User talk:Brendan John Williams

Travel places

Hello. My name is Brendan John Williams. I know it hard it feels for this travel website whether we edit something that an article is sometimes appropriate for a travel website. So like I'm already saying, that is what I want to say for whatever I am trying to do for today. Thanks.

Pinging User:Ikan Kekek and User:Andrewssi2. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 01:29, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, can you please stop editing and start talking on this page?

Specifically we need to discuss your edits that do not fit with our policy. If we can discuss then I'm sure that we can find a way forward. --Andrewssi2 (talk) 02:26, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

It it sometimes a bit grateful and we can try do just at our best to be editing stuff that is on travel.. But I know I can already try just the best whether it's the only way to be looking at articles that have recently been edited and whether it is considered to try to do being at editing. The next time whenever I can, I want there to talk to people and try how we do the best things and to be considerably responsible to do.

I will place our welcome message at the bottom of this page. This will give you all the links required to follow our policies correctly. Are you willing to discuss your edits with us? --Andrewssi2 (talk) 03:26, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

You may have noticed that we have not blocked you or deleted your edits. PLEASE can you respond here before making further edits. You Qatar edits are also from other internet based sources which is not allowed. --Andrewssi2 (talk) 04:04, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Edit to South Korea and copy

Hi, I assume that you only mean well, but your edit to South Korea here (LINK) is very similar to this Wikipedia page here w:Geography_of_South_Korea.

A key aspect of our project is not to copy and paste content without attribution. If you truely feel content should be copied then please read and follow our policy on this here: Wikivoyage:Cooperating_with_Wikipedia

Can you please acknowledge? --Andrewssi2 (talk) 02:31, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

OK, to make this easier. Do you undertake not to copy any more content from Wikipedia? Yes/No ? Andrewssi2 (talk) 03:28, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

We are running out of patience with you. Please respond to the above question or we'll have to go back to the previously established routine of immediately blocking your accounts and reverting your edits. It's your choice. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 05:35, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikivoyage policies

Hello, Brendan John Williams! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. If you are familiar with Wikipedia, take a look over some of the differences here.

Quality of your edits

I don't know if we can reach you at all, but one of our issues with your edits is that you don't seem to understand the content of your contributions, nor have you made any attempt to verify them. Can you please stop adding facts that you found elsewhere on the internet? We really do not want them.

See this as an example. --Andrewssi2 (talk) 08:27, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Ban evasion

It appears that your offer to discuss your edits was not sincere. Special:Contributions/Gadzooks51 and Special:Contributions/TravelFan103

Really disappointing. Suggest you respond as soon as possible or all your edits will be deleted under all your accounts --Andrewssi2 (talk) 22:17, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Final message

We believe you are an Australian user who has repeatedly made edits which go against this site's policies. Additionally, you seem to be purposely avoiding our attempts at communication with you. You are currently blocked and all your edits have been removed. To have this block lifted, you must cease editing in a manner which is inconsistent with our policies. These policies can be seen in the welcome message below. We are happy to open a discussion with you and remove this block when you are ready. If you believe you are not this person and have been blocked in error, we apologise. Please make an edit on this page saying so and we will unblock you as soon as we see it.

To help you, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Wikivoyage:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

Brendan

Swept in from the pub

I recently reverted two IP edits cause I thought they were by Brendan (the IPs were based in queensland), can someone double check I didn't revert edits by a weel-meaning IP contributer. First revert, Second Revert Tai123.123 (talk) 05:12, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

They look good and are likely edits of his. But if unsure, leave it to either myself or Ikan. I also generally use their IP range, but that's not something to look at alone. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 05:23, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000, It’s also because it seems you and Ikan have been reverting Christmas related edits because it’s by him Tai123.123 (talk) 06:08, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Yeah. He did that to Halloween as well, but "Christmas" alone does not merit its own listing. But we do need to be careful when it's an edit to an Australia related article, as it could be another innocent user using that same IP range. (when I lived in Brisbane, I have used some of the IPv4 ranges he uses now, but his IPs come from Maroochydore, and I lived in the north of BNE, so maybe why) SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 08:33, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

I didn't see this first. Yes, all the stuff about Christmas is being added (briefly) by him. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:37, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thank you. I'll revert all christmas related edits from Australian IPs that I see Tai123.123 (talk) 00:28, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Again, it's best to be careful about that. There could be an IP trying to add an event for their local town, and these don't necessarily have to be Brendan – but if it's for a non-Queensland/NSW related article, then it's fine. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 06:37, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, I’ll let you guys handle the Australian articles Tai123.123 (talk) 06:42, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

But it's kinda obvious that's him when he does it to country articles or state articles.

But aside, should we do a range block for one week? LPfi? SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 06:46, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Yes, it's obvious. Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:58, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

I'd do it myself, but I'm not familiar with IPv6 addresses, so will leave it to LPfi. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 07:09, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

@Ikan Kekek, Tai123.123: Have blocked the /64 range for a week. The block can be extended if necessary, but I don't want to block innocent users from South East Queensland for too long. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 08:19, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

A /64 block is what is assumed to be delegated to one user. Practices may vary. I haven't been following up these edits, but those I have looked at seemed to be isolated, or at least not from the same block for any longer times. If you see a bad edit from an IPv6 address, it is usually worthwhile to check Special:Contributions/[whatever]/64 (add the "/64" to the URL while looking at the normal contributions page). You can block the address block from there. If all bad edits are from the same address there is no use blocking the range, but you could find more edits to undo. You could also check with smaller values, such as /48 for a 256 * 2^64 block or /40 for a 65,000 * 2^64 one, to see whether the offending user is IP hopping across a limited number of personal blocks. –LPfi (talk) 08:40, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

It's nice to now have a day of peace from him. Hope he doesn't come back using IPv4 addresses... SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 07:13, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

For the time being, probably until Christmas, I'll be blocking the /64 range if he ever seems to use an IPv6 address as the IP will likely not affect anyone else but him. That doesn't seem a viable option for IPv4 addresses though, as he seems to use different IP ranges, and someone else might get caught by it. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 09:58, 26 November 2021 (UTC)