It just spreads the username around even more places for the OS team to suppress. Thanks! stwalkerster (talk) 21:13, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

It's remembering to change the defaults - but will do!  —Smalljim  21:30, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

186.111.163.113

Please block this IP. Warned three times, appears to be vandalism-only. Thank you. 2003 LN6 19:54, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi 2003LN6. I'll block if I see them make another bad edit, but sometimes the warnings work!  —Smalljim  20:13, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@2003 LN6: You could also consider changing the appearance of your sig so that it's easy for people trying to ping you or refer to you to see what your username actually is. As you see, my first attempt above failed because I misread it. Hope this helps.  —Smalljim  20:21, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@User:Smalljim:Thank you! There's also a large backlog at WP:AIV, it would be great if you could help out! 2003 LN6 20:23, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Yo

Hi Jim, those Egyptian/North African IPs are proxies. You can safely hard block them for a nice long time so that the intended target can't cycle back through previous IPs. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:33, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Ta. Will do.  —Smalljim  19:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

IP6 Italia

• today
• yesterday

Not sure what do hard to detect and block and they appear to have flexible resources to move around. -- GreenC 17:22, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

@GreenC: yes, large range blocks are tricky for this one, but a combination of factors should make it possible to reliably spot the edits - and the more they make, the more evidence they provide :)  —Smalljim  21:48, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Great. Do you want me to continue reporting IPs? -- GreenC 00:17, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Well, on the assumption that you'll keep reverting them I can get the data from your contributions, so no, there's no need, thanks. And hopefully there may be even less need in future :)  —Smalljim  09:37, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Sock again.

Hi, Jim. The user account User:WelshDragoon19 I assume, is a sock that is making mass reverts on the page Vivienne Martin (actress). Is it possible for you to block the account and protect the page? I added a report on RPP. Thanks. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 19:39, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I see that you have blocked the account for 31 hours. Given the sockpuppetry at play here, it might be a good idea to up the block to an indef. JeffSpaceman (talk) 19:49, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

I quickly applied that block to stop the edit warring. I'll look into it.  —Smalljim  19:50, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Ichthyotitan

Ichthyotitan seems to be a target of constant vandalization. Can you consider putting temp protection on it? Perfecnot (talk) 22:23, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Not at present. It's best if we keep the vandal's attention to just one article.  —Smalljim  22:27, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

My talk page

Please do not revert messages on my page. If I decide that the deserve to be removed, I will do so. It was probably good faith, but I will maintain my own space. Thanks, Kingsmasher678 (talk) 22:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

@Kingsmasher678: I note your request. Two points though - first, that IP's comment is very close to being RevDel'ed and I suspect that some other admins would have removed it from public view entirely. And second, you'll end up sending a lot of those "do not revert" messages to fellow editors if you keep up with the AV patrolling - which I really hope you do. Thanks for the good work.  —Smalljim  00:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

No worries, I’ll add a disclaimer at the top of the page. It’s just a personal tick more than anything.

Kingsmasher678 (talk)| Kingsmasher678 (talk) 09:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Don’t know why it double signed lol Kingsmasher678 (talk) 09:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

And of course, if anything is in violation of wiki policy, I fully support it coming down, the rules keep this place what it is and help it grow. Kingsmasher678 (talk) 09:35, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Block change?

Good morning/afternoon/evening! (Choose the greeting that best suits your time zone)

Would you mind if I changed the block settings for this delightful anon from a short-ish block to a much longer partial block aimed at Hema Malini? If you look at the edit history of her article, this user comes back from a different IP in that /64 range over and over, with the same horrifying edits. (I don't know if you ran any of that through a translator, but it is absolutely vile. I've completed a rev/del on the latest set). I'm curious to see if that would encourage the IP to just go away. Joyous! Noise! 15:48, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Joyous!: I must admit that I didn't check the text, and although I can't see any previous edits from 2409:40E2:2F:1538:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), do feel free to amend the block if it would help you - I'm all for "experimenting" on vandals' work!  —Smalljim  18:07, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Well, I'll give it a try. I also admit I didn't really look at the translation the first time I saw it, but when it kept coming back, I thought "Wow, this person is really enthusiastic. I wonder what silliness they're adding? [then...] Oh. Oh dear." Anyway, if you notice that my BOLD STRATEGY isn't working, feel free to amend the block any way that suits you. Joyous! Noise! 18:14, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Thinking about this, I have seen a few more examples over the past weeks - it's usually the same bad text repeated over and over, in Hindi or Odia. EF346 usually logs them. Zomato has been another target and may be worth adding to any partial blocks. The range from which all this comes is much wider than /64, though. I see that Kuru blocked 2409:40e2::/40 a few hours ago.  —Smalljim  19:03, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Interesting. You're right about the range being bigger than the /64 I was thinking of. I'm quite delighted to partial block any of them. I did see that there are a LOT of Hema Malini-related articles. I hope they don't just shift to those. I'll add Zomato to my watchlist, too. Joyous! Noise! 19:14, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

EF346? I don't know what that means. Joyous! Noise! 19:15, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry - it's this secret weapon.  —Smalljim  19:49, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Ahhhhh, it all becomes clear now. Thanks! Joyous! Noise! 19:52, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Your recent block

You may wish to revoke TPA for this fine fellow. Thanks NW1223<Howl at me•My hunts> 22:49, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

The editor has also vowed to perform sockpuppetry (facepalm and sigh). NoobThreePointOh (talk) 22:54, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

@NightWolf1223 and NoobThreePointOh: Well, no, the point was that while the vandal's attention was held there, they were not doing anything worse anywhere else! Feel free to remove the comments if you think they've moved on.  —Smalljim  23:06, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I've at least removed the comments for now. I'll let you know if they return NW1223<Howl at me•My hunts> 23:11, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. It turns out that I have a good username for AV work because it often slows them down thinking of terrible insults to hurl at me.  —Smalljim  23:22, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Francois Letexier page

Can you added protected code on François Letexier page again? I think vandalism haven't been stopped since it was removed. I am sure it need more time to clam things down. Please? 195.158.216.30 (talk) 11:29, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Range block

Hi Smalljim. You blocked the IP address 24.46.162.215 a couple of days ago for vandalism. However, it appears that this is a dynamic IP and the person behind the IP has been continuing to edit since your block, continuing their pattern of clogging up page histories with repetitive edits (or making and then undoing an edit)[1][2][3] (these diffs don't show the intervening edits), including on one of my user subpages. The user has also been inserting dozens of articles into nonexistent, intentionally misspelled categories.[4][5] They've made more than 500 such edits in the last week so cleaning up their mess will take time.

I entered the IPs into an IP range calculator and it looks like the range 24.46.160.0/22 will cover all the IPs. This range seems to have been used exclusively by the person behind this IP over the last week (the last collateral edits I could see were in mid-April), so I don't think a week-long block on the range would be cause much collateral damage. Would you please consider expanding your block to include the whole range? Thank you, Aoi (青い) (talk) 17:18, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Good call, Aoi! I now see that the range was previously blocked for 3 months from last November, so I've reinstated that rangeblock, for 6 months. Thanks for your help.  —Smalljim  17:59, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I didn't even think to check the block log on the IP range! Thank you, Smalljim! Aoi (青い) (talk) 20:46, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Vandalism on Gulab Chand Kataria

Hey! Thanks for the blocks there. Might be worth a range block, as these addresses seem to have an extensive history of similar vandalism. See: Special:Contributions/2409:4085::/34 Bsoyka (t • c • g) 13:21, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

@Bsoyka: thanks for pointing out that range for me. I see it has been blocked before. Now blocked for 2 weeks.  —Smalljim  13:38, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Austin Butler

Hi Smalljim. Thank you for your blocks/semi-protection on Austin Butler. It looks like this IP user: 144.228.22.150 hasn't been blocked yet. Their contribution has been RevDel-ed and I warned them so it looks like they were part of the vandalism too. RomeshKubajali (talk) 20:12, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

@RomeshKubajali: I will if they edit again, but it's likely they have moved on.  —Smalljim  20:34, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for your help. RomeshKubajali (talk) 20:44, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you.

Thanks for reverting that troll's edit to put my discussion thread back. :) Butterscotch5 (talk) 21:20, 29 May 2024 (UTC)