[WikiEN-l] Vandalism instance

[Martijn Hoekstra]

On Nov 12, 2013 10:07 PM, "Matt" <matt at pagan.io> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
> Thanks for responding. I apologize if this mailing list is the wrong
> place for this, but I'm having trouble with the English Wikipedia
> Unblock Ticket Request System. I submitted an unblock request, which
> was accpeted, but now I'm having trouble with the email confirmation.
> When I copy into my browser the link I received from the automated email
> response, I face the following message:
>
> The action you requested could not be performed: Please use the link
> provided to you in your email to access this page. This security step
> assures us that we are still talking to the same person. Thank you.
>
> I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to proceed from here. It
> would make me quite sad if my unblock request was not looked at
> becuase I could not get past the email confirmation link.

At the moment utrs is transferring from the toolserver to labs. That
shouldn't make a difference, but maybe it did. Could you try requesting a
new confirmation link by opening a new ticket on utrs? If it fails again,
feel free to come back to this list.

>
>
> > Thanks Matt, it looks like someone got it before I could. I imagine
> > you know already but, just in case, if you find yourself wanting to
> > edit
> > frequently from tor you may want to consider asking for
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption on your
> > account. Not the simplest for sure but may life easier so you don't
> > have to worry about it.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Matt <matt at pagan.io> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > > I wanted to point out a single instance of vandalism on the
> > > following
> > > page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gris
> > >
> > > The infobox contains the following line:
> > >
> > > | awards        = he married 4 potatoes
> > >
> > > The last recorded instance of this page that doesn't contain this
> > > vandalism had the following line instead:
> > >
> > > | awards        =
> > >
> > > I would have fixed this myself, but I use Tor, so I am unable to do
> > > so. Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > Matt Pagan
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Futuristcorporation
> > >
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