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You appear to have missed a crucial “not” in your comment at [[Wikipedia:Administrators’ noticeboard#Blocked from editing page]]. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] ([[User talk:Thryduulf|talk]]) 14:47, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

You appear to have missed a crucial “not” in your comment at [[Wikipedia:Administrators’ noticeboard#Blocked from editing page]]. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] ([[User talk:Thryduulf|talk]]) 14:47, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Edit: Ah, you spotted it yourself and fixed it while I was writing this comment! All good now. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] ([[User talk:Thryduulf|talk]]) 14:48, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Edit: Ah, you spotted it yourself and fixed it while I was writing this comment! All good now. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] ([[User talk:Thryduulf|talk]]) 14:48, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

:Thank you for looking out. Fixed. [[User:Sergecross73|<span style=”color:green”>Sergecross73</span>]] [[User talk:Sergecross73|<span style=”color:teal”>msg me</span>]] 14:49, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

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Serge’s 37th iteration of his own personal WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. Feel free to report anything you feel may need admin intervention.

• 2804:38A:A166:7CCA:0:0:4EA3:4A01 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Hi Serge! Came across this anonymous genre warrior who performed unsourced genre edits on all the Love and Arthur Lee pages. Almost certainly the same person as User:PsychedelicRockMusic.—The Keymaster (talk) 20:26, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Hi again, Keymaster. Absolutely agree it’s problematic genre warring, but unless it’s a sock of someone who’s been indeffed for it, it’s generally better to try to give some guidance and/or warnings before turning to blocks/protection. Sone people don’t know it’s problematic. If they keep it up after being informed/warned some, that’s another story. Make sense? Sergecross73 msg me 02:48, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Yeah, that makes sense. I have a feeling this person isn’t even going to bother trying again, unless it’s under yet another alias or IP. I’ll keep an eye on them. The Keymaster (talk) 11:44, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi. I came across 209.93.85.118 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) not too long ago when I saw them disrupt the Vic Mignogna article and has been causing problems elsewhere such as Azumanga Daioh. Can you please take a look into this and see what needs to be done? Thanks, sjones23 (talk – contributions) 14:12, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  It looks like they’ve been warned a bunch, and next step will probably be close to blocking time. I’m not personally very familiar with the subjects they’re editing though, so it’ll either have to be blatant vandalism or I may need more context to act. Sergecross73 msg me 21:58, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Mind protecting Wii (video game series)? An IP is edit warring over whether a game is part of the series or not, but also inadvertently vandalizing it in the process. —ThomasO1989 (talk) 17:46, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Protected. Sergecross73 msg me 18:49, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi. Can you take a look at ~2025-31029-33 (talk · contribs)? They’ve been doing some unsourced additions to Kevin Schon within the same IP range and repeated the same warning to Waxworker (talk · contribs), but I already removed it. sjones23 (talk – contributions) 12:24, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Page protected, someone else blocked. Let me know if they give you further grief, you don’t deserve that. Sergecross73 msg me 14:11, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks, and Waxworker also didn’t deserve any grief either. I’ll surely let you know. sjones23 (talk – contributions) 14:47, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Wonderiousmen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Blocked, but is another PawPatroller sock that tried emailing more. Could you revoke email access? —ThomasO1989 (talk) 01:55, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• ~2025-42120-34 (talk · contribs) Hi. This person is on a one-track mission to de-orphan articles, all using zero sources. So very few are correct, and most are “Notable people” lists so they violate WP:RS. After two days of warnings ignored, I would hope that a short block would direct the attention to the Talk page. Thank you. — Smuckola(talk) 02:28, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Someone else got it. Sergecross73 msg me 14:43, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• ~2025-43032-01 (talk · contribs) and ~2025-43014-81 (talk · contribs), which are within the same ISP range, have been performing non-constructive edits to anime-related articles such as those on Sailor Moon and Studio Ghibli. Can you please take a look into this matter? Thanks, sjones23 (talk – contributions) 05:52, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Looks like both petered out naturally. Sergecross73 msg me 14:43, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• ~2025-42610-54 (talk · contribs) Hi Serge. Pretty obvious trolling here, including weird comments about ethnicity and sexuality at various talk pages.—The Keymaster (talk) 07:13, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Gave a short block. Sergecross73 msg me 14:47, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• I don’t think it’s frequent enough for semi-protection to be needed, but this BLP feels like a decent candidate for pending changes protection to me for the obvious kinds of edits the last name attracts. ScalarFactor (talk) 19:03, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  I’ve semi-protected it for a year. Looks like there’s a long history of bad edits there. Sergecross73 msg me 19:50, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• While we are still trying to help resolve the Britney Spears situation regarding the 2019–2021 section on the talk page, BassiStone (talk · contribs) posted comments on my talk page and on the talk page of Gnomingstuff (talk · contribs) which I find to be potentially threatening and concerning, even though I asked other uninvolved editors and relevant projects to see what can be done with the article issues and tried explaining my reasonings. I’ve already removed them, but can you please look into it when you have the chance? Thanks, sjones23 (talk – contributions) 07:53, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Responded on their talk page and the ANI case. No further action necessary, as it looks like they’re on their way to community ban. Sergecross73 msg me 11:46, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• SpongeBobMusicFan123 (talk · contribs) is demonstrably WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT WP:CIR WP:NOTHERE WP:TENDENTIOUS. He spent forever as genre warrior, including blanking several C articles and the main template for the band Chicago, and either ignoring or directly blowing off countless Talk page warnings. Then he continues identical behavior. This isn’t gonna change. Details are at Talk. Thank you. — Smuckola(talk) 09:26, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  I apologize for that SpongeBobMusicFan123 (talk) 09:32, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Please follow the advice given here if you’d like to pursue this. Sergecross73 msg me 13:48, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Mind protecting List of Mario franchise characters? A block-evading IP keeps vandalizing the templates, and their other targeted articles were already protected. —ThomasO1989 (talk) 06:30, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Yeah, it seems like I’ve seen a different IP making similar nonsense edits to other Mario articles too. Protected. Sergecross73 msg me 13:54, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Tiny Toon Adventures § Potential GA/FA plans. sjones23 (talk – contributions) 19:16, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good plan, but I don’t have any experience in writing cartoon articles, nor have I seen the show in decades, so I probably wouldn’t be much help here. Sergecross73 msg me 16:21, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Britney Spears § Shall we remove the 2019-2021 personal life section?. sjones23 (talk – contributions) 07:43, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There are articles that present narrow points of view and are protected by guardian editors who monitor them and revert changes within hours. An email to User:HJ Mitchell produced a comment that I hadn’t given enough information, but nothing on what information was expected. If nothing can be done, how can I identify guarded pages so I won’t waste time editing them or responding to COI edit requests?

Here is one reversion as an example. No one at this private consulting firm has ever spoken publicly in favor of, or against, the current president. It took User:Marquardtika 14 hours to restore the phrase “President Donald Trump.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arabella_Advisors&diff=1329536965&oldid=1329441788

Additions get the same treatment as revisions. Entries to the talk pages are either ignored or trigger personal attacks. A request for a third opinion produced one comment, “this is obviously political” from a disinterested editor and a torrent of abuse from the guardian editors. Nothing more happened. Two posts to a noticeboard were closed by a reviewer who sounded more like a judge, closing them for procedural defects and then saying “this process is voluntary” and was obviously not agreed to by the guardian editors.

Where should I go from here? Julian in LA (talk) 23:12, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I’m not sure how much help I can be here. I don’t usually participate much in political content areas, unless it overlaps with the music or video game content areas I usually spend my time in. Usually, the general process is working through the WP:CONSENSUS-building process through talk page discussions. First, just on the article talk page, and then reaching out for input at other avenues if there’s not enough participation – neutrally asking relevant WP:WIKIPROJECT participants for input, going to relevant noticeboards (like WP:COIN for discussing potential conflict of interests), etc. But I’m guessing you already know much of that – I haven’t done a full deep dive, but your talk page seems to show that you’ve already exhausted a lot of those avenues without any luck.

I don’t know enough (or anything really) about the subject to weigh and say something like “maybe they’re right and you should just drop it”. But sometimes, if you’ve exhausted all the avenues and no one agrees with you, you end up running out of options for the time being. Even if you do drop it for now, the community is often okay with re-opening if things change down the line. For example, lets say in March 2026, a new reliable source is published that totally vindicates your stance. That can cause consensus to change. Sergecross73 msg me 16:26, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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You appear to have missed a crucial “not” in your comment at Wikipedia:Administrators’ noticeboard#Blocked from editing page. Thryduulf (talk) 14:47, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
Edit: Ah, you spotted it yourself and fixed it while I was writing this comment! All good now. Thryduulf (talk) 14:48, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for looking out. Fixed. Sergecross73 msg me 14:49, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]