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.)
| Action | Count |
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| Edits | 61558 |
| Edits+Deleted | 64924 |
| Pages deleted | 3958 |
| Revisions deleted | 14 |
| Pages restored | 30 |
| Pages protected | 80 |
| Pages unprotected | 9 |
| Protections modified | 23 |
| Users blocked | 101 |
| Users reblocked | 1 |
| User rights modified | 1 |
Administrative backlog
[edit]Reports
[edit]User-reported
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- Ligmadosidsodiodsssa (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal)
This username matched "LickFoo" on the blacklist. -- DQB (owner / report) 11:20, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- Beloved midget (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal)
- Shorts FC (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal)
User-reported
[edit]- Richard Philpott (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a promotional username. Self-promoting (https://www.richardphilpott.com/EXHIBITION/films04_list.htm). See Special:AbuseLog/40624214. Agent 007 (talk) 18:14, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
Not a violation of the username policy. Real names are permitted except when they imply that the editor is a specific living person they are not. Consider filing a report at the conflict of interest noticeboard. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:44, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- Oppressedkashmir (talk · contribs · deleted · filter log · SUL · Google) • (block · soft · promo · cause · bot · hard · spam · vandal) – Violation of the username policy as a disruptive username. Jlktutu (talk) 04:49, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for increase in protection level
[edit]Place requests for protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or, failing that, the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Months of persistent dynamic IP WP:LTA WP:BLOCKEVASION. — MarkH21talk 07:09, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Months of persistent dynamic IP WP:LTA WP:BLOCKEVASION. — MarkH21talk 07:10, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 07:57, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 08:11, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. TheWikiholic (talk) 10:16, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent string of IP vandalism at play here. Amigao (talk) 10:31, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:27, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent IP vandalism. Koshuri (グ) 10:32, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Kajmer05 (talk) 13:23, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 3 years, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 16:46, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent unreferenced edits. Hotwiki (talk) 13:25, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 13:28, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Constant additions of unverifiable facts to article by IP editors. Roasted (talk) 13:50, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent WP:NOTFORUM violations since 01:07, 8 December 2024, which is almost the entire edit history of this talk page. Alith Anar 14:10, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Contentious, unsourced/poorly sourced content added by IP editors and new accounts. Page is a biography of a recently deceased person (death date November 26, 2024). Said editors change the entry to say that he was murdered, or shot twice etc.. Page has fewer than 30 watchers, and was pending changes protected until recently when the protection expired. Wikiuser815 (talk) 14:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Edit warring by multiple IPs over flags in the infobox Wowzers122 (talk) 14:57, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- First premiership of Mahathir Mohamad (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- List of international prime ministerial trips made by Mahathir Mohamad during his second term (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Personal life of Mahathir Mohamad (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- List of awards and honours received by Mahathir Mohamad (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Reason: Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Thegreatrebellion (talk) 14:57, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 218.208.8.0/24 (talk · contribs). One-month partial block from the articles in question. Favonian (talk) 16:56, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Edit warring by multiple IPs over flags in the infobox Wowzers122 (talk) 14:58, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: While the frequency of edits to this page is low, it appears that a controversial 2023 incident involving this living person means IP edits are being made attempting to remove mention of the incident to protect the subject's reputation (despite no source problems) or reframe the issue in favour of one party or another in the dispute. In the former case I'd hazard that the first-name reference to the article's subject in the edit message is an indication of a personal connection.
I think long-term semi-protection of this article would be appropriate. Daphne Preston-Kendal (talk) 15:07, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: There has been a consistent pattern of disruptive editing, including numerous unsourced edits and bad-faith changes coming from multiple IP addresses and newly registered accounts. The level of disruption is affecting the quality and reliability of the article, and reverting the edits is becoming increasingly difficult. A higher level of protection would help maintain the integrity of the page. Morekar (talk) 15:22, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 15:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Increase to Extended Confirmed, at least temporarily, due to a swath of throwaways being created to insert comments like "Terrorist Army" by Indian nationalists, due to recent events. ⛿ WeaponizingArchitecture | yell at me 16:23, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Not done Insufficient disruption. However, did add editnotice and talk page notice for ARBIPA. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 17:14, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism — The article is being repeatedly edited with false information regarding the band's drummer, changing his name from the correct "Peter Ellard" to "James Rowlands." This has occurred multiple times from anonymous and unregistered users. Requesting semi-protection to prevent further disruptive edits. Caperock1 (talk) 16:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Note: Corrected capitalization – the request clearly concerns the band, not girlguiding. Favonian (talk) 17:05, 27 April 2025 (UTC)- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. The most recent disruptive edit (Special:Diff/1283471575) occurred 26 days ago. Suggest that you leave a note on the IP's talk page. Favonian (talk) 17:11, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IP vandalism. Page is a target for sockpuppet account edits 90.131.47.67 (talk) 16:55, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 17:20, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism and persistence unsourced changes and IP edit warring. 456legendtalk 17:35, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
[edit]Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on 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.
- Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
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- If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page, please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected, please use the section below.
Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Reason: This article has been semi-protected due to vandalism for 11 years, so it would be unprotected afterwards. 2803:C600:8101:9EC4:2461:6BB1:FD03:F36D (talk) 04:20, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- This is not a logical conclusion, no. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:09, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- Practically every request for this article to be edited/unprotected has come from a IP sockpuppet. I imagine this is more of the same. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 17:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Special:Diff/1287578046 rather blew your cover. Favonian (talk) 17:36, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
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The textbox, in [f]. change "US intelligence estimate: 10,000–15,000 militants (as of January 2025)" to "US intelligence estimate: Hamas reduced to 9,000–12,000 militants (as of June 2024)"
reason: The current claim relies on an article by The Print that says " The Palestinian militant group Hamas has recruited between 10,000 and 15,000 members since the start of its war with Israel" (emphasis on recruited, not killed) The Reuters article https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/diminished-hamas-switches-full-insurgent-mode-gaza-2024-06-06/ claims "The enclave's ruling group has been reduced to between 9,000 and 12,000 fighters, according to three senior U.S. officials familiar with battlefield developments, down from American estimates of 20,000-25,000 before the conflict. By contrast, Israel says it has lost almost 300 troops in the Gaza campaign" Therefore, it will be best to either subtract the two ranges (which was rejected before) or claim that Hamas has been reduced to 9000-12000 members, as written in the article. It is also possible to write "US intelligence estimate: Hamas reduced from 20,000-25,000 to 9,000–12,000 militants (as of June 2024)" just as written in the article, but that might be too long Stone fridge (talk) 21:06, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
Listed partner is incorrect, change Rebecca Soteros to Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell. Alternatively, list Gosnell as a secondary partner, a la the spouses section on other pages. He separated with Soteros prior to 2006 and began dating Jasmine around that time and until his death. Source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/omg/blogs/the-juice-celeb-news/paul-walker%E2%80%99s-distraught-girlfriend-jasmine-pilchard-gosnell-resurfaces-034409728.html 2600:8800:1586:1600:4D3C:3356:2EB5:4314 (talk) 17:51, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
[edit]A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.
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I am at about 70,000 edits aross all Wiki projects.
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| Minor edits make a major difference. —Gaff ταλκ 04:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC) |
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| 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) |
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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
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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]- add maps to cities in Chad
- have done ten largest plus A-Biltine (plus Doba, Faya-Largeau, Goz Beïda, Guéréda, Mao, Ouara) from List of cities in Chad
- sources for Hook and Cod wars
- History of camping
- User:Rmhermen/sandbox
- reduce repetition between Chemical Weapons Convention, Chemical weapon proliferation, Destruction of chemical weapons, Chemical weapon#Disposal and Chemical warfare
- Pueblo Chemical Depot - full destruction in Sept 2016
- Joan Walsh Anglund
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):
- User:64.152.154.140
- User:64.152.153.104
- User:166.90.233.102
- User:65.25.234.xxx
- User:64.7.163.180
- User:64.152.153.139
- User:63.212.148.98
- User:64.152.159.57
- User:64.152.154.147
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 - [1] does edit counts though)
Pictures
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Maps
[edit]- Image:Michigan map.png
- Image:Toledo Strip.png
- Image:Les Cheneaux Islands.PNG
- Image:Blackfeet Indian Reservation map.PNG
- Image:1999_west_nile_map.png, and the others in article
- Image:US execution methods.png
- Image:Lake of Egypt.PNG - an unimproved map
- Image:Upper Peninsula of Michigan.png
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
