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A question about an alternative account.

I see that User:69THFLOOR claims to be an alternative account of yours. Is that true? I wondered because of strange edits such as this one, where I find it hard to think of a good reason why you would do that, but maybe you have one. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:00, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That's definitely not my account. I don't know who it is - yet - but it's blocked and I've deleted the userpage. For future reference, if an account claims to be me, it can be safely blocked as an imposter. Thanks for the heads up! —DoRD (talk) 15:05, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) [Virtuously]: And if an account claims to be me, go right ahead and block it! I hate impostors! darwinbish ^BITE ☠ 15:19, 13 October 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Will the real Bishonen please stand up? Frankly, unless an administrator wants to devote the rest of their Wikipedia lives to blocking Bishonen's alternative accounts (for each one blocked, she creates two more), they'd be better off spending their time doing useful things like destroying articles or whatever.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:24, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking something similar, but didn't want to attract Bishzilla's wrath by saying anything about it. ;) —DoRD (talk) 15:25, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why does the Bish... family so often seem to turn up when something totally silly is going on? (By the way, DoRD, I am totally unsurprised but a little disappointed to learn that the account wasn't really you. I really didn't think it could be, and almost just blocked it, but I then developed a faint hope that you just might have some weird and interesting reason for doing the sort of thing the account did. It could have livened things up a little.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:47, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

SPI not updating

The list of cases hasn't been updating since sometime yesterday. I forget the various convoluted things that can be tried to fix it short of replacing it temporarily with the old one. Any ideas? I'm pinging others just in case someone else is around to help out: @Vanjagenije: @DeltaQuad: @Amalthea: --Bbb23 (talk) 12:01, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, there's not much we can do until Amalthea restarts the bot task, so I've swapped the case lists for now. —DoRD (talk) 12:07, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

...which reminds me to remind DeltaQuad that her list still has edit links in it. ;) —DoRD (talk) 12:09, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!--Bbb23 (talk) 12:32, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's never just restarting a bot ;) In this case SSL connection to the api fails, I'm guessing because of WP:VPT#Certificate revocation issue; I'll try and resolve it tonight ... Amalthea 18:14, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Certificates updated, page is updated again, thanks for the ping! Amalthea 20:39, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, Amalthea.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:51, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The case list is not updating again. I tried to swap the lists until Amalthea can fix it, but it didn't work. I don't know why.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:22, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you missed a comment close tag. I changed it, but now it looks like DeltaQuad's list is hitting a transclusion limit or something. <sigh> I'm stepping away from the computer for a while, so feel free to revert me, or wait until one of the lists is working correctly, or whatever... —DoRD (talk) 22:40, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, well never mind. Her list hasn't been updated since October 14. —DoRD (talk) 22:43, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, this one was my fault: An exception thrown following a recent change where I missed that some pages won't have a last case editor, and that's pages in Category:Requests for checkuser, which now lists User talk:Vineetpl7#checkuser needed. Sorry for that. :| Amalthea 23:25, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again, Amalthea. —DoRD (talk) 01:39, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My issue was completely different in the fact that I wrote the wrong directory for the script to run on (techie: forgot to remove a word for the dir in crontab) from when I fixed the last issue (transcluding headers), therefore the error was fatal. Now fixed. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 02:08, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thank you, too. —DoRD (talk) 02:12, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Revert on Sockpuppet investigations

Hi. As a french contributor, I'm not really familiar with the practices of the english Wikipedia. My message was only intended to inform you about inquiries on our project that could serve yours and reinforce the fight against vandalism. If you think so, don't hesitate to transfer it at the right place. Regards, --Voxhominis (talk) 15:28, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Malusia

He's also almost certainly this .[1], not that knowing this necessarily helps. Doug Weller talk 06:40, 31 October 2016 (UTC) And User:You are unable to edit Wikipedia due to an autoblock affecting your IP address. should they be tagged? Doug Weller talk 06:50, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I prefer to not feed whoever this particular troll is, so WP:RBI is probably the best solution for now. —DoRD (talk) 07:50, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sense. Doug Weller talk 08:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oneshot possibly still at it

I suppose there would be no point in filing a formal SPI, because Oneshot is already indeffed, but check out this IP; it's continuing to harass SPECIFICO (a user with whom I have had many disagreements) after vandalizing Foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration (which I recently made this minor edit to) in a way that indicates the quest to frame me goes on. Either way, the IP is clearly being used solely for vandalism.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 00:04, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Er, I guess not. WhatIsMyIPAddress says the IP is from England. Any similarities are apparently purely coincidental. All the socking has made me paranoid.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 00:09, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Another telltale indicator is the way the IP formatted the links it placed on SPECIFICO's talk page: [url | text]; Oneshot never used the |. Sorry to bother you.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 00:14, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, then. Please report them to AIV if they continue the vandalism. —DoRD (talk) 01:06, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Filipz123

I missed one: can you please also revdelete this edit? Burninthruthesky indicated it's a copyvio but didn't say of what, but it pretty closely resembles this article. Thanks. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 14:07, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ivanvector: Yes, that's the source I was referring to. Thanks. Burninthruthesky (talk) 14:12, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Judging by a quick Google, the material added to Speleology by one of the other accounts is also largely copied verbatim from the cited source. Burninthruthesky (talk) 14:20, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for pointing it out. —DoRD (talk) 14:39, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]