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Unprotect Category talk:1 person

Billinghurst deleted and salted Category talk:1 person for the following reason, "see Category_talk:1_people". I've checked the latter and found that Joshbaumgartner pinged the admin to move back Category:1 people to Category:1 person, which is contrary to the action of the admin. I've recently moved Category:1 people to Category:1 person as per a CFD, but the talk page does not get renamed due to the protection. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 17:53, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

@Sbb1413: I have carried out the move. Is anything else needed? _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 18:00, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for moving the talk page. This completes the process of moving Category:1 people to Category:1 person. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 18:01, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

OK. Marking  Done (for the archviving bot) _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 18:03, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Protect User talk:Qcne

Proxy-abusing sockpuppets of User:MidAtlanticBaby (see w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MidAtlanticBaby) have been repeatedly leaving harassing messages for this user on English Wikipedia, and since Qcne's talk page is protected there they have now resorted to leaving messages here and pinging Qcne on random talk pages. Please protect for a bit. Ivanvector (talk) 21:39, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done Semi-protected for 2 weeks. Yann (talk) 21:43, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

@Ivanvector: Reported to m:srg.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:36, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks both, I also had a section up on m:srg. They are flipping proxies quickly enough that logging there is probably not going to be of much effect, but thanks anyway. Ivanvector (talk) 00:44, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't have the technical know-how to set it up, but we should be able to block that with an abuse filter. @Elcobbola and GPSLeo: You come to mind as the most active recent abuse filter managers. Can you assist? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:00, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

I do not think that it is possible to create a useful filter here that does anything else than what a protection of the page does. GPSLeo (talk) 21:08, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Block request for User:Prima Manufacturing

Prima Manufacturing (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Username for spam or containing advertising purposes All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 17:35, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 19:58, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Block request: User:Asifaliam (sockpuppetry)

Asifaliam (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user is a fairly obvious sockpuppet of Azamali1 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user, who has been blocked for uploading a whole ton of images of their head photoshopped onto copyrighted celebrity photos, and using Commons for self-promotion. The user has continued similar uploads with the new account. Adeletron 3030 (talk) 15:50, 8 November 2024 (UTC)