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Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard

Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (34 sections)
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(Top)	961	961
Open tasks	222	222
Pages recently put under extended-confirmed protection	163	163
Review of RfC close	2,890	22,018
Non-participants	15,054	15,054
Participants	4,074	4,074
Disruptive unregistered user	1,203	1,203
WP:DYK	3,558	3,558
Close review: Nikola Tesla's birthplace RfC	1,435	37,186
Involved	28,624	28,624
Uninvolved	3,372	3,372
Discussion	3,755	3,755
Is reverting alleged OR from an FA exempt from the 3RR brightline?	18,826	18,826
Block/ban appeal - Cyber.Eyes.2005	15,603	15,603
Block appeal - Solaire the knight	6,388	6,388
Netherzone	7,907	7,907
Hello! Dear enwiki community	2,391	2,391
POVPUSH removal of "Black"	4,369	4,369
Flurry of move activity from my account	715	715
Possibility of cross wiki vandalism related to anime, manga and seiyu from :ja:LTA:203, :ja:LTA:TAROSU in near future	2,406	2,406
Broad vs. narrow TBAN closure at ANI	26,685	26,685
File:Little Esther Jones with dog-1930.jpg	1,487	1,487
IBAN being over	1,271	1,271
Talk:Leo Frank, User:Schlafly, and WP:IDHT	14,704	25,487
General sanctions	10,783	10,783
Battle of Ettangi	572	572
Raegan Revord	1,700	1,700
I need to email an admin	5,478	5,478
Karel Komárek	783	783
Authority control, Adrar stadium	1,384	1,384
Possible involvement of Admin in ARBPIA area	41,963	42,766
RM comments	803	803
New sneaky reference vandalism - needs a filter? RC patrollers, please take note	1,065	1,065
Page move mess probably needs an admin	2,787	2,787
Total	235,381	235,381

Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (41 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	713	713
JacktheBrown	24,756	24,756
Sort-of legal threat by IP user	7,355	7,355
Meta Voyager's tendentious editing	8,440	26,029
Proposal: Topic ban	17,589	17,589
Disruptive edits in politics-related articles	3,653	3,653
POV-pushing by User:Hystricidae21	24,434	47,095
Proposal: mainspace pblock	22,661	22,661
Iwaqarhashmi	27,875	27,875
User:Wahreit	22,515	22,515
MOS:RETAIN and Special:Contributions/2607:FEA8:22A0:38F0::/64	830	830
User:SLIMHANNYA	3,656	3,656
ජපස's intractable incivility	53,831	53,831
User:Alexchuan1998, copyright, and non-communicative	4,185	4,185
What's the normal procedure when someone steals a draft you made and claims they made it?	7,503	7,503
Thenightaway	13,779	13,779
Out of the ordinary	2,065	2,065
User:Gerryyabes and copyright violations past fifth warning	2,022	2,022
Whitewashing	6,572	6,572
User:Monjento consistently removing AfD templates and AfD listings	6,615	8,699
TBAN Proposal	2,084	2,084
I'm being followed around by other users and don't appreciate it	3,712	3,712
More block evasion Rishabisajakepauler from Texas	3,530	3,530
DelusionalThomaz515610	4,896	4,896
Lindenearlejones	1,317	1,317
Persistent unsourced/unexplained date changes by Coco cejero	626	626
Nori Bunasawa / user DN27ND	12,459	12,459
Returning personal attack behavior of SchroCat	20,202	20,202
unexplained revert - engaging in edit war - VIOLATED 3RR	3,056	3,056
A very concerning comment from Boscaswell	6,310	6,310
AI-generated spam	1,183	1,183
TPA	527	527
Zabezt	1,321	8,353
Ecrusized	7,032	7,032
Being followed around by an editor with an apparent grudge	15,578	15,578
JD Vance Couch Hoax Disruptive Behavior	4,236	11,834
Boomerang proposal for Kcmastrpc	7,598	7,598
POV pushing by Zlogicalape	6,140	6,140
MGBD and IP socks on SM Kamrul Hassan	8,854	8,854
Disruptive editing by User:James Conan Niag and IP cohorts	1,929	1,929
Copyright violation by User:Yewtharaptor	2,076	2,076
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Loophole

I think we should start being more aggressive about moving complaints from this talk page to the main board. I don't think it's fair to let folks post complaints that name others on this lower traffic talk page which also doesn't have the requirement that the editor be notified of the discussion. For example, I don't think @M.Bitton above received either a ping or a user talk notification that their behavior was being discussed on a serious user behavior board, which I think is unfair. In the section above, CambridgeBayWeather was pinged, but like M.Bitton, did not receive a proper user talk notification. –Novem Linguae (talk) 06:36, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For the thread directly above this one, they probably posted on this page because they were unable to post on the main noticeboard. Due to an LTA, we've had to protect AN for a while now. The thread above that one, though, should definitely have been posted on AN rather than here. —Ingenuity (t • c) 02:18, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) In general, I think that we should have some way to just go ahead and move them to the project page. One problem we are dealing with is that there is someone who is jumping on Res proxies on the near daily to vandalize AN(I), which is making us semi-protect it, and thereby pushomg IPs/non-autoconfirmed users here. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 02:20, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Protection

This page needs to be protected for at least 2 weeks or have pending changes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellocat99 (talk • contribs) 15:38, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hellocat99: Do you mean protecting the talk page we're currently on? Per Wikipedia:Protection policy, that's only done in response to significant vandalism and disruption. While the discussions above might have been in the wrong place, I think they're nowhere near vandalism. jlwoodwa (talk) 02:57, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I ment this talk page that that vandal kept vandalizing — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellocat99 (talk • contribs) 03:15, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Guidance on Vaibhav Palhade Draft Article

Moved to WP:AFC/HD

Primefac (talk) 20:13, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Monbot

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but someone needs to note in the section User:Monbot that the user’s username is inappropriate for use on Wikipedia because it is misleading (wikipedia:MISLEADNAME). This is not a bot account, it’s a person, and the name needs to reflect that. (Apologies for posting this here, I’m locked out of the primary page for reasons I can not discern but assume to be due to either trolling or lta related vandalism control.) 2600:1011:B324:1E02:B940:65B6:E5B4:9665 (talk) 08:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The account in question was soft blocked back in March 2021 for username violation, I don't think there is much to do here. Ratnahastin (talk) 08:25, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is also the wrong board, but... shrugs. Agree with the above, they're already blocked so there's not much for us to do. Primefac (talk) 15:57, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac: I believe the IP is referring to this thread , where Monbot67's actions are being discussed.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 16:51, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk formatting request

In just under 24 hours, this discussion on ABRPIA collected 50 comments and counting. Some of the replies are indented on the same level and difficult to read. It is mostly a linear discussion. Can someone uninvolved indent the replies when two people are indented on the same level? It would make it easier for everyone to read. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 20:14, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]