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The 2018 steward elections are finished. No further votes will be accepted.

The 2018-19 Confirmation will begin on 8 February, and will finish on 28 February.

The 2018-19 Steward Confirmations are an opportunity for the Wikimedia community to comment on the performance of existing stewards. To make the process as smooth as possible, the confirmations are organized as follows.

To comment, please log in with an account that has edits (on any wiki) before 8 February. During the 2018 Elections, please mention if you are comfortable or unhappy with the use of steward tools of any of the people listed below and why.

After the election, stewards (including the newly-elected ones) are invited to review the confirmation comments and to give their impression of the outcome (consensus to confirm/remove etc.) on Talk:Stewards/Confirm/2018 for every steward who stood for confirmation. Of course, they are not required to do this for every candidate and will be especially careful to do it regarding someone about whom they expressed strong opinions in the confirmation. Non-steward comments are welcome outside of the "Final Decision" section, subject to the usual expectations of civility. Confirmation discussions will last one week after the appointment of the newly elected stewards. This may be extended to two weeks for one or more confirmations at the discretion of the Election Committee if the committee believes further input is required before concluding. The Election Committee will close these discussions and implement the outcome (which also means making a decision in non-obvious cases).

All stewards elected before February 2018 will undergo this process.

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<2018 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Personal info: Hello Wikimedia community! I've been a steward for four years now, and with your approval would like to continue to serve in this role. I am mainly active in responding to cross-wiki abuse, though I also handle rename requests and requests for permissions. I also spend some time answering our backlogged OTRS queue, and try to do some outreach activities to ensure that local admins know where to report cross-wiki abuse. If confirmed, I will continue to be active in these areas. Please feel free to ask any questions! A breakdown of my activity as a steward can be found using this tool. Regards, – Ajraddatz (talk) 20:11, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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<2018 (translate this) not available, displaying English (help us translate!).>
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  • Personal info: It has been an honor and privilege to have been a Wikimedia steward for the past eight years. At this point in my personal life and career, however, I do not believe I have the time to commit to more than the absolute bare minimum of 10 actions and attending a handful of virtual meetings. As my prior confirmations indicated a distinct desire for more than minimal participation—which I cannot commit to at this point—I intend to step down as a steward at the end of this election. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone with whom I have had the great fortune to work with at Wikimedia, from Jimbo and Cary Bass through James and Kalliope. From Spacebirdy and Thogo to Snowolf to the current group of stewards. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with you all. Most importantly, I want to thank the Wikimedia community for trusting me with the tools to help the project grow and mature from infancy and teen years to what I would consider now to be its (early?) adulthood. Thank you all! Only G-d knows what the future will bring (and for some reason, my phone calls to the L-rd haven't been returned ) and thus whether or not I will have the time and energy to seek your trust in the future. For now, I wish you all, and all the Wikimedia projects, nothing but the best of health, happiness, and plenty of friends and loved ones with which to enjoy it! -- Avi (talk) 00:31, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: This is my seventh year being a steward and working together with my fellow colleagues combating cross-wiki vandalism and spam. I plan to continue to assist with that and more throughout the next year.

Comments about Bsadowski1[edit]


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  • Languages: pt-N, en-2, es-1
  • Personal info: Hello everyone. This is my first confirmation. During last year I was active dealing with cross-wiki abuse, (b)locking cross-wiki vandals, spambots/spammers and LTAs and processing steward requests. I would like to continue to serve as a steward for another year if I still deserve the confidence of the community. If you have any comment or suggestion about how I could improve my work, please let me know and I'll do my best. Thank you for considering. Defender (talk) 14:10, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Languages: de, en-3, grc-3, la-3, es-1
  • Personal info: In December 2017, I became the first Wikimedia Steward who could celebrate their 10th anniversary and I'm very grateful that people are still trusting me since such a long time. Usually changing my focuses in the Wikimedia projects quite often, this has ever since been one of the few activities I enjoyed and contributed to without any breaks. According to the stats, my activity level remains high here. My main focus shifted over the years from fighting local vandalisms in the SWMT to stopping crosswiki vandalism, in particular, by patrolling abusive usernames and using my CheckUser access for that.

    Beyond logged actions, I try to be responsive on IRC, at mailing lists, and steward phone calls; in the last 365 days, too, I closed more than 110 OTRS tickets related to steward activities. Knowing the development of the role of Wikimedia Stewards pretty well due to my long-term committment, I also try to explain to the Wikimedia public wherever possible what it contains and how they can help. In the last year, I used the invitation of Wikimedia Stewards to the Movement Strategy track at Wikimedia Conference which I participated in, to hold a lightning talk about Wikimedia Stewards, and gave a longer presentation about them to the German community at my anniversary party.

    I'd like to continue with all these activities in the same way as in the last years and look forward to your feedback.

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  • Languages: tr, en-4, az-3, es-2, de-1
  • Personal info: This was my first year as steward, I've continued my crosswiki counter-vandalism/anti-spam activity. I've been handling requests on-wiki and from OTRS. I'm available on IRC most of the time for queries. I wish to serve another year with same level of activity.

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  • Personal info: Hello everyone.

    I have been a Wikimedian since 2008, active in the Small Wiki Monitoring Team since 2010 and have been global rollbacker and a global administrator until I got elected as a steward in early 2014. Furthermore I'm an administrator on Wikidata and casually active on various other projects. Also in 2010 I started developing user scripts in order to simplify and optimize some SWMT tasks. From there on I gradually became a MediaWiki (extension) developer over the years.

    Nowadays I volunteer by helping to maintain MediaWiki extensions related to global administration and steward tasks, also I have access to the Wikimedia foundation's servers which I also occasionally use to support steward actions. Besides, I'm working as a Wikidata developer for Wikimedia Germany.

    Sadly my steward related activity (both on wiki and on the technical platforms Gerrit and Phabricator) decreased over the past year, due to various real life commitments. I hope to be able to step this up once again to help out as much as I can, especially when it comes to technical topics. - Hoo man (talk) 19:44, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hello, fellow Wikimedians! Another eventful year (on and off wiki, of course) passed and I will be certainly happy to continue for another term if the community still trusts me with the tools. For 2017, major focus was fighting spammers / vandals and emergency support on IRC. Kindly keep the feedback loop coming and please feel free to reach out if you prefer to provide the same privately.

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  • Personal info: Hello everyone,

    I have been steward for three years and I would be glad to continue to serve the Wikimedia community in 2018. My activity in 2017 has been quite the same as the previous years. I have been active in global renames requests and permissions requests, and also cross-wiki spam and LTA (Long Term Abuse) fight, and also in the several Wikipedia Zero Abuse cases. I plan to remain as more active as I can, as I was for the previous years.

    Thank you for your confidence,

    Linedwell [talk] 14:26, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Languages: es, en-2, fr-2, la-1 (can understand written an, ast, ca, ext, it, pt and gl)
  • Personal info: As a man of habits myself, during the past year I have continued to help in the areas I used to collaborate in the past. As such processing on wiki requests has been my main area of activity with also some spam blacklist and title blacklist management activity. I'm also keeping an eye on edit filter logs to catch the never ending problem of spambot registration which does not seem to get resolved at the technical level yet and which consumes ridiculous large ammounts of our time. Sidework have included: participating in discussions, global bot policy implementation, oversight and checkuser requests. I have spent as well quite some time responding to requests for wiki configuration changes at Phabricator and uploading configuration changes at Gerrit. I still feel I can give a hand in the steward duties and therefore I would like to ask for your support for another term if you think I'm worth of it. Thank you.

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I'd like to thank all of you for your support and kind words. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]


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  • Personal info: Hey all, I have been active through the past year like many years before, I don't see any life changing situation in upcoming year, so I think I would be able to offer the community my service, In the past year, my era of activity was mostly dealing with LTA and spambot and helping issues raised on IRC.

Comments about Mardetanha[edit]


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  • Languages: pl-N, en-4, de-3, ru-2, several European -1
  • Personal info: I am keeping my work in cross wiki vandalism mainly concentrating on Long Term Abusers and crosswiki spambots. Also trying to help with checkuser function on small wikis. I am easily available on stewards IRC so can react quicly on the incoming requests. I think I will be able to keep with at least same level of activity in the coming year. masti <talk> 17:28, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hello, On average, I have been at the same activity level this year, mainly anti-vandalism/spam and rights requests. I have done work on phabricator to ease stewards life's and i am in close contact with the relevant people at WMF to help foster the stewards work. I'm on IRC regularly and try to be helpful. I'm planning to remain active this year. questions and comments are welcome. best

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  • Personal info: Hello. I was active on multiple areas during this year: handling requests both on-wiki and on IRC (where I can be found daily), answering tickets on OTRS as well as doing what I did before become a steward. If you are okay with it, I would like to continue for another year. Thank you for your time. Matiia (talk) 03:14, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep Keep Natuur12 (talk) 23:31, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]


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  • Personal info: Hi! I have served as a Steward for the last few years, as well as acting as an administrator and bureaucrat on the English Wikipedia and an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. I have not been as active this year as I intended to be or should have been for the benefit of the projects; this is something I would like the opportunity to rectify in 2018.

    I continue to be somewhat concerned with the lack of progress that has been made with the projects. We don't have good answers to editor burnout, harassment, data reuse (outside of Wikidata, and to some extent, Commons), source material / URL archiving, or cross-project coordination. These are not problems for the Stewards to fix, that is the community's job, but I would hope the Stewards could work to encourage those efforts and share our institutional knowledge.

    I recognize that I am not the most active or technically-savvy steward to make these suggestions, but I think I still have something to give in performing steward duties and supporting the community. Please feel free to approach me here or on my talk page with any questions or concerns you may have. Thank you. MBisanz talk 03:51, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Languages: it, en-3, scn
  • Personal info: Hello, since 2010 I serve the community as steward. During the last year, I have joined with tech people to develop patches for Mediawiki extensions in the stewards and global tools project trying to bring my experience as a "community guy" in the software development. I'm ready to serve the community as a steward for another year if the community will be glad to confirm me. Thank you --Melos (talk)

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  • Languages: de-N, en-3, fr-2, la-2, tet-1, es-1
  • Personal info: Dear community, it has taken quite some time for me to decide whether I should run for confirmation again, because of my continuing low activity. However I believe I can still be useful with a moderate activity if the community wants that. As you can see from my activity over time, I do at the moment have some more time for Wikimedia stuff and I hope I can keep that up. In my fifth year as a steward, my focus was on right requests (SRP) and activities that grew out of my work as a member of langcom and as a bureaucrat on Incubator.

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  • Languages: bn-N, en-3, bpy-1, as-1
  • Personal info: Hey folks, I have been a steward for the past 2 years and this is my second confirmation. Although I was not very active like I did in my first year but nevertheless I was mainly active in handling anti-vandalism, spams, LTA, userright, rename etc. You can also check my activity graph, action and CheckUser statistics on loginwiki. I’m fairly present in multiple IRC channels including #cvn-sw, #wikimedia-gs, #wikimedia-admin & #wikimedia-stewards under the nick NahidSultan or Lord_Voldemort. If confirmed I would like to continue helping the community as a steward. Thank you very much for your time to read this and your feedback.

Comments about NahidSultan[edit]


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  • Personal info: Hello everyone, I was elected as a steward in 2015, and this will be my third confirmation. I have been mainly working on handling long term abusers, spambots and WP0 abuse cases while occasionally handling other steward tasks such as checkusers and AAR. My steward stats and LoginWiki checkuser stats provide more details. I have been more active this year than previous years and I expect to at least be as active in future terms, if I am allowed to continue. Thank you.

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  • Personal info: I've been a Wikimedian since October 2006 and have completed four terms as a steward with little controversy and steady activity. I'm happy to continue if people want me to. I believe that I have maintained a more than adequate level of activity, mostly in anti-spam work where I am active most days. I expect to be at least as active in 2018 if allowed to continue.

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  • Languages: pt, en-3, es-2, fr-2, it-2, gl-1, sk-1, (sq, ms, hi)-0.5
  • Personal info: Dear colleagues, I have served as a Steward for the Wikimedia Foundation for the past three years and therefore this is my third confimation. I would appreciate your support in order to continue taking an active role in the global management of Wikimedia projects. Apart from being a Steward, I have been dealing with spambots, long-term abusers and cross-wiki vandals for several years (since I became a SWMT member in 2010). I am very likely to keep the same activity level in the next months/years (You can find my stats here). The stuff I am generally involved with gravitates towards identifying pattern of abuses, managing LTA information at checkuserwiki and responding to requests filed at SRP, SRCU, SRG as well. I handle the OTRS queues whenever I am avaiable to, and also keep a reasonable bit of action in other different areas such as renaming accounts and changing user rights (I am also a cu-l/cu-wiki manager/administrator). I enjoy voluntary service and knowing that I have helped improve the security and integrity of our projects somehow. I should also emphasize that it has been both a pleasure and a honor to be part of this awesome team of Stewards. Once again, I would be thrilled to read any comment that could help me to improve as a volunteer. Thank you all for participating. :) RadiX

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  • Personal info: Almost seven years have passed since I became a steward. Nevertheless I think that in the last year I were still fairly active in almost all areas that stewards are responsible for. In particular I was active in the user local and global right management (especially bots) and in the managing global lock/unlock requests. In addition I from time to time processed checkuser requests, renamed users, answered to local assistance requests and was involved in updating old javascripts across multiple Wikimedia projects. I think that I am capable of serving one more year as a steward. Thank you.

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  • Personal info: Hello Everyone, this is my fourth confirmation. I have been moderately active in the past year in many of the steward fields and I would like to continue another year if the community agrees to it. Questions and comments are most welcome. Thanks and regards--Shanmugamp7 (talk) 14:30, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hello everyone! I tried my best to serve the community in the last year as a steward since I was elected, thanks again for the support back then. After some nice help from my colleagues, I've started working on mainly protecting the projects from spambots. Back in the summer there was a big spike, where I have locked hundreds of spambots per day. I also try to get technical improvements for the MediaWiki software and extensions so we can assist the community even better. Last topic that I care much more about is anti-harrasment, where I try my best to make this a healthy community. Thanks to the stewardship, I was also able to participate in the movement strategy track at the Wikimedia Conference in 2017. It was really nice to meet a lot of my colleagues there and represent the Wikimedia community at the start of the progress. Meeting people in real-life makes it much easier to share experiences and improve your knowledge and skills. Doing these task is also more fun if you know that you are not alone. If you are still in doubt of applying for the rights, please remember that you end up in a nice group of Wikimedians. :) Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 17:30, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hi, I have now served three terms as a steward (since March 2015) and I would be glad to continue in this duty in the future. During the year my activity has stayed almost the same as in the previous term. My acitivity is focusing in blocking vandals and spambots and changing user rights. I'm available daily on IRC and I follow actively my email. I count as my home wikis the Finnish Wikipedia, Meta-Wiki and Wikidata, in which all I'm an administrator. Stryn (talk)

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  • Personal info: I have now been a Steward for six years now so this is my sixth confirmation. My activity this year has been similar to previous years with a lot of spam-bots and cross-wiki vandalism. I can often be found on IRC for dealing with emergencies. With your support I would like to continue for another year. -- Tegel (Talk) 16:40, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: Hi, everyone. I am pleased to participate again of Steward's confirmations. I was elected in 2012 and have been active since then. I keep locking accounts, globally blocking, checkusering IP addresses, deleting pages, which I believe to be the areas on which I spend the most time. I also participate of internal discussions and meetings, whenever I can. I am not really fond to changing rights and renaming, and some can probably find too few of them made by me.
    As a private life perspective, last year was crazy to me for I have increased the ammount of work on my career. I wouldn't like to promise to be more active, but it is very likely that I will as I am moving (again) to another city in February and reducing my working hours, so probably be up for spending more time on Wiki.
    I feel I am still useful for community performing this actions. I hope you agree and would be happy to help another year on this role. Thank you for participating.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 14:58, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep Keep Not as active as in the past but still active enough. --Rschen7754 14:09, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Keep, for me his activity is enough to keep his tools. --Stïnger (会話) 14:18, 8 February 2018 (UTC).[reply]
  • Keep Keep --cyrfaw (talk) 14:33, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove Remove This user was responsible for what was probably the largest turmoil among Portuguese community so far, which started with a clear defamation and abuse of power. That was not an isolated case, though. He systematically abuses and harasses anyone who disagrees with him, mostly through spreading lies and/or false claims, removing perfectly normal comments, asking for nonsense blocks and/or wrongfully blocking that person. This pattern of behavior is clearly intended to stress out that person for months, forcing him/her to quit Wikipedia or get so desperately angry to the point he/she may give him a verbal pretext to force a block. JMagalhães (talk) 14:38, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • @JMagalhães: Any proof of this? --Rschen7754 15:47, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • @Rschen7754: Sure, just tell me what kind of proof you think it will be fitted to this tiny space. As any sysop is aware, LTA cases require substancial amount of evidence to prove. JMagalhães (talk) 16:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        • @JMagalhães: I can tell you that generally accusations like yours without evidence will be ignored when the stewards make the final decisions as to who is confirmed. And you will not convince any voters with this sort of mud-slinging. --Rschen7754 19:23, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
          • @Rschen7754: I will ask again: what kind of evidence are you expecting in this tiny space? LTA cases involving harassment, defamation and stalking are complex and require hundreds of diffs and extensive context. So, my question was honest: although I won't turn this page into an huge arbitration request I can post smaller bits. What exactly do you need? Proof that he systematically blocks people who disagree with him and in cases he is involved, for nonsense reasons? Proof that he constantly requests blocks for nonsense reasons just to harass other people? Proof that those blocks and requests are systematically considered wrong or denied by other sysops? Proof that he used his tools to hide extensive evidence of a currently banned sockupupeteer and troublemaker just because he happened to harass and stalk the same users as him? Proof that he constantly removes and reverts perfectly acceptable comments from people he stalks just to annoy them and spark a negative reaction to force a block? Proof that he spams nonsense, disgusting and unsubstantiated sockpuppetry accusations of people who disagree with him? Proof that most of this is harassment is shared by a tag team? Proof of insulting or offensive comments whenever he doesn't get other sysops to do what he wants? So, please tell me exactly what kind of evidence do you need in this limited space. JMagalhães (talk) 21:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Vituzzu: This is just another wikihounding that can be easily detected. If you just check this silly request, you will find the first two users again against me. I have already ansered to many of these false allegations and was a victim of their unproven attacks many times. I have not enough time for not to move on. It's a long and complex case. Jalexander-WMF is totally aware of it and has my full authorization to disclose it to community if he wants. The reason I didn't was in order to respect the private of the case as requested.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 18:29, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]


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  • Personal info: Hi everyone! I'm active on the Wikimedia projects for 12 years now and serving as a steward since 2011. This will be my sixth confirmation round.

    To my own surprise I was able to maintain the same activity level as previous years, perhaps even more than that. I didn't expect this as I accepted a fulltime job in 2016 and do other volunteer work. Of course, I cannot predict the future, but I expect to stay as active as before. Therefore I would like to continue for one more year, if confirmed of course.

    What I do: work involving right changes, cross-wiki vandalism, sockpuppetry and spam. I'm also active with behind the scenes stuff, such as list administration. I'm an admin on three major wikis, a CU on two and I'm an OTRS agent. Since Shanel left us in 2012 I'm the only female steward, though perhaps it's now the last time I have to say this.

    Thanks for your consideration. PS. I wrote a short essay about the things I look for in new stewards. You may find it interesting.

    Yours, Trijnsteltalk 22:21, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Personal info: I'm always in a hurry but, well, I'm still able to handle a bunch of things which may be useful. I still blame the common lack of resources to solve big problems, some of them have been laying unsolved for years. But also I blame lacking of technical support in some vital aspects of our duties. On the other hand, working on the wp0 abuse case I got in touch with many communities amazingly open to cooperate with us. These efforts to cooperate are way to precious to be wasted in addressing problems which may be effectively addressed in a technical way.

Comments about Vituzzu[edit]

Most VPN IP's are disabled by you. I think a reason enough to answer the messages. But Hakan confirmed your busyness with this message.--Kingbjelica (talk) 13:40, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I try, but sometimes it's hard to guarantee. I started working on a template to be shown/linked for such blocks. --Vituzzu (talk) 20:26, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion about this vote follows.
  • @MBq: actually the two blocks you're referring to are perfectly legit, I suspect the users (who was being already helped by fellow stewards) you meant to help is forgetting to say they're using some VPN or, even worse, they are not aware of some malware on their PC. I don't like spending much time in finding potential or proven open proxies but is something which must be done in order to address stuffs like this. --Vituzzu (talk) 11:36, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I understand you're tediously fighting global vandalism, and I certainly do appreciate your commitment. Alas, I've seen at least three complaints of guileless de.wp users being affected by your range blocks: [1], [2],[3] (german, sorry). I believe there might be an unknown number of other users who don't know where and how to complain, and simply stop contributing. - Also, I consider your standard blocking reason "leaky colon" inappropiate. Greetings, --MBq (talk) 12:13, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@MBq: mediawiki interface makes it easy to reach me even by email (as you can see my email is publicly listed at my userpage). These three cases cannot be compared: one was an user editing from a VPS: users consiously editing from VPS or VPN can perfectly understand the situation they are caught into. Setting up a private VPS is a non-trivial action. What can be really troublesome are two kind of circumstances: users with a weird network configuration (e.g. people editing from some "hyperlan" provider or some offices) and users with some malware on their own PCs. Ringing a bell to the latter is not that bad, honestly they should be more worried of someone stealing their credit cards rather than my blocks. For people with "weird" network configuration we all try to do our best to address their problems, though mediawiki doesn't help us. Finally the block reason is not leaky colon but leaky colo. Colo is a common abbreviation for "colocation service/facility/provider", though a couple of years ago I was pointed out this jargoon can sound obscure so I'm currently using "hosting service/provider with open proxies" and similar things. --Vituzzu (talk) 13:12, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
colo/n: my apologies, didn‘t know that, thank you for clearing it up. As to the network oddities: true. And Mediawiki doesn’t faciliate things: true as well. Nevertheless I‘d like to maintain my opinion that you’ve induced too much collateral blockings. Perhaps you could use shorter blocks and smaller ranges. —MBq (talk) 16:13, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@MBq: I don't want to change your opinion I just found something truly imprecise worth clarifying. Lengths are chosen to be less than the time the cause of a block is supposed to last: colocation facility network assignments almost never change, while botnets over residential xDSL connections are blocked for some weeks. It must be clear there's almost no possibility for an unaware user to be able to reach Wikipedia only from one of these blocked ranges, still they can edit meta. Finally the ranges are chosen via a similar criterion: blocking a range which has a coherent assignment: for example if an ISP offers transit, housing and residential access only the second network will be blocked, while the first one may be blocked on a case by case basis, but the first two networks will be blocked together. We found OVH mixes the latter two kinds of services so we're currently avoid blocking OVH, though this creates lots of extra spam attacks. Apart from open proxies collections (lists) handling these stuffs is not cheap in terms of "studying" the best solution, notwithstanding this I try to carefully consider any rangeblock I issue. --Vituzzu (talk) 18:30, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
“I try to carefully consider...“ - that’s all I‘m asking for. Thanks again for considering my case and for the given insights in your work. Objection withdrawn —MBq (talk) 19:53, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]