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Suspicious accounts with Chinese characters created in Basque Wiktionary[edit]

Sorry for writing about this issue here, I am not sure where exactly should I be reporting this. Please send me to where this should be posted and I will do so as soon as possible.

Hello all, I wanted to reach you with an issue that worries me. For the last year a total of 39 suspìcious accounts were manually created in Basque Wiktionary, all of them named with Chinese or Japanese characters: (List of suspicious accounts)(List of recent manually created accounts) (Basque language has nothing related with these languages or with their characters). These accounts have made not a single edit nor any kind of activity inside our project, and looking for their overall Wikimedia accounts, the only project in which they are registered is ours. It makes me think they could be used in the future with malicious purposes, although it surpasses me to know how. I have not blocked any of these accounts as they have shown no reason for that action to be taken yet. I also have not made any further research about this situation more than what I have told you here, however I am sure many of you might have already become aware of this suspicious activity in other Wikimedia projects, and could know the reason behind this or how to proceed or what protocol to follow to face this. Thank you in advance, --Bengoa (My user talk) 13:18, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

They are indeed Japanese characters.--Jusjih (talk) 03:44, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Why can't I edit on enwiki with my Global IPBE?[edit]

as aforementioned--CopperSulfate (talk) 04:39, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

many username with the same letters?[edit]

Hello,

Is there any rule about usernames with the same letters? they didn't has any edits and there is two years in their creation sometimes.


  • user:Mardetanhaever 05:48, 26 April 2014 User account Mardetanhaever talk contribs was created automatically
  • user:Mardetanhaishab 04:14, 11 November 2015 User account Mardetanhaishab talk contribs was created automatically
  • user:Mardetanha13 05:44, 10 April 2016 User account Mardetanha13 talk contribs was created automatically
  • user:Mardetanha koskesh (This username has a rude part "koskesh" meant "Pimp" in persian.)

19:16, 22 February 2017 User account Mardetanha koskesh talk contribs was created automatically

  • user:Mardetanhaim 22:07, 26 August 2018 User account Mardetanhaim talk contribs was created automatically

and there is some in wiki persian

--📚بـ.یـ.ژن📐 (talk) 16:02, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Help! Help! Help! Gujarati Wikipedia Project[edit]

Sir, please help! some administrators of Gujarati Wikipedia project are doing injustice to me. Together with their friends they are behaving biased with common editors. They have blocked me for 1 month without any reason. To keep the Wikipedia unprejudiced and clean we need immediate help from you everyone. Please Help us for the name of God.

Take some strong actions against Gujarati Wikipedia admins.

  1. ThankYouWiki
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