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Contents 1 Orphaned non-free image (File:Umbro.svg) 2 IPs in India doing weird edits 3 Orphaned non-free image (File:Business Objects.svg) 4 Orphaned non-free image File:CITV.svg 5 Edit summaries when reverting

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (File:Umbro.svg)

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[edit] IPs in India doing weird edits

I see you reverted edits on SAP AG by 122.161.165.63. This is one of the many, many IPs used by sockmaster User:Rock5410. He's the one who has gone through pages for a few dozen businesses and schools to edit the infoboxes trying to make them all identical: changing Indian and European companies to report earnings in $ rather than € or ₨, adding a third decimal point to earnings, adding flag icons, making URLs appear as Rbc.com instead of www.rbc.com, etc. All of his usernames have been blocked now, but he changes IP addresses about twice a day so the only way to totally stop him is multiple rangeblocks. Most of his edits are just weird rather than blatantly vandalism or obviously disruptive, so I'm not sure whether an admin would see rangeblocks as a good solution. We had some in July when he was much less subtle than he is now. Usually, he only makes it a few weeks at a time without a username before he has the compulsion to start moving and redirecting pages and signs up for a new account. It's been two weeks since his last block, so I expect he'll have a new name soon. Can you please watch for a username doing these kinds of edits and let me know? I don't have all these businesses on my watchlist, so you might see him first. If he becomes more disruptive as an IP editor, perhaps another trip to WP:ANI would be good too. Thanks! WeisheitSuchen (talk) 13:21, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Will certainly let you know if I see anything. Today he added the Dow Industrials components template to the SAP AG page and added SAP to that template, which is utter nonsense. It may of course have been an error rather than intentional vandalism, but the addition of such blatantly false info is far more concerning. Gr1st (talk) 13:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

It's hard to tell his thought process, but it seems that part of the goal is to make all the businesses look the same. He saw something with the DJIA on one article, didn't see it on the SAP AG page, and thought he would "fix" it to make it all the same. His English is quite weak, so he doesn't understand the words he's saying or editing half the time. The trend in his edits lately is to try to make things uniform across multiple articles, even if they really aren't (as was obviously the case with the SAP AG edits). He's been doing similar things with education-related articles. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 14:17, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (File:Business Objects.svg)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image File:CITV.svg

Thanks for uploading File:CITV.svg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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[edit] Edit summaries when reverting

Hi Gr1st, just a note that it would be really helpful if when you revert more than just the last edit to an article, you would note which version you are reverting to. This is in reference to Indra Sistemas but is a general note. When I revert more than just the last edit, I try to always use an edit summary like "rv 4 edits", "rv to 01Jan09 version", "rv to GoodEditor version", "rv to last good version of 15:24 03Sep" - or suchlike. This gives a clue to the next reviewing editor as to where to start checking for the crap the last one missed. Obviously your method also works since you caught way more promo-spam there than I did, this is just a suggestion for how we could work better together. Thanks & regards! Franamax (talk) 11:46, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Sure, will do. Gr1st (talk) 17:33, 21 December 2009 (UTC)