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The Administrators' noticeboard is intended to be a page to quickly alert the administrators to issues that need their attention.

To make a request or statement, create a new section and provide a neutral, precise summary of events with thought-out reasoning, and, if possible, links to any pages with relevant discussions. It is also a good idea to notify any users involved with the request with a link to the section on this page. Make sure to add new sections to the bottom.

Report vandals and sockpuppets at the top of the appropriate section labeled for such reports using {{IP|Username}}, where Username is the name of the user or the IP vandal's IP address.

For reporting similar and unacceptable usernames, a talk page was formerly used to keep the reports in one place instead of on this page. For future reports, they will be kept under the "Inappropriate usernames" section on this page to keep the reports centralized on the same page.

Vandal/Spam accounts

68.80.133.106 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) and 174.198.197.100 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) vandalizing Philadelphia Power Rankings, with the former doing it multiple times. --CanvasK (talk) 07:19, October 28, 2021 (EDT)

206.116.121.67 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Gibberish on Inhale (Kirby). Repeat offender. --CanvasK (talk) 21:19, October 20, 2021 (EDT)

Further reporting on this vandal considering that they are outright attacking CanvasK for something they originally did to help Black Vulpine, with the comments for each edit reason displaying either racist or ableist behavior, suggesting that they are a troll in the original sense of the internet term: internet bully. On top of that, the "alphasecondaryschool" url given in the first two vandalisms doesn't even work. --Tailikku (talk) 11:10, November 8, 2021 (EST)

72.188.127.2 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Vandalizing Team:Team Eminence Omega Toad, the Toad Warrior. (I'm the best!) 20:22, October 9, 2021 (EDT)

Sorey (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Self promotion, replacing Smasher:Seab's name with their own. Weegeegaming ^{【talk • contribs】} 19:44, October 9, 2021 (EDT)

I suspect that might actually be them. I searched the tag "sgtballsquad" (which is currently listed) and all the tweets I found redirect to "Sorey_Saveworld" (the one they put). Searching the "old" tag on Twitter also brings up the "new" tag in the mentions. --CanvasK (talk) 19:58, October 9, 2021 (EDT)

For further proof, here is an archive of a tweet with the "old" tag and the same tweet under the "new" tag (the bios are also similar). --CanvasK (talk) 20:04, October 9, 2021 (EDT)

I'm going to remind you to assume good faith, that was a definitely a grey area edit and the more reasonable assumption would have been that person was the smasher in question who changed their tag, rather than it being some rando trying to "claim" a random smasher's page as their own. In any case like this, you should do research on the matter before writing it off as vandalism, or bring it up to people who can if you can't do it yourself. Omega Tyrant 20:19, October 9, 2021 (EDT)

73.227.249.178 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Primarily vandalizing Inhale (Kirby) with nonsense or messing with the format. --CanvasK (talk) 18:57, October 6, 2021 (EDT)

64.114.222.112 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Possibly the same person, so far going for similar pages. Banned before. --CanvasK (talk) 14:41, October 7, 2021 (EDT)

This one again. --CanvasK (talk) 14:07, October 26, 2021 (EDT)

This one is back on Captain Falcon and Captain Falcon (SSBU). --CanvasK (talk) 23:47, October 23, 2021 (EDT)

206.116.121.67 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) One more and again. Either all 3 the same person or they know each other. May also want to protect the page. --CanvasK (talk) 14:05, October 30, 2021 (EDT)

23.125.35.110 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Inappropriate edits to Zelda (SSBU) and Sheik (SSBU). --CanvasK (talk) 20:38, September 14, 2021 (EDT)

147.12.167.52 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Vandalizing several Smasher pages. Nokii — 12:33, August 31, 2021 (EDT)

71.238.34.30 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Keeps re-adding false info that Little Mac is a Bandai Namco character. The Jacketed Terrapin 20:15, August 8, 2021 (EDT)

They're doing it again, now with more claims such as that Devil World is Capcom or The Mysterious Murasame Castle is Taito. The Jacketed Terrapin 15:53, August 9, 2021 (EDT)

112.200.203.71 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) They are basically vandals and IP socks at this point. Might need a range block or something otherwise they keep coming back. NPM Morr!? 03:57, July 9, 2021 (EDT)

112.200.199.176 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) And yet another case of flag vandalism. The Jacketed Terrapin 03:50, July 10, 2021 (EDT)

112.200.200.26 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) A block range is long overdue, at this point. The Jacketed Terrapin 00:17, July 16, 2021 (EDT)

112.200.203.25 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) One more. --CanvasK (talk) 10:01, July 19, 2021 (EDT)

112.200.203.0/16 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Some of the IP from this link or reported above got away because they are 203 or something. NPM Morr!? 01:07, August 6, 2021 (EDT)

Sorry I might have got confused. NPM Morr!? 13:13, August 8, 2021 (EDT)

112.200.205.131 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Guess who's back. --CanvasK (talk) 07:50, September 14, 2021 (EDT)

Sockpuppet reports

Swan99 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) and MewToo (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS). These are old but a sockpuppet is a sockpuppet. Similar behavior to a serial sockpuppet (Hail God Tabuu (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · God Tabuu WHOIS) is the only sockpuppet account not banned for communication purposes): exaggerated damage, OHKO power, and abilities of SSE enemies, sourcing from the wiki itself (often from pages their sockpuppets edited). I also suspect The Crazy One's Hand (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · Crazy One's Hand WHOIS) as the same person, similar naming to The Master's Hand (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · Master's Hand WHOIS) (same sockpuppet) and only edits were to undo the latter's edits. I've also found 5 IPs that edited the same pages, around the same time, in the same style, and same edit summaries as the serial sockpuppet, however it's been over a year and we don't typically issue indefinite bans or >1 year bans to IPs. --CanvasK (talk) 10:27, October 29, 2021 (EDT)

My lol (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · lol WHOIS) and Dutch Shoe (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · Shoe WHOIS). Early on posted on the talk page for File:Piston.gif which My lol had an obsession with. Recently uploaded an image of Walpurgisnacht from Madoka Magica with the summary "Same shit all over again" and name "Witch.jpg is back lmao", which is exactly the same as the one My lol uploaded (with the name "Witch.jpg") and had an obsession with. Even if they aren't a sockpuppet, their recent uploads are extremely inappropriate. --CanvasK (talk) 20:44, October 8, 2021 (EDT)

‎174.21.110.74 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) It's THAT person again. The one who bloats all the pages with unnecessary fluff. Black Vulpine the 🦊Furry🐺. Furries make the internets go! :3 23:53, October 4, 2021 (EDT)

86.171.248.211 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Does my best Zakawer impression Possible Memoryman3 sock. Besides just having similar behaviour, as Zakawer pointed on on Discord this edit is inexplicably similar to an explicitly Memoryman edit from 2.5 years ago. Seems worth at least looking into. If it's not OK to post here on behalf of a blocked user, you can tell me now. Sincerely, Samuel the Banjo-Kazooie Boss. 11:23, October 4, 2021 (EDT)

Mkleofan (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) and Tweekfan (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS). Similar naming convention, and both (almost) solely edit Luugi. May just be a case of a forgotten password, no malicious intent suspected. Black Vulpine the 🦊Furry🐺. Furries make the internets go! :3 06:42, October 2, 2021 (EDT)

Leonelg263 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) and Leonelthegreat (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS). Very similar names, doubt it is in bad faith. --CanvasK (talk) 19:47, September 29, 2021 (EDT)

Different IPs but same location, confirmed. Omega Tyrant 22:11, September 29, 2021 (EDT)

69.122.87.240 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Another DFB sock, also shared with SmashPedia. Nokii — 15:42, September 26, 2021 (EDT)

MrMHM (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Memoryman3 sockpuppet. Memoryman3 is a banned user. Zakawer2 (talk) 13:37, September 23, 2021 (EDT)

Inconclusive, no smoking gun IP matches or any other excessive IP similarities that makes it certain, both are in the UK with similar scopes of interest but the UK is a large country with 67 million people and excessive interest with clones isn't at all unique to Memoryman. MrMHM's account has also existed for over a year now without incident, no usual Memoryman antics like edit warring or trying to make Daisy sound more different than she actually is, while Memoryman himself has been absent in other internet circles. Gonna need more evidence than that to claim it's a Memoryman sock. Omega Tyrant 09:05, September 24, 2021 (EDT)

He literally changed the Minecart page on the false claim that Dr. Mario and Dark Samus have identical trapped animations to Mario and Samus when stuck inside a minecart, even though I have personally proven that this is not the case in-game through testing and took personal screenshots as evidence. He also has attempted to make edits similar to those that were conducted by Memoryman3 and verified MM3 sockpuppets like Mellowness and Pontiusbrave. Also, he added unnecessary puffery to Daisy's page and tried to make Chrom seem less different from Roy than he actually is, which are typical Memoryman3 habits. Memoryman3 also consistently refuses to use American English despite it being the mandated variety of English on this wiki. Zakawer2 (talk) 06:59, September 27, 2021 (EDT)

”Memoryman3 also consistently refuses to use American English despite it being the mandated variety of English on this wiki.”
That is blatantly incorrect: SW:MOS literally states: “ There is no preference whether to use American or non-American English”
You also used to (and still do) have an unhealthy fixation with MM so you really should consider backing off and washing your hands of them. Black Vulpine the 🦊Furry🐺. Furries make the internets go! :3 09:53, September 27, 2021 (EDT)

"He literally changed the Minecart page on the false claim that Dr. Mario and Dark Samus have identical trapped animations to Mario and Samus when stuck inside a minecart, even though I have personally proven that this is not the case in-game through testing and took personal screenshots as evidence."

You think everyone really has meticulously looked at the animation from interaction with one move? That's an honest mistake I can see anyone making.

"Also, he added unnecessary puffery to Daisy's page and tried to make Chrom seem less different from Roy than he actually is, which are typical Memoryman3 habits."

No, you keep removing legitimate information about the characters in your MM3 paranoia. The differences of Daisy's idle animations are not "puffery", and your edits to the Chrom page were just removing actual differences, like the running impact hitbox offset info that MHM added. You seem to take umbrage with the "functionally identical in every way except for the sweetspots/sourspots" line, which a maybe bit strong in wording, is still true; aside from their different up specials and some minor animation differences, the characters have the same exact attributes and frame data, I'm not going to take that as a smoking gun of MM3 behavior, especially when the same edit wasn't trying to downplay the differences elsewhere.

"Memoryman3 also consistently refuses to use American English despite it being the mandated variety of English on this wiki."

You are the one who needs a brush up on our Manual of Style, the wiki has made it very clear that we do not have a preference for any version of english, American English is not "mandated" on this wiki. Like I told you on discord, stop with the Memoryman paranoia, if I catch you removing legitimate information once more, you are taking a month long block. Omega Tyrant 10:08, September 27, 2021 (EDT)

Sorry. I didn't know that there was no mandated version of English on this wiki. Now, I have two identical edits to show you here, the former from MrMHM and the latter from Pontiusbrave; Pontiusbrave is a confirmed Memoryman3 sockpuppet banned from the website:

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Both edits are very similar to one another, which actually supports my case that this could be a Memoryman3 sockpuppet. Zakawer2 (talk) 05:40, September 28, 2021 (EDT)

Alright, now this is some actual good evidence; there is no reason for MrMHM to be telling people to not change his edit in the edit summary while making that edit for the first time, unless he knew about Pontiusbrave's exact same edit being reverted before, which he reasonably shouldn't been able to known as it occurred months before his account was created, and thus the only reasonable conclusion is that he is the same person behind the Pontiusbrave account. One could try arguing he was an IP editor before he created his account and noticed the edit + revert when it happened but only decided to do anything about it seven months later, or was digging through the page's history and happened to come across it, but both scenarios are incredibly unlikely, especially with all the other little coincidences lining up.

Going forward though, while you may have ultimately been right about MrMHM being a Memoryman sock, what I said about dialing back the paranoia with him still applies, do not revert entire edits from suspected socks with legitimate information, and bring up evidence like this to begin with, instead of badgering admins with evidence that is just "he edits clone pages with UK english and made a mistake about a minor interaction". Omega Tyrant 02:13, September 29, 2021 (EDT)

69.123.100.78 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) DFB sockpuppet. IP shared with this SmashPedia sockpuppet. Nokii — 20:40, September 13, 2021 (EDT)

Yeh, that be him alright. Can't believe it didn't click for me before. Black Vulpine of the 🦊Furry Nation🐺. Furries make the internets go! :3 22:59, September 13, 2021 (EDT)

Anson1350 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Possible NinTylo (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) sockpuppet. Both exclusively edit SSBU Classic Mode trivia. Nokii — 12:52, August 31, 2021 (EDT)

Anson has consistently edited from two New Jersey-based IPs, while all of NinTylo's IPs were west coast-based, so there's no IP-based evidence right now that they're the same person. Omega Tyrant 13:18, August 31, 2021 (EDT)

Leirdo Nam 67 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · Nam 67 WHOIS). Same account as Leirdo Nam 46 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · Nam 46 WHOIS). CookiesCreme 11:49, August 3, 2021 (EDT)

Leirdoman64 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) I still don't think it makes sense for accounts to be able to invade by having some edits, like they still abused multiple accounts. So therefore I believe this one and the 46 one from above so be handled. NPM Morr!? 00:57, August 6, 2021 (EDT)

I'm going to assume that this is a case where the user forgot their login password and can't access their account. I doubt this user has any malicious intent judging by their edits. Omega Toad, the Toad Warrior. (I'm the best!) 08:46, August 6, 2021 (EDT)

Edit warring

174.207.230.132 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Making unnecessary wording changes and edit warring. Omega Toad, the Toad Warrior. (I'm the best!) 23:13, October 9, 2021 (EDT)

By extention, 208.102.196.178 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) and 174.207.168.48 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) are doing the exact same thing. I suspect the IPs are related. Omega Toad, the Toad Warrior. (I'm the best!) 23:53, October 10, 2021 (EDT)

I suspect that 208.102.171.122 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) may be related. They also had a couple edits regarding "non-fiction". --CanvasK (talk) 00:08, October 11, 2021 (EDT)

99.129.228.221 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Reverting edits on the Toon Link page for no given reason. The Jacketed Terrapin 18:12, October 5, 2021 (EDT)

142.160.210.85 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Keeps changing Ultimate's ratings on its page. Awesomelink234, the Super Cool Gamer (talk) 20:55, September 22, 2021 (EDT)

This one is back, now on Mii Fighter (SSB4). --CanvasK (talk) 18:39, October 8, 2021 (EDT)

Birdygamer1122 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Attempting to add Peanut to Little Mac (SSBU) yet again, this time flouting the new policy. Black Vulpine the 🦊Furry🐺. Furries make the internets go! :3 22:47, September 19, 2021 (EDT)

Jrpierre123 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Constantly re-adding bad trivia that's been reverted many times. Omega Toad, the Toad Warrior. (I'm the best!) 20:32, September 18, 2021 (EDT)

75.44.14.214 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Keeps re-adding bad trivia. The Jacketed Terrapin 21:12, September 14, 2021 (EDT)

142.113.111.102 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Keeps adding back false info despite being warned several times. The Jacketed Terrapin 03:06, August 7, 2021 (EDT)

Still at it. --CanvasK (talk) 20:56, August 15, 2021 (EDT)

SuperMarioBrosMelee (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Has continued to make bad edits and has even re-added some back after they were reverted (such as here, here, and here). Giving this user has previously been banned three times for doing this, it seems they are unliable to listen at this point. The Jacketed Terrapin 13:46, July 22, 2021 (EDT)

109.158.246.159 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Changing Lucario's pronouns again. Omega Toad, the Toad Warrior. (I'm the best!) 05:28, July 11, 2021 (EDT)

71.212.192.114 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Bloat IP is back. Omega Toad, the Toad Warrior. (I'm the best!) 19:46, July 8, 2021 (EDT)

174.21.110.74 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Seems like they're back once again. The Jacketed Terrapin 01:06, October 3, 2021 (EDT)

71.212.222.156 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) And again. RickTommy 00:12, October 26, 2021 (EDT)

Inappropriate usernames

Ghh4esdf6yhr ur6yfg867yutgb7u (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · ur6yfg867yutgb7u WHOIS) I don't think this is acceptable. NPM Morr!? 01:53, July 11, 2021 (EDT)

Bump. NPM Morr!? 00:57, August 6, 2021 (EDT)

Njdcnjdcnjdncksmx (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Also reposting this from archive 19 in which the other user reported. NPM Morr!? 00:57, August 6, 2021 (EDT)

There’s very little, if any, point in blocking one-shot users, or for that matter, users that haven’t made edits at all. If and when these two start editing again, then it’s worth blocking them. Black Vulpine of the 🦊Furry Nation🐺. Furries make the internets go! :3 01:46, August 6, 2021 (EDT)

Idk, but when I told OT a while ago that there were a bunch of unacceptable names left unhandled in the noticeboard he handled them, some were even from 2018 and I believe most of them didn't have any edits. NPM Morr!? 01:56, August 6, 2021 (EDT)

Yeah, the username policy is pretty clear that any users with unacceptable usernames should be blocked, regardless of edit history. Alex the Weeb 09:17, August 6, 2021 (EDT)

Others

81.110.120.177 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) I wanted to think they could do good and would improve based on the feedback they've gotten, but their recent edit to Ken (SSBU) is a little too much. --CanvasK (talk) 10:05, August 23, 2021 (EDT)