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I first registered this account - my first - April 20, 2007. Since then, I've gotten involved pretty deeply in AfD work. I see it as a chance to triage articles that are flawed, but may yet have potential. If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected biographies of living persons violation, I will userfy the article for you.

Note that using the text to recreate any deleted article may automatically qualify them for speedy deletion, and copies of previously deleted content that are being used solely for long-term archival purposes may be subject to deletion because Wikipedia is not a free web host. We have a list of alternative sites which may be used to host your content.

I maintain a sock account AVPW primarily for use on public networks. In the event of a compromised account, I specifically request any administrator to honor a request from AVPW to block this account, and absolve you in advance of any repercussions.

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    Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages 0
    Wikipedians looking for help 0
    Requests for unblock 56
    Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests 45
    Wikipedia template-protected edit requests 8
    Wikipedia fully protected edit requests 1
    Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests 142
    Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations 2
    Candidates for speedy deletion 15
    Open sockpuppet investigations 200
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    WP:AIV

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    CSD= Candidates for speedy deletion ; PROD= Proposed deletions

    Candidates for speedy deletion Entries
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    Empty articles 0
    Nonsense pages 0
    Spam pages 4
    Importance or significance not asserted 0
    Other candidates 7

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    Justin Chart

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – High degrees of sock puppetry and IP vandalism from blocked user. — Czello (music) 06:55, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    World Economic Forum

    Reason: Repeated unconstructive IP edits (unexplained removal of tags). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 07:40, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Declined the IP edits here are not unconstructive. Elli (talk | contribs) 12:59, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
    The edits are unexplained and unsourced. How is that constructive? -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:44, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Lowell High School (San Francisco)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Two IPs (3 edits) insist on placing new principal's name before old's resignation takes effect June 30th. Suggest protection until July 1. Dhtwiki (talk) 07:41, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Second inauguration of Nayib Bukele

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Per my previous request, the admin who rejected it did not understand it. An autoconfirmed sock just pulled the same bullshit their other socks have been doing. There is very little room for improvement in a redirect, so we should just stop the sockpuppetry now. Air on White (talk) 08:15, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Ben Roberts-Smith

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent sockpuppetry by WP:BE banned user Orchomen (long term abuse). Following bans of accounts, using IP sockpuppetry. This is one of their go-to pages. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 12:45, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Mamitha Baiju

    Reason: A user and their IPv6 WP:LOUTSOCK repeatedly adding their own name to the article (and making other unsourced changes to this BLP). 81.187.192.168 (talk) 13:16, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    YRF Spy Universe

    Reason: Disruptive and unsourced edits by IPs. M S Hassan (talk) 14:08, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Daceyville

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent vandalism by anon IPs and new accounts (probably socks). LibStar (talk) 14:46, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Anantheshwara Temple, Udupi

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Some random people are coming and vandalising the content on the page. This page need page protection. MRRaja001 (talk) 16:40, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Balika Vadhu (TV Series)

    Reason: This redirect to Balika Vadhu has been recreated into an article three times in the past week by IP editors, making it a near duplicate to the article about the television series. Aspects (talk) 16:55, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂[𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 17:01, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    User(s) blocked. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:38, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Jared Cannonier

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Nswix (talk) 17:03, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    • Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 17:09, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin

    Temperory Semi-Protection: High level of IP vandalism. Constant Tampering with main cast Imsaneikigai (talk) 17:07, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Emilio Estevez

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Ip keeps changing the infobox image without discussion or consensus. See user talk and tribs'. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:25, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 20:43, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Baklava

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Several IPs belonging to the same range (5 edits) insist on removing the Ottoman Turkish name from the lead. Alex2006 (talk) 17:29, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Jony Ive

    Reason: Repeated addition of unsourced claims. Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:51, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Denzel Valentine

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. User:Namiba 18:48, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack

    Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Per WP:PIA and WP:CT/A-I Wiiformii (talk) 19:47, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Extended confirmed protected Ymblanter (talk) 21:09, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Tom Kane

    Reason: Long-term abuse. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TyMega. HorrorLover555 (talk) 20:28, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 20:59, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

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    Handled requests

    A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.
    Protected edit requests

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    User:ArielGold/Identity (request) 2024-06-17 05:58 Fully protected (log) Protected by DerHexer on 2007-10-01: "user request"
    Updated as needed. Last updated: 08:51, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
    8 template-protected edit requests
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    Template:Infobox Chinese (request) 2024-06-07 08:07 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
    Template:Rail-interchange (request) 2024-06-07 20:42 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
    Module:Gallery/styles.css (request) 2024-06-10 16:38 Template-protected (log) Protected by Izno on 2021-05-06: "Highly visible template: match parent"
    Module:Road data (request) 2024-06-11 17:04 Template-protected (log) Modified by Lectonar on 2023-05-30: "High-risk template or module"
    Module:Lang/data (request) 2024-06-11 18:55 Template-protected (log) Protected by Trappist the monk on 2017-12-13: "High-risk Lua module"
    Template:Infobox legislative election (request) 2024-06-16 19:05 Template-protected (log) Protected by Number 57 on 2020-04-13: "High use template, recent additions messing things up"
    Template:WikiProject Stub sorting category (request) 2024-06-18 22:34 Template-protected (log) From Template:WPSS-cat: Modified by WOSlinker on 2013-10-19: "allow template editors to modify"
    Template:Canadian party colour (request) 2024-06-19 02:50 Template-protected (log) Modified by MSGJ on 2018-03-24: "reinstate template protection"
    Updated as needed. Last updated: 02:53, 19 June 2024 (UTC)


    WP:RFA

    RFA= Requests for adminship

    RfA candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report
    HouseBlaster 101 7 1 94 00:50, 23 June 2024 3 days, 3 hoursyes report
    RfB candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report

    Last updated by cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online at 21:25, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    WP:RFP

    RFP= Requests for permissions

    Autopatrolled

    User:VaudevillianScientist

    I have created over 120 articles (over 40 since 2023) on various STEM-related subjects, several of them received thanks from others and very few have so far had issues. My focus is on STEM-related biographies, concepts, or entities, with sufficient reference links. All my new articles are in the English Wikipedia, but I also do minor edits on factual information in other languages. I'm requesting autopatroller rights in the English Wikipedia to reduce the workload of other editors in reviewing my articles. VaudevillianScientist (talk) 12:56, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

    @VaudevillianScientist: Most of your articles look good at first glance, but I'm a bit concerned about Institute for Molecular Science. Can you expand on your thought process for that article? It doesn't have any secondary sources. Elli (talk | contribs) 23:29, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
    Thanks for bringing up that article I started. I meant to expand it further, but it requires to establish more entries on notable Japanese researchers first, which the English Wikipedia is lacking in. I have just added a couple external references and improved the entry. VaudevillianScientist (talk) 12:31, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
    I've had a look and your articles are reasonably clean, VaudevillianScientist. The biggest failing is that for bios, you almost always forget to use WP:DEFAULTSORT. Could you please have a look why that's important, and commit yourself to making use of it going forward? I've edited your last 10 articles and that'll give you other ideas for improvements. Schwede66 10:29, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:Ipscaij

    @Ryan shell has suggested me to request autopatrol rights. I'm often creating simple articles about beetles in English (from the groups I'm personally already familiar with or learning about) and later expanding them if the existing resources allow me to do so. This is to allow other people to find this information and pictures more easily (otherwise it's often scattered on the internet and hard to find). I'm requesting autopatroller rights because I create large batches of articles at once, as Ryan mentioned. I only use reliable sources to provide information for Wikipedia Ipscaij (talk) 09:07, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:Xegma

    Hello there, I have created 30 articles as of now and i am requesting for Autopatrolled right. Xegma(talk) 07:34, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:C1K98V

    Hello, I have created 100+ articles, primarily focused on television series. And I plan to keep doing the same. Thanks for your consideration C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 08:51, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:Roastedbeanz1

    I have written a total of 48 articles, including 6 in the past 2 days, mainly about hip hop artists. I'm requesting for the autopatrolled right to lighten the amount of unreviewed articles. Roasted; 🗣️🗣️🗣️, c. 00:07, 19 June 2023 (CDT)


    User:RevelationDirect

    I have written well over 25 articles and @Aszx5000: suggested on my talk page that upgrading my status might save time for other volunteers here. Some of the better articles I've started this year are Metropolitan Club (San Francisco), YMCA Building (San Diego), and Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club while some of my weaker ones are YWCA Building Complex (Athens, Georgia), Masonic Temple (Lagro, Indiana), and Glacier Park Women's Club. If there are any questions, I'm happy to answer them.

    Oh, and if it's better for the encyclopedia that I don't gain this status right now, that's totally fine too! - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:10, 19 June 2024 (UTC)


    Confirmed

    User:Ethereal Whisper

    I have not been able to log into my account for days and I had no choice but to create another one, my previous account is User:JLCop and I would like to make the move of my discussion and user page to the current one. (e) I would also like to request the blocking of my previous account. I believe it has been compromised. Ethereal Whisper (talk) 04:03, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

     Not done Unless you can login from JLCop and confirm below that this new account is you. If you have forgotten the password to your JLCop account and did not setup email recovery, then I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your account is unrecoverable. -Fastily 05:58, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

    File mover

    User:Lunar-akaunto

    Hello. I'm requesting file mover rights. I've uploaded 21 files till now. Please note that when I started uploading, I did not know we were supposed to change the file names to English. My reasoning was that the files I uploaded will certainly not need to be moved or used elsewhere as they are non-free and their original titles can be preserved. I changed this, which reflects in my recently uploaded files after a fellow editor's mention regarding the same on my talk page. I'm familiar with Wikipedia:File mover and the first thing I'll do if I'm granted the rights will be to update my previously uploaded file names to English, but I believe it will be helpful in the future and will only use it to rename files uploaded by others when necessary. Lunar-akauntotalk 11:55, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

     Not done I reviewed your recent edits in the file namespace and found almost no instances where you have requested a file rename. If you need to make a one-off file rename request, please use {{Rename media}}. -Fastily 06:36, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    @Fastily: Thank you for your reply. I have now posted the template you listed above to request renaming all of the files I previously mentioned. I will clarify that my original request was to rename the files along with requesting file mover rights. Do I still remain unfit for the file mover rights? Lunar-akauntotalk 15:26, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    I'd like to see you get experience with requesting renames for files that you did not personally upload. -Fastily 21:34, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    Okay, I'll do that for now and appeal for the rights later. Lunar-akauntotalk 00:32, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

    Page mover


    User:PadFoot2008

    Hello, I'd like to request page mover rights as I often come across articles that do not follow the Wikipedia:Article titles policy and though usually move those articles myself, they sometimes can't be moved due to technical reasons. I have participated in numerous WP:RMs and opened many significant ones, as well as performed many moves myself over the past. Thank you. PadFoot2008 04:07, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:98Tigerius

    Hello, I would like to request a page mover permission to easily draftify page without a redirect of the previous page title and to help out more at RM. I also familiarized myself with the prerequisite required for this permission. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂[𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 05:11, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:Melcous

    In patrolling new pages, I have often draftified articles that are not sourced, or have COI issues, as well as moved new articles with incorrectly formatted titles. Having page mover rights would avoid the creation of redirects, and would also give me the opportunity to get involved at Requested Moves. Melcous (talk) 06:16, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:Saqib

    So I plan on using it to address page move vandalism and for other non-controversial tasks such as WP:RM.— Saqib (talk I contribs) 10:38, 18 June 2024 (UTC)


    Pending changes reviewer

    User:RowanJ LP

    I've created many biographies and have a good understanding of Wikipedia policies. I've fixed vandalism many times and fixed many biography of living persons violations. RowanJ LP (talk) 15:20, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

    User:M S Hassan

    I am requesting Pending Changes Reviewer rights to assist in maintaining the quality of Wikipedia articles. I have been an active editor for almost 3 years, with over 16,000 edits. My contributions reflect a solid understanding of Wikipedia's content policies, including verifiability, neutrality, and no original research. I regularly engage in discussions to improve articles. I am committed to ensuring that pending changes are reviewed promptly and accurately. M S Hassan (talk) 17:25, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:Myrealnamm

    Hi there! I'm requesting Pending changes reviewer so I can review changes. I have read Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes and the other pages to read (such as WP:VANDALISM and WP:COPYRIGHT), and I have been fighting vandalism for about 2 months now. Having this user right will help me reduce the number of articles listed at Special:PendingChanges. Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 21:24, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:Garsh2

    Good day! I am requesting reviewer rights to extend my ability to patrol recent changes to include recent change protected articles. I have done extensive, recent work fighting vandalism (RCP) and following related policies in doing so (warning users, improving good faith edits with problems, etc). Through this work (and editing), I have gained an extensive understanding of WP:NPOV, WP:BLP, and more. I do not boast a large quantity of edits (most of my older edits were not logged in), but I am convinced that the quality of my edits meets the criteria for this permission. I have created a handful of pages, during which I have come to understand reliable source requirements, original research guidelines, and what is constructive (and what is not). I believe my discussions with other Wikipedians and detailed comments related to unconstructive good faith edits will demonstrate that I am not here to bite the newcomers. I hope I will be permitted to expand my improvements to the English Wikipedia. Thank you for your consideration. Garsh (talk) 22:55, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

     Done Elli (talk | contribs) 20:59, 17 June 2024 (UTC)


    Rollback

    User:Saqib

    I guess having rollback rights would be helpful for fighting vandalism.— Saqib (talk I contribs) 10:29, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

     Not done You don't need rollback to undo inappropriate edits. If you're still interested in this tool then please spend at least a month actively patrolling RecentChanges (Twinkle & Ultraviolet can help with that) before reapplying. Also, please ensure that you are consistently warning editors when you revert their edits. Thanks, Fastily 23:41, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
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