User talk:Oratas
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I've requested an administrator to delete the redirect so this file can be moved back to the original name. It shouldn't take long. Geoffroi 19:12, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you. Oratas (talk) 19:22, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Geoffroi FYI, Oratas is an account of a globally locked sockpuppet, you can see their previous locked accounts (several of them with almost identical name): [1] [2] [3] [4]. Most of their "contributions" are "requests" to other editors to do his bidding, or doing map changes himself; bulk of it being erasure of Nagorno-Karabakh from every map possible even historical maps or maps with clear upload dates like this one from 2011 that Oratas already "requested" to be changed . The problem is Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh was ethnically cleansed and dissolved in 2023, so even if Oratas wasn't a LTA sock, there is no point in erasing Nagorno-Karabakh from maps preceding 2023 because it can serve historical purposes among other. One can't just erase a breakaway country that existed for 30 years, yet Oratas did this via "requests" or himself on so many maps already, completely disregarding context/upload dates/map dates/etc, let alone the fact that they keep sockpuppeting.
- I had already posted about this user a couple of months back on @EPIC's talk (EPIC blocked these confirmed socks with almost identical name to Oratas , ), but Oratas might return again even if blocked, just look at their sockpuppet previous accounts for proof. Either this user needs to be blocked and understand that they can't just edit with socks and return every time once caught, or we need to do a CheckUser and see if they have other sock accounts or IPs aside from Oratas and block Oratas. And if possible, somehow warn commons' users to avoid accepting these "requests" that the LTA sock has a history of doing. KhndzorUtogh (talk) 08:55, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Denniss @MPF @Milenioscuro @+JMJ+ pinging some recent users that the LTA has interacted with on talk pages and made these "requests". There are many more users Oratas made "requests" to, especially if you look at all of his accounts' history. KhndzorUtogh (talk) 09:04, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Enyavar @Laurel Lodged pinging more users aware of this LTA. KhndzorUtogh (talk) 09:27, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- No idea what LTA is, but I'm usually quite reserved when it comes to unsolicitated change requests. Have I ever interacted with this Oratas? --Enyavar (talk) 10:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Enyavar Wikipedia:Long-term abuse, usually long term sockpuppeting accounts. One of their socks made a "request" on your talk page . KhndzorUtogh (talk) 10:56, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- Azeri editors know better than to ask such things of me. Laurel Lodged (talk) 16:02, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Enyavar Wikipedia:Long-term abuse, usually long term sockpuppeting accounts. One of their socks made a "request" on your talk page . KhndzorUtogh (talk) 10:56, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- No idea what LTA is, but I'm usually quite reserved when it comes to unsolicitated change requests. Have I ever interacted with this Oratas? --Enyavar (talk) 10:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)