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Report concerning User:Honooo[edit]
Honooo (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: This user has just been blocked indefinitely on the Japanese Wikipedia for unignorable misconducts involving derogatory, insulting, and vulgar languages, and now doing cross-wiki abuse on their user page. User:Honooo/特設ページ 日本語ウィキペディアにおける私への批判に対する返信 is a copy (or continuation) of ja:User talk:Honooo and they keep insulting jawp editors there. They are not blocked on any other projects so I wasn't sure if I should forward this to SRG, so I thought I'd take this up here. I believe this suffices to block them on meta too. Please check it out. Dragoniez (talk) 11:14, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry I overlooked the fact that they are blocked on enwikt for cross-wiki abuse after getting blocked temporarily on jawp in January. I'll think about taking this in to SRG as well. Dragoniez (talk) 11:26, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
I deleted the attack page and blocked the user on meta. --Johannnes89 (talk) 12:50, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Request for semi-protect[edit]
- Query - Persistent vandalism.
Syunsyunminmin 🗨️talk 07:07, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

A newbie created this ill-considered RFA which should be speedily closed (or deleted) in my opinion, despite Meta:Snowball. I already left the user a note regarding our RFA policy [1]. Johannnes89 (talk) 14:49, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- If you look the deletion logs, you can see that I and few other admins deleted RfAs many times already which have been created by newbies or not have serious global edits. In my opinion: this RfA will be deleted, even @Johannnes89: can make it. --Uncitoyentalk 15:33, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks! I was almost certain to remember similar speedy deletions but wanted to make sure... Deleted the page now. --Johannnes89 (talk) 18:50, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Protection for ToU pages[edit]
Hi admins! I'm requesting protection for the proposed update to the ToU and its explainer page, as these are pages showing the Legal Department's current version and position; we've asked Wikimedians to put their comments on the talk page and not directly editing the page to avoid confusion. Will defer to your judgement whether this merit a full or semi protection. Thanks! RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 18:03, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
Done (51667063, 51667064) - I've fully protected both of these pages. — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 18:15, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you very much! We may want to do a final update to the pages at the end of the feedback cycle late next month -- forgive my ignorance, but would it be possible to allow edits for admins + certain users (for now, that's probably going to be all (WMF) folks in the revision history)? RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- That wouldn't be possible without the use of an edit filter — as it stands, only administrators can edit the page. As you are already an admin (and any other members of staff can request admin rights), will this be okay?
— TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 18:29, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- Erm, I'm a temporary translationadmin, not an admin :) alternatively, depending on where the thing stands with possible disruptive edits to the pages, would it make sense to reduce the length from indefinite to say, 2 weeks? The feedback cycle ends on April 24. Thanks! RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 18:34, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- That wouldn't be possible without the use of an edit filter — as it stands, only administrators can edit the page. As you are already an admin (and any other members of staff can request admin rights), will this be okay?
- Thank you very much! We may want to do a final update to the pages at the end of the feedback cycle late next month -- forgive my ignorance, but would it be possible to allow edits for admins + certain users (for now, that's probably going to be all (WMF) folks in the revision history)? RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 22 March 2023 (UTC)