User talk:MelanieN/Archive 87

Regarding MKBHD

hello I want to update information on MKBHD wiki page. He made a controversial video on Oct 16, 2015 about apple chipgate. can you help me with this because the edit shows " This page is semi-protected so that only autoconfirmed users can edit it. If you need help getting started with editing, please visit the Teahouse". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sg54sg (talk • contribs)

I have replied at your talk page. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:42, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

can he be banned again please

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Messi_Khar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.138.242.112 (talk • contribs)

Hello. I see that Messi Khar is a very active editor at articles about Indian football. Last October, when they were fairly new here, I blocked them for a week for adding unsourced information. Since then they have made hundreds of edits without a problem. Very few of their recent edits have been reverted. You reverted three of their edits at one article a few days ago, but overall I don’t see anything in their editing history that calls for any investigation or action. -- MelanieN (talk) 15:08, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Yarnell Hill Fire & John N. Maclean

Do you have any info about the long expected Maclean history on the YHF? Has publication been delayed for some reason? --216.169.91.83 (talk) 15:42, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't have any information about this. -- MelanieN (talk) 20:34, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Some intervention, please

Hi Melanie. Would you please counsel Just plain Bill about 3RR as it relates to Rotation? Additionally, he seems to be WP:STALKING me by making initial edits (i.e. reversions) to articles he's never before edited prior to his seeing my own edits to a given page. The Rotation article is the third such incident. Cheers. --Kent Dominic·(talk) 22:55, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Kent Dominic. You and Just plain Bill are engaged in an edit war there. I'm not sure which of you has violated 3RR, probably both, but I will full-protect the page for a few days to stop it. Meanwhile, Bill has started a discussion at the talk page. You should join it. That's where the two of you should be working out your disagreements. -- MelanieN (talk) 19:18, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

P.S. If you believe you can make a case that you are being stalked, WP:ANI is thataway, but I caution you that without firm evidence ANI can be a two-edged sword. -- MelanieN (talk) 19:21, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your interest, efforts, and counsel, Melanie. Just plain Bill started the talk page discussion after I alerted you. Before the page protection, he'd subsequently posted an edit that's not half bad. The thing is, for whatever bugs him about me, I suspect he would have reverted what he posted if I had posted it instead. Whatever. His stalking behavior is what disturbs me more than anything. I posted my grievance at WP:ANI. I had tried to mitigate his interest in me by talking him to death thinking he'd leave me alone rather than suffer my volubility, but that didn't work. Maybe I made matters worse. Oh well. I'm no psychologist; just a lowly writer. --Kent Dominic·(talk) 00:00, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Umaria Sinhawansa page protection

Hi. I saw your reply. That is ok and fair. But it is good to do something for that article. Because those IP address editors are just making unreferenced as well as promotion material. Due to BLP guidelines, self promotion and info without citations is a serious thing. I am continuously deleting them, but no any improvement. You can check those inclusions and decide the future of that article. Cheers.. Gihan Jayaweera (talk) 19:10, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, Gihan Jayaweera. I took another look at the article. When I looked at the history earlier, I saw lots of unreverted edits by IPs, and I took that for a sign that the edits were helpful, so the article should not be protected. But just now when I looked more closely, I realized that all of those edits were probably by the same person using shifting IP addresses. Many of them were unsourced and promotional, and they were getting removed by you and other editors, even though they were not formally reverted. Also I saw that the problem has gotten worse in the last 24 hours. So I now agree with you that these edits are disruptive, and I have semi-protected the article for a week. -- MelanieN (talk) 15:38, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your valuable work.. Cheers GihanJayaweera^TALK 04:43, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Revdel

Hi Melanie, I noticed you just deleted a recent edit by CreatorofGod19 (talk · contribs). I'm not sure if you're aware, but almost all their edits were pretty similar (same rant against the same notable person). They only have 8 contribs total, so might be worth a look of you haven't already. Cheers - wolf 22:59, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. I will revdel the rest of the ones that are an attack against that person, since they are BLP violations. The edits that are simply lies, but not BLP violations, I think I will leave alone. -- MelanieN (talk) 23:15, 29 September 2021 (UTC)