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Hi Harry! You pblocked Special:Contributions/106.222.208.0/22 from various articles to do with steel production in India back in March. That hasn't stopped them adding their spamlink to more tangental articles – Tata Steel for instance [1] [2]. Is it worth you widening their pblock to include Tata Steel or would I be better requesting a blacklisting of reninemetal.com? 81.187.192.168 (talk) 17:45, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blacklisting is definitely one option but there's more than one domain being spammed though there are constructive edits on the range. Might be worth raising at ANI to see if anyone has any bright ideas. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Last April, you blocked 193.219.130.166 for one year to prevent persistent disruption. The block has expired but they have continued the disruptive behavior and another block would be appreciated. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 11:16, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RegentsPark blocked this editor for 36 hours. Given that this disruption has been ongoing for several years from this one IP address and continued after a 1-year block, a block of similar length is likely warranted as a shorter block seems unlikely to be effective. ElKevbo (talk) 21:39, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ElKevbo they can have a longer break. Thanks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:10, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks but they've just changed to a new IP address. Rather than continuing to play whack-a-mole, I've requested an edit filter be created. ElKevbo (talk) 11:53, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Kindly grant my Autopatrolled rights. You did it, but star Mississippi snatched. Per their obligation I have WP: CIR issue, which don't fit any of my edits. Either grunt me or please block me to please Star Mississippi. Regards- Twinkle1990 (talk) 17:02, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

...I don't see how this range can publish drafts including shit like this, Draft:Wikipedia supports hamas. The log says they're blocked from "specified non-editing actions", but I can't see what that means. What am I missing? Drmies (talk) 21:29, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Drmies it meant that they couldn't create an account on that range but could edit. I see Primefac has added a restriction on creating new pages. I'm guessing there's too much collateral for a full block. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:53, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see at WP:PBLOCK that "Partial blocks can be leveraged to only block account creation from an IP or IP range, but permit normal editing. To do this, simply impose a partial block but leave the "Pages" and "Namespaces" fields blank." I assume that's what was done here; does that automatically generate the language "specified non-editing actions"? If so, it would be helpful to say that at PBLOCK.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:00, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Harry, Bbb23. Yeah, I really was puzzled by the log--maybe I didn't look carefully enough? I think I did click "change block" to see what was there, and I see what's there now, which is of course different. Drmies (talk) 16:14, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the language is from the software. Try it on a test account or something. Select partial block and tick (only) block account creation. We could matbe ask the technical folks to write a clearer log entry. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see it now: thanks! Drmies (talk) 21:25, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note that I flipped the "no page creation" switch because they were (unsurprisingly) creating problematic pages. Primefac (talk) 00:36, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Totally unrelated, Harry and Bbb, am I wrong in thinking that 2014 Tampines flat stabbing really has no encyclopedic relevance? Drmies (talk) 16:49, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Harry, while I have you--I was working on this article and ran into phrenitis. The first (the familiar term) dealt mostly with fiction, and the second with the medical term--but of course they're the same thing in the end. I mean, I could try to separate the content between the two, but that seems rather superficial to me, and part of the content I added is really medical. The literature (see the Peterson article that's cited a few times now) also treats them together. You have any thoughts? Gotta get this up to FA! Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:48, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]