Unvanish Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user NbWaQhET3Y and Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user 283e0da92394fe248a40cb6f76f69058

Please unvanish Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user NbWaQhET3Y and Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user 283e0da92394fe248a40cb6f76f69058. Editorial patterns and EXIF metadata from files uploaded to Commons suggest both accounts belong to the same user. --~2026-33721-77 (talk) 04:22, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

~2026-33834-11 (talk) 03:55, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Update a common gadget

An enwiki gadget that I use was broken. It has recently been fixed. There are 102 copies of this gadget at various wikis. I suspect that nearly all of them need to be fixed. The canonical version at mw:Snippets/Direct imagelinks to Commons. This edit shows the changes that fixed things at enwiki. It requires an IA, so I'm bringing it here for help. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:41, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Looks like a GIE, Krinkle is already engaged on this? Krinkle, do you plan on doing others? Perhaps this should just be an import from commons? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:44, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Until issues like T197137 are improved, this is a non-starter for me as I simply don't have the time to spend two full days repeatedly re-authenticating on each of these hundred wikis separately (which in turn involves unlocking my password manager, copying 2FA over bluetooth which overwrites my clipboard, and fighting timeouts T423193). This is on top of the "real" work for this: hundred times review each wiki's version to look for any unrelated changes, replace or incorporate the latest snippet, test the current and drafted version ahead of time in safemode on a random artice on that wiki.

Last year, this would have taken two hours total, which I can do. Line them all up, batching the tests and edits, clipboard magic, multi-tasking. Now, it would take ~5min per wiki serially (instead of 1min) and thus ~10h total (instead of 2h). Krinkle (talk) 03:18, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Cross-wiki promotional use of the account User:Bineart

I would like to report concerns regarding the global editing pattern of user, which appears to be a classic single-purpose account engaged in long-term cross-wiki promotion of a single individual, namely Sorin Cerin without notability. The account's global contribution history shows 3,929 edits across 19 Wikimedia projects, all of which concern Sorin Cerin, his biography, quotations, bibliographic material, photographs, or related data items. There is no evidence that the account substantially contributes to building encyclopedic content outside this single topic. This pattern extends across numerous Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia in English, Wikipedia in Spanish, Wikipedia in French, Wikipedia in Romanian, Wikipedia in German, Wikipedia in Arabic, Wikipedia in Hindi and Wikipedia in Japanese, Wikiquote in Spanish, Wikiquote in French, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

The Sorin Cerin biography has repeatedly failed community scrutiny in several projects, in the English Wikipedia has been deleted multiple times, including through AfD debates, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sorin Cerin, and then drafts repeatedly rejected for failing notability requirements, page creation protected, draft restoration requests denied. Despite that, several draft and sandbox recreations continue to appear after deletions. The same happened in the Wikipedia in Spanich with multiple recreations and deletion several times over many years, finally AfD debate last month that culminated in the protection of the page and the indefinite ban for the account, who continued to evade the block through IPs from Romania. See Wikipedia:Consultas de borrado/Sorin Cerin.

The lack of notability is evident when Sorin Cerin doesn't even have an article in his own language. On Wikipedia in Romanian was deleted several times, including through AfD debates Wikipedia:Pagini de șters/Sorin Cerin. On Wikipedian in Italian it was deleted more than once.

On Wikipedia in Portuguese Sorin Cerin was deleted through community discussion AfD debates. On Wikipedia in Japanese was deleted following a AfD debates in August 2023. On Wikiquote in Spanish was deleted for lack of notability. The sources it uses are like Sorin Cerin, o întreagă biografie, XArte Magazine, which seems to be a reliable source. However it says below that it is based on Metapedia and other wikis with biographies created by the same author in such as:

• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorin_Cerin
• https://philosophy.fandom.com/wiki/Sorin_Cerin
• https://writers.fandom.com/wiki/Sorin_Cerin
• https://math.wikia.org/wiki/Sorin_Cerin
• https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/sorin-cerin
• https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Sorin_Cerin
• https://scholarship.fandom.com/wiki/Sorin_Cerin
• https://ultimatepopculture.fandom.com/wiki/Sorin_Cerin
• https://culture.fandom.com/wiki/Sorin_Cerin
• https://spirituality.fandom.com/wiki/Sorin_Cerin
• https://editionsstellamaris.blogspot.com/2021/11/critiques-litteraires-de-le-non-sens-de.html
• https://dictionary.fandom.com/wiki/Sorin_Cerin

It claims to be based on those wikis but when you go into some of them you see that those pages don't even exist. I guess they were deleted at some point, but now he uses that source from the magazine to publish on Wikipedia.

On Wikipedia in German was deleted several times and more but the user sandbox version continues to be maintained. See his contributions. On Wikipedia in Hindi, the article was deleted. In projects where the biography currently survives, Wikipedia in French and Wikiquote in French, Bineart appears to be essentially the sole substantive contributor to the article.

On Wikipedia in Arabic he created it with an IP from Romania and then continued editing it by himself with his user account. Sorin Cerin is full of templates, you can see that all the sources are texts by Sorin Cerin himself and this account has not edited another article’. He has no other contribution in Arabic other than for that biography.

On Wikimedia Commons, the account has made approximately 293 edits exclusively related to Sorin Cerin, including uploads of personal and family photographs. He even uploaded a photo of a church where Cerin's grandfather was a priest, File:L'église de Sauca où le grand-père de Sorin Hodorogea, le futur Sorin Cerin, était prêtre.jpg. On Wikidata, the item's history similarly shows that the account is virtually the only editor, apart from administrators correcting issues.

There is also a long history suggesting attempts to establish or restore a Wikipedia biography for Sorin Cerin dating back at least to 2006–2009. User:Sorin Cerin personally complained on Jimmy Wales' talk page about the deletion of his biography from English and Romanian Wikipedia, stating that he was "censored without any scruples on Wikipedia". He subsequently self-published a book entitled Wikipedia – Pseudo-encyclopedia of the Lie, Censorship and Misinformation, criticizing Wikipedia editors for censoring.

Taken together, these facts raise serious concerns that this User may be editing with a strong personal connection to the subject, or on behalf of the subject, and is using Wikimedia projects primarily as a vehicle for long-term reputation management and promotion rather than for collaborative encyclopedia building. This promotion has paid off, as the sources now on the internet took his material from his biography on the Wikipedia in French and then reproduced it. Then this user used those same sources to recreate the biography in other languages. For example, in the Wikipedia in Spanish it was deleted three times and the last one, he used sources like Biografie Sorin Cerin (1963) in Romanian language, but it turns out that this source says that it is based on the Wikipedia in French page. In this way Wikipedia creates notability for people they don't have it. Then individuals use these same sources to continue recreating their biography in other Wikipedias.

The evidence indicates a sustained pattern of single-purpose account with an undisclosed conflict of interest and cross-wiki promotional activity. We need neutral articles written independently of their subject, not platforms for advertising and promotion or self-promotion. Articles should contain only material that complies with Wikipedia's content policies and best practices, and Wikipedians must place the interests of the encyclopedia and its readers above personal concerns. Here we found a repeated recreation of content deleted by community consensus and forum shopping among Wikimedia projects in search of a venue where the biography can remain despite repeated determinations of insufficient notability elsewhere. The issue is not merely the existence of one biography, but a nearly twenty-year effort to place and maintain substantially the same promotional content across multiple Wikimedia projects after repeated community decisions finding that the subject does not satisfy local notability standards. I respectfully request that stewards or the appropriate functionaries review the global editing pattern of User and determine whether further measures are warranted to prevent continued cross-wiki promotional use of Wikimedia projects.--Jalu (talk) 16:17, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Personally, I have no connection with Sorin Cerin. I do not know him and I have never intended in any way to promote him. I began my activity on fr.wikipedia in 2020 with topics related to Romanian literary critics such as Elvira Sorohan,Alexandru Cistelecan,Gheorghe Vlăduțescu. This is how I came to learn about Sorin Cerin.Please see my talk page on fr.wikipedia, where it shows that I created the articles about these literary critics https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_utilisateur:Bineart

I realized that a great deal had been written about Sorin Cerin only in 2021 in various prestigious journals such as ro:Convorbiri Literare, ro:Contemporanul or

ro:Familia (revistă). Based on this, I decided in 2021 to include him in a restoration request on French Wikipedia, since compared to the 2006–2010 period, many literary critics had written about him starting in 2015. So his situation had changed.

The article was positively supported by the community in the deletion review process, after which it was also considered notable in the deletion discussions. Please see the deletion review page for the article “Sorin Cerin” on French Wikipedia, where it shows that a “Deletion Review Request” was positively voted by the French community in March 2022, followed by a “Deletion Discussion” which was also positively voted by the French community and resulted in the article being accepted for publication, with “Sorin Cerin” being considered notable.https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion:Sorin_Cerin/Admissibilit%C3%A9

How can there be talk of “Wikipedia spam” regarding Sorin Cerin after I started being active on Wikipedia in 2020 as user Bineart? I do not understand why spam from before 2020 is being attributed to me. Everything I have worked on as a person cannot be called spam on any of the projects. The fact that others, many years before me, engaged in promotional spam does not mean that I acted in the same way. There is no promotional spam created by me anywhere. If we look at it, the Sorin Cerin article on fr.wikipedia was deleted in 2010 for spam, but I came 11 years later and reintroduced the article so it could be reviewed and voted on by the community. Once the French community voted it as notable twice—once in a deletion review (DRP) and a second time in the deletion discussion—it can no longer be considered promotional spam under any circumstances.

On this talk page, the Spanish editor not only shows me what exactly to write in the draft of the future article on Sorin Cerin, but also how to include sources and how to identify them, and especially advises me not to directly include the names of literary critics in the article, as that would give the impression of a promotional article, a fact that did not happen in other Wikipedia drafts, because I wrote exactly the names of the critics.

I realized that an article about Sorin Cerin required a tremendous amount of research work, as I had to go through many sources. That is why I chose to work on this article for a longer period of time. At present, it is completed.

On es.wikipedia, I was asked to help recreate the article on Sorin Cerin in draft form. I worked there for approximately one or two weeks. Please see my talk page, where I am being asked what exactly I should write and how I should write it on the draft page of the Spanish Wikipedia.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario_discusi%C3%B3n:Bineart

Please also see my edit history on es.wikipedia.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contribuciones/Bineart After that, I left the Spanish editors to continue their work and publish the Sorin Cerin article on es.wikipedia if they wished, which they eventually did. Therefore, the claim that the Sorin Cerin article was promotional on es.wikipedia is not attributable to me. This was in 2023. Since then, I have not contributed to the structure of the Sorin Cerin article at all. I left it to develop on its own. My only edit in 2024 was adding an important award to the article, granted by the Société des Poètes Français.

After several years, I was indefinitely blocked on the grounds that I had allegedly only worked on this article on es.wikipedia. However, it was already known that I did not intend to collaborate permanently on es.wikipedia, but only for a short period of time to help with the draft.

I was blocked indefinitely before the deletion discussion about the Sorin Cerin article even began. I requested to be unblocked at least for the duration of the deletion discussion, and my request was refused. As a result, I had no opportunity to present the truly high-quality sources.

Someone wrote a comment presenting genuine high-quality sources, but it was removed on the grounds that it was allegedly me, which is completely untrue. Thus, I was falsely accused of block evasion.

Regarding high-quality sources, it was stated in the deletion discussion that they were merely images, when in fact they were prestigious journals such as ro:Convorbiri Literare, which are available in PDF format and include extensive reviews by distinguished literary critics such as Elvira Sorohan about Sorin Cerin https://archive.org/details/bt-septembrie-2015-4/page/n5/mode/2up.The most important and extensive reviews are also those written by Alexandru Cistelecan in ro:Familia (revistă) https://revistafamilia.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Familia-2015_11-12.pdf and by Ștefan Borbély in ro:Contemporanul https://www.contemporanul.ro/eseu-publicistica/gnozele-lui-sorin-cerin.html, among others.

The presence of autobiographical sources or blogs in the Sorin Cerin article on es.wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia) is not attributable to me, but to those who later edited and reintroduced the article in that form.

It is also alleged that I abusively created the Sorin Cerin article on other Wikimedia projects. This is not true, because on the German Wikipedia I was asked to assist with recreating the article in draft form, just as on the Spanish Wikipedia, but I did not have sufficient time and I still have not completed it. On German Wikipedia I have also published other articles about literary critics, but directly in the encyclopedia, not in draft form as with Sorin Cerin. On my talk page (Bineart) on the German Wikipedia, it can be seen how the German editors ask me to collaborate on the draft and explain, just like the Spanish editors, how exactly to do it. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Bineart

Similarly, on the Arabic Wikipedia, the article was initially created as a draft and then passed through the notability review process, after which I did not continue contributing there for years.Please observe how a user takes over that draft and includes it in the notability discussion page https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86&oldid=67181928 Please see the edit history of the article ‘Sorin Cerin’ in Arabic.https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86&action=history The Sorin Cerin page on Arabic Wikipedia has never been deleted.

You cannot call it promotional spam to create an article in a draft following the request and specifications of the long-standing editors of that Wikipedia project.

Why should I have to pay for the mistakes of the Spanish editors who published this article incorrectly on Spanish Wikipedia? Moreover, on the French Wikipedia, those flawed sources such as blogs or other autobiographical sources are not even included; instead, they are replaced with dictionaries or encyclopedias in which Sorin Cerin is included with the proper references.

I am being accused of having taken photographic images from the archive.org website on the grounds that I claimed they were created by me. This is not true. Many of those images have been there for decades, and others for several years. As long as the copyright attribution is correctly indicated, I am fully entitled to use them as primary or secondary sources. It does not matter who created them on archive.org. They could even have been people close to Sorin Cerin; if the source represents a relevant photograph from his life, it is perfectly valid. And if it represents a prestigious magazine that has been scanned or photographed, it is again a valid source, because what matters is whether the magazine and the literary critic who wrote the review are independent of the subject, not who uploaded a photograph or a PDF to archive.org.

I do not understand what relevance it has that the Sorin Cerin article was deleted on notability grounds 20 years ago, if he is now notable and has entire volumes of independent literary criticism written about him.

On Japanese Wikipedia, the article was deleted because I did not know how to properly enter certain copyright information, after which I was asked by Japanese editors to help recreate the article in draft form, which I did. However, my free time did not allow me to contribute much there either.

As for certain Fandom pages, I have absolutely no connection with them.

I note that I have never used multiple accounts and I have not attempted to conceal my edits in any way. I have no connection to Sorin Cerin.

I do not know him personally and I have never intended to promote him in any way. It can be observed that, on the French Wikipedia, in the language version on which I worked seriously for almost three years on the Sorin Cerin article, each sentence or phrase is attributed to a literary critic and properly sourced with all necessary identification details. Furthermore, wherever I believed there were more definitive statements, I included a very short quotation from the respective critic precisely to ensure neutrality. On the Spanish Wikipedia, these were incorrectly introduced by the editors who published the article without clearly indicating which critic says a given thing, which inevitably leads to a promotional aspect.

I am being asked why I have contributed so extensively to a single article and why I have not diversified my editing activity. First of all, this is due to the fact that there is a very large number of independent reviews on the subject of Sorin Cerin in highly prestigious journals, written by distinguished literary critics. Secondly, I preferred to write a high-quality article on fr.wikipedia rather than produce dozens of superficial articles. You will also see that in the future I will choose only topics on which I can write complex articles, such as the one about Sorin Cerin on fr.wikipedia. I would rather write 10 comprehensive articles over twenty years than 200 stubs.

Since I have completed my work on the Sorin Cerin topic, from now on I will focus my editing activity on other subjects. For over two years, I have not collaborated on any other Wikipedia language version apart from the French one, and I do not intend to ever contribute to any other Wikipedia project in the future except the French-language one, as I am a university professor who teaches this language. I also no longer wish to edit the Sorin Cerin article except in extreme cases, such as if he receives a major award, and only on the French Wikipedia, where I worked seriously for three years on this article in an effort to make it a featured-quality article.

I have never been involved in any deletion history activity regarding the Sorin Cerin article. I am not Sorin Cerin but a completely different person. I have always signed my contributions only with the name Bineart. My account was created in 2020, so I could not have contributed to any deletion history in 2006 or 2010.

It is not true that I have contributed to 19 different language versions of Wikipedia; I have only worked on 4 such projects, and even on those I only contributed when I was asked to help with drafts by other editors who requested assistance.

In conclusion, I have never recreated any article after deletion, I have never edited any rejected article, and I have never engaged in any documented evasion behavior. Regarding any cross-wiki pattern, it cannot be said to exist, as I only contributed where my help was explicitly requested. I have never used multiple accounts and I have never engaged in any vandalism, which is why I respectfully request that I be granted full editing rights, as this activity helps me morally, even though I promise not to collaborate in the future on any language version other than fr.wikipedia. I do not know Sorin Cerin personally and I am in no way responsible for the history created by Sorin Cerin as a private individual across Wikipedia versions. I have viewed Sorin Cerin as an author in the same way I view all other authors, through their works rather than through their private lives.

I consider that I was abusively blocked on es.wikipedia indefinitely without any prior warning, solely because I had edited a single article a few years earlier in a draft, without me having reposted that article. For this reason, I request my unblock, as I believe my reputation is being seriously affected by this abusive block.Bineart (talk) 01:53, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Request for page protection and range block on siwiki

I am being targeted by a user who is constantly switching IP addresses to evade blocks. I kindly request the following dual intervention:

1. Temporary semi-protection for the following pages to stop IP editing:
   • si:Prasanna Kumara Dissanayake (Target of persistent deletion tag removal)
   • si:User:IDB.S (Target of retaliatory deletion tags)
2. An IP range block to prevent the user from continuing this harassment across other pages on the wiki.

Thank you for your global assistance. IDB.S (talk) 09:14, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

Mass creation of apparently unreviewed machine-translated articles on mgwiki

I would like to ask stewards/global sysops to review the recent activity of HarryWurst [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits] on the Malagasy Wikipedia. The user has been creating a large number of new articles on mgwiki. From the examples I checked, the articles appear to be unreviewed machine translations or AI-assisted translations into Malagasy, with no indication that the user is able to speak Malagasy at all (his dewiki contributions indicate to me as a native speaker that German is his native language). Unfortunately I speak no Malagasy at all, but some automatic translations of his articles there strongly suggest that these are at least partly AI texts. The creations are often unsourced and formally unfinished, I am concerned that mgwiki is being filled with low-quality, unreviewed AI-generated or machine-translated content.

I took a look at a few of the newer articles on a spot-check basis: mg:Manchester City and mg:Basil Rathbone are both typical stubs of this user, sounding very generic, and a re-translation of the text in the article Basil Rathbone to English sounds to me very much like AI. mg:Pedro II (Portogaly) is similar, but also contains internal contradictions, the article text gives birth/death dates as 1648/1706, while the categories say 1683 and 1705. mg:Boeing B-52: contains broken wikicode, a duplicated paragraph, and a table left partly in French and German (Résumé, Nombre, années de construction, und, gesamt, heute). The category [[Sokajy:Boing]] is also misspelled.

There is also a relevant cross-wiki history, the account has already been indeffed on three other projects for conduct and contribution problems. On dewiki, concerns were raised about mass article creation, typographical problems, incomplete translations and lack of responsiveness (see de:Wikipedia:Vandalismusmeldung/Archiv/2025/11/04#Benutzer:HarryWurst (erl.) and de:Wikipedia:Vandalismusmeldung/Archiv/2025/11/05#Benutzer:HarryWurst (erl.)). On ptwiki, the account was indefinitely blocked after a community discussion about non-constructive conduct (pt:Wikipédia:Pedidos_a_administradores/Discussão de bloqueio/HarryWurst). On frwiki, the account was indefinitely blocked after repeated warnings about low-quality articles/bad translations and aggressive responses (several sections on fr:Discussion utilisateur:HarryWurst). I mention this not as the sole reason for action on mgwiki, but because the same pattern of ignoring feedback and continuing problematic mass creation now appears to affect a small project where nobody is reviewing his contributions now.

I don't know exactly how to handle this, but I think it would be good if a few other people took a look at it. A local (or global, as he already is indeffed at 3 wikis) block or other appropriate action to prevent further damage should be considered imo. If this should be handled elsewhere, please feel free to move or redirect the request. --Icodense (talk) 00:57, 27 June 2026 (UTC)