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Its a person which is @Shadow4yawhich is attacking me by saying that im a sock account without any evidence not only on me but he accused every users without evidence by claiming that are sock puppet please talk to him Shqiptaris socialist12345678910 (talk) ~2026-26294-94 (talk) 17:54, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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I joined in wikipedia for 2 years and i did more than 10 edits and i want to know why i am not autoconfirmed ? Banbloku i dukagjinit (talk) 14:41, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

You are autoconfirmed. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:08, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I checked their user rights and it doesn't appear they are autoconfirmed. I think Wikipedia may of changed how autoconfirmed works. --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 22:12, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Ok I have read WP:AUTOC and it appears autoconfirmed is now given 4 days after the first edit and not 4 days after the account was created. See phab:T418484. Seems like a good update as some vandals create sleepers and make 10 dummy edits to get autoconfirmed and vandalise semi-protected articles. --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 22:19, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

They made edits in 2024, but the page was deleted. I'm going to look into the technical issue a bit more. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:22, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Seems odd. Maybe it's counting the "first edit" as the first one made after the new autoconfirmed system was implemented. I'm not sure on the technical details. --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 22:24, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I'm asking WMF folks about this now (on Discord--don't know if you use it, but conversation is at . — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:26, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

It's not listed there, but XTools says they're autoconfirmed. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:21, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Turns out XTools is just guessing, and it's wrong in this case. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 12:05, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

It'll be four days after your first edit this year. The deleted edits were ignored for gaining this status. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 12:06, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Hello Rsjaffe, Thanks a million for dealing with the currently-absurd number of AIV reports, tirelessly! Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:15, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Unblock request decline reply

In the 2026 FIFA World Cup page, there is a flag in front of Lionel Messi, then why shouldn't there be a flag in front of Virat Kohli in cricket? Rudraaac (talk) 16:27, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

An uninvolved administrator handles unblock requests. Since I am the one who blocked you, I won’t handle the request. Discuss this on your own talk page. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:35, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

I am discussing, but first you answer my question Rudraaac (talk) 16:41, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Notification of closed clarification request

A clarification request in which you were a party has been closed and archived. This is only a notification, and no action is needed on your part. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 03:04, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Curious

Hello. As I was looking at WP:AIV, I noticed that you have blocked HarryNP (talk · contribs) for "Cleaning up vandalism". I simply curious as to why the block happened quickly. Is this Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NPierce100102? Justjourney (talk | contribs) 16:54, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

It was an LTA doing very bad things. I used a plugin called vandal cleaner that does everything at once, unfortunately using a single message, so it’s not necessarily the clearest, but it does the job nice, quick, and clean. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:01, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

About the Skibidi Toilet wiki page...

Greetings. If I am not mistaken, you had a hand in editing the Skibidi Toilet wiki and or locking it due to vandalism?

I do not know exactly where to begin to ask, thus I'm starting here, but on behalf of the Skibidi Toilet community at large, I would like to overhaul the existing page to reflect a broader and more informative perspective on the series than it currently offers.

As you may or may not know, Skibidi Toilet has garnered a fairly unreasonable amount of hatred from those who haven't watched the series, often devaluing it and its creator as an online work and human being respectively. The "haters" do not see the series as a science fiction action indie series that started from a shitpost, but rather as a content farm like the ones that do indeed surround that community like any other popular thing these days (The Amazing Digital Circus, Murder Drones, the works of Trever Henderson... Things like that. If you are familiar with the Elsagate scandal, you know what content farms are all too well, things that pray on the vulnerable impressionable minds of toddlers for clicks with disgusting and inappropriate thumbnails and all that.

Skibidi Toilet is not like that at all, as I said it is an indie series, and it has a large community around it of aspiring teenager (Usually) 3D animators, who from my experience are typically not Americans, who make their own fanverses and "What if" alternate timeline videos based on the original series (See: "What if Titan TVman was with Astro Upgrades in Skibidi Toilet 77" or "What if there was a big battle in episode 47?" for examples. Two of my favourites)

I think "This series is degrading people's minds" is far from true when we have an ocean of projects like these popping up of teens making things in an old program that sucks to work with, no?

Anyway enough of trying to convince you it is something worthy of your attention, but it IS worthy of MY attention. In these trying times where the fans are trying to reach out to anyone willing to help us fight the company who seemingly stole the rights from the creator and silenced him, we need to make sure there is an accurate representation of what it is we are fighting to protect, and eliminate all ammunition that "haters" use to dismiss our pleas for help. We should be on the same side but they don't realize it.

If you are not the person I need to communicate with, I'd gladly accept any redirecting to whoever might be capable of lending the pen to me. If you are, i'd be happy to partake in a little online background check of sorts to prove I am not malicious or an alt account of a past vandal.

Would love to hear back!

-PullaWheel PullaWheel (talk) 22:14, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

The page is not locked. It is just protected from editing by new accounts (of less than 4 days of age and fewer than 10 edits) and by unregistered users. This is because of chronic vandalism. This has nothing to do with a value judgment about the topic or the page. I don't think it is wise to unprotect the page, as it would merely get vandalized again, which is certainly not your goal.

If you want an edit there before you get to that level of experience, you can make an edit request using Wikipedia:Edit_Request_Wizard/Protected. You could also request unprotection at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection/Decrease but it is very unlikely that a request will be approved.

Simplest thing is to not do either of the above: just edit some other articles that you have knowledge about and that interest you then edit Skibidi Toilet when you are eligible to do so. That will also help you gain experience in editing, which would be useful. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:25, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

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Hello Rsjaffe

Do you have any social media for contacting you ? Please ita very important for me because if i say that here they will call me a sock puppet without evidence and they would think that im the Normalguyfromuk which is not true so i think is better to discuss in whatever social media you want just i need this thank you ! ~2026-36962-53 (talk) 18:24, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

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Hi rsjaffe! I've sent you a message using Discord; please take a look at your earliest convenience . Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 07:18, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

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Hey, thank you for reverting those edits by that one person "Disposing A Fraud." Do you think you can remove the edit summary from May 5th 2026, the one where I said the autism thing? because it's being used to target and harass me as you can see and the randomly generated username for me is remarkable actually similar to my IP address, as you saw from the person who edited, they thought I actually was displaying my IP address in the wiki username because it's so similar to my actual IP. I have to use a different one for now but this person apparently is from where I go to school back in america and knows me and knows my real life IP. If that edit summary was removed it would help a lot, it wouldn't fix everything since this person is still sharing my phone number and everything but it would at least help give me some piece of mind. Thank you. This person is also apparently telling other people they can find my IP address on that Wikipedia page, along with other places. Sorry for editing that other person's topic, I didn't see the add new topic button on the bottom of the screen, I'm not a very tech savvy girl. To be clear, I mean when I said "Fair enough, not awkward though." That's the edit summary I'm referring to. I should add that the edit summary is what they are showing people tied to my username and that's how people are finding my edits on that attachment therapy page. I know the username that resembles my IP has to be dealt with by the oversight team so I was just wondering if you could just deal with the edit summary portion and remove the summary just like you did for the person harassing me. I'm a woman in my mid 20s and this has caused me so much undue stress. So something like that would really make my day and help me relax. I already am so grateful for you removing and blocking that person harassing me. Thank you! New Account Showing (talk) 01:57, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

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Unblock

Request Access Maheshputtapaka.venkateshwari (talk) 05:28, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Merge SPI case into Mongies

Hi Rsjaffe, the contents of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/~2026-37883-91 should be merged into Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mongies. Could you please handle the merge so the case is consolidated under the sockmaster Mongies? Thank you. AriuCH (talk) 23:13, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Looks like it has been done. In the future, the request should be done on the sockpuppet investigation page or, if the investigation is closed, by contacting one of the SPI clerks. I wouldn't be the one to do the merge, as I'm neither a clerk nor a checkuser. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 01:46, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Rsjaffe, Thank you for the note and response. AriuCH (talk) 18:00, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

User talk:Ангар космопорта

Please revoke TPA. This is Salebot1. --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 14:59, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Special:Diff/1351243884

Hello, you blocked this user, perhaps the edit summary of the edit above can be deleted as it is so spammy. Jonteemil (talk) 18:40, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

We don't rev-del spam, generally. See, for example, WP:RD3. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:16, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Jonteemil (talk) 20:32, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Rollback Rights

i,m request rollback rights can u help me? Botempa (talk) 06:22, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

STRONGLY object. This user has an active ANI against them which they have ignored. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 14:36, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Their request for TAIV was also AI-generated: Permalink/1363666931. I am not entirely convinced that this editor has a sufficient level of english to understand the WP:TAIV requirements and restrictions on the data. After giving them some advice in their last ANI thread, I also gave some on my talk page in User talk:gurkubondinn § Draft:Harsh Roshan. I thought that they had understood that they needed to improve their English before doing more advanced things on enwiki, and that they should not rely on LLMs and I thought that they understood why. They seem to have completely ignored this a few days later though, because they've apparently been requesting more advanced permissions. ‑‑gurkubondinn 15:03, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

To me, TAIV depends more upon editor behavior than editing proficiency. However, the two ANI threads cause me enough concerns to revoke it. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 15:44, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer is traditionally a very easy privilege to obtain, but does require the ability to understand the edits, so I’ve revoked that for now as well. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 15:47, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

If I see Wikipedia articles being vandalized, I correct them. There was nothing wrong with that; however, what was done revoking my privileges was unfair. Botempa (talk) 01:07, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

@Rsjaffe I have not misused the privileges granted to me. So, an injustice has been done to me. If the powers vested in me had been misused, I would have no objection to them being revoked. Botempa (talk) 01:13, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

See my reply at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Botempa's behaviour on the Sandun Perera (singer) article. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 04:11, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Agreed, but I was mostly concerned with their ability to understand the restrictions on TAIV data than anything else. I do think that this editor genuinely wants to contribute positively to the project, so I'm not worried about any intentional malice or disruption -- just the ability to understand the requirements (and edits, in the case of PCR). ‑‑gurkubondinn 16:00, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

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Hello, Rsjaffe. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. Wburrow (talk) 03:15, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Taken care of. Thanks. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 03:21, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Improper G5 deletion of Kasbulat the Brave

Kasbulat the Brave was ineligible for G5 deletion, as the article contained substantial subsequent work by a non-banned editor. Please be more careful in the future to review the edit history of any article proposed for G5 deletion to ensure that it does not contain such content. BD2412 T 13:15, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the notification. An obvious error. I’m trying to figure out what I was thinking when I did that. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 14:28, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

I appreciate the acknowledgement. I have also notified the editor who added the speedy tag, who I gather was relatively inexperienced. BD2412 T 14:53, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Block evasion

Is Wa.brun ~2026-31412-85? tgeorgescu (talk) 22:48, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Licypriya Kangujam

Hi, the main editor of the above article declares they are "proud [ethnicity] and [ethnicity]" on their user page, so I don't think mentioning their ethnicity is outing. It may still be a bad idea. TSventon (talk) 23:13, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

We can talk about information already posted by an editor about themself. We can’t link an editor to an outside identity unless the editor has done so themself. THAT would be outing. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 23:17, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

In this case, the user has posted a link to an ethnicity on their user page, following the word proud. TSventon (talk) 23:28, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

That edit summary was a personal attack in the way they used the ethnicity info. That will be handled separately from the outing, which was a problem of a different editor in that section. You can see that I blocked the person who did the outing. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 23:41, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Partial block mod

Hi Rsjaffe, I removed the "block account creation" on this partial block; I assume that was inadvertant on your part (I've accidentally done the same thing myself on partial range blocks). If that was intentional, feel free to change it back. Cheers, OhNoitsJamie ^talk 02:22, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that. Unintentional. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 02:32, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Guest 290758

Hello. I don't understand why I'm blocked. Can you let me know the reasons for the block and when I will be able to edit Wikipedia again. Thank you. Guest 290758 (talk) 18:01, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

I didn't understand why I was blocked. Can you please explain why I am blocked and what I need to do to be unblocked? In addition to the reason for the block, I want to know how long the block lasts.Thank. Guest 290758 (talk) 19:38, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

If you are getting multiple complaints on your talk page or on an article talk page about your editing, you are expected to either stop the action that is causing the complaints, or discuss it with the community of editors at the appropriate venue. You didn't. Instead, you deleted the questions and ignored them.

Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution#Discuss_with_the_other_party is part of our policies and it is important that you follow this.

You must read the concerns listed at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Guest 290758, reply to them, and satisfy us that you will communicate properly and follow wikipedia policy and the Wikipedia manual of style (which is the core concern with your edits). Until then, you will not be unblocked.

Continue this discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Guest 290758, so others can participate as well. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:19, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello. I read the discussion about me and realized that I was wrong. At first I didn't understand the Talk Page on my accounts before logging in. When I remembered those messages I decided to delete them. When I had problems editing on the tablet (I make changes on Wikipedia, and they show up incorrectly), then I replaced the content on the phone. About Domenico Berardi: it was written on Wikipedia that some Italian footballers were awarded the OMRI, and I wanted it to be like that for everyone. I thought there was no need to talk about this. I apologize and promise not to make these mistakes again. When other Wikipedia users disagree with my edits, I promise to use the Talk Page and resolve the issues without an edit war. When the editor won't work on my tablet, I won't edit on my phone if I'm not logged in to the Guest 290758 account. I'll never delete the Talk Page again, and I'll review every discussion in detail. Once again, I apologize for breaking the rules and promise it won't happen again. Thank you for your understanding. Guest 290758 (talk) 11:20, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

User:Astrawiki3203

I don't think you meant to use |small=no inside the protection template as that would display a notice inside the page instead of an icon at the top-right of the page. Can you change it to |small=yes. --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 16:52, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. That's an artifact of a script for protection. The script needs to be fixed. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 17:49, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Rename request

Hello, Rsjaffe. Due to a recent block of yours, do you have any qualms with this request? Thank you. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:39, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

No. OK to go ahead. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 17:52, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

TY. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:52, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

An ANI thread about LLM use

Hello, Rsjaffe - I'm sorry for bothering you; on 1 August I made made this ANI thread (Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User using AI in discussions despite three_warnings.), which had a brief discussion and afterwards went silent. On this point I wanted to ask, as far LLM misuse goes, if this was a correct thread to make or if this should have been put on AI noticeboard (despite the issue not being a needed clean-up but using LLM in discussions) or not at all. Thank you. Brat Forelli🦊 16:36, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

I think AI use in talk pages is more irritating than alarming, as it screws up discussions but doesn’t directly impact content. I’d continue collapsing those posts and follow up as suggested at Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/Guide#Talk page discussions with LLM-generated messages. If the report gets archived and the user continues to use AI, you could always post another ANI report, referring to the previous, closed, one. That might move to more action. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:58, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Got it. Thank you. Brat Forelli🦊 20:31, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

thank you ~2026-43134-94 (talk) 16:22, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

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