Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2012/June

CU request for suspected spambot
Apologies for posting this request here. I can't find the page for CU requests.

The spambots Tanglei5738 at en.wikipedia and Tanglei5738 at simple.wikipedia might very well be related to Tanglei8017 at en.wikibooks. I'd like to know if the en.wikibooks account is also a (related) spambot. Please investigate this account and share the information with the CU's at en.wikipedia and simple.wikipedia, if possible. I'll request the same on those wikis (see here for the CU request at en.wikipedia and here for the request at simple.wikipedia). Thanks in advance, Mathonius (discuss • contribs) 18:29, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll send the details on the CU mailing list. This is the right place to ask! QU TalkQu 20:35, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Edit filter request
Would an admin create a new edit filter checking if an user(registered and/or IP) changes a user page of somebody other? Yesterday I reverted an IP edit who removes an image of an user page. Since we cannot verify that this IP is the same user, such edits have to be considered as vandalism. mabdul 10:55, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * There is already an edit filter to catch blanking / large removals of text from user pages by non-autoconfirmed users. I believe you triggered it yourself when you tried to edit your userpage when not logged in. I'm not sure a ban IP editors from editing user pages is in the spirit of a wiki so I'd like to hear other opinions. For example, an IP editor may validly be fixing templates on user pages. A filter that prevented any edit is pretty much equivalent to semi-protecting all user pages. QU TalkQu 13:11, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I believe that you misunderstood me: I want a filter to track these edits, not to prevent them (similar to the 'external links edit filter'. It could be (additional) displayed a warning that they are a) not logged in and b) depending on what they do, that these edit might get reverted. mabdul 13:21, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, so you want to be able to see the Tag in RC and / or in Special:Abuselog. Okay, that is probably possible QU TalkQu 13:40, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * There's a filter in place now, let's see how it works. QU TalkQu 13:56, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

User page edits
I believe that the edits by User:Planotse (edits) to other user pages, even if well-intentioned, should be mass reverted and the user warned about best practices on dealing with the users' namespace. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 03:12, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * All deleted, I will discuss with Planotse QU TalkQu 10:32, 30 June 2012 (UTC)