User talk:AP 499D25

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Peaceray (talk) 16:31, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Temporary account IP viewer granted

Hello, AP 499D25. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

• You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
• Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).

It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:

• When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
• Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
• Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).

Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 14:04, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Arbitration Case opened

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SchroCat. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SchroCat/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 15, 2026 at 23:59 UTC, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SchroCat/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Party Guide/Introduction. For the Arbitration Committee, DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 10:35, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Reminder regarding temporary-account-viewer rights in content disputes

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Please be reminded of the terms under which you were recently granted Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer rights. As noted by the administrator on this page: "Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user."

Using your access to investigate, reveal, or check the IP details of any temporary accounts involved in the current content dispute on Talk:Windows 11 version history would be a direct violation of Wikimedia's Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy. Please keep this constraint in mind. ~2026-39563-64 (talk) 22:45, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

How bold of you to assume I don't know the policies regarding the use of the TAIV right. I have definitely not used them there. — AP 499D25 (talk) 02:22, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

It is highly hypocritical of you to spit baseless, paranoid accusations of AI use at other editors, yet you seem perfectly comfortable trying to weaponize a far more powerful and invasive tool like the Temporary Account IP Viewer (TAIV) right to intimidate people.

You rushed to my talk page to post a passive-aggressive "reminder" warning about TAIV policies during a content dispute. The only reason to do that was to subtly signal to a temporary account user that you have the power to look up their IP address. Trying to drop ominous hints about your advanced user rights to apply pressure and harass other editors in a content dispute is a blatant violation of gaming the system.

Instead of trying to intimidate other editors with your administrative tools, you should focus on the actual, objective technical arguments regarding the MediaWiki parser cache. ~2026-39766-91 (talk) 05:10, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Am I blind? I don't see where you've even mentioned it at all, except in this comment. Certainly not on the above user's talk page. ChompyTheGogoat (talk) 11:12, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

@ChompyTheGogoat i am almost certain that this is the comment that made the LLM write about abuse of TAIV "I'm done talking to this temporary account user." because it's the only place where AP has said "temporary account" before OP went and LLM-generated this confusing mess about violating TAIV policy ~2026-38678-64 (talk) 17:03, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Wow, that is a truly wild assumption - and clearly NOT on their own talk page (any of them). Was that just the only guideline their machine could come up with that mentioned temporary accounts? ChompyTheGogoat (talk) 17:14, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

i think it's more likely that the person behind this account wrote a prompt like "write a wikipedia comment about why this user is harassing me" or something (i don't use LLMs!) ~2026-38678-64 (talk) 17:21, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

It just seems bizarrely specific. They usually claim things like hounding and aspersions, as they're far more general. Who knows - certainly not me! ChompyTheGogoat (talk) 17:24, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-39563-64: you are ignoring the spirit of the rule. If you'd read the page yourself, you would know that it is referring to threatening to dox an IP, not simply checking for sockpuppetry. No matter how much you sealion, your repeated AI use constitutes disruptive behavior, and TAIP is explicitly allowed against disruptive editors. Trying to connect you to other TAs you have held (and used for AI comments) does not disrupt the process, unlike flooding talk pages with AI-generated text. Somepinkdude (talk | contribs), in solidarity 00:45, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

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interesting technical information on why pages load slowly

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if you're interested in nerd details about why web pages can be slow (even on fast connections) this might help you, it's an extremely detailed breakdown of how web bloat affects slow devices and has a lot w/r/t how browsers do their thing to display websites ~2026-38678-64 (talk) 03:37, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

i also have the unfortunate -64 prefix, which may make you think i'm 39563, but i believe that my contribs and my thanks log are evidence to the contrary ~2026-38678-64 (talk) 03:42, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Don't worry, I already know you are a different person based on many different factors (and that's without using TAIV). I've referred to you as "TA2" and the problem user as "TA1" in my AN/I response. Frankly, I don't think there's a correlation between the temporary account suffix number and who the person editing is anyway. I would like to give you a massive thanks for the response at AINB, as well as what you've done in trying to collapse the messages on Talk:Windows 11 version history, and reporting TA1 to AN/I after that incident. — AP 499D25 (talk) 11:25, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

oh no, i meant that "you might confuse me for the other -64" because i did that two times (i accidentally reported myself instead of 39563 as a sockpuppet) ~2026-38678-64 (talk) 16:59, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

also thank you for making my ANI report more understandable. I tend to have a problem with arguing persuasively and concisely, especially when i find that the issue is blatant and obvious ~2026-38678-64 (talk) 17:12, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

oh my god i now understand how you did this diff, i was unaware that wikipedia lets one set a diff to an arbitrary point in time, and WP:PERMLINK exists argh

this will be useful for my AINB reports ~2026-38678-64 (talk) 19:40, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

you might also be interested in Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance which says "Don't worry about performance" refers to site-wide performance, where the purpose of the servers is to support the wiki contents, not the other way around. The purpose of the wiki content is to serve the reader; and performance considerations can certainly play a part in that process. Using thumbnails with a large size in bytes instead of a smaller size in bytes (e.g., a high-fidelity 50 kB PNG instead of an uglier 20 kB JPEG) can definitely slow down the loading of pages; but whether that's acceptable is an editorial choice, not something the developers or sysadmins will either prevent or encourage." ~2026-38678-64 (talk) 18:16, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for quoting WP:PERF. It states the exact point I have been making from the beginning: "the purpose of the servers is to support the wiki contents, not the other way around." Using template limitations or backend rendering sizes to justify purging notable version history is a clear violation of this principle. The servers are there to host the encyclopedia's data, and keeping stable public release details is an editorial decision based on historical utility, not a system performance constraint. ~2026-39779-14 (talk) 20:28, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

As much as I've been dismissive of the TA1 user over their use of AI, I did perhaps learn a thing or two from them after doing my own bit of digging into Wikipedia's performance. But thanks for that. — AP 499D25 (talk) 06:22, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

I'm glad you took the time to actually look into how Wikipedia's caching and performance work instead of just doubling down on your initial claims. Hopefully, in the future, you'll try to understand the technical realities of what you're discussing before jumping to conclusions and making baseless AI accusations against editors who correct you. DefinitelyNotAI (talk) 19:50, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

You were reported, and then blocked by an admin for misusing an LLM and lying about it. And now you're operating from a new registered account to evade the indefinite blocks placed on those temporary accounts. So long as the original indefinite blocks on those temporary accounts exist, any new accounts, whether temporary or registered, that are found to be you will be blocked by an admin upon sight. If you want to come back to Wikipedia legitimately, you need to appeal that indefinite block first. — AP 499D25 (talk) 22:11, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

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Apologies

I am so sorry about that! I don't know why I went to your talk page instead of the evader's. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 00:13, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

No worries! I guess I now have the pleasure of having been accidentally blocked before, as well as getting to see what notifications one receives when they are blocked. :D — AP 499D25 (talk) 00:14, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Glad you feel that way, thanks. :) I agree, it is useful to know. My most recent block was actually so I could check that myself... SarekOfVulcan (talk) 00:24, 16 July 2026 (UTC)