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16:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Question

Meno, it's so nice to meet you. Since I just entered wikipedia and thought of adding contents in wikipedia. Would you please tell me how to add topics on any page.?? Would feel grateful if you helped me. Thanks... ☺ Sushanta.nepal (talk) 11:38, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

@Sushanta.nepal: Hi. If you need to create a new article, please see WP:YFA. Also see: H:EDIT and WP:CHEAT for an overview about how to edit in general. --Meno25 (talk) 11:43, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 September 2016

17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Just been skipping through the article on Wikipedia. It says VirtualEditor was turned off soon after being turned on. I use VE, and by the way it works just fine for me. Foucault (talk) 11:44, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Pallache family: thanks

Thank you for the class "B" as initial rating on Pallache family! --Aboudaqn (talk) 13:28, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

@Aboudaqn: You're welcome. --Meno25 (talk) 17:19, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Meno25. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

  • Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
  • A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
This message was sent to the administrators' mass message list. To opt-out of future messages, please remove yourself from the list. 17:48, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Help with translating a message about a cross-wiki vandal active on Arabic Wikipedia

Hi. I'm sorry to bother you with this request, but I've been tracking a cross-wiki vandal for a while now. It's a real pain, but I can usually spot and clean up his edits on English Wikipedia and Wikidata. The problem is that I don't know how to clean up his edits on Arabic Wikipedia. The interface is too confusing for me, and I can't even tell which buttons revert an edit. I'm afraid that I'm going to make a complete mess of things if I try to edit over there. I saw your user page in Category:User ar-N, and I was hoping that maybe I could recruit you to post a message on Arabic Wikipedia about this guy so they know there's a long-term vandal active over there.

At first, I reported the vandal to en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Aliabbashiraqi79. Some of these accounts made edits to Arabic Wikipedia, but I was too overwhelmed by the interface to revert his edits. After trying to makes sense of it in Google Translate, I gave up and hoped that maybe there was someone on Arabic Wikipedia who would spot his edits, like I did on en.wiki. My past few reports have gone to Meta:Steward requests/Global: [22], [23], [24]. I suggest that anti-vandals report him to a steward, as he engages in too much cross-wiki vandalism now to waste time blocking on just one project.

If it's of any help, these are the accounts that I've found so far: Aliabbashiraqi79 (talk · contribs), Abbasfadhel79 (talk · contribs), Ali fadhel (talk · contribs), Aliiraqiwiki79 (talk · contribs), Salehiraqi80 (talk · contribs), WWEfans79 (talk · contribs), RObertparick58 (talk · contribs), Robertpatrick58 (talk · contribs), Salemaldossry91 (talk · contribs). The IP addresses I suspect are: 94.99.160.85 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 159.0.233.102 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 176.45.176.81 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 188.50.134.131 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), and 188.55.195.191 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). Accounts are usually written in a Latin script and include a two-digit number at the end. Early user names were usually variations of "Ali", but newer ones reference United States pop culture. WWEfans79, for example, apparently references World Wrestling Entertainment (ar:دبليو دبليو إي), and Robert Patrick (ar:روبرت باتريك) is an American actor.

Basically, what this guy does is run through the same few biographies and change the birth dates. You can see some of his handiwork at en:Bassim Abbas, a favorite target of his. About half the edits since April 2016 have been vandalism from one of his socks. I suspect, but can't confirm, that the same is true of the Arabic Wikipedia article, ar:باسم عباس. The best I can do for a list of commonly targeted articles is the following: [25], [26], [27]. These are links from the WMF's Editor Interaction Analyzer. If you could translate this message and post it somewhere on Arabic Wikipedia, I would be very grateful. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:05, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate: Hi and thank you for your message. I posted a message about this issue on the Administrators' Noticeboard Miscellaneous section on Arabic Wikipedia for other admins to review the accounts' contributions. I also did a quick review of the accounts' contributions on arwiki and found that some of the accounts were already blocked. Cheers. --Meno25 (talk) 15:06, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Edward A Geary assessment

  • I see you rated article on Edward A. Geary as a . What needs to be added to get it up to level? I've been through ~50 years of newspaper articles plus available state legislative records. Before I go back to look for more info, I'd like to know what I need to look for.--Orygun (talk) 17:28, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
@Orygun: Nothing. It was a mistake. I do hundreds of article assements every week, so, it is quite natural to make a mistake every now and then. I reassessed the article. Thank you for your work. Best wishes. --Meno25 (talk) 12:46, 10 October 2016 (UTC)