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more bad actors hidden in plain sight, wielding their editing privileges as a cloak for censorship or for commercial and political gains. Knowledge (XXG) prides itself on being the bastion of open-source information, but as this case indicates, the current vetting mechanisms for admin misconduct are insufficient. With the ascent of LLMs and generative AI, Knowledge (XXG)'s human element is its unique selling point, but also its Achilles' heel. Without stringent and proactive measures to reinforce accountability and transparency, WP risks not only reputational decay but also obsolescence, as users turn to emerging technologies that offer reliable information with less human baggage.
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why someone like this does the things they do, and also don't be fooled by them implying they confessed out of some sort of kindness to me either, that's just as much of a lie as all the other lies they told. They did email the committee a while back to say they thought I was losing it and should be forced into some sort of counseling. That made me laugh and also almost certainly made the rest of the committee less likely to take "her" seriously. Now that we are reasonably certain of the connection between the accounts, in hindsight there are some other indicators that have come up, things that might habve tipped this situaion over a bit sooner, but per
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here is Lourdes. I noticed the claims that they were Russian Red and looked into that too. I checked on their early history and noticed the keen interest in cricket. It then seemed quite likely that they were Indian whereas the idea that they were a Spanish singer seemed quite incredible. I didn't say anything about this at the time because the evidence was just circumstantial and Lourdes was actually quite polite to me:
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country that person was living in. Back in 2021, in the aftermath of the RexxS case, they were complaining about OUTING when their supposed real identity was mentioned offwiki, and managed to then get the original edits they made pretending to be the celebrity oversighted (these edits have now been restored). Ideally, they should have been blocked under
1411:*not* to cover this story. A bent admin with special privileges has been watching over other Wikipedians (as well as their paid clients) for about a decade. As far as why other stories weren't published - we've all got time pressures - but please feel free to submit a full story, or even just a brief paragraph for inclusion for the next issue. 170: 1557:. Or maybe I've just romanticized his opposition. I suppose that like a broken clock which is right twice a day, a serial opposer was bound to get lucky. Perhaps, if anything, it is a cautionary tale for editors at Rfa not to jump so quickly on opposers. One never knows when the next Lourdes might be lurking about. Regards, 1715:
contributions. If I found something that indicated that the candiate was unsuitable then I would oppose because that's the way it's supposed to work. RfA should not be an easy pass because failed candidates are able to try again, as Lourdes did, but successful candidates cannot easily be recalled or suspended.
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when that opposition is very much in the minority, is a profound waste of time that would be better spent doing something else. I also haven't put forward any RfA candidates for a while, but for those I did, I mentioned that there would be some opposition, most of it would be at best good feedback or
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I didn't want to write it there. I actually commend your discussion style (except for a few words, of course, like "absurd", but forget that) and applaud your persistence in something you believe in. I'm also in awe that you don't cow down to number pressure – that is, the social pressure of having a
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But casting such opposes generated hostility and unpleasantness because the voting process is public. Admins such as Kudpung in particular would make regular personal attacks on me, claiming that I was part of an anti-admin brigade. This was a fabrication because, so far I can tell, there's no such
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This didn't happen because I opposed everyone at RfA; I supported plenty of candidates such as Ritchie333. It's because I did due diligence as seemed appropriate for the granting of such lifetime powers. I would usually check the candidate's user pages and then systematically check a month of their
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Get away with what, exactly? Did they get away with becoming an admin by not doing the bad things that led to the earlier ban (or much other bad things)? Or did they get away with doing bad things before the "Godfather" thing? The first possibility I think we can't do much about without a significant
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This episode isn't just a one-off scandal; it's symptomatic of a more pervasive ailment that could undermine the very foundation of Knowledge (XXG): trust. If an abuser can use their admin privileges for clandestine purposes until choosing to come forward, it stands to reason that there could be many
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The attacks culminated in my being taken to ANI to ban me from RfA. This was not done but I was warned. I continued to vote in RfAs to demonstrate that I could not be cowed or intimidated but then I stopped and haven't done much since. I have my reasons but that's another story and the main issue
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in this very periodical said "it was a matter of deep concern" that an abusive editor who had obtained administrator privileges "was able to fool the community for so long". At that time, they were banned by the Arbitration Committee following a long case. We are sad to report that, not only did the
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when it came out that such a productive and ever-present administrator had socked for so long, socked in an ArbCom election (where it most certainly would be discovered and was) and had no remorse about it. There have been other "Admins gone Wild" cases as well but most of them were awhile ago (see
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Andrew had a reputation for Opposing the majority of RFAs for any reason they could think of. Andrew didn't outright say "I believe they're a sock of x" or "they're acting similarly to x", They were opposing because they felt Lourdes was making COSMETICBOT edits ..... No connection between Wifione
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I was as surprised as anyone, I thought Lourdes was a terrible admin because they rushed into things and tended to chose the "Path of the Most Drama" more often than not. That was all I expected to be addressing in the request I filed. I would suggest that it is not a worthwhile endeavor to ponder
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This is kind of a surprise, but I think this could easily have been avoided with proper screening measures. The fact they were able to fool the community for so long is more than concerning. I am not saying that all admins need to be screened, but there should be this expectation of trust. I don't
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My RL identity has nothing to do with any celebrity or anyone like that. I am not writing this to have any final laugh. It's just that I feel it appropriate to place it here specially for Beeblebrox, who I almost emotionally traumatised over the years with the aforementioned double sleight -- aka,
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As Davey said, no apology is required. I was one of those four opposes and I didn't know about the socking. I think your latter point is more prescient: maybe we shouldn't so quickly attack opposers. The truth of RfA is that it is always an attempt to create the appearance of political consensus;
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that more "surprising" socks will be outed in the coming years. You just asked where all the administrators were – I choose to focus on the content of the encyclopedia, rather than editor behavior. There are shortages of admins in many areas; you can't help in them all so you need to prioritize.
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What goes unmentioned here is that Wifione was impersonating a moderately famous celebrity with same first name behind the scenes, going all the way back to their first edits on the Lourdes account late in 2015, including in their emails, and going as far to use a VPN to appear to be in the same
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Nobody is quite sure what to make of this. How did they get away with this for so long? How did they conceal it this well? How did nobody notice? What was the point of spending years as a productive administrator, making tens of thousands of edits and logging thousands of actions, to implode the
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Like babe, you were living a TRIPLE LIFE??? Not even pretending, BEING a respected member of the admin community who is PRETENDING to be Spanish indie pop sensation Russian Red, who is PRETENDING that they haven't scammed anyone before. I can hardly wrap my head around this, this is some George
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This could certainly be the last sock from this user, and they may not have any other accounts at this point. Still, the paranoid side of me wonders. Will someone with a decade or two of experience in ban evasion give up for good, after surrendering this readily? It almost seems like a stunt.
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That prior account was later linked to another account called Wifione, which was created in 2009 and that had become a Knowledge (XXG) admin in 2010. The Arbitration committee case found that Wifione was engaging in search engine optimization related to an Indian educational firm. Wifione was
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Now this is a saga, but a better (funnier at least) saga would be a trilogy, next time ArbCom need to take some time to review every RfA candidate, but still very funny for what it's worth. This was just a what the hell moment and then when I saw Lourdes' name, a second what the hell moment.
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and Lourdes was made in his Oppose !vote (and going by Wifione's contribs they didn't do script work anyway).... so no apology is required as to me it's not like Andrew said "This user is a sock of x" and they were ignored (If they said that we would've took them far more seriously.) –
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Aren't checkusers supposed to be done at the time of adminship? A checkuser will reveal stuff like proxy use and alternative accounts. The whole point of emailing ArbCom about any alternative accounts is to come clean that there was not any breaches of trust or community expectations.
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You know, I vividly recall that something was off about Lourdes when she unilaterally reverted the block on Athaenara after having not made any major contributions to the project in ages. I thought it was very odd for someone to randomly do that out of the blue. Still, I'm shocked.
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with 207 in favor and 3 opposed. The account went mostly unused for 2020 through 2022, with many months of total editorial inactivity, although it continued to perform admin actions. In 2023, they returned to regularly editing the English Knowledge (XXG).
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created the Lourdes account in late 2015, initially under a different name. In 2016 they renamed the account. They were most active in 2016–17, and ran an unsuccessful, self-nominated request for adminship in early 2017; a second attempt in 2018
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after making the initial edits pretending to be the celebrity. Overall, this is undoubtedly one of the most elaborate ruses in Knowledge (XXG) history, and a clear demonstration of the fact that you never really know who's behind the mask.
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pulling him around for revealing my so-called identity. It also required double-doxxing myself on at least one external project, namely Wikipediocracy, which even placed mentions of my name in the private section to protect my identity.
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it's never a fact-finding mission. Because we're not collectively holding folks like Ritchie333 to account for the nomination is why they continue to be so cavalier in their approach. This sort of thing will continue to happen because
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While I already have a bunch of concerns about on-wiki functionary processes, I'm including to agree — while obviously ban evasion is something we would want the community to pursue and punish, if the evader doesn't get noticed
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risk of the cure being worse than the disease, and unfortunately that's the direction I see some pushing. The second has more promise, but doesn't necessarily result in us catching that a sock is a sock versus just a bad admin.
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I don't understand why so many are so surprised. Today is election day in Ohio, where I will be required to present a government-issued photo ID in order to be allowed to walk into a voting booth. Yet some MAGA Republicans
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For what it's worth, I know Andrew Davidson in real life and have talked to him in person about various Knowledge (XXG) articles and events numerous times. We have also collaborated on several articles together.
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Besides, if I were more active in looking for editors who weren't who they said they were, I'd still need to assume good faith and tiptoe around the "outing" policy to avoid getting in trouble myself. Want to
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What screening procedure do you have that would've "easily" detected that Lourdes was a sock? Certainly the many editors and admins who supported and nominated them for adminship didn't notice anything amiss.
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Strange enough, this is not the first time I heard about admin with sockpuppets. The Dutch Knowledge (XXG) had also a few cases. Probably the current election and control is failing. How can that be fixed?
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I was away from Knowledge (XXG) for quite some time due to real life reasons, and then got this news via Reddit and Twitter, and I'm back here to reiterate Moneytrees' feelings myself, "What the hell?".
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I believe it's merely a turn-of-phrase, using a modifier for a term that can't be modified because it's binary. "I tried to ask Abraham Lincoln about the quote but it turns out he's exceedingly dead."
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This wasn't the news I was expecting to read today. I'm not going to lie, it's actually kind of impressive that Wifione/Lourdes was able to successfully go through RfA twice as a sockpuppet. -
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Because I remember having acted on your complaints at ANI a few times, and on the basis of that connect and support that I gave you, I am requesting you to reconsider your stand
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All of the details of the request and the statements made there — which arbitrators voted to decline as pointless soon after the revelations and the self-block — can be seen at
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This kind of pressuring (there were other examples) was described by one of the contributors to the case request as "the kind of thinly veiled threat you'd expect to hear in
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I've always had an iffy feeling about Lourdes that I couldn't quite put my finger on and now I know why. Never would have imagined the problem to be this serious though.
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Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015: "Is this an ArbCom case request or an M. Night Shyamalan movie?"
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mentioned in Lourdes' final message has indeed discussed this issue, and that both Beeblebrox and the disgraced LTA have posted more about the events, but the
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filed this month alleged that Lourdes engaged in egregious abuse of their administrator status during a recent request for adminship, including the following:
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Sorry, what? Are you suggesting that LLMs offer superior accountability, transparency, and reliability than Knowledge (XXG)? They're black boxes trained
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pointless for any editor to validate Andrew's votes at Rfa...His decision for Lourdes, and any other worthy candidate, was set before the Rfa even began
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thing. I suspect that his real beef was that I had opposed him at his own RfA. And I was vindicated there too because he was eventually de-sysopped.
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of how the Wifione siteban came to be, amidst allegations of paid editing while holding the admin bit, you can probably skip over this section.
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FWIW, it seems that Lourdes already had many red flags, but how many others don't? To question Lourdes' "innocence" back then would've violated
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note Izno's comment on Lourdes's checkuser results quoted above? I've already left a note about Lourdes on the talk of the Wifione ArbCom case.
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Yeah. Must have had considerable passion for their project, so to speak. Perhaps your username in short for Zillionth Lourdes' Editor Account.
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voters are free to air whatever opinions they like, and banning people for their views is unlikely to lead to a conductive environment.
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abuse not stop in 2015, but the same person managed to obtain a second administrator account, and was just discovered a few days ago.
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the case. Reading their opposes, I became fascinated by their ability, in the face of such support, to not be fooled. In the case of
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used by the individual also known as Wifione was created in 2006. They created dozens of sock accounts, which were revealed by a
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I think you're right. We can deal with it as we are able when discovered, but the problem is not new and of limited concern.
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I was unaware of this arbitration case but had suspicions about Lourdes and was surprised when they passed their RfA (
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I didn't just oppose Lourdes; I also opposed their WifiOne alias at that RfA too. So, that's a big told-you-so.
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Why did the Signpost chose to cover only the "news at eleven" story in this issue of the Arbitration Report? --
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Agreed that this is a seriously concerning matter, that threatens to undermine confidence in the encyclopedia.
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They've probably only admitted to it because they have alternative accounts or have accomplished there goal.
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specified that Wifione can appeal after 12 months (whether the appeal would be accepted is another story).
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noted Andrew as a serial opposer. Not knowing Andrew myself, I'd like to envision his role as more of
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So comfortable, we're livin' in a bubble, bubble. So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble
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Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
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Entirely possible, better not to rule that out because I would find that pretty possible.
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Should the sockpuppet categories for Mrinal Pandey (MP) and Wifione be merged? And should
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personalities know how to game the system and we have no desire at all to stop them.
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huge number of editors against you. It's an honest appreciation of you. Warmly,
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While this Lourdes case might be surprising, I was actually more shocked about
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This page isn't really complete without the 2015 Newsweek article on Wifione:
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Lourdes probably confessed because they already have another admin acccount.
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to come to Toronto and make miracles is not how it's supposed to work. :) --
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that they are the site-banned former admin Wifione. The case request was
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surprise me, Lourdes? Show up in Toronto this week, ready to perform. –
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How did they get away with this for so long? How did nobody notice?
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cry that thousands of sock-puppets voted in the 2020 election. I
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to raise the complaint. But that's a different conversation.) —
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I think we should, especially because adminship is a position of
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Manipulating Knowledge (XXG) to Promote a Bogus Business School
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Knowledge (XXG):Sockpuppet investigations/Mrinal Pandey/Archive
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Aren't checkusers supposed to be done at the time of adminship?
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still, it's like one "lourdes" to a thousand good editors. ltb
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One never knows when the next Lourdes might be lurking about.
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whole thing over a pointless argument on an RfA talk page?
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Eh? Why did they doxx themselves? Bizarre behaviour.
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at worst easily ignored, and not to worry about it.
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And there was also 253:on 1 November, claiming misdeeds including 1755:closed the RfA topic ban as "no consensus" 446:doesn't make a whole lot of sense either. 2050:Knowledge (XXG) Signpost archives 2023-11 723:proxy use for the data retention period. 362:, the admin who got blocked years ago. 18:Knowledge (XXG):Knowledge (XXG) Signpost 1575:ok, but it's happened, like, twice. ltb 788:Maybe we can add the following line to 586: 562: 287:According to the 2015 Arbcom case, the 90: 1676: 1570: 1546: 1148: 760: 254: 1931:2600:6C65:627F:FA27:6C:B3E6:FE6F:1812 1021:Maybe he'll go for the sock-to-admin 379:And blocked themselves indefinitely: 268:One of the contributors to the case, 29: 7: 630:Is it actually unappealable though? 594:What does "extremely banned" mean? 984:looks good to me; in the end it's 56: 28: 568:These comments are automatically 68:File:Sock puppet and keyboard.jpg 1282:I'll strive to be worthy of it. 303:as part of the case resolution. 194: 168: 158: 148: 138: 128: 118: 108: 265:following Lourdes' admission. 225:arbitration request for Lourdes 1068:noted below (and I also liked 790:Knowledge (XXG):Administrators 731:) 15:34, 2 November 2023 (UTC) 579:add the page to your watchlist 1: 1918:04:25, 16 November 2023 (UTC) 1902:08:23, 14 November 2023 (UTC) 1880:03:09, 14 November 2023 (UTC) 1871:19:54, 10 November 2023 (UTC) 1848:19:08, 10 November 2023 (UTC) 1777:10:31, 14 November 2023 (UTC) 1749:23:29, 10 November 2023 (UTC) 1170:then I'm much less concerned. 899:16:49, 11 November 2023 (UTC) 1954:10:58, 6 December 2023 (UTC) 1939:02:09, 4 December 2023 (UTC) 1814:18:18, 8 November 2023 (UTC) 1796:18:18, 8 November 2023 (UTC) 1707:20:45, 9 November 2023 (UTC) 1672:13:00, 9 November 2023 (UTC) 1653:09:29, 9 November 2023 (UTC) 1631:10:23, 9 November 2023 (UTC) 1617:10:17, 9 November 2023 (UTC) 1601:09:35, 9 November 2023 (UTC) 1587:13:58, 8 November 2023 (UTC) 1566:12:53, 8 November 2023 (UTC) 1513:12:26, 8 November 2023 (UTC) 1487:08:32, 8 November 2023 (UTC) 1471:08:29, 8 November 2023 (UTC) 1457:03:57, 8 November 2023 (UTC) 1443:22:25, 7 November 2023 (UTC) 1425:17:36, 7 November 2023 (UTC) 1391:11:44, 7 November 2023 (UTC) 1379:14:48, 7 November 2023 (UTC) 1365:11:37, 7 November 2023 (UTC) 1337:00:11, 7 November 2023 (UTC) 1324:Template:Uw-ublock-wellknown 1317:23:54, 6 November 2023 (UTC) 1292:20:30, 6 November 2023 (UTC) 1278:18:12, 6 November 2023 (UTC) 1257:17:56, 6 November 2023 (UTC) 1242:14:44, 6 November 2023 (UTC) 1218:18:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC) 1193:15:09, 6 November 2023 (UTC) 1160:13:30, 6 November 2023 (UTC) 1143:13:14, 6 November 2023 (UTC) 1119:12:34, 6 November 2023 (UTC) 1097:, this is it. 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