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Meta-Wiki maintenance announcements [edit] General maintenance announcements:

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• RFC about rollback permission access (2017-09-07)
• RFC about contents of userpages (2017-03-30).
• RFC on the update of Meta:Deletion policy (2016-07-27).

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Spamming of bot accounts

Hi, In Hindi Wikipedia (don't know about others) from past 2 days there is a constant account creation of spam accounts. There is a pattern that all are some kind of en:Vashikaran Baba. All make edits by giving phone numbers. Some accounts are created with phone numbers in names. We blocked dozens of them. But they keep coming. We blocked ips from account creation but still new accounts are created. I think there is some kind of thing going on which we don't understand and like to hear from stewards what should be done.--Hindust@ni^{क्या करें? बातें!} 10:06, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

I globally blocked an IP where came 4 spam accounts, and locked a few accounts. Stryn (talk) 13:40, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. But account and page creation is still going on. If you can do anything else to stop this, that would be very helpful.--Hindust@ni^{क्या करें? बातें!} 12:21, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

They are editing from many different service providers so not possible to block IP ranges. Somebody could try to create an abuse filters on hi.wikipedia (w:hi:Special:AbuseFilter). Unfortunaly I'm not good with abuse filters, but maybe someone else can help. Stryn (talk) 17:19, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Okay, we'll try.--Hindust@ni^{क्या करें? बातें!} 15:55, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Request for patroller right

I am a global rollbacker and can use it here, but it would be nice to get the patrol links/marks back. Could I be added to the new group?

I am a former Meta admin who resigned in good standing, among other rights. --Rschen7754 00:19, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

I didn't realize you handed in your admin bit! Done. – Ajraddatz (talk) 00:29, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

 Oppose; grant admin instead :-P —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:13, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

I also think he should be an admin here.--Syum90 (talk) 13:49, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Request of Patroller Permission

Hi, I would like to request patroller's permission to help with the patrolling of new pages and to revert vandalism in certain circumstances. Thanks. —Alvaro Molina (✉ - ✔) 00:34, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Done. RadiX∞ 00:36, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Request for patroller bit

I'd like to have the patroller bit to be able to rollback vandalism when I encounter it. I have experience using rollback on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Ijon (talk) 05:33, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

 Done —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:15, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Request for patroller rights

Hi, I would like to request for patroller rights to help out with counter-vandalism efforts on Meta. Thanks. Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 11:41, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Done. Stryn (talk) 13:48, 21 September 2017 (UTC)