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Hello GirthSummit. Could you check this SPI report when you have time? Thank you. --Griboski (talk) 20:30, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Hey - thanks for making the report. I'm making dinner at the moment, and I don't do SPI stuff from my mobile (it's hard enough not to screw up just writing a reply...). The case will be addressed in due course. Girth Summit _(blether) 20:59, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

I'll add that if it's urgent, and obvious, go to AIV or ANI. SPI isn't really set up for urgent cases. Girth Summit _(blether) 21:01, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

No problem. --Griboski (talk) 21:07, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Took a look just now, and I see that Ponyo handled it. Thanks again for raising the report. Girth Summit _(blether) 21:36, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Re: SPI

I saw the close at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LGTteam. I am still inquiring on the new account's talk page, since you mentioned there may still be a connection. TornadoLGS (talk) 18:55, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

It seems possible, since they've come along one after the other, but there's no kind of technical connection beyond 'they are in different parts of the same very large country'. To be clear, I don't take the original account's assertion that they are the subject of that article at face value - it could easily be a fan, or for all I know it's an LTA looking to cause trouble (I've seen socks do some very strange things). That being said, if it genuinely is the subject, and they were blocked from editing their article, it would not be beyond the realms of possibility that they have engaged the services of a marketing professional or similar to attempt to do the same thing. With only two edits so far, one of them to the talk page, I don't see the urgent need for further action, but if you want to try to engage with them and keep an eye on it that sounds good. Girth Summit _(blether) 20:47, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

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Happy holidays!

Happy holidays and a prosperous 2026!

Unfortunately, despite now being a CheckUser, I am neither a cheque user nor a Czech user. I'm quite glad that I get to serve alongside someone who doesn't find the tool super duper scary. Hopefully by the end of our terms I will be competent with it! We shall see. Anyways, I greatly look forward to serving with you on ArbCom, and all the best for you and yours this holiday season and in 2026!

Girth Sockit is probably my favorite alt account name :)

HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:35, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks HB. I guess we'll find out what we've let ourselves in for soon enough. Happy holidays to you and yours. Girth Summit _(blether) 16:54, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

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User:Lsb997

Hi, Girth, how are you? I happened to notice an indef-blocked notice on this user's user-page, but note that he/she isn't actually indeffed. An oversight, perhaps? Anyway, all the best for the imminent new year! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:36, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Oops - yes, obviously forgot to check a box on the SPI helper dialog or something - thanks for noticing! I'll go and remedy that. Happy new year to you when it comes. Girth Summit _(blether) 18:44, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Figured it out - they were already partially blocked, and I didn't tick the block to override the existing block. Must have failed to notice the error message. Hopefully now fixed. Thanks again for spotting it. Girth Summit _(blether) 18:49, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

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Congratulations on your election and for all your past help! Chaipau (talk) 19:48, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

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PawPatroler/Frogger-Leap

Recently had some edit warring across 5 different articles and two accounts very obviously linked to eachother, being Frogger-Leap, followed by Kick-Evil User. As a result, I created Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Frogger-Leap.

However, now looking at both those accounts, they are now both globally locked, supposedly as being LTA/socks of PawPatroler. Are Frogger-Leap and Kick-Evil User indeed part of PawPatroler, and if so, should that SPI be merged into Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PawPatroler? I originally thought that Frogger-Leap might've been the master, but looks like that might not be the case?... Magitroopa (talk) 02:25, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

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Sock Guxhuli comes back with full Ktrimi991 support

Hi @Girth Summit:, the sock returned as TheSecondBrother, And Ktrimi991 should be banned for violating Wikipedia rules such following and supporting long LTA sock disruptive instructions and behaviour. Could you revert that Ktrimi991 LTA sock support edits? Thanks.--Marksior1 (talk) 11:49, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

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Hello and context

Hi Girth Summit,

I hope you're doing well, I'm writing since you said you didn't follow the original case so I wanted to provide you with some context.

The case had nothing to do with trans history. 99% of my work has been nothing but lauded and needed no remedy. I've been a historian of trans people for my whole adult life, studying trans history in undergrad and now grad school. ARBCOM was not unanimous on the sanction I was given because of how huge the scope was compared to the actual issues. All issues with my work were about current anti-trans groups and activists. For additional context, during the case, it was revealed that 1) there was a meatpuppet ring promoting a conversion therapy group and their beliefs, and 2) anti-trans SPAs doing the same. The topic area was incredibly poisoned at the time and I got too caught up trying to do damage control on the pro-conversion therapy activist's behavior as no admins would touch them. And I admit I got too battlegroundy in dealing with them.

I see you've done a lot of great work on English architecture and it's history. By way of analogy, if you had been exhibiting battleground behavior on articles relating to Tommy Robinson, and had been improperly dealing with a network of meatpuppets who wanted to put in wikivoice "Tommy Robinson is the savior of England", it would be as if you were banned from English history, broadly construed and not from Tommy Robinson. Your work on churches and architecture and historical figures banned because they are somehow considered connected to Tommy Robinson, despite having no relation.

I want to do the best I can for Wikipedia because I believe in it wholeheartedly. I think my ban is currently a net negative to the project - instead of preventing disruption, it's preventing our huge content gap on trans history being filled by someone with the ability to do so. It's amputating an arm to treat a broken finger.

All I'm asking is to please consider if the scope of the ban helps, or detriments, the project - not judge it solely based on timing.

I'm happy to answer any questions you have! Sincerely, Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 17:09, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

English architecture - how dare you? It's almost entirely Scottish! My kilt is spinning in indignation.

More seriously, thanks for taking the time to leave this note. In fairness however, if I need context I think I'd be better reading through the case itself, rather than a summary written by the sanctioned party (no offense intended, but your perspective is hardly an independent or uninterested). I mentioned that I hadn't followed the case to indicate that my comment on the appeal wasn't made in light of my agreeing or disagreeing with the outcome of the case; rather, it was a general comment about what we would normally look for in an appeal. I do think the appeal would be a lot more persuasive if there was a body of work and interactions with others that we could examine. Girth Summit _(blether) 18:09, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

I beg forgiveness for the grievous error! Especially as half my family's British (pointedly not English) and would come together to boo me for that slipup lol. My Scouse father emigrated to the western side of the pond prior to my birth and I was raised thoroughly a Yank so I make such slipups often - though picking up the accent I grew up feeling like an englishman in new york

More seriously, thank you for the response and happy to help! And that's completely fair, I'm biased and would absolutely hope you check the records and don't take my own word for it.

Wrt the work, that's just been grad school and my job taking 60 hours a week, I would edit more if I had the time. As it stands, I think there are 2-3 non-standard corpuses of work to review:

• 1) I spent about 100 hours editing since the ban (the fact that's ~17 edits is because I draft locally then publish - I would have a few more hundred edits if I drafted via WP, but my own editor allows me to work faster) - see The Equality of the Human Races and es:Identidades trans en México
• 2) I believe my past noncontentious corpus outside of anti-trans groups speaks for itself: articles like Transgender history in Brazil, my first GA, historical figures like Angela Lynn Douglas, Carol Riddell, and Cecilia Gentili, organizations like Tri-Ess, also figures like Gloria Hemingway for which the Atlantic covered my work
  • That's not to mention my corpus even outside trans people
    • For tenant history, things like 1904 New York City rent strike and 1907 New York City rent strike, for which I created the WP:NYHOUSING task force to cover tenant history which got so wonderfully off the ground we not only covered a huge chunk of NYC history, it expanded to become WP:HOUSING.
    • For NYC policing, I rewrote promotional articles to meet our RS criteria instead of SPS, like Association for a Better New York, New York City Police Foundation. CompStat, and New York City Police Department Strategic Response Group
  • I've also advocated for LGBT editors on the project, see Wikipedia:No queerphobia
• 3) My barnstars point to how my work is generally recieved in the community

In terms of collaboration, I work in a worker-coop and organize horizantal mutual aids, I'm big on working together, even with people I disagree with on almost everything as long as we're both here for the mission (in this case, the Encyclopedia). When I've gotten battlegroundy, which I have I'll ashamedly admit, it's been with anti-trans SPAs, such as the pro-SEGM meatpuppet ring uncovered during the case (see here for RFC on SEGM being pseudoscientists, which found 3-1 they were, 5-1 if you strike the meatpuppets), whose editing solely consisted of trying to put "most trans kids are cis kids who are mentally ill" and "trans kids need gender exploratory therapy" (a form of conversion therapy) in wikivoice citing opinion pieces from SEGM. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 19:04, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

No worries - the kilt is back in place.

I didn't mean to suggest that you hasn't done good work outside of the trans topic area; I have to assume that the committee took behaviour prior to the sanction into account when considering the case however, so I meant a body of work since the sanction was imposed. Girth Summit _(blether) 13:21, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Email

Hello Girth Summit. I sent you a preliminary email, but I just read § Communication. Would you like me to send the full message I had in mind via the Special:EmailUser feature? It will be more difficult for your eyes, but I can try. Also, I could alternatively send you the message – again via Special:EmailUser – in wikicode, which you can then preview in any page of your choosing. – Demetrios1993 (talk) 13:07, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Can I suggest you send it to the address given at WP:CONTACTCU? I'll get it, but a bunch of other people will too, so if I don't get chance to look at it somebody will. Cheers Girth Summit _(blether) 13:10, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

OK, I sent the message to checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org. – Demetrios1993 (talk) 13:41, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

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Hi Girth!

Hi Girth,

This was a recent article written for The Dresden Sun.

https://plumassun.org/2026/02/11/filmed-in-northern-california-built-for-theatres/

Also I have clips from radio shows I did with Director Michael Ryan and Tyler Lockamy. Can you explain to me again how someone could add me to this movie as Consulting Producer? I'm also on the film website too.

https://thedresdensun.com/booking

I can get more sources if you need them?

Thank you for any help, I got added recently and I might have missed the original cut. I live in Mount Shasta, come and climb our mountain. :)

Thank you, Jack Trout Twain's Pen (talk) 03:06, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Read WP:ER, and follow the instructions to leave an edit request on the article's talk page, giving these links. Someone will review it in due course. Girth Summit _(blether) 06:55, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Fairyspit

Hello! Can you work on this SPI please https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Fairyspit The oldest case is a week old already. Thank you for your hard work! ~2026-10188-96 (talk) 09:57, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

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The Lobster (restaurant)

Hi, Would you take a look at the live version and see if contents mirrors the version that you G5'd? The images used really look familiar to me. I'm wondering if this is a case of WP:LOUTSOCK which should be pretty easy to see by comparing against deleted revs. Graywalls (talk) 17:16, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Crikey - sorry Graywalls, can't believe how long it's been since I logged in, life has been hectic. Your link is red, so I'm guessing this has been dealt with already - apologies for the delay... Girth Summit _(blether) 19:23, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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UTRS Appeal #112132

Hey GS, long time no see! I hope all is well.

Could I bother you for your thoughts on utrs:112132, if you get a chance? I'm leaning towards letting it move forward, but I'd appreciate your input as the blocking admin – see my comment there for details.

Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 13:31, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Hey Blablubbs - sorry for the slow response, it's been a heck of a week (month...) at work. I've looked at the appeal; I haven't gone to any lengths to verify any of the assertions they make about their wider participation with the movement, but provided that all checks out I have no objections to the appeal moving forward. Girth Summit _(blether) 13:04, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, and no worries! I've cleared the CU part accordingly. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:30, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2026).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

L235

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
• The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
• Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
• Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
• The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
• A new noticeboard for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions.

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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Girth Summit,

New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

May backlog drive

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.

PageTriage

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket if you're interested in following along.

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