User talk:MCE89

Further Petukh6786 Socks

@MCE89 I saw that you requested a global lock for the most recent Petukh sock. I found two more socks on other language wikis: JEANNE CALMENT DEBUNKED AGE and DEBIL DEBILOV . I cannot edit the steward request page, but would it be possible for you to add them to your request? EaglesFan37 (talk) 00:33, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the report @EaglesFan37, I've added those to the lock request. MCE89 (talk) 00:48, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

@MCE89 Another two have since been created: Edward Slawinski and Waclaw Jan Kroczek (LONGEVIQUEST RESEARCHER) . EaglesFan37 (talk) 13:59, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Both have since been globally locked. EaglesFan37 (talk) 18:20, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Sorry @EaglesFan37, I'd been meaning to file this one and it just kept slipping my mind. If you'd like to file these lock requests yourself it should be pretty easy to get yourself autoconfirmed on Meta — I'm pretty sure I just ended up making a few edits to my Meta userpage when I needed to make my first lock request. You might also find meta:User:TenWhile6/XReport helpful for reporting at SRG. MCE89 (talk) 13:29, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

@MCE89 I'm not autoconfirmed on Meta yet, so putting this here:: There's now Petushochek99876 as well. . EaglesFan37 (talk) 15:47, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

@EaglesFan37: You are now confirmed on Meta :) Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:46, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

@Vermont Thank you! EaglesFan37 (talk) 18:52, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello MCE89:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 5000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

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Your request for adminship

Hi MCE89, I have closed your request for adminship as successful. Congratulations!

As always, the administrators' reading list is worth reading and the new admin help pages are most certainly available if you feel that you might require some practice with the tools in a safe environment prior to applying them elsewhere on the project. And there are plenty of fellow admins to ask for help from if you require it. Good luck! Acalamari 01:05, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Congratulations, MCE89! I'm sure that every editor who uses SPI is grateful that you volunteered to run, myself included. — Newslinger talk 03:08, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Well deserved! GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 03:31, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Delighted to see this, per my support. I’m sure you’ll get up to great things! Giraffer (talk) 18:23, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you all so much! Really appreciate all the support :) MCE89 (talk) 20:39, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

A baton for you!

The admin baton!

... or, well, one half of it. You see, when it learned that two new administrators had been elected at the same time, it got so excited that it broke in two. Alarmed, I asked it if it was okay, but it said to me, "As was prophesized in revision histories before the dawn of MediaWiki, the years of being held in worthy hands have granted me the ancient power of reversion. In the light of the next newly minted mop, shining with the power of community consensus, I will be reforged. Also, I'm good, dude; I'm a baton." I asked the baton how it was able to talk, not to mention how it had linked a spoken phrase, but it was WikiBroken, and was already on WikiBreak. I suppose we may never know. And so I humbly bring you this half of the fabled baton to continue its long line of succession. Just as you and Staraction ran the gauntlet together, so you are bound to run your leg of this race together too. And when the time comes, bring the two (incredibly realistic) halves together, pass it on, and fulfil the prophecy.

In all seriousness, though, congratulations! I am incredibly excited to see all the good work you'll be doing with a mop in hand. —TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 05:29, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the baton and the kind words @TechnoSquirrel69! Hopefully it won't be too long until Staraction and I can bring the two halves back together again :) MCE89 (talk) 20:37, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Congratulations! :-) -Kj cheetham (talk) 13:04, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

new user/student hoping to expand on Australian literature articles

Hi there!

I'm a creative writing student at Curtin University, and I am passionate about filling the gaps on contemporary Australian literature (or OzLit) on wikipedia. I am particularly interested in in Western Australian literature.

I have started with a page for Patrick Marlborough's Nock Loose'' seeing as it was recently shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize, and received so much media attention.

Your account was suggested as one that keeps track of Australian literature entries. I have drafted up this page, and submitted it for review. Could you tell me if it is within the parameters? thank you (for your patience, I am new to this!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OzLiterati/sandbox OzLiterati (talk) 14:34, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi there @OzLiterati and welcome to Wikipedia! Great to hear you're also interested in editing about Australian literature, and this is an excellent choice for your first article. Unfortunately it looks like your draft was deleted due to the use of a large language model to help write it, which is not allowed on Wikipedia. I'd suggest starting again without using any LLM tools, as these models are generally very bad at following Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. You might find WP:YFA a helpful guide to writing your first article, and please do let me know if you have any questions at all! I'd be happy to take a look once you've created a new draft. MCE89 (talk) 06:52, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

oh, thank you very much!

yes, i took some bad advice from my lecturer (of all people) who told me to run what I'd originally written through an LLM to clean it up and code it. Lesson learned! If I rewrite from scratch, am I free to resubmit? This one is flagged for deletion, so I presume I'll have to wait until it's gone?

But I was right in thinking Nock Loose is suitable for a wikipedia entry? if so, that's encouraging! I have a list of similar titles. Should I make a page for the author, also? Patrick has a lot of other media stories about them (they're a well known writer and comedian), or does the author not qualify in the same way?

thanks for answering my questions! It's a little overwhelming on here. OzLiterati (talk) 06:58, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

No worries at @OzLiterati, happy to help and I know it can be overwhelming here at first :)

To be eligible for a Wikipedia article a book needs to meet WP:NBOOK, which usually requires at least two published reviews of the book. These need to be in reliable publications (e.g. a newspaper or literary magazine, not blogs or similar). It looks like Nock Loose meets the criteria ( ), so please do rewrite and resubmit the article!

Our inclusion criteria for authors are a little more complex - generally to meet the inclusion criteria for authors they need to have written at least two books that meet WP:NBOOK (i.e. 2 books, 2+ reviews each). Alternatively, they can meet the general inclusion criteria if there are at least two sources that are reliable, strictly independent of the subject, and discuss them in detail (e.g. a profile of them in a newspaper or magazine). If you're not sure if the sources you have meet these criteria, let me know and I'm happy to take a look for you. MCE89 (talk) 10:33, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of Matilda Jane Evans has passed

Your good article nomination of the article Matilda Jane Evans has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chocmilk03 -- Chocmilk03 (talk) 05:05, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

WP:CP/C

Hi MCE, now that you've been freed from being a copyright clerk, would you be interested in returning to the copyright mines as an admin patroller? — Tenshi! (Talk page) 21:11, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

sorry, that's my bad, I'll press gang them again. ~ Pennecaster (Chat with Senne) 21:14, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Heard Island and McDonald Islands

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 4 September 2026. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/September 2026. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before the article appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work! Wehwalt (talk) 19:19, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

Regarding Shirazlb

Hello @MCE89,

Congratulations on becoming an administrator! I have a question, do you think this account should be blocked, or would it be better to be checked? --Wassim^talk 06:47, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks @وسيم! Sorry but I'm not really able to look into this right now — feel free to make a report at SPI if you think there's a violation of the sockpuppetry policy that needs administrative attention here. MCE89 (talk) 17:45, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Women in Red – August 2026

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--Chocmilk03 (talk 21:44, 30 July 2026 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Comment

Hello, MCE89,

I just wanted to make a comment to you, MCE89. When I work on Wikipedia, I have hundreds of tabs open for days (sometimes weeks) and I had User talk:20SS00 open becauase I was looking at some of their past category creations. When I came back to look at their user talk page days later, I noticed that they had retired several years ago but had a very long User talk page with tons of CSD notices. So I went into edit and decided to delete everything up to Mason's latest CSD notice and published the edit. It was only after I refreshed the screen did I see your comment about sockpuppetry. If you think our actions conflict, I can undo my edit but I really wasn't aware of the work you were doing at SPI and suspicions about them being a sockmaster. I just thought I'd reach out and explain as I didn't intend to step on your toes. It's crazy that this account has been inactive for over 3 years and we were both editing their User talk page within the same hour and a half. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:54, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Regarding your closure at SPI

MCE89, regarding your closure at SPI, I'm positive that they are Trigarta. No two people can edit in same manner, down to using same wording and especially when they are restoring sockmaster's edits, no matter how much the topic concerned is prone to attract people with a similar POV. I have some off wiki evidence as well for them being Trigarta but I'm not sure if and where it's suitable to be presented. Can you please reopen the SPI and/or leave it to another checkuser/administrator to determine? Sutyarashi (talk) 05:03, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

@Sutyarashi, if you have off-wiki evidence that this user is Trigarta you can send it to the checkuser team privately through one of the methods at WP:CONTACTCU. I and another SPI clerk both looked at the case and didn't find the behavioural evidence sufficient for a sockpuppetry finding on its own. If there's further on-wiki evidence I'm happy to take a look, and if you have off-wiki evidence of a connection you're welcome to send it to the checkuser team. MCE89 (talk) 05:15, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Do I need to file another SPI? Sutyarashi (talk) 06:21, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Fwiw, Zenithxxx has been still restoring Trigarta's version at Gandhara, also note inclusion of terms like Pothohar Plateau by both Trigarta and Zenithxxx into lede. Sutyarashi (talk) 06:41, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

@Sutyarashi, there's no need to file another SPI if your new evidence is off-wiki. You can send the off-wiki evidence to the checkuser team privately and they will take action or ask you to file a new SPI report if needed. If there's further on-wiki evidence then you're welcome to make a new report, but my advice is still that you'd need to present stronger evidence than what you've shown so far to justify a sockpuppetry block solely on behavioural evidence. MCE89 (talk) 05:09, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Continuing meatpuppetry

Hello MCE89 - you previously provided an assessment of probable meatpuppets connected with User:Serio31 (talk page). Further participation occurred with a new user Halloran today shown in this discussion.

Several editors on different articles are supporting the unconventional hypothesis in this publication from the Univ of Texas-Austin about a tendinopathy they call "mucoid degeneration". In my view, this is a COI violation and WP:PROMO for a clinical point of view not widely accepted in medicine.

I have not stepped into personal "outing" and will avoid this carefully (although unwise use of personal names for WP user names reveals their common location).

Wanted you to be aware of my position, and that I am observing the continuing activity of editors associated with Serio31 collaborating offline to promote the idea of mucoid degeneration with this one hypothesis publication. Will watch for your advice here.

Cheers! Zefr (talk) 03:36, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Zefr. Thanks for the update on this. Given that the new account has disclosed their off-wiki connection to the others, I don't think meatpuppetry sanctions are warranted just yet. If these accounts start working together in a way that would be inappropriate if they were a single user, such as casting multiple !votes in a consensus-building discussion or restoring each other's edits in a way that would amount to edit warring for a single user, that would likely be a violation of the meatpuppetry policy and might require admin action. Let me know if the off-wiki coordination does start to be used to gain an upper hand in an on-wiki dispute in that way - until then you can treat them essentially as if they were a single user for Wikipedia's purposes.

The COI concern here is a separate issue and seems like a valid one, although it's probably not one that I'm best-equipped to handle. My suggestion would be to consider making a report at WP:COIN, or if you think your report would require linking these users to personal information that they have not disclosed on-wiki, you can make a report privately to WP:COIVRT.

Hopefully that helps somewhat - let me know if there's anything else I can do. MCE89 (talk) 05:03, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying

Thanks for clarifying the situation here. (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Visionaryfilms). Zalaraz (talk) 12:52, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for doing the tedious work of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations. I appreciate your time! GeogSage (⚔Chat?⚔) 01:06, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

I also endorse this barnstar! Staraction (talk · contribs) 01:21, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you both! MCE89 (talk) 02:46, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

TFA

story · music · places

Thank you today for Wild Australia Show, "about a troupe of Aboriginal performers that toured Australia in 1892 and 1893. The troupe was assembled by a man named Archibald Meston, inspired by shows like Buffalo Bill's Wild West, for what was intended to be a world tour concluding at Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition. Ultimately the troupe ran out of money before leaving the country, resulting in an ugly legal battle between Meston and his business partner. While it's a fairly obscure episode in Australian history, it's one that I found fascinating to write about, and I think the story of their tour reveals a lot about the experiences and treatment of Aboriginal people across different parts of Australia in this era."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:30, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Good article nominations RfC

Hi MCE89,

There is an ongoing Request for Comment (RfC) at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/August 2026 RfC, which you may be interested in because in the past year, you have nominated or reviewed more than one good article nomination. This message has also been sent to all subscribers to the Good Article Gazette. The RfC contains many proposals (33 at the time of writing), which are split into the following categories: nominators, reviewers, reviews, volunteer roles, reviewing initiatives, and others. However, you are more than welcome to add any proposals of your own that you wish to put to the community.

By the end of September, all the proposals will have been closed by an uninvolved editor, either as a consensus for one of the options or with no consensus. At this point, editors will be invited again to develop these proposals into coherent policy and implement them.

Thank you for your contributions to the good articles project, and I look forward to your input! (in solidarity), JacobTheRox^{(talk|contributions)} 16:02, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Cyclone Fani

Cyclone Fani has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Jasper Deng (talk) 03:45, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Possible connection to Andsybak

Hi MCE89, Once again, thank you for your efforts on this case. Concerning Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/~2026-44158-66, I have found evidence suggesting that the disruptive editing pattern may be connected to the user Andsybak. The behavioural similarities and timing of edits indicate a possible link. If you have time, please also review their contributions: Special:Contributions/Andsybak. AriuCH (talk) 11:17, 13 August 2026 (UTC)