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Recent block

Hi, no issue with you blocking LankanLionUC but as that's now happened thought I'd mention my belief that they're also VidunOriginalezLK, for which I did raise an SPI. Thanks, Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 20:01, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi Pickersgill-Cunliffe, thanks! The username similarity alone made me raise an eyebrow already, but I somehow thought they're probably two people with an off-wiki connection and didn't think about it further. I'll have a look at the SPI. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done. Thank you very much for the notification, Pickersgill-Cunliffe; with the appearance of IchLander-Roveria, I think we can safely say they're trolling rather than trying to hide something. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:31, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Thornhill, British Columbia

Hi @ToBeFree I have seen you put a protection on Thornhill, British Columbia recently however there is a possible vandalism there, someone removed over -5,500 from it and did not explained why he has done that. It may be a potential vandalism. 28monthslater1 (talk) 01:26, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @28monthslater1: It's not vandalism. user:CambridgeBayWeather simply replaced a hardcoded weather box with a template. Meters (talk) 01:33, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Oh really? The data removed was that big, so preferred to check with @ToBeFree before reverting it https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Thornhill%2C_British_Columbia&diff=1272551477&oldid=1272131945 28monthslater1 (talk) 03:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Try actually looking at the article display before and after the edit. There is no difference.

The climate data is simply being supplied by the new "{{Terrace, British Columbia weatherbox}}" call instead of being hard coded in the article. This is a short form of "{{Template:Terrace, British Columbia weatherbox}}" and when the article is displayed the content of Template:Terrace, British Columbia weatherbox is copied into it. See WP:TRANSCL. Meters (talk) 10:32, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello 28monthslater1, thanks for asking! As Meters has helpfully explained above, it's good that you asked instead of reverting. You could ask CambridgeBayWeather themselves on their talk page in case you wonder about a specific edit, but I understand that you didn't want to ask the perceived vandal about their own intentions. In general, when you open a user's contribution list (Special:Contributions/CambridgeBayWeather) and it says something like "A user with 253,622 edits. Account created on 11 June 2005." you can assume that if the user was only here to vandalize, they'd long have been blocked, so you'll probably receive a good answer. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

I've been doing that a bit recently. The edit summary could have been a bit clearer. By the way I was blocked once, for a minute. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 20:51, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Massive wikipedia spam behing prepared

I would like to warn of a massive wikipedia edit that will take place: https://womeninstem.ingeniumcanada.org/edit-a-thon/ 2001:56B:9FD0:96A:8CFB:30AE:B1CB:356A (talk) 21:16, 2 February 2025 (UTC)