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:::::::::: I've just seen this and TI is right here. A 6 month block would not have been appropriate had it not been an open proxy. That situation does seem to be resolved bar some blacklists caching it. Revoking sysop rights for unblocking someone when the situation is resolved is not an appropriate reason to revoke. If TrustedInstaller wishes to gain his rights back, I see no reason why not. The only thing I'm wondering is how he knew to go straight for that block to remove. [[User:RhinosF1|RhinosF1]] ([[User talk:RhinosF1|talk]]) 07:45, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
::::::::::: To add to my discussion on [[meta:Discord|Discord]], my reason for revoking the rights wasn't simply because TrustedInstaller unblocked an IP address, but it was the fact that he focused on ''that'' particular IP address used, presumably, by an LTA that Naleksuh monitors over on the Wikimedia projects or other wikis. Perhaps I should've questioned the original block of the IP, but it seemed consistent the block length used by [[meta:Stewards|stewards]] when blocking anonymous users for LTA and related issues, so simply opted to defer to you on that when you reviewed the block logs for TestWiki. Because of that, I was concerned that TrustedInstaller may continue with unblocking further LTAs, so removed the rights, at least in the short-term, in order for the user to provide a satisfactory explanation for the removal of that block and also why one of the user's ''first'' actions was to unblock ''that'' IP address, which didn't jive with the reason for requesting rights (i.e., "to test the MediaWiki interface") at [[TestWiki:Request permissions]]. I agree, though, I should've been more ''direct'' with TrustedInstaller in, and better articulated, my concerns. In fairness, I ''did'' hesitate on placing a two-week moratorium for re-requesting [[TestWiki:Administrators|administrator]], but since you're satisfied, I see no problem with TrustedInstaller re-requesting that right immediately, with either a strong recommendation that they test the other administrator tools (since they seem to be familiar with blocking/unblocking IP addresses). [[mh:meta:User:Dmehus|Dmehus]] ([[User talk:Dmehus|talk]]) 14:10, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
== Preferred test namespaces, cleaning up after/reverting test edits, and [[w:Wikipedia:RedWarn|RedWarn for testing outside of English Wikipedia]] ==
Hi TrustedInstaller,
It is good to see that you are making good use of the [[TestWiki:Administrators|administrator]] tools; however, as part of my daily review of the [[Special:Log|public logs]] and [[Special:RecentChanges|recent contributions]], I noted several items, neither of which are particularly problematic but nonetheless provide useful points to note for the future, so as to avoid potential future problems. I've listed them below, in unordered bullet point form.
* '''Preferred test namespaces.''' I noticed your creation, protection, and subsequent deletion of a test page in project namespace that began with [[Special:Redirect/logid/9060|this log action]]. As noted by the new page notice in project namespace, '''TestWiki:''' namespace is primarily used for [[:Category:Non-test pages|non-test pages]], whether categorized in that category or not, related to the '''Public Test Wiki''' project. You ''are''; however, free to test in most other namespaces, though '''Main:''' and '''User:''' are probably the most common testing namespaces.
* '''Cleaning up after and/or reverting test edits.''' Per [[TestWiki:Testing policy#After testing|this section of our testing policy]], please try and ensure that you always revert every test action you make. While you ''did'' delete the [[TestWiki:Example page]] after creating it, I noted in one of the intervening edits when you [[Special:Diff/28466|protected the page]], you didn't unprotect it. This isn't necessarily a ''problem'', per se, in that deleted pages with outstanding page protections don't show up in [[Special:ProtectedPages]], so it's not essential or anything that you restore the page temporarily to unprotect it (though you certainly ''can'', if you want), it is a really good best practice to remove page protection prior to deleting it.
* '''Using [[w:Wikipedia:RedWarn|RedWarn for testing outside of English Wikipedia]].''' I noticed [[Special:Permalink/28484|this edit]] of your planned usage of the English Wikipedia vandalism reverting tool '''RedWarn''', so it piqued my interest to see if RedWarn was now available on wikis outside of English Wikipedia now. Sadly, it [[w:Wikipedia:RedWarn#Other wikis|doesn't seem to be yet]]. (I also quickly checked [[w:Wikipedia talk:RedWarn|the companion talk page]] on English Wikipedia.) So, I just thought I'd send you this friendly note before attempting to edit, as I know the RedWarn developers do caution strongly against attempting to use the unmodified, imported script on other wikis.
Anyway, that's all I had for now, and I hope you find these tips helpful for the future in making the most out of '''Public Test Wiki'''. :)
Cheers,
<br />[[mh:meta:User:Dmehus|Dmehus]] ([[User talk:Dmehus|talk]]) 18:41, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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