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I would like to apply for a permanent IP block exemption. As noted above, I recently had a temporary IP block exemption. This trial period was, I believe, conducted successfully. I am now applying for a permanent exemption, for the same reasons, i.e. I am shortly about to go on holiday and will be using my VPS, and Q4 ofWP:BLOCKFAQ still applies. Many thanks,Kiwipete (talk)09:12, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Permanent exemptions are not granted; the most that you can get is a year.331dot (talk)09:24, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @331dot. Can I then please get the exemption for the next year?Kiwipete (talk)07:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, all set.331dot (talk)07:20, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for your contributions!! :)xRozuRozu •teacups05:19, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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How exactly doyou want me to cite a source for the distance settlements are away from a village? Anybody who knows how to read a map can check this for themselves, so what source could I even cite? Me using the measure distance tool on Google Maps? I'm sorry if I did actually make a mistake, but it can't be that I didn't cite a source for something like this, because, I've never seen a source cited for the distance between a village and another settlement.Fortek67 (talk)17:19, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to cite a map, you need to make sure that it specifies the actual distance between the two towns. Please seehere for the discussion of this issue.Kiwipete (talk)20:21, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's still useful information to add but there is little to no reliable sources on things like this, especially for tiny villages likeSobolice. I didn't know that this won't be needed anymore and I just assumed that it is a standard for all articles to contain this information.Fortek67 (talk)21:02, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kiwipete,I hope you're well. I recently came across a number of your edits while browsing Wikipedia—specifically on articles about various towns and villages in Poland. Out of curiosity, I checked your user contributions and was genuinely astonished to see that you've made over 240,000 edits in just a few years. That's an incredible volume of work!As someone who's not very familiar with how editing on Wikipedia works, I was wondering if you’d be open to sharing a bit about your process. Given the scale and consistency of your contributions, I couldn't help but wonder: are you using some form of automation or semi-automated tools to assist with your edits? And if so, is that kind of approach generally permitted within Wikipedia’s guidelines?Again, I don’t mean to intrude—I'm just genuinely curious. Your dedication, especially in covering what appears to be nearly every city and village in Poland, is impressive, and I’d love to understand how this kind of systematic editing is done.Thanks in advance for your time, and apologies if this is a naïve question!Best regards,

Marcin NowakMarcinnowak123 (talk)16:43, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Kiwipete,

Thanks again for your ongoing efforts on Wikipedia—your sheer volume of edits continues to stand out, especially in the area of Polish towns and villages.

After spending more time reviewing your contributions, I noticed that a significant portion of your edits involve shortening articles, formatting changes, or making surface-level adjustments, often to entries about very small settlements—even ones with fewer than 100 residents. These edits are incredibly consistent in pattern but usually don’t include substantial additions to the content itself.

I wanted to ask: what drives this particular editing approach? Is there a broader purpose behind this kind of editing—such as aligning all these articles to a certain standard, cleaning up older content, or something else entirely?

Also, how are you able to do this at such frequency and scale? I’m not asking again about tools or automation (as I did previously), but more about what motivates you to focus on these micro-level changes across so many entries, when in many cases the changes might seem minor or even imperceptible to the average reader.

Genuinely curious to understand more about the philosophy or rationale behind your work.

All the best,Marcin NowakMarcinnowak123 (talk)17:24, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Marcin, thanks a lot for your comments. The short answer to your first question "are you using some form of automation or semi-automated tools" is simple -AWB. This is a tool that allows semi-automated edits to be made to articles on the English (and perhaps other) wikipedias. This also allows for the "frequency and scale" that you refer to. You have to ask for, and be given, permission to use it. As far as your other questions, yes you're right that I'm not making many changes to the content, rather I'm trying to ensure that these articles have a consistent style. I don't know that I have any particular "philosophy", but maybe I exhibit behaviour described elsewhere as beinggnome-like. Kind regards,Kiwipete (talk)17:52, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again,

Thanks for your comment, that clears up a lot, my main theory at the beginning, was that accounts like yours may be made by bots, that aim to later sell the accounts for people who aim to troll other Wikipedia pages, with either making funny trolls like changing famous peoples' height to make them shorter, or more malicious like promoting extremist ideologies or antisemitism etc. What enforced my initial belief was that you have set on your account that you dont understand Polish (which is unexpected for an account that made multiple edits on the article of every single polish town and village), that all the changes were very similar format changes with no addition to the text of the article and that I noticed that all Wikipedia pages for polish towns are translated into languages in no way related to Polish, with very little speakers of that language living in Poland, even for towns with less than 100 people (in particular Hokkien, South Azerbaijani, Persian, Greek, French, Dutch, Chechen, Cebuano, Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, obviously the latter 3 are more believable since there are migrants from those countries in Poland, but the size of villages these edits were made under was very difficult to explain for a person who doesn’t really know much about wikipedia).

Since you clearly now more than me about wikipedia, I'd like to ask you about your opinion about the thing I just mentioned about the languages, all these articles about all villages in Poland, even those with less than 100 people are translated into the same languages (Hokkien, South Azerbaijani, Persian, Greek, French, Dutch, Chechen, Cebuano, Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian), obviously not all of them are translated into these languages, but they are repeating, if you pick 10 random articles on any Polish village, I guarantee all of them will be translated into at least half of these languages, from what I`ve understood from reading the article for the AWB, it doesnt allow automatic translation, and I havent noticed such function on the images provided in the article, so if either it does or there is some other method these account use, I'd be very grateful for an explanation (I`ve noticed that some of the accounts are by accounts labeled by bots, for example Hokkien was by a bot which linked to an account that explained that the author does it to preserve his dying language, which is cool ig, but thats not the same for french for example, which are human added)

PS sorry if these concerns and questions seem stupid, Im really not that knowledgeable on Wikipedia and how it works exactly, Im like a typical wikipedia user that just reads about an event they dont know about, who noticed a very weird pattern looking at neighbouring villages of Warsaw, and looking at edit history led me to your account, which had edited almost every Polish city and village (if not every)

Best regards,

MarcinMarcinnowak123 (talk)18:59, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

i meant to say "since you clearly know more than me" not "since you clearly now more than me"Marcinnowak123 (talk)19:01, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

also i forgot to mention tatar language, it also appears quite oftenMarcinnowak123 (talk)19:04, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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