User talk:Ponyo

Might just be weird

I noticed WestVirginiaWX's comments at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lokicat3345, which were made after I closed the report. WVWX was created on June 1, and they've already amassed almost 300 edits, many of which are weather-related, along with a slew of redirects and bothering every user known to man about Draft:list of particularly dangerous situation watches, which they call an "abandoned draft". They don't look like Lokicat to me, but they could be some other weather sock, and their editing is certainly suspicious enough.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:58, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Well it's not this master, and nothing obvious popped up for Yamla or he would have mentioned it in the report. I'll see if the behavioural evidence aligns with anyone else, though I'm guessing they just edited as an IP a lot before creating the account.- Ponyo^{bons mots} 15:52, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

I think the history of IP editing prior to account creation is most likely, unless new evidence comes to light.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 15:58, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

I hadn't noticed the June 5 report, sorry. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:12, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

I briefly glanced at this and noticed an IP that has been editing for several months that stopped right after this user began editing. I'd lean towards "they finally registered". Edit: Not a CU statement, spotted this just through article histories. -- ferret (talk) 15:58, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

• Hey Bbb23, I have a question! If I use the {{glr}} template at SPI, does that ring a bell somewhere that alerts the Stewards that a lock is needed? Or am I only supposed to use it if I, myself, have requested a global lock somewhere? I've asked this before but I don't remember the answer.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 17:08, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

  I'm flattered - and surprised - that you think I know anything about templates. That said, my best guess is it creates a pretty image and that's all. In some cases those icons/cues can be used to categorize things, e.g., {{clerk request}} in the SPI table. If that's done with glr, I don't know where you'd find that. My suggestion is you ask someone more knowledgeable, like zzuuzz or NinjaRobotPirate. General Notability would be great, but he hasn't been around in quite some time.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:48, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

  Hmmm. I've seen you use it at SPI. Do you only add it when you've made a request to the Stewards for a global lock?-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 18:51, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

  It'd help if you'd refresh my memory. It must be quite a while ago. I know I used to use those pretty things when I was a CU but since I haven't, I just use unadorned prose. In the old days, the SPI helper script didn't have the ability to request global locks, and I never liked going to Meta - still don't - so what I recall doing was pinging stewards at SPI and asking - made my life easier. I believe sometimes, I requested glocks on en.wiki but outside of SPI by going to the steward's Talk page.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:57, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

  I guess I'm thinking of this which I saw today. You're correct, you just wrote it out the old-fashioned way.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:07, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

  I'd like to amend my answer on one point. It's not the "clerk request" template that causes the categorization of the SPI table. I'm fairly sure it's changing the case status to "clerk" that does that.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:45, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

  • It looks like the template just posts an image without doing any magic. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:46, 12 June 2024 (UTC)