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Peter Bethune hooding

Cptnono (talk) is apparently counting you as a supporter of removing the line in the Ady Gil article that mentions Peter Bethune's head being covered by a hood during his arrest. The line is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ady_Gil#Peter_Bethune.27s_detention_and_arrest

The discussion is going on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ady_Gil#Peter_Bethune.27s_detention_and_arrest_-_massive_deletion_of_referenced_material

Please check out the current edit (assuming it hasn't been reverted again, you may have to check the history) and review the discussion (he thinks it's not relevant, I say it's relevant because it's mentioned in the news article that's referenced and shown in the videos that are referenced, so the editors and producers seemed to have thought it was relevant). If you have an opinion one way or the other, please give it. And if you don't mind, confirm that you don't have any WP:Conflict of interest. Thanks. Ghostofnemo (talk) 13:50, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure what kind of COI you think I have. Please assume good faith. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:39, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

The discussion is bordering on an edit war, and some of the editors seem very keen on covering this up and on removing well-referenced and apparently relevant material. I made my disclosure on the issue of WP:COI and I asked the others commenting to do like-wise. If any of us are Sea Shepherd members or members of the Japanese Fishing Ministry, etc., it would not be appropriate for us to be edit warring over this. Ghostofnemo (talk) 00:50, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Here is my disclosure from the discussion page of the article: The inclusion of this information seems pretty straight-forward to me. So I have to ask at this point, and I'm assuming good faith, but this intense desire to remove simple observations that have been reported in the news media about an event that seems to be worthy of inclusion just leads me to ask this. Do any of the editors involved in this dispute have a WP:Conflict of interest? I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Sea Shepherd Society. I am not a Greenpeace member, but I may have donated money to them 25 or 30 years ago when I was a college student, one of many, many groups who solicited me for donations and to whom I made donations. I do not belong to any anti-whaling groups. Ghostofnemo (talk) 00:52, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I have no COIs in this little bit. I stumbled across the discussion, made my comments, and that's the extent of my involvement. As for the whole hood thing, him wearing a hood is irrelevant as he wasn't hooded. Insisting on keeping that in there is biased and certainly not neutral. Windbreakers with hoods are very common among people who are on boats. They even sometimes use the hoods, too! Does that mean they were hooded? Of course not. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:10, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Have you watched the video? It doesn't look like he's casually wearing a windbreaker hood. He looks like he's in handcuffs and his head has been covered by the police. I doubt he would do that to himself. He doesn't consider himself a criminal and has no reason to hide his face. Ghostofnemo (talk) 11:11, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

In Japan, they tend to cover a person's face regardless because they don't want the person being abused by the media. And the hood was his windbreaker hood, as can be seen clearly in more than shot. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 17:27, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Free Belarus

Hello! You apparently blocked me indefinitely, it's funny when an admin does such actions witout any clue in what's going on. the thing is, Tadeusz Kościuszko is ethnicaly Belarusian, yet for a reason some user deletes the references to that and the categories coming along. Another user doesn't know the difference between nationality and ethnicity and tries to write Tadeusz Kościuszko as an ethnic Pole (like Poles), which he isn't (he's a Pole by nationality). Before baning people, learn the case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.177.170.41 (talk) 15:17, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Go back and read the block notice. You were blocked only for your username. Not for any other reason. If you follow the directions on your user page, you will be able to choose a new username and be unblocked. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:41, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

? What's the problem with my username? 79.177.170.41 (talk) 20:37, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

It's a politically-charged username being used to edit politically-charged articles, and is hence very disruptive. Please follow the directions to select a different username. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:37, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

(out) There's something funky going on with this user or with the user's name change. I'd laid it out on the talk page of the admin who unblocked to allow the change [1]. Would you mind taking a look, I can't quite get a handle on it? Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:49, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Noted and responded. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:57, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

FYI: Now socking from a differnt Tel Aviv, Israel-IP (132.66.181.112 (talk · contribs)) Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 08:01, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

<sigh> Swatted. All of them. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 08:15, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Sweet. totally. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 08:16, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

User:タチコマ robot

I have created a doppleganger account, User:Tachikoma robot, which redirects to this account. I have sent you the login info via email. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 15:54, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. :) -- Cat ^chi? 12:00, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

I just wanted to say a quick word of thanks for your remarks about my recent block. I know we've sometimes had disagreements in the past, so your words meant a lot :-) -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 14:58, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, the remarks were all true. I think part of the reason you were caught in the trap is because you have a tendency to be very passionate about things. This can be good in many ways, but can work against you in many others. Regardless, I think you are overwhelmingly a positive influence on WP:ANIME. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 17:25, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, sometimes I do let my passion get the best of me :-) Alas, as soon as his block lifted, the guy is right back at it. I left a note with Jéské Couriano, but he isn't online yet.[2] I ended up filing an ANI, as he is also doing this now to Jack Merridew, and is now randomly reverting other edits on other pages.[3] -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 14:19, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I made a comment there. I do think that you really, really need to work on restraining yourself when reverting what you see as vandalism. Your block log is becoming quite large, and all but one were blocks for "edit warring". I suggest reporting the issue and letting other become involved rather than reverting yourself. Request help from a WikiProject to stop the bad edits. Anything which will help you keep yourself from being blocked. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:00, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I know, though a lot of those blocks were later reversed, in the end it is still there. Usually when it is someone trolling or vandalizing, I do request help, but it often takes hours to get a response, and so far it seems like anytime I do ask for help these days I end up blocked myself. :-( I do have a low tolerance for disruptiveness that is lower than, unfortunately, Wikipedia itself accepts. I am working on having more patience and AGFing, but sometimes its hard. Like this editor who popped in and removed a bit of content from an FA article, and who appears to be here purely to be disruptive. If he hadn't come first, I'd think it was another sock of Karunyan...so far he made that one edit to the FA article, then when I reverted it, he reverted me calling it vandalism. We have had some back and forth on his talk page, and my sock alarms are going off, but I can't pinpoint who he might be, though leaning towards ItsLassieTime or, if Karunyan really is Kagome1977 then the same. Week's later, he returns to edit Promised Land, an article I'd cleaned up a some hours before. He fixed a typo but put in his edit summary "reverted possible vandalism by Collectonian" [4]. Then today, he removed a validly sourced statement from Touched by an Angel[5], and continues arguing with me on his talk page that it isn't sourced. If it weren't for his previous edits, I'd have just presumed he didn't understand about having sources at the end of a series of statements from the same source, but at this point I don't think that's really the issue. On our latest exchange on his talk page, he stated "The sentence was not sourced. You removed other unsourced content from the article, and I have the right to exercise the same kind of judgement. If you continue to follow my edits and revert them without justifiable cause, you will be reported for blocking as well."[6] How are you supposed to respond to this kind of stuff? -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 22:27, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

I can see that, and I've experienced similar things many times here. The first thing to do is stop reverting each other, even if you have to allow the incorrect version of the article to sit there for a day or so while you discuss things on the article talk page. I know this can be difficult to do, but, in the interest of avoiding edit wars, it's a good thing to do. If someone immediately reverts something I do, I try to immediately post a question about it on the talk page, and try to engage them in discussion about it. If that doesn't work, I move on to their user talk page to try and get them to engage in discussion. Often, if you do this, you can determine exactly what the issue is and address it without getting both sides in the dispute up in arms about the issue. This is something I've tried to do over the last couple years, and I've found it works for me almost every time.

As for the sock issue, with the limited number of edits he's made, I don't know that any conclusions can be drawn. You may try comparing writing style between the various editors and see if there are any similarities. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:48, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

What do you do, though, in a case like this where he pretty much stops a revert after maybe once, then goes away and comes back to do something else? I am "discussing" on his talk page, but it really isn't going anywhere at all, and I'm probably not doing well holding my temper in check :( -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 23:08, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

If you can't get anywhere in discussion, open it up to a larger audience. Associated WikiProject talk pages, mediation, etc. I had to do that with one page where a guy freaked out every time I tried to archive the talk page discussions because they were old (3 months old and 7 months old, respectively). We finally brought in a mediator who helped the other guy see reason, and I set up auto-archiving for the page after a year. Some people just refuse to be reasoned with, and eventually they will push things to the point were enough people are upset at their inability to play nicely that they'll get their editing privileges removed. It's happened in some fairly high-profile cases, and I don't think it will be limited to the past. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:25, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Hollywood High School mural

Hi! I understand that the reason why that was deleted was because it was copyrighted and there was no fair use rationale to support the image. I'll see if I can find sources specifically about the mural; if so I can write a detailed section about it and restore the image with a good FU rationale. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:24, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

• I started Hollywood_High_School#Mural and I am bulking it up. What do you think? WhisperToMe (talk) 20:39, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Restored and in the article. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much :) WhisperToMe (talk) 22:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Tokyo meetup

Hi, do you've any interest to plan a Wikipedian meetup in Tokyo around April 2010? --Saki ^talk 09:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Sure, but I don't live anywhere near Tokyo right now, unfortunately. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:17, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Valentine Kiss

On March 26, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Valentine Kiss, 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.

Materialscientist (talk) 02:32, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:38, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Sayuri Kokushō

On March 26, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sayuri Kokushō, 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.

Materialscientist (talk) 02:32, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:38, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

{{talkback|WP:BN|WP:USURP}} Dwayne Flanders was here! ^talk 11:03, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

hi

You there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.188.63.56 (talk) 17:07, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, but since I have no idea who you are, it makes no difference. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 17:54, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

anime voices bot

Hey- the bot was approved, I haven't run it yet. I can do so now, but I'd prefer to do it when you can keep an eye on the edits. When's a good time? tedder (talk) 03:58, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Go ahead and run it now. I'll be around. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:27, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Did a test run of two, now doing a run of 200. I'll wait after the 200 for at least an hour or two in case anything is crazy. tedder (talk) 04:41, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

The test run of two seems to be the same article (Otaku no Video). Is that what was supposed to happen? ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:52, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

I turned off the log, the best way to see them is the contribs: Special:Contributions/TedderBot. The first two articles: [7], [8] tedder (talk) 05:26, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Aha. I looked through a fair sampling of the diffs and everything looks good so far. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:35, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Okay. Running a big batch of them now. tedder (talk) 12:19, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

BTW, it's all done now, nothing to report. tedder (talk) 21:01, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Looks good. Thanks for helping out! ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:05, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Regarding Wikipe-tan Sorceress

I can easily mirror the .svg, but the character on the puzzle piece on her hat will be wrong and the image looks a little strange when flipped. If you don't care about that, I can upload a mirrored version. Erimaxbau (talk) 07:26, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Ah, there is that. Hmm...perhaps not, then, unless you want to tweak the character so it's not mirrored when the rest of the image is mirrored. That might take a bit of work, though. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:28, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Not only that, but I think the correct character would be the one from the other side, 'Ω. Erimaxbau (talk) 07:37, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

True. If you want to modify the image to adjust for that, it would be awesome. No pressure, though. Thanks! ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:40, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

RE: OTRS

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Twinkle

Hi there Nihonjoe. Do you have any idea who maintains Twinkle these days? It's just that I blacklisted someone here, but they've managed to use Twinkle still: [9][10]. Any ideas? Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 20:33, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, I've given him the access back anyway. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 21:02, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Not sure if it's not AzaToth. Looking at the entry, it should have worked. Maybe it takes a short time for the server to notice the changes? ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:04, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

User name change

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		I would like to award you The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar, for taking the time to do such as a small & kind thing such as changing my username. Thanks! :) ♕ImperialJaneite♥talk ★contibutions 21:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. And thanks. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:04, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Backgorund on RFDs - Thanks

I can see that the basis I used for nominating the articles for deletion (not notable) was not in keeping with the practices of Wikipedia. It was not my intention however to be a disruption. There are major issues with these articles. In fact I saw in the AFD comments that it was suggested more than once that these were attack articles and I completely agree. I would say that it goes farther they are also violating WP: Coatrack. It should be noted that these articles were created by the same person (Cirt) within a couple of days of each other. Cirt has had a long standing POV crusade regarding groups and organizations he considered to be “cults” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cirt/Contributions). His crusade led him to be banned 7 times under a previous user account.

All of that being said, I really do appreciate your message.

Spacefarer (talk) 19:52, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I understand...

...I understand why you deleted the image earlier today, and why my name change was not accepted.

Oh, well. I guess I'm stuck being LDEJRuff in this encyclopedia then.
~~LDEJRuff~~ ^{(see what I've contributed)} 16:12, 29 March 2010 (EDT)

You're welcome to choose another username, just not that one. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 20:19, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Another mural

File:REal GOod -mural2.jpg - Wouldn't this likely be a non-free mural too? If so, then I need to find the info on it to see if I can write a section about it for Rego Park, New York - because the guy who uploaded it tagged the image with a free license. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

That one might not be copyrightable as it's only letters and simple geometric shapes. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Thank you for the clarification :) WhisperToMe (talk) 00:59, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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Thanks

... for dealing with that outing incident so quickly! Rhomb (talk) 06:23, 30 March 2010 (UTC)