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Вандализм

@Ymblanter: двойной вандализм: 1, 2. Kalendar (talk) 17:47, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done protected for a week, only autoconfirmed user can edit it. Csigabi (talk) 18:01, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

:This section was archived on a request by: -- Kalendar (talk) 19:02, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry from enwiki

User:Bossanoven was blocked on enwiki in February 2015 for sockpuppetry (their talk page access was removed in July because they made a petty/insulting comment). They are currently active on Wikidata. They are prolific enough to have their own long-term abuse page, dating to 2007. Another account associated with them, User:TX6785, was active on Wikidata until they were blocked on enwiki (for sockpuppetry) in October 2015. User:Award Tour 2.0 was created and blocked just before that user account, and there are several others that also made at least one edit to Wikidata during 2016. All of those accounts appear to have been created for block evasion on the English Wikipedia.

Is this grounds for blocking or a global lock? I have no evidence that Bossanoven is currently abusing multiple accounts, and it's not clear to me if their current behaviour is within the purview of the global locking policy (although it's abundantly clear that they have multiple user accounts, and Bossanoven's editing period overlaps all of the aforementioned accounts'). They have had user rights granted to them, automatically or otherwise, on multiple WMF wikis. Jc86035's alternate account (talk) 05:51, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jc86035 (1): ✓ Done, Wikidata:Blocking policy state that: "Users or IP addresses should not be blocked solely for behaviour or actions on other projects. As an exception to this, if an account with a history of cross-wiki or single project abuse shows signs of continuing that pattern on Wikidata, they may be blocked here without a pattern of local abuse." I find that User:Bossanoven shows signs of continuing that pattern on Wikidata. Dan Koehl (talk) 06:44, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
@Dan Koehl: Thanks. I have requested a global lock for their accounts on Meta. Jc86035's alternate account (talk) 09:01, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

User:Kakkapyllyparantaja

User:Kakkapyllyparantaja has the same edit pattern as User:Hans Ruff had before it was blocked. Also this new account is already blocked in fiwiki for vandalism. --Shinnin (talk) 11:25, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

@Shinnin: ✓ Done. Dan Koehl (talk) 11:51, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

176.12.81.131

Hi,

Regular vandalism of 176.12.81.131 : changes images in various items. Already blocked 6 months. Thanks. --Do not follow (talk) 19:02, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Blocked for a year.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:05, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Merge

Please merge Q55446670 into Q55267251. --Sahaquiel9102 (talk) 00:41, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalismus

Special:Contributions/Rekisteröity_tavaramerkki Nennt den Marx Dschingis Khan, ändert das Bild einer DDR-Politikerin und ähnlicher Vandalismus. --Wurgl (talk) 10:48, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef. Lymantria (talk) 11:06, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Complaints by User:Nlightened

Thanks for alerting us to another spam item that we just didn't catch the first time around, @Nlightened:! Mahir256 (talk) 17:21, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

page deletion

please explain why new page created for heirs today was deleted but a page for Bookmark Content and Communications - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49547484 is allowed.

They are both business pages

another page deletion

please explain why new page created for nlightened software was deleted but a page for Bookmark Content and Communications - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49547484 is allowed.

They are both business pages

Vandalism by 181.161.191.119

The IP is persistently vandalizing the item Q6525984. Esteban16 (talk) 22:30, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@Dan Koehl: Note the above section of this page by @B1mbo:. Mahir256 (talk) 01:26, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism

Lot of edits by this Rosaropam (talk • contribs • logs) is just vandalism. Can you please block him and if possible revert his changes. --Smooth O (talk) 13:54, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

 Not done, the user had no warning on their talk page, and none of the edits has been corrected? And not many Croatian speaking users around... can you give a diff link to obvious vandalism which may be easy to identify with translation, @Smooth O:? Dan Koehl (talk) 14:05, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
Just some examples translated in English:

✓ Done. Thanks for the links @Smooth O:. Dan Koehl (talk) 08:19, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism

Special:Contributions/2001:14BB:71:6DC1:3D46:86F3:C142:84F4 seems to continue Vandalism made before by locked user Rekisteröity tavaramerkki, which I reported yesterday (in German language). --Wurgl (talk) 06:12, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q42410

Please semi-protect Evo Morales (Q42410) - new wave of frequent IP vandalism, popular theme, living person.--Jklamo (talk) 13:07, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done for a year. Mahir256 (talk) 13:22, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Block 87.41.92.0/24 again

Hello,
The IP ranges 87.41.92.0/24, 86.42.179.0/24 and 2001:BB6:8D0F:A858::/64 have many common points:

  1. since April 2018, they are removing valid sitelinks
  2. the Whois tool says that these IP are from Dublin, Ireland
  3. they have been blocked ([1], [2] and [3]) but are always coming back
  4. they have already been mentioned in Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/2018/04#87.41.92.204, Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/2018/04#Block of IP 87.41.92.141, Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/2018/05#Chronic vandalism of 2001:BB6:8D0F:A858:0:0:0:0/64 (sitelinks remove), Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/2018/06#Block 87.41.92.0/24 again, and at least 86.42.179.183...
  5. they vandalize the same items: Knocked Up (Q222800), American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (Q466291), May 11 (Q2558), May 12 (Q2559), August 11 (Q2778), February 26 (Q2359)...

At the moment, only 87.41.92.0/24 is active. Could you block 87.41.92.0/24 again (at least)?
Regards --NicoScribe ([User talk:NicoScribe|talk]]) 16:10, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Finnish president Sauli Niinistö

Sauli Niinistö (Q29207) has been under a certain amount of constant vandalism for a few days. (Semi-)Protection and maybe some IP-blocking may be in order. Andrei Stroe (talk) 08:22, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done 2 weeks semi —MisterSynergy (talk) 08:24, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism from IP

Some is continually vandalizing Q770895 from IP 81.45.129.84. He's been warned, but to no avail.--Gorpik (talk) 09:51, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for a week + semi-protected for six months — Ayack (talk) 10:17, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

IP vandalism

Please block 200.125.56.206 and 190.0.148.228. Despite being warned (and reverted) they continue to vanalize items.

Please consider also semi-protection of Mario Benedetti (Q16285) as well - frequent IP vandalism, popular theme.--Jklamo (talk) 14:38, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism in Carlos Tevez (Q50600)

Please, protect and block IP 181.47.48.165. --B1mbo (talk) 17:09, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 19:41, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Merging request

Please merge Étienne Velay (Q55773139) and Étienne Velay (Q56282735). This is a duplicate. 109.9.71.223 22:32, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Pamputt (talk) 05:44, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

I am a user who edits in Malayalam as well as English Wikipedia. I would like to know the reason why I am not able to add Malayalam language link to the template Template:Infobox Chinese/Header. The malayalam page that needs to be linked to that template is ml:ഫലകം:Infobox Chinese/Header. It showed a notability error but I was able to understand that other inter languages were added to that link.Adithyak1997 (talk) 03:11, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done by Ymblanter Pamputt (talk) 05:46, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Though I still do not understand what the reason was. Apparently, this is just a false positive of some edit filter which I was able to avoid as an administrator.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:49, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
So Wikidata:Notability/Exclusion criteria isn't valid anymore? Matěj Suchánek (talk) 07:27, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Sure, but what is the problem with these?--Ymblanter (talk) 07:35, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
The page excludes any /header or /footer pages and so does the filter. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 07:44, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Oh, you mean the whole item is invalid? Then it must be nominated for deletion.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:46, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Deleted the item, unless of course someone wanted to contest that specific exclusion criterion, in which case feel free to undo that and nominate it. Mahir256 (talk) 13:46, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protection for Q312556

Please semi-protect Jeff Bezos (Q312556) - frequent IP vandalism, popular theme, living person.--Jklamo (talk) 15:37, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Merging request

Please merge Gaspard Fornier d'Albe (Q9266142) and Gaspard Fornier d'Albe (Q15967836) (duplicate). Thanks. 109.9.71.223 21:26, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Merge

Please merge Arthur Maluski (Q56887597) and Arthur Maluski (Q56084764): duplicate. Thanks. 2A01:CB1D:80FC:DA00:4436:68CA:9449:C930 12:40, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protect Q1497392

Please semi-protect Q1497392 - frequent IP vandalism in the last days. --Plani (talk) 13:19, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done for 1 month. Pamputt (talk) 19:17, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Merging request

Please merge Jacques Vincens-Saint-Laurent (Q3160178) and Jacques Vincens-Saint-Laurent (Q56641734): this is the same person. 92.184.112.122 18:45, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

:Welcome. As such a frequent contributor, may i tempt you to register an account? :) Dan Koehl (talk) 19:08, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Cambio en el Nombre de Busqueda

Buenos dias, deseo cambiar el nombre de esta biografia de Sotiris a Sotirio Kostopoulos el cual es el nombre real del personaje de esta biografia  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by JuanMaGonz (talk • contribs) at 14:28, 11 October 2018‎ (UTC).

Protection request

Please protect https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property_talk:P2580 and https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property:P2580 it keeps getting reverted by the ip of a user likely globally blocked and repeatedly blocked on Wikidata. Active admin will notice. --- Jura 15:20, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Semi-protected for three months. --Okkn (talk) 15:37, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

User:Kakkajellu

User:Kakkajellu is a vandalism only account. --Shinnin (talk) 16:49, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Indef-blocked. Mahir256 (talk) 17:42, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Removing an unsourced private information

Hello,

I tried to remove an unsourced private information on Q47541348, but Cycn reverted it. While I tried to get in touch wih him, he cancelled my message, arguing that he "doesn't speak with numbers" (!)... I find it a bit shockinh because IMHO I'm as legitimate as a registered contributor...

Please, could you help me removing this information?

Regards, 92.184.101.87 16:58, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Item has been deleted. Lymantria (talk) 07:32, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you. This is indeed a reaction much more collaborative than the one of Cycn. 92.184.101.87 07:39, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
Cycn should show more courtesy to "IP" editors, whose contributions here are as valid and welcome as anyone else's. comments and edit summaries to the effect that they "don't talk with numbers", or "don't talk to numbers, just to people", are unacceptable Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:15, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
I respectfully disagree, with you and anyone with that opinion who doesn't 'hide' (that's how I feel about it) behind a irrecognizable IP. As long as an IP doesn't remove data without giving a source I'll respect their edits, but otherwise it just looks like vandalism and if someone doesn't want to use a alias like you and me (and they choose to do so) I'd advise on avoiding making edits look like that. For now the issue is resolved and I'm out of options to be uncourtious any more. - cycŋ - (talk • contribs • logs) 17:06, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Q3515361

Hello,

This item is vandalized (conflict on Twitter and on Fr wiki). A week or two of protection would be good. --Shev123 (talk) 06:26, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done for a week. Mahir256 (talk) 06:53, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Protect Q48305

Please protect item Euripides (Q48305), which has been the repeated target of IP vandalism for several months now. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:50, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done For a month and added to my watchlist as well. Bencemac (talk) 17:19, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Remove NavFrame

I think we can finally get rid of the awful NavFrame collapsing method, hardly anyone uses it. To remove it, MediaWiki:Common.js’s lines 101–197 and MediaWiki:Common.css’s lines 562–612 should be deleted. Thanks in advance! —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:30, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Anyone? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 06:51, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

@Ymblanter, Lymantria, Sjoerddebruin, but other interface administrators are welcome (I did not want to ping everybody). Bencemac (talk) 07:03, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done, @Tacsipacsi: pls check and ping me if smth is not right.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:28, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Ymblanter: $( createNavigationBarToggleButton ); should also be removed, it causes an undefined reference error now. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 07:51, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Tacsipacsi:✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 07:54, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: Could you please remove collapsible as well? It’s similarly (un)used on Wikidata. Although it’s used on many file description pages, these are redirected to Commons by default, so Commons should take care of the appropriate JavaScript code. Common.js, lines 3–99 (it has no CSS). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 08:36, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Let us do it step by step. Are you suggesting to modify Common.js on Commons?--Ymblanter (talk) 08:39, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
No, I‘m suggesting to modify Common.js here. I consider it safe, because Commons’ Common.js runs in almost all cases when collapsible is used (file description pages). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 08:42, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Ok, then pls write in detail which lines you want me to remove, since I still do not quite understand.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:49, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Lines 3–99 of MediaWiki:Common.js, as I mentioned above. (And possibly also some blank lies before/after that, just to make the code look better, but that’s not important at all.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 08:54, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Tacsipacsi:✓ Done pls check--Ymblanter (talk) 08:59, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism by IP 187.189.240.74

I encountered the meaningless changes made by 187.189.240.74 (talk • contribs • logs), which I found to be pure vandalism and I reverted those changes.--Flávio Nuno Neves Rodrigues (talk) 02:33, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked by Ymblanter Mahir256 (talk) 18:58, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

user:Aniket k. Rastogi

Above user is vandalising here. Thanks-BRP ever 16:19, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

User:अनिकेत रस्तोगी another account of same user.-BRP ever 16:47, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
✓ Done blocked and hidden edits. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 17:32, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Merging

Please merge Amédée Bussière (Q55595489) and Amédée Bussière (Q50701369). Duplicate. 2A01:CB1D:80FC:DA00:912E:B6A6:4228:AF3D 20:22, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done --ValterVB (talk) 20:29, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
@ValterVB: there's also a duplicate there and there. Regards, 2A01:CB1D:80FC:DA00:BC79:ADDF:5857:A20F 13:37, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
→ ← Merged. Bencemac (talk) 13:53, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Bencemac: same as for François Martin (Q3085307) and François Martin (Q50876688). Regards, 2A01:CB1D:80FC:DA00:BC79:ADDF:5857:A20F 16:18, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
→ ← Merged. Bencemac (talk) 19:23, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

203.221.115.176

IP vandalizes. Cordially. --Eihel (talk) 07:11, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

It seems he vandalized during ten minutes and stopped after. He will be blocked whether he comes back. Pamputt (talk) 08:47, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
✓ OK--Eihel (talk) 16:58, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/82.177.40.11

Seems like a lot of bad edits. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Article: Publishing the ENG version

Hello,

I have translated a wikipedia article from French into English but I can't publish the ENG version unfortunately. I do not know how to add the ENG version on Wikipedia, to enable anyone to find the ENG version. Would you help me please ?

The initial page:

The link to the article I have translated: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BadrBoussabat/Bruno_Colmant&oldid=864154898

Thank you very much for your consideration and help,

Sincerely yours,

Badr  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by BadrBoussabat (talk • contribs) at 13:21, 15 October 2018‎ (UTC).

@BadrBoussabat: Your question is about Wikipedia; this is a different project, Wikidata. Please ask at en:Wikipedia:Help desk. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:30, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Protect Q20026619

Hello !

Some months ago, I get an autoconfirmed protection of the item Q20026619 for cross-wiki (and also WD) vandalism by IPs 77.14.94.108 ; 77.14.51.51 ; 46.134.32.161 ; 80.171.207.9 and many others at this time. Now, IPs 77.179.69.248 ; 77.179.43.22 and others on others WPs are starting vandalizing this page again.

Can this item be protected for one or two weeks like the last time.

Cordially. --Niridya (talk) 20:46, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Protected for two weeks so only autoconfirmed users can edit. -- Fuzheado (talk) 02:48, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Вандализм

@Ymblanter: весь вклад вандальный. Kalendar (talk) 19:31, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done, blocked for a month--Ymblanter (talk) 19:42, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: -- Kalendar (talk) 19:56, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Вандализм

@Ymblanter: весь вклад вандальный. Kalendar (talk) 10:05, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 10:08, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: -- Kalendar (talk) 10:16, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Marie Curie (Q7186)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T207313

Excessive vandalism. Please semiprotect. --Succu (talk) 16:57, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

I am not able to protect the page right now (I systematically get a timeout on this link). Pamputt (talk) 17:31, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
Yes, is the same for me. --ValterVB (talk) 17:36, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
@ValterVB, Pamputt: Reported the problem on Phabricator (encountered the same issue trying to grant someone rollback). Mahir256 (talk) 18:11, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
Bad. A banned user has „fun”. --Succu (talk) 20:37, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Вандализм

@Ymblanter: весь вклад вандальный. Kalendar (talk) 05:23, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 05:26, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: -- Kalendar (talk) 06:37, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Вандализм

@Ymblanter: весь вклад вандальный. Kalendar (talk) 17:54, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:29, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: -- Kalendar (talk) 18:31, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism from Chile continues

As I mentioned before, there is a wave of vandalism coming from Chile, attacking Wikidata pages so the vandalism can appear on Wikidata. A few days ago, a newspaper promoted vandalism on Wikipedia and that has led to more articles attacked than usual. You can see examples here and here.

Now, someone changed Lima (Q2868) and that reflected when someone asks the capital of Peru in Chile, which has sparked some complaints from Peru. This will continue now that this is now published in several websites, so the vandalism will continue. I don't know what is the best administrative measure, but I think at this point, blocking all IPs from Chile (or even all IPs in general) for one or two weeks is not a bad idea. If not, we will continue receiving vandalism from people that want to become famous and our projects get a bad reputation. --B1mbo (talk) 17:23, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@B1mbo: To block all IPs is something to which a lot of people will object, but I have blocked some /16 Chilean subranges for a week (for a month if they were blocked a week ago as well) and invite other admins to do the same. Mahir256 (talk) 17:53, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
@Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Jalexander-WMF: Are there any resources that WMDE or WMF can provide here, or any other input that might help? --Rschen7754 06:28, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
(I'm on vacation atm so only a short reply.) We've put a lot of thought and work into data quality over the past 2 years but apparently it is not enough. I'm absolutely willing to spend resources (and will do so) on more things in this direction but I'm not sure how to tackle this particular issue. If you or someone else has ideas for what could work and would be acceptable please let me know. One thing I wanted to look into more next is phabricator:T205783. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 16:04, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
@Lydia Pintscher (WMDE): In my experience, a huge amount of vandalism comes from IPs in Spanish-speaking countries and edits from IPs in Spanish speaking countries are almost always vandalism. The Spanish Wikipedia has a prominent link to edit Wikidata in their infoboxes and that is probably how a lot of those vandals arrive at Wikidata. You could ask them to not show that link for anonymous users. - Nikki (talk) 22:11, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Yes, keeping Wikidata secret is crucial to our success. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:21, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
Keeping Wikidata free from vandalism is crucial to our success. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 12:29, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
Feel free to make other suggestions. - Nikki (talk) 14:06, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
I think the problem are the links on protected pages. It should be possible to test this hypothesis. --- Jura 14:18, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be a correlation in the edits I'm seeing. :( I had a look at some recent reverts and picked 10 of the ones done by IPs from Spanish speaking countries (which happened to be 4 ES, 2 AR, 1 EC/CL/MX/UY). Only one of the linked Wikipedia pages was protected. - Nikki (talk) 15:17, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
It could be items used as values on such pages. Frequently I notice odd edits on given names. --- Jura 15:26, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
To me it does indeed look like a good next step to hide these edit links on Spanish Wikipedia for protected pages. That's a sensible thing to do anyway. Does anyone know who would be a good person to talk to on Spanish Wikipedia? I'm happy to have a chat with them then. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 15:52, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
Given that there's no evidence of a link between protected pages and vandalised items, I'm sceptical that only doing it for protected pages will do much, but I guess we can try. Maybe @Abián: can help. - Nikki (talk) 14:06, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Sure, I'm available to have a chat and help as much as I can. Wikidata's value is widely questioned from the Spanish Wikipedia, mainly because of this problem, which gets worse over time. Some users want to stop using Wikidata or use it to a lesser extent, but this isn't a solution, just a step back. --abián 14:53, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Abián: Would you look into es:Módulo_discusión:Ficha#"editar_datos_en_Wikidata". It might need some update since then. --- Jura 15:04, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, I also noticed an unusual wave of vandalism from Chilean IPs. But I am afraid that many vandalisms remained unnoticed or covered by bot edits.--Jklamo (talk) 08:27, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
  • Maybe it's time to tell eswiki that they should remove the "go-vandalize-Wikidata" link on protected pages there. Otherwise maybe we should stop making Wikidata available to eswiki on a live basis. --- Jura 16:12, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
What do yo mean by a "go-vandalize-Wikidata" link? --B1mbo (talk) 17:00, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
@B1mbo: I believe Jura refers to the pencil icons next to certain entries in an infobox, as well as the link 'editar datos en Wikidata' in the same infobox (such as those you see when looking at Sebastián Piñera (Q306)'s eswiki page). Mahir256 (talk) 17:09, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
  • Yes, if you log out and look at the eswiki article linked to the item you mentioned [4], the only invitation a person (or a vandal) sees to edit is 'editar datos en Wikidata'. Supposedly, eswiki concluded that only vandalism is likely. Accordingly, I don't see why we should have a link labeled that way to Wikidata. The tooltips on the icons could be limited to "ver" as well, but maybe this is less a problem. --- Jura 17:15, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
I have protected a number of items, due to this kind of vandalism, and hope I have done this, supported by a consensus regarding the latest increased vandalism? I dont think such protection is controversial, but would feel its important with someone confirming this is a correct way of handling the situation? Dan Koehl (talk) 11:00, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
Other people might judge things differently, but my rule of thumb is that anything with vandalism from multiple IPs/accounts (at least 3) within a recent period of time (up to about 2 weeks) is a good candidate for protection. I don't protect items unless there's evidence of multiple IPs/accounts targeting a page, because often there won't be any further vandalism anyway and we don't want to prevent good edits unnecessarily (and if a single IP/account is repeatedly targeting an item then we can block the user rather than protect the page). Looking at a couple of the things you protected, I would definitely have protected Jeff Bezos (Q312556) (probably for a month rather than a week given that it had been going on for over a week already) but I wouldn't have protected Malleco Viaduct (Q3085334) because there was only one edit. - Nikki (talk) 12:10, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your input @Nikki:, point taken, and I will use protection when only several IP are involved. Dan Koehl (talk) 09:16, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
I think we need more semi-protected items. All items with links to eswiki indef/longterm protected articles should be semi-protected on Wikidata as well. From my experience 80%+ vandalism is from IPs from Spanish-speaking countries, which is not surprising, as eswiki is first wide audience wiki massively using Wikidata (which is great). With wider usage of Wikidata in wikis we must be prepared for even more vandalism.--Jklamo (talk) 15:35, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
The problem is that semi-protection often prevents page moves from being reflected in Wikidata or new sitelinks from being added, because many Wikipedia editors are not autoconfirmed here. We need a solution to that first. Also, as I mentioned above, most of the vandalised items I checked were not protected on eswiki. - Nikki (talk) 13:13, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Merge

Please merge Jean Rivalland (Q50822058) and Jean Rivalland (Q3174356). This is a duplicate. 2A01:CB1D:80FC:DA00:215C:B0C7:E541:3B9E 21:45, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

→ ← Merged --ValterVB (talk) 08:16, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: William Graham (talk) 15:23, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Protection

Could someone please protect Patrícia Campos Mello (Q57273347)? As she is a key person in a current political scandal in Brazil, which is already leading to vandalism on pt.wikipedia and one on Wikidata, I am requesting protection of the associated Wikidata item. This is particularly important as the pt.wikipedia article has a Wikidata-generated IB. Thanks. --Joalpe (talk) 12:42, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done by Mahir256 for a week--Ymblanter (talk) 19:53, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Edit war on Norway (Q20) and the use of official name (P1448)

Can someone have a look at the edits on the item Norway with respect to the use of official name. Breg Pmt (talk) 12:48, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jeblad: should know what he is doing.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:44, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
OMG! Ymblanter! :D
I believe Pmt is referring to an edit war that is slightly older. I did a change on preferred value [5] as I asked the Norwegian language council about correct name for Norway. There are listed three names for Kvensk language. I did not want to mark the other two as deprecated, as I'm not sure that would be correct. Kvensk is an official minority language in Norway.
The older edit war has its roots in an old dispute on the correct interpretation of "official name". Is it the language bodies of Norway (ie. the state itself) that defines the official name? Is it some kind of translation into some other language, and that states official language body? And so fort. I'm not sure that dispute is setteled. I said what I believed at nowiki, that is the first one, and TommyG went on and removed a lot of statements. I saw the changes, but would not interfere.
I believe the only solution that would work is to filter down the list of names somehow, and probably locally at nowiki. I doubt it is possible to figure out a "one size fits all in this case". Except I do know the discussion will go on for some time at nowiki. Hopefully it will not spill over to more items than Norway (Q20).
Just for the record; Pmt know what he does (unless he disagree with me!) Jeblad (talk) 20:09, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
Based on the English and German descriptions of official name (P1448), I would say that TommyG's edits were correct. If people want the property to be used for other languages, the descriptions need updating. I would suggest starting a discussion somewhere (on the property's talk page with a link from project chat would probably be best) about it. - Nikki (talk) 21:40, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Request for semi-protection for Q1262052

Jamal Khashoggi (Q1262052) is getting a lot of new IP users vandalizing the manner of death and related properties by removing one of the allegations. William Graham (talk) 17:09, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@William Graham: ✓ Done and from Saudi IPs at that. Mahir256 (talk) 17:26, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: William Graham (talk) 15:21, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

What's the current de-admin process ?

If an admin repeatedly fails to explain their admin decisions, what's the current process to retire them? --- Jura 03:46, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Removal. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 06:31, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Tags unavailable for the period 17-19 October

Hello dear admins,

I just wanted to inform you that because of this issue, you may not be able to see the tags for the edits that happened between 17th and 19th of October. This should be back for the newest edits, and everything will be back eventually. If you find any other issue, feel free to comment in the ticket or ping Ladsgroup.

Thanks for your understanding, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 10:24, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Merging request

Please merge Paul Vézian (Q12949927) and Paul Vézian (Q57618000) (duplicate). 2A01:CB1D:80FC:DA00:1062:B084:99B9:88F1 15:43, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Same as for:
Édouard Antoine Sidoine de Fitz-James (Q18604730) and Édouard Antoine Sidoine de Fitz-James (Q57618270);
Marguerite Augusta Marie Löwenhielm, duchesse de Fitz-James (Q57618390) and Marguerite Augusta Marie Löwenhielm, duchesse de Fitz-James (Q18604672).
Thanks...
✓ Done Pamputt (talk) 16:12, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Tobias Conradi

Globally banned user Tobias Conradi is currently active: User:85.180.207.13 and similar German Telefonica IP. --Kam Solusar (talk) 16:18, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

@Kam Solusar: Have fun trying to prove it. Mahir256 (talk) 16:22, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
Nah, not going to waste my time "building a case" against this guy. He's been easily identified (and blocked) by various users both here and on the German Wikipedia during the last couple of weeks, since his newest topic seems to be BBLD IDs. --16:32, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

155.205.200.43

Several instances of vandalism. Appears to be associated with a school network. Also currently blocked from English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:155.205.200.43 Electronsoup (talk) 00:53, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done, blocked; thanks for reporting —MisterSynergy (talk) 01:17, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Electronsoup (talk) 02:01, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Property creation

Dear all! Some days ago I sent this property proposal and it seems ready. I know that everything needs time, but we are in a hurry, as this should be our Wikidata 6th birthday present, and we have little time to accomplish it without the property. Could someone process the queue, please? THANKS!!! -Theklan (talk) 09:26, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Pamputt (talk) 11:29, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Block and protection

A cross-wiki spammer (for which I requested a global block) keeps vandalizing the item Q57608521. Please protect the item and block the IP address.

If you can retrieve the previous item (I think it has been deleted) for en:Pavannan it would be even better.

It would be the best if someone could arrange an automatic filter.

See also:

--Horcrux (talk) 13:04, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

New IP: 31.13.190.86--Horcrux (talk) 20:55, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism from IP

Someone from IP 193.146.86.29 periodically engages in bouts of vandal editions.--Gorpik (talk) 14:27, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

I've blocked them (again). - Nikki (talk) 15:50, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalismo en Leyla Chihuán (Q6538022)

Hola, perdón por comunicarme en español, pero pido semiprotección por multiples vandalismos en el elemento Q6538022. Gracias. --JOAN ~ (Questions?) 01:14, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Andreasm háblame / just talk to me 01:18, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
¡Gracias!. JOAN ~ (Questions?) 01:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

User removing the GDP of every country

Special:Contributions/Datawiki30

This user appears to be running a bot, as indicated by a discussion on their talk page, from their main account. It's inexplicably removing the GDP of every single country in the world. Why? -- numbermaniac (talk) 13:41, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

You are not the only one to witness strange behavior from that account. @Lymantria, WDBot: Mahir256 (talk) 13:59, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi numbermaniac (talk). I have removed old values, beacause the bot adds new, more actual values. I am not running the bot from my account - the values are removed manually. What would be the best practice to avoid confusion? Datawiki30 (talk) 14:39, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Not any sort of admin, but I think the best way to deal with that data would be to leave it in place, change the rank to deprecated or add a sourcing circumstances (P1480) property that appropriately describes the existing data. William Graham (talk) 15:11, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
William Graham is correct here, except for some cases where for example a required qualifier constraint (Q21510856) is missing. @Numbermaniac: it might be worth to first try to get in touch with a user, before coming here. Lymantria (talk) 16:01, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism in Álvaro Ojeda Sacaluga (Q30345814)

The item Álvaro Ojeda Sacaluga (Q30345814) is frequently vandalized by IP's users. This item should be blocked a long time. Carlosmg.dg (talk) 15:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

I've protected it for a year. - Nikki (talk) 16:55, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Protection for Q8743

Thomas Edison (Q8743) is fairly continually vandalised - of the last 50 edits (since 9 September) all are vandalism or reverts, except for one new label. Could it be protected? Andrew Gray (talk) 17:27, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month. Mahir256 (talk) 17:44, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Mahir256 great, thanks! Andrew Gray (talk) 18:05, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism on Mao Zedong (Q5816)

Hi,

Several vandalisms on Mao Zedong (Q5816), please see history

Protection of the item and block of 161.132.127.73 could be helpful.

Thanks --Do not follow (talk) 19:25, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Protected the item for a week and blocked two /24 subnets for the same duration. Mahir256 (talk) 19:28, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

95.26.17.214

Vandal seems to be obsessed with certain items [6]. Ghouston (talk) 08:38, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 1 month, some reverts. Lymantria (talk) 09:20, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Q8027

This item is vandalized by 190.100.31.224. Already warned but doesn't care. Thanks. --Do not follow (talk) 12:07, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, IP blocked; I’m also watching the item now… —MisterSynergy (talk) 12:10, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Brett Kavanaugh and vandalism

Neo-Jay (talk • contribs • logs) apparently thought it appropriate to add field of this occupation (P425) rape (Q47092) to rapist (Q22962951) and change the aliases to 'rapist' and the like. It's the second such edit I caught, and the user has some 70k+ edits, so I'll leave it to someone else to change it. This is the first one, which I already reverted.--Underlying lk (talk) 20:50, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Neo-Jay is not to blame for anything here. The vandalism took place in rapist (Q22962951) (history) by IPs changing the English label of that item to "Brett Kavanaugh". All reverted now, thanks for reporting anyway. —MisterSynergy (talk) 20:56, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
@Underlying lk: As MisterSynergy put it, Q22962951 refers to "rapist", not "Brett Kavanaugh". That item was vandalized by 73.74.64.149 at 02:19, 9 October 2018. I think that it is appropriate to add "field of this occupation" (P425) "rape" (Q47092) to "rapist" (Q22962951). --Neo-Jay (talk) 00:43, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

User:210.3.92.210

This user still make edit wars in West Kowloon Station Mainland Port Area (Q48928408) even I warned them for more than 3 times, per this document on zhwikisource, the Mainland Port Area is not under Hong Kong government control, but under Shenzhen government control, therefore its located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) value should be Futian District (Q572153), not Hong Kong. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:29, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

 Support This area has administrative mark that said Shenzhen West Kowloon, so this area is by de jure not in Hong Kong. --117.136.54.33

My Talking Tom

IP 190.233.61.118 Vandaliert in Q23760205 und fügt Sterbedatum hinzu--Futurwiki (talk) 18:15, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done; item protected due to high vandalism activity recently; the anon user is silent now. —MisterSynergy (talk) 19:30, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Request for mass revert of bad edits

Looking over [7], every single edit I have check for the past several hours is incorrect. The links are adding Wikisource items that are either in a different language (and so need a different data item), or else they are the wrong item completely.

Could someone with the tools please stop the bot and do a mass revert to undo all these incorrect edits? --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:25, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Ongoing vandalism

Wikidre (talk • contribs • logs) vandal edits on video game properties. For example here, or here. Kirilloparma (talk) 01:45, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done I blocked him for 24 hours and started a discussion on his talk page. Pamputt (talk) 07:46, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
I just unblocked him because, after talking, it appears he is not a vandal. Pamputt (talk) 17:45, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC closure

It has been almost a year and a half since Wikidata:Requests for comment/Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata. Maybe it's time for an admin to close it? (After closure I think it would also be appropriate to notify all participants of the outcome.) Jc86035 (talk) 12:41, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

E.g. Titanic (Q44578). -- MovieFex (talk) 21:29, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

@MovieFex: Which identifier? The ones I tried worked. ArthurPSmith (talk) 13:54, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
@ArthurPSmith: The error was yesterday. Now it seems that it is fixed. -- MovieFex (talk) 13:58, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Bencemac (talk) 12:44, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Protect John «Fornite» Kennedy Q9696

Excessive vandalism in the entry John F. Kennedy (Q9696) changing the name to John «Fornite» Kennedy. I request a long time semi-protection. -- Leoncastro (talk) 18:16, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done Semi-protected for 3 months by Mahir256. Pamputt (talk) 06:45, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Protection for Q36524 (authority control)

Hey, I was wondering if we could semi or fully protect authority file (Q36524). The labels of this item are used on Commons in the highly-visible templates {{Authority control}} and {{Wikidata Infobox}}. Earlier today, an IP user changed the English label of this item, and this incorrect label began appearing all over the place on Commons. I realize it's a bit odd to request protection for something that's highly visible on a different wiki, but the alternative solution is that Commons would have to maintain another identical list of dozens of language labels. Would the admins here be willing to protect this item? Thanks, IagoQnsi (talk) 20:51, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done, protected for 1 year--Ymblanter (talk) 19:59, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Quickstatements demo for Wikidata 6 birthday event at University of Edinburgh

Hi, would anyone be able to help our event run smoothly tomorrow from 11am to 3pm GMT? Running an Intro to Wikidata, SPARQL Query Basics and Wikidata manual/mass edits demos as [art of Wikidata 6th birthday event. Quickstatements demo will involve participants working with batches of data allocated to them. These may be new accounts doing this facilitated demo. Would we need the user accounts to be 'confirmed' by an admin to ensure QS edits went through? Stinglehammer (talk) 16:38, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Protect Q20026619

Hello,

The IP user 77.179.111.84 restarted vandalize Q20026619. This element was protected 1 week and another time 2 weeks. Now I request one month of protection at level autoconfirmed.

I precise that I don't request IP block (but you can also block if you want) because this man use dynamic IPs to vandalize. (Recent examples: 77.179.111.84; 77.179.43.22; 77.179.65.173; 77.179.69.248 and a lot more about other wikis.

Cordially. --Niridya (talk) 19:11, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done, for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 20:02, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Mq-TW.QR-WL1H

This user is cross-wiki vandalizing User:Billinghurst's page, and some other contributors's ...

Seems on a vendetta... https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/?user=Mq-TW.QR-WL1H

Thanks--Hsarrazin (talk) 12:58, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

This user account was gloabally locked 2018-10-31T13:54:41. Dan Koehl (talk) 13:03, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
and s.he's back User:MLs akETzR --Hsarrazin (talk) 13:57, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
To lessen the administrative burden here it might be worth putting soft protection on my talk page for 3-6 months, especially as I am not particularly active here. FWIW it is a known and continuing xwiki LTA who thinks that it is clever, or annoying to me. You just cannot help the stupid. Like whatever ... water ... duck .... back <shrug>  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:03, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
Ahh, it has been done for a month. Let us see how that helps.  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:05, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
@Billinghurst: I just did the same on fr.ws :) --Hsarrazin (talk) 21:15, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

AliciaFagervingWMSE-bot adding incorrect information.

AliciaFagervingWMSE-bot added false information, claiming that Walter Raleigh's country of citizenship was the United Kingdom, despite the fact that the United Kingdom did not exist during Raleigh's lifetime (he died in 1618).

This is despite complaints by 2 editors taking issue with three edits at User talk:Alicia Fagerving (WMSE)#Guy Fawkes edit warring; no response has been offered to these complaints. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:20, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

I blocked the bot until the concerns have been addressed.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:42, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Duplicate

Could you please merge justice of the peace (Q20729535) and justice of the peace (Q26857447)? This is the same position. 2A01:CB1D:80FC:DA00:2DD6:B47B:812B:83ED 19:17, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 21:52, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Duplicated items (schools in Venice)

I have found these three items:

  • Category:Guild schools in Venice (Q54858759)
  • Category:Scuole Grandi of Venice (Q30696402)
  • Categoria:Scuole di mestiere e di devozione di Venezia (Q9257391)

They describes the same things: Scuola [school] (also written Scola or Schola) in historical Venice is a voluntary association; it can be a Scuola di devozione (confraternity) or a Scuola di arti e mestieri (guild) and also their headquarter buildings; only nine confraternity became Scuola Grande. The best italian definition can be Scuole di devozione, arti e mestieri a Venezia [confraternities and guilds in Venice] or also Scuole di arti e mestieri e devozioni a Venezia.

By the way also Scuola Grande di San Teodoro have two items: (Q55599837) (Q30914627)

Can someone can unify them? --Zanekost (talk) 15:55, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 21:45, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! But remains Scuola Grande di San Teodoro. Although it would be better having different identifiers for the building (or buildings) and the institution, San Teodoro looks the only one having two identifiers, and also categories and pages of any Wikipedia talks about building and institution together.--Zanekost (talk) 13:24, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Wrong translation messages

Hello.Please delete these messages because they match the original text.Thanks David (talk) 16:56, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done. Bencemac (talk) 12:43, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Q48928408

User:210.3.92.210

This user still make edit wars in West Kowloon Station Mainland Port Area (Q48928408) even I warned them for more than 3 times, per this document on zhwikisource, the Mainland Port Area is not under Hong Kong government control, but under Shenzhen government control, therefore its located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) value should be Futian District (Q572153), not Hong Kong. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:29, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

 Support This area has administrative mark that said Shenzhen West Kowloon, so this area is by de jure not in Hong Kong. --117.136.54.33

The Mainland Port Area is an inalienable part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

According to the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Approving the Co-operation Arrangement between the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on the Establishment of the Port at the West Kowloon Station of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link for Implementing Co-location Arrangement (English Translation), “the establishment of the Mainland Port Area at the West Kowloon Station does not alter the boundary of the administrative division of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.” 210.3.92.210 09:40, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

new section

The West Kowloon Station Mainland Port Area is located in the administrative territorial entity of Hong Kong. As stated by the response from the Government, the implementation of co-location arrangement at the West Kowloon Station of the XRL does not involve realignment of the HKSAR boundary. This is consistent with the views of the NPCSC as stated in the preamble of the Decision that “the establishment of the Mainland Port Area at the West Kowloon Station does not alter the boundary of the administrative division of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”. As such, the HKSAR Government considers that the purpose of Clause 6(2) is to articulate an important point of law that the co-location arrangement does not affect the HKSAR boundary. 223.17.65.23 07:18, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

[citation needed] for all of your claims. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:18, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Anyway, the existing of Vatican City (Q237) does also not affect boundary lines of the Republic of Italy, but therefore Vatican City (Q237)country (P17)Italy (Q38)? The fact is that this is under Shenzhen Government control, not Hong Kong Government, and another fact is that by entering this area, your travel document (Q2616578) will be stamped a "深圳西九龙 Shenzhen West Kowloon". --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:20, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Section 6(2) of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (Co-location) Ordinance: “Subsection (1) does not affect the boundary of the administrative division of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region promulgated by the Order of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China No. 221 dated 1 July 1997 and published as S.S. No. 5 to Gazette No. 6/1997 of the Gazette.” 223.17.65.23 14:38, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

@223.17.65.23: As description said, non of Hong Kong legal documents are applied to this area, whether you think this is fair or not, and even you have rights to claim Hong Kong independence (Q113301), there's nothing to do with the usages of properties, located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) is mainly for the de facto administrative entity, optionally for the de jure administrative entity, but never for just geographical places. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:43, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Also, please do not remove the warning templates that you've got, that's not civility. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:46, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

There is no "深圳西九龙 Shenzhen West Kowloon", confirmed by the Shenzhen General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection 223.17.65.23 14:48, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Then what's this entry stamp meaning? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:50, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
@Dhx1: As that user helped clarifying the legal documents involved this on WD:PC. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:52, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

香港特別行政區行政區域界線不受影響，因此内地口岸區實際上依然是香港特別行政區的一部分，政府文件也認爲這是個重要的法律觀點，你知道嗎？223.17.65.23 15:06, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

梵蒂岡的存在同樣也不影響意大利共和國的國界線，難道梵蒂岡就是意大利的么？--Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 15:01, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
資深大律師潘熙接著陳詞，指中央早於1997年已訂下明香港特別行政區的界線，當中包括西九龍站內地口岸區。 223.17.65.23 15:09, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

警官在片段的4:04親自說：“到香港境内的內地口岸區工作” 223.17.65.23 15:16, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

From my point of view, Liu is right, this area is an enclave that is controlling by Mainland China departments, just like Vatican City which is by geographical located in Italy, But also a country (and that's the shortest country of world). --117.13.95.75 02:10, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Senior Counsel Martin Lee: "It created a smaller special administrative region within Hong Kong" 210.3.92.210 04:45, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Please, no personal attack, he didn't say that. --117.136.55.102 12:02, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Block User:210.3.92.210 User:223.17.65.23 User:223.17.64.233

I blocked 223.17.64.233, and they posted an unblock request, so that we now need another administrator to consider this request.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:19, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Deletion of database and hundreds of linked items

Hello,

I created a new large number of networked items starting with Q48843087 Buddhist Matikas (Lists) in the spring of 2018. I added to it throughout the summer and even accessed it publicly in September of this year. Today, I went online and couldn't find any of the items, nor could I log into my account: Username = Buddhist.Matikas. This is months and months of work. I received no notice prior to deletion. I created a companion google website https://sites.google.com/view/buddhist-matikas/home with its own email address: buddhist.matikas@gmail.com and didn't receive notice prior to deletion. Please advise how to reinstate my account as well as all of the items.

I am a real person and can be reached via either the buddhist.matikas@gmail.com or my personal email address: upjnkml@gmail.com. I am a student planning to pursue graduate studies and am using what I created in the spring but can't access any of what I created.

I need your tool to achieve multiple things as outlined in my webpage. Please help.

Thank you.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 142.150.24.84 (talk • contribs) at 19:58, 31 October 2018‎ (UTC).

I don’t see a reason why you are unable to log into your account Buddhist.Matikas as it is not blocked. User:Sjoerddebruin has deleted many (or all) of the items, so he can probably explain the problem to you. —MisterSynergy (talk) 20:22, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
The items weren't sourced or properly structured, please see our notability policy and Help:Sources. I wasn't aware of any external usage, but it's much easier to just start over again as the previous situation was quite a mess. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 15:08, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
The deletion of Q48843087 (and, presumably, the other items referred to) does not appear to have been discussed at Wikidata:Requests for deletions. Since those deletions have now been challenged, the items should be restored, and if necessary sent to that page, in order that the community decide collectively what should be done with them (i.e. whether to delete, or improve, them). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:44, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
In response to your statement that "The previous situation was quite a mess" and "much easier to start over again" --- No it wasn't a mess and not it's not easier to start over again. The "mess" was because of Wikidata's capability to support many-to-many linkages and be a publicly editable database -- the network that I was creating required both of these capabilities. And, I have no problem updating each item with proper sourcing. Keep in mind -- as I am a new user, I will probably need help with what is an acceptable source. Can I source a textbook instead of other wiki sites? Not clear. I am creating a network database that holds information for multi-linked items that are from ancient Buddhist texts. Instead of arbitrarily deleting items, a message would have helped clarify the issues. Please ... please ... please restore all items! And provide guidance. It would be much appreciated.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Buddhist.Matikas (talk • contribs) at 19:18, 4 November 2018‎ (UTC).

Why haven't these items been recreated, yet? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:29, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

I have restored this section from the archive. I am surprised to see that the items have not yet been restored. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:12, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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