User talk:JBW

This account was previously known as JamesBWatson, but was renamed to JBW on 19 September 2019. James B. Watson is not my real name.

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Creation of poorly written articles

This editor here has neen creating poorly written articles after several warnings from reviewers who have a lot of work trying to fix the mess.I think a topic ban may necessary here, or what do you suggest?

WP:CHUS

Hello, To let you know that we also have a script to auto populate permalink in rename reason for better linking of renames. Please see User:Enterprisey/rename-reason-fixer. Thanks! ‐‐1997kB (talk) 08:53, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Youtuber Criteria

Hi JBW. I was wondering if you still wanted to delete Wikipedia:Youtuber Criteria according to this discussion, as the page has remained unchanged since then (apart from a comment on its talk page). Thanks! – Aranya (talk) 19:03, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for reminding me of this, Aranya. I meant to go back to it after waiting a couple of days or so in case of a further response, but it went the way of many of my intentions in the face of my attention deficit disorder. JBW (talk) 19:32, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Arya Dance Academy

Hi, JB. I don't know what "filter 1067" is but I just noticed a bot reported AryaWashington & AryaWashingtonDC to the Vandalism Noticeboard. Given that the latter has a Facebook account pointing at the Academy's website, these likely are for promoting them as well. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 19:44, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Need an admin, and I think you're the one

You're undoing some sock/vandal and I think they're back. Definitely a lot of vandalism. Buiiytd (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Listed them at AIV, but they're closing AfDs with false signatures. Jerod Lycett (talk) 09:49, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

You don't have checkuser do you, because they also welcomed account Gvmmyybear 34 seconds after it was created. Jerod Lycett (talk) 10:04, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

(edit conflict) User:Buiiytd is another sock of User:Dunnt717 and User:Soperisy. The guy just won't quit. I can't keep tracking them down and reporting them since I need to take a break. Also, some of their false closes in afd still aren't reverted like this one Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kanye_West_2020_presidential_campaign. - Harsh (talk) 09:52, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

@Jerod Lycett and Harsh 2580: Thanks to both of you for telling me. I too was suspicious of Gvmmyybear. I have re-opened the sockpuppet investigation that I had closed, and requested a CheckUser. It's impossible to keep up with reverting everywhere, reporting at the SPI, blocking, etc. The editor has found a clever trick to prevent mass rollback of all their edits: including fake page protection templates with edits, which means that a bot removes the template, so that the sock's edit is not the last edit to the page. A very simple trick, and very effective, because it means each page has to be reverted individually by hand, slowing things down considerably. I'm wondering about asking at AN for help. Obviously any reverting you can do will help too, but none of us can keep doing it for ever. JBW (talk) 10:16, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

OK, Correcting ping for Harsh 2580 above. I know the editor has seen the message, but another time that might not happen. Signatures that differ from the user name can be confusing, and in my opinion therefore better avoided. JBW (talk) 14:00, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

...and now I find the same applies to Jerodlycett, except that in your case I don't know whether you have seen the message or not, confirming what I said above in relation to Harsh 2580. Would you consider having your user name changed to "Jerod Lycett", which I agree looks better, and would avoid the problem? JBW (talk) 14:04, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

@JBW: Changed my sig. Thanks for pointing it out. Would it be possible to create an edit filter to restrict non-extended confirmed users to close afd? Anytime such a user removes {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}} temp, should trigger the filter. - Harsh 2580 (talk) 14:40, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

@Harsh 2580: An edit filter sounds like a good idea, but I know very little about how edit filters work. It would be worth asking an edit filter manager (or whatever they're called). I have some more thoughts on this, but I don't have time to do any more now. JBW (talk) 14:59, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

@JBW: I'd prefer to keep my edit history. Jerod Lycett (talk) 00:33, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

@Jerod Lycett: Yes, but I didn't have in mind creating a new account, which would lose your edit history, I was referring to having your existing account renamed, which would keep your editing history. As it says at the top of this page, my account was renamed in 2019, but if you check the editing history of the account you will see edits going all the way back to 2006, when I created the account. The history listing of those edits was automatically updated to the new name when the account was renamed. Anyway, it's totally up to you, but if you do decide to have your name changed, let me know, and I'll do it for you, which will probably take less trouble than going through the procedure at WP:NAMECHANGE. JBW (talk) 08:51, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Would it be possible to have my account renamed to harshk along with edit history intact? The 2580 is a number I've started to hate. - Harsh 2580 (talk) 02:50, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

If an usurption is possible to rename to just harsh. This account has 2 edits, is inactive, and has en.wiki as home wiki. So qualifies per WP:CHUU. - Harsh 2580 (talk) 04:53, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

@Harsh 2580: I'm afraid what looks like a very simple request has turned out to be not at all as straightforward as you might expect, because of both those names already being registered.

It can be distinctly frustrating that as time goes on more and more perfectly good user names are unavailable because someone once came along and created an account with that name, and then went off and forgot all about it, and is never going to come back. That problem also became vastly bigger when we switched to unified global user names, rather than each project having its own user names, because now people can't even use a name that has never been registered on English Wikipedia if someone has created an account with that name elsewhere. On the other hand I have occasionally seen accounts that were created, made just one or two edits, did nothing more until many years later, occasionally even more than a decade later, and then suddenly started editing. I can therefore see that there is some sense to not allowing usurpation of scarcely used names.

Having said that, now on to the user names you suggest.

• Harsh: Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations says "The account you want to usurp should have no edits or significant log entries to qualify for usurpation (though rare exceptions are made in some circumstances)." (Emphasis in the original.) It says nothing about what those circumstances which warrant "rare exceptions" might be. I can't see anything in your case particularly exceptional, and I am unwilling to stick my neck out and decide that this is one of those rare exceptions. If you like you can make a request at Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations, and it is possible that one of the global renamers who deal with more renaming requests than I do may be willing to do it, but I certainly wouldn't bet on it.
• Harshk: Although there is no account with that user name on English Wikipedia, there is one on Malayalam Wikibooks. That account was created a little over 8 years ago and has no edits at all, so it should be OK for usurpation, I should think. However, Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations also says 'The account you want to usurp must have the English Wikipedia as its "home wiki"', and since English Wikipedia is not the account's home wiki, such a change should not be done on English Wikipedia. If you would still like to change to that user name, you may file a request at meta::Steward requests/Username changes. However, that will require waiting for at least a month
• Alternatively, if you are not totally committed to either of those names, here are two suggestions which will be quicker and easier to deal with.

1. Think of another possible username, and to see whether it has been taken go to Special:CentralAuth, which will inform you of any use of the user name, on any Wikimedia project.
2. Go for Harsh! which I have checked, and it isn't taken, as you can check for yourself if you like. As far as I know there is no reason why I shouldn't be able to change your user name to that one right away, if you want me to. JBW (talk) 21:13, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

I'd like to go with hako9. There's no global account with that name. Also, thanks a lot for taking the time to explain all this. - Harsh 2580 (talk) 00:37, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

121.179.131.132

Hello, JBW. I would like to ask a block against this IP editor because all their contributions constitute vandalism, namely blatant violation of WP:COPYVIO. They keep copypasting large chunks of text from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the New Advent, e.g., here: [1] (cf. [2]) or here: [3] (cf. [4]). Furthermore, they also keep inserting the phrase "∅ in Primary Encyclopedic Published Academic Source" in accurately sourced articles or inserting original research in other articles: [5]. When reverted per WP:CYCLE they start edit-warring. Other editors have dealt with the IP editor as well: [6], [7], [8].Thanks. --Omnipaedista (talk) 00:43, 22 July 2020 (UTC)