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March 10
Unsure how to proceed with reporting potential vandalism
Recently, on the Sao Paulo page, there has been an IP user who may be vandalizing the page with different IP addresses. I checked Sao Paulo's history and there have been a few recent edits by some IPs that seem to publish edits under the summary "fixed typo" but actually make some strange edits that ruin the entire page. The most recent happened roughly 45-60 minutes ago and basically blanked the entire page without necessary removing its content. I'm aware of reporting vandals with administrators, but as this is across various IPs and seemingly hasn't been reported as of yet, I'm unsure how I should handle this. The only idea I have as of now, as it seems it has been happening frequently with this page, is extend protecting it, but I'm not sure how to do that. Any advice? SonOfYoutubers (talk) 00:46, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
- @SonOfYoutubers You can request page protection at WP:RFPP. Ultraodan (talk) 03:05, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! SonOfYoutubers (talk) 03:21, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
Please repair reference 12 - I am unable do so and i am confused, thank you. Srbernadette (talk) 02:43, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Srbernadette: This is because, once again, you introduced an extra digit into the
|date=parameter. Someone else has fixed it, but I hope that moving forward you will be extra careful when adding dates. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:39, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
- Srbernadette, on 12 October, Tenryuu suggested that "you should consider writing down what other editors have been saying so that you have a 'common mistakes made' note that you can reference to the side of whatever device you're using." On 25 October, I suggested that you edited while logged on (as Srbernadette), that on your user page (of course User:Srbernadette), you created and maintained a list of links you find useful (Template:Cite web#Date would be among these), and that whenever stuck, you started by consulting the relevant item(s) in your list of useful links. You made no comment on either suggestion; perhaps they didn't interest you. -- Hoary (talk) 07:12, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
how to appeal page restriction
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I am trying to initiate an appeal to a page restriction that falls under the Palestine/Israel conflict, the talk page for Gaza Genocide, which is extended-confirmed protected. I lodged my appeal at ArbCom, but was told this was inappropriate, but the alternate pages to which I was directed are filled with text, much of which is crossed out, and I cannot make heads or tails of them. Would you please tell me clearly on which page I should lodge my appeal? Thank you! Kenfree (talk) 03:38, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Kenfree. Looking at your edits, I don't see where you lodged your appeal at ArbCom. Could you link to that edit of yours so we can see what advice you were given there? DMacks (talk) 04:57, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
- DMacks, the edits in question were made at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Decrease, and Kenfree's request was denied. That is not ArbCom, by the way. Cullen328 (talk) 05:33, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
Running InternetArchiveBot on a really big page?
How do I run InternetArchiveBot with "Add archives to all non-dead references" turned on without timing out? Every time I try to run the bot on 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests page, I get timed out. The page has more than 700 references. No.cilepogača (talk) 13:15, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
- I know nothing about InternetArchiveBot, No.cilepogača, and only comment here because hours have passed since you asked and nobody else has commented. What I'd do is copy the source to a window of my preferred text editor (Geany, as it happens; but any decent text editor should work), and chop the file into perhaps five chunks of what look like a similar size. (No need to measure them.) Now, for each of the five: (i) cut the chunk from your text editor and paste it into your sandbox, (ii) run InternetArchiveBot on the content of your sandbox, (iii) cut the chunk from your sandbox and paste it into your text editor window. Once you've finished that, copy the whole thing from your text editor window, paste it into 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests (of course replacing what was already there), preview, and if it seems OK, "publish". Done. ¶ Incidentally, are all those references needed? I notice that an assertion as humdrum as "On 1 February, Madonna supported the students on Instagram" comes with five references. -- Hoary (talk) 11:55, 11 March 2025 (UTC)