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Move article

Move 2011 Libyan uprising to Libyan Civil War (2011). The issue has been decided on its discussion tab. An administrator is required to make the move because it has been reserved to that level of user privilege. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.120.18.132 (talk • contribs) 23:10, 16 March 2011

Faulty editing to "Normans"

In the entry for "Normans", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans I came across an edit that I did not catch on previous readings. There were several errors in a single sentence. I checked, and someone edited it at 10 PM last night. I can't help but wonder if someone crawled a bit too deep into the cup, and miscalculated their editing capabilities. I have all my capacities, but dare not undertake to undertake my own edits at this time. I am just concerned that this person could have changed the content in factual ways, to the detriment of the article. I see at least 4 errors in these 2 sentences from para. 2. Your thoughts...

"Norman adventurers established a kingdom in Sicily and southern Italy by conquest, and a o the Norman Conquest of England. Norman influence spread from these new centres to the Normans were born in the 21 centery Crusader States in the Near East, to Scotland and Wales in Great Britain, and to Ireland." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.199.4.169 (talk) 21:07, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Fortunately 75.13.228.206 (talk · contribs) corrected the vandalism. Nev1 (talk) 17:34, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is one period of three period in history. There is currently a discussion at Talk:Middle Ages#Global Timeline regarding whether the article is about history or only includes the history of Europe. Further opinions would be welcome. --J. D. Redding 16:12, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

The first sentence of the first edit of this article was "Period in European History (see also History of Europe) which lasted from the end of the Western Roman Empire (late 4th century) to the beginning of the Renaissance." It has been about European history until May 1st, when Reddi made some wholesale changes which were then related. There's been a similar issue at Early Middle Ages. As we have a Wikiproject on this period I'm not clear why it's been brought up here instead of there. Dougweller (talk) 17:32, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes, the term "Middle Ages" is a specifically Western construct. The article isn't about world history; if it were, it shouldn't be called "Middle Ages".--Cúchullain ^t/c 17:58, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Category work by 217.169.210.138

I've been doing recent change patrolling and found a large number of possibly controversial edits by IP 217.169.210.138 (talk, contribs) involving adding categories about collaborators with the Nazi regime. Could someone take a look at these and revert if appropriate? —Tom Morris (talk) 14:42, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Sockpuppets adding assorted links to dubious book on recovered memories

Using a different username each time, somebody has been adding references to a book on recovered memories during the last day.

• Diff from Human rights (two successive edits)
• Diff from Sex and the law
• Diff from Prostitution of children
• Diff from Human subject research

The book in question, Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder, has been id-ed as link spam several times in the past as well as the subject of some Wikipedia controversies.

I am not sure under which Administrators' Noticeboard category this belongs. The spam section seemed largely devoted to commercial link spam. The Sock puppetry section seemed to be oriented toward cases where an editor is suspected of creating a new account for bad purposes and you have a "master" account to start. M.boli (talk) 12:45, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Actually, there are at least 4 more instances. See this search (but there's at least one there that doesn't fall into this group, so be careful with those results). I've filed a SPI investigation, which is the place to start, asking for an IP block (which isn't always possible). If the investigation is granted, they may go back and clean up the links, but you might go to the investigation page and under the "comments by other users" section say where that book has been previously ID'ed as linkspam. Good catch. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 19:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC)