| Thread |
Length |
Sigs |
Users |
Opened |
Closed |
| H. E. B. failing to assume good faith, being uncivil spanning years |
246828 |
479 |
207 |
2025-08-14 |
2025-08-29 |
User conduct thread, with reference to previous threads going back several years. The close is as follows:
| “ |
Let's begin with what is straightforward: there is no consensus for an indefinite block, but there is definitely agreement that a formal warning is warranted. Specifically, there is consensus that H. E. B. has engaged in a pattern of incivility and uncollegial behaviour. Therefore, further instances of subpar conduct on their part should lead to escalating blocks.
On the other hand, the question of whether there is consensus in favor of a shorter block is more complex. Many of those opposed to the indefinite block did not comment on shorter alternatives, and some opposition was based on the fact that the proposal was made by an IP user — an argument that is not policy-based and so carries limited weight.
That said, I am not entirely convinced that the threshold for consensus has been met, especially considering the lack of agreement on the duration of a hypothetical shorter block. Coupled with the fact that this thread has been open for so long that issuing a block now might seem punitive, I believe the best course of action is to issue the final warning and leave it at that. |
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| — Salvio giuliano |
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| I believe that a page is being used as a suspected battleground |
116477 |
177 |
104 |
2025-08-25 |
2025-09-08 |
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This bizarre thread opens with a link to a (now-unviewable) post on Bluesky, claimed to be off-wiki canvassing.
The Bluesky post was itself claiming that sockpuppets were trying to remove a section of sexual assault allegations from a biography (concerning some person in the role-playing game community), which presumably they wanted to keep in it. The opener of the ANI thread wanted it gone, and had apparently been trying to get it gone for a while. They were accused of a variety of types of misprision in this campaign (e.g. forum-shopping, incompetence, and filing malformed reports at various noticeboards).
During this thread, a topic ban was proposed on the filer restricting them from the biography subject, which found consensus and was implemented. Another section was opened to propose a community ban, which did not find consensus, but they were later indefinitely blocked for other reasons.
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| User:W. C. M. and User:4., again |
77621 |
111 |
35 |
2025-09-05 |
2025-09-10 |
A thread opened by an administrator, concerning a battle between two users centering on {{Russia–United States relations}}. The thread doesn't have a formal closure, but both of them ended up partially blocked from the template.
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| Edit War and excessive deletions from user |
75461 |
112 |
35 |
2025-08-16 |
2025-08-19 |
A report about an editing dispute concerning pro wrestling that turned into a "boomerang" thread (i.e. one in which the filer is themselves sanctioned, rather than the editor they attempted to report). In this case, it was an indefinite block.
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| Possible hounding and uncivil conduct by User:J. B. |
65020 |
100 |
42 |
2025-07-30 |
2025-08-03 |
| Note: I commented in this one.
The filer complained of hounding, to wit, being repeatedly accused of using large language models to edit Wikipedia. This ended up being true, and although this is not against policy, the filer repeatedly denied it, which most participants considered a major foul. Most of the thread is a discussion about the use of LLMs and the nature of our policies and guidelines regarding same.
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| User:G. S. mass-changing "committed suicide" including in quotes, against consensus |
64835 |
135 |
68 |
2025-08-31 |
2025-09-10 |
| “ |
I think it's time that we put this discussion to a close. The mass edits that were performed via script have stopped over a week ago, which was the main concern and the reason that this ANI thread was created in the first place. Whether or not G.S. agrees with the issues raised or understands that the mass edits were problematic to the community, G.S. is aware of how the community feels about this situation, and I trust G.S. enough to know that they'll comply with the wishes of the community that the automated edits to change the verbiage of "committed suicide" not continue. Since the mass edits were stopped, much of this ANI discussion has since become an attempt to get G.S. to acknowledge and agree with those who are pointing out that the mass edits were problematic, and that's not what ANI is for. If anything, this conversation can be held elsewhere (though I recommend that we leave the issue and the discussion as it is and move on). |
” |
| — Oshwah |
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| User:G. S.'s renewed disruptive editing |
56667 |
120 |
71 |
2025-08-17 |
2025-08-25 |
A dispute between the filer and the filee found no consensus for sanctions.
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| User:J. W. creating AI-generated mainspace articles |
56399 |
115 |
88 |
2025-08-13 |
2025-08-16 |
| “ |
There is consensus to implement a community ban.For transparency, I blocked them from articlespace, but I have only participated here in an administrative capacity, which does not make me involved.The support mostly focused on the severity of the issues (namely, the fictitious references), and how this was amplified by the user's unhelpful responses and inability to recognize the problem. The opposition largely centered around the redundancy of a CBAN to the pblock, with multiple opposers believing that a CBAN was also too harsh of a sanction. That said, some opposers also expressed support for some other kind of sanction (e.g. a regular indef).The discussion is numerically in favor of a CBAN, and after assessing the comments, I find there to be consensus for one as well. |
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| — Giraffer |
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| S. C. |
52982 |
76 |
57 |
2025-09-02 |
2025-09-09 |
One editor is accused of improperly archiving talk page sections, and the filer counter-accused of editing without due care. Furthermore, the section was closed, then reopened, then archived without closure (after a considerable volume of argument about the original closure itself).
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| User:L. C. |
48861 |
49 |
21 |
2025-08-13 |
2025-08-19 |
Content dispute. No administrative or community action taken.
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| User:C. K. W. |
46821 |
48 |
41 |
2025-09-02 |
2025-09-07 |
The user named in the complaint was accused of disruptively attempting to maintain a list of city council members in a municipality's article, and eventually spent some time blocked for it (initially just from the article, but later given a full block for ten days). In the process of attempting to learn the large volume of Wikipedia policies while being accused of violating them at a noticeboard, they used a large language model to write a response, which earned them the ire of many participants.
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| User:G. R. uncivil behavior and personal attacks |
43659 |
54 |
31 |
2025-08-14 |
2025-08-16 |
An unpleasant (seemingly pointless and avoidable) argument that ended with the complainee indefinitely blocked (by The Bushranger) after refusing to accept admonishments for civility.
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| Edit warring with personal attacks in edit summaries |
42118 |
93 |
33 |
2025-07-16 |
2025-09-06 |
While a discussion occurred about whether the complainee should be banned for their conduct, they were indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet by Asilvering.
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| Disruptive editing by 101. |
41527 |
58 |
27 |
2025-08-13 |
2025-08-23 |
Content dispute over linguistics.
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| User:S. modifying ISBN formats again, despite years of requests not to do so |
41085 |
77 |
44 |
2025-08-05 |
2025-08-12 |
| “ |
S. is topic banned from altering the formatting of ISBNs but may add them. |
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| — NinjaRobotPirate |
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| IP word vandalism |
34872 |
98 |
68 |
2025-07-27 |
2025-08-07 |
A bizarre sort of villainy: a rash of random IP editors each making one or two no-edit-summary edits with small size changes that replace words in articles, often by synonyms, sometimes by total vandalism . Other strange patterns are noticed. Somebody spent a lot of effort coming up with an innovative strategy for doing something mildly annoying and unmemorable. Why even bother?
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| Disruptive editing/ vandalism |
33575 |
42 |
34 |
2025-08-19 |
2025-08-25 |
Somebody with 28 edits is reverted by someone with 200,000 edits, seemingly for no reason, and uses the word "vandalism" to describe this in their report. For reasons that are unclear, nearly the entire thread thenceforth consists of the complainant being scolded for using the incorrect words, until a couple eagle-eyed respondents began to actually look at the substance of the complaint, at which point the complainee was given some rebukes and urged to put more consideration into their reverts.
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| D. and undisclosed AI use |
32736 |
62 |
34 |
2025-08-29 |
2025-08-31 |
| “ |
enough: D. has been pblocked from mainspace. We're done here. |
” |
| — asilvering |
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| T. B. (again) |
30143 |
37 |
22 |
2025-09-08 |
2025-09-09 |
Complainee was blocked for one month by Cullen328 for disruptive editing.
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| User:J. |
26887 |
54 |
26 |
2025-08-17 |
2025-08-17 |
| “ |
Indeffed and talkpage access revoked. Given the BLP subject's history of real-life harassment with her birth name, and the obsessive nature of the arguments by J., I've indefinitely semi-protected the article as well. We don't tolerate editors who bring that here. |
” |
| — Acroterion |
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| Rewriting of leads by LLM |
25743 |
45 |
35 |
2025-09-06 |
2025-09-09 |
| “ |
Use of LLMs to generate text, particularly at a high rate without sufficient checking, is a WP:CIR violation. J. is warned not to continue this pattern of behaviour. |
” |
| — FOARP |
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| Killing of Iryna Zarutska and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Killing of Iryna Zarutska likely canvassing |
24674 |
57 |
49 |
2025-09-08 |
2025-09-09 |
Mooted by AfD closure. See related Signpost coverage in this issue's In the media.
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| Likely undisclosed AI/LLM use to expand articles by C. |
23205 |
39 |
36 |
2025-08-17 |
2025-08-22 |
Inconclusive, and lacking a formal closure, but consensus was unanimous for a proposed mass rollback of the user's additions following repeated incidents of direct-to-mainspace slop-hosing.
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| IDHT and OR issues from K. M. |
22990 |
53 |
31 |
2025-08-20 |
2025-08-29 |
User indefinitely blocked from the pages under dispute by voorts.
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| White Genocide conspiracy theory |
22761 |
59 |
51 |
2025-09-03 |
2025-09-04 |
| “ |
Topic ban proposal was overwhelmed by a clear consensus to indef sitewide; and as it's been 24 hours and consensus almost definitely not going to change (certainly not with J.J. continuing to dig the hole deeper), I'm closing this per WP:CBAN point 3 with consensus for a community sitewide ban. |
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| — theleekycauldron |
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| Weird WP:AIV behavior |
18663 |
45 |
39 |
2025-08-20 |
2025-08-24 |
Somebody, or somebodies, using a variety of IP addresses, was doing something that was either stupid or malicious.
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| Admin User:E. S. and MOS:DEADNAME at Annunciation Catholic Church shooting |
14161 |
32 |
40 |
2025-08-28 |
2025-08-28 |
| “ |
Before this devolves further. If you believe E.S. should face recall for their actions with respect to MOS:DEADNAME, please open one. I am not excusing the edits in the slightest, but a recall will not come out of this thread and it's already starting to go off the rails. If you believe the reliability of a source should be discussed, WP:RS will help you. And if you want to troll about other threads and editors' behavior, please do so on another project. |
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| — Star Mississippi |
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