User talk:Mfield

For his succinct, pithy, relevant, and droll AN/I closure Result statement at this AN/I discussion, Mfield is hereby awarded the Lenny Bruce Honorary AN/I Result of the Week Award. Brag wisely; you've only got six more days to enjoy it. Mathglot (talk) 06:26, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Thanks for making this script! I found a bug however. If my diff times are shown in local time, there will be a drift by my UTC offset. For instance, I am 8 hours behind UTC currently, so if I make an edit, it will show in the history as "8 hours ago" instead of "Now" which is incorrect. Once that is fixed, I'd be happy to reinstall it. TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 06:23, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, yes that's a current limitation that's noted in the notes. A lot of admins/editors i know use UTC everywhere anyway due to it being easier to reconcile everywhere, but if I get a minute to try and find a workaround for it I will. Mfield (Oi!) 06:28, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Completely missed that. Thanks for noting. TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 06:30, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@TheTechie Good news, I just found a way to detect the timezone offset so it should now work fine with non UTC times. Thanks for triggering me to fix it ;) Mfield (Oi!) 01:38, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

And thank YOU for fixing it! :) TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 02:04, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think I found another issue unfortunately. The relative timestamp when viewing a discussion doesn't really cross lines well. Currently it does something like this (from this comment):

                 (58 min.
pm, Today (UTC-8) ago)   

Could you make it so that it all appears on one line like this?

pm, Today (UTC-8) (58 min. ago) TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 05:23, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@TheTechie Should be fixed now to non breaking spaces. Mfield (Oi!) 05:29, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, not quite. Now it appears as:

              (8 min. ago
Today, (UTC-8))          TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 05:38, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How about now? I put a minimum width on the element, so if it still does it now then it may the browser deciding to wrap that element forcibly for some reason due to another element. Mfield (Oi!) 05:47, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, still doing it. I wonder if it's a Firefox quirk; I am using Librewolf after all. TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 05:56, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

So am I ha, I'll mess with it some more tomorrow Mfield (Oi!) 05:57, 25 February 2026 (UTC) Mfield (Oi!) 05:57, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Figured it out. You have to remove the width property as that forces it to do the weird line thing. Without that parameter it's fine.

Another question. Does the timestamp update on discussions or is it from when you loaded the page? TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 06:02, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

they are calculated from the timestamps and injected into the DOM at the time the page is rendered, so they won't update without the page reloading Mfield (Oi!) 06:07, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, I'd probably provide a way to turn that specific function off, as when viewing, for example, long AN/I threads which takes minutes to read, that could get out of date. But that's just a suggestion of mine. TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 06:10, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@TheTechie Better than that, I have just improved it so it auto updates all the sub 1 hour relative times every minute automatically, so you can read away now on those long threads and they will be updating themselves. Mfield (Oi!) 21:40, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 23:00, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I can actually remove the width property anyway now the min width one is there, i may switch it to adding a class so they can be user styled also Mfield (Oi!) 06:10, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For your amazing admin and userscript work! TheTechie[she/they] | talk? 04:39, 15 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the speedy action at ANI regarding a suspicious account. ↠Pine (✉) 04:24, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For taking care of the notability issues at Yaki Kadafi (rapper) by laying down some protection. I hope the user can heed your advice. JeffSpaceman (talk) 00:53, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You might remember me from last month, or not, but i'm just here to thank you for getting me out of that WP:MISLEADNAME block. Have a nice day! | One Reaction was here. Got a complaint? 20:35, 7 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

for reference I was User:Theonethatknowsyouripaddress | One Reaction was here. Got a complaint? 20:36, 7 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the /44 range of the IP under this TA, and consider increasing the block time. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) (contributions) 21:31, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This is the same person as ~2026-29703-39, Fadsulbda, and ~2026-32326-28. So I doubt a 31 hour block will do the job. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) (contributions) 21:34, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I see that looking at it, have blocked the range for 3 months. Mfield (Oi!) 21:35, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) (contributions) 21:35, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mfield, I saw today you blocked Logical Editor Kakji (originally Niral Bhatt) that user edited war and add sources that never match what he's writing, On May 21, I came across all this information changed on the Instagram article and the source he provided did not say any of it, I reverted it,[1] and then left him a warning on his talk page.[2] He then renamed his account to Kashmiri Pandit and cleared all his warnings on May 22.[3] He made another account Farooq Shah Industani and changed Instagram's launch date from 2010 to 2009 again.[4] After this was reverted on June 21, he changed his main account name to Logical Editor Kakji,[5] and then made Farooq Shah Industani 2 on June 22. Cena332 (talk) 19:40, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, yeah am going to open an SPI on it. Mfield (Oi!) 19:47, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Cena332 (talk) 19:50, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Cena332, nevermind it's a total duckfest, have blocked them both. Here's the SPI case in the event that more pop up. Mfield (Oi!) 19:55, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mfield Hi check out latest entry I added to SPI :) --Cena332 (talk) 00:37, 27 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mfield no one unfortunately has replied to my second comment yet in the SPI case for two days. Cena332 (talk) 23:14, 29 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Cena332 That's pretty normal at SPI. The tags you pointed out don't really mean anything, that could easily be a coincidence. Best thing at this point would be for the account to make an edit that is completely and obviously connected to the others. Let me know if that happens. Mfield (Oi!) 23:18, 29 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mfield, I was undoing Logical Editor Kakji edits on Bhatt article[6] at 6:11 and all of sudden in under twenty minutes at 6:25 and 6:39 these 2 accounts are made, ~2026-37463-46 & XYZWORLDS asking a editor if he can undo the edit. Cena332 (talk) 07:35, 30 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mfield I noticed more evidence with another account ~2026-37369-32 adding the exact same book source. Jun 24 edit Logical Editor Kakji [7] Jun 29 edit ~2026-37369-32 [8] Cena332 (talk) 17:10, 30 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah i have an ongoing discussion going about a block on the underlying IP range, as there are a ton of recent partial blocks on the range that are likely all caused by the same editor that should be consolidated into a full block. Mfield (Oi!) 18:07, 30 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Lastly Timeline of Instagram which he edited a lot,[9] needs looked at too. Check out the talk page since May 21,[10] Just a bunch of jibberish from multiple temporary accounts in broken English with some saying "my account is disabled".[11] Cena332 (talk) 18:13, 30 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Was wondering why you have blocked Sean Casey's Account on Wikipedia? thanks! Plusplusbattery (talk) 02:24, 1 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's a standard precautionary block to prevent impersonation as explained in the block message on User_talk:Sean_Cameron_Casey. We get people creating accounts pretending to be someone else, or to be the subject of an article. This requires them to verify they are the person in question. Then they can keep the username and continue to edit with it, if not they have to chose another. Mfield (Oi!) 03:04, 1 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll inform sean. Plusplusbattery (talk) 05:06, 1 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mfield, it's me, Kiff Chatterly. You probably might not recognize me from this temporary account, but I'm the user you helped from the whole TWWWOG copyvio fiasco. Anyways, I'm writing to tell you that I appreciate you vanishing my account.

However, if it's not too much trouble, could you also delete my userpage? I don't really want it to remain there since it still features my previous name. Anyways, thank you again for vanishing my account, and I wish you the best! ~2026-37705-97 (talk) 03:34, 2 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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