User talk:Chrisahn

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Or think your visitors might be, try Help:Archiving (plain and simple). Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:45, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I finally did it. :-) — Chrisahn (talk) 06:51, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	This is for helping me out with the harrassment the IP editor was giving me over at the RTO article. I can't describe how much I appreciate it. Plasticwonder (talk) 19:05, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

About an reverted edit

Hi i saw you reverted my edit at article Tv Klan, unwikilinkes E Diela Shqiptare, my edit was correct becouse E Diela Shqiptare is Sunday marathon program broadcasting currently at TV Klan and references shows that. Thank you Lanceloth345 (talk) 08:29, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, my revert was a mistake. I just reverted it. I think I wanted to revert an edit by 2601:402:8200::0/47 but clicked the wrong button. Sorry! — Chrisahn (talk) 08:33, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's ok don't worry, i just wanted to be correct. Lanceloth345 (talk) 08:34, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fishy smell coming from the Baltic sea

I know of the type of schemes your community is involved in, but i'm still gathering more information and proof of what you are doing. I just want to let you know that it ain't right, Wikipedia is not a tool, it's an encyclopedia, and I'm willing to fight with everything that is allowed to protect it.

And please, don't threat me with a ban, the truth is on my side and you know it. Gigman (talk) 08:56, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scam propagation

Sorry, it really wasn't a good idea to revert a scam-ish edit but then propagate it in your edit summary. This is about [1]. I'm going to contact the person who suppressed the revisions from the history to suppress your edit summary as well. Largoplazo (talk) 15:10, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's best to avoid including potential personal information in edit summaries. While it's probably just a spam number, people have posted personal numbers before. Thanks. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 15:27, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think I simply copied the whole translated message and didn't think much about it. I should have deleted the number. Thanks! — Chrisahn (talk) 16:11, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Told you things are shady here... Gigman (talk) 15:31, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm actually getting paid by the Mossad and the KGB to edit Wikipedia. In my spare time, I spread NATO propaganda and crypto scams. — Chrisahn (talk) 16:13, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you were indeed paid by the KGB, your position on baltic infoboxes would've been different. Gigman (talk) 21:34, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I do not yet have a position on Baltic infoboxes. I'm awaiting instructions by my handlers. — Chrisahn (talk) 22:42, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You have and you have explained it in the discussion on a notice board.... Gigman (talk) 04:53, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, I really don't have a position on Baltic infoboxes. In particular, I don't have a position on whether birth places should specify Estonia or Estonian SSR or something else. You apparently misunderstood my messages at WP:ANI. Read them again. (In case you also misunderstood my previous comment: When I wrote "I do not yet have a position on Baltic infoboxes", I actually meant it. The sentence "I'm awaiting instructions by my handlers" was a joke.) — Chrisahn (talk) 08:40, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary account IP viewer granted

Hello, Chrisahn. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

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Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! Sohom (talk) 22:14, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

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Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

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Temporary account IP viewer user right

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Impact for administrators

It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
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Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
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Videos

How to use Special:IPContributions
How automatic IP reveal works
How to use IP Info
How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bob Vylan

Great addition with the explanation of the name. I thought that was mentioned already in some fashion. Also, there is a widget called proveit that makes it much easier to format. I dont know if that works with visual editor or mobile, but I use it extensively in source edits. ←Metallurgist (talk) 18:59, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! The visual editor has a feature that takes URLs and creates {{Cite web}} instances with parameters. Works reasonably well, but I'll also take a look at Wikipedia:ProveIt. Thanks for the hint! — Chrisahn (talk) 19:03, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diplomacy

I had a little quiproquo with another Wikipedian and you really helped to resolve the conflict in a peaceful and cordial manner. Thank you so much for dedicating your time to this, as well as for your suggestion of name changing – I didn't realize Grigori Rasputin could be mistaken for Vladimir Putin. Thank you for being a peacemaker and making this encyclopedia a better place.
Grigorirasputinlover (talk)

Thanks a lot! I'm glad I could help a bit. But you helped even more by keeping a cool head from the start, and @Nathannah also responded in a civil and reasonable manner. Other users (including myself, depending on mood) might have approached this misunderstanding in a more aggressive way. :-) All's well that ends well. — Chrisahn (talk) 19:22, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the name: I wouldn't usually confuse Rasputin and Putin, but the character sequence "putinlover" threw me off. I've seen it too many times on (increasingly inaccurately named) "social" media, I guess. — Chrisahn (talk) 19:27, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 2025

Your recent editing history at Gaza genocide shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. An edit war occurs when two or more users begin repeatedly reverting content on a page in a back-and-forth fashion to restore it back to how they think it should be, despite knowing that other editors disagree with their changes. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or undo the edits made by other editors when your changes are reverted. Instead, please use the talk page to work toward creating a version of the page that represents consensus among the editors involved. The best practice at this time is to stop editing the page and to discuss the disagreements, issues, and concerns at-hand with the other editors involved in the dispute. Wikipedia provides a page that helps to detail how this is accomplished. If discussions reach an impasse, you can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard, or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection while a discussion to resolve the dispute is ongoing.

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Invoke is more appropriate. Achmad Rachmani (talk) 13:21, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain your reasoning at Talk:Gaza genocide#Edit-warring over a technicality. — Chrisahn (talk) 13:31, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also see User talk:Achmad Rachmani#Please stop changing Cite templates to module Cite. — Chrisahn (talk) 14:33, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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TylerBurden (talk) 13:10, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

89.197.0.0/16

Thanks for the report. The range is blocked now. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 01:39, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Moving

It seems I've misremembered WP:TALKOFFTOPIC. I just quickly wanted to note that I had originally moved the discussion when I started writing the message, but while I was writing it, more people commented on my proposed block instead of the changes to the {{merge}} templates. My intention was to keep the useful conversation where it belonged, but I agree that by the end the discussion was much more appropriate in my talk. Sorry for the trouble! FaviFake (talk) 18:24, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]