User talk:BlackWidowMovie0

Advice

Hello,

Thought I'd let you know that marking userpages like you did with DanieleHentze is unnecessary busywork, and may even be counter-productive. Anyone can look at the block log entry and quickly determine why the block was placed.

I would also add that you have made some edits to internal testwiki namespace items, while this is not inherently a problem some caution is advised. Since your edit to the request permissions preload was redundant and also potentially confusing I have removed it. I'm also probably going to substantially modify your edit to the header as sub-optimal, although I can understand what you were trying to accomplish in all these instances. I don't want to be too harsh in my criticism since it seems you are trying to help, but ultimately the changes were not a net benefit.

If you are interested in helping out with internal things an easy place to start would be by patrolling Special:AbuseLog every so often. Like many wikis this one is frequented by spambots that need to be blocked, but the edit filter also sometimes prevents good-faith and productive edits. All you have to do is check new entries, currently the details button is not working (should be fixed soon) but the examine one is. If it's a spambot block it; if the edit is in good faith help them make it and direct them to the request for permissions page. If you have any questions check recent changes to see who's currently around and politely ask them on their talk page, best of luck and have fun testing. Fast - ZoomZoom (talk) 21:37, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Adding to the above, you appear to be trying to replicate the procedure used on a different wiki at UserWiki:Sourav Halder, while this is fine in abstract it would be better if you created your own test accounts (clearly marked as such) and tested on those instead. Since it's the userspace of a long departed and blocked user I'll leave it alone for now since testing there isn't really harmful, but please do use your own test accounts in the future, thank you. Fast - ZoomZoom (talk) 22:37, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

@Fast: Ok, thanks for the notice! BlackWidowMovie0 (talk) 22:46, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Nominations (steward, sysadmin, etc.)

First I'd like to say that I appreciate the vote of confidence, and I wish I did have more time to help other people out. That said best practice with nominations is usually to reach out to the user you're nominating to see if they're up for it before doing so. Culture varies wiki-by-wiki and there may be some where it is acceptable, or even normal to nominate without asking first but not in the majority of ones I'm familiar with.

So I'd like to reiterate something I said earlier which is to slow down, read a lot, and get a feel for the local culture before diving into internal things you haven't done before (i.e. outside of mainspace). There is a saying on the internet applicable not just to wikis but online communities in general that goes "Lurk moar, it's ever enough" not literally true of course, but the basic idea is accurate and having a solid grasp of the local cultural norms will go a long way towards helping you cooperate well with others whatever website you're on.

In that same vein, maybe you can be a a little less aggressive in archiving things; this is a slow moving wiki, it may take up to 30 days for everyone to drop by and see something on the community portal and the "Main Page error?" discussion was not resolved in full, I won't unarchive anything in this case since that discussion is redundant to one taking place on Talk:Main Page and the only other recent discussions were resolved, but in the future just try to keep that sort of thing in mind, it almost never hurts whenever your unsure to ask others how they feel about something and go from there.

Anyway, I know all your actions were made in good-faith and you're trying to help out; one of the wonderful things about wikis is that they're very forgiving of mistakes since almost nothing is truly irreversible, so it's not a big deal I withdrew the nom, took me all of 60 seconds nothing to worry about. So have fun, don't be afraid to ask for help from other users, and if you see a spambot go ahead and block it, Best Fast - ZoomZoom (talk) 20:35, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

@Fast: Ok. One thing. I'm not seeing the sockpuppet relation with the IP you blocked. I'm going to allow him to edit his talk page if he wants to appeal, as I'm not sure of the relation. Can you explain as fast as possible, and I'll put it back, but meanwhile, kind of want to let up, as I'm not seeing it. Thanks! BlackWidowMovie0 (talk) 02:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Please see Special:AbuseFilter/examine/log/1870, that is in fact why I emended the block log entry to indicate "(see abuse log"). Note that while it's often not necessary to revoke TPA even for prolific cross-wiki sockmasters as appears to be the case here, in this circumstance it would have been pointless to block the user without revoking TPA as they attempted to vandalize their own talk page, Best Fast - ZoomZoom (talk) 03:08, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

@Fast: Do you have IRC? If so, can you enter #testadminwiki and then DM me? BlackWidowMovie0 (talk) 19:59, 8 December 2020 (UTC)