A couple cookies for your help, fresh from the counter.[edit]
Thanks for helping me with account recovery. It means a lot. Now I can be on Wikipedia at school. (Also, can you soften the IP ban?) SirPineapl0 (talk) 22:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@SirPineapl0: You're welcome! No, I can't soften the IP block: first because I'm not an admin, and second because it looks like there was a lot of vandalism from the range of IP addresses you were on. But it doesn't affect logged-in users like you (and anyone who creates or requests an account). Best, — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 22:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ahh, thanks. I REALLY dislike those [redacted five-letter word starting with 'bo' and ending with 'os'] at my school who vandalize Wikipedia. SirPineapl0 (talk) 16:15, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I mean, thanks for letting me know. SirPineapl0 (talk) 16:16, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why are you performing tasks at SPI that are those of a clerk or patrolling administrator?--Bbb23 (talk) 13:26, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bbb23 I was trying to help with the backlog by doing actions that I believed were not restricted to clerks and admins: commenting, requesting clerk action, requesting CU if not requested by a filer where I think it could be warranted, providing diffs where none are provided, tagging two very obvious (and already globally locked) reported socks, and (while noting that I am neither a clerk nor an admin) marking things that I believe need no further action as closed (so a clerk can review and archive).
If any of these are in fact restricted, please let me know which so (1) I can stop and revert my prior actions and (2) (unless tagging, which I did manually, is the only such task) I can suggest edits to User:GeneralNotability/spihelper, which I had configured to not allow me to perform clerk-only actions.
AFAIK, you are not permitted to change the status of a report to request clerk. You can recommend a move, including pinging someone you think can help. You should not be using the helper script at all. I don't think it's a good idea to suggest such changes to the helper script even if GN were around to implement them. Am I making sense here, Spicy? BTW, I know you're only trying to help out, and I apologize if my question was confrontational.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:11, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not actually sure if there is any guideline preventing non-admins/clerks from changing the status to "clerk request", but I agree that it's generally not a great idea. Same for using the SPIhelper script. If you are interested in helping with these tasks, there is a solution for that... Spicy (talk) 22:59, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
