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Unprotection request

Hello mate, while I was doing my daily routine on the Southern African side of NPP and AfC, I stumbled across this draft and did some minor clean ups while reviewing but it turns out this name was protected 5 years ago and requires admin access. Looking at the sources provided, I am leaning towards accept. I was wondering if you could take a look at the draft and tell me what you think. I'll be on the lookout for your response. dxneo (talk) 00:57, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dxneo: Please consult an administrator who knows this subject area, or take the issue WP:DRV. I came across this article as evidence in a sockpuppet investigation, so seeing this draft sets off all sorts of alarm bells for me that this sockpuppetry might still be going on. However, I also know next to nothing about this subject area, and so am ill equipped to evaluate notability for myself. If another administrator or the community at large is willing to endorse the notability of the subject, I'd be happy to drop the protection. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:50, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I do not know how DRV works. However, I believe Hey man im josh might help as he is very much active on NPP. dxneo (talk) 01:53, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And if the sock is still ongoing, please eradicate the disease and put a permanent block on the IP if possible

Thank you. dxneo (talk) 01:55, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SPI help

Hello, I've been trying to create a sockpuppet investigation page for the user "erich romel", who is vandalizing the Arslan page. I also believe he is a single-purpose account. Can you please help me? Onoghuren (talk) 10:35, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

From Detective Stranger: Regarding the recent drama

Hello @Sir Sputnik. I am @Detective Stranger.

I am sending you this reply because I wanted to clarify some things regarding the recent drama involving me. I will try to be as brief as I can while still provide as much detail for you to understand.

Firstly, this account is in no way connected to the other aforementioned account (whose username I won't mention). I am the sole owner of this account, no one else has access to it, and I do not own any other accounts on Wikipedia.

Secondly, I believe the reason this recent drama happened most likely has to do with an Edit warring I got engaged in with another user regarding the plot for the movie: Once Upon a Time in High School back in mid/late 2021 (You can find some of the conflict I had with this other user in the article's editing history, their talk page history, and my talk page history.

Here are also some other users who were involved during that time who might vouch for me: @Czar, @Schazjmd, though I doubt they remember.

Lastly, I wanted to thank you and several other users, @Mwwv, @HeartGlow30797, and @Jdcomix, also an admin @Yamla for upholding the principles and values of Wikipedia, and taking action against someone who is threatening those very principles and values.

While I may not be, as you said, active in terms of editing Wikipedia articles and such (though I am considering doing minor edits on Wikipedia like spelling and grammar checks), I am still a very active Wikipedia consumer and reader as I always loved reading and doing research on various interesting topics and Wikipedia has provided the resources for me to do that.

Looking forward to more future endeavors with you all here in Wikipedia. Detective Stranger (talk) 21:30, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Transfermarkt again

Hello, you've removed one of citations I added because Transfermarkt is unreliable. The most recent talk about this on Wikipedia that I could find was from 11 years ago. The main reason in that talk I saw was that Transfermarkt was edited by any user. However, now an edit has to be approved by a site admin on Transfermarkt. Is there a more recent talk section about this subject? WikiEnjoyer123 (talk) 07:37, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Removal of sourced information

Why did you make this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2024%E2%80%9325_Legia_Warsaw_season&curid=77140480&diff=1239529470&oldid=1239513477 ?

What is so "unreliable" about the number of clean sheets given by transfermarkt? Marcelus (talk) 22:38, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An SPI renaming

Hi Sir Sputnik, How are you doing? I recently filed an SPI recently. Since then the user has been renamed. I am wondering whether the SPI should be renamed accordingly? I guess it would be good if I let an SPI clerk, someone like you, do the moving? Chanaka L (talk) 08:41, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding Molde FK in European football

I noticed your message on my talk page regarding my revert of your edit. I agree with your message, but would like to note that I only attempted to improve the Wiki by updating outdated statistics. The statistics regarding Berg Hestad already existed without referencing and I added a reference. I don't consider Transfermarkt a reliable source but thought it would suffice given the dearth of other sources. Thank you for writing a message to me on my own talk page and I hope I didn't offend you by my revert, which I now accept was wrong. The Voivodeship King (talk) 06:47, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Transfermarkt

Hi there,

I’m still fairly new to this so I have a question. You reverted links to individual historical game results on Transfermarkt from an article I edited. I notice this seems to be a common question on here, and I don’t see the answer, but is there a reason it isn’t considered reliable? And also, I intend to go through and edit quite a few other pages in this series which have match results on them (created by someone else but currently more or less stubs). The match results list on the pages is super useful - giving a lot of the utility of the page, so I don’t want to delete them. Is it better to just leave the match results unsourced, or do you know of a more reliable site for match results that I could use as the source instead?

thanks for your help. Absurdum4242 (talk) 02:17, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A big problem again

Hello @Sir Sputnik, and thank you for your action against vandals, especially those with some Romanian football players. But the vandal is back again and again, now he is called Finngamer21, just look at Alex Stan and Dragoș Albu, besides that the edits are incomplete, he start insulting again. Thank you DNT (talk) 20:10, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sir Sputnik, where did Finngamer21 make legal threats? Robby.is.on (talk) 20:26, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Robby.is.on: While editing anonymously before registering their account here. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:27, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, okay. Thanks. Robby.is.on (talk) 20:31, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]