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== User:inuit18 ==
This [[User:inuit18]] is valdalisme the article [[Jamal-al-Din Afghani]], but not with his account but only with ip-address and talks bad and he is scolding in his own language and you didn't understand it. Ask it to [[User:Ketabtoon]] to translate it for you. look here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AJamal-al-Din_Afghani&action=historysubmit&diff=342342369&oldid=342212724] and here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AJamal-al-Din_Afghani&action=historysubmit&diff=342473536&oldid=342342369]. If he can't talk like a gentlemen, than he has no rights to talk bad and scolding, and hide his face by editing this post without his account (he did it also in the past, look and read my talk page [[User talk:Abasin]]). I think is not right and wikipedia most do something against it. If you ([[User:VirtualSteve]]) are the one who has blocked me 2 times. I will see what you are doing with this. I will see your justice and of wikipedia. May justice triumph.[[User:Abasin|Abasin-اباسین ]]([[User talk:Abasin|Tofaan-توفان]]) 16:43, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, welcome to the thirteenth volume of my talk page.
On December 27, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Stephen Miller House, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Hey, quick question. I've recently created Strawberry Hill (Rhinebeck, New York) with plans to eventually expand it, but I'm unable to find the NRHP reference number. Is there a standard source for that? Looking forward to working on the TSP, BTW, when I get a bit more free time to start researching it. –Juliancolton | Talk01:30, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
DYK for Harmon Miller House
On December 28, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Harmon Miller House, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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"Insufficient activity"? Please have a look at the revision history of ITER. There have been nine identical vandalous edits - with the first back in November of this year - and three of which were in the last 24 hours. Just because the vandalism was not reported until this morning should not be taken as a reason to allow this repeated behavior. -RadicalOne---Contact Me18:44, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I gather that sysops are somewhat constrained as far as when they can block a user relative to how fresh their vandalism is, and with respect to how frequently they've been warned.
I'm wondering how best to deal with users such as this one, who appear to be gaming the system. By conducting their vandalism at off-peak hours and on poorly monitored pages, they are able to avoid consequences because their edits can fly under the radar for hours without notice. Further, despite a history of edits that include little more than vandalism, they are able to disguise themselves as good-faith editors by blanking numerous warnings.
I've made a log of those warnings and posted it to the user's talk page in hopes that future admins will be able to see it, but do you have any suggestions for how to deal with editors like this?
I was surprised to find that there's no article on this mountain - unless maybe it's listed under the name of the old mountain house up there? I have some pictures I could upload unless you're aware of any - mine would take a bit of editing to make them less touristy so probably something existing would be better.--otherlleft22:24, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the one near Woodstock - I'm surprised your DYK machine hasn't found it yet. ;) I'll see what pics I have and let you know when they're up - but I might have to wait until it's nice out to go back there and look at the tourist signs to start looking for sources.--otherlleft01:06, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I left myself a reminder to get some pictures in the spring. In the meantime I'm going to try to lay my hands on the book cited in Kaaterskill High Peak because it sounds like a good secondary source about the mountain itself. Given the unreferenced state of the Catskill Mountain House article, I don't know what sources might be out there about the hotel.--otherlleft22:51, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I am planning on picking the brain of one of the fire stewards who tells me he can give me some reliable sources and images. If you're willing to take a look it would be appreciated - I've never worked on a mountain before.--otherlleft22:07, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats, I think you've managed to master the art of typing dry humor. I stared at my screen blankly for a moment, looked at what I had written above, and smiled. You're a loon. Is there a barnstar for that?--otherlleft03:13, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You've got a pretty good handle on how to handle Flickr images, don't you? I found this using the advanced search for Creative Commons-licensed files that use derivative works. Is that the only criterion for making a Flickr image acceptable? (Of course, I also want to verify that the photographer didn't take a picture of Plattekill by mistake!)--otherlleft03:22, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the image advice. All that alphabet soup makes my eyes bleed. Someday the naming of things like this will be wrested from lawyers and computer programmers and given into the charge of people that wish to make it clear what it means! (I dream of the "Use It However You Like" license.)--otherlleft15:22, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your time and consideration. As a gesture of appreciation, may I share a rhetorical question from the Analects of Confucius: "Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?" --Tenmei (talk) 20:41, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi daniel
About SPI and AVI, I had a question to ask if you have the time. user:bonadea recently posted a string of three accounts which appeared to be socks by implanting 'joe castillo' in articles. My question is how to handle these doctor users correctly. [1] has already been created at long term abuse and the individual behind these is has been confirmed a sock puppeteer. Should myself and others report these accounts to AIV as they come, or should we go ahead with another SPI as you mentioned on the AIV page? The user though clearly has ways to circumnavigate blocks and persistantly is coming back every few weeks or so (even after a check user). I hope i was transparent with my wording, let me know if you need anything clarified, thanks for your time. Ottawa4ever (talk) 17:47, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm answering here since you indicate that you like conversations to remain together.
It sounds for this guy like you're going to need a rangeblock, which someone with checkuser will have to determine since there are only registered accounts involved. Or an open proxy block, which again will require checkuser.
We generally prefer, at AIV, that any suspected sock issues be dealt with at SPI if there hasn't been one already, and those that are posted at AIV be really obvious. Daniel Case (talk) 20:13, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You deleted my content for HMCS Malahat, saying it was "Unambiguous advertising or promotion" - what is the diff between what I tried to post, and what HMCS Discovery has on their page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdnnavyhistorylover (talk • contribs) 22:48, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Block Request: newish user asking for help!
Hello Daniel, first, I'm sorry if this isn't the way to ask for these things as I've never needed to ask before but I'm getting a little desperate and exasperated with a user who is known to be a repeat offender of edit warring. I haven't used Wikipedia long enough, only about a year of only small edits, to know how to handle these types of disputes but I noticed you had handled a block of the user in question, Doctorfluffy, before. The dispute in question is the revision of the plot section of the Trick r' Treat movie page. He has made major editing changes without discussion or consensus and has ignored repeated requests to enter the discussion on the talk page and reverts any contradictory edits to his own. I'm trying to find help from an admin. now before this gets out of control. Please help! Thank you! (Deftonesderrick (talk) 07:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC))[reply]
Thank you for responding to what I reported at AIV. However, I feel that, in light of what you said to me, I need to explain to you here. I'm a little taken aback that you would suggest that my reporting it was potentially disruptive, although I now understand why you said it. I certainly was not trying to be disruptive, and I want you to understand why. There has been a long history at that page of single purpose accounts coming from Something Awful and deleting any material of that sort, as a sort of prank, and of making personal attacks against me for defending it. (My user page was blanked just a little while ago, in fact.) The material the IP deleted had already been discussed in the article talk, and the decision seemed to be not to delete it, and the IP deleted it multiple times without a substantive edit summary, and continued after I templated their talk. I did not, and do not, perceive that they were really disputing content in a responsible way. I'm not disputing your conclusion, and have learned from it, but I want you to understand my intentions. Thanks for reading this. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:52, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your response at my talk. Water under the bridge. It's already had multiple AN/I threads, in fact, but just keeps popping up again and again. I just wanted you to understand. Best, --Tryptofish (talk) 19:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Entirely wrong. Vandalism has to be ongoing when the vandal is an IP editor, but when it's a person with a User id who can be identified, it doesn't matter if the vandalism is months ago, they should be blocked. Woogee (talk) 22:18, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Seconded. I tried to keep up and see where I could jump in, but you were always a step ahead and got it done quite efficiently. That's an article to more than proud of. –Juliancolton | Talk19:55, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I would be interested to know what article you are referring to when you say "Brought to my attention by a new editor after I deleted a similar article he'd created". I am trying to hunt up sources lacking in the Discovery article before weighing in on your AfD. I have found some, but haven't stopped digging. My own sense is that the article should stay but of course that doesn't much matter. The result of this may affect the others in the CFNR category as well and it would seem to me to be a shame to see them all go but I suppose if the sources for Discovery don't substatiate notabilty they could be merged into a single article. Cheers. --KenWalker | Talk20:36, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
DYK question
Hey there, thought I could tap your considerable DYK experience. I found a nice little stub I want to expand, but I don't know if I can get enough info within five days or not. I thought of just userfying a copy of the article to work on as I've seen other editors do, but if I do so is just pasting the new content into the article going to cause havoc with its history or anything like that? I expect that there won't be any changes while I'm working but I certainly would check that, but is there anything I should know how to do to avoid screwing anything up for you good adminites?--otherlleft21:44, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Where is it written that a user only gets 3 unblock requests and then they should be locked out of their talk page? When they are being entirely civil?–xenotalk03:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Nice work
The St. Peter's Presbyterian Church article looks great. Thanks for all of your work on providing extensive information and sources for the article. Swampyank (talk) 04:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have any connection to the church that I know of. I was stubbing various churches on the NRHP in the Northeast and happened to come across St. Peter's. Looks like a nice old meeting house. Swampyank (talk) 04:45, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Abu Kalam Azad
Good evening dear Daniel Case,
I want to complain about some Users who vandalize many articles on Wikipedia and push their own POV´s on them. Some of them are Users like User:Ketabtoon who begin to edite all articles that is somehow related with Afghanistan, it´s people or culture, despite he has no knowledge about Afghanistan and it´s history. If you look on his contributions, you will see that he is always pushing unsourced and unreliable datas on articles and delete scientific and reliable sources, mostly scholarely. Be it about Ghurids, Persian language, Afghanistan, Ghaznavids or Tajiks and many more. He corrupts many articles which is a break of Wikipedia´s law (f.ex. here 1 or 2, 3 only three of many hundred of examples). He was many times reported but somewho he still occur on Wikipedia, although all his edites were banned by many Admins. The further point is, that he is known for beeing an ultra-nationalist Pashtun from Pakistan, who do not accept western, mostly scholaric and objective sources, except sources were terms like Afghan are used, so he can jump up and use it in a wrong context. For example as for Ghaznavids or Ghurids he was keeping the term for Pushtuns, while the term Afghan was used in Britannica for the Tajik people of modern Afghanistan who are also known by the law of Afghanistan as Afghans. He makes use of this point to claim and falsify all articles about culture, history, languages, countries etc. I ask you, as a member of the Admin-Team of Wikipedia and as a represant who is doing this job to provide the world the knowledge it needs, to do something against him. He and the User:119.73.4.199 (who is a banned User and a sock of many banned accounts; User:Khampalak, User:NisarKand etc.) are known for working with eachother. All edites of both Users are not only similar, but to 100% exactly the same, the kind of their writings and the kind how they push their POV´s and even the choise of their not reliable sources. As I mentioned they work together...or User:Ketabtoon is a sockpuppet of NisarKand, User:Khampalak etc. Wikipedia would be exonarated when the Admins would block and ban them from editing. As long Wikipedia accept them, articles will turn to slippery goods on Wikipedia and lose their accurate values.
For ca. 1 year ago, I was reading an article about Abul Kalam Azad, an Indian Muslim politician of Tajik origine. However, the article was using the term Afghan to tie him with Afghanistan, since his ancestors were from Herat, Afghanistan, a Persian/Tajik city. I was looking for sources on library and on the Net to exchange the term Afghan with Perian (Tajik). When I found them, I used a few of them. But some days later, the article was falsified by the User:119.73.4.199 and User:Ketabtoon from Persian to Pashtun, but not even back to Afghan (see on the state definition of Afghan, citizen), as you can see here. He claimed that the term Afghan mean Pashtuns and not Tajik. He did not want to understand the term was used to tie him with Afghanistan, as Britannica and other not scientific and reliable sources do, when it comes to regional heritage or origine of someone or something. For Abul Kalam Azad, I had the following sources where it was stated the person´s Persian origine:
^ Die politische Willensbildung in Indien 1900-1960; 1965, von Dietmar Rothermund
^ http://www.whereincity.com/india/great-indians/freedom-fighters/maulana-abul-kalam.phpHis mother was an Arab and the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad Zaher Watri and his father, Maulana Khairuddin, was a Bengali Muslim of Afghan (Tajik) origine. Khairuddin left India during the Sepoy Mutiny, proceeded to Mecca and settled there. He came back to Calcutta
The last source give in addition to the term Afghan as someone who comes from modern-day Afghanistan, his national ethnicity. But it is even interesting to see that User:Ketabtoon uses the same sources that grip on his Tajik ancestory for his Pashtun origineclick here. They just jump over the sources and the sourced terms and exchange them with no opponent sources. I want to ask you, if you can give me the permission to correct the falsified paragraph in the article. I appreciate every help from your side. I am going to create an account for myself on Wikipedia and I would thank you very much if I could stand near to you. With best regards, dear friend--94.219.218.209 (talk) 23:27, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Not sure if you still check that e-mail, but I sent you something at the address where we discussed our buddy Sean. frontier. Cheers, Enigmamsg00:33, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
From whence my furor?
I'm not sure why I jumped all over your "from whence" the other day. Kudos for your handling of the situation. I did notice that you are a Russian speaker - the great, mighty tongue certainly has some cool words along this line: otkyda, kyda, tyda, syda.
Bureaucrat note: The name was judged acceptable and the change was put through, so the user should not be blocked. -- Avi (talk) 21:28, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Morse code as a user name is hardly reason appropriate to block someone; it falls under the Non-English user names. Also -- -- -- was approved at WP:CHU already by Avi; you cannot self-create a user name without a letter in it these days. Between ACC and CHU i spend quite a lot of time on user names. As a hobby i also read unblock requests. Your block of -- -- -- is very close to WP:ITBOTHERSME, evidenced primarily from the lack of a violation of the message in the block notice template. "A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive, or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account."
I do not dispute that -- -- -- is a bit of an odd name and hard to pronounce by most people who do not realise it is Morse code. The same could be said for Шизомби (which i also dealt with a CHU) or any other user name written in a script one can not read. Шизомби had been using that as his signature for years now without it being his user name. He was asked to change to the Cyrillic user name or change his signature.
Saw your notes on my talk page. See now that Avi responded here while i was revising my initial posting. Extreme regret for the choice of linking method that i also used which upon rename implied that there was bureaucrat concern with the new user name. Also let Anna know that it is not her fault for reporting -- -- -- to UAA based on the notes on his talk page at that time. Never again will i use that type of linking. I have changed it in my CHU clerk note at the top of his talk page for future reference, added a note that -- -- -- is the new name, asked -- -- -- to update his signature to include links. From this has come the realisation for the need to re-design (some) CHU templates as they can not be PAGENAME dependent. delirious & lost ☯ ~hugs~02:03, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, did you consider the discussion carefully? He did not even attempt to address the concerns raised in the unblock proposal. He simply made random edits for the last two days. Would you please re-examine the unblock, as he did not address my concerns, or the concerns raised by the other editor on his page? Thanks, NJA(t/c)18:24, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm willing to assume good faith on his last comment, since he doesn't have a long history of block and unblock yet (and, either way this turns out, he won't). You weren't the only contributor to that discussion. If you want to re-block, go ahead, but I ask you to consider my reasoning first. Daniel Case (talk) 18:34, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well hopefully whatever 'he gets' is what the actual concerns were. Regardless of who was party to the discussion, I would have hoped that there'd be a pause until my legitimate concerns were addressed, however life will go on. NJA(t/c)19:48, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm keeping an eye on him, and I'd lay even odds that other editors will too. I'm not entirely convinced he's changed his spots - this AfD he just started seems to be one more based around WP:POINT than any real concerns about notability - he seems to care more about his own opinions than any other concerns. TheRealFennShysa (talk) 21:51, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder if uw-ublock is really the right thing to use in cases like User talk:BlindlightLLC, where the user not only has an improper username but also has obvious COI contributions already... It seems more confusing than anything else (to the user in question.) --jpgordon::==( o )21:18, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I came here to say the same thing. It's kind of a crappy thing if we tell someone they are blocked only for their username, and then when they propose to change it, we tell them they actually have another, bigger problem that wasn't brought up yet. Although in this case the new username also implies representation of a website. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
In case both of you are watching my page for a response ... Yes, as presently constituted {{uw-ublock}} is inadequate to the message we need to send when an editor is making obviously promotional contributions with a clear connection to the username. I consider {{uw-spamublock}} to only be appropriate when the user is actually spamming, i.e. inserting links to existing articles rather than creating a new, self-promotional one. {{uw-softerblock}} really isn't appropriate for this, either. I really think we need a new username block template that covers self-promotional editing connected to the name. Daniel Case (talk) 21:45, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think you may have something there. I only wanted to bring it up because I've seen this same scenario a lot lately, where one admin blocks solely for the username and another admin declines the user's good faith request to change it. Ok, so who's got the template-fu to whip us up a new one? Beeblebrox (talk) 22:02, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There are deeper problems, too. For example, we have a highly specialized use of the concept of "spamming" on Wikipedia, which is only vaguely related to what the rest of the world thinks of as "spamming". Likewise, we use the term "promoting", and I'm sure many of us have run into the same thing repeatedly: "I'm not spamming! I'm not promoting! I'm just trying to tell the world about my company!" I think that's more than we want to go into now, though. Anyway, if someone would come up with the right language, I'll happily build the template. (See, I always pick the easy jobs.) --jpgordon::==( o )22:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to be banned for disagreeing with you
Decline reason: "Sure, like this edit] wasn't a personal attack, an impermissible refactoring of a talk page comment, and just plain disruptive. — Daniel Case (talk) 19:56, 7 December 2009 (UTC)"
Well, obviously personal attacks against myself are by far quite against wikipedian rule.
If you, in any manner, had checked the history rather than looking for an excuse to deny; you would have seen that I had edited a comment added by myself. --173.171.222.251 (talk) 22:48, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
In timely follow-up, I sent an e-mail detailing a mentorship plan. I wonder if critical commentary or helpful questions about this plan might be within the ambit of your expertise and interests? --Tenmei (talk) 07:12, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Daniel. Before taking this up with the user, I wanted to get your opinion on whether this is even a username of concern. As you can see, User:Woodsy dong peep has the word dong as part of his username. In recent years, dong has come to be used primarily as a synonym for the word penis. See the entry at Merriam-Webster’s here.
Before taking up the matter with the user, as required by WP:BADNAME, I wanted to first see if there was even an issue. If there is no username concern, perhaps because WP:NOTCENSORED <smile>, then I can avoid taking it up with him, especially given that his responses to other wikieditors on other matters can be a bit odd, to say the least. Thanks! — SpikeToronto07:19, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi,
After reading a number of your comments-especially on the "delete Salinger thread", it seems to me that you have a breadth of knowledge about fair use. I am seeking to understand it as I am about to loose to some files at the request of Damiens. Damiens says that under fair use one can use a copyrighted photo "in a commentary about the photo itself, or in a text about photo-journalist, or in a text about photograph techniques, it does not allows us to use the image in a text reporting the news event the image captures." He further says, 'We can't freely use it to show what that man looked like." Now I was just looking at the historical images template and it says, "Use of historic images from press agencies must only be used in a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts." which I guess is Damiens argument (he doesn't really explain much). When I read that the first time, when I uploaded using that rational, I took it to mean that the picture I uploaded of David Carradine accepting his star on the walk of fame could be used to identify Carradine (the image) and not the event (the accepting of the star). Am I just not understanding English? Thanks in advance for any help in understanding this subject.--DorothyBrousseau (talk) 21:14, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
AIAV
Hi Daniel, could you please re-check the report you declined from me at WP:AIAV? I think either you might have misread my post or not realized that the related contributions are now deleted (so you should check deleted contributions). If you have any questions that need answering please feel free to ask, or if you have any concerns against it, please feel free to let me know. Thanks! --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 03:56, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
ANI notice.
Hi Daniel, I just thought that I'd let you know that there is a discussion at ANI about an editor you just softblocked. It's not about you, exactly, but I think your input would be helpful. Thanks! (And sorry if this is dragging you into drama.) -- Atama頭01:15, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
DYK for Steepletop
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This User:inuit18 is valdalisme the article Jamal-al-Din Afghani, but not with his account but only with ip-address and talks bad and he is scolding in his own language and you didn't understand it. Ask it to User:Ketabtoon to translate it for you. look here [3] and here [4]. If he can't talk like a gentlemen, than he has no rights to talk bad and scolding, and hide his face by editing this post without his account (he did it also in the past, look and read my talk page User talk:Abasin). I think is not right and wikipedia most do something against it. If you (User:VirtualSteve) are the one who has blocked me 2 times. I will see what you are doing with this. I will see your justice and of wikipedia. May justice triumph.Abasin-اباسین (Tofaan-توفان) 16:43, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Bureaucrat note: The name was judged acceptable and the change was put through, so the user should not be blocked. -- Avi (talk) 21:28, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
