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Discussions

Return of Abdel Nasser Abdel Fattah Mohamed (ANAFM)

I left a message on the talk page of new user अक्षय ऑर्गन (Akshay Organ, says Google Translate) who has been creating articles in English, Hindi, and Farsi about this non-notable Egyptian businessperson. (Also see for example recent additions to trust by article creator.) In February 2024, several now-globally-locked accounts collaborated to add content (now removed, but it was a massive cleanup effort) to Commons, en-wiki, etc. promoting ANAFM. Having been part of that cleanup, and having AfDed the latest ANAFM article on en-wiki, I consider myself involved. Hoping an uninvolved and more experienced admin can help. HouseOfChange (talk) 03:12, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

See also this page on Meta. HouseOfChange (talk) 21:03, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

(Note) The page was once deleted but recreated by lock evasion (already reported to the stewards and the user is locked). MathXplore (talk) 09:35, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, glad this user has been taken care of. I went through all the user contributions -- not a single useful addition to WQ, so I reverted their various kinds of spam. HouseOfChange (talk) 12:28, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

• Accounts that recreate this article, as yet another one did today, (thanks @UDScott: for protecting it) often cause cross-wiki problems. I indeffed the latest creator کالپیدا سنگسار می شود (new today, translates to "Calpida is stoned") whose 79 edits suggest wider plans (and this IP is likely the same person). HouseOfChange (talk) 14:08, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

HeSaid

A new project has been proposed. Should we move this to the project namespace? MathXplore (talk) 02:39, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Certainly. It's not appropriate for main namespace. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:17, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Now at Wikiquote:HeSaid. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:28, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Internal error

I was trying to look up an old version of Wikiquote:Category schemes by clicking View history, but received an error message (see below) when I tried to look at an old version. Not sure who I am supposed to report this error to. Thanks in advance,

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Internal error [d3519a79-d2ef-4d45-8e66-589c0d20c807] 2024-11-03 13:19:59: Fatal exception of type "RuntimeException" Ottawahitech (talk) 13:32, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

I have no problem viewing (e.g.) https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Category_schemes&oldid=1721992 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:21, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

@Koavf: neither do I. Seems to have been a temporary glitch. But my discussion-tool Subscribe feature has been broken for days. As a result I was not notified that someone had replied to this posting. Ottawahitech (talk) 12:53, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Just noticed my Subscribe on this thread has been reset. I set it again in case someone replies, as well the next thread. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:33, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Another glitch

a couple of hours ago I received:

• Error

Our servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem. Please try again in a few minutes.

See the error message at the bottom of this page for more information.

and at the bottom of the page:

• Original error: upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure

Am I the only one getting these glitches? Ottawahitech (talk) 16:28, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

It is not the case that I have also experienced this. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:12, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Protection of User:Red link example

I have created User:Red link example (confirmation) for use in documentation and testing.

The account is already globally locked, so cannot be used for editing.

It is vital that the user and talk pages are not created. Can someone kindly protect them both, permanently, with an edit summary noting that they are "for use in documentation and testing"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:44, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Y Done I protected both pages as requested -- set them so that only an admin can create either one. HouseOfChange (talk) 21:43, 12 November 2024 (UTC)