Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2019/December

Please block - inserting nonsense into pages. —Hasley (discuss • contribs) 14:58, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ By Atcovi. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:04, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

A lot of vandalism from IP. A block would probably help. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 23:05, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 23:31, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Cheers! -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 23:41, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

User:QuiteAbusual
Please block indef. LTA. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 15:34, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:38, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 15:52, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It is better to ask for a global lock instead of a local block for a LTA like this. Please report such cases to SRG, thanks! Masumrezarock100 (discuss • contribs) 17:53, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅, evidence of cross-wiki abuse so appropriate. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 18:05, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Mentioning at both places seems to me worthwhile. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:52, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment: Most of the time it turns out that master accounts of these type of sock accounts are locked. Evading global lock is itself an abuse. As such their socks should be locked even if you found no evidence of crosswiki abuse from the current account. And for your information, the sockmaster is a globally banned user, w:en:User:Projects aka Lujpko Steriv. (GRP). Masumrezarock100 (discuss • contribs) 23:03, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * &lt;nods&gt; It's also useful to request local action, since from time to time local action might (by whatever sequence of events) occur sooner and would presumably be useful in the meantime as the local wiki is (we are supposing) one place where damage is actually being done. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 00:18, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree. Also I'm not familiar with many cross-wiki LTAs so this is harder to work out. Also blocking on individual projects might make the job easier for the stewards to see the disruption. So both places seems ideal. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 11:58, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Good point. A block would stop the abuse on this project for a while. But these LTAs tend to go vandalize other projects after they get blocked on one project. So after reporting them locally, I'd check their global contributions/CentralAuth if I were you. And if appropriate, report them to #wikimedia-stewards channel on freenode or SRG. The former option is faster if stewards are online. For more information about these LTAs, I recommend to check out LTA case list on English Wikipedia. For this one though, you'll find no case there because of w:en:WP:DENY and other reasons. Still it is helpful. Masumrezarock100 (discuss • contribs) 18:56, 22 December 2019 (UTC)