User talk:Jauerback

Obvious vandal

Hello Jauerback, could you please do something against this obvious vandalising IP user? He repeatedly vandalised in the article List of Turkish football champions. I already reported him at the vandalism noticeboard, but it was simply rejected. Surely there must be something that can be done against such disruptive editors? Thank you in advance. Regards, Akocsg (talk) 00:30, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

What would you have me do? The standard block length for the first offense is 31 hours. The IP hasn't edited in almost 120 hours. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 02:08, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Block of 115.164.59.140

• 115.164.59.140 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Why was this user blocked? It looks to me like they blanked part of the page (as 115.164.177.239) and were trying to clean up their own mess, but kept hitting the spam blacklist. Or am I not noticing something else? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:12, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Check their edit filter log. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 01:13, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

I see only five entries, from 279 (hist · log). That filter trips whenever an user (or group of IPs, but that's not relevant here) unsuccessfully attempts to save an edit four times in five minutes on a single page. Could be another filter (that's the intent), could be that they checked the "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in their preferences but didn't leave a summary, could be a bug in MediaWiki or an extension that prevented saving, or as was the case here, could be the spam blacklist. Of course if they were actually spamming, that makes sense, but in this case they were only undoing their own page-blanking and restoring a link that was already on the page. Should I, perhaps, rename the filter? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:25, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

I see five hits to the same filter that has a filter description of "Repeated attempts to vandalize" in the span of a half hour and I don't know how I'm supposed to think anything other than vandalism. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 01:37, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

I've renamed it "Repeated attempts to save edit" which I hope is clearer. See also the verbiage just spilled at WP:EFN#279 scope. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 03:30, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Bagram airbase situation

Today is May 12, 2019 and I am going to ask you sir about the situation of Bagram airbase! I need to go to this airbase because of a patient. Can you tell me sir that, is Bagram airbase is active now ? Is it accepting patient nowadays or it is closed ? Please answer me as soon as you can sir. If it is possible please send the answer to my email sir. Shoaibrezaee2@gmail.com Kaveer32 (talk) 05:13, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

I think you're asking the wrong person. On the wrong site as well. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 15:17, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Reply 69 Boyz

What exactly is needed? You said I added "promotional crap" which was rather insulting. You said I had no sources when i had links added with the sources to everything I added. So if I cannot edit it then who can? Their wiki is inaccurate. Do you need a signed letter from the group/label? How does this work? KendallTolbert (talk) 20:37, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

I apologize for insulting you, but that's exactly what it is: promotional crap. Lines like "The 69 Boyz are Florida's biggest selling Rap group and hail from the sunshine state of Florida...", "..led by the chart-topping dance smash single...", "...spent an astonishing 27 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts...", and "...This chart shattering hit..." are just a few examples of what does not belong in an encyclopedia. Those are lines that would be appropriate for their personal website or for a billboard ad for an upcoming show. That's just one of your problems. Once you remove all the fluff and just stick to the actual facts, then you'll need indepenedent, reliable sources for it all. You need to click on that link, because a reliable source is not another Wikipedia article, it's not from their website, it's not from a press release. Finally, you have a HUGE conflict of interest and it's just best for you to not edit the article at all. It's going to be next to impossible for you to objective and not promote them. It's in your best interest to make them look good, so please just stay away from the article. However, you're more than welcome to edit other articles on Wikipedia that might interest you. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 15:16, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Understandable, then how do we get their page updated? Because there are major inaccuracies in the article

And all those statements you said are crap are facts and able to be looked up. If the verbiage needs to be changed then cool, but its not crap. Please let me know how to update because the group has been trying to figure out how to change this for 5 years and I thought I had it figured out. And its kind of crazy because there are SO many wikis with bad/false info in it, but I guess you cant catch everything. Please let me know how we can handle this. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by KendallTolbert (talk • contribs) 18:41, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

@KendallTolbert:I would suggest by reading some of the links that I've left on your talk page, specifically WP:COI. Then, once you've done that, come up with some reliable sources that can verify what you want to write. Then, put together your proposed changes that are backed by the sources. Finally, head over to WP:EDITREQ. Good luck. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 23:08, 14 May 2019 (UTC)