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Welcome to wikiquette assistance
Wikiquette assistance is a forum where editors who feel they are being treated uncivilly can request assistance. The goal here is to help all parties in a situation come to a mutually agreeable solution. It is designed to function via persuasion, reason, and community support, rather than threats or blocks. Your first resort should be a polite attempt to discuss the problem with the other editor(s). No binding decisions are issued here. If you seek blocks or bans, see WP:ANI instead. Sections older than 5 days archived by MiszaBot II. (For help, see Wikipedia:Purge) Please notify any users involved in a dispute. You may use {{subst:WQA-notice}} to do so.
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08 April 2007

Problematic references in cosmetic surgey-related articles

• Many articles which have something to do with cosmetic surgery, Gynecomastia, Breast, Macrotia, Panniculus, Pannus, etc. are having references added by a party invested (I can provide information that establishes this investment in the site for the user in question) in the listing to a site called plasticsurgery4u.com, which is at least in part a business site owned apparently by the user who is doing the reference adding. I will not name names since this is not the etiquette here. Some editors friendly with this editor are asserting that since the links are sometimes informative they should stay. Other editors are asserting that the links are spam. Having a communal opinion would be a good thing here. I personally am undecided whether this kind of behavior merits an RfC or not. The helpful links (some are just ads, but appear to most likely be bad or old links redirected to a general information page that is more commercial) are indeed helpful, couched in advertising though they are, so I am torn as to wether this site serves as an irreplaceable resource of primary source material self-published by an acknowledge expert (see WP:A), or whether it qualifies as spam (see WP:SPAM). To find more example articles, determine the editor's username in question, search Wikipedia for the link text ("plasticsurgery4u") and then check an article's history to make sure that user is to be credited for the insertion of the link. 21:19, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I would like to semi-anonymously second this opinion. I found this user to be willing to discuss (See Talk:Umbilicoplasty) but they didn't seem to understand. 23:34, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Dispute in Talk:Valencia (autonomous community) with User:Maurice27

• I have had difficulties with User:Maurice27. The details of the discussion are at Talk:Valencia (autonomous community). Basically, there is only one official name, in Valencian, for the region, in spite of the fact that Spanish is also an official language. I edited the infobox accordingly, wrote the arguments behind the edition in the talk page. He reverted them. I asked him to participate in the debate instead of reverting. He did not do so, but accused me repeatedly of "xenophobia", and violated 3RR, today April 8, 2007. I did not revert the page back, otherwise I would have violated 3RR as well. However, his unwillingness to cooperate, as I repeatedly asked him to, but his insistence on reverting without explanation or justification, and his insults of xenophobia, are a clear lack of etiquette. --the Dúnadan 00:52, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

09 April 2007

Questionable deletion on Darvon cocktail

User:SlimVirgin has deleted and protected Darvon Cocktail for being "dangerous." A Darvon Cocktail is a mixture of drugs for effective and painless suicide. I believe that this is censorship and she seems reluctant to discuss/explain the deletion, as her response on her userpage was simply "wow." If there is a better place to discuss this, please let me know. 07:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Better to post this in WP:ANI. Are you the article name is right by the way? Because I don't see anything in the deletion log. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 23:51, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, it was Darvon cocktail. But yes, the Deletion review is the active discussion. --MalcolmGin 03:45, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Under active discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review which is the forum for review of this type of decision. Newyorkbrad 00:14, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

10 April 2007

Harrassment and threats by IP user

69.254.29.248 has been harrassing and threatening a few Wikipedia users. After being banned for a 3rr violation, he belittled the user who brought the violation to his attention, as well as the admin who banned him and the project as a whole. After his block was over, he started editing the articles listed on the afformentioned user's talk page, adding semi-protected tags and unreferenced tags to pages which did not qualify to either, and then blaming the problems on the user. After these were removed, 69.254.29.248 threatened to ban the user for removing tags, even though they were considered vandalism. 69.254.29.248 has been harrassing the user for nearly a month now, and continues to assume bad faith, committ personal attacks and be genuinely uncivil. 14:27, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Personal attacks in Talk:Water rocket by IP user

User_talk:The_Water_Rocket_Achievement_World_Record_Association and to a lesser extent the members of US Water Rockets (User:4.156.114.228) have repeatedly taken part in personal attacks against two independant editors on Talk:Water_rocket and [[1]] in an apparent attempt to discredit legitimate corrective editing on the associated articles. These attacks have been of a personal nature directed against User:Radiotrib and User:HenningNT and have taken the form of direct and/or inferred accusations of several activities including Slander. Please take action to stop this activity. 15:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Addendum - Reference Talk:Water_Rocket_Achievement_World_Record_Association The above people have now enlisted another of their people to continue with these personal attacks on me. Will somebody please take action. Thanks - 13:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

12 April 2007

Personal attacks in Talk:John Money by User:alteripse

• Alteripse is making personal attacks on Talk:John Money. I suggested mediation and they responded "If you need to bring someone else in to review and explain this to you, feel free." See the MedCab request for a more complete description. 00:03, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Personal attacks in Wikipedia talk:Railway line template by User:Sheetcot

• Sheepcot referring to another editor as a "rogue editor". Reinstated comment after "NPA" removal. 21:31, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Seems to be the same incident as the latter? AQu01rius (User • Talk) 02:12, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

User:ALECTRIC451 making threats

• ALECTRIC451 making threats 22:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Appears to be a dispute. Need a third party to mediate (describe the information in my talk page if you want me to). AQu01rius (User • Talk) 23:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

14 April 2007

Personal comments by User:Quale in a AFD discussion

• Quale making personal comments in an AFD [2] 03:34, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Addressed. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 04:30, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

16 April 2007

Persistent accusations of trolling by User:Captain scarlet

• Persistent accusations of trolling, despite requests to desist. 07:00, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• Failure to heed concensus of community by Captain Scarlet on inclusion of above template and the code= element of Template:Infobox UK station. Claims this contravenes WP:NOT. (Exhaustive discussion). Interpretation and Wikiquette assessment requested. 23:36, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

17 April 2007

Use of insulting and uncivil language by User:Loremaster

• I must once again report that User:Loremaster has been using insulting and uncivil language on a Talk page (Talk:Human enhancement):

Since you seem to be only person unable to grasp simple concepts, I don't see why I should be pending backwards to dumb down the article by making it less consise.

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...Your points are ridiculous which is why I didn't and won't acknowledge them...

...you don't understand simple concepts. You seem to have not read the sources cited in the article that would help you understand these concepts better. I've improved (rather than dumbed down) the article in response to some of your comments. As for the rest, I am not going to waste my time responding to what I consider ridiculous points. If you think this lacks courtesy, I don't give a damn. I am not here to make you feel good. I'm too busy raising the quality of Wikipedia articles to Good Article status, which I have succeeded in doing several times.

This is the second such offense, and he is still guarding the Human Enhancement article and the Transhumanism article from edits like a junkyard dog. Please help him adjust his attitude. 00:21, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Personal attack and racial comments by User:Daniel Chiswick

• I warned User:Daniel Chiswick that personal attacks are not appropriate on wikipedia, but he is now making racist comments about European editors. 20:27, 17 April 2007 (UTC)