User talk:HJ Mitchell

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Hi. Found another med spammer, [1] v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 16:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have fun :) v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 16:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Seawolf35 I'll leave that one for now. We still haven't resolved the situation fully and their only edit was actually constructive (it cited a reasonable source at least, even if it had other issues). Will see if we get any more replies or developments wrt these accounts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:39, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear, why did I get IP blocked even when I did nothing offensive, I am really sad that I am unable to edit for past 2-3 months, I request an IP exemption, please! Harshvardhan 1427 (talk) 13:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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this one. You can email me if you prefer. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:41, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks for the reply, I used mobile hotspot from my mom's phone, my wifi is blocked and as you know cellular data is not always there.

And the block message is the second one of the above stated. You can look at my edits, there is always something constructive I don't know why I was IP banned!

Regards, Harshvardhan 1427 (talk) 04:09, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

105.88.57.227 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

197.33.209.132 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Could you change these to proxy blocks? Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 19:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:36, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Found you a casino spammer, probably on a proxy and probably will lead to more. Special:Contributions/Vegasslot303 v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 16:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Seawolf35 The casino spammers are always paid-for SEO. That one is  Technically indistinguishable from Delvi388 (globally locked) and Lahir99.games (blocked and locked). Mahrum82 (talk · contribs) and Ratumilyar2 (talk · contribs) are also  Likely. I'll block the range later on. Thanks! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:46, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here is another one, probably on a proxy and probably a trail of breadcrumbs leading to a few more. Special:Contributions/Slotgopayx. Thanks, v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:03, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Seawolf35: that one was quite easy. Not a proxy. Second one today from southeast Asia (I'm more used to seeing this kind of thing originate from Pakistan). Looks like a steward beat me to it because although there are several more spam accounts on a fairly narrow range, they're all globally locked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:13, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you want another, maybe eventually they will run out of usernames, Special:Contribs/Jelsmith99 v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:17, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like they are spamming the transfer savvy site. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:18, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Seawolf35 no luck there. They're about where you'd expect them to be and they're on a /8 (even if it would let me check something that big, I'd be there all day with no guarantee of finding anything!). I'd guess that's more self promotion than paid-for SEO but keep 'em coming. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:39, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Does this account seem LTA like to you, it would seem that they are here on a mission, Special:Contribs/FixerUnbiased. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:44, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

File that one under "watch and wait". Their one edit was to remove vandalism which had gone unnoticed for most of the day; maybe that's all they wanted to do? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:46, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They hit whatever the 1107 LTA filter is, probably a FP. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:48, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Filters struggle to tell the difference between additions and what was already present. That one tracks the addition of words like "paedophile" which was already used in the article and used legitimately, given the subject matter. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a spambot, probably will lead to more, like always, User:SpencerVirtue08 v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 01:35, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And another, more same pattern ref spam, Special:Contributions/Fnmfollower v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 13:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you protect this page please? Pornography and hateful language is being spammed by different IP's. Ecrusized (talk) 18:11, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ecrusized IPs range blocked and junk cleaned up. Let me know if they come back. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:20, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They are back already. Ecrusized (talk) 18:22, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ecrusized blocked another range. See if that makes any difference. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:28, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User returned again. Please protect the page. Ecrusized (talk) 18:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They're attempting to be disruptive on their talkpage, see filter log. Could you revoke their talkpage access? Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 20:10, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. And they can have a slightly longer time out as well. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:12, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi HJ,
You may take a look at this:
User:Kemmsy joined few days ago and the first was here, inputing to Chris Ifediora. Puff & image here. As if not to mention the other disruptive edits, the editor on their talk page here issued for the removal of the "paid tag" on the article. Here comes User:Sonnie Nwosu Abuja relatively new with maybe a day or two after Kemmsy. This user edited the same article adding almost the same context -related words here. Plus that, they have created/submitted a draft Draft:OCI Foundation here which happens to be that of "Ifediora". Now, the sock there is that when User:JarrahTree welcomed Sonnie Nwosu Abuja, and after two discussions, the editor affirmed a relpy here with "we" and here again (it shows there is sock..ing). After my warning to them because of their edits to "Ifediora", they replied here with the same response exactly as Kemmsy and was repeated here again. Thanks! — Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 11:46, 15 April 2024 (UTC) — Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 13:04, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another, will probably lead to more, [2] v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 05:50, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Seawolf35 as far as I can tell, that one is isolated (which is unusual) but the ranges they're on are vast. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi HJ, please RevDel this for obvious reasons. Nobody (talk) 13:52, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@1AmNobody24 because somebody hates me? Not really grossly offensive. If anything, I take it as a compliment! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen similar ones deleted so I dropped a notice, but I'm fine with it either way. Nobody (talk) 14:00, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, been looking at User:2600:1700:4006:B000:A5D0:D5FC:D17F:FD51, and I think you might have banned him unjustly. Not great edits, but definitely not vandalism. JackTheSecond (talk) 21:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi.
I saw you were the last of 3 admins to block this range (72.138.0.0/16) as a school block on the 12th of April of last year (expired recently). Is this still a school IP? I was looking at some IPs from the range, and honestly there's already been quite a few vandal edits in the last ~5 days since the block has expired.
I also found this appeal on the day it expired, where @Yamla says there is sockpuppetry involved: 1218609548). Just thought I should inform you of all this. – 143.208.237.220 (talk) 02:07, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also 6 blocks on IPs in the range in the last 3 days:

72.138.79.170, 72.138.168.106,

72.138.79.10, 72.138.179.154,

72.138.65.26, 72.138.132.102.

– 143.208.237.220 (talk) 02:30, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]