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Post by Bbb23sucks » Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:26 pm

Do you have any information on why this was banned? I couldn't seem find out why, and after (an admittedly quick) glance at the user's talk and contribs, there did not appear to be major issues. They even held advanced rights (admin, interface admin).

Sidenote: It seems that more and more WMF bans are going to commons users rather than enwiki users.
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Re: 4nn1l2

Post by wexter » Fri Feb 17, 2023 2:19 pm

Bbb23sucks wrote:
Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:26 pm
Do you have any information on why this was banned? I couldn't seem find out why, and after (an admittedly quick) glance at the user's talk and contribs, there did not appear to be major issues. They even held advanced rights (admin, interface admin).

Sidenote: It seems that more and more WMF bans are going to commons users rather than enwiki users.
Good find; something is seriously wrong with this "guy" perhaps he is a "state actor"

Ban here
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:4nn1l2

All sorts of "stuff" going on here - in multiple languages with archives deleted
Danger to the platform or a nation "state actor"?

https://w2.unisa.ac.za/commons.wikimedi ... nn1l2.html

It looks like he was a developer or steward

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/4nn1l2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... y#Stewards
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Re: 4nn1l2

Post by Bbb23sucks » Fri Feb 17, 2023 2:37 pm

wexter wrote:
Fri Feb 17, 2023 2:19 pm
Bbb23sucks wrote:
Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:26 pm
Do you have any information on why this was banned? I couldn't seem find out why, and after (an admittedly quick) glance at the user's talk and contribs, there did not appear to be major issues. They even held advanced rights (admin, interface admin).

Sidenote: It seems that more and more WMF bans are going to commons users rather than enwiki users.
Good find; something is seriously wrong with this "guy" perhaps he is a "state actor"

Ban here
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:4nn1l2

All sorts of "stuff" going on here - in multiple languages with archives deleted
Danger to the platform or a nation "state actor"?

https://w2.unisa.ac.za/commons.wikimedi ... nn1l2.html

It looks like he was a developer or steward

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/4nn1l2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... y#Stewards
Hello 4nn1l2, welcome to the Tool Labs project! Your request for access was processed and you should be able to log in now with ssh at login.tools.wmflabs.org. To get started, check the help page. You can also ask in our IRC channel at #wikimedia-labs connect or send an e-mail to our mailing list labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org – thank you, and have fun using Tools! --valhallasw (Merlijn van Deen) (talk) 13:42, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
Checked global rights, never appear to be a steward, but he was a member of OTRS/VTRS.
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Re: 4nn1l2

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:30 pm

Started in 2012 as a "gnome" making minor changes. Openly admitted being Iranian, but no idea of residence location. Was already a bigshot on Farsi WP by 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =714775108

There are many examples of 4nn1l2 squabbling over AFDs of Iranian placenames, usually claiming they were in error or described communities with zero population. But not much else of a suspicious nature--almost nothing on noticeboards.

Why was this person globally locked? I suspect the answer might be on fa-WP. There's no visible clue on en-WP, Commons, or Meta. If you want to know more, find someone who can read Farsi. Clearly a pest of some kind there. Since Iran is notorious for having the most heavily censored media on earth, the "whys" are obscure.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request ... dia_Admins
https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8 ... %B1:4nn1l2

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Re: 4nn1l2

Post by badmachine » Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:07 am

ericbarbour wrote:
Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:30 pm
Started in 2012 as a "gnome" making minor changes. Openly admitted being Iranian, but no idea of residence location. Was already a bigshot on Farsi WP by 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =714775108

There are many examples of 4nn1l2 squabbling over AFDs of Iranian placenames, usually claiming they were in error or described communities with zero population. But not much else of a suspicious nature--almost nothing on noticeboards.

Why was this person globally locked? I suspect the answer might be on fa-WP. There's no visible clue on en-WP, Commons, or Meta. If you want to know more, find someone who can read Farsi. Clearly a pest of some kind there. Since Iran is notorious for having the most heavily censored media on earth, the "whys" are obscure.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request ... dia_Admins
https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8 ... %B1:4nn1l2
their block came about three months after they crossed Tamzin.

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