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Aussie oddities?
[edit]User:Daceyvillain recently blanked both User:Voyage2023/Sydney/Eastern Suburbs and User:Voyage2023/Sydney/South-Eastern Suburbs with the edit comment "User is tricking readers by spreading misinformation on a user page which is crafted to look like an official page". Both users have been around since late 2023 & have many contributions, most or all around Sydney.
I suspect something weird is going on here, but am not sure what & I lack local knowledge. Can you take a look? Pashley (talk) 01:52, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Pashley: I think that's because Voyage2023 on enwiki has a tendency to push a certain region boundary and I think they were banned for that? (don't quote me on that)
- I've reverted Daceyvillain's edits, though – there isn't any policy (local or global) that prohibits this kind of material in userspace anyway. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 02:00, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
- FWIW, Voyage2023 was just banned from Wikipedia (yet again) for various reasons (vandalism, sockpuppetry, harrassment, etc)
- My issue with their user pages here is that they are essentially putting misinformation on Wikivoyage in order to take advantage of Wikivoyage’s Google Search ranking. In particular, Google now shows the same misinformation and lists Wikivoyage as a source, but the source is actually just their user page and not a normal page on Wikivoyage. So this seems very broken.
- Anyway, sorry for any controversy. Some more context here (at the bottom)
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Daceyvillain Daceyvillain (talk) 10:29, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
- In that case, I'd just NOINDEX it SHB2000 (t | c | m) 12:05, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Daceyvillain (talk) 10:32, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Glad I could help :-) (and don't feel the need to apologise). --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 10:47, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Daceyvillain (talk) 10:32, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- In that case, I'd just NOINDEX it SHB2000 (t | c | m) 12:05, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
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