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There’s an unblock request here that hasn’t been answered in two weeks. I won’t cast judgement on its validity but I think the user has a right to know whether they’ll be unblocked. Dronebogus (talk) 08:23, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I saw that but did nothing because I think there should be a bit more time to see if anyone else has an opinion. I'll look again a little later. Johnuniq (talk) 02:39, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The user is now baselessly accusing me of being a sock of some user they have a grudge against. This is sufficient evidence to demonstrate they are uninterested in actually getting unblocked. I think revoking their talk page rights is in order. Dronebogus (talk) 16:48, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dronebogus: The user is now unable to comment further at their talk so there is nothing further to do. However, for the future, please do not repeatedly comment at a blocked users talk unless invited. Very few people think they deserve to be blocked and it is expected that they will vent a bit. I know you were trying to help but it plainly was not doing any good. It's best to leave them alone and comment only if they ask for something specific and it appears that a reply might achieve something useful. Johnuniq (talk) 01:49, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Tupac page can now be edited by everyone; it wasn't like that before. Previously, only administrators and users with permission could edit it. This rule needs to be reinstated, or it will be edited every day Pier1999 (talk) 14:12, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This refers to Tupac Shakur where I don't think I have ever been involved. The above has been posted in a number of places and the article is now fully protected to prevent an edit war. Johnuniq (talk) 02:37, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please look at User:BittersweetParadox's edit history. They make numerous rapid edits to add wikilinks to words like baseball and make other mischievous edits, such as the edit on July 16th to Lingua franca. They have been warned many, many times. -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:16, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As you likely recall, I recently posted to WP:AN, escalating an issue that many other users explicitly said I was wrong to escalate to that venue and that they objected to my framing in many respects. There were additional complaints about my tone, skirting editing restrictions, etc. I appreciate that the issue at large just got out of control. Unfortunately, the issue in general has continued. As you noted at the time, "changing the style of anything in an article without good reason is very disruptive" and as soon as that conversation was closed at AN, the same user changed styles on an article where we discussed this years ago. I posted to his talk and he archived the thread without responding. Both my perspective and his behavior seem like they are not changing and for many reasons, escalating it to WP:AN is not the right idea and the user does not seem interested in discussing one-one one, so I will not be posting to his talk again as I have no interest in harassing someone who refuses to talk. (I also didn't ping him because I don't see value in that, but I respect if you want to notify him of the conversation.) What do you recommend I do here? I still think and it seems like you validated that changing styles unilaterally is disruptive, so is there something that I'm missing here? What should I be doing differently? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯16:18, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We've gone round and round and round in one-on-one discussions and you made the decision to withdraw your complaint due to the overwhelming majority of the responses from admins being unfavorable toward your argument, so I'm at an impasse as far as being able to engage with you (not that this is anything new). It was brought to my attention through that discourse (byUser:Just Step Sideways) that the way you addressed me regarding the page I just went back and made edits to was inappropriate at the time and again, I only make changes under good reasons, and in this case it was to reflect a consistent style across the board as he already had multiple country albums release prior to that with the tracklisting template. CloversMallRat (talk) 16:34, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please see this post where Johnuniq explicitly wrote, "If new examples of arbitrary style changes occur, please let me know." That is the only reason I wrote here, since I was solicited to do so. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯17:13, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@CloversMallRat: As noted at WP:AN, Koavf has an interesting history and you might correctly assume that the discussion there did not support Koavf's position. However, the comments that I noticed were focusing on the extreme TLDR and background rather than the issue. I did see one comment along the lines of who cares but that is just wrong due to the amazing disruption that has occurred when people dedicate themselves to "fixing" various style issues—dates, spelling, colors, spacing, wiki syntax, and probably many more. The documentation at Template:Track listing specifically mentions MOS:VAR and that does not appear to have been added recently. I take your point that a good argument can be made for a consistent style between articles on a single artist. However, that argument has to be made somewhere central such as a relevant wikiproject. A positive consensus has to be shown before continuing a campaign. Is there any documentation or discussion supporting a continuation? Do you have any idea how many more of these articles need to be "fixed"? A dozen? A hundred? By discussion, I don't mean bickering with extreme indignation at a user or an article talk page. Has there been a calm wikiproject discussion on this issue? If not, and if you intend continuing, please start a discussion and let me know where it is. If wanted, link to here or AN, but do not mention other editors at a wikiproject. What is needed is a calm examination of the issue, not the background. Changing any further articles without such a discussion would be disruptive. Johnuniq (talk) 04:32, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi,
Many thanks for your recent assistance at WP:RPPI, much appreciated.
Any thoughts on how the broader NOTHERE issues in relation to that multiple IP address user might be resolved?
I’m not sure that attempting to get further blocks like this one [1] is really going to work (although i don't think it would necessarily do any harm, given recent edits like this [2].
I know very little about article assessment and won't be much help. A relevant mention is at Template talk:Articles by Quality and Importance#Unknown-importance articles not included in total. It looks like the system relies on categories and they can take a long time to update after changes occur. A category might update immediately or it might take several days or longer. If there were a specific problem (at [link], x should be y) I might be able to investigate. I found WikiWork at User:WP 1.0 bot/WikiWork with its FAQ. I agree with a comment at the Teahouse that it can be hard to get a wikiproject going and there is not much point persisting if only one person is involved. Small wikiprojects get created when people are enthusiastic but after a year or so, not much happens and people move on. If I need to ask for assistance with some topic, I prefer asking at a major top-level wikiproject with some activity rather than at a small project which in principle would be more pertinent. I don't know anything about WikiWork. By the way, there is no need to ping someone at their own talk page. Johnuniq (talk) 02:52, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, my apologies for pinging. It was my habit, and I learned my lesson. After all, it looks like the {{category class}} also have the same effect. I have no clue whether, I, the only person, can remain continue the activity of that project, instead of require some users to do. I wish I could update the project by changing it, although it will be drastic. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 13:48, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Johnuniq blocked the entire Rogers cellular network from editing Wikipedia
2605:8D80:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 is the range that this user has blocked. Even though the block expires in about 2 months, it's still problematic. (Either it's the Rogers cellular network, the DuckDuckGo web browser, or something else that I missed.) Over1BillionPagesOnWiki (talk) 17:58, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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