User talk:Verman1

December 2010

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Hello. The information that I deleted contains racist arguments about forcibly converting to Islam. If you don't let me to delete it, I would kindly ask you to delete it yourself. If not, I will complain about it to the main admins. Thank you. User:Verman1

Tsitsernavank Monastery

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Tsitsernavank Monastery, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Serouj (talk) 16:59, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Tsitsernavank, for your information, is an Armenian monastery. Caucasian Albania has been EAST of the Kur River, and was an extinct nation by 7th century; Tsitsernavank is in the Armenian Highland, and is WEST of the Kur River by more than 100 km. The references cited in the Tsitsernavank article are from reliable sources: the University of Chicago Press and the California State University, among others. Your source from an obscure Azeri website does not cut it for Wikipedia. Your edits have been reverted. Serouj (talk) 16:01, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

You have no reliable sources that verify your claims. When you do, only then edit the article and specify your sources. Again, your obscure Azeri website cannot be used as a source.Serouj (talk) 06:40, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Talk pages

You really, really need to visit talk pages to present your arguments rather than simply reverting. This is advice. Please take it. To that end, I am officially advising you of the provisions of [2007 Armenia-Azerbaijan Arbitration], which states that an editor can be sanctioned for continuing tendentious editing despite being warned. This is your warning. Please read that link, and bring yourself to the talk page of an article next time instead of reverting. You have never edited an article talk page. I am not an uninvolved administrator, so that is why I am giving you a civil warning and placing you under its provisions, rather than threatening a block myself. --Golbez (talk) 12:26, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Look, at this moment I don't care about your politics, and neither does the above-linked arbitration. All it says is that, when editing Wikipedia, you must adhere by our rules of civility and discourse. That means no repeat reverting, and no reverting without bringing the issue up on the talk page, and bringing the issue up with the community rather than edit-warring. If you cannot do that, then yes, you should leave, but realize you're leaving because you can't get along with others, not because of politics. --Golbez (talk) 13:14, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Again - if you think it's prejudicial to want you to act in a civil manner and actually discuss your changes, then you really should leave now. Everyone - everyone - has to follow the rules on civility and not edit warring. I have made no statement in this conversation whatsoever on the politics, as they are fundamentally irrelevant to the core issues of civility and discourse. --Golbez (talk) 18:02, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Arbitration enforcement warning: Armenia and Azerbaijan

Hi, I have been asked on my talk page to give an opinion about your comment] at Talk:Tsitsernavank Monastery. It is not acceptable to criticise sources on the basis of the alleged (see WP:BLP!) ethnic heritage of their authors. People cannot influence where they are born, and it is fallacious to assume that they hold certain opinions or are more or less reliable simply because of who their parents are. Advancing such opinions is misusing Wikipedia as a vehicle for ethnic conflict. Instead, all sources and authors should be evaluated only on the basis of their reliability as set forth in WP:RS. I am warning you that more comments in this vein may result in sanctions per WP:ARBAA2#Amended Remedies and Enforcement. Thank you for paying attention to this.  Sandstein  20:50, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

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Tuscumbia (talk) 17:46, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Reverts

Please stop reverting or deleting information from Kosalar, Lachin, Daşkəsən, Tsitsernavank Monastery, and Gandzasar Monastery articles. You need to provide unbiased evidence in the talk page and discuss with other editors before making radical changes to any article. You have not done so, and yet you want others to follow the rules. I am not looking for an edit or revert war and it is against wikipedia policy to engage in such activities. Please use the talk page and discuss what changes you'd like to make a why. We can work to come to a consensus but no one is going to benefit from a revert war, and the quality of the article will only suffer.--Moosh88 (talk) 04:32, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

I have been through trouble when editing these articles, as they have had enough one-sided and false information. I didn't delete any third-party and neutral sources, I just made these articles more referenced and wide-scaled. I understand the Wikipedia rules, I am doing my best to follow them. It would be nice if opposite side would follow them too. So that we can have constructive negotiations and reach consensus good for both sides. I am not willing to start edit war, on the contrary I am strongly against it. I had published all my requests and referances on all of these articles' talk pages, but unfortunately I couldn't get corresponding response from any user (including you). Please discuss any changes in talk page, don't delete well-referenced content from any page. I believe that we can reach consensus without sanctions and edit-wars. Regards, --Verman1 (talk) 05:27, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Explain where is the more referenced and wide scalled in fabrications such as this: (until Caucasian Albanian Church was annexed to Armenian Church by Russian authorities) tks. Vidovler (talk) 05:46, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Then why do you remove the passages that contain information about Armenians yet you ask for your edits to stay as they are because you use sources? Both sides can bring up sources. The difference is between valid sources and non valid, this is further complicated by the fact that you have erased the Armenian passages. That's called whitewashing. I'm all for constructive editing and making the articles better, but deleting whole sections is the not the way.--Moosh88 (talk) 07:04, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

I didn't delete whole passages. It is wrong POV towards my actions. I preserved whole passages, book and other sources, information about armenians in these articles. Yet you delete whole information which have strong basis and references (thus leading way to edit-war). Though I had brought up many reference and sources, I didn't see any post or reference from your side in discussion pages (you just chronically deleted all information that you think is wrong). If you think something is wrong, you gotta discuss it and bring your counter-arguments before deleting. Unfortunately, I didn't detect such actions nor from you neither from other editors who also chronically deleting every useful info. Regards, --Verman1 (talk) 07:37, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps this is because you did not use the talk page. Also, the sources you have used are not acceptable. You did delete sections that dealt with Armenians. You are now involved in an edit war and have violated the 3RR. I suggest you use the talk page on the four articles which you think should be edited and this way we all can work toward a consensus and make the articles better.--Moosh88 (talk) 08:18, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Stop changing the names of cities in NKR. If you want to use the Azeri name place it in parentheses, and use the talk page. You are now involved in borderline vandalism!--Moosh88 (talk) 08:26, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Lachin photo

Did you take the photo you just added to the Lachin article? We have so few photos of Nagorno-Karabakh by Wikipedians, so it was surprising to see one claiming to be such. --Golbez (talk) 16:03, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi. Yes, it is my own work. I have several other photos of Nagorno-Karabakh and I am going to publish them too. Regards, --Verman1 (talk) 16:22, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

re

Per the latest Armenian-Azeri arbitration, any form of edit warring or repeatedly reverting without immediately bringing the subject up on a talk page, regardless of the quality of the edit being made, is a bad thing. The Azeri-Armenian fight on Wikipedia has not exactly been civil, and remedies are accordingly harsh. And, without even looking at the edits in play, I can tell you right now, and you should well know this, that the "internationally accepted geographic name" is not sacrosanct here. For example, we have an article located at Stepanakert, rather than Khankendi. For that matter, we have an article at Burma rather than Myanmar (a decision I disagree with but that's a different discussion). So, and again this is without looking at the specifics, but I strongly suggest you discuss further changes before making them. Just because if someone is "right" doesn't necessarily mean their edit gets made, as it's subject to a consensus of editors.

So, long story short: Reverting to a particular name is usually a bad thing, unless it's the first revert (and it rarely is), in which case that's cool, but further reverting is not, as per the Bold, Revert, Discuss principle. However, because of the touchy issue of Armenian-Azeri articles, I strongly recommend against reverting before discussing, except in the case of obvious vandalism. --Golbez (talk) 18:16, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

For example, the recent history on Lachin. You edited, Moosh88 edited, you reverted him. I disagree, but one revert is usually okay. Then you edited more, and Fedayee reverted you. At this point, you should have ceased editing - it is time to discuss. You, instead, reverted him and, at the same time, labeled it vandalism. It was not vandalism. Admins hate it when you do that. You are not a neutral party in this, so you shouldn't be labeling anything vandalism anyway unless it involves words usually pertaining to genitalia. You seem to have taken my advice above as a license to revert people you disagree with, which couldn't be further from the truth. Often, the onus is on you to justify your edits, not on others to justify their reverts. (Especially when you repeatedly say "take it to the talk page" then don't do the same yourself) Read the arbitration linked at the top of this section, and understand its remedies and why it exists, then look at the extremely long list of editors who have been blocked or topic-banned for belligerent editing. If you do not calm your editing, you will end up on that list very quickly. --Golbez (talk) 12:29, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Request for arbitration

I have reformatted your request and logged notification of the other involved party. I've just undone your edit, because you linked the notification of the case (which I had already logged) in the area reserved for links to dispute resolution. Regards Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 09:55, 7 April 2011 (UTC)