User talk:Billinghurst

Hello, can my account be unlocked now? Pardon and thanks!

Hello, hope you're right person. Today I tried to login at the said channels and I saw that I've been banned. I wonder, why? I haven't been there for week. My nickname is registered so I suppose it hasn't been used by someone alse. Einsbor (talk) 13:54, 7 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

No idea. Nothing that I have done, nor that I can see that you are banned. @Barras:? — billinghurst sDrewth 23:04, 7 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

We've fairly recently globally banned a trouble maker. It might be possible that you are being caught by that due to a similarity you share with the problem user. Please join #wikimedia-ops if you can't join a channel you want to join. Usually someone is around who can then help or fix the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience. -Barras talk 23:19, 7 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

This was due to the recent gban on a specific client. I informed Einsbor about this yesterday on IRC and the problem was solved by using another client. --Glaisher (talk) 08:09, 8 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

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There is a process to which you have been directed, please utilise it. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:05, 11 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Can you show me even 1 public example where the suggested process has worked? Why is the administrative "WP:OFFICE" process not available to coordinate between me and legal for such disputes ?

WMF Legal deals with legal issues to which you have been provided with their email address, not volunteers, not user talk pages. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:26, 11 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Dear Billinghurst,

You are a highly experienced and well respected Wikipedian. There is no legal issue whatsover here.

Here are well respected newspapers publishing that the Bombay High Court has slammed / "rapped" the impersonators (aka "Team Anna") of "India Against Corruption" [1], [2], [3], [4]. The actual judgement was provided during mediation, but the editors claimed they could not understand it.

And still these same editors, who walked out of mediation on this issue, persist unchecked to portray the "Team Anna" impersonators as "India Against Corruption" despite actual knowledge of the numerous and clear press reports in India about the impersonation.

So where is the "legal" issue, when it is a simple "sourcing" issue and Indian editors are blocked by Wikipedia's racist cabals from editing about it ? Juhimukherjee (talk) 12:50, 11 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

A highly experienced, respected and informed staff member has indicated that you should email legal(_AT_)wikimedia.org for this issue, and I am not one to second guess that staff member when the issue seems aligned with the ToU. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:56, 11 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

"ToU" .. thnx.. I'm out of here Juhimukherjee (talk) 13:07, 11 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Hello, could you unblock me on English Wikipedia. Admins that blocked me are not responding to my emails and they blocked my talk page editing, so I can't do anything now, except sockpuppeting, but will be blocked even more. Thanks in advance. --Munjanes (talk) 19:42, 11 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

No, I won't be unblocking you, as I don't know why you are blocked, nor do I have the time to investigate. Please use the process at w:en:Wikipedia:Unblock Ticket Request System as that is specifically designed for second level resolution.

Blocked means blocked, so sockpuppet'ing is completely the wrong approach, and just digs a deeper hole for yourself. That you cannot do anything is the purpose behind the block, as what you were doing was considered problematic. Editing is not a right, it is an opportunity to contribute within the community guidelines, so you will need to follow the process, listen and change what has been considered problematic. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:47, 11 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

I will sumbit an appeal, but you could at least unblock me from editing MY OWN TALK PAGE. --Munjanes (talk) 08:03, 12 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

I have actioned the request and commented on your talk page there, plus added notes to the request there. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:25, 12 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Thank you. Actually this is my main account, not SuperNepoznat. I don't know by which criteria they assumed that one is Main. --Munjanes (talk) 14:13, 12 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Not my battle, and the least of the concerns. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:31, 13 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Hello. Please consider either adding "<br><br>" to the list of strings in 101/103 or creating a new log/tag-only global filter to test this. Recently I've noticed a pattern of "<br><br>" in many spam pages. If an anonymous user creates a page containing the wikitext "<br><br>", it is probably spam. If you want to be as conservative as possible, require the title to have at least three capital (Latin alphabet) letters too. PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:36, 13 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

@PiRSquared17:How about starting a new filter with something like that, and just monitor and tag at meta, and we can see the scope of the effect, and from there a steward can convert to global easily. I have been trying to keep spam filters more specific, and not have components of overlap so we stop the multi-hit effect on the logs, and contextualise the filters to be turned on and off as required. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:58, 13 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Special:AbuseFilter/104. This pattern is hitting many wikis, not just Meta. PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:12, 16 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

In a hectic week, and have a quick glances at it. I see that it is duplicating some of the existing filters, though not yet 1:1, so I have been using this as a means to update and refine global filters. If you can identify wikis where we have spam getting through (bar mediawikiwiki) then let me know, or add it to one of the reporting places and can have a look. From my review of where we are catching spam, we getting very good portions of the xwiki spam, though I know that could be skewed by what we are catching is leading my investigations. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:14, 18 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Hi. I just noticed that my request was moved to the archiv but it ends on Nov. 22nd. Why was it moved? I am aware that I will fail, but just want to understand it. Greetings from over here. -- Der Fussi 06:40, 14 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

@Steinsplitter: your bot is archiving early. Would you please undo the erroneous moves, and give your bot a good talking to. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:55, 14 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Thanks. -- Der Fussi 06:48, 17 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Hi Billinghurst, these we're discussing. Introduction to some substance in the Turkish Wikipedia URLs are blocked out. It is believed that in Turkey, the government agency responsible for the internet makes. Protest purpose, we think you should block access for 24 hours. In this case, we need to tell Jimmy Wales. Or Do you need to make a vote in Meta. Good wikis. --Uğurkent ^talk 16:45, 18 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

If you believe that there are issues with Turkish Wikipedia being blocked in Turkey, and there is a wish to discuss a protest, then that conversation would ideally be held and decided on trWP, though if that is problematic, then a discussion at meta is a reasonable second choice. Such a discussion does not require a notification to Jimmy Wales, though I am sure that he has an interest in the subject. I would also think that WMF staff have an interest in that matter and I would think that we should @Philippe (WMF): as any such technical actions would require cooperation of WMF staff. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:39, 18 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

By using several tags in the abuse filters you are undoubtedly aware that the tags are permanent, are added to the valid tags list and never leave the list so that if they are changed very often, the list becomes very long with dozens of redundant tags with 0 hits. --Pxos (talk) 03:38, 21 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Thanks forgot about their appearing on Special:tags, and had been more indicating the activity on RCs throughout the wikis, and from where the tags were emanating. I will review how I handle the beasts. :-) — billinghurst sDrewth 05:55, 21 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Splendid! :) --Pxos (talk) 12:02, 21 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Hello dear Billinghurst. My Confidentiality has been violated in russian Wikipedia. How can I evaluate this issue? Thanks in advance for your answer. Миша Карелин (talk) 16:10, 29 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

If you have a concern about an administrator, bureaucrat, oversight, or checkuser having breached your privacy then please see Ombudsman Commission information. If it is a matter of a local matter at ruWP, then please read w:ru:Википедия:Ревизоры — billinghurst sDrewth 22:16, 29 November 2014 (UTC) Reply

Thanks. I did it - send my complaint to 2 OC members (Avraham and Levg). Althought, as I see, they both are not active in wiki now. Миша Карелин (talk) 22:46, 6 December 2014 (UTC) Reply

This one is asking for some hollydays IMHO :-) Regards. — M 00:41, 05 December 2014 (UTC) Reply

Oh and HershelNewberry (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^{(alt )} • gblock • ST • lwcheckuser ) wants to join the trip as well. Thanks. — M 00:43, 05 December 2014 (UTC) Reply

Sure, I do those as a batch when I have investigation time, and access to IRC so I can COIBot the domains. I will get to them tonight (my time). — billinghurst sDrewth 00:53, 5 December 2014 (UTC) Reply