User talk:Sergecross73

Vandalism pt 26

Serge's 26th iteration of his own personal WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. Feel free to report anything you feel may need admin intervention. Sergecross73 msg me 18:29, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Dchaikelsonmusiclove (talk · contribs) is completely obsessed with Wikipedia as a WP:FANCRUFT spamming site. And somebody warned about COI but I dunno yet. I gave him the latest round of triple warnings about countless offenses each, and this is after he deleted the previous wave of final warnings of countless offenses. And having been blocked for vandalism. With no response or adaptation. I've wasted hours researching his history of hundreds of edits, all reverted. Except for the ones that are too bizarrely embedded, like the walls of spammed wikilinks to redirects back to the same article. This is a person who will pick an article and add nothing but 50 broken red links of WP:TRIVIA. Super turbo WP:NOTHERE. Serge or Ferret, please block asap. — Smuckola(talk) 08:52, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Ferret beat me to it. Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 12:51, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

50.224.193.198 (talk · contribs) WikiFacts247 (talk · contribs) 50.204.248.250 (talk · contribs) StraightFacts247 (talk · contribs) (same person) have added unsourced information to Jennifer King's article every now and then. Normally I would just continue to revert and ask for a source (which they have yet to provide BTW), but seeing as they have changed a ref quote that is directly cited from the URL to fit their own agenda, I believe admin intervention now seems warranted as they are clearly being disruptive. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 18:39, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Reviewing to make sure I find/dig up all the socks. -- ferret (talk) 19:07, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

IPs are stale right now. Accounts blocked and tagged. -- ferret (talk) 19:19, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for running my show better than me, haha. Sergecross73 msg me 19:35, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

218.111.14.45 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) adds/replaces photos of buildings to the infoboxes of unrelated articles. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 15:54, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 16:43, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

• 114.5.211.89 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Pushing unsourced information into multiple articles. --ThomasO1989 (talk) 04:03, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

• Warned. His talk page was red linked so I figured we owed him at least a warning first, since the edits I spot-checked didn't seem to be in bad faith. Let me know if you notice him continuing. Sergecross73 msg me 12:53, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

• Thunderton100 (talk · contribs) Almost all disruptive edits, no interest shown in encyclopedic editing or learning. WP:NOTHERE WP:CIR — Smuckola(talk) 01:25, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Objection! I have interest in showing encyclopedic editing. However, personal opinions may get in the way, though. Thunderton100 (talk) 01:34, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Thunderton100 If you do have interest, you certainly don't show it. It seems like your every edit has been to add little unsourced/unhelpful bits that are undone by a variety of editors relatively quickly. What is your purpose here on Wikipedia? Why shouldn't I block your account? Sergecross73 msg me 01:49, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

I did some stupid things, but it's not my fault. I sometimes have some mental challenges. With that being said, my 'vandalism' are very unintentional. Thunderton100 (talk) 09:55, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

• Takensorryuser (talk · contribs) is absolutely WP:NOTHERE WP:CIR, defying all warnings to supply reliable sources and interact in a civil way or at all. See the user talk page history of a large variety of increasingly severe abuses with zero response. I am exhausted of combing history for things to revert. Thank you! — Smuckola(talk) 21:35, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

• TairyGreen (talk · contribs) @Ferret: If there was ever a WP:NOTHERE, it's someone who apparently uses automated tools to generate unedited junk, deletes all criticism,[1] especially where I asked for the source of his suspiciously massive preformatted text dumps,[2] and tells an admin to buzz off.[3]

  We're not quite there yet. They have not made any edits since being warned. I'm watching though. -- ferret (talk) 13:26, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

  @Ferret: Roger that. And I know you have thick skin. ;) What do you think about the two huge preformatted text dumps? Copied from another article? I find it very unlikely that this uncited fancruft addict wrote a wall of text all at once, even with feeble citation metadata. — Smuckola(talk) 20:32, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

  To which articles in particular? I did look at a couple of their larger edits but it looked like sources where included. -- ferret (talk) 21:04, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

  @Ferret: These[4] are suspicious because this user has almost never written anything of any substance, length, quality, or citations. Then comes a dump of all this prose and citations. And refuses to even answer where it came from. — Smuckola(talk) 02:41, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

• [5]How do you guys suppose it's possible to have two accounts instantly created for the sole purpose of edit warring in all this desperate fancruft and spam? This is after I removed spam by an apparent spammer here.[6]— Smuckola(talk) 05:46, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
  • Protected page. Didnt block FPerkins, since he hasn't edited in 2 weeks and is very prolific anyways. Sergecross73 msg me 15:27, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
• Evilcougar (talk · contribs) The user offers us this robotic revelation, immediately after having been blocked for it. — Smuckola(talk) 02:40, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
  • Sorry for the delay. Crazy day. I gave him a very stern warning to stop. Any more and he's getting a long block. Sergecross73 msg me 01:30, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
• Barefootrick (talk · contribs) This is actually a guy who doesn't like having been fired from the Missouri House of Representatives for molesting his kids and abusing his wife, and has been editorializing WP:COI and now vandalizing WP:NOTHERE his own biography for quite some time.[7] — Smuckola(talk) 18:00, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

  Blocked. No evidence the user will ever stop. -- ferret (talk) 18:12, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

  Concisely observed, Ferret. Yeah, as the article content actually summarizes about the character, I think you're not the only oversight body to say there's ample evidence on and off the wiki that that's ...kind of.... his thing. — Smuckola(talk) 18:31, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

• It is edgelord season over on Hyatt Regency walkway collapse so can you please restore the page protection again? I dunno why it was so short. It's the 40th anniversary plus the presently coinciding Surfside collapse so everybody's dying to scoop it. We have one WP:3RR saying that years of local continuous Pulitzer Prize winning disaster coverage isnt notable (the definition of notability) and isnt supremely controversial to the community, and trashing RS. Others are pregnant with WP:OR and trivia. Not even all of it is IPs so I dunno what else to do. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk) 17:07, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what to do. They're good faith edits...but generally unsourced or misguided. But as you say, a couple people have accounts. Semi-protection won't do much, and full protection will lock you out too. Sergecross73 msg me 23:13, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

I reckon please just do IP protection and handle the edit warrior, with warning and revert. I'm working on that article long term in sandbox. And I question good faith when this person is cherry picking policy to fully and consistently misinterpret to justify edit war over *nothing*. That person is also reinstating another's garbage offtopic OR-promoting comments on an article Talk page, citing "dont edit talk pages" lol.[8] He cites WP:TPO which explicitly says to delete offtopic chat. — Smuckola(talk) 23:36, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Someone beat me to it. (Sorry - busy day!) They did it for a week. If it persists, let me know and I'll lay down a longer one. (The page history shows that this is already like the second one on the last month or so. Sergecross73 msg me 14:57, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

The disaster porn contest is underway by at least two editors at Hyatt regency walkway collapse and Surfside condominium collapse. They are dead set on some tastelessly desperate WP:OR about creating a ranking system of every which way things went boom and people died. I told one to not even start and he said this and created an pointless WP:SYNTH algorithm out of multiple sources which I already deleted yesterday and he rewrote anyway so I dunno I guess it's kind of okay but is something to watch. 68.144.93.30 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) in general is a total WP:OR warrior who has done almost nothing else, with everything reverted so he definitely needs to be blocked due to his entire edit history. He is spamming the Pemberton disaster, which has *no* definite death toll anyway and he just decides it's #1 with no sources. I have explained in detail that the point is not "thing fall go dead", because structural engineering is not a landslide or a fire but a preventable disaster, so it is covered in media and it impacts society a certain way. And most importantly on Wikipedia, that's what the RSes say. The death toll is because of what was planned before the place was even opened, not because of a collapse induced by sabotage or because of an accidental fire induced later by rescue operations. — Smuckola(talk) 18:52, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

• Stonecold415 (talk · contribs) is adding a network of unreliable sources (Pro Football Rumors and MLB Trade Rumors) to rookies upon signing their contract. They have been blocked in the past for being disruptive and not responding on their talk page. Their singular focus on adding this network leads me to think they might have some sort of personal connection to them and thus a possible WP:COI, although I do not have any proof of this. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 10:58, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

• Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 14:56, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

• 67ghitt88579yyg (talk · contribs), only disruptive editing, usually political rants. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk) 23:28, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

• Final-warned before escalating to a block next time. Sergecross73 msg me 01:43, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Is there any confusion in my sincere work, thank you !?

Hello, I do not understand your withdrawal on the 'Category: Pack-in video games' command. Could you please tell me if I am confusing 'bundle' and 'pack-in' thank you, that would be much faster and save me unnecessary work, thank you! Here is the working page concerning the 'pack-in', thank you very much! (not to be deleted!) [9] --Benjamin-chaptal (talk) 14:40, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I confused as to how a few of your selections were "pack in games". Xenoblade, for example, has not ever been packed in on any console, to my knowledge. "Pack in" usually means that it was packed with a hardware release. Like Wii Sports with Wii or Sonic 2 with Sega Genesis. As far as I know, a few of your selections were wrong, which is why I reverted you. Sergecross73 msg me 16:09, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Can't get through to an editor

Hi Serge. Earlier, I edited the article for 10 (Spice album), explaining my edits, and was reverted with no explanation by ORI1C, who has now gone on to say that they the source for their edits is themselves, they themselves are Jamaican, "personally created" the article for the artist, and they have "no reason to lie" so presumably I should just trust them and "stop deleting [their] edits". I removed the short description because it's generated by the infobox, and added a table caption per MOS:TABLECAPTION. For some reason, the editor undid these edits. However, my main issue is they have reinstated unsourced recording dates/years (claiming on their talk page a track was recorded in 2013 but not having a reliable source for it), and claimed that the genres reggae and reggae fusion were listed in a source when they aren't mentioned by it at all. I have a feeling this editor has a sense of ownership of articles relating to this artist based on what they've said, and I'm about at my limit of being able to somewhat calmly explain things to them. I've said multiple times they need to source all these bits of information, but they're essentially saying I should trust them as a source. Could you maybe try to point them in the right direction if you get some time? Thanks. Ss112 20:14, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Although I still have concerns about their mentality towards editing, the problematic editing seems to have abated for now. I'll let you know if it resumes. Ss112 08:20, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Okay, sounds good, just let me know if you need help. Sergecross73 msg me 13:06, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Final Fantasy VII

Hey, I was the one who edited the intro of the Final Fantasy VII article. I just think "become a god" reveals more about the plot than is necessary in a basic overview. Just wanted to explain why I was editing it. The way it's written now is the way it's been written for a while. I don't think it's unreasonable to keep it this way. Thanks. 2601:346:C281:79F0:F1C8:1322:48E5:F7DC (talk) 05:34, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Also, I read the article's history. I didn't realize there was a "vote" or any discussion on it yet it still struck me as superfluous and sort of crossing the line of spoiling too much. It seems to be a controversial. I didn't take part in whatever "vote" there was--seems like people naturally have a problem with that addition enough for it to stick out. I'd think it would be a good idea to just leave the extra "become a god" part out. 2601:346:C281:79F0:F1C8:1322:48E5:F7DC (talk) 05:34, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Please read WP:SPOILER. Beyond that, it's not even much of a spoiler - that's the goal of like half the JRPG villains out there. I also resent your edit summary suggesting my revert was "childish". There's nothing childish about undoing a wording tweak that isn't an improvement. Anyways, we adhere to the prior consensus until/unless a new one is created, so your revert isn't justified until you start up a new discussion. Please see WP:BRD, WP:BURDEN, and WP:CONSENSUS. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 11:25, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

You're right to resent me calling it "childish." I was reading past behavior I'd experienced onto you. I apologize—for what it's worth, I'd take it back if I could. I think it's fair to say it's not much of a spoiler but I would say that if someone wants that bit of information, they're able to read the plot section. I guess it comes down to personal sensitivity to spoilers when arguing these things. I'm going to create a discussion on the talk page. 2601:346:C281:79F0:3941:4B47:1598:B74D (talk) 07:02, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

It's fine, it's no big deal. Sergecross73 msg me 12:48, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Ask for help

Hi, Sergecross73! Can you or other users help me moving pages to existing pages ?? Because I just can move page to new article page, but can't move to existing pages. The following is my requests:

By Your Side (Calvin Harris and Tom Grennan song) move page to By Your Side (Calvin Harris song), Pressure (Martin Garrix and Tove Lo song) move page to Pressure (Martin Garrix song)

Because featured artists should not be in the titles.

Thanks!! Tim96144 (talk) 12:33, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Contested Block

Hi, I was doing, to the best of my ability, to follow wikipedia's guidelines. I may have stumbled along the way but at heart my goal was to add to Scrappy's page in a way that was acceptable to wikipedia's standards. I do not think my most recent edit qualifies as fancruft, since I only wished to show Scrappy's hometown-a character's home town is not a minute detail-in fact, it is hardly the only page that it shows up in-and it is not something that has remained inconsistent. I have also seen other fictional character's hometowns and also episodes directly cited. I know that WP:BOOMERANG may be in play here, but I do feel like I have been mistreated here and I want closure on this. What is your understanding of the situation at hand? --Smcupcake19 (talk) 18:34, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Your edits were not in line with standards, you were told that multiple times by multiple people, and your continued to keep doing it anyways. It's really as simple as that, and I'm rather concerned that you still don't understand that. Sergecross73 msg me 19:02, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

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Long term abuse user:Disturbedasylum

This user has been changing the Mortal Kombat 2 release date to June 25, 1993 for the past 5+ years now. and it seems he has been using multiple IPs and accounts as well to mess with the date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Disturbedasylum#Mortal_Kombat_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/1.144.107.16 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mortal_Kombat_II&diff=900968683&oldid=900464115

Clear sock puppetry.--Fruitloop11 (talk) 00:59, 2 August 2021 (UTC)