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QUOTE(melloden @ Sat 7th April 2012, 3:54pm) Centrx has been making erratic edits recently. So, desysop. And, who is this? The erratic edits by Centrx and the stuff by AllProMojo sound awfully like they're the product of some deranged, out-of-control text-generating bot. The same one, probably. Thing is, it sounds more intelligible than most of the "human" admins.
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QUOTE(Elara @ Sun 8th April 2012, 11:15am) Wow....what...the FUCK...
That almost reads like the bastard had some kind of psychotic break. Yet the spelling, punctuation and grammar is as close to perfect as you can get, apart from all the " Moo Oof Woof Yay", " Moo Oofs and Wig Wags" and " More Potato. O Tater To" stuff.
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QUOTE(Bottled_Spider @ Sun 8th April 2012, 5:31am) QUOTE(Elara @ Sun 8th April 2012, 11:15am) Wow....what...the FUCK...
That almost reads like the bastard had some kind of psychotic break. Yet the spelling, punctuation and grammar is as close to perfect as you can get, apart from all the " Moo Oof Woof Yay", " Moo Oofs and Wig Wags" and " More Potato. O Tater To" stuff. Indeed. To a very disturbing level, almost as if someone was parsing language as a set of rules instead of as a method for distributing concepts. Time to crack open some books...something bothers me about this. I know the fucking WMF won't bother with appropriate action but if this is not a compromised account he could be undergoing something seriously wrong psychologically or worse.
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QUOTE(Elara @ Sun 8th April 2012, 12:00pm) Indeed. To a very disturbing level, almost as if someone was parsing language as a set of rules instead of as a method for distributing concepts.
Time to crack open some books...something bothers me about this. I know the fucking WMF won't bother with appropriate action but if this is not a compromised account he could be undergoing something seriously wrong psychologically or worse.
On his own page he says " I have a keen eye for logical fallacy, rhetorical nonsense, and dictional and grammatic infirmity." The "infirmity" started on the talk page of Wikipedia's Main Page with this rhetorical (?) question, on April 4th and goes on from there. The "Compromised admin" thread on AN/I is archived here, which concludes that the account isn't compromised, so either he's gone batshit (if still literate), is pissing about with text/chatbots or is a performance artist of some skill. Either way it's all very interesting.
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I predict that the account will be found to have been compromised by a teenage family member who was smart enough to re-point the account's email before editing the main page.
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Someone should ask a sysadmin to pull the database backups from January to see if the email is the same.
I can't believe I'm giving Wikipedia security forensics advice on WR.
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QUOTE(jsalsman @ Sun 8th April 2012, 9:10pm) Someone should ask a sysadmin to pull the database backups from January to see if the email is the same.
I can't believe I'm giving Wikipedia security forensics advice on WR.
I should imagine that the otherwise awful AGK was intelligent enough to think of that brilliant piece of Wikipedia security forensics when he checkusered the account.
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QUOTE(Elara @ Sun 8th April 2012, 10:15am)
That almost reads like the bastard had some kind of psychotic break.
Not sure about this admin, but Night Ranger  (T-C-L-K-R-D)
has been having a never ending psychotic break. This sicko loves to template user pages. So it templated http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=458521297 user page of Centrx with template {{compromised}}. After an admin told it: "You need to stop messing with people's user pages. If a page needs to be tagged, let someone who has a better track record of accurate tagging do it", night ranger posted to this admin talk: QUOTE Blarg
Babble bebble bibble. Also, penis. Night Ranger (talk) 18:37, 6 April 2012 (UTC) And now tell me why Centrx is blocked, and Night Ranger is not. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) This post has been edited by mbz1:
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There is nothing in the checkuser extension that can see whether the email address associated with an account is the same as it was three or more months ago. Only the sysadmins can do that, and only if they examine the private (i.e., non-toolserver visible) backups.
If the account impostor is from the same household, such as a mischievous adolescent consistent with the recent account behavior is likely to be, then checkuser is worthless.
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QUOTE(jsalsman @ Mon 9th April 2012, 8:32am) There is nothing in the checkuser extension that can see whether the email address associated with an account is the same as it was three or more months ago. Only the sysadmins can do that, and only if they examine the private (i.e., non-toolserver visible) backups.
If the account impostor is from the same household, such as a mischievous adolescent consistent with the recent account behavior is likely to be, then checkuser is worthless.
Part of the checking process involved actually getting in touch with the guy in question, so presumably there is no mischievous adolescent involved unless he is one himself. Hello? QUOTE(Somey @ Mon 9th April 2012, 7:27am) ...... this: QUOTE Blarg ... Babble bebble bibble. Also, penis. ...is almost certainly what that admin is actually thinking. (Especially that last bit!)So, far from being "desysopped" or blocked, I'd say Mr. Ranger here should be promoted to "Steward." He's maybe one of those people that uses some sort of speech-to-text facility in which case it's what he's actually saying. Either way it doesn't bear thinking about (though I just have).
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QUOTE(Tarc @ Mon 9th April 2012, 5:27pm) People, calm the fuck down. Note; QUOTE("Centrx") ...... do not go forever. This is the request I hear. I like those bits. He's obviously channeling Dylan Thomas ( Do not go gentle into that good night) and a cryptic Times crossword clue in only ten words. Takes skill, that.
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QUOTE(Bottled_Spider @ Mon 9th April 2012, 3:18am) Part of the checking process involved actually getting in touch with the guy in question, so presumably there is no mischievous adolescent involved unless he is one himself. That's why I suggested checking to see if his email had been changed between the time of his completely normal editing last year and adding existential questions to the top of the Main Page.
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