User:Rmhermen

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Admin[edit]

I am a Wikipedia:administrator since July 5, 2004. I first contributed to Wikipedia in April of 2001 (oldest edits lost in early software upgrades). My first edit with my username appears to be on April 26. I have been active on a number of online projects - active and passive (SETI@Home, Distributed Proofreaders, Mars crater labeling, Stardust@Home, Folding@Home on the Wikipedia team: Team page, etc.)


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Pages deleted 3955
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Pages restored 30
Pages protected 80
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Users blocked 101
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Wikipedians looking for help 1
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Wikipedia template-protected edit requests 3
Wikipedia fully protected edit requests 1
Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests 131
Requested RD1 redactions 9
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East Pakistan[edit]

Reason: A IP is doing vandalism and unhelpful edits in these three articles, we are reverting them for three long days but they are continuously doing it. I reported them see here but looks like they are using more than one ips to vandalize these articles. In this situation it is important to protect these three articles for longer period because the person is persistent enough. No other action will not work as they are using many ips. Mehedi Abedin (talk) 08:59, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Please enforce WP:CT/IPA across all three. IanDBeacon (talk) 21:37, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. all articles, although for now I have made that a regular admin action. The last one is in Bangladesh, not covered by IPA, and I could not see a sufficient nexus to justify adding the CTOPS tag to that page. Daniel Case (talk) 02:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Iwaqarhashmi[edit]

Indefinite template protection: Requesting indefinte template protection for my user page because it was vandalized before, so I copied all the contents of the user page onto a ".css" subpage, but an extended confirmed user added the wrong COI template recently. Thanks! Waqar💬 16:27, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Uh ... this is sort of a unique request. Anybody other regular reviewer here have a take on this? Daniel Case (talk) 02:14, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
I understand this is a unique request, but I'm hoping you can help. I would be incredibly grateful if you could consider fully protecting my user page to prevent any further vandalism once and for all. Waqar💬 05:32, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Template-protection or full protection would make the userpage inaccessible for almost everyone, and also for the OP. I see the incident of adding a COI template as a one-time off which doesn't amount to enough disruption to warrant protection; I would not grant this request. Lectonar (talk) 06:42, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
While template protection can limit editing access, it doesn't necessarily render the user page inaccessible. Editors with appropriate permissions, like administrators or template editors, can still make edits if necessary. In the case of a COI template, a one-time incident can still be disruptive, especially if it affects the accuracy of the userpage. Waqar💬 07:04, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Yes, that's why I wrote ' for almost everyone. But imagine you want a change made, and if the page was protected like you requested (so you can't edit it it yourself), you would then need an admin or template editor to implement the changes you want to make. I just gave my 2 cents here, and will let another admin decide. Lectonar (talk) 07:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
The content of my user page is still uneditable by most users, even without template protection, because it's been transcluding from a ".css" subpage on my user page, and whoever wants to make changes to my user page can leave a message on my talk page. That's a much better approach! Waqar💬 07:37, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Also, if I wanted to edit my user page, I would just make changes to my ".css" subpage conveniently without needing any admin intervention ever. Waqar💬 07:49, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Abdul Qadir Gilani[edit]

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruption by IPs and new users. HistoryofIran (talk) 02:40, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 02:48, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Garena[edit]

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – This is the talkpage of a mobile games company. While there are occasional normal contributions, the vast vast majority (see the recent revision history) is just spam related to various accounts and requests for free currency or account help etc. Some of these contain what I think is game profile info, I don't know to what extent this is a privacy concern, but it doesn't feel great. At any rate, due to the excessive and continuous disruption I am proposing it for one of the rare talkpage indefinite semis. CMD (talk) 03:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 06:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
What is your yardstick here? It's literal years of disruption. CMD (talk) 07:43, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
See WP:SEMI: Administrators may apply temporary semi-protection on... Article discussion pages, if they have been subject to persistent disruption. Such protection should be used sparingly because it prevents unregistered and newly registered users from participating in discussions. All in all. the threshold for protecting talk-pages is higher than for articles. And as you said: occasionally there are normal contributions. I have watchlisted, so will revert WP:FORUM-like edits when I see them. Lectonar (talk) 09:22, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Long-term abuse/Meena Kurian[edit]

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Please restrict creation to autoconfirmed. LTA is known for disrupting his own LTA page, which has already been semi-protected, and various other LTA-related pages. He just created this page as pure vandalism. Very few non-autoconfirmed are aware of LTA pages in wikispace, let alone have a reason to edit the talk page. Air on White (talk) 03:03, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Scar (The Lion King)[edit]

Reason: Persistent vandalism over the past couple of weeks by numerous new and IP users. Sigma440 (talk) 03:49, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

List of All Elite Wrestling personnel[edit]

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Nonsense edits by anon IPs. Vjmlhds (talk) 03:56, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Hari Singh Nalwa[edit]

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent edit warring (spanning at least 2 years) pertaining to his caste. Constant addition of a caste contradictory to what sources state. Southasianhistorian8 (talk) 05:11, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Mewing (orthotropics)[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 06:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Declined – Likely collateral damage as one or several users who are making improvements would be affected by the requested protection. Dsiruption not heavy enough to warrant protection, too. Lectonar (talk) 07:57, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Foreign relations of Malaysia[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Dynamic IP disruption. May spill out into China–Malaysia relations. CMD (talk) 07:41, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Toofan (2010 film)[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. -Lemonaka 07:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Toofan (2024 film)[edit]

Reason: It was protected one time because there was high level IP vandalism. After the protection period ended another ip vandalism started and I requested for page protection second time, but it wasn't protected. Now again a ip is trying to edit it with original research. I reverted it, but it is clear that they will not be stale because they tried the same thing with different ips before that. So please I request you not to deny its protection this time and request you to protect it for at least two months because it is gonna be released on Eid-ul-Adha which is near and during that time there will be high level editing and adding unsourced box-office like what happened to Priyotoma and Rajkumar (2024 film). Mehedi Abedin (talk) 09:06, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Ashley Klein[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. MacAddct1984 (talk | contribs) 11:19, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Joseph Sua'ali'i[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. That Tired TarantulaBurrow 11:36, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level[edit]

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Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin at their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.

  • To find out the username of the admin who protected the page click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page" which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
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Montana Tucker[edit]

Reason: This page has been protected in 2008, after several attempts at COI biographies. In other words, very much justified at that time. 16 years have passed and by now she passes the GNG. I wish to undo what is by now an injustice. gidonb (talk) 22:43, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

@Gidonb: Do you have a ready draft article you could use to help justify unprotecting it? —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 22:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
I have something on my machine I plan to use once unprotected. It's not very organized. I will add plenty of references and tie to the many pages where she is currently mentioned.[2] It's a similar effort really to the Brian Balmages article that I recreated. Was also understandably removed for peacock, yet notable. gidonb (talk) 22:53, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Module:RFX report[edit]

Reason: Downgrade to semi-protection to match Template:RFX report, which is the only template that invokes this module. They are both transcluded on 389 other pages. (For a period of three months in 2022 the module was transcluded on >5000 pages because of this edit, later reverted, so the bot template-protected it.) If semi is too low, please increase Template:RFX report to match the module. SilverLocust 💬 06:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Module:Rfx[edit]

Reason: Downgrade to semi-protection from template-protection. Transcluded on 457 pages. It is invoked by Module:RFX report, so the bot template-protected it in 2022 for the same reason. SilverLocust 💬 06:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page[edit]

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Israel-Hamas War[edit]

I would like to request that... (the map be updated to show that Israel now controls the entire Gaza-Egypt border) . LordOfWalruses (talk) 15:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

@LordOfWalruses this is not the place. Contentious topics should not be unprotected. 48JCLTALK 12:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
@48JCL: Unregistered and non-extended-confirmed editors are allowed to request edits to ARBPIA pages here. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 15:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
The talk page Talk:Israel-Hamas War is protected, therefore edit requests by non-extended-confirmed users land here. That is acceptable, and this request made above is reasonable. The people who actually do participate on that talk page should be reviewing requests here that remain open and haven't been declined for days. ~Anachronist (talk) 20:30, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Handled requests[edit]

A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.

Protected edit requests

1 protected edit request
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Page Tagged since Protection level Last protection log entry
2023–24 UEFA Champions League (request) 2024-06-03 12:22 Not protected (log) Protected by Slakr on 2024-06-03: "Edit warring / content dispute"
Updated as needed. Last updated: 10:33, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
3 template-protected edit requests
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Page Tagged since Protection level Last protection log entry
User:AmandaNP/UAA/Blacklist (request) 2024-05-29 03:33 Template-protected (log) From User:DeltaQuad/UAA/Blacklist: Modified by AmandaNP on 2016-02-12: "we are going to try letting template editors edit"
Template:Rfd2 (request) 2024-06-01 12:46 Template-protected (log) Protected by Fuhghettaboutit on 2014-12-31: "Highly visible template"
Template:Authority control (request) 2024-06-05 03:59 Template-protected (log) Modified by WOSlinker on 2013-10-19: "allow template editors to modify"
Updated as needed. Last updated: 04:35, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Template:Admin dashboard/rfarfp

    I am at about 70,000 edits aross all Wiki projects.

    I, Solipsist, hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for you extraordinary patience, over many years, in handling perennial Corn vs. Maize debates.
    The Minor Barnstar
    Minor edits make a major difference. —Gaff ταλκ 04:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
    The Minor Barnstar
    Ahh, a sigh of relief from IvoShandor to Rmhermen, thanks for your work on articles related to the Black Hawk War. IvoShandor 05:31, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
    The Original Barnstar, for good deed #1 The Original Barnstar
    This barnstar is for that quick and poisonous work you did on the Ayina River. Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:52, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

    Templates I use often but never remember[edit]

    • {{NorthAmNative}} {{WikiProject Michigan}} {{WikiProject Protected areas}} {{river}}
    • (Wikipedia:Template_messages/Image_namespace)
    • {{fact}}{{no license}} {{no source}} {{or-fu-re|Image:replacementimage}} {{Orphaned fairuse not replaced or {{or-fu-nr}} *{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} {{subst:deletedpage}} {{globalize/USA}}{{intro-missing}}
    		 WP:AIV
    		WP:ANI
    		WP:NPP
    		WP:RPP
    		WP:RFR
    		WP:AFD
    		WP:XFD
    		CAT:CSD
    		WP:CSD
    		WP:RM
    		WP:RAA
    		WP:DR
    		WP:TM
    		WP:TT
    		WP:RCU
    		WP:LOP
    		CAT:AB
    		WP:BS
    		WP:RD
    		WP:NFC
    		WP:IUP

    Help box by Jennavecia (talk · contribs)

    "Do you want to take a survey?"[edit]

    On Feb. 12, 2005, I did a random pages survey. Out of 100 random pages, only 1 was a U.S. town. That's progress. Three towns in the UK, 1 in Spain and 1 in Portugal also turned up. Overall biographies were the largest category at 22%, followed by geography with 15% total. Then Lists at 7%, Disambiguation pages at 6%.

    On Feb. 24, 2006, I repeated the 100 random page survey, this time getting 5 U.S. towns. Overall, geography had 26%, biography 21%, fiction 9%, music 4%, colleges 4%, lists 3% and disambigs 4%. Clearly geography and biography are our largest areas. Music, science and business scored less than I expected. Non-individual History was hardly discernable.

    Even by Feb. 2005, 100 out of almost 500,000 was not statistically significant but was as much as I had patience for.

    Wikiprojects I am a member of:[edit]

    Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan

    Short To Do list[edit]

    Early Anon work, no need to bug the developers[edit]

    Up to Dec 16, 2003, all the edits at these anonymous id's were mine (59 edits):

    More recently 1,250 or so edits on 75.41.110.200 are apparently all mine. Apparently my new ID is 75.41.109.190. There are undoubtedly many others as the earliest history of many articles was not preserved by the software.

    List of most of my original pictures and some maps[edit]

    For copyright declaration purposes The following photographs and diagrams on Wikipedia were taken by and uploaded by me and released under GNU-FDL:

    • Update March 21, 2006 by searching with Interiot's Tool (no longer updated - [3] does edit counts though)

    Pictures[edit]

    Maps[edit]

    Numerous locator maps for U.S. national parks like Image:LocMap Big Bend National Park.png and Image:LocMap Tongariro National Park.png - most now replaced by dynamic map system

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