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Contents
1 Edit requests
2 Stephen Thorpe
3 Wikispecies has over 1,000 broken links
4 Category page to delete
5 Broken template
6 Per the lack of objections in Village Pump..about granting me AWB access on
Wikispecies..
7 Protection?
8 Requesting page perotection for Wikispecies:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON
9 User Rights
10 Vandalism
11 Hiding
12 Another vandal creating random off-topic pages
13 Admins Check on Activity
Edit requests
I would just like to note that there are some pretty old edit requests at
Category:Wikispecies protected edit requests. Maybe someone can proceed them.
Thanks and best regards --Ameisenigel (talk) 10:04, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll get them all sorted next week. –Tommy Kronkvist
(talk), 11:09, 12 December 2021 (UTC).
Stephen Thorpe
Attention fellow administrators (Accassidy—AlvaroMolina—Andyboorman—Burmeister—
Circeus—Dan Koehl—DannyS712—EncycloPetey—Faendalimas—Floscuculi) (Franz Xaver—Geni—
Hector Bottai—Keith Edkins—Koavf—Mariusm—MKOliver—MPF—Neferkheperre—OhanaUnited)
(PeterR—Pigsonthewing—RLJ—Thiotrix)
Please note that we now have some activity from a new user account called
StephenThorpe1 (talk • contribs • block • all projects) , registered earlier today.
–Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 13:56, 25 December 2021 (UTC).

yes the account AucklandNaturalist (no contributions at this time) also uses same
ip, ran a check. The data from his original account is too old now for comparison.
@Dan Koehl: @Koavf: please take a look. Meantime I am blocking both accounts for
one week for now. Open to discussion on this. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas)
talk 14:25, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
It seems like he miss WS. Dan Koehl (talk) 14:32, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
For what it's worth, no change in his not following wikispecies style guide on ref
citations - MPF (talk) 14:40, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Indeed. Also, even though all of the actual data in the new edits seems correct and
legit (afaik), sockpuppetry is still a big deal from a Wikimedia policy point of
view. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 15:06, 25 December 2021 (UTC).
Well, he just got suspended from iNaturalist. He can make it all about expertise
as much as he wants, what I see is the same old story: he tried to use a publicly
edited website as his own, sole personal database, ran into trouble because he kept
fighting other people's edits, and is now spending a lot of effort badmouthing that
website. Six years on, nothing's changes. Circeus (talk) 15:42, 25 December 2021
(UTC)
This is a pretty clear case of walking like Anatidae, quacking like Anatidae, and
having usernames like Anatidae. With single-user login, these users can appeal at
Meta or post to someone's talk page on Wikipedia but they are clearly him. Merry
Christmas folks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:21, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

I've now wikified all the edits by the user, in regards to layout, author-,
reference- and Taxonavigation templates, journal links, categories, and so forth. –
Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 18:17, 25 December 2021 (UTC).
Ok I note the blocks have been changed to indefinite, thanks for that. I could not
do indefinite until either Dan or Justin confirmed my check. All done now. @Dan
Koehl: @Koavf: we should keep an eye on the IP which must remain undisclosed here.
We should also update the CU file with the current info.
Yeah he has been banned for life from iNat for doing exactly what he used to do
here. I guess that's why he stopped pestering us. I am guessing we may be in for
some more socks now. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 21:55, 25 December
2021 (UTC)
@Faendalimas: I already updated CU a few hours ago. Thanks for spotting it and for
encouraging the documentation. I sincerely feel sorry for the guy: he sounds so
terribly unhappy. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:57, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Wikispecies has over 1,000 broken links
Hi admins, currently Wikispecies has over a thousand broken links. Some for at
least nine years.

automatically generated list

As some redirect to pages that were previously deleted, I think they should be
checked/deleted by administrators. Edu! (talk) 13:57, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Having reviewed and sorted many of these broken redirects I would suggest that
taxon specialists need to take over this mammoth task! Andyboorman (talk) 20:17, 29
December 2021 (UTC)
I agree with Andy, however there are a few fairly clear-cut issues. For example
there are about 40 user/user talk pages that are redirected due to that fact that
the user names were changed sometimes in the past. The majority of them are not
linked or transcluded by any other pages, and I guess deleting them is okay?
Checking whether they are linked/transcluded is fairly easy, since it's only ≈40
pages all in all. There are also about 50 broken redirect "taxon" pages regarding
hybrids, and they could easily be deleted since we don't do hybrids. Or am I wrong?
Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 11:51, 30 December 2021 (UTC).
We do natural hybrids in plants, as they are relatively common for some families.
However, artificial hybrids a no-no. I notice MABot has done a sterling job on
double redirects, big thanks for this tidy up. As to user/user talk pages without
tranclusion, they can go. Andyboorman (talk) 14:59, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
I've started to deleted non-transcluded user- and user talk pages, as well as
unused subpages to them. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 18:27, 2 January 2022 (UTC).
┌─────────────────────────┘
Please note that some of the user pages listed as broken redirects in reality
"import" their user page data from Meta-Wiki. See for example User:Pikolas
(currently listed as a broken redirect). It is redirected to User:NMaia which has a
user page copied from Meta. Several pages links to the User:Pikolas page, hence it
should probably not be deleted. (Please note that I chose this example at random:
all pages should of course be investigated individually.) –Tommy Kronkvist (talk),
03:51, 4 January 2022 (UTC).
Category page to delete
Hello. Could you delete Category: William Wayt Thomas taxa, I've created by
mistake, since it's duplicated with Category:Wayt Thomas taxa.
Thank you. Gerardgiraud (talk) 12:38, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

@Gerardgiraud: Thanks for notifying. Actually, per Wikispecies naming conventions

the main pages for this author should be William Wayt Thomas and Category:William
Wayt Thomas taxa. I'll make the proper arrangements, but it may take an hour or so
since there are about 50 other pages related to the main author page that needs to
be redirected as well. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 13:36, 30 December 2021 (UTC).
Done. The pages are now saved as William Wayt Thomas and Category:William Wayt
Thomas taxa, and all redirects have been corrected (with the exception of archive-
and log files, which shouldn't be changed). –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 14:39, 30
December 2021 (UTC).
@Tommy Kronkvist: thanks a lot. Gerardgiraud (talk) 16:20, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Broken template
The {{Welcome-belated}} template seems broken. It renders the text string

Please see our [[<tvar

name="1">Special:MyLanguage/Wikispecies:Autobiography</tvar>|advice and guidance
for taxon authors]]
on line five, yet hasn't been edited since June 22 (when I'm quite sure it worked).
What's up with that? –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 14:36, 31 December 2021 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist This has clearly something to do with substituting translation

syntax onto a non-translatable page; however, I've only ever seen such templates
being transcluded, not substituted. I have just added translation-aware
transclusion to the page in an attempt to fix it, so maybe you could try it
again. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 13:38, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
@1234qwer1234qwer4: Looks like it's working. Thanks! –Tommy Kronkvist (talk),
13:53, 7 January 2022 (UTC).
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree,
don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. DannyS712 (talk) 06:35,
10 January 2022 (UTC)
Per the lack of objections in Village Pump..about granting me AWB access on
Wikispecies..
Hi, persuant to ther VP thread, I am requesting my username be considered to be
'approved' for AWB access on Wikispecies.

Specfically , It is my understanding that my username needs to be added to

Wikispecies:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage to allow AWB to perform the required login
and access needed.

The addition has to be performed by a local admin/sysop, I can't just add myself
obviously. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:58, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Highly-trusted user. Recommended. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:35, 9 January 2022

(UTC)
Agree with Justin. Recommended. Andyboorman (talk) 21:37, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Hmm seems AWB was also looking for a name on
Wikispecies:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON , Apologies. ShakespeareFan00 (talk)
23:57, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
(Aside: The latter seems to be able to openly edited, which would seem to be
mistaken?) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 23:59, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Protection?
Hello! I'm not familiar with the protection policy here, but I'd like to let you
know that Sus is a target for vandalism. While edit frequency is low, nearly all
edits by new users over the past year or two have been vandalism. Tol (talk) 22:44,
9 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello Tol and thank you for the note. Usually we don't protect taxon-, journal- or
author pages in main namespace, nor categories and templates related to those
pages. For the most part we only protect MediaWiki files, cross-Wiki critical
templates plus archives and such, and at present only 407 of Wikispecies 1,633,552
pages are protected (including both semi- and fully protected pages). However, some
taxon pages have been heavily targeted by vandals, hence last year I protected for
example Gorilla and Pongo plus their subpages. I've long been thinking of
protecting Sus as well, for the same reasons you mention above. It was protected
earlier today by admin RLJ, together with Sus scrofa. Please rest assured that
we're constantly (albeit mostly silently) looking out for maleficent edits and will
not hesitate to take all actions needed to counter any form of vandalism. That
said, ideas and suggestions such as yours are always welcome! Best regards, Tommy
Kronkvist (talk), 15:46, 10 January 2022 (UTC).
That makes sense. Thank you, @Tommy Kronkvist! Tol (talk) 15:52, 10 January 2022
(UTC)
Requesting page perotection for Wikispecies:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON
Most suprised this was able to be edited by non-admins. ShakespeareFan00 (talk)
09:15, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Done --DannyS712 (talk) 09:27, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

User Rights
Hello. I think Nicolas Ramirez can be granted autopatroller rights. Any objections?
Andyboorman (talk) 08:58, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello. No objections – I've actually been thinking about it myself for a couple of
days. A few inconsistencies here and there, but all in all his edits are good. I've
now set the autopatrolled flag for his user account. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk),
10:57, 15 January 2022 (UTC).
Vandalism
Please block User:69.124.229.237, thanks --Samuele2002 (talk) 16:09, 22 January
2022 (UTC)

Done Burmeister (talk) 16:12, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Hiding
Hello. Please could you change the public visibility of the foul edits by the IP at
User talk:Wizzito? Cheers in advance. Cromium (talk) 19:39, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Done By someone else. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:00, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Another vandal cre