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Question

Is Wikidata a reliable source for Wikipedia?

Per this edit added by user:Prakashs27.

User:Prakashs27 has also been adding birth, death, battle dates, and coronation dates using questionable sources, when they actually use sources. They have also used this source.

They added a date for the battle of Guadalete, ignoring an entire paragraph that discusses the possible dates of battle. AND, taking the date they decided upon(19 July 711), changed the date of death for Roderic, with no references.

User:Prakashs27 has warnings on their talk page for their editing from 6 different editors. --Kansas Bear (talk) 02:37, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Almost forgot! User:Prakashs27 also changed the date of the battle of Tarain using Cynthia Talbot (2015). The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj and the Indian Past, 1200–2000, p. 47, except that Talbot makes no mention of any date for the battle. to which I removed the date and the misrepresentation of the Talbot source. In response user:Prakashs27 used Wikidata for a source(as mentioned above). --Kansas Bear (talk) 03:11, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended Confirmed on Yevgeny Prigozhin

Yevgeny Prigozhin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

hey there - i don't intend to make any edits, but i was wondering if the page Yevgeny Prigozhin is still intended to be indefinitely extended confirmed protected. it was protected by you in february of 2023 due to an edit war going on at the time, and is still protected. is this intentionally left as extended confirmed or is it around the right time to remove those restrictions? 198.187.154.2 (talk) 05:04, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See the 3RR case where I applied the protection. This has also been logged in WP:General sanctions/Russo-Ukrainian War#2023. Per the wording of WP:GS/RUSUKR nobody who is not extended confirmed can edit articles which fall in this topic area. So this page is unlikely to be free of ECP any time soon. (Prigozhin, though he is deceased, remains clearly associated with the Ukraine war, so the Ukraine sanctions still apply). You are still free to propose changes on the article talk page. EdJohnston (talk) 04:37, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ooh, gotcha! yeah, i don't intend to edit the page but i've been curious about learning these wikipedia policies - thank you! 198.187.154.2 (talk) 01:59, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SPI case(s)

Hello Ed; hope you are doing well.

The userpage of Lumbarschen, who was identified as a sockpuppet in WP:SPI/Arbe21 21 § 30 August 2024, remains to be tagged per WP:SOCKTAG. A clerk will probably notice it before the case is archived, but I thought of letting you know.

I would also like to ask whether the rest of the accounts mentioned in the comment section of the aforementioned case – Henrikurti and Randomuser2412 – were checked for "possible" links? They are reported in a different case (see WP:SPI/NormalguyfromUK § 20 August 2024), but the evidence in relation to Arbe21 21, is compelling. There is some additional suspicious activity that wasn't mentioned; such as Lumbarschen appearing a day after the creation of Skanderbeg's Serbian campaign by Henrikurti, to contest its deletion (diff). Though, this is not necessarily due to sockpuppetry; there are additional possibilities to consider. Demetrios1993 (talk) 14:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Herblightman alias

Hi Ed,

Sorry to bug you. I recently cleaned out a filmography of Jesus Franco. I feel like an editor with similar editing patterns of User:HerbLightman has come in and made changes to more European genre filmography articles through the User:49Bottles account. Not sure if it needs more time or eyes, but figured I'd point it out. Thanks. Andrzejbanas (talk) 18:55, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection of Khalil al-Hayya

Hi, as the page falls under a contentious topic with a 30-500 restriction (WP:PIA), I am curious as to why it wasn't extended-protected per arbitration enforcement? Also, you noted in the WP:AN3 section the existence of a partial rangeblock (on a much wider range), but I am confused as it doesn't seem to be related to that incident at all. Thanks a lot! Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 18:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Upgraded to indefinite EC protection per your suggestion. The earlier range block was mentioned for reference; perhaps it's just a coincidence. EdJohnston (talk) 18:39, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]