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January 2011

User:Zakarus117

If I may, we don't know if it's impersonation or not. It could just be one of this guy's alts and he's just taunting people to find him. And if it is an alt, the page should just be moved to a subpage of sorts. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 23:12, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

He put character image as "image:I suck", and he has an active account in the suburb one to the west of where this user is apparently active. But as I said, DDR warned him about character pages before, so I highly doubt it's that.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 23:40, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

This too.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 23:41, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

I demand you give him the death penalty.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 18:14, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Chrysalis

Okay, how does checkuser confirm? Hasn't the IP been banned for three times now?--Thadeous Oakley Talk 22:43, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Yep. I'm presuming the accounts were made beforehand (which explains the user bans being ineffective), but I've banned the IP itself twice, so I have no idea what's going on there.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 23:23, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Then there is something wrong here. This has happened before though, where Izumi somehow managed to bypass an IP block and created 17 puppets. --Thadeous Oakley Talk 23:41, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Frankly, I don't honestly care, because we can just keep banning her accounts when they crop up and reverting her edits. She'll give up before we do. Also, there's no evidence that it was just one IP in those cases. The idea was that she had access to several.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 23:58, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Proxies, maybe? --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 00:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

You need to uncheck the " Block anonymous users only " box, or it only bans anon's (who can't post anyway, so it's a bit of a redundant option here anyway). I unbanned and rebanned it. It should stick now -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 00:32 7 January 2011 (BST)

Lady Fate/Pikachu

I just noticed a similar editing pattern by Lady Kikyou. Might be worth looking into. ~ 06:58, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

So do you guys run a checkuser on any new accounts that make edits to the Lockettside Valkyries page?--_GANG Giles Sednik _CAPD 14:08, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Nope. A couple of sops have Izumi's favourite pages on a watchlist and if anyone edits them they go look at them, and its a case by case thing. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 14:32, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Ah. Makes sense. Actually based on his/her editing history it probably wouldn't be unreasonable.--_GANG Giles Sednik _CAPD 16:34, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Someone might want to checkuser Sixclaw as well. If Vapor's talk page isn't hint enough, check the timing on Lady Kikyou's last contib and Sixclaw's first contrib. Even if checkuser doesn't come back as a positive match, it's still worth checking anyway. —Aichon— 08:14, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for at least confirming I'm not paranoid. I honestly wouldn't be surprised. ~ 08:18, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

It doesn't show up as being an alt (on a quick IP check), at this time. Don't let the sockpuppetry make you too jaded, guys. Even if it proves to be an alt in the long run, treating it as a genuine account doesn't reflect badly on you at all -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 09:44 8 January 2011 (BST)

Yeah, having a lasting paranoia about every user is what I think Izumi's goal is atm. She knows she can't win any other way, so we can do our best by keeping in line with our duties rather than try and go above and beyond when it probably isn't necessary in some cases. -- LEMON #1 00:48, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

I'd definitely agree. Even so, I think there's more than reasonable justification for suspecting Sixclaw, given the number of coincidences in the situation. Jumping on all new users is definitely a bad idea, of course, but being wary of ones that put up lots of red flags is just prudent, regardless of the timing or situation. As boxy said though, until they prove themselves to be a vandal, treating them as a good faith user is the proper course of action. —Aichon— 01:59, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Bots Discussion

Return of old, already banned, bots

Over the past couple of days, bots who were previous banned have been spamming again. Has the recent update of the wiki somehow unbanned them? -- boxy 10:35, 27 December 2014 (BST)

Hmm

It's been a few years, but we're getting a wave of bots again. Thoughts? Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 01:57, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hopefully it's just a random burst, not a consistent thing? --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 04:26, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

More spammers stuck inside? I gather fraud attempts are way up at the moment. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 08:01, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Has it been going on for a while? Like beyond this week? DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION 10:11, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

No, not yet. I just realized I've gotten complacent because we've had so few. If it continues for more than a week or so we can ponder other options. Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 17:19, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hopefully it's just a flareup for now... DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION 23:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, like acne. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 23:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Yeah.... acne.... DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION 00:14, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Anyone want to review this? They're still here, and popping them isn't helping. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 22:33, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Do you think the captcha needs to be updated? If so I can try to get in touch with Kev. Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 14:36, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Considering we all have better things to do than continuously ban spambots, probably worth asking! stelar ^{Talk|MCM|EBD|Scourge} 20:47, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

I guess whoever has his ear, go for it. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 23:47, 14 April 2020 (UTC)