Wikisource:Proposed deletions
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August 2024
[edit]- Talk:George Washington: Created by an LTA. --Leonidlednev (talk) 15:42, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:10, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
A number of Wikipedia-like pages about US and UK politics
[edit]These pages that have been recently created, look like Wikipedia-like articles about US or UK political persons, or political events (such as elections etc.). These pages are seemingly out of scope here, and should be deleted. The users who created them should be advised to create these articles on the English Wikipedia or edit already existing articles (the second is much more likely since those persons are well-known and articles about them do already exist):
- 2020 United States presidential election
- Betthany Hogg
- Carl Rob
- Deputy Prime Minister of the United Tees
- Donald Trump
- Doug Emhoff
- Elizabeth–Gladys II
- Excellency
- J. D. Vance
- Joe Biden
- Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign
- Kamala Harris
- Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign
- Lauren Blake
- Mike Pence
- Monarchy of the United Tees
- Prince George
- Shadow Vice President of the United States
- The Honourable
- Vice President of the United States
- William VI
--Nigmont (talk) 23:54, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done What on Earth? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:48, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
Out of project scope, obviously vandalism. --Quangdat201 (talk) 15:52, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done again. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:17, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Out of project scope, obviously vandalism. --Quangdat201 (talk) 15:52, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done again. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:17, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Out of project scope, obviously vandalism. --Quangdat201 (talk) 15:57, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done again. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:17, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Out of project scope, obviously spam. --Quangdat201 (talk) 02:37, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:58, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
- Recreated, please salt. --Quangdat201 (talk) 15:48, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sweet Heaven. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:24, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- Recreated, please salt. --Quangdat201 (talk) 15:48, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
Personal attack and created by LTA of Andrew5 from the English Wikipedia. I have no intention of seriously using WikiSource at this time. GeorgeMemulous (talk) 20:00, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:57, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
September 2024
[edit]Out of project scope, obviously spam. --Quangdat201 (talk) 04:04, 08 September 2024 (UTC)
Out of project scope, obviously spam. --Quangdat201 (talk) 04:04, 08 September 2024 (UTC)
Test page. --Quangdat201 (talk) 04:04, 08 September 2024 (UTC)
Out of project scope, obviously vandalism. --Quangdat201 (talk) 04:04, 08 September 2024 (UTC)
Out of project scope, obviously vandalism. --Quangdat201 (talk) 04:04, 08 September 2024 (UTC)
Test page. --Quangdat201 (talk) 04:04, 08 September 2024 (UTC)
A History of Hindu Civilisation during British Rule
[edit]Index:A History of Hindu Civilisation during British Rule Vol 1.djvu, Vol 2 and Vol 3 already exist on the English Wikisource (see Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3).
I've cleaned up the pages that were created here and copied them over to the English Wikisource. The pages were identical to the automatic OCR version (before I edited them), so copying the page history doesn't seem necessary.
- Nikki (talk) 15:25, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:59, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
Out of project scope, obviously spam. --Quangdat201 (talk) 11:07, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
All kinds of crazy, spurious content in Category:Igbo
[edit]Thanks to Aleator above, I see that this category is polluted with a bunch of weird noise. I know how I'll be spending my day now. Just documenting here so other admins know. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:11, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
What happened here was a huge rash of completely inane and off-topic pages were created by the following users and categorized under Category:Igbo. Most of them have several hundred to several thousand edits on other WMF wikis (a couple have only a few dozen) and several of them have sufficient English skills that they could explain what is going on here.
- Adakaibe (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency, indef blocked on en.wp)
- Adimora chidinma (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency, indef blocked on en.wp)
- Bibisuccess (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency)
- Bigwealth98 (talk • contribs • global contribs) (no apparent English proficiency)
- Celetex (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency)
- Emilliana (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency)
- Ladycute1112 (talk • contribs • global contribs) (no apparent English proficiency)
- Nma jeni (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency)
- Obijustina (talk • contribs • global contribs) (no apparent English proficiency)
- Odogwu123 (talk • contribs • global contribs) (no apparent English proficiency)
- Ogech02 (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency)
- Oluchinaza (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency)
- Stephanie cheks (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency)
- Tochiprecious (talk • contribs • global contribs) (created Category:Igbo and Main Page/Igbo and has English proficiency)
- Unya567 (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency)
- Viva33 (talk • contribs • global contribs) (English proficiency)
This led to a total of over 4,400 pages in the Author, Index, Page, and Template namespaces that were almost exclusively either copy/pasted from en.ws or were OCR scanned with Igbo as the default language, marked as proofread (when they were not), and then kept here from two runs of edits: October and November 2023 and May 2024. The fact that thousands of these pages could be added with no one noticing for a year is a huge failure on our part (and myself included as an admin). I'm open to whatever proposals we have to try to limit this kind of noise in the future as it is a huge waste of everyone's time. (I suspect that most of the above users weren't terribly inconvenienced, since they didn't actually do any proofreading, but it still took several person-hours to set up all this nonsense. As for me, it has taken maybe six hours total to delete all of it.)
My approach to this was to delete everything they have added. Some texts could plausibly be hosted here, as noted below. I saw only two texts that were multilingual (both English and something else) so they could have fit this scope, but the actual content was all garbage. I did not look at every page, so if anyone knows of pages that were not-junk, please alert me and I will undelete. I have decided to indef block everyone and leave talk page access, as it seems like they aren't coming back and they appear to generally be good faith actors on other WMF wikis. This was wildly inappropriate and disruptive editing that was clearly nonsensical and resulted in a raft of complete junk. All of the above should have been pinged by {{user}} above and I am interested in any of them explaining themselves on their talk pages. Any of you who do, please use {{Ping}} to alert me.
From editing patterns and use of language, it does seem like these are not all sockpuppet accounts, but we don't have local CheckUsers, so it's not possible to locally investigate. It is obvious that this was coordinated editing, likely on Meta due to a user group that they are members of.
Any thoughts on what we can do to avoid this in the future? Thanks to Aleator for bringing this to our attention. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:22, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- See also m:Talk:Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group#Problem_editing_at_mul.ws. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:08, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your time and efforts, Justin. More info about the 2 "waves":
- Nov23 => m:Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group_-_Annual_Report_2023/2024#Exploring_the_World_of_Igbo_Wikisource_08/11/2023 and it links to a Google Spreadsheet with a list of users... very similar to the one noticed by you!
- May24 => m:Igbo Wikimedians User Group/Events/2024 Activities. It links to [1] with a second list of users, every one of each links its Wikisources's editions.
- So it seems it was some kind of good faith hackaton. Let's wait for feedback. But jamais deux sans trois ;). Aleator 18:45, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- This is invaluable. Between the fact that you've discovered how this was deliberate and I've reached out to the user group, I am confident that a block to stop ongoing problems is not necessary, so I'll lift them all and keep my eyes peeled. Great work. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:49, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your time and efforts, Justin. More info about the 2 "waves":
Emilliana
[edit]Hi folks! All Index, Page and Author namespaces, created by Emilliana (talk • contribs • global contribs), should be deleted. They are bot copied from enWS and/or bad OCRed English or a disaster (author pages). Almost 500 pages, I just reviewed some dozens and I got depressed. -Aleator 20:51, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Dang. They are too old for
Mass Delete. Looking at several of them, they are indeed malformed and in English, so they don't belong here. Thanks. I'll get started on it. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:54, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Oluchinaza
[edit]Some of the bot uploads by Oluchinaza (talk • contribs • global contribs). Some seem automatic not-proofread translations into Igbo language, from English. OK, I can't judge. But the next ones are not:
- Indexes in English with 0 pages (they belong to enWS):
- Index:A dictionary of heraldry.djvu
- Index:A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 1.djvu
- Index:A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 2.djvu
- Index:A Handbook of the Theory and Practice of Medicine - Volume I - Frederick T. Roberts.djvu
- Index:A Grammar of the Urdū Or Hindūstānī Language in Its Romanized Character.djvu
- Index:A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (1855) Vol 1.djvu
- Index:A Handbook for Travellers in Spain - Vol 1.djvu
- Index:A Handbook for Travellers in Spain - Vol 2 - 1855.djvu
- Index:A Handbook for Travellers in Spain - Vol 2.pdf
- Index:A handbook of modern Japan (IA handbookofmodern01clem).pdf
- Index:A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese (2nd ed.).djvu
- Index:A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese (3rd ed.).djvu
- Index:A handbook of colloquial Japanese (IA hand00bookofcolloqchamrich).pdf
- Indexes in English with one or more, not-proofread or empty, pages (they belong to enWS):
- Index:A dialogue between the crosses in Cheap, and Charing Crosse.djvu (and p1 and p2).
- Index:A Greek boy at home (1909).djvu (and p15 and p16, both OCRed in Greek).
Thanks! -Aleator 20:51, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Done Even those "proofread" pages were ones with no text. As for A Greek Boy at Home, that one is a little weird, since it is in a sense multi-lingual, but the English text is all prefatory material before the body of the work, which is in Greek. I'm not sure what the policies are at el.ws and if they would want to host this, so I'm at least leaving it here for now as it seems in principle it fits into the scope of this wiki. If the el.ws community wants it, I am happy to have it ported over there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:13, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- It is an unusable, bad Greek raw OCRed text. It is better the one at en:Page:A Greek boy at home (1909).djvu/15 and 16.-Aleator 21:55, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, those pages are clearly not good and could be deleted, sure. I'm just saying the index itself and the work in principle could be here and since I know English, I could proofread the... 8%? that is in my native language. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:03, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- It is an unusable, bad Greek raw OCRed text. It is better the one at en:Page:A Greek boy at home (1909).djvu/15 and 16.-Aleator 21:55, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Supergirls
[edit]Supergirls In The Spotlight, and its subpages because in English (also unsourced, and probably own-work). -Aleator 20:51, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Wow. I think I as an admin here need to be more aggressive about finding this stuff myself. Yikes. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:21, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- I just discovered how to handle dumps, python and so on. A lot of stuff can be prepared offline! Thanks! -Aleator 21:50, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, it can and I have a user script that makes deletions easier for cases such as this where we all missed junk or a language's works get spun out into a subdomain. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:04, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- I just discovered how to handle dumps, python and so on. A lot of stuff can be prepared offline! Thanks! -Aleator 21:50, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Bigwealth98
[edit]More Igbo users botting: please delete all 107 Indexes created by Bigwealth98 (talk • contribs • global contribs) that do not end with .pdf nor .djvu (without file extension: those created from 17:25, 14 November 2023 until 06:47, 15 November 2023. Sorry for the work load, but more are coming... :(-Aleator 21:50, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- I'll add this to the pile. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:04, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Swami vivekanandas
[edit]In English: Swami vivekanandas paper on hinduism which he read at the world parliament on 19th september 1893. -Aleator 21:50, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Vandalism and spam. -Aleator 21:50, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Spam. --Nigmont (talk) 11:16, 26 September 2024 (UTC)