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The page Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of StayCalmOnTress has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category had been empty for seven days or more and was not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may have become empty on occasion.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, you may contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you may open a discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 04:52, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's kind of urgent, so it would be helpful if you could take a look at it ASAP. Thanks! thetechie@enwiki:~$ she/they | talk 04:06, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

	The Original Barnstar
	I am a newbie and I have realized my poor resources. I will not do it again NurulAiniAdnan (talk) 11:22, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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I like your awesome contributions Sir Sputnik. Reporting Phạm Văn Rạng is like the ball is out of the ballpark. Here's my suggestion: We need to impose an arbitration enforcement for all Vietnam, East Asia and related pages out of scope. How does it work? - AbbaszaGoat (talk) 23:11, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I simply translated in a field I know nothing about, - hope a mistake can be forgiven. (I would have understood an edit summary.) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:11, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Given the amount of disruption that this sockfarm causes, can you endorse the current SPI for CU or block? Thanks THEZDRX _{(User) | (Contact)} 04:49, 8 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo "Sir Sputnik", bisher kannte ich das nur aus der de:WP, dass bei Revertierungen auch solche techn. Notwendigkeiten wie der DEFAULTSORT gleich mit revertiert werden. Gruß, Qaswa (talk) 16:36, 13 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

P. S.: Imo wäre es nämlich einfacher (und guter Stil?) gewesen, statt der kompl. Revertierung einfach im Netz nach einer anderen Quelle für das Geburtsdatum zu suchen, wie ich's inzwischen gemacht habe. Qaswa (talk) 16:41, 13 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you please take a look at recent edits to Soc Trang Airfield and Binh Thuy Air Base, seems to be a similar pattern. thanks Mztourist (talk) 05:51, 14 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I just added another user to your 14 May Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Phạm Văn Rạng regards Mztourist (talk) 11:40, 14 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Another one: User:Figherthree. Mztourist (talk) 03:03, 15 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Mztourist: If you find any more of them, please report them to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Phạm Văn Rạng. While I don't mind fielding the odd sockpuppetry report here, most reporting should go through the proper channels. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:33, 15 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't have the energy to file SPIs. The proper channels impose onerous obligations of proof on the reporter, while the sock once outed can can just immediately go and create another sock. Just look at how much time and effort has been wasted over the years countering Phạm Văn Rạng and others and they just keep coming back. The system needs to change, either all new users should have to undergo a check user or established users like me should be able to simply request a check user and have it done. Mztourist (talk) 05:38, 16 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sir Sputnik, thanks for looking out for unreliable sources being added to football articles. At Tosaint Ricketts, you rolled back large additions citing WP:LLM. Do you think the latest additions from today are also LLM-based? Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 12:41, 31 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Robby.is.on: Yes. Large parts are verbatim reposts of the content the same user added previously. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:49, 31 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Would you mind sharing what LLM giveaways I can look out for in diffs going forward? Robby.is.on (talk) 15:51, 31 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The titles of some of the sources cited are mild hallucinations, reasonable descriptions of what the source is, but not actually taken from the source itself. It's the kind of thing you're probably not going to notice unless you're inspecting the sources, or you're very familiar with how a given publication tends to title its content. There's a bit more to it than that of course, but that was the cue that lead me looking more closely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:10, 31 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot! That's very interesting. Happy editing, Robby.is.on (talk) 17:45, 31 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know the source I added was unreliable, thanks for catching and removing it. Malgosha 20:59, 31 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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