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Report concerning 192.160.131.39

192.160.131.39 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Block please! IP ANON. is vandalizing user talk pages, making intimidation! 87.120.36.10 14:51, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Ajraddatz locally blocked IP for one week. StevenJ81 (talk) 16:41, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Block long-term abuser

Can we block New York IP 192.160.131.39[ which is continuing a long-term pattern of abuse? The /23 was blocked on English Wikipedia because of this person. Binksternet (talk) 14:51, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Ajraddatz locally blocked IP for one week, and User:Tegel globally blocked /24 range (anonymous only) for two weeks. StevenJ81 (talk) 16:40, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Change block settings for IP adress 12.187.140.126

I am currently hard-blocked on commons and Elcobbola has abused the unblock system by not giving a chance for me to appeal my block. Also elcobbola has also abused the deletion process here by not giving other people, more specifically anonymous editors a chance to contest a deletion. I request that action must be taken over this--12.187.140.126 18:42, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi. Admins on Meta don't have any admin rights on any other wiki, only here. So there is not much we can help you with. -- Tegel _(Talk) 18:46, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Help:Redirect/Broken redirect oddity

(moved from Meta:Babel)
The page Help:Redirect/Broken redirect is an intentional broken redirect to Help:Redirect/foo. But the redirect is listed neither in Special:WhatLinksHere/Help:Redirect/foo nor in Category:English documentation. We would expect the redirect to be listed in those two places. Also, it is protected, so I cannot null edit it. How can the problem be fixed? GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 21:21, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Done @GeoffreyT2000: try now is that what you were looking for? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:51, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Meta:Requests for adminship#Requests for translation adminship

This request has been open since the middle of August. @MF-Warburg: as the only 'crat who hasn't participated in this discussion can you review it for closure please? — xaosflux ^Talk 01:39, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

There's still an open question there. But since that is already unanswered for a month, I suppose it can as well be closed. --MF-W 09:03, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Install PlantUML extension

Hello everybody,

For Wikitrace I would like to be able to create UML diagrams directly on the wiki. The PlantUML extension make a prefect match for that. Please let me know if

• there is any issue regarding such an install, and in that case if I can help solve this
• or if it can be installed without any problem, and in that case when can it be expected to be installed.

--Psychoslave (talk) 06:36, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

The sysops and bureaucrats on this page cannot help you with installation of an extension. You'd need to follow the process described at mw:Review queue. Anomie (talk) 12:19, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you @Anomie: for this feedback. --Psychoslave (talk) 13:52, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Rollback rights

Requesting rollback rights on meta to revert vandalism on pages related to Wikipedia Asian Month 2018 and more. Thanking you. --Tiven2240 (talk) 07:05, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Done OK. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:05, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

@Tiven2240: note on meta this is bundled in 'patroller'. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:07, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Noted Thankyou. --Tiven2240 (talk) 12:21, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Guido den Broeder

Despite the warning to stop personal attacks (acknowledged by the subsequent removal), they are continuing with personal attacks. I believe I am not impartial with the case. Thanks! — regards, Revi 13:00, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

I agree that some form of block is in order. It's important to note that they are currently indefinitely blocked on three other wikis, including enwiki, and have been banned from many IRC channels. While I believe many people have something to contribute, I believe there's been enough rope given to him at this point. Nihlus 13:11, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Support indef here and a global lock. clearly not here to contribute positively to the encyclopedia.--Cohaf (talk) 13:18, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

For undoing blanking and removing libel? Guido den Broeder (talk) 13:32, 11 November 2018 (UTC)