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I am a Wikipedia:administrator since July 5, 2004. I first contributed to Wikipedia in April of 2001 (oldest edits lost in early software upgrades). My first edit with my username appears to be on April 26. I have been active on a number of online projects - active and passive (SETI@Home, Distributed Proofreaders, Mars crater labeling, Stardust@Home, Folding@Home on the Wikipedia team: Team page, etc.)


Admin statistics
Action Count
Edits 61558
Edits+Deleted 64925
Pages deleted 3958
Revisions deleted 14
Pages restored 30
Pages protected 80
Pages unprotected 9
Protections modified 23
Users blocked 101
Users reblocked 1
User rights modified 1

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Immediate requests Entries
Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages 0
Wikipedians looking for help 1
Requests for unblock 85
Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests 98
Wikipedia extended-confirmed-protected edit requests 76
Wikipedia template-protected edit requests 12
Wikipedia fully protected edit requests 1
Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests 183
Requested RD1 redactions 1
Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations 1
Candidates for speedy deletion 11
Open sockpuppet investigations 43
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Administrative backlog

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Reports

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User-reported

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Candidates for speedy deletion Entries
Attack pages 0
Copyright violations 1
Hoaxes 0
Vandalism 0
User requested 3
Empty articles 0
Nonsense pages 0
Spam pages 0
Importance or significance not asserted 2
Possibly contested candidates 3
Other candidates 5
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Replaceable non-free use Wikipedia files – No backlog currently

Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons – 1 item

Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons – 5 items

Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old needing human review – 1 item

Requested RD1 redactions – 1 item

Proposed deletion – No backlog currently
Usernames for administrator attention


User-reported

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Requests for page protection


Current requests for increase in protection level

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Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level

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Reason: Restore full move protection that was lost in 2018 CreatorTheWikipedian2009 (talk) 17:12, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Declined I don't see what has happened to make this necessary again. Last attempted move was 17 years ago, long before this protection was downgraded to EC. Daniel Case (talk) 03:32, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Kajmer05 (talk) 18:56, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

User(s) blocked: 2A00:23C5:BABB:3901:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs) blocked by Daniel Case. for one week. Will leave CTOPS notice on talk. Daniel Case (talk) 03:35, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Dispute over citations in progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#P%C4%81keh%C4%81

Edits being carried out during the dispute make it difficult to resolve if editors are making changes in the middle of the discussion. This should be resolved very soon. Chrisdevelop (talk) 01:27, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I don't see much, if any, of the kind of reverting going on that usually justifies full protection. Daniel Case (talk) 04:27, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Repeated IP edits supporting pro-Russian/anti-Ukrainian perspectives with citations either to very unreliable sources, or which simply do not support the written material being added to the page. These are then generally reverted sooner or later by named accounts. A review of diffs indicates that there may also be IP hopping in this case, as different IPs are copying and pasting the same repeatedly deleted text over time (sometimes with minor edits). Semi-protected status seems like it would probably stop much of this. Just-a-can-of-beans (talk) 05:13, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Nswix (talk) 05:26, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Reason: "This article has been subject to repeated disruptions, where accurate, sourced population data from the 1951 Census has been repeatedly replaced with unsourced or misleading figures. The data being modified pertains to the sensitive demographic breakdown of the population in East and West Punjab. Despite the inclusion of reliable sources, including census documents, other edits have been made that distort the historical record, potentially driven by political motivations. In order to preserve the accuracy of the content, I request that the article be semi-protected to prevent further disruption by editors."

Request for Semi-Protection" or "Protection Request due to Disruptive Edits"

Reason: This article has been subject to repeated disruptions, where accurate, sourced population data from the 1951 Census has been repeatedly replaced with unsourced or misleading figures. The data being modified pertains to the sensitive demographic breakdown of the population in East and West Punjab. Despite the inclusion of reliable sources, including census documents, other edits have been made that distort the historical record, potentially driven by political motivations. In order to preserve the accuracy of the content, I request that the article be semi-protected to prevent further disruption by unregistered or new users.This article has been subject to repeated disruptions, where accurate, sourced population data from the 1951 Census has been repeatedly replaced with unsourced or misleading figures. The data being modified pertains to the sensitive demographic breakdown of the population in East and West Punjab. Despite the inclusion of reliable sources, including census documents, other edits have been made that distort the historical record, potentially driven by political motivations. In order to preserve the accuracy of the content, I request that the article be semi-protected to prevent further disruption by some users. ChronoVeritasScavenger (talk) 06:22, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

ChronoVeritasScavenger (talk) 06:19, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

  • Fixed link in OP's request Armeym (talk) 06:21, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
  • Automated comment: @ChronoVeritasScavenger: This request cannot be parsed. Please ensure it follows formatting consistent with the current or previous methods of submission.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 06:25, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
  • Tried to fix the formatting and location of OP's 'reason' request. Armeym (talk) 06:32, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Persistent vandalism. Sahaib (talk) 06:29, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level

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Reason: This protection is no longer necessary because this article has no IP edits for over a year ago, and this type of protection is stale. Plus, there has not been any vandalism in over couple years. 205.155.225.249 (talk) 19:01, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

No IP edits for over a year ago is self-evident given it's semi-protected. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 20:21, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Is one year enough to unprotect? 205.155.225.249 (talk) 20:22, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

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Handled requests

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A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.

Protected edit requests

1 protected edit request
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Wikipedia:Contact us (request) 2025-04-29 01:25 Fully protected (log) Modified by Cyberpower678 on 2017-03-12: "Remove cascading protection per request"
Updated as needed. Last updated: 14:34, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
13 template-protected edit requests
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Template:Infobox officeholder (request) 2025-02-03 08:29 Template-protected (log) Modified by Mark Arsten on 2013-10-18: "Allowing Protected Template editors"
Template:Video game reviews (request) 2025-03-28 10:58 Template-protected (log) Modified by WOSlinker on 2013-10-19: "allow template editors to modify"
Template:Copied (request) 2025-04-02 02:34 Template-protected (log) Modified by Callanecc on 2015-02-17: "Highly visible template: More than 7500 transclusions"
Template:Merged-from (request) 2025-04-02 03:42 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Module:Copied (request) 2025-04-02 03:43 Template-protected (log) Protected by Newslinger on 2020-06-14: "Highly visible template"
Template:Rail-interchange (request) 2025-04-02 23:47 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Template:Infobox station (request) 2025-04-20 20:01 Template-protected (log) Modified by Mark Arsten on 2013-10-18: "Allowing Protected Template editors"
Wikipedia:WikiProject/Popular pages config.json (request) 2025-04-27 22:56 Template-protected (log) Protected by Izno on 2024-09-28: "protect at TE level"
Template:Single chart (request) 2025-04-28 17:35 Template-protected (log) Protected by Ymblanter on 2016-05-15: "Highly visible template: RFPP request"
Template:Infobox event (request) 2025-04-29 05:28 Template-protected (log) Protected by RenamedUser jaskldjslak901 on 2013-12-17: "Highly visible template"
Module:Political party (request) 2025-04-30 01:57 Template-protected (log) Protected by MusikBot II on 2021-11-18: "High-risk template or module: 13487 transclusions (more info)"
Template:Long comment (request) 2025-04-30 04:01 Template-protected (log) Modified by Jo-Jo Eumerus on 2017-03-25: "Allowing template editors on some templates with full protection dating back to pre-WP:TPROT times which aren't too often or too sensitively used."
Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org talk course link (request) 2025-04-30 06:37 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Updated as needed. Last updated: 06:38, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Template:Admin dashboard/rfarfp

    I am at about 70,000 edits aross all Wiki projects.

    I, Solipsist, hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for you extraordinary patience, over many years, in handling perennial Corn vs. Maize debates.
    The Minor Barnstar
    Minor edits make a major difference. Gaff ταλκ 04:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
    The Minor Barnstar
    Ahh, a sigh of relief from IvoShandor to Rmhermen, thanks for your work on articles related to the Black Hawk War. IvoShandor 05:31, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
    The Original Barnstar, for good deed #1 The Original Barnstar
    This barnstar is for that quick and poisonous work you did on the Ayina River. Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:52, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

    Templates I use often but never remember

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    • {{NorthAmNative}} {{WikiProject Michigan}} {{WikiProject Protected areas}} {{river}}
    • (Wikipedia:Template_messages/Image_namespace)
    • {{fact}}{{no license}} {{no source}} {{or-fu-re|Image:replacementimage}} {{Orphaned fairuse not replaced or {{or-fu-nr}} *{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} {{subst:deletedpage}} {{globalize/USA}}{{intro-missing}}
    WP:AIV
    WP:ANI
    WP:NPP
    WP:RPP
    WP:RFR
    WP:AFD
    WP:XFD
    CAT:CSD
    WP:CSD
    WP:RM
    WP:RAA
    WP:DR
    WP:TM
    WP:TT
    WP:RCU
    WP:LOP
    CAT:AB
    WP:BS
    WP:RD
    WP:NFC
    WP:IUP

    Help box by Jennavecia (talk · contribs)

    "Do you want to take a survey?"

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    On Feb. 12, 2005, I did a random pages survey. Out of 100 random pages, only 1 was a U.S. town. That's progress. Three towns in the UK, 1 in Spain and 1 in Portugal also turned up. Overall biographies were the largest category at 22%, followed by geography with 15% total. Then Lists at 7%, Disambiguation pages at 6%.

    On Feb. 24, 2006, I repeated the 100 random page survey, this time getting 5 U.S. towns. Overall, geography had 26%, biography 21%, fiction 9%, music 4%, colleges 4%, lists 3% and disambigs 4%. Clearly geography and biography are our largest areas. Music, science and business scored less than I expected. Non-individual History was hardly discernable.

    Even by Feb. 2005, 100 out of almost 500,000 was not statistically significant but was as much as I had patience for.

    Wikiprojects I am a member of:

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    Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan

    Short To Do list

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    Early Anon work, no need to bug the developers

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    Up to Dec 16, 2003, all the edits at these anonymous id's were mine (59 edits):

    More recently 1,250 or so edits on 75.41.110.200 are apparently all mine. Apparently my new ID is 75.41.109.190. There are undoubtedly many others as the earliest history of many articles was not preserved by the software.

    List of most of my original pictures and some maps

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    For copyright declaration purposes The following photographs and diagrams on Wikipedia were taken by and uploaded by me and released under GNU-FDL:

    • Update March 21, 2006 by searching with Interiot's Tool (no longer updated - [4] does edit counts though)

    Pictures

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    Maps

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    Numerous locator maps for U.S. national parks like Image:LocMap Big Bend National Park.png and Image:LocMap Tongariro National Park.png - most now replaced by dynamic map system