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EstebanMcKeever - CIR concerns

• Esteban McKeever (talk · contribs · logs)

I am increasingly concerned about the changes of Esteban McKeever and whether they have the competence required to successfully contribute to Simple English Wikipedia. They seem to have issues regarding communication, presumably due to a language barrier. An example is their creation of many location stubs. They were asked to slow down at User_talk:Esteban_McKeever/Archive_1#Slow_down and it sounded like they understood the concerns. They continued. I approached them again about it, they responded "Yeah, it seems likely a pattern for created articles each time.". It's not clear what that response meant. They've been further warned not to create these pages at User_talk:Esteban_McKeever#RfD_nomination_of_Beechwood,_Mississippi. They still continue.

The articles that they have made that are not the formulaic town or television show pages are poorly written grammatically, see Anime-influenced animation. Even the formulaic ones have grammar/clarity concerns such as the second sentence in Schladming ("It was established in 1180 to civil rights in 1525 and incorporated in 1925 to dissolved in 2015").

They are now engaged in warning and reporting the good-faith user who first approached them about the quality and volume of their location articles. They issued them a warning for edit warring when none has occurred. They included a custom rationale that also does not make coherent sense ("Do not lock the message until you further notice and please respond why you during the notice for why you had to get rid of the populated place articles while I worked here and you making me nonsense for not having it.") They brought this concern to the Simple Talk page in another unclear manner. Their report of the other user to VIP is also unclear both in its form of communication and in its understanding of policies.

Esteban McKeever is certainly a good-faith user, but I worry that the competence required to contribute and collaborate with other users is not there. Communication with them is extremely challenging and their editing is becoming disruptive as it requires time from others to try to explain things to them and be met with repeating the same behaviors and unclear responses. CountryANDWestern (talk) 13:18, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

I am so sorry, CountryANDWestern. I just want to create an article for good grammer, but it makes sense. I will not to scare Passengerpigeon away. We will do the same good users like this one. When I was editing for 13 years old, the English IP user

173.16.218.123 for causing a mistake for assuming good faith block evasion double times, but Ponyo gets blocked over and over and over because still socking like this, but I want to edit more information on List of Caillou episodes for chronic abuse to reverting edits as you did to the broken template down below. But if I tell you this, the current user does not cause any trouble and this means to find out what the information so we can create a page by writing sentences to simply. Trust me. This English Wikipedia gets blocked from editing by block evaded times Son of Zorn, which who needs to get unblocked from editing to become a good writer and not get additionally unsourced and poorly sourced content. Esteban McKeever (talk) 13:33, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

I guess that the user Passengerpigeon gets blocked from editing for continued to edit war and did not assault the user who needs to understand. The user talk just say why is a "final warning" tough times, so we have to bring it back so that Passengerpigeon can talk about populated places so we can create more. Esteban McKeever (talk) 13:38, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

I am completely confused by this response. Are you saying that you are the same user as User:Son of Zorn or User:Stephen McKeever? CountryANDWestern (talk) 14:00, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, this right side of the user who was talking about. Esteban McKeever (talk) 14:01, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

I don't know, wouldn't it be simpler to just use one account to contribute? Note : besides English,I speak German and French fluently. So if there is any issue don't hesitate to contact me, either on my talk page or by email. Note: I am a checkuser, so I am not allowed to tell others, what you tell me (privately) Eptalon (talk) 14:16, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

OK thanks. Esteban McKeever (talk) 14:17, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Since you are blocked on the English Wikipedia, WP:ONESTRIKE applies to you. That means an admin can indefinitely block you if you are violating rules and guidelines here without the typical escalating warnings and blocks. Based on your edits, it's important that you realize that this guideline applies to you as you could see yourself blocked. CountryANDWestern (talk) 14:45, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Stephen McKeever and Esteban McKeever were both checkuserblocked on the English Wikipedia as socks of Son of Zorn, but as Son of Zorn isn't even registered here and Stephen not blocked, I don't think they are guilty of block evasion over here. Passengerpigeon (talk) 14:57, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

You're once again repeating the behaviors that editors have raised concerns about - I have not been edit-warring with you, and have not given you a "final warning" for anything. Passengerpigeon (talk) 15:00, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

OK, Passengerpigeon. All clear. Esteban McKeever (talk) 15:01, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Good to hear, but you'll be expected to demonstrate that you actually do understand the concerns editors have been warning you about instead of just saying so. Passengerpigeon (talk) 15:03, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

RD request

This revision was reverted but not RD'd. It's copyvio, but I won't link to the source, for reasons that will be immediately obvious: . -- asilvering (talk) 06:59, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Also these two, both copy-pastes of copyrighted song lyrics: , . -- asilvering (talk) 07:04, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

More repeated song-lyric vandalism: , , . -- asilvering (talk) 07:06, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Even more: , . -- asilvering (talk) 07:10, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

@Asilvering: All revdel'd, thanks for reporting. Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:52, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Boreas

The sockpuppet who is obsessed with this page has returned several times over the past year. As usual, it's all copyvio. The most recent ones are from , but this master's whole MO is just to copy-paste text from various places on the internet into the Boreas article. You've basically got to RD everything from the past year. Thanks in advance. -- asilvering (talk) 07:19, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

en-wiki SPI: en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Akaora. Cheers. -- asilvering (talk) 07:20, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

@Asilvering: Hidden, thanks for reporting. Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:48, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Protect Jartypory

People keep vandalizing Jartypory. canadachick (talk) 18:36, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

 Not done but watching. While it appears the article is being vandalised by lots of different people, in reality it is likely only two different editors at worst. This can be addressed by blocks instead. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 13:08, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

End-of-year RfDs

Greetings all, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas for all those who celebrate. As of yesterday, all RfDs set in 2025 now have an expected closure date in 2026. While the RfD closer script now accounts for this, if you are closing RfDs remaining from this year manually, it is important that, when you delete the article, you ensure you are linking to the RfD page for 2025 and not 2026 in your delete reason. Other than this, you should treat RfDs as you usually would. Looking forward, it might be a good idea to include a prefill option for the year before in our delete reasons, however this applies to <2% of our RfDs each year. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 13:05, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

@Ferien: Would you mind pointing to documentation on using the closer script? Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 01:47, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Auntof6, I don't think there is any documentation on it that I can find. I personally still close RfDs manually. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 12:30, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

BarrasBot removing stale requests

I am not sure it's a good idea for BarrasBot to remove stale requests on WP:VIP. Here are two cases where I believe leaving the request would have been better:

• Special:Diff/10687032 - the temporary account has continued to vandalize after the report was removed
• Special:Diff/10689964 - the report was based on the IP range which had edits going back at least a month (according to the filer, I can't confirm myself). Waiting eight hours would be insufficient.

canadachick (talk) 07:19, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

The second one is definitely way too stale for a block to be considered. Their last edit was in November 16, over a month at this point, and since the issue is cross-wiki, a report to SRG would have been better. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 07:31, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

In the case of the first one it would have been stale at the time but needed to be watched so removing it was indeed to no benefit. Overall I do agree it should be up to admins to decide whether a report is stale or not almost all of the time, and there was a consensus that that was the case on previous VIP bot requests. There have been quite a few times now where good reports have been removed by the bot and having to check back in the history to find older reports is not a good use of time. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 17:07, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Flood

If there is an admin around who could grant me the flood flag for approx 1/2 hour, I would like to make ~69 changes to remove "Monster Energy" from the "Monster Energy Nascar Cup Series" title on the pages listed at Special:WhatLinksHere/Monster_Energy_NASCAR_Cup_Series. All would be changed to simply NASCAR Cup Series. The Branding is now years old and the name should be updated. It's an uncontroversial change, often in the infobox. If I don't hear back within the hour I'll try again later, unless somebody else gets to it. Thanks. --Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 07:46, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

@Gordonrox24  Done, let me know if you need me to extend it or if you're done with it. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 08:04, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

@Fehufanga All done. Much appreciated. I found a ton of mistakes to fix in this process..... Some day I will return to deal with those. The monster name remains on many pages in the form of categories, and they will need to be updated as well. But that should be done without Flood, I think. Thanks alot. --Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 08:41, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

@Gordonrox24: Also be aware that the rule of thumb is to use the flood flag if you're going to do more than about 100 similar uncontroversial changes, so it would have been OK for you to go ahead with those without the flag. Yes, people sometimes complain if they see any repetitive changes, but 100 changes in recent changes isn't really that much. -- Auntof6 (talk) 14:06, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

• It would be helpful I think if I could also have somebody import en:Template:NASCAR Cup Series races to Template:NASCAR Cup Series races. There isn't much that requires simplification here, it is just current data. Our data is many years old. I can do it manually, but importing it may be the more correct option to carry over attribution. --Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 09:45, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

   Done -Barras talk 11:26, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Template:track listing doesn't work

Happy holidays! I was using Template:track listing when I noticed the writer_n, lyrics_n and music_n parameters don't work. I checked other articles with the template to see if I was doing anything wrong, and none of them had the parameters show up either. Writing. credits are valuable information in music, so I'm wondering if anyone can fix this Lord Petrus Steele (talk) 18:35, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Lord Petrus Steele, thank you for letting us know. I imported some of the templates/modules used on that template again from enwiki, and the issue now appears to be fixed. Let us know if there are any more issues. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 20:10, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Concerns over User:Werner100359's Patroller Rights

I was going through several of Werner100359's articles earlier, and I have several concerns over them having patroller rights.

Just by looking at their articles from the past month alone, there have been several issues across multiple of them, including forgetting punctuation (Katja Wienerroither, Moses Häusler), the placement of references in articles (SV Gloggnitz), forgetting to add Template:Reflist in articles (Stefan Skoumal), not using en-dashes for dates in infoboxes (Rudolf Schlauf, Heribert Sperner, although I've noticed a majority of their articles have this issue), not tagging articles as stubs, even though they should be (Leonhard Machu, Anton Wegscheider), and even straight-up having wrong information in articles (this edit on Riquelme (footballer, born January 2006), where he put the player as being born in Burkina Faso, despite actually being from Brazil). Additionally, I've gone through several of their older articles, and I've noticed several with similar issues listed above (primarily the issues with en-dashes), which is concerning since they've had patroller since 2011.

I understand they've create a large amount of articles (currently 1177, with almost 200 in the past year alone), and I respect the work they do when it comes to Austrian football here, but I feel like these issues can't be overlooked. Also, I know I'm now an admin here and can just remove it myself, but I'd much prefer to have a second opinion here before I do anything. ShadowBallX (talk) 20:48, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

@ShadowBallX: after a quick look through, I agree with what your concerns. The autopatrol permission mainly exists to make sure people are creating pages that don't need any or need very little review and this isn't the case here. Werner100359 could get patroller again in the future if the issues improve, these certainly aren't issues that can't be fixed over time, and I don't want this to reflect too badly on them given how much work they've done on this wiki. By the way, your comment pretty much says so but never be afraid to get a second opinion - actions like this especially are much harder to quickly reverse than they are to do, so there is no rush in doing this. It is probably even worth hearing what Werner has to say before taking action. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 20:58, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Im not so worried about stub tags or dash type, but the rest are pretty bad. I'd support a removal of permissions for now. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:55, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Lua error

Pages like Talk:Julius Caesar have a Lua error on {{Translated page}}. It says "This Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module Module:Pagetype/setindex not found. contains a translation of Julius Caesar from en.wikipedia." I think an admin needs to import something. canadachick (talk) 07:02, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

@Canadachick The error is not caused by the Lua template itself, but because the cache of the page hasn't been cleared after the template was import earlier today. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:52, 30 December 2025 (UTC)