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I hereby propose the following softban. --[[User:NicholasTurnbull|Nicholas'''Turnbull''']] | [[User_talk:NicholasTurnbull|(talk)]] 21:34, 18 November 2010 (UTC) |
I hereby propose the following softban. --[[User:NicholasTurnbull|Nicholas'''Turnbull''']] | [[User_talk:NicholasTurnbull|(talk)]] 21:34, 18 November 2010 (UTC) |
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: <small>{{user5|Destinero}} is [[WP:TBAN|banned]] by [[Wikipedia:Consensus|community consensus]] from inserting or removing contentious claims under colour of [[WP:UNDUE]] in Wikipedia articles relating to [[parenting]] and [[LGBT parenting]]. He also may not write article prose in these topics in "Wikipedia's voice"; that is, he may not insert claims in articles on these topics as unqualified factual statements. Destinero may be briefly blocked by any uninvolved Wikipedia administrator in the event of violating this limited topic ban. In the event of repeat violations, he may be banned entirely from editing articles within these topics. ''See also [[Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-08-28/LGBT parenting]]''.</small> |
: <small>{{user5|Destinero}} is [[WP:TBAN|banned]] by [[Wikipedia:Consensus|community consensus]] from inserting or removing contentious claims under colour of [[WP:UNDUE]] in Wikipedia articles relating to [[parenting]] and [[LGBT parenting]]. He also may not write article prose in these topics in "Wikipedia's voice"; that is, he may not insert claims in articles on these topics as unqualified factual statements. Destinero may be briefly blocked by any uninvolved Wikipedia administrator in the event of violating this limited topic ban. In the event of repeat violations, he may be banned entirely from editing articles within these topics. ''See also [[Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-08-28/LGBT parenting]]''.</small> |
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* '''Ban enacted.''' Editors are free to dispute this limited-behaviour topic ban if they desire. I would have liked comment on this; however, Destinero's record of disruptive editing in these topic areas should not be entertained any longer, since it is wasting editors' and administrators' time. A cost-benefit decision must, therefore, be made. The ban will be noted in the appropriate venues. --[[User:NicholasTurnbull|Nicholas'''Turnbull''']] | [[User_talk:NicholasTurnbull|(talk)]] 00:18, 20 November 2010 (UTC) |
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Misuse of Nazi images in an essay
Christopher Connor (talk · contribs) has just created the essay Wikipedia:On being Jewish. He has also linked to it from the main BLP policy page and given it the shortcut name WP:JEWISH.
The topic of how we decide which individuals should be considered Jewish for purposes of writing and categorizing Wikipedia articles may be the legitimate subject of an essay. However, Christopher Connor has chosen to illustrate his essay with two images. The first of these is an image of Adolf Hitler leading a Nazi military rally or parade, and has been given the caption "a Nazi informs his personal army of the definition of a Jew." The second image is the file "Kiev Jew Killings in Ivangorod 1942" and has been captioned "categorizing an aryan as a mischling is a BLP violation."
The use of these images, with these (or any) captions, to illustrate a Wikipedia space essay on categorization, is offensive and reflects a deplorable indifference to the sensitivity of these images and the events they represent. Moreover, this is not the first time Christopher Connor has conducted himself in this manner. Last month, Christopher Connor used the same image of Hitler addressing a rally to illustrate his essay "Wikipedia:BLP Nazi" (subsequently moved in toned-down form to Wikipedia:BLP zealot). Discussion on Christopher Connor's talkpage and in Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:BLP Nazi should certainly have made it clear to this editor, as if it could ever have been in question, that depictions of Nazi and Holocaust related events are not suited for decorating essays on editing policies.
That Christopher Connor has repeated this behavior suggests to me that this editor is deeply insensitive to the feelings of his colleagues here, and I recommend that he be blocked from editing or, at a minimum, that he be appropriately restricted. Newyorkbrad (talk) 05:28, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Wow, yeah, that's pretty disgusting. I'd support any restrictions or sanctions anyone placed on him. We don't need that kind of stuff here at Wikipedia. Not at all. Writing an essay about Jewishness and then filling it with images of Nazis, including one of Nazis shooting Jewish people is pretty egregious. --Jayron32 05:32, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's been speedy deleted. Basket of Puppies 05:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Trout me if it was the wrong decision. I noticed NYB applied __noindex__ to it, so I restored it, then deleted it again, because I'm fickle like that. Xavexgoem (talk) 05:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I don't mind its being deleted. My only concern was that deletion would make it harder for non-admins to follow this ANI discussion regarding the editor who created it, but I put in a brief description of the content above in case of just that eventuality. Newyorkbrad (talk) 05:52, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Blocked for 1 week, as well. He'd been warned. Xavexgoem (talk) 05:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Good call. Courcelles 06:38, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Trout me if it was the wrong decision. I noticed NYB applied __noindex__ to it, so I restored it, then deleted it again, because I'm fickle like that. Xavexgoem (talk) 05:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's been speedy deleted. Basket of Puppies 05:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Why exactly is this user not instead indef blocked?— Dædαlus Contribs 07:27, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Eh...I thought about it, but his contribs go back a ways and he doesn't have a history. Hopefully he'll get the hint. Otherwise, yes, indef. Xavexgoem (talk) 07:34, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Indef block until he gets it. There is absolutely no place for that kind of...(I don't even know what he was trying to do there, extraordinarily dark "humor" possibly)...anywhere on this encyclopedia. Indef block and wait for a full apology. This is a second occurrence. N419BH 08:17, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- An apology? Xavexgoem (talk) 18:06, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Indef block until he gets it. There is absolutely no place for that kind of...(I don't even know what he was trying to do there, extraordinarily dark "humor" possibly)...anywhere on this encyclopedia. Indef block and wait for a full apology. This is a second occurrence. N419BH 08:17, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Eh...I thought about it, but his contribs go back a ways and he doesn't have a history. Hopefully he'll get the hint. Otherwise, yes, indef. Xavexgoem (talk) 07:34, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support one-week block. Not the first time this has happened and given prior warnings it's reasonable. Opposed to indef-blocking a perfectly okay content contributor based on just this, but CC must treat this as his very last warning, or an indef would be very deserved and appropriate. StrPby (talk) 08:39, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Both the one-week block or an indef block until the user demonstrates that he understands the problem are (or would have been) an appropriate reaction. Sandstein 11:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I can't see the deleted page, but based on NYB's description and the earlier "BLP Nazi" page (which I did see), one week seems to be appropriate to drive the message home. Hans Adler 11:42, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- A week sounds ok to me. Having peeked at the essay, didn't bother to read it through, given I found it so... ugly, guess it looked to me kind of like where failed sarcasm falls splat across the pale into trolling. en.WP's not censored but nor is it "ED II, the Unleashed." Gwen Gale (talk) 12:14, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, without the at best entirely thoughtlessly and provocatively chosen images and captions, there might have been a point to be made here, albeit that it's not, in reality, specific to Jewishness by any stretch of the imagination. For those non-administrators who cannot read the now-deleted revisions: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive97#Ed Miliband, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive645#Allegation of antisemitism, and Ed Miliband (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) were the primary drivers of this particular case. You don't really need the deleted page to see the issue and the argument, which was re-hashed here from the BLP Noticeboard and article talk page in an almost canonically ill-thought Godwin's Law manner. Uncle G (talk) 12:18, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Just want to add here that there was some other strangeness recently, when he wrote an article about, and was half pretending to be, this Christopher Connor. Submitted it for DYK, said he was particularly keen to have it used, then refused to answer questions, there and on the COI board, from people wanting to make sure he was a different Christopher Connor. Discussions here and here. It was a minor thing, but it was odd. He declined even to acknowledge that people were asking him a question. SlimVirgin talk|contribs 12:39, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I thought at the time that that might have been being deliberately silent to make the point that according to Project:Outing an editor is not obliged to answer questions as to xyr identity, and that it's a little foolish to assume that there's just one "Christopher Connor" in the world. Or that someone's "conflict of interest" may extend only as far as having an interest in writing the articles about encyclopaedic people that happen to share xyr name. It seems that I was right. Uncle G (talk) 13:07, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Unblock request
Christopher has now apologised and agreed not to repeat his actions in an unblock request on his talk page. I think with his previously clean record, we should give him this chance. StrPby (talk) 12:13, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
:I concur. The article text and the images are at odds with each other as the text was not racist nor baiting but seemed to be an attempt tp clarify and help some BLP issues. The images were clearly beyond the line and the block seems to have gotten his attention. JodyB talk 12:21, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose Unblocking. After the reading the diffs below I must conclude that this is a pattern of insensitivity. Although his block log was previously clean there is ample evidence that he has been and remains clueless. JodyB<subBold text> talk 14:13, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I do agree there, the images are what hurled it over the line. If he'd further say he'll be more careful with any images he uses in hoped for irony, I'd see no need to keep the block. Gwen Gale (talk) 12:28, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I've come to oppose an unblock, given CC's later answers on his talk page left me neutral but mostly because I wasn't aware of the DYK diffs shown by iridescent. Taken altogether, I've meaningful worries he may not have made these edits for encyclopedic reasons. Gwen Gale (talk) 14:00, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think I oppose an unblock. "Categorising an Aryan as a Mischling is a BLP violation" under an image of Jews being executed by the Einsatzgruppen. Hard to know how to describe that if not as baiting. SlimVirgin talk|contribs 12:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I recall that caption. I took it as sarcasm which was so startlingly botched, it indeed looked like trolling, but likely was not. I think almost all sarcasm is baiting in some way. Gwen Gale (talk) 12:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock without question after seeing Iridescent's diffs, especially [1] [2] SlimVirgin talk|contribs 13:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock—so let's recap: this guy writes an essay at WP:JEWISH, which he illustrates with images of Hitler and the Nazis. He is blocked for a week. He says sorry. We unblock him after seven hours. Seriously... no. I cannot imagine any good faith explanation for his actions, other than possibly the most serious case of gross insensitivity I've come across in a long while.
In fact, the case, bears a striking similarity to Berlusconi saying that he shouldn't be blamed for telling a Holocaust joke in a speech; rather, "the bad taste was in those who published it."
This guy seriously needs a block for more than a few hours to demonstrate to him that the project doesn't consider this sort of thing acceptable, thus preventing further future disruption. ╟─TreasuryTag►Speaker─╢ 13:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)- But blocks aren't punitive, and he knows that if he messes up again he'll likely end up indef-blocked. So what's the harm? StrPby (talk) 13:04, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- The harm comes from us sending out a message that blocks for the most outragoeous behaviour will be overturned within a couple of hours if the perpetrator says, "Oh, I'm tho thorry I made a mithtake." We need to make it plain to this editor that we will not tolerate actions such as the ones they took; if we do not make this plain, it is plausible or even likely that they will repeat them. And by unblocking this soon, it looks suspiciously like toleration to me.
The let's-unblock-and-then-if-they-do-it-again-reblock argument should really only apply to behaviours which the person involved didn't know were problematic at the time. But this guy must have known that his Nazi snaps were inappropriate. ╟─TreasuryTag►quaestor─╢ 13:10, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- The harm comes from us sending out a message that blocks for the most outragoeous behaviour will be overturned within a couple of hours if the perpetrator says, "Oh, I'm tho thorry I made a mithtake." We need to make it plain to this editor that we will not tolerate actions such as the ones they took; if we do not make this plain, it is plausible or even likely that they will repeat them. And by unblocking this soon, it looks suspiciously like toleration to me.
- But blocks aren't punitive, and he knows that if he messes up again he'll likely end up indef-blocked. So what's the harm? StrPby (talk) 13:04, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock. Lord help me, but I'm actually going to agree with TreasuryTag on something; an unblock for something which no reasonable person could have considered legitimate sends out the wrong message about Wikipedia's values and aims. This isn't a one off incident ([3], [4], [5], [6]); this looks to be someone with an agenda. – iridescent 13:19, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock Frankly, I one of the first to say Wikipedia can be over sensitive to Jewish sensibilities and throw round anti-Semitism charges far too quickly, which tends to have a chilling effect. However, this editor is clearly over the line. This is trolling. An apology might be good enough, if it had been a case of "he's learnt his lesson", but he was heavily criticised for his Wikipedia:BLP Nazi recently, and had evidently not taken the hind. A week block is very lenient, and should be served. Next time, I'd propose an outright ban.--Scott Mac 13:39, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- On the boosterism problem: Can either of the two of you remember where the criticism was that Wikipedia biographies tended to start in their first sentences with a whole string of religious, ethnic, sexual, and geographic associations, each with reams of citation cross-links, before even getting to the important stuff about a person for which they are actually known? I think that we already have a non-Godwinized essay on the general subject, which is far from specific to Jewishness, but I cannot remember where I saw it. Uncle G (talk) 13:55, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock. I fully endorse every word of iridescent's rationale. Hans Adler 13:40, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock This Editor is not a a noob, Mr. Connor knows our norms here. Especially on the heels of the BLP nazi incident. Commons sense should have WP:CLUED him in. Its not rocket science to figure out that having an essay filled with images nazi would cause an adverse reaction with out the essay being called Wikipedia:On being Jewish. We are extremely lucky one of us found it and not the Media or a one of the many Jewish advocacy groups. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 14:06, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock - User should be on a short leach also when it expires. Off2riorob (talk) 14:16, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock. What Iridescent said, and the diffs Iridescent provided. Saebvn (talk) 14:30, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock I agree with Iridescent. There is something not quite right here. In addition to the diffs Irridesent gave, there are many other questionable edits, for example just recently a DYK with unnecessary details of a lynching. [7] In the diff where he created Jewish lawyer stereotype, he claimed to be one.[8] That article has problems going back to its creation: Shylock evidently was not a lawyer in the Merchant of Venice (the "lawyer" in the play was of the fairer sex). Thank goodness he forgot Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth in that first irksome diff. Was it some kind of bad taste joke? Mathsci (talk) 14:49, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- When Christopher Connor created that article, it was actually entitled Jewish lawyer. Uncle G (talk) 15:12, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- That doesn't help very much, does it? Mathsci (talk) 19:35, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- There was relevant discussion at User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 65#Jewish lawyer, which was more about the article in general and an edit that Jimbo had made to it, and his belief that it needed to be made clear that the article was about a stereotype, which was part of the impetus for this proposal (by me): Talk:Jewish lawyer stereotype#Name change? (though of course "stereotype" was not in the title at the time.) The whole article was (and remains) at least a little disturbing, but at least the title is better. The discussion also had the collateral benefit of getting Jewish mother renamed to Jewish mother stereotype, though that is a much older article and Christopher Connor does not seem to have been involved in that one. Neutron (talk) 21:14, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Renamed back to Jewish mother stereotype note. Uncle G (talk) 02:09, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- There was relevant discussion at User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 65#Jewish lawyer, which was more about the article in general and an edit that Jimbo had made to it, and his belief that it needed to be made clear that the article was about a stereotype, which was part of the impetus for this proposal (by me): Talk:Jewish lawyer stereotype#Name change? (though of course "stereotype" was not in the title at the time.) The whole article was (and remains) at least a little disturbing, but at least the title is better. The discussion also had the collateral benefit of getting Jewish mother renamed to Jewish mother stereotype, though that is a much older article and Christopher Connor does not seem to have been involved in that one. Neutron (talk) 21:14, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- That doesn't help very much, does it? Mathsci (talk) 19:35, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- When Christopher Connor created that article, it was actually entitled Jewish lawyer. Uncle G (talk) 15:12, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock. I edit conflicted with Gwen Gale on declining the request. Editors have expressed concern over his edits in the past, in relation to DYK hooks and elsewhere, and those concerns should have given him pause - but did not. I appreciate that this editor works on articles where few editors are wont to tread, but that doesn't give him license for these edits. It may be helpful if he were able to show that he understands why everyone is so upset over this incident, and the previous ones, before requesting unblock again. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 15:23, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock at the moment. I'm not convinced the content was intended to be as bad as it was, but intent only gets you so far. Also, it's not necessarily racist to point out that "x% of people arrested for jaywalking are Lower Slobovian", if the police have a predilection to bust Lower Slobovians and let Upper Ombrians slide. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:04, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock It's pretty clear from his talk page that he doesn't get it and is blaming everyone else for the mess he finds himself in. N419BH 19:02, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock per Iridescent's diffs. There is also something ineluctably weird about the apology itself. Not buying that. Bishonen | talk 03:45, 16 November 2010 (UTC).
- Oppose unblock per Iridescent's diffs, and the fact that the essay was entirely inappropriate and a simple apology is not enough. —mc10 (u|t|c) 05:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose unblock An apology is not enough. Inka888 18:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Up to indef
My reading of the discussion above, especially the comment by Mathsci, is that we cannot trust this editor not to engage in subtle vandalism to insert anti-Jewish rhetoric into Wikipedia. Jehochman Talk 14:54, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
support the diffs by Iridescent show crystal clear agenda that is harmful to wikipedia. The Article created log makes the pattern even more disturbing The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 15:01, 15 November 2010 (UTC)- What harmful agenda is being revealed by 2004 European Open (snooker), Smolarek, Personality of the year, Protection of Children Act, draw sheet, and Climbié? Uncle G (talk) 15:12, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I said the diffs provided by Iridescent, show an agenda.[9][10][11][12] Creating articles like Indigenous Australians and crime, Talk:Black people and crime in the United Kingdom, Lynching of Ell Persons, Jewish lawyer, The Color of Crime, Racial hoax, Criminal black man stereotype combined with Today's Nazi page show a troubling pattern which i think can be reasonably identfied as an agenda. I could also support the Topic Ban as well which would probably solve my concerns as well. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 16:13, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- You also said that that agenda was part of a pattern shown by the likes of List of Israeli ambassadors to France, 2004 Grand Prix (snooker), Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, and 2007 A.S. Roma–Manchester United F.C. conflict. These are your examples, that you pointed to, remember. Moreover, what's "troubling" about racial hoax? You seem to be conflating an interest in race relations topics with some sort of unspecified "troubling" racialist agenda. Have you not thought that you're proving Christopher Connor right? Write about race relations topics, and people will not look further than the titles and accuse one of racism. What's "troubling" about education.gov.uk? What's "disturbing" about Stationary office? What harmful pattern is Office of the Children's Commissioner revealing? Uncle G (talk) 17:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I am not saying Stationary office is a bad article thats a straw man. Singularly Nothing here is "bad." But combine with the creation of the the articles I specified combined with the diffs Iridescent's. I dont think its unreasonable to have concerns of pattern. I would love to assume no clue but all this together looks suspicious. Take this DYK suggestion I am looking at a dozen less provocative facts that could have been used in the Article same with Black people and crime in the United Kingdom. The conversation that followed indicates he doesnt get it why people might have an adverse reaction. I am NOT saying he is a single purpose account to promote racists views on Wikipedia. But I have to question what he is thinking when he does pulls stunts like what I discussed above becuase I have a hard time believing and Editor can be that Clueless. I said I would be willing to accept a topic ban as alternative but some of his editing patters do raise flags in my book The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 17:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- You also said that that agenda was part of a pattern shown by the likes of List of Israeli ambassadors to France, 2004 Grand Prix (snooker), Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, and 2007 A.S. Roma–Manchester United F.C. conflict. These are your examples, that you pointed to, remember. Moreover, what's "troubling" about racial hoax? You seem to be conflating an interest in race relations topics with some sort of unspecified "troubling" racialist agenda. Have you not thought that you're proving Christopher Connor right? Write about race relations topics, and people will not look further than the titles and accuse one of racism. What's "troubling" about education.gov.uk? What's "disturbing" about Stationary office? What harmful pattern is Office of the Children's Commissioner revealing? Uncle G (talk) 17:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I said the diffs provided by Iridescent, show an agenda.[9][10][11][12] Creating articles like Indigenous Australians and crime, Talk:Black people and crime in the United Kingdom, Lynching of Ell Persons, Jewish lawyer, The Color of Crime, Racial hoax, Criminal black man stereotype combined with Today's Nazi page show a troubling pattern which i think can be reasonably identfied as an agenda. I could also support the Topic Ban as well which would probably solve my concerns as well. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 16:13, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Weak opposeHaving read others comments a critique of my arguements and some thought off Wiki. i have stricken by support of topic ban. I still have serrious reservations about this editor but a topic ban seem to more appropriate for now. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 20:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- What harmful agenda is being revealed by 2004 European Open (snooker), Smolarek, Personality of the year, Protection of Children Act, draw sheet, and Climbié? Uncle G (talk) 15:12, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose I support the block for the present essay creation (and the BLP nazi one earlier). However, I'm not seeing a pattern of vandalism. I'm seeing a number of politically incorrect editing interests, and nominations, but nothing more. Has been inserting stuff unsupported by sources? Perhaps he's being deliberately provocative — but I've seen worse. The essays are over the line, and he needs to get it, and not repeat it. But I don't want to ban for being offending liberal sensitivities.--Scott Mac 15:23, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support, broadly per my comments above. ╟─TreasuryTag►Africa, Asia and the UN─╢ 15:37, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose at this time.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:01, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support His unblock request clearly demonstrates his lack of sincere apology, including a non-apology apology. It is clear he does not appreciate the horror of his actions have caused. No small number of my family were murdered in the Holocaust. I strongly support an indefinite block and severe future sanctions. Basket of Puppies 16:53, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose - No block history, quite a few contribs. User had not been sufficiently warned for an indef. Remember that he's blocked for provocation, not for being anti-semitic (or generally white-supremacist), and it's just too easy to conflate things when reading his apologies or unblock requests. Xavexgoem (talk) 17:53, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support I doubt this will gain consensus, but it appears this user is doing quite a bit of race baiting here. If this isn't enacted, a topic ban is definitely in order. AniMate 18:10, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose indef for now. Block log was clean, I don't think it's fair to indef without warning an editor who in over 3 1/2 years has made over 3000 edits with few if any kerfuffles. At the very least, he has tried to sensationalize some racial articles and two essays and this is worrisome, but edits to racial topics have been a small slice of his editing history. His answers to questions about his edits tend to be a bit coy for me, it may be how he is though, I don't know, but it's why I don't support an unblock. The week long block may be needed, giving him time to think things over. Gwen Gale (talk) 18:57, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose indef block. Although I agree that some of this user's edits, and his lack of comprehensive explanations for them, are disturbing, the level of disruption is not very high. This is his first block and a repetition of this behaviour would quickly lead to a much longer block. I do not believe this editor engages in, or is likely to engage in, subtle vandalism to push any particular viewpoint; in fact he engages in somewhat odd borderline trolling and introduction of controversial material for unknown reasons. If he were trying to push a viewpoint, he would not be deliberately courting controversy as he appears to have done on occasion --Demiurge1000 (talk) 05:57, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- (clarifying my comment - I should have said "the level of disruption is not very high when compared with the constructive contributions" - I was not suggesting that the offensive behaviour itself was insignificant, even if not intended to be offensive) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:45, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose let's not get ahead of ourselves. Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:51, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose Not yet. Inka888 22:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Response to this thread by Christopher Connor
On his talk page. Gwen Gale (talk) 15:06, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Here's the whole thread on his talk page: User_talk:Christopher_Connor#Block_note
- Regarding "But simply proposing those hooks is, according to ANI, racist. That seems to me to be twisted", you've had it explained to you (repeatedly) what the issue is, but each time go into WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT mode; see the discussion here for instance. You're cherry-picking facts (e.g. "15.7% of those convicted for homicide in Australia are indigenous", "indigenous Australians make up 2% of the population"), disregarding other information (differential conviction rates, relative probabilities of success of police investigations in close-knit communities vs large urban areas) to come up with the synthesis of "Indigenous Australians committed 15.7 percent of homicides in Australia". If this was a one-off incident then yes, these things happen, but as you yourself recognize you have a long history of being warned for inappropriate comments and suggestions (from most people I'd take this as a ham-fisted joke, but in this case I'm not sure), but your response seems always to be that the problem is with everyone else, not yourself. – iridescent 15:23, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Suggestion - topic ban
I suggest letting the week long block stand, and then imposing (preferably with his agreement) a topic restriction on all race-related content, commentary and comment. He also should not initiate any new essays without consulting others as to their appropriateness.--Scott Mac 15:29, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- "Without consulting others" is a woolly and meaningless phrase which is essentially courting disaster. Needs tightening. ╟─TreasuryTag►You may go away now.─╢ 15:38, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- I agree; just make it clear that he's prohibited from initiating new essays at all if he cannot be trusted, or throw the last line out altogether. As for essays relating to race, that's covered by the first part of the topic restriction. Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:57, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support
in lieu of full of indef block this seems to be a good alternative The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 16:14, 15 November 2010 (UTC)This seems to be the most reasonable action for now The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2010 (UTC) - Support the topic ban. The nature of the restriction on creating essays needs to be made clearer, if there is to be a restriction at all.--KorruskiTalk 16:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Support the topic ban, can't see the point of the essay thing (assuming the topic ban wld preclude essays dealing with race/ethnicity issues)appears to be more a problem of pushing peoples buttons occassionaly, hopefully the block will get the message thru--Misarxist 17:17, 15 November 2010 (UTC)- Support The block should stand, and if an indef block isn't applied he should at the very least be restricted from all race related topics. AniMate 18:08, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support, strongly. Basket of Puppies 18:16, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support ban on racial topics/edits, broadly construed, throughout the en.WP space, which he can ask to be lifted after 3-6 months. Gwen Gale (talk) 19:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support Good solution. As others have said, it should be broadly interpreted so as to include all the problematic articles mentioned so far. Mathsci (talk) 19:56, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support, but... when I read this whole thread, User:Wassermann, indefblocked since June 2009, kept popping into my head. You remember Wassermann's incessant bad-faith category lawyering? Connor's ban must, apart from articles and essays, include categories, very broadly construed; i.e. he doesn't get to add categories touching on nationality or ethnicity in any way. We need to set something up that doesn't take up too much of the time and energy of other editors to check on and argue about. Do we also need to make a sock check? I'm asking, not accusing; not being much good with socks. Bishonen | talk 04:28, 16 November 2010 (UTC).
- Comment A broad topic ban across the en.WP space would mean categories were out of bounds, too. So long as the ban was broadly racial/ethnicity, I think that would cover any contentious nationality cats. A topic ban needs to be simple and straightforward, easy to understand and follow, otherwise breaches and a long block are more or less foregone, I think. Gwen Gale (talk) 11:14, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support - The essay alone shows he can't be trusted in this area, let alone the other dubious edits he's made. Skinny87 (talk) 08:30, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support The diffs provided above show the editor is using Wikipedia to push an inappropriate agenda: if there is no indef block and no one is volunteering to closely monitor the editor, a strong topic ban is required to avoid further wasted time. Johnuniq (talk) 09:26, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose - have you looked at the article he created on the Lynching of Ell Persons?--Toddy1 (talk) 16:26, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Comment Yes, that was a worthwhile contribution to the project. I could support a time limited topic ban to allow him to edit constructively in areas unrelated to race and to gain some trust and more understanding of policy, perhaps three months? Off2riorob (talk) 16:44, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Comment The article does not bear close scrutiny. Much of it is written using primary sources (contemporary newspaper reports from 1917) rather than paraphrasing summaries of the material from secondary sources. There is a problem with the whole of the first three paragraphs of the main text: they fail WP:V and WP:RS; they are WP:SYNTH and WP:OR pieced together from local newspaper reports at the time. I tried to check the statements about the theories of Alphonse Bertillon (seeing the image of the murder in the dead girl's pupils): I found nothing in the 2001 Law Review. One published article relates [13]: "The most convincing evidence against Persons was an alleged photograph of Antoinette Rappel’s decapitated head in which Officer Paul Waggner claimed to see Person’s forehead in the victim’s retina." I did find a report that Waggner was trained in "Bertillon technique" in an uncited 1928 Ph.D. (J.R. Steelman), [14] But that is not what can be read in the article. Similar questionable edits on lynchings precipitated the indefinite block of MoritzB (talk · contribs) in 2007, also discussed here on ANI. Elsewhere this editor uses "google translate" to access French documents and has not so far noticed that "Par" is not a first name in French. There is something not quite right in all of this. Mathsci (talk) 01:23, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Mainstream newspaper reports are accepted by Wikipedia as reliable sources WP:NEWSORG.--Toddy1 (talk) 05:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Local newspapers in Memphis in 1917 in the days of segregation? You must be joking. Mathsci (talk) 05:24, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Mainstream newspaper reports are accepted by Wikipedia as reliable sources WP:NEWSORG.--Toddy1 (talk) 05:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose per Toddy1. Just let the block expire as planned.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:19, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support - A single article does not automatically make him a constructive editor. I'm going to need more than that to prove he's able to keep his opinions to himself. Given the essay, I don't think that's going to happen.. not to mention his past behavior. It's a problem that he can't figure out, and thus cannot be trusted with. Support topic ban per Toddy1.— Dædαlus Contribs 21:50, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose In a nutshell, this situation is too complex at this moment for a simple solution like this. What puzzles me about this issue is that, prima facie, except for the images used I found nothing objectionable to this user's now-deleted essay: it was a a banal restatement of a number of such truisms as a proposed definition for labelling someone a Jew, that being identified as a Jew can be controversial, etc. This does not mean I endorse the essay: I just don't see why anyone would bother to write it, thus leading me to suspect that there is something in it only someone familiar with anti-Semitic hate speech would catch. (And while the apology on his Talk page isn't exactly what I'd label a "non-apology apology", it isn't what I'd expect to see in a sincere apology either.) In other words, this guy seems to be playing games with the rules, & while I can't say what his intent could be I don't entirely trust him. Subjecting him to anything but the simplest & clearest restrictions will only make the rest of us work harder to sanction him if it becomes clear that he is harming Wikipedia. I believe letting him come back after a week with no new restrictions -- but keeping an eye on him -- will be the simplest & best solution. If this guy pulls another stunt like that essay, we can then ban him for good without needing to take any further steps; if he is editting in good faith, & this was simply a case where he was putting his foot in his mouth, then all of us can step away from this with no unintended bitterness or dramaz & move on to better things. -- llywrch (talk) 23:19, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support The hastily-applied air-freshener spray doesn't cover up the stink. Plutonium27 (talk) 20:15, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Supportish - Editor should be allowed to submit work via proxy editor if that work is acceptable within an article (I'd volunteer). It walks and quacks like a duck, but is it a duck? If that's the impression that's been created, perhaps some sort of absolvency (<-- new word) should be permitted. Xavexgoem (talk) 09:57, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose: seems overkill per those opposing above. -Atmoz (talk) 13:53, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose: Text of deleted item is innocuous in the extreme - sans the images this is storm in teacup. Rich Farmbrough, 22:52, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
- Oppose llywrch sums it up nicely. He's wikilawyering, no need to give him more rules to lawyer about. If he steps over the line again he can be tossed. -- ۩ Mask 03:48, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose Putting those images in the essay was tasteless, but I don’t think it’s been demonstrated that he’s actually unable to contribute to race-related articles in a neutral manner. Having created several articles related to racial stereotypes (such as those linked to by ResidentAnthropologist) doesn’t demonstrate an agenda if the articles are about notable topics and don’t give undue prominence to minority views. And if they do, that hasn’t been demonstrated in this thread. Since Christopher Conner has no prior blocks, he may have learned the lesson that he needed to from this block. We should wait and see whether he has after the block expires. --Captain Occam (talk) 20:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Legal threat from User:Peace is contagious
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Peace is contagious (talk · contribs) has made a legal threat to "sue for libel" here. Despite being asked to retract it by Doc9871 (talk · contribs) here, the user has not. Yworo (talk) 15:30, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Since I'm not (Kyle Baker) the subject in question over the line 'I lie all the time', I was informed that I cannot sue (anyone) for libel. So this issue is moot. And the line seems to now be in context within the article, instead of randomly placed near the end. Yworo seems to be an over-zealous comic book fan. (SIGH) Cheers! Peace is contagious (talk) 16:09, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Peace you have been asked to remove it, unless you do that and retract it, you will likely be blocked (again) wikipedia takes legal threats very seriously. Off2riorob (talk) 16:13, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Since I'm not (Kyle Baker) the subject in question over the line 'I lie all the time', I was informed that I cannot sue (anyone) for libel. So this issue is moot. And the line seems to now be in context within the article, instead of randomly placed near the end. Yworo seems to be an over-zealous comic book fan. (SIGH) Cheers! Peace is contagious (talk) 16:09, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Near of the end of User talk:Peace is contagious, at 16:53, 16 November 2010, 40 minutes after the above, User:Peace is contagious again makes legal accusations against me: "Mr Tenebrae seems to be a bit slack w/ his Wiki edits, if not even libelous. I suggest u take a few law school classes urself, sir."
- As someone who has indeed taken classes in journalism and the law, I can tell you the first thing you learn is, "Truth is not libelous."
- In any event, Peace is contagious himself expanded on the quote and moved it to a section of the article where it fits perfectly well. He did this at 15:16, 16 November 2010 — so even after doing so, when presumably the quote is no longer an issue with him, he specifically returned an hour and half later to made his accusation against me. That just seems gratuitous and a late shot, for no reason other than to maliciously attack another editor. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:52, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'd point out the irony of someone with the name "Peace is contagious" threatening anyone with anything, but I think you all get it. HalfShadow 17:59, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Keep in mind the old satirical definition of peace: "Short period of preparation for the next war." ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:07, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think with the excuse that the editor isn't somebody else doesn't matter. A threat to sue is there and not retracted so I think no legal threats needs to be applied to get the point across much stronger. This is not a game to play which is what it is starting to look like with doing it again an hour and half later. Make sure this time it get through, no legal threats are allowed, period. --CrohnieGalTalk 17:58, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Legal threats are not to be tolerated, and the editor refuses to retract. So why is the editor not yet blocked? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:50, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well, that is indeed a very good question Bugs. Off2riorob (talk) 19:56, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- And now answered by an admin. He gawn (until or if he retracts). ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:43, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well, that is indeed a very good question Bugs. Off2riorob (talk) 19:56, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Though currently banned, he's still threatening me
In [his latest post (scroll down), User:Peace is contagious again threatens me ("He SHOULD fear being sued").
In addition, he calls me and other editors names, and makes fun of an editor's person's appearance ("C'mon look at the picture of the dude who blocked me").
I have serious qualms about this person. He's been asked by several editors to be civil, he's been linked the policy / guideline, which he dismisses as "not set in stone," and shows contempt for Wikipedia and its editor, to wit: "obviously if these people were 'smarter' they wouldn't be wasting time on Wikipedia."
He has caused nothing but disruption. His posts have done little but spew venom and weirdly rambling diatribes. I believe reasonable consideration can be given to a long-term ban (his indefinite ban can be lifted if he retracts his legal threats, which leaves his insults free and clear) or a block. --Tenebrae (talk) 20:13, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- "I'll remove the comment, simply cuz I want to edit other pages, but I'll put it right back if anyone should choose to be irresponsibly libelous, as it should be" sounds pretty "unpromising". This was in this latest post, and the original threat still remains (despite extensively refactoring the comments of others yet again). Doc talk 21:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- I have advised him that if he repeats that kind of edit, I will remove access to his talkpage.Elen of the Roads (talk) 19:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Not only that, but moments after Elen of the Roads posted, Peace is contagious deleted that and the last several posts that civilly and quite politely requested him to remove his legal threats and his insults, name-calling, and making fun of people's appearance. But he deleted all that here and left only his own remarks, which, now out of context, makes it appear that because non-admin are commenting that he does not have need to listen to comments/requests for policy-adherence and civil behavior. I honestly don't see any reason for him to continue haranguing others as if by right.--Tenebrae (talk) 19:43, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
He also deleted a post from Elen (which she repeats above), who had failed to sign her post. It's fairly clear he has no intention of changing anything on his end.Might be starting to. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:47, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Not only that, but moments after Elen of the Roads posted, Peace is contagious deleted that and the last several posts that civilly and quite politely requested him to remove his legal threats and his insults, name-calling, and making fun of people's appearance. But he deleted all that here and left only his own remarks, which, now out of context, makes it appear that because non-admin are commenting that he does not have need to listen to comments/requests for policy-adherence and civil behavior. I honestly don't see any reason for him to continue haranguing others as if by right.--Tenebrae (talk) 19:43, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I have taken something of a flyer and unblocked him. I think he removed my post in error, I think he also misunderstood the non-hierarchical nature of the Wikipedia community. If my faith is misplaced, you have my permission to hit me with a wet fish Elen of the Roads (talk) 01:44, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
IP obsessed by birds...?
I've been doing some vandalism patrolling and come across an IP editor making edits to a large number of Birds in (A Country) articles. No edit summary, and I have no idea if this is vandalism or not, but thought I should raise it. See Special:Contributions/96.4.125.2. I asked on the talk page but no response although edits have continued. The IP is from a US school and came off a year block about 3 days ago. Please could someone have a look? Mechanical digger (talk) 19:03, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- It appears they do not understand the term extirpation and are removing it and replacing it with extinct. Should probably use twinkle rollback AGF and leave a note explaining the terminology. N419BH 19:23, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- 98.65.217.30 (talk · contribs) was making similar edits a couple of days ago too. The edits are similar to what the IP was blocked for last year too. I'll start rollbacking as the edits are clearly incorrect but any help would be nice. SmartSE (talk) 21:35, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- All rolled back 68 pages in total. I can't explain biodiversity well some one wanna leave the note? The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 22:34, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks all. I left another note, perhaps lacking in zoological technicalities but sufficient if they ever read the talk page and decide to engage with others. Mechanical digger (talk) 02:27, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- All rolled back 68 pages in total. I can't explain biodiversity well some one wanna leave the note? The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 22:34, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- He just did the same thing to two more today... Can We get a Block laid down before he starts another spree?The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 22:21, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- ...and a few more. They've been AGF reverted. N419BH 23:50, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Now blocked I think. Rich Farmbrough, 22:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
- Now blocked I think. Rich Farmbrough, 22:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC).
- ...and a few more. They've been AGF reverted. N419BH 23:50, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- 98.65.217.30 (talk · contribs) was making similar edits a couple of days ago too. The edits are similar to what the IP was blocked for last year too. I'll start rollbacking as the edits are clearly incorrect but any help would be nice. SmartSE (talk) 21:35, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
AndresHerutJaim and repeated copyright violations
Warned[15][16][17] But today did it all over again.[18] I am not going to bother adding the diffs since his recent contribs show it plain as day. Repeated copyright violators are supposed to be blocked. I am sick of cleaning up his mess and he has already been to ANI once for it.Cptnono (talk) 05:27, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- I would have to agree with this. AndresHerutJaim is a long-term abuser of non-free images, over and over he adds them to the same articles and ignores all requests to stop. O Fenian (talk) 17:25, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- And he has done it again.[19] That is not a sufficent FUR for multiple articles. And just to be open, a couple good edits got caught up in my cleaning house. Apologies.Cptnono (talk) 05:34, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- But wow, nothing? Still? Resolve templates below and plenty of time. I might as well upload kiddie porn sine admins still don't care about images for whatever reason.Cptnono (talk) 07:13, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive640#User:AndresHerutJaim and images, User talk:AndresHerutJaim#Images and User talk:AndresHerutJaim#Using fair use images as icons. This editor is little more than a single purpose account abusing fair use images, and still did so after being notified of this thread and did not even reply here. How much longer is this going to be allowed to go on for? O Fenian (talk) 09:43, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- 24hrs and nothing on a clear cut case. Admins at ANI only want to see drama and the ones off ANI don't see the simple request. Cptnono (talk) 05:55, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Being as your warnings are starting to boil down to "...please fuck off...", I think a closer eye should be kept on you. HalfShadow 06:17, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- They are not "warnings". It is acceptable under NPA and precedent across wikipidea. That is an unrelated issue isn't it? So with this issue does an admin have any thoughts? Copyright is copyright regardless if I told some one to fuck off or not.Cptnono (talk) 06:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'd point out the irony of you understanding copyright but not seeing a problem with telling someone to fuck off, but I have this terrible feeling it would go right over your head... HalfShadow 06:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'd point out the irony in your passive aggressive comment... oh wait I just did. NPA is loose. Copyright is not. Is there any excuse or are you just arguing since your revert of someone else's comment was reverted? Knock it off. Copyright is nonnegotiable. End of story. He should have been blocked yesterday and any admin who read this yesterday should feel bad for not doing it.Cptnono (talk) 06:33, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'd point out the irony of you understanding copyright but not seeing a problem with telling someone to fuck off, but I have this terrible feeling it would go right over your head... HalfShadow 06:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- They are not "warnings". It is acceptable under NPA and precedent across wikipidea. That is an unrelated issue isn't it? So with this issue does an admin have any thoughts? Copyright is copyright regardless if I told some one to fuck off or not.Cptnono (talk) 06:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Being as your warnings are starting to boil down to "...please fuck off...", I think a closer eye should be kept on you. HalfShadow 06:17, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- 24hrs and nothing on a clear cut case. Admins at ANI only want to see drama and the ones off ANI don't see the simple request. Cptnono (talk) 05:55, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive640#User:AndresHerutJaim and images, User talk:AndresHerutJaim#Images and User talk:AndresHerutJaim#Using fair use images as icons. This editor is little more than a single purpose account abusing fair use images, and still did so after being notified of this thread and did not even reply here. How much longer is this going to be allowed to go on for? O Fenian (talk) 09:43, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Ckatz and Destinero
I ask to check behaviour of Ckatzchatspy who repeatedly disrupts Wikipedia article American College of Pediatricians by removing facts documented by highly reliable expert source simply since he don't like those facts and threats me on my talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Destinero#November_2010 --Destinero (talk) 18:27, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- I've never had problems with Ckatz before that I recall, but this does seem odd and inappropriate on Ckatz' part. I don't understand the reasoning behind this removal at all. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:33, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- At first sight, Destinero and Ckatz appear to be edit warring at American College of Pediatricians. Ckatz may consider that his actions are justified by his admin role, since he is taking out a passage that deplores the ACP in Wikipedia's voice, and which uses a reference linked to a primary source, a brief that was filed in a court case, though some of the participating organizations might have published their views elsewhere. Some of the language Ckatz was removing was "This small faction's views are out of step with the overwhelming body of scholarly research-based positions.." This is being stated in Wikipedia's voice as a matter of fact about the American College of Pediatricians. At a minimum, the language needs fixing for neutrality, and a legal brief should probably not be cited. EdJohnston (talk) 18:50, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- WP:UNDUE policy specifically requires: "In articles specifically about a minority viewpoint, views may receive more attention and space. However, such pages should still make appropriate reference to the majority viewpoint wherever relevant and must not represent content strictly from the perspective of the minority view. Specifically, it should always be clear which parts of the text describe the minority view. In addition, the majority view should be explained in sufficient detail that the reader can understand how the minority view differs from it, and controversies regarding aspects of the minority view should be clearly identified and explained. How much detail is required depends on the subject. Keep in mind that, in determining proper weight, we consider a viewpoint's prevalence in reliable sources, not its prevalence among Wikipedia editors or the general public."
- WP:GEVAL policy specifically requires: "While it is important to account for all significant viewpoints on any topic, Wikipedia policy does not state or imply that every minority view or extraordinary claim needs to be presented along with commonly accepted mainstream scholarship. There are many such beliefs in the world, some popular and some little-known: claims that the Earth is flat, that the Knights Templar possessed the Holy Grail, that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax, and similar. Conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, speculative history, or even plausible but currently unaccepted theories should not be legitimized through comparison to accepted academic scholarship. We do not take a stand on these issues as encyclopedia writers, for or against; we merely omit them where including them would unduly legitimize them, and otherwise describe them in their proper context with respect to established scholarship and the beliefs of the greater world."
- Please, explain and clarify what exactly should be fixed for neutrality in current version of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_College_of_Pediatricians&diff=397345997&oldid=397268492 I consider it fully in compliance with Wikipedia standards. --Destinero (talk) 19:02, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Agree. Destinero needs to stop the edit warring and justify the changes they want to make. They appear to be inserting analysis not supported by the supplied source. Franamax (talk) 18:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Are you serious? Amici curiae (National Association of Social Workers, National Association of Social Workers - West Virginia Chapter, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, North American Council on Adoptable Children, and West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence) are national and West Virginian organization dedicated to the welfare of children. "Amici sumbit this brief to (a) inform the Court of the extensive body of social science research demonstrating that children raised by same-sex couples develop just as well, and are as healthy and well-adjusted as children raised by heterosexual couples; (b) show the Court that this research has been embranced by every authoritative professional organization devoted to the health and welfare of children." (page 1) "Every authoritative child welfare and child health organization of which amici are aware recognizes, and an overhelming body of scholarly research demonstrates, that children fare just as well in families with same-sex parents as in families with heterosexual parents." (page 10) "Every leading professinal child health and child welfare organization recognizes that sexual orientation has no correlation with the ability to be a good parent and raise healthy and well-adjusted childre. The policy statements issued by these organizations reflect their professional experiences and their expert reviews of the research related to the effects of parenting by gay men and lesbians on childhood development. The statements are striking in their unanimous rejection of the assumption that optimal development requires heterosexual parents. Indeed, amici are unaware of any authoritative child welfare or medical organization that gas taken a contrary view of the research and policy implications." (page 12) "A group of approximately 60 of AAP´s more than 60,00 members opposed APP´s adoption of this policy and in dissent, formed the "American College of Pediatricians" ("ACP") in 2002. This small and marginal group has filed an amicus brief in support of Respondents in keeping with the ACP´s position that "it is inappropriate, potentially hazardous to children, and dangerously irresponsible to change the age-old prohibition on homosexual parenting, whether by adoption, foster care, or by reproductive manipulation." Dr. Joseph Zanga, one of ACP´s charter members, has described the ACP as a group "with Judeo-Christian, traditional values that is open to pediatric medical professionals of all religions who hold true to the group´s core beliefs: that life begins at conception; and that the traditional family unit, headed by an opposite-sex couple, poses far fewer risk factors in the adoption and raising of childre." "This small faction´s views are out of step with the research-based positions of the AAP and other medical and child welfare authorities." (page 15) http://www.state.wv.us/wvsca/briefs/march09/34618SocialWorkers.pdf
- Thus, to put it simply, there can not be absolutely any doubts I contributed solely the facts supported by the most credible expert sources in the field describe the views of ACP "in their proper context with respect to established scholarship" as fundamental Wikipedia policies reqires. --Destinero (talk) 19:26, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Neither one has posted anything to the talk page. Destinero, there's no question in my mind that the lead should include something along the lines of what you are adding -- but you're going to have to work it out on the talk page, and what you have been adding can't be framed in the voice of Wikipedia itself. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:21, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- At first sight, Destinero and Ckatz appear to be edit warring at American College of Pediatricians. Ckatz may consider that his actions are justified by his admin role, since he is taking out a passage that deplores the ACP in Wikipedia's voice, and which uses a reference linked to a primary source, a brief that was filed in a court case, though some of the participating organizations might have published their views elsewhere. Some of the language Ckatz was removing was "This small faction's views are out of step with the overwhelming body of scholarly research-based positions.." This is being stated in Wikipedia's voice as a matter of fact about the American College of Pediatricians. At a minimum, the language needs fixing for neutrality, and a legal brief should probably not be cited. EdJohnston (talk) 18:50, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Comment While it is certainly premature to do so, I'm not surprised to see that Destinero has brought this matter here. Frankly, I think it is probably best that there is a chance for more eyes to look at the situation. I'll state categorically that this is not a "POV" or disruptive move on my part; a simple check of the article's edit history will show that I've no real interest in the topic. My concerns here - and with several other articles that touch on the same subject matter - lies in Destinero's approach to editing on Wikipedia. I have had to intercede on numerous occasions with regard to his habits, which often as not involve adding POV, non-neutral material to articles that reflect his personal pers\pective on the matter. The worst instances of this have involved incidents where he has dropped boiler-plate text into a series of articles, and where he has misused sources as references for a message he wants to get across. Please note this excerpt from the text [he has repeatedly posted to the article], which demonstrates the nature of the problem:
"This small faction's views are out of step with the overwhelming body of scholarly research-based positions of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical and child welfare authorities recognizing that sexual orientation has no correlation with the ability to be a good parent and raise healthy and well-adjusted children."
Destinero likes to insert loaded terminology into articles; in this case, "out of step" and "small faction" are used to dismiss the organization in question. My apologies if my edit summaries were lacking in this case, but after a long period of dealing with the same problems one can sometimes get frustrated. Please feel free to ask any questions you might have; again, I would really appreciate it if more people could review Destinero's edit history with regard to these types of edits. --Ckatzchatspy 19:25, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Please stop acusing me of liking loaded terminology when I showed here that I contributed solely the facts presented by the national and West Virginian organization dedicated to the welfare of children including the largest social work association in the world to the Court, all of which can be everytime checked by everybody. I am expecting your apology since you not able to support by reliable sources how views of ACP are not out of step with the overwhelming body of scholarly research-based positions of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical and child welfare authorities recognizing that sexual orientation has no correlation with the ability to be a good parent and raise healthy and well-adjusted children (see LGBT parenting article for details on decades of conclusive and widely-accepted research on the issue) and you are not able to explain how ACP founded in 2002 by 60 charter members are not small faction in comparison with American Academy of Pediatrics with 60,000 members and all other mainstream expert bodies in the field including National Association of Social Workers (150,000 members), American Psychological Association (150,000 members), American Psychiatric Association (40,000 members) etc. --Destinero (talk) 19:48, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Destinero, since this entire discussion ought to be taking place at the article talk page and you still haven't started any discussion there, I doubt you'll get the apology you are seeking. Again, you can probably add something along the lines of what you are after, but go away and do it the right way. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 20:14, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Why is this discussed here and not on the article talk page? There's zero discussion about this issue there. Tijfo098 (talk) 19:29, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Probably because this is indeed a user conduct issue: In my experience, (a) edit-warring to insert a patently inappropriate POV (sourced to a brief in a lawsuit!) into an article, and (b) wall-of-text-ranting about it on noticeboards are the classical symptoms of a soon-to-be-indef-blocked user. Destinero, if you keep this up, that will be you. Sandstein 21:44, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- I've had my own disagreements with Destinero over cherry-picking (other) affidavits for strong language (which wasn't put in quotes). I find this troublesome, for both NPOV and COPYVIO reasons. Some parts of LGBT parenting, contributed by Destinero, were deleted by an uninvolved admin on copyvio grounds. I don't know if in the dispute at hand here Destinero picked the strong language from the source, or if it was his own. A clarification would help. Tijfo098 (talk) 22:03, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- In the current dispute, Destinero cited an amicus brief by the National Association of Social Workers to state the postion of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The 50-page linked pdf is non-searchable, so a page number would help. Tijfo098 (talk) 22:10, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- I improved that by referencing the actual AAP position statement. Destinero and I had a discussion about this before: I think that citing one page position statements is preferable to dozen-of-pages briefs/affidavits. Tijfo098 (talk) 22:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- The language was from the brief, bottom of p. 15. Something like that usually needs to be attributed. Again we had the issue of copy-pasted statements without quotes... Tijfo098 (talk) 01:02, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I concur with Sandstein's analysis here. Destinero's behavior does not look like civil discourse aimed at arriving at a consensus version of an article. It looks like trying, by any means necessary, to force through a particular viewpoint into an article, including stretching the use of sources of marginal appropriateness, coming to ANI rather than the article talk page to contest the edits of others, and most importantly, insisting that others (and not himself) have the burden to justify the removal of his additions. WP:BURDEN makes it clear that the conservative approach must be taken with contentious material. Challenged material is to be left out, and it is the burden of the person wishing to add it to prove, via reliable sources and reasoned discussion with others, that it belongs it. When someone behaves in the opposite manner, it is a red flag that they aren't interested in playing by the rules. The issue of copyright violations and plagiarism is also MUCHO serious, and needs to be addressed as well. --Jayron32 04:02, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to ask that there is an examination of Destinero's recent edits, which - despite concerns raised here and on his talk page - are a direct continuation of his regular behaviour. Not only has he apparently ignored concerns raised over the American College article, he has also made significant undiscussed changes to LGBT parenting and Same-sex marriage that have raised concerns over copyright violations and the use of weasel words. --Ckatzchatspy 11:09, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- See my comment on new developments in the ACP article here. Tijfo098 (talk) 11:19, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Removed that from the ACP article, clearly very pointed. I think Destinero has a particular and deep POV on these topics; there is no reason to stop them from editing, but they need to understand why their edits are problematic and often pointed. I think we made movement on this on ther LGBT parenting article. I also have concerns with the consistent use of "not needed" as an edit summary for quite substantive edits. This should be discouraged and instead Destinero should try to use much more explanatory edit summaries to clear up their reasoning --Errant [tmorton166] (chat!) 11:23, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I am satisfied with the current versions of LGBT parenting and ACP article. What a difference to the Ckatz POV version http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_College_of_Pediatricians&diff=397489091&oldid=397268492, isn't it? Yes, I care much about these topics, but please, that does not mean I want to push some POV agenda. I understand copyvio and other concerns mentioned and take them seriously and I really appreciate the movement and feedback. The reason why I wrote not needed in edit summary were motivated to reduce duplicate material and focus on the essence of documented facts and adress copyvio and weasel word concerns. For example, I see no reason why include rather esseistic and defendable writing than document clearly current scientific research-based knowledge and expert consensus to let readers to make up their own opinions on the topic. Is it clearer, now? --Destinero (talk) 19:49, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Some context around that diff.
- Destenero compared to final - this is the difference between the same end version of the article and Destinero's changes Ckatz was reverting.
- Destinero compared to Ckatz - the two versions directly compared
- Revision right before this started compared to final
- Destinero's final revision compared to final
- Ravensfire (talk) 23:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Some context around that diff.
- I am satisfied with the current versions of LGBT parenting and ACP article. What a difference to the Ckatz POV version http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_College_of_Pediatricians&diff=397489091&oldid=397268492, isn't it? Yes, I care much about these topics, but please, that does not mean I want to push some POV agenda. I understand copyvio and other concerns mentioned and take them seriously and I really appreciate the movement and feedback. The reason why I wrote not needed in edit summary were motivated to reduce duplicate material and focus on the essence of documented facts and adress copyvio and weasel word concerns. For example, I see no reason why include rather esseistic and defendable writing than document clearly current scientific research-based knowledge and expert consensus to let readers to make up their own opinions on the topic. Is it clearer, now? --Destinero (talk) 19:49, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Removed that from the ACP article, clearly very pointed. I think Destinero has a particular and deep POV on these topics; there is no reason to stop them from editing, but they need to understand why their edits are problematic and often pointed. I think we made movement on this on ther LGBT parenting article. I also have concerns with the consistent use of "not needed" as an edit summary for quite substantive edits. This should be discouraged and instead Destinero should try to use much more explanatory edit summaries to clear up their reasoning --Errant [tmorton166] (chat!) 11:23, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Ravensfire (talk) 23:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I just want to make it very clear for the record that, Destinero's errant claims of my "POV" version to the contrary, I have no personal involvement in the page as an editor. My involvement in this matter is solely and completely based on responding as an admin to what appears to me to be yet another case of Destinero's problematic editing style, as I have had to do elsewhere in the past. --Ckatzchatspy 01:19, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Please see Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-08-28/LGBT parenting, a case that I mediated. (I am no longer mediating any case involving Destinero). I thought that I had successfully explained to Destinero that his interpretation of WP:UNDUE was an extremely odd one (to say the least), and one not shared by the rest of the Wikipedia community. He seems to believe that if a claim is attributed to a source written by a respected expert on the topic, it can then be written in Wikipedia's voice. I assumed good faith with Destinero by suggesting this was a linguistic issue. However, I believe, since this issue has recurred, Destinero is attempting to game Wikipedia policy to his advantage, and has created disputes where none exist with some very experienced Wikipedians who are trying to write articles in an NPOV manner. He replies with walls of "lawyering" text when editors attempt to explain to him his strange, self-exculpatory view of WP:UNDUE.
- Therefore, I suggest that he be subject to a "softban" from inserting text in "Wikipedia's voice" on subjects relating to LGBT parenting and parenting in general, of which this is another example. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 21:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC) Corrected --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 21:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Proposed softban of Destinero: WP:UNDUE and parenting topics
I hereby propose the following softban. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 21:34, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Destinero (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is banned by community consensus from inserting or removing contentious claims under colour of WP:UNDUE in Wikipedia articles relating to parenting and LGBT parenting. He also may not write article prose in these topics in "Wikipedia's voice"; that is, he may not insert claims in articles on these topics as unqualified factual statements. Destinero may be briefly blocked by any uninvolved Wikipedia administrator in the event of violating this limited topic ban. In the event of repeat violations, he may be banned entirely from editing articles within these topics. See also Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-08-28/LGBT parenting.
- Ban enacted. Editors are free to dispute this limited-behaviour topic ban if they desire. I would have liked comment on this; however, Destinero's record of disruptive editing in these topic areas should not be entertained any longer, since it is wasting editors' and administrators' time. A cost-benefit decision must, therefore, be made. The ban will be noted in the appropriate venues. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 00:18, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Page ban request
I would like to request a page ban for Nazar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) due to long term edit-warring against literally everybody else at the articles of Prahlad Jani and Inedia. Nazar despite long conversations about OR and SYNTH just seems to not get the point thus wasting a lot of other editors' time which could be spent much better elsewhere. This massive effort has included multiple reports at RSN, ORN multiple RFCs and ANI reports including a recent WQA alert against me. At that WQA alert I was advised to bring the matter forward to this board. After some initial hesitation I did finally decide to bring it here. Thank you for your consideration. Here is a sample of Nazar's long-term edit-warring at Prahlad Jani.
Thanks for this ANI. I think it'll be a good test and an opportunity to review their past actions for all of the involved parties. I don't claim that all of my previous edits were perfect, but I did my best to bring in new referenced information and ensure the neutrality of its rendering in the article. I respect the efforts of the opposing party to cut off the pieces which are not in accordance with the current Wiki Policies, as well as to represent a skeptic and critical view of the case, which is necessary too, of course. I'd like to mention that I have no major problems with the current version of the article, and don't really see what more could be added based on the currently available references. However, it may be seen from the editing pattern of my opponents, that none of them originally cared to introduce new references or expose the case in a more accurate and versatile way. It was mostly me who provided the references and attempted to build the article, as well as it was me who started it and filled it with information. My opponents usually were the ones to cut off and remove, as well as critically edit the pieces they found not appropriate, for which I am thankful to them in many cases (although, I also think they might have overdone it in some instances). Since the case is an ongoing study, I'm concerned that if the page ban they request succeeds, then only one of the parties, namely the skeptic one, remains entitled to edit the article, or rather not to edit it and not to add the new information, which may become available as the research progresses. Regarding the possible offenses other editor might have taken during our disputes, I'd like to apologize for these, as we've had many emotional points, and I'm sorry to say I wasn't always able to maintain a perfectly neutral and balanced attitude. Thanks everyone. -- Nazar (talk) 10:33, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm also sorry my current time limits (it's currently office hours in my time zone) do not allow me to examine in detail the diffs provided by Dr.K., and since they are mostly pretty outdated and represent issues which had already been solved and discussed in much detail before, I don't see much sense in going into these old arguments again. But, as far as I remember the case, the edits of my opponents have not always been accurate and based on neutral rendering of available referenced information. Also, my opponents were reluctant to revert their own edits themselves and usually used the tactics of ignoring the points I raised, even if proved wrong in discussion. But again, I don't see any points which need more attention and further arguments at this moment. Thanks. -- Nazar (talk) 10:54, 18 November 2010 (UTC) I've managed to briefly review the first 10 diffs provided by Dr.K.. They are all related to the subject of inclusion of a neutral description of Sanal Edamaruku's criticism of the case, including my attempts to provide information about the video plot and subtitles, which were used as an argument in that criticism. That issue has been discussed in much detail on RSN, NOR and article discussion page. It's been closed since over 3 months now and all my subsequent edits were fully in compliance with achieved consensus on that issue. I don't think my opponents would be able to provide any diff to prove the opposite. Thanks. -- Nazar (talk) 11:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC) Ok. I've reviewed all the 20 diffs provided by Dr.K.. I don't see anything bannable in them. 11 or 12 of them are about the video issue I mentioned above, which had been closed very long ago. There's one major update I made after MiRroar's edits. I'm sorry if this update was too massive, but MiRroar's changes were very inaccurate and did not correspond to the referenced sources. I think we've sorted out the issues raised in that update long ago too. At least over a month ago, I guess. I have no problems with the points raised there at this moment. Thanks. -- Nazar (talk) 12:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC) I'd also like to add that I'm not very happy about Dr.K.'s attitude towards me and my edits. I wouldn't like to repeat offenses I suffered from him and enumerate again the points where he was inappropriately aggressive towards me. I don't have a problem with that at this moment either and would not like to request any sanctions against Dr.K., though I would be pleased if he reconsidered his attitude and his position towards me. I only think it's relevant to say in the context of this dispute that the edit-warring which I'm being accused of can be attributed to Dr.K.'s actions in the same, if not greater degree. No offense though. I believe it's a part of the game ("game" here not meant as 'just for fun', but the serious editing process) we play here, and we have to be ready to spend our time for sorting out such issues. -- Nazar (talk) 12:31, 18 November 2010 (UTC) If this ANI is Dr.K.'s revenge for my WQA request regarding his use of the word "hectoring" No.2 to describe my polite notifications, then I'd like to remind that I addressed WQA for mild non imperative mediation and as a first test of how that noticeboard works. I explicitly stated there that no administrative actions against Dr.K. are requested. I'm sorry if that was taken as an offense, but the repetitive use of "hectoring" No.1 to describe my messages does not make me very happy. -- Nazar (talk) 12:52, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I know that reading through all of the above is painful, but it would be helpful to get some additional feedback on this issue. --Nuujinn (talk) 19:56, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, Dr. K., for the WP:BOOMERANG comment. Your list of links was WP:TLDR for me and as such I simply looked at the page history for the article to get an idea of what was going on. I also hardly ever look at diffs posted to ANI because they often show the worst of an editor and usually do not provide a neutral overall picture of what is going on. Nazar has made it pretty clear with his posts on this page what's going on; the comment about him seeing it as a game is most revealing. I don't know however if a topic ban is going to solve the problem. Nazar's apparrent refusal to respect consensus may be grounds for a simpler solution if it is determined to be disruptive. An admin however will have to make that determination. N419BH 03:37, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to thank N419BH for a fairly neutral and balanced approach to this issue. I'm sorry again for some of the more emotional points above, I was rather stressed yesterday, as I invested a lot of work into the mentioned article (actually it was at larger part me who built it), and now facing a page ban would be just utterly unfair. I'd like to repeat that at the present moment I do not have any major problems with that article and really don't have any ideas as to what could be added or further disputed about it. I was always doing my best to fight for neutral exposure of relevant points. I might not be happy about some of these points being not exposed fully enough because of limitations of video descriptions in Wikipedia, or some other Policies, but well, I do accept the policies currently in force and I don't think I can be accused of ignoring the achieved consensus on any of the major disputed points we had in the past. That is true as well about the use of sources in the mentioned article, though personally I might disagree with the way policies were applied, but I respected the consensus reached and never tried to edit against it. I hope I'll be able to come back to this article after some time (maybe months, maybe years) when more reliable sources and stronger evidence is available. On the other hand (this if for my opponents to consider), I also do recognize an option that further evidence may reveal the fraudulent nature of Jani's claims, and I'll be happy to include the respective reliably sourced material into the article as well. Thanks so far. -- Nazar (talk) 10:08, 19 November 2010 (UTC) Even though I do not agree with Nazar's characterisation of the editors disagreeing with him/her as "opponents" instead of say "fellow-editors", his/her latest statement holds enough promise for the future that I do not, in good faith, believe any longer that there is danger of continued edit-warring at the articles. Therefore I ask that an admin marks this as resolved and close the thread. In closing I wish to thank all the parties involved in this thread for their valuable input. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 16:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC) |
Misleading claim of 'vandalism' by IANVS at 'White Argentine' article
USER:IANVS has reverted a large number of edits to the White Argentine article (diff here), describing them as 'multiple issues of vandalism'. The are clearly nothing of the kind. There is a long-running content dispute over this article, and the edits are evidently part of this.
Given that (amongst other issues), much of the text restored by IANVS is in clear breach of WP:BLP as it includes an unsourced categorisation of living individuals to a supposed 'ethnic group' that the article itself provides no valid evidence for the existence of (the term 'White Argentine', or a close equivalent in Spanish is not a term widely used in Argentina, as one of the leading contributors to the article (User:Pablozeta here) himself acknowledges), I ask that IANVS be required to work within Wikipedia policy, and deal with issues on a case by case basis, rather than engaging in mass reverts with misleading edit summaries, and furthermore, to ensure that any text restored confirms to WP:BLP.
AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:42, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- The "mass reversal" I did was because the IP user effectively did not made a case by case edit of the article, making it impossible to separate the viable edits from the vandalic ones. In fact, after the mass reversal I began to re-introduce valuable edits by the IP user. Salut, --IANVS (talk) 14:52, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Any edit to improve the Wiki - even if it is incorrect or misguided - is not vandalism and should never be called such. --Errant [tmorton166] (chat!) 15:07, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I apologize, I've should said "rv mass edits including some vandalism in it". Salut, --IANVS (talk) 15:16, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- In fact, I said "estore last good version -. multiple issues of vandalism." Salut, --IANVS (talk) 15:18, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Can you please make clear what it is you consider 'vandalism': I can see no evidence of any. And can you furthermore assure us that any restoration you make conforms with WP:BLP, and does not make assertions about the supposed ethnicity of living persons? AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- IP editor deleted links to other WP article, deleted references and sourced content, and segments or entire sections without a rational explanation ("c'mon be serious" kind of explanations). Much of these was vandalic behavior, that I could not undo without this mass reversal. I restored his valuable edits however, and I recently hid the extensive lists of names possibly subject to BLP policy, while tagging the most problematic section (Influence in culture) with a BLP concern tag. Salut, --IANVS (talk) 15:41, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Can you please make clear what it is you consider 'vandalism': I can see no evidence of any. And can you furthermore assure us that any restoration you make conforms with WP:BLP, and does not make assertions about the supposed ethnicity of living persons? AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Any edit to improve the Wiki - even if it is incorrect or misguided - is not vandalism and should never be called such. --Errant [tmorton166] (chat!) 15:07, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- This is very clearly a proper reversion by IANVS, as a significant amount of things by those two IPs were vandalism. There were one or two good edits in there that might want to be reinstated, but it was for the large part just section blanking, reference removal, and the addition of non-neutral sentences. IANVS was right in reverting it to what it was before. What BLP problems are you speaking of, Andy? SilverserenC 16:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- - Article is the subject of mediation Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/White Argentine and the edits look to be related to some of the issues related to that, hopefully it will all come out in the wash there. Of course any clear policy violation can and should be removed. Under the circumstances of mediation existing Its a good idea to clearly discuss any alterations to the article at present. Off2riorob (talk) 16:57, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Response to Silverseren - A content dispute is never vandalism.
- With regard to BLP issues, I'd draw everyones attention to the following (from Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality):
- General categorization by ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexuality is permitted, with the following considerations:
- ...
- Inclusion must be justifiable by external references. (For example: regardless of whether you have personal knowledge of a notable individual's sexual orientation, they should only be filed in a LGBT-related category after verifiable, reliable sources have been provided in the article that support the assertion.)
- ...
- Inclusion must be specifically relevant to at least one of the subject's notable activities and an essential part of that activity, but is not required to be an exclusive interest. Moreover, inclusion is not transitive to any other activity. (For example: a notable LGBT activist is not automatically included in a corresponding LGBT musician category, unless also notable for one or more LGBT-related music compositions or performances.)
- Note that even if the supposed 'ethnicity' is sourced, it arguably fails to meet the requirement to be "specifically relevant to at least one of the subject's notable activities". In any case, the article provides no valid justification for using the term 'White Argentinian' as an ethnic group: ethnicity is something one ascribes to oneself. Instead, it is using an external 'ethnic category' as a basis for inclusion or exclusion. This is entirely contrary to Wikipedia policy. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:07, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Your concern on BLP policy is tangencial to this partial reversion (I restored everything that was not vandalic, hid the most problematic lists from the BLP perspective, and even added a BLP tag). We should be discusseing this in the article's talk page, Andy. Salut, --IANVS (talk) 19:08, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- It should not be on the talk page, because the issue is not entirely the content but has progressed to your inability to recognize what 'vandalism' is. The edit was clearly a good faith effort to improve the encyclopedia. Not one part of it was vandalism, from looking at the diff at the beginning of the thread. Most of it was probably worth a reversion, but the labeling as vandalism to clearly out of line. Not a major major issue, but probably worth a note of apology on the ip's talkpage. -- ۩ Mask 08:38, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- A point of information here: Once more, edits (not mine) as part of a contend dispute are being falsely labelled as 'vandalism' in edit summaries. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:02, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Since there seems to be quite the edit war here today, I've protected this article for three days. Hopefully, this will encourage some further discussion. Frankly, I'm seeing some bad edits, but nothing I would overtly call vandalism. If you see something you think fits taht criteria specifically, it would be helpful to call it. Kuru (talk) 17:23, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I insist, removal of sourced statements and references, relevant wikilinks, as well as entire sections without a proper WP:ES is vandalism, not legitimate edit warring. --IANVS (talk) 17:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's unimportant how do we name the things going on. Whenever it was vandalism or a content dispute, the important thing is that it was not correct to remove whole pages in a single edit, or to remove them and expect to discuss over a done deed. The restore of the deleted content was correct, at least until consensus or mediation say otherwise. MBelgrano (talk) 18:32, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's actually quite important to label them correctly. Good faith edits that simply come out wrong are not vandalism; you are in a content dispute and labeling your opponent as a vandal does not help bring them into line with our editorial process, nor does it grant you an exemption from 3RR. The IP editor engaged on the talk page; I would strongly encourage you to resolve your dispute there instead of edit warring when the protection expires. Kuru (talk) 19:51, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's unimportant how do we name the things going on. Whenever it was vandalism or a content dispute, the important thing is that it was not correct to remove whole pages in a single edit, or to remove them and expect to discuss over a done deed. The restore of the deleted content was correct, at least until consensus or mediation say otherwise. MBelgrano (talk) 18:32, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Personal attacks based on nationality
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Hi,
I was trying to avoid this but now this has gone off limits. So here is the deal:
There is some discussion about which pictures should be included in the History section of the article Arc de Triomphe. This started on September 26th when DIREKTOR added the image File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-126-0347-09A, Paris, Deutsche Truppen am Arc de Triomphe.jpg to this section. This image depicts German troops marching on the Champs-Élysées with the Arc de Triomphe in the background. Some heated discussions and reverts happened next, actions that I did not take part in.
The result of these discussions were that 3 images stayed in the history section, leaving this section over-imaged. Also these images were all depicting events from the 20th Century remotely connected with the Arc de Triomphe itself. (see the article at this state).
I then decided to be bold and try a new set of images for this section, depicting events more closely related to the Arc, namely a drawing of the project by the architect of the Arc himself (File:Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile - Projet Chalgrin - 02.jpg), and a drawing of the return of the ashes of Napoleon (File:Retour des Cendres - 1.jpg), Napoleon being the one that ordered the construction of the Arc.
I knew these changes would be controversial but did justify them in the discussion page of the article ([21]) and did personally notify the 2 contributors involved in this edit war ([22] and [23]). I was also prepared to have these changes modified but was not prepared for what happened next.
DIREKTOR started to be arrogant and insulting me. This is how he commented my contribution : "Rv (badly disguised ;)) image censorship." ([24]) and this is how he commented is addition to the talk page : "Nice try" ([25]).
He has falsely accused me of removing discussions from Frania Wisniewska talk page. ([26]). He also accused me of considering other contributors as "stupid". ([27])
All this attacks against me made me decided me to set up a request for comments on that issue so that it could be finally settled with more than 2 contributors. I made sure to present the issue in the most objective way I could. ([28])
DIREKTOR once again misunderstood my request for comments by claiming that I have an "agenda" . ([29]) For this he cites a discussion between me and Frania_Wisniewska which happened prior to the RfC. I did not discuss this RfC with anyone so I am wondering what agenda DIREKTOR is mentioning. He also mentions my presumed "patriotic sentiment". ([30]) He goes on with calling me a patriot Frenchman as part of the "patriot Frenchmen" he mentions. He uses an arrogant tone by using the expression "you and your buddies". ([31])
In conclusion, in this issue I wanted to improve the article by correcting the layout and the chronology of the pictures. I knew there would be discussion over this change but justified my changes and notified people. When the discussion stopped because of attacks over my nationality, I opened a RfC only to have DIREKTOR come back to his rant against the French people. Badzil (talk) 01:54, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- LOL, you made my day. Thanks for the chuckles... buy don't we have a policy on edit warring. Although he is now into personal attacks. Well see what the admins do about it. --Hinata talk 01:59, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- I do not complain on edit warring, I complain solely on the issue of personal attacks. The edit war should hopefully be settled by the RfC. Badzil (talk) 02:01, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Is 'patriotic Frenchman' really an insult? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 02:02, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Of course not, this is a content dispute ad hominem report. I did not insult anyone nor will I. The user needs to read WP:NPA more carefully before trying to get rid of me. --DIREKTOR (TALK) 02:15, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- While not weighing in on the particular issue at hand, it's worth mentioning that in some languages and some cultures, calling somebody a patriot is offensive. In (most? all?) English-speaking cultures that is not the case, but "patriot" carries very different connotations in different languages, sometimes with a considerable "nationalist/extreme right-wing" tinge. I don't know what the situation is with French, however. --bonadea contributions talk 17:23, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Is 'patriotic Frenchman' really an insult? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 02:02, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- I do not complain on edit warring, I complain solely on the issue of personal attacks. The edit war should hopefully be settled by the RfC. Badzil (talk) 02:01, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- For background, see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive642#Content removal. Uncle G (talk) 02:26, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
For the record, I certainly do believe it is obvious a group of French users is ganging-up to remove a (very famous) photograph image of German troops marching in Paris - from several articles. And I do believe this is the (dare I say it? :) agenda of those users. The image had already been removed from the lead of the Battle of France article contrary to previously established consensus, and now the same is being attempted at the Arc de Triomphe article. Likely there are more examples.
The user is trying to get me blocked for opposing his edits based on my statements of the above. Instead, I would like to invite you guys to have at this strange mess [32]. --DIREKTOR (TALK) 02:37, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- One of the user(s) there claims there is a conspiracy against the French military. They have also complained in the past that that iconic image of the Nazi troops marching near the Arch of Triumph is somehow connected with support of the Nazis. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- French Military? You mean the national running team? (I kid, I kid) HalfShadow 21:31, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Talk of various conspiracy theories doesn't seem very helpful here, nor grouping users together according to their presumed nationality. There are compelling reasons for the prominent use of this picture in articles like the Battle of France. There is an obvious irony, however, in using it with WP:UNDUE prominence in an article about a French triumphal arch, since it shows a moment in history which was decidely not about a French triumph. In an article about an architectural feature, is this not just trying to make a WP:POINT? For comparison I looked at Eiffel tower where there is a very balanced set of pictures and detailed content about the German occupation. As far as "iconic images" go, the victory parade of De Gaulle qualifies just as much. The images have been moved around a lot lately: my proposal would be to gather relevant images, including this one, in a gallery, with detailed captions. Mathsci (talk) 03:45, 16 November 2010 (UTC) [Multiple disclosures: I have contributed to an article about another triumphal arch in France, the Porte d'Aix. I am not a member of the French military or any other category that might come to mind. I have received money from the French state.]
- One can take it personally or one can accept that that is certainly one of the most famous historical photographs of the arch - and also the only one which shows it being used in its actual function. --DIREKTOR (TALK) 12:23, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Talk of various conspiracy theories doesn't seem very helpful here, nor grouping users together according to their presumed nationality. There are compelling reasons for the prominent use of this picture in articles like the Battle of France. There is an obvious irony, however, in using it with WP:UNDUE prominence in an article about a French triumphal arch, since it shows a moment in history which was decidely not about a French triumph. In an article about an architectural feature, is this not just trying to make a WP:POINT? For comparison I looked at Eiffel tower where there is a very balanced set of pictures and detailed content about the German occupation. As far as "iconic images" go, the victory parade of De Gaulle qualifies just as much. The images have been moved around a lot lately: my proposal would be to gather relevant images, including this one, in a gallery, with detailed captions. Mathsci (talk) 03:45, 16 November 2010 (UTC) [Multiple disclosures: I have contributed to an article about another triumphal arch in France, the Porte d'Aix. I am not a member of the French military or any other category that might come to mind. I have received money from the French state.]
Please prove that I am part of an agenda to remove that image. I stated on DIREKTOR's talk page that this is indeed not my goal. And how does the creation of a request for comments show my non-acceptance of the fact that the picture is "one of the most famous historical photographs of the arch"? How about letting users comment in terms of relevancy without again starting a nationality-based rant? Finally apologize for your false accusation of me deleting discussions and remove it from the talk page. Badzil (talk) 13:24, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- All sorts of interesting images could be put in a gallery without endlessly discussing their relative merits and demerits—that's always subjective. As far as French sensibilities are concerned, perhaps the issues with this image might be similar to those with equally "iconic" images of the collapse of the twin towers in Manhattan (see below and the image actually used in the article). Mathsci (talk) 13:53, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- As one of the contributors being talked about & wrongly accused of conspiracy by DIREKTOR, I think that the best way for me to describe the situation in which I am involved is to "copy & paste" the last comment I left earlier in the day at the Arc de Triomphe discussion page[33]:
- "RE the conversation between two fellow wikipedians, there for all the world to read even if written in French since most participants to France-related articles do speak & read French, it is a shame that the meaning of that conversation has to be twisted out of recognition.
- 11NOV10, 0359hrs: Article Battle of France: I reverted Baseball Bugs who, the previous day, had put the marching naz photograph as leading picture, and had left the comment: It's already been discussed at length, and this was the consensus., leaving as my own reason for reversal: There was absolutely NO consensus for changing the photo, in fact, the change was done by force, ramming it thru the throat of those opposing it / placing marching naz in their chronological place /). Thus, I cannot be accused of removing the picture of the marching naz.
- 11NOV10, 0420hrs: Article Arc de Triomphe contrary to what is being said by DireKtor, I did not remove any, but switched two photographs, putting the one with the French flag floating within the frame of the AdT closer to the top & the one of the marching naz at the bottom where the French flag had been - with the comment: On 11 November, the Arc de Triomphe with French flag is more appropriate than marching naz of June 1940.)
- 11NOV10, 1345hrs, Badzil, with whom I am being accused of conspiring, reverted my edit - with comment: Please, an encyclopedia should not be modified for a particular day.
- 11NOV10, 1442hrs: I reverted "my fellow conspirator" Badzil - with comment: Picture where it belongs, keep marching naz where they are if you wish : as said before, if this was the US flag, it wouldn't be relegated at bottom of article but would be flying on top.
- 11NOV10, 1452hrs: my talk page[34], Badzil left a msg in French explaining his reversal, saying that although he did not like the marching naz anymore than I did, no change could be done without a debate, i.e. wiki rules had to be followed. He also wrote somewhere in his comment that he did not "support" my action although he understood it. I would hardly call this a conspiracy.
- Then, before DireKtor entered the scene, I wrote (summarizing) that I know what historical documents are, and that I have nothing against their use, but that, not being an imbecile, I also can identify dirty tricks from the start, suspecting that D. did not add the photograph by respect for History, but out of spite toward the French, in other words, with harassment in mind - comparing the inclusion of the picture of the marching naz to France-related articles to the sending of a rope to the family of someone who had hung himself, or been hanged.
- Finally, as my archiving bot archived the section because it laid dormant for over 48 hours, I not having answered his piece, DireKtor accused Badzil of removing the whole thing. I then reinstated the discussion yesterday, and the archiving bot archived it again today.
- The above is the summary of the whole "conspiracy" between Badzil and myself.
- Now I have other & better things to do than rehash over & over facts for the enjoyment of a young lad who wants to give himself importance with his one-sided knowledge of the History of France, the Battle of France, World War I & World War II, but cannot give a straight & true account of recent facts plain for everyone to read & see."
- signed: --Frania W. (talk) 03:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- "RE the conversation between two fellow wikipedians, there for all the world to read even if written in French since most participants to France-related articles do speak & read French, it is a shame that the meaning of that conversation has to be twisted out of recognition.
- --Frania W. (talk) 14:23, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- As one of the contributors being talked about & wrongly accused of conspiracy by DIREKTOR, I think that the best way for me to describe the situation in which I am involved is to "copy & paste" the last comment I left earlier in the day at the Arc de Triomphe discussion page[33]:
Consider this issue closed. Badzil (talk) 16:39, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- There's no reason to unarchive a thread just to say that the issue is closed.[35][36] -Atmoz (talk) 17:57, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Battleground attitude of DIREKTOR
In the thread above, I suggested resolving the problem using a gallery and suggested in Talk:Arc de Triomphe using an alternative image. Badzil created a gallery and used the image I linked from Gallica, unearthed after a long search. Badzil mentioned on the talk page that xe was not quite clear how to install a gallery and chose an option where the captions were poorly displayed. I changed this uncontroversially to the standard gallery option. DIREKTOR has twice reverted this use of gallery and has been unduly belligerent on the talk page. It is clear that his editing on this article is not particularly constructive, if he's making such a dog's breakfast of a minor technical point. In past edits I have added galleries to articles on two major French historic sites, now large connurbations, both of them in the South of France. Mathsci (talk) 21:10, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- He has now reverted this technical edit for a third time [37] [38] [39] and I suggest now that he be blocked for a day or two. This is an inexplicable continuation of completely disproportionate behaviour. Mathsci (talk) 21:16, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
"Badzil mentioned on the talk page that xe was not quite clear how to install a gallery..." Could you quote me on this? I do not recall saying that. Badzil (talk) 22:01, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- (ec) I wholeheartedly agreed with your installation of the gallery. Bravo et félicitations !! The reformatting was a completely minor technical point about the way you encoded the gallery. My reading, perhaps faulty, was that you appeared to be a little unsure of yourself here. [40] But your instincts were perfectly correct. Regards, Mathsci (talk) 22:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Personally I cannot believe these reports... For the record, we all finally agree on Badzil's proposal and User:Mathsci comes along with "you do not know how to use galleries, this one is better". The simple solution to this entire mess is to simply insert perrow="6" in the article, but my suggestion was apparently misunderstood - and now this??
I really don't know what to say. I did not attack anyone, I did not break 3RR, I do indeed know how to use galleries on articles. While the reporting user altered the consensus version, proceeded to revert it into place, and then reported me for - nothing at all. :) --DIREKTOR (TALK) 22:27, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- The use of the template WP:GALLERY is not in any way controversial. In this case it was a helpful improvement, even if extremely minor. Mathsci (talk) 22:42, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I should inform you, User:Mathsci - that to my knowledge that is not a "template" you are using. That's just html. But if you must use raw HTML, by inserting "<gallery perrow=6>" the gallery will extend to cover six images in a row. Did I not suggest this just before you (ubelievably) reported me for following WP:3RR? Further, you will also notice (if you actually follow the link I provided) that Template:Gallery (which is an actual "template") can easily be adjusted to leave more space for the captions of each image if you find that a problem.
- Will you please withdraw the report? People over here are likely getting agitated with this and I get the feeling we could all just get blocked. Lets all just walk away slowly in hopes we've not angered the gods... :) --DIREKTOR (TALK) 22:47, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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I'm rarely edit on wikipedia and just when I went ahead and actually did some work. I get a great response on my talk page that is quite an inflmmatory personal attack. The editor in question is supposedbly seasoned and but did not even want to discuss anything and just kept pushing unilateral POV's before responding to my attempt to talk to him with blaring attack. I don't even want to care about wikipedia anymore. The POV pushers are too much and the people are simply too mean and assume whatever they want. I don't know what posting here does but here's hoping that someone notices what kind of an editor Dr. Blofeld is and taken some action against him. Personal attack happened on my talk page. User_talk:Pal2002 More nationally-aimed personal attacks and false assumptions on this page. User_talk:Lerdthenerd No response on the article's talk page where I tried to start a dialogue. Pal2002 (talk) 18:27, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Here's hoping that someone notices what kind of an editor Dr. Blofeld is and taken some action against him. Amen to that. Without me there would be no WP:Tibet or without myself and Nvvchar you would not have the gift of good articles on Tibet like Sera Monastery, expansions to Norbulingka, articles on Lhasa Gonggar Airport and so on... NOt to mention articles like Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, Kathmandu, Thimphu all of which are wee balanced and informative articles on Asian cities which I was gradually working on with Lhasa to get up to a similar status. I'm not sure what he is trying to achieve. Ban me so I can't improve Tibet articles? Not even going to waste me breath here. The article history of Lhasa and the original message on my ralk page explains my reaction. If not see my comments on the situation at User talk:SarekOfVulcan. I will say no more. Grill me if you like but the fact is this trouble maker removed the entirety of Architecture of Lhasa form the article without warranty and then had the cheek to talk to me as if I'm a lousy contributor see his original malicious message left on my talk page. Time waster. Most people who removed sourced content like that without even discussing it from Tibet articles are PRC pov pushers. CHeck the history of the Tibet article. I've alreayd apologised for being civil but I will only apologise to Pal2002 once he stops tring to make the situation worse and works in good faith to improve the article.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:36, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Look dude. Maybe you are a very old man who has false teeth or none at all. Frankly my dear I don't give a damn. It was a figure of speech for "how dare you speak to me like that". No it is not civil or accpetable but neither is it for you to talk to me like that given what I've done for Tibet on wikipedia. If you genuinely want to improve the Lhasa and are not the usual People's Republic of China POV pusher we have on here trying to deny all existence of Tibetan heritage which I had initially (maybe wrongly) passed you off as given your peculiar edits which stripped the article of its heritage I would be happy to work with you. But coming here to get me blocked or banned?? makes it look as if you are intentionally causing trouble and are miffed because your edits were reverted.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:26, 18 November 2010 (UTC) Its hard to piece together the timeline between snarky edit summaries and edits on various people's talkpages. Where in the timeline of edits did you tell him things looked 'terrible'? Is that before or after he got mad? Syrthiss (talk) 18:44, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
His message was: "Your detailed additions to the Lhasa city article are NOT improving the article. In fact, it turned an okay article into a mess where 70% of the article is dedicated to buildings. It is an article on the city in general and does not need history on every building in it or even a carpet factory. It is far better to create new articles and LINK those to the city article than adding all the clutter to the city article. An example of what a city article should read like is New York City. Oh and also, please do not add empty headings if you have nothing to say under it. It just looks terrible." The expand tags and "empty" sections were due to be expanded by myself in the next week and add content related to relgion in Lhasa, the mosque it has, sports, healthcare etc, content any article on a major city should have. I had only got around to adding alandmarks section which itself needed condensing when I had written the article but had to do now just to keep it half decent. Maybe I overeacted but his tone and edit summaries in the lhasa article really got to me and if you compare his editing history compared to mine. I happened to read several negative messages at the same time this morning and I lost it. I'm sorry but it happens occasionally when I log into wikipedia and encounter it first thing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
On his talk page he was praised for his "tremendous efforts" at "writing" Architecture in Lhasa by a new page patroller, but the content was ironically what he removed from the article for being a horrible mess and for what he left do NOT messages at me for. And if you actually look at how much research and effort went into writing that information from book etc which John Hill and I have mostly writtwn in the article themselves it was a shock to have somebody with 9 edits editing the article and pseaking to me like that. I agree that the article need condensing in a manner I've now done but why couldn't you have discussed it civilly first? I'd have been happy to work with you on it and flesh out the terrible empty section which do need writing wither way. And I am fully aware that Lhasa is a prefecture level city, I've done years of work on this part of the world. But it covers over 30,000 square kilometres and for the very sake of articles being terribly bloated it is more feasiable to write about the urban centr eof lhasa and then about the wider prfecture. IN due course I will write a nice article for Lhasa Prefecture summarising the counties which I have mostly started and developed myself as well as landmark summarie slike Sera, Ganden Monastery etc which are not in the city itself. I hope eventually to have two GAs on it as Lhasa is probably one of the world cities I most adhere to. I would be extremely surpised if Pal2002 is not a sock puppet. No newbie throws their weight around life this surely...♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:15, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Genuinely I would be more overwhelmed if you weren't and were actually an editor who actually genuinely wanted to write a more much resourceful article on Lhasa with me. Such an occurence would be rare but I would welcome it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:28, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
->WLU: I really don't buy the patronage system has any consequence on wikipedia. In fact, that kind of thinking goes against all that wikipedia stands for, a free encylopedia. Pal2002 (talk) 21:09, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
BlockedSomeone's now blocked Blofeld for this. As is fairly well known I'm definitely no fan of Blofeld, but that seems a ridiculous overreaction to a one-off incident of minor snappiness. Since he's now not in a position to ask for it, is there any consensus at all for reversing this? I'll get the ball rolling with a support unblock. – iridescent 22:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Response: I had already apologised for my initial outburst and actually invited this 2002 user to write the lhasa amicably with me. I had moved on to sweeter pastures when Sarek turned up 8 hours after it happened to rub my nose on it and point his moral finger. I responded to him and said surely he has something better to do and then to add further fuel to the fire his friend sheriff turned up also to tick me off. If you check the history of my talk page I was the one harrassed by them 3 times in total and sheriff even provoked me into answering his question on Sarek's talk page when again I had moved on and was writing an article. I gave him an honest reply that I think he should quit playing policeman and write articles and did it in a light hearted fashion which was intended to be humorous. I certainly did not say anything uncivil to them except that I said Sarek tdoes zilch to contribute to wikipedia but runs about on his high horse preaching at people. Again I had moved on writing an article when this block came about which was ridiculous givne that I had not only apologised to 2002 hours ago, even if I had every right to be angry with him. I had genuinely offered Sarek of Vulcan to constructively edit an article with me and was actually writing an article, not harassing people when I was blocked. I was led to Sarek's talk page provoked three times. The block was completely unwarranted and poorly timed. I even pout up a wiki break banner this morning to acknolwedge that I needed to cool off. I cooled off lunch time but later Sarek caused unnecessary conflict when he should just mind his own business. There really has to come a time and a place when adminstrators actually investigate "uncivility" and to find that in cases like this they are entirely provoked by other people. That doesn't make it right to threaten to "knock somebody's teeth out but if they actually investigated what happened as at ANI I was justified in being angry. As for me swearing I rarely if ever use very strong profanity considerably milder than the words that often appear on the main page and which I objected to last Sunday. I tend to call people assholes a lot because that is the way they are acting. Look it up in wiktionary for a definition. If you part in hard work to wikipedia and you have it obliterated and then an editors rants on at you about DO NOT write it, somebody you used to consider a friend tells you NOT TO CREATE ARTICLES and DUMP them and somebody places a deletion warning on a vlaid article and you receive thes emessages all at once first thing in the morning when you log in feeling rotten anyway and you try being sweet about it. No it is not acceptable to be uncivil but SERIOUSLY the blocking admins in cases like really do need to why a person flared upand that they have human feelings. If people stopped messing with me and worked with me to write articles absolutely nothing like this would ever occur. This should never happen again. Blocking me is the most pointless thing possible. Is it meant to teach me a lesson? Because nothing can stop me flaring up from time to time if I feel I've been badly treated. Its a natural humane reaction. 99% of the time I am more that civil to people and happen to be one of the most encouraging editors on wikipedia to content contributors and have a great dela of respect for them which I hope is reciprocated. Unfortunately we are surrounded by many negative people who do little to generate content and pretend to govern the site. I've invited Sarek of Vulcan to write n article with positively but is he interested, no, because he will only be negative about everything. We are better off without having these sort of people around. Look what he cuased here last night. Nothing but aggravation and blew it all out of proportion by making snide remars when the situation had alreayd been appeased. For heaven's sake I'm much better than all this. Stay out of my affairs and I'll remain civil, but people have to treat me with some respect otherwise the bad feelings will be returned. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:40, 19 November 2010 (UTC) Dr. Blofeld blockedDr. Blofeld is one of our major contributors and sadly he was blocked and has quit Wikipedia can anyone look into this as I am unaware of this.Please he/she is one of the major contributors to Wikipedia with nearly 1/30 of the total content.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 00:14, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Its the same as "give him a slap". It is really not intended violentally, rather an expression of how angry I am with him. If I wanted to be violent I'd have said I'm going to cut off his head of with a machete or something, gouge out his eyes and play tennis with them and then run over it with a bulldozer. That would be violent. I'm not the only one overreacting here...♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:23, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Consensus to unblock?I believe we have a rough consensus towards unblock, but have asked Bwilkins for input or comments, and would like to ask that any other yes/no opinions be focused and clarified here. As I stated above, I do not feel that the block was bad, but I do feel that the totality of circumstances argue for an early unblock (without delay other than procedural for consensus). I believe that there's no ongoing active threat to prevent. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 02:53, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
And I was just composing an elaborate reason to unblock. Sanity has prevailed. I just vandalized his talk page. :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 03:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC) See here for a review of this case Count Iblis (talk) 03:49, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Well, I woke up early because I could feel the hot breath of ANI in my sleep. A few comments:
(talk→ BWilkins ←track) 09:02, 19 November 2010 (UTC) Reply: Nobody said it did. But i had alreayd apologised for my initial outburst and actually invited this 2002 user to write the lhasa amicably with me. I had moved on to sweeter pastures when Sarek turned up 8 hours after it happened to rub my nose on it and point his moral finger. I responded to him and said surely he has something better to do and then to add further fuel to the fire his friend sheriff turned up also to tick me off. If you check the history of my talk page I was the one harrassed by them 3 times in total and sheriff even provoked me into answering his question on Sarek's talk page when again I had moved on and was writing an article. I gave him an honest reply that I think he should quit playing policeman and write articles and did it in a light hearted fashion which was intended to be humorous. I certainly did not say anything uncivil to them except that I said Sarek tdoes zilch to contribute to wikipedia but runs about on his high horse preaching at people. Again I had moved on writing an article when this block came about which was ridiculous givne that I had not only apologised to 2002 hours ago, even if I had every right to be angry with him. I had genuinely offered Sarek of Vulcan to constructively edit an article with me and was actually writing an article, not harassing people when I was blocked. I was led to Sarek's talk page provoked three times. The block was completely unwarranted and poorly timed. I even pout up a wiki break banner this morning to acknolwedge that I needed to cool off. I cooled off lunch time but later Sarek caused unnecessary conflict when he should just mind his own business. There really has to come a time and a place when adminstrators actually investigate "uncivility" and to find that in cases like this they are entirely provoked by other people. That doesn't make it right to threaten to "knock somebody's teeth out but if they actually investigated what happened as at ANI I was justified in being angry. As for me swearing I rarely if ever use very strong profanity considerably milder than the words that often appear on the main page and which I objected to last Sunday. I tend to call people assholes a lot because that is the way they are acting. Look it up in wiktionary for a definition. If you part in hard work to wikipedia and you have it obliterated and then an editors rants on at you about DO NOT write it, somebody you used to consider a friend tells you NOT TO CREATE ARTICLES and DUMP them and somebody places a deletion warning on a vlaid article and you receive thes emessages all at once first thing in the morning when you log in feeling rotten anyway and you try being sweet about it. No it is not acceptable to be uncivil but SERIOUSLY the blocking admins in cases like really do need to why a person flared upand that they have human feelings. If people stopped messing with me and worked with me to write articles absolutely nothing like this would ever occur. This should never happen again. Blocking me is the most pointless thing possible. Is it meant to teach me a lesson? Because nothing can stop me flaring up from time to time if I feel I've been badly treated. Its a natural humane reaction. 99% of the time I am more that civil to people and happen to be one of the most encouraging editors on wikipedia to content contributors and have a great dela of respect for them which I hope is reciprocated. Unfortunately we are surrounded by many negative people who do little to generate content and pretend to govern the site. I've invited Sarek of Vulcan to write n article with positively but is he interested, no, because he will only be negative about everything. We are better off without having these sort of people around. Look what he cuased here last night. Nothing but aggravation and blew it all out of proportion by making snide remars when the situation had alreayd been appeased. For heaven's sake I'm much better than all this. Stay out of my affairs and I'll remain civil, but people have to treat me with some respect otherwise the bad feelings will be returned. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:40, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
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fantasticfiction.co.uk
This may be the wrong spot, so feel free to redirect me if appropriate (with a note on my talk page!)
The website "fantasticfiction.co.uk" is apparently linked over 1600 times. Based on it's about us page it appears to be some sort of private website that lists information about books and authors, with links to sales sites. There's a spam report, and there may be more. It doesn't look like it's a reliable source, it doesn't fit as an EL 'cause it's not reliable and links to sales sites. Normally I'd just remove them as I found them, but there is a lot, which makes me suspect someone has been very diligent about adding them throughout the project. On project pages it comes up as well in AFD discussions, but doesn't seem to be a convincing source/website (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffrey Lord, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Rehak, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruby Parker Hits The Small Time).
So I guess my question is - should they be removed? If so, is there an easier way than 1600 manual edits? Is the site reliable? Is a blacklist appropriate? Thanks, WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 18:42, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- 2925 links according to LinkSearch. Rehevkor ✉ 18:50, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- yes its not a site that has any functional use on Wikipedia. Can we blacklist it and maybe get a bot to remove all the links? The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 19:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- As someone who reads and owns a lot of SF and reads a lot of reviews, I agree that this site is basically a sales site and needs blacklisting. It needs to be proposed at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. Dougweller (talk) 19:10, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- yes its not a site that has any functional use on Wikipedia. Can we blacklist it and maybe get a bot to remove all the links? The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 19:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Is there evidence of abuse or a concerted effort to spam this site? Or is it likely the result of good-faith additions? If good-faith, we usually default to using XLinkBot instead of blacklisting. --- Barek (talk) - 19:25, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I've looked into perhaps 10 articles and found the contributor different in each case - sometimes editors with very low edit counts, sometimes experienced editors. Either there's a lot of sockpuppeting happening, or people simply use it as a generic source. I've only seen it used as a source for extremely basic plot, different versions of books, different books by one author or as an external link (i.e. little more than sales spam). When it is used for a source, it's usually for information that can be directly attributed to the book itself (ISBN, version, author, plot) and therefore not much use. Haven't seen it used as a review or impact reference, but given the site I don't know if they do reviews.
- In other words, it does look like good faith additions that are either unnecessary or inappropriate - and often both. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 19:44, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I've submitted a request at User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList#fantasticfiction.co.uk. --- Barek (talk) - 20:36, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Of the links and accounts I looked into, all seemed to be in good faith, but there's a lot of links to search through. Rehevkor ✉ 21:07, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Good faith or not, if it is not a reliable source then it is not of use to us. If it is making money off the links while not acting as a reliable source then it is harmful to our project. I say clense with fire. Chillum (Need help? Ask me) 21:32, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I'll chime in with Dougweiler as another heavy sf (and fantasy) reader; I'm convinced that these are good-faith adds, because fantasticfiction.co.uk tends to appear high up in Google results pages for less well-known sf/fantasy authors and books, so people looking for refs for a book or author are likely to stumble on it. I believe the site is run by sf/fantasy enthusiasts who make a living out of their main interest and hobby (the lucky so-and-sos) but all the same it is not a reliable source and shouldn't be used as such. I can imagine occasional cases where a link could be appropriate, and would not advocate blacklisting, but hold no strong opinions about that. --bonadea contributions talk 09:01, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I want to assume good faith too, but its worth mentioning that spamming wikipedia with external links is a good way to manipulate page rankings on Google. Though I am inclined to beleive a fair number are good faith. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 14:50, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Canvassing (wikipedia:votestacking) by User:DavidOaks at Folk etymology reported by User:Medeis
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Medeis has insisted I strike this so he can respond to something. I have warned him that if he starts talking about the users DavidOaks has allegedly canvassed, he will have to notify them all individually. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 00:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I have decollapsed as a courtesey per his statements on your talk Elen. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 01:05, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
{{Collapsetop|DeJa Vu be inside}} User:DavidOaks has, among other things, engaged in a violation of WP:votestacking at the article Folk etymology.
A previous complicated complaint [42] posted here regarding his canvassing and other behaviors was archived without comment. Since this matter regards an attempt to influence consensus in an ongoing debate on a frozen page, I am reposting it, pared down to the sole issue of canvassing.
Consensus at Folk etymology rejected the inclusion of urban legends cited from Snopes in an article on historical change in word forms as defined by the OED and documented in dozens of dictionaries, standard textbooks, and scholarly papers. Rejecting this consensus as not about reliable sources and the weight of scholarly opinion, but as about the oppression of folkloristics by academia, DavidOaks filed an RfC which failed to garner any support for his views. He filed a spurious 3RR complaint against myself and another editor. (The complaint resulted in no sanctions against us, but led to questioning of his sources, and the current freeze of the article.) And, most recently, in explicit violation of Wikipedia:Votestacking (selectively notifying editors who have or are thought to have a predetermined point of view), he composed a note advising:
"I am looking for people with interests in folklore (editors I’ve encountered on folklore/mythology articles as well as elsewhere) to visit talk:Folk etymology, where there is an ongoing edit dispute." - DavidOaks
and privately sent it to tweleve editors of his own chosing:
Although he qualifies his request in scare quotes saying that he is asking for input ‘’’not in support of either view,’’’ (which shows he is aware of the impropriety) the selection of editors he views as having a viewpoint is in clear violation of Wikipedia:Votestacking:
Votestacking is an attempt to sway consensus by selectively notifying editors who have or are thought to have a predetermined point of view or opinion (which may be determined, among other ways, from a userpage notice, such as a userbox, or from user categorization), and thus encouraging them to participate in the discussion.
This is one in a series of inappropriate behaviors. That what the editor characterizes as a folkloristic viewpoint should be inserted into an article on a well defined linguistic concept regardless of the weight of reliable sources is precisely the matter in question. Neither the canvasser nor a single one of the recruited editors has provided a single relevant new source. His actions may have provided new supporters but not new information. It improperly affects an ongoing debate. μηδείς (talk) 21:33, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Medeis, do you have evidence that these other users are likely to share his views. Malleus, Cynewolfe and Dbachman seem unlikely to support a non-linguistic interpretation of the term. It looks like he's contacted everyone who edits articles with any connection to folklore and languages. Elen of the Roads (talk) 21:58, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
My thanks that the complaint has been reopened. Frankly I am surprised that this is being treated as if I am implying some sort of grand conspiracy, or am blaming those editors whom DavidOaks canvassed as if they had any control over who left diffs on their talk pages.
The question at hand is whether an editor who couches debate not in terms of adhereing to sources (OED, and Cambridge and Routledge encyclopedias and dozens of standard texts) but in terms of an academic battle between linguistics and folklore [43] and 'anti-folkloristic bias' should be allowed to stack the votes to reverse consensus by recruiting 12 editors personally selected by him for their folklorist viewpoint.
Who were the targets of his canvassing? Look at his own specific wording: " I am looking for people with interests in folklore (editors I’ve encountered on folklore/mythology articles as well as elsewhere) to visit talk:Folk etymology, where there is an ongoing edit dispute." There is no mention of contacting editors interested in language or linguistics here.
That is not "Posting an appropriate notice on users' talk pages in order to inform editors on all "sides" of a debate" which wikipedia:votestacking says "may be appropriate under certain circumstances on a case-by-case basis."
This dispute may seem silly, but I am not asking for a judgement on the content, just a warning on well documented inappropriate behavior that affects an ongoing dispute. I do not want to be told that the solution to misbehaviour is more misbehavior. Silliness is not a criterion for canvassing, edit warring, personally challenging editors in the text of articles, or misrepresenting sources, all of which have been documented.
If this were a dispute about the Tom and Jerry article, I might have a hard time providing evidence of the views of particular mice. But I think if only mice and no cats were asked to comment the impropriety would be evident.
μηδείς (talk) 04:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Uhm question
Didn't we just have this thread archived and now you alerting admins again over something we already had an ANI thread over? Double Jeopardy anyone? The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 22:25, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Arfur mo: this is your second try at running this very complaint. Cynewolf replied to the first one here Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:23, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes indeed, previous thread was here, community declined to take any notice. Rerunning the same argument until you get a different outcome is not the way to go. I see a variety of opinions among the editors who turned up, including quite a few sources supplied on one talk page or another. Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:28, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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Not that I expect you folks to change your minds, but how is a complainant to know what is going on when no response is made to a complaint?
Also, does this decision mean that all editors involved are invited to send private messages of recruitment to any editors they view as interested in their side of the debate? μηδείς (talk) 23:09, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Inaction typically means its not that big a deal. If there was a real issue, I assure you we would have done something. In Fact these folks will be happy to explain that we are well known for banning and blocking over nothing. So inaction is just as meaninful as action. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 23:15, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Multiple page move vandalism
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Ageo020 (talk · contribs) is conducting mass move vandalism. Someone pls intervene. --Soman (talk) 21:58, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I've blocked him 24hrs just to stop any more moves. Can you figure out what on earth he was trying to do, as he doesn't look like your usual random page move vandal. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:17, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- could be someone else. --CarTick (talk) 22:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Wowsers, who's got the time to revert all those page moves? GoodDay (talk) 22:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Pretty certain the account's been hacked - hadn't edited in over a year. Will indef as compromised account. And I have no idea how to revert all those moves other than one by one :( I need my techie brethren here, so have changed the title --Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:37, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm reverting from the top down. If someone wants to work from the bottom up... Beyond My Ken (talk)
- All restored via brute force. Reverting title of thread. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:18, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- For future reference: User:Mr.Z-man/moverevert2.js. T. Canens (talk) 23:23, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Excellent! Thank you. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:26, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- And I also deleted the 60 resulting redirects. T. Canens (talk) 23:27, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks. I knew there was a tool that helped. Elen of the Roads (talk) 23:37, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- And I also deleted the 60 resulting redirects. T. Canens (talk) 23:27, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Excellent! Thank you. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:26, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- For future reference: User:Mr.Z-man/moverevert2.js. T. Canens (talk) 23:23, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- All restored via brute force. Reverting title of thread. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:18, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm reverting from the top down. If someone wants to work from the bottom up... Beyond My Ken (talk)
- Pretty certain the account's been hacked - hadn't edited in over a year. Will indef as compromised account. And I have no idea how to revert all those moves other than one by one :( I need my techie brethren here, so have changed the title --Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:37, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Request for Removal of Sanction
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Back in April, I was put on an effective ban from using "Vandalism" button on TWINKLE. Since then, I haven't, but a couple minor mistakes (four to be exact), have no issued any vandalism warnings (the ones issued by mistake were reverted in seconds) and have only issued warnings for "edit tests" just I have just written out vandalism warnings. I feel the ban has done its job and gotten me to examine what is and isn't vandalism more closely and I wish to have the sanction/ban removed with community approval. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 05:50, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support lifting of restriction. Contributions look good, using rollback properly. So long as Neutralhomer follows the standard vandalism warning progression (huggle does this automatically) I see no need to keep the editing restriction. Do however be sure to respect WP:CIVIL when dealing with the inevitable mistaken revert (as well as the angry vandals). N419BH 06:37, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- The terms of the probation that Neutralhomer agreed to said that he would stop using "vandalism" in edit summaries. I see four instances in which he did so in October,[44][45][46][47] and one in November.[48] That's disappointing but, on the plus side, in each of those cases there was actual vandalism. Neutralhomer is clearly acting in good faith and with abundant energy. I support lifting this probation, so long as he is fully aware that he is responsible for every edit, even when he's using a semi-automated tool. If he returns to over-eager use of the "vandalism" button on Twinkle then he has already used up his chances and that tool should be removed. I expect that won't be necessary and wish him well in his clean-up efforts. Will Beback talk 10:47, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support - as per Will, user seems to have understood the correct use of the button. The occasional mistake or miss hit shouldn't be a removal issue going forward but if the user returns to a pattern of misuse then removal of the tool may be the only solution. Off2riorob (talk) 16:33, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- comment - have the supporters seen this thread? [49] .. sorry NH it just seems like you are still very eager to accuse people of vandalism.. but i don't know the whole story so i'm not voting just commenting. BEARinAbasket (talk) 17:16, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support - Giving the editor another chance. If the pattern returns then the tool should be removed. I don't have a issue with the four miss clicks that have occurred. --Alpha Quadrant talk 17:22, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support Since s/he has been manually checking things out,I say give another chance. --CrohnieGalTalk 17:52, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support lifting the ban; user seems to have learned from the experience, and has since performed very well with only a couple of minor mistakes. Dreadstar ☥ 18:58, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- comment - this is very upsetting [50] .. NeutralHomer has just accused me of being a sock of the user he was trying to get blocked, above. Is this what happens when someone questions his attitude? Also - did anyone who "supported" read through the original thread? NeutralHomer (as much as I like his name) seems to have problems with wikistalking. I see this as evidence of that. I'm not sure what to do about this actually. BEARinAbasket (talk) 20:46, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- Note: User:BEARinAbasket has been indefinitely blocked as a sock. Beware the WP:BOOMERANG. GiftigerWunsch [BODY DOUBLE] 16:11, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Comment. I wish I had been aware that Neutralhomer was under sanction when I encountered him back in June[51]. He was full of false accusations and a level of pure arrogance I have never before encountered in over three years of editing. I'm not going to take the time right now to look into his behaviour over the past five months, but I must say, given what a jerk [not the word I want to use] he was to me, just a couple of weeks after he was given sanctions, does not make me very optimistic that he's turned over a new leaf. 98.82.190.226 (talk) 02:33, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support - After last night's revisions of vandalism by a self-glorifying troll on this very page[52] while the wiki slept is proof enough to me that he can be trusted in good faith to do the right thing in the future. Doc talk 04:23, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support – Neutralhomer seems to have learned from his mistakes during his ban from Twinkle. He can be trusted again with the tools. As the editors above say, give him another chance. —mc10 (u|t|c) 05:33, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support While I am concerned with some of the examples given here, it is clear the NH wants the tool back - so maybe giving the tool will make him more careful in his commentary... and if not, what the community alloweth the community can unalloweth. LessHeard vanU (talk) 14:13, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support Please be careful what you leave behind in edit summaries, NH. Gwen Gale (talk) 16:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
- Always Support the good guys. - Burpelson AFB ✈ 22:56, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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I don't get this weird conversation. User refuses to offer an unambiguous answer. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 23:10, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well Socks tend to do that, and the first response looks like a Legal threat The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well let's say I'm kinda faking my confusion. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 23:20, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- SPI filed with CU request. User:Tobias Conradi has been actively socking, and that talkpage looks very like a sock laughing up its sleeve (wait! do socks have sleeves?) --Elen of the Roads (talk) 23:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Blocked, tagged, lather, rinse, repeat. TNXMan 23:49, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- SPI filed with CU request. User:Tobias Conradi has been actively socking, and that talkpage looks very like a sock laughing up its sleeve (wait! do socks have sleeves?) --Elen of the Roads (talk) 23:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well let's say I'm kinda faking my confusion. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 23:20, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Incident report: "The Indonesian Chef"
- This AN/I post is for information purposes only.
It has been noted that a large number of articles are being created by a multiple-account, multiple-IP user, whom I shall christen The Indonesian Chef. These short, unwikified articles are written entirely in Romanised Indonesian. All of these articles appear to all be copyright violations of some kind, and are all articles describing Indonesian cuisine; they sometimes include recipes. The Indonesian Chef creates new, copyvio articles reclassifying content from Indonesian-language websites under what appear to be either unknown transliterations or colloquial terms.
For example, the original content of an example article, Pangsit goreng sayur (before the redirect) was lifted from this Indonesian website -- the formatting text, which resulted in correct formatting on that source, was left in the Wikipedia incarnation. In other cases, it appears that specific words have been added to otherwise translatable text that is indeed a copyvio, such as the former Gempo article. To further complicate the issue, the source websites for the copyvio text have, in some cases, apparently been originally machine-translated from English into Indonesian, as the Google Translate output is eerily perfect. It is possible that the user is recreating deleted articles from the Indonesian Wikipedia.
Accounts include Adena dwi ratnasari (talk · contribs), Yunirpas (talk · contribs), Venatrivena (talk · contribs), and many other sockpuppets; a complete list of sockpuppets is currently being compiled with CheckUser evidence by MuZemike (talk · contribs). This incident was first noted by Roleplayer (talk · contribs) at the village pump.
The correct administrative action to take when encountering a page created by The Indonesian Chef is to speedy-delete the article and indefinitely block the creating account. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 23:28, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Comment Simliar Behavior by Hahndyto (talk · contribs) with this G.A. Siwabessy article though not about food it is poorly translated see this Reversion here. Might be our Chef though not a food article. Also had numerous scans at commons deleted. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 23:47, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- There are ample crap Indonesian editors, it's hard to tell which is which. I would say that simply bad Engrish is insufficient to suggest it's the same person - the subject of ths report writes in Indonesian. We've got plenty of half-assed articles, e.g., [53] but I doubt they are all the same.Sumbuddi (talk) 04:52, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I am currently looking at this right now. Due to the sheer size and scope of the socking, I have asked for 2nd opinions from some other CUs on this; please be patient. –MuZemike 23:54, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Purely pedantic, but Indonesian is always romanized. (Javanese uses a type of sanskrit, but a very different language).Bali ultimate (talk) 23:56, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
- Someone kindly translated this one: [54], the problem is that there is already sambal and I'm not sure this is notable enough to get an entry on that page, let alone its own separate page. Anyway as it's misspelled, and 'ketan' is simply glutinous rice, there doesn't seem any point in keeping it around. Sumbuddi (talk) 04:00, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- This issue is much wider than the picking up by other editors the junk that has been created by one sock master (example http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ketan_sambel&action=history) - the soccer mad indonesian ips and editors are intent on copying over soccer team articles like:-
- as well as a mass of one liner BLP's SatuSuro 07:19, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Don't know if this is related, but on 15 Nov 2010, I A#10 tagged this subsequently deleted article. Was an untranslated copy and paste from the Indonesian language Wikipedia Halloween article.--Shirt58 (talk) 09:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Ad Base Systems, Inc. IP range blocked
I have blocked the IP range belonging to the internal network of Ad-Base Systems Inc., a call centre service and communications provider, for a period of 1 week. The CIDR range is 72.251.44.0/24. Roving anonymous editors in this range have persistently reinserted a telephone number in the External links section of Reverse 911 tendentiously, ten times since November 17th; see the article history. This appears to be either 1) an attempt to divert interested readers from a competitor's emergency telephone communications product to their own; or 2) self-promotion, if Ad-Base Systems is a contractor for EADS North America, the provider of the product. This range has also inserted similar telephone numbers in the Call 911 article, in a similarly-repeated way. IPs in the range have been blocked previously for varying durations by other administrators. --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 00:49, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Good call. We don't need that level of disruption at Wikipedia. --Jayron32 05:26, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Why not just perm it? You know the IPs range is from an ad company. HalfShadow 05:36, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Because IP ranges change from time to time, and someone may start editing properly from that range someday. --Jayron32 05:42, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Is the insertion of the phone number something that can be handled via the spam blacklist? Mjroots (talk) 08:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- The spam blacklist only handles external link additions. I've seen phone numbers occasionally pop up in #wikipedia-en-spam, so I've asked Beetstra whether XLinkBot can revert such additions. MER-C 13:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- What's that bot that automatically reverts additions of certain strings of text? I always forget the name of it but that would probably work well in this case. - Burpelson AFB ✈ 14:08, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- The spam blacklist only handles external link additions. I've seen phone numbers occasionally pop up in #wikipedia-en-spam, so I've asked Beetstra whether XLinkBot can revert such additions. MER-C 13:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Is the insertion of the phone number something that can be handled via the spam blacklist? Mjroots (talk) 08:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Because IP ranges change from time to time, and someone may start editing properly from that range someday. --Jayron32 05:42, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Why not just perm it? You know the IPs range is from an ad company. HalfShadow 05:36, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I've added a rule to the linkwatcher so they now 'see' telephone numbers formatted like this, and have added this telephone number as a rule to XLinkBot. I am careful with this automated catching of telephone numbers, there are too many numbers which look like telephone numbers. Those with access to the revertlists can use the functionality also for telephone numbers, but please take care. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
User:Catalyzingevent is back
Done
- 95.178.152.124 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Suggested Catalyzingevent's talk page for semi or full protection. HalfShadow 08:42, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'd suggest semi for the time being. Might a rangeblock also be in order? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:44, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Love the edit summaries: "Extreme abuse happened here, I’m not amused, do behave..." Doc talk 08:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I can keep this up all night, and, admittedly, all he's doing is inflating my edit count, but could someone stuff a cork in the proper hole, please? HalfShadow 09:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Done, but likely not resolved in the longer run (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 09:14, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I can keep this up all night, and, admittedly, all he's doing is inflating my edit count, but could someone stuff a cork in the proper hole, please? HalfShadow 09:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Love the edit summaries: "Extreme abuse happened here, I’m not amused, do behave..." Doc talk 08:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
User FactStraight is stalking and acting in bad faith
Hello. This morning i noticed that user:FactStraight added a critique of the article Éléonore de Bourbon at Talk:Éléonore_de_Bourbon. I wondered why he would write such a rather general critique on that page, regardless of wether he was correct. One look at his talk page and then his contributions page showed that he has copy/pasted this critique on atleast 50 pages. Now, i have only checked a couple of these pages, but i noticed they all share one thing aside from being articles about nobles - they were all edited by the user user:LouisPhilippeCharles. Now, from user:FactStraight's talk page i could gather that he has had problems with user:LouisPhilippeCharles. Infact, theyve both been banned in a RR3 incident before, and theyve been arguing on multiple talk-pages. But the thing is, multiple times user:LouisPhilippeCharles merely copy-edited the articles in question; he added references, corrected links and added categories. And in my oppinion, the articles which he did substantially add too, he wrote good, interesting information, and he didnt add any trivial information. FactStraight claims these articles consist of "Speculation, Trivia, Redundancies and Extranae". It seems to me that FactStraight is actively stalking LouisPhilippeCharles. Any article touched by LouisPhilippeCharles seems to become automatically become "Speculation, Trivia, Redundancies and Extranae" in FactStraight's eyes. Omegastar (talk) 10:37, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I believe that spamming the same message across that many articles constitutes a personal attack against the other editor, and have issued a final warning. If he has problems with another editor, this is not the way to go about resolving it. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 12:55, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Can someone with the relevant tools organise the appropriate mass-revert, please? David Biddulph (talk) 13:08, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think they are all gone now. If he feels that strongly, he can start an RfCElen of the Roads (talk) 14:34, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Let me see if I understand your concerns. I carefully avoided identifying any person who inserts trivia & redundancy. What the articles have in common is that they are bios of historical royalty, all of whom are on my watchlist because that is my primary area of editing interest (please check my contributions to verify): that interest is shared by several Wiki editors and you will find that many of them have edited the articles on whose talk page I posted. I did not state that each article currently contains trivia or redundancy (or I might have edited as much of it as I could). The reason I posted those warnings (if you check, I've been posting similar warnings on specific pages for 3 years back) is that the pattern is so consistent and so massively implemented that I wanted to give fair notice on articles on my watchlist that such content will be edited or reverted, and I wanted to give very clear, specific indicators as to what the objectionable content looks like and why it is objectionable. As for the allegation that the complainant here did not find any "trivial" content to which I had reason to object and that I am "stalking" despite having made repeated, protracted efforts to obtain reduction of trivia in royalty bios, please note the Third Opinion given following the discussion here in a case where I requested review (and my extensive efforts to resolve the matter on the talk page were rebuffed). In the past I've been told that before reverting, the editor should be informed exactly what it is that is objectionable so that they have an opportunity to avoid such edits or to work toward consensus language on the talk page before reverting becomes necessary. It is still my intent to provide that notice and clarity. I will gladly edit the notice to remove content that is "identifying", but I see nothing inappropriate about explaining the basis on which I edit articles on my watchlist. I trust this clarifies? FactStraight (talk) 21:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- As I said on your talkpage, start a request for comment on the user. If he's as bad as you say, it'll gather evidence for requesting a topic ban. Do not do anything like this again, it is not appropriate and will get you in trouble instead, which is not the outcome you are looking for. Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:13, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I am bewildered by this harsh response. I do not and never have wanted a particular user blocked from editing royalty bios, as clearly indicated in the discussion on this issue here. My intent was and is to discourage inclusion of trivia and redundancy in such articles along with informative edits, which I value and do not think should be diminished or excluded. I hoped to do that by expressing as clearly and explicitly as I could on the articles on my watchlist what I consider to be trivia/redundancy and am therefore prone to edit or revert. When that information is available on a talk page, might it not help editors reach consensus rather than engaging in years of revert wars over countless articles? I don't understand what rule is violated by pro-actively, non-accusatively posting that kind of info on a talk page -- given that I have offered to edit it to your satisfaction? FactStraight (talk) 00:12, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
- As I said on your talkpage, start a request for comment on the user. If he's as bad as you say, it'll gather evidence for requesting a topic ban. Do not do anything like this again, it is not appropriate and will get you in trouble instead, which is not the outcome you are looking for. Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:13, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Let me see if I understand your concerns. I carefully avoided identifying any person who inserts trivia & redundancy. What the articles have in common is that they are bios of historical royalty, all of whom are on my watchlist because that is my primary area of editing interest (please check my contributions to verify): that interest is shared by several Wiki editors and you will find that many of them have edited the articles on whose talk page I posted. I did not state that each article currently contains trivia or redundancy (or I might have edited as much of it as I could). The reason I posted those warnings (if you check, I've been posting similar warnings on specific pages for 3 years back) is that the pattern is so consistent and so massively implemented that I wanted to give fair notice on articles on my watchlist that such content will be edited or reverted, and I wanted to give very clear, specific indicators as to what the objectionable content looks like and why it is objectionable. As for the allegation that the complainant here did not find any "trivial" content to which I had reason to object and that I am "stalking" despite having made repeated, protracted efforts to obtain reduction of trivia in royalty bios, please note the Third Opinion given following the discussion here in a case where I requested review (and my extensive efforts to resolve the matter on the talk page were rebuffed). In the past I've been told that before reverting, the editor should be informed exactly what it is that is objectionable so that they have an opportunity to avoid such edits or to work toward consensus language on the talk page before reverting becomes necessary. It is still my intent to provide that notice and clarity. I will gladly edit the notice to remove content that is "identifying", but I see nothing inappropriate about explaining the basis on which I edit articles on my watchlist. I trust this clarifies? FactStraight (talk) 21:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think they are all gone now. If he feels that strongly, he can start an RfCElen of the Roads (talk) 14:34, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Can someone with the relevant tools organise the appropriate mass-revert, please? David Biddulph (talk) 13:08, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Yogesh Khandke and Three Admins
Original poster:
- Yogesh Khandke (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Admins:
- YellowMonkey (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- RegentsPark (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- SpacemanSpiff (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- A group of administrators is threatening me with blocks. One has abused his administrative privileges by using administrative clout when the discussion got argumentative. In a discussion in which he was a participant I was warned for being tendentious[55], after [56] I had withdrawn from the discussion about a specific point. Later I took opinions on the concerned page then wrote that I had withdrawn from the article page, [57] After my withdrawl a final block warning for being tendentious was issued.[58]
- When I was warned for canvassing [59]- for writing to those whose views on the subject were known to me as favourable, inviting them to participate in a discussion, I was not aware that it was breaking the rules, and when it was brought to my notice I immediately stopped doing so.[60], to make amends I wrote to those editors whose views were known to me as unfavourable to make up for the earlier canvassing.[61] [62] After this I was issued a final warning for canvassing.[63]
- Earlier I was blocked without warning for 15 days.[64] After the warning expired I wrote on the blocking administrators' page asking hin to justify his action.[65] A month has passed but I have not received a reply.[66] Now this block is used against me to create some kind of criminal record.[67]
- An editor learns by the mistakes he makes. Some I corrected myself. I did not repeat mistakes. I have made ammends to the mistakes I have made. I appeal for action against the following administrators.
The concerned administrators are user:YellowMonkey the administrator who made the first block without warning and without justification, user:RegentsPark who has mis-used his administrative privileges when the discussion got argumentative and user:SpacemanSpiff issuing a final block warning without reason. I do not know what comes first the chicken or the egg, so first I am issuing this ANI and then posting notice on the concerned administrator's pages. If I am breaking rules I will apologise and even face the necessary penalty, but if I am not then the three administrator's should be reined in. They carry their bias into their job and do not deserve to be administrators, unless they learn and improve.Yogesh Khandke (talk) 14:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Anyone's welcome to take a look at the contribution history and the sequence of events. I don't think I need to say anymore, my warning was quite explicit and there should be no confusion on that.—SpacemanSpiff 14:24, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- The contribution record is here as evidence. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 14:38, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- After I it was brought to my notice that I was votestacking (out of ignorance), my thanked user:SpacemanSpiff, for his notice. The wikirules are How to respond to inappropriate canvassing: The most effective response to quite recent, clearly disruptive canvassing is to politely request that the user(s) responsible for the canvassing stop posting notices. If they continue, they may be reported to the administrators' noticeboard, which may result in their being blocked from editing. Immediately on receipt of the notice, I stopped without arguments. Please see contributin history. Why then the block threat? Yogesh Khandke (talk) 14:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Earlier I was wrongly accused of Forumshopping by user:RegentsPark, unprofessional behaviour unbecomming of an administrator. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 15:05, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- After I it was brought to my notice that I was votestacking (out of ignorance), my thanked user:SpacemanSpiff, for his notice. The wikirules are How to respond to inappropriate canvassing: The most effective response to quite recent, clearly disruptive canvassing is to politely request that the user(s) responsible for the canvassing stop posting notices. If they continue, they may be reported to the administrators' noticeboard, which may result in their being blocked from editing. Immediately on receipt of the notice, I stopped without arguments. Please see contributin history. Why then the block threat? Yogesh Khandke (talk) 14:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- The contribution record is here as evidence. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 14:38, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
A two week block for trolling as a first offense with a user who has run up several thousand edits without trouble seems ... stern.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:02, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- The block was strange in that, there was no warning at all and
YellowmanUser:YellowMonkey never once posted to the blockees talkpage or left him a template or anything at all. A few days after the block he did appear to have emailed twice to the blockee but the user didn't see them for some time. Discussion of emails is here. No comment of the general editing of Yogesh but there is a fair bit of disruption in the wake of them. Off2riorob (talk) 15:05, 19 November 2010 (UTC)- Did you mean User:YellowMonkey, the former arbitrator and functionary, or somebody else? Jehochman Talk 15:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- The email was posted after the block was enforced, not before. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 15:13, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, User:YellowMonkey, corrected, thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 15:16, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Did you mean User:YellowMonkey, the former arbitrator and functionary, or somebody else? Jehochman Talk 15:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
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- Yogesh Khandke, please avoid lengthening the thread. Please wait for the administrators you have accused of impropriety to respond. If would be helpful if you added some diffs to your above statements so the observers could know which specific warnings or comments you object to. The comments of Wehwalt and Off2riorob while possibly correct may be premature. We don't know if all the facts are on the table yet, so let's be patient until everybody involved has a chance to comment. The user is currently not blocked, so there is no urgency. Jehochman Talk 15:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC), 15:21, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- To say it is stern is hardly prejudging the outcome. Either way, we do need an explanation from YellowMonkey.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Agreed, but let's not start the party without him. For the record, the OP has notified all the admins in his complaint. I reserve comment until YM has had a chance to share his thoughts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- We may be waiting a while, given that YellowMonkey has yet to explain the controversial unblock (without consultation with the blocking admin) of Dr. Blofeld which occurred last night and about which several editors asked for an explanation on YellowMonkey's talk page. However, not everyone lives on wiki, we can afford to be patient.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:46, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well, you are asking for an explanation for a block that occurred a month ago. That's a lifetime in wikitime and responding to this request may not be easy. Generally, and this is addressed to YK, it is better to bring up the matter when events are fresh. --RegentsPark (talk) 15:53, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- You mean during the two weeks when he was blocked without a block template telling him how to appeal it?--Wehwalt (talk) 16:01, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- No, I mean during the one month that has passed since his block expired. --RegentsPark (talk) 16:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- YM has served long as an admin and in other positions. I am not aware that YM suffers from lapses of memory.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Neither am I. I am also not aware what speculation about his lapses of memory has to do with this discussion. --RegentsPark (talk) 16:20, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Good. Then there should be no trouble about an explanation of the block, though it took place a while back.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:41, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- You must have missed seeing my comment above (or perhaps you forgot) ([68]). Since the events happened more than a month ago, he may not remember the details. --RegentsPark (talk) 16:45, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- We are talking at cross purposes; my point was that YM is likely to remember and be able to explain to us--Wehwalt (talk) 16:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not sure 'cross purposes' describes it accurately but this ain't going no where. So ok. --RegentsPark (talk) 16:50, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- You must have missed seeing my comment above (or perhaps you forgot) ([68]). Since the events happened more than a month ago, he may not remember the details. --RegentsPark (talk) 16:45, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- YM has served long as an admin and in other positions. I am not aware that YM suffers from lapses of memory.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- No, I mean during the one month that has passed since his block expired. --RegentsPark (talk) 16:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- You mean during the two weeks when he was blocked without a block template telling him how to appeal it?--Wehwalt (talk) 16:01, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well, you are asking for an explanation for a block that occurred a month ago. That's a lifetime in wikitime and responding to this request may not be easy. Generally, and this is addressed to YK, it is better to bring up the matter when events are fresh. --RegentsPark (talk) 15:53, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- We may be waiting a while, given that YellowMonkey has yet to explain the controversial unblock (without consultation with the blocking admin) of Dr. Blofeld which occurred last night and about which several editors asked for an explanation on YellowMonkey's talk page. However, not everyone lives on wiki, we can afford to be patient.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:46, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Agreed, but let's not start the party without him. For the record, the OP has notified all the admins in his complaint. I reserve comment until YM has had a chance to share his thoughts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- To say it is stern is hardly prejudging the outcome. Either way, we do need an explanation from YellowMonkey.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yogesh Khandke, please avoid lengthening the thread. Please wait for the administrators you have accused of impropriety to respond. If would be helpful if you added some diffs to your above statements so the observers could know which specific warnings or comments you object to. The comments of Wehwalt and Off2riorob while possibly correct may be premature. We don't know if all the facts are on the table yet, so let's be patient until everybody involved has a chance to comment. The user is currently not blocked, so there is no urgency. Jehochman Talk 15:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC), 15:21, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I guess I should make a comment here. YK was soap boxing and engaging in tendentious editing here. I warned him about that. He showed up on my page with complaints about abusing admin privilege (here) and I explained that warnings are not an admin function. He didn't get that and continued to post on my page I (gently) let him know that he was now being tendentious on my talk page as well. He started an open move request at Talk:Ganges#Move_Ganges_to_Ganga and then went and started an RfC on the same topic (here). So I directed his attention to the policy on forum shopping here. He is clearly being tendentious on the talk pages of British Empire Talk:British Empire and on the move request Talk:Ganges#Move_Ganges_to_Ganga. My suggestion is that he heeds my well meant advice that he realize that it is better to withdraw from a discussion sooner rather than later (given here). --RegentsPark (talk) 15:40, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- This user does appear to be rather tendentious - see previous ANI thread: [69]. He has been accused of trolling which I think is rather unfair, he is just a far-out Hindu nationalist.
- This [70] was the state of Talk:British Empire before he was blocked. He does not appear to have received any warning. See also [71].
- Any recent warnings of this user would seem appropriate given the user's editing style; what doesn't appear to have been appropriate is blocking him for two weeks with not a word of warning or even notifying him on his Talk, which was basically dead prior to his block. Sumbuddi (talk) 15:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
User:SpacemanSpiff is known to me to be an over-zealous administrator, warning and banning editors without giving in-depth consideration to the matter. He repeatedly violates the basic foundational pillar of Wikipedia - WP:Civility and refuses to AGF.
I have borne the brunt of his administrative actions when I was still a newbie here when he removed well-sourced content and contradicted himself in the edit summary. That showed that SpacemanSpiff either doesn't read edits/study the matter in its entirety before making use of his administrative privileges or lacks competence. This is a pattern, not just 1 or 2 incidents. He is doing damage to Wikipedia by refusing to AGF and by scaring away constructive contributors. I have asked him to step down as an admin in the past and urge him to do so again. Zuggernaut (talk) 17:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- user:RegentsPark has indulged in hounding me See his edits on a issue proposed by me, that is his first edit on the Ganges page in many thousands edits, and he has opposed my proposal.[72], such actions do not behove an administrator. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 18:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Considering that just in a cursory check of the most recent contributions from RegentsPark I found edits to Burmese and Indian topics, it is not at all unlikely that they would also be monitoring the Ganges article. Syrthiss (talk) 18:13, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Yogesh Khandke (talk) 18:25, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- This is getting ridiculous (and potentially disruptive). I'm willing to respond to reasonable requests, but this is mere delusion. --RegentsPark (talk) 18:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for that exhaustive list. That doesn't however invalidate what I said: RegentsPark has edited on many different India-related articles. It is not unlikely that Ganges would be on their watchlist. I have lots of things on my watchlist that I've never edited, that are even outside the topic areas that I've edited. However, please feel free to keep digging and assuming bad faith. Syrthiss (talk) 18:30, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I was going to add that we are all humans and all have our failings, so administrators should also assume good faith, instead of calling names and terms like disruptive. If you can give user:RegentsPark who is an administrator the benefit of the doubt, even though he needs to be judged by a higher standard, why do you not understand the hurt of a common editor and how he feels threatened with blocks for flimsy reasons, and accusing him of digging as if he is some grave digger? Please be fair and bi-partisan.Yogesh Khandke (talk) 18:40, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- user:RegentsPark asks why I delayed in reporting user:YellowMonkey to ANI, that is because I wanted to avoid official action, but my previous block was brought up as some criminal record which forced my hand.[96] Yogesh Khandke (talk) 18:40, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you, but I do not need the 'benefit of the doubt'. The move notification is posted on WT:IN as well as WT:AT. I would have to try very hard to miss it. You need to get a handle on yourself and think about changing the way you're approaching editing here. --RegentsPark (talk) 18:50, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- No unsolicited personal comments or advice and stick to the issue at hand, (1)Administrators' haste in (mis?)using administrative privileges, and browbeating editors using them. (2)user:RegentsPark's sudden interest in Ganges, and editing against a proposal submitted by an editor to whom he had issued a block warning. (3)Why is user:RegentsPark speaking on behalf of user:YellowMonkey, he should keep out of any discussion but himself, he is not a third party here and such actions consists of hounding! (4)Action to be taken against such administrators. It is 12.32 am local time, I need to call it a day. Good night. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 19:08, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you, but I do not need the 'benefit of the doubt'. The move notification is posted on WT:IN as well as WT:AT. I would have to try very hard to miss it. You need to get a handle on yourself and think about changing the way you're approaching editing here. --RegentsPark (talk) 18:50, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- user:RegentsPark asks why I delayed in reporting user:YellowMonkey to ANI, that is because I wanted to avoid official action, but my previous block was brought up as some criminal record which forced my hand.[96] Yogesh Khandke (talk) 18:40, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I was going to add that we are all humans and all have our failings, so administrators should also assume good faith, instead of calling names and terms like disruptive. If you can give user:RegentsPark who is an administrator the benefit of the doubt, even though he needs to be judged by a higher standard, why do you not understand the hurt of a common editor and how he feels threatened with blocks for flimsy reasons, and accusing him of digging as if he is some grave digger? Please be fair and bi-partisan.Yogesh Khandke (talk) 18:40, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for that exhaustive list. That doesn't however invalidate what I said: RegentsPark has edited on many different India-related articles. It is not unlikely that Ganges would be on their watchlist. I have lots of things on my watchlist that I've never edited, that are even outside the topic areas that I've edited. However, please feel free to keep digging and assuming bad faith. Syrthiss (talk) 18:30, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Nuisance...
Just a quick note, will someone please block this guy already :P. --DIREKTOR (TALK) 14:45, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Hmm, they seem to have paused for now (perhaps). I've asked them to stop the back-and-forth on Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; their edits there are obviously unhelpful.
If they continue, I'll block if I'm here, or obviously anyone else can. I'm not too familiar with that subject area though, so I'm not sure if there is something else which applies (arbcom sanctions, maybe?)--Kateshortforbob talk 15:06, 19 November 2010 (UTC)- Nevermind, someone else blocked them. --Kateshortforbob talk 15:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry, perils of logging on at work - I blocked the user then someone came in or the phone rang and I forgot to get back here. I blocked him 48hrs for edit warring - I don't know if any other sanctions apply, although I suspect they might. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 17:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I couldn't work out whether his edits were nationalist (seems to have a thing about croats) or just vandalistic. He could be in line for a Digwuren warning if the former --Elen of the Roads (talk) 18:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry, perils of logging on at work - I blocked the user then someone came in or the phone rang and I forgot to get back here. I blocked him 48hrs for edit warring - I don't know if any other sanctions apply, although I suspect they might. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 17:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Nevermind, someone else blocked them. --Kateshortforbob talk 15:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
A legal warning
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I just saw this [97] "legal warning" on the Talk:Villains and Vigilantes page from AlabasterKnight. His talk page [98] pretty much establishes his conflict of interest, and his edits to the page [99] deal with the legal matter, and actually suggests anyone who disagrees start another Wikipedia page. I'm headed out for the afternoon, but would an admin mind taking a look at this? Thanks in advance. Dayewalker (talk) 17:23, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Per WP:NLT they should be ordered to retract the threat or be indef blocked--Lerdthenerd (talk) 17:25, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- User warned of threat and notified of this thread --Lerdthenerd (talk) 17:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Blocked and cleaned up. That was pretty un-ignorable.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Removing a quote from a user page
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In this edit I removed a quote by Brewcrewer from Nableezy's user page. Nableezy has queried my action, but not reverted. Nableezy has been notified of WP:ARBPIA, but doesn't have any special restriction relating to civility etc. Was my action ok? PhilKnight (talk) 17:26, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- If that's what Brewcrewer said and he's OK with Nableezy putting the quote on his userpage, I don;t see a problem with it. If not, then it could be seen as provocative. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:30, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm struggling to see the generalizable principle that leads to the conclusion that it's appropriate to remove it. PhilKnight, could you please articulate it? Nomoskedasticity (talk) 17:33, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- In my edit summary, I described it as uncollegial. Also, I suspect that Brewcrewer would find it as provocative. PhilKnight (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- If Brewercrewer finds it provocative to have his words quoted in that way, perhaps that suggests that he might do well to rethink his post on that talk page. The fact that Nableezy is quoting it can't be the only thing amiss here. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 18:10, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- In my edit summary, I described it as uncollegial. Also, I suspect that Brewcrewer would find it as provocative. PhilKnight (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm struggling to see the generalizable principle that leads to the conclusion that it's appropriate to remove it. PhilKnight, could you please articulate it? Nomoskedasticity (talk) 17:33, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
:::@PhilKnight, I am afraid you removing the quote from Nab's user page shows yet another time that you are not uninvolved administrator concerning I/A conflict area.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:37, 7 November 2010 (UTC) Sorry it was a wrong post.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:33, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Mbz1, could you explain? PhilKnight (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2010 (UTC)No problem. PhilKnight (talk) 18:41, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Support Phil's action. WP:civility as the basis. Which, inter alia, says: "editors should always treat each other with consideration and respect. In order to keep the focus on improving the encyclopedia and to help maintain a pleasant editing environment, editors should behave politely". And that "Incivility consists of personal attacks, rudeness, disrespectful comments, and aggressive behaviours that disrupt the project and lead to unproductive stress and conflict". This appears to be less than civil. What is needed in the I/P area is greater civility by editors, not efforts by editors to inflame, insult, or bait each other.--Epeefleche (talk) 17:44, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- (ec w Ep) The edit, especially considering the edit summary, adds more ammunition to an already active battlefield. The rule is that we should always comment on content, not the contributor. The rule is there for a reason, and if editors cannot abide by it they should think about removing themselves from the contentious topic to somewhere they can focus on content. If an editor has problems with another editor, there are ways of dealing with that such as RFC/U. Posting such as this to their user page is not part of the dispute resolution process. -Atmoz (talk) 17:49, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- "Wikipedia users are expected to behave reasonably, calmly, and courteously in their interactions with other users; to approach even difficult situations in a dignified fashion and with a constructive and collaborative outlook; and to avoid acting in a manner that brings the project into disrepute. Unseemly conduct, such as personal attacks, incivility, assumptions of bad faith, trolling, harassment, disruptive point-making, and gaming the system, is prohibited." Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles section 4.1.2 - Decorum. The first line is clear. And the trolling line might also apply. There are two problems, though. Previous consensus has allowed Nableezy to do whatever he wants on his user page and another admin has mentioned that this sort of thing should be at AE instead of ANI. Cptnono (talk) 18:16, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
While it is nice that so many familiar faces have made an appearance, I would like to ask a few simple questions. How is quoting a user and providing a diff for the quote uncivil or an attack or "ammunition to an already active battlefield"? The reason the quote was there was because it is representative of some of the nonsense that users deal with in the topic area. I dont think there is anything wrong with including such a quote, I make no disparaging remark about the quote, I simply show what a user thinks, that the sources are "irrelevant". If somebody wants to make the absurd claim that accurately quoting a user and providing a diff for that quote is either "trolling" or "brings the project into disrepute" that user should be required to back up that claim with more than his imagination. Either that or strike the absurd line. I would like somebody to explain to me why what a user said on a talk page cannot be quoted on my userpage. With a reason with more substance than unsupported assertions that "civility" demands it. nableezy - 18:54, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Again, see the first line of the decision. It should be crystal clear. In regards to trolling, if you did it to make a point about the editor and to get under his skin then it might be considered trolling. Is it fostering courteous interaction with the user? Is it highlighting your constructive and collaborative outlook? No. It was a poor comment (assuming there is no other context) and it looks like you are attempting to showcase that and bring ridicule upon the other editor. But like I said, admins have allowed you to continue your behavior. I don't know why but that is the way it is.Cptnono (talk) 19:16, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Per WP:UP#POLEMIC, "material that can be viewed as attacking other editors, including the recording of perceived flaws" may not be part of user pages. As such, the removal of the content was correct. This userspace issue does not seem to be within the scope of WP:ARBPIA, though. Sandstein 18:59, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- How is accurately quoting a user either an attack or the recording of a perceived flaw? The flaw is with Wikipedia in that it allows editors who say that in a conflict on where a place is that what sources say that place is located is an "irrelevant straw man". How is accurately quoting a user and providing a diff of that quote a violation of WP:UP#POLEMIC? And if it were, shouldnt MFD be used? nableezy - 19:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- MfD is only for deleting entire pages. Under the circumstances, notably your repeated disagreements with Brewcrewer about I/P issues, the quote cannot be understood other than as an attempt by you to mock or disparage Brewcrewer. That is not allowed. Sandstein 19:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- But Im not mocking brewcrewer, Im mocking Wikipedia. If you look at the talkpage I thank brewcrewer for his honesty on this subject. I dont have a problem with brewcrewer feeling this way or voicing this opinion. I do however have a problem with the administrators here who think it is a bigger problem that I quote a user saying the sources are irrelevant than the problem that there is a user who actually says the sources are irrelevant. nableezy - 19:12, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- MfD is only for deleting entire pages. Under the circumstances, notably your repeated disagreements with Brewcrewer about I/P issues, the quote cannot be understood other than as an attempt by you to mock or disparage Brewcrewer. That is not allowed. Sandstein 19:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- How is accurately quoting a user either an attack or the recording of a perceived flaw? The flaw is with Wikipedia in that it allows editors who say that in a conflict on where a place is that what sources say that place is located is an "irrelevant straw man". How is accurately quoting a user and providing a diff of that quote a violation of WP:UP#POLEMIC? And if it were, shouldnt MFD be used? nableezy - 19:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Hadn't noticed the comment until I was notified of the discussion. In general I would not have a problem with being mocked over something silly that I said. But this "quote" of mine is being taken out of context. Anyone who reads the discussion in its entirety will see that I did not mean that in general "sourcing is irrelevant." I meant that for that particular discussion sourcing is irrelevant because the issue was which sourced content should be primary and which sourced content should be secondary. This much was explained to Nableezy at the talk page,[100] but s/he chose to ignore me and post the taken-out-of-context quote on his user page. These type of strawman arguments and incivility are par for the course in my interaction with Nableezy as seen at Talk:Rachel's Tomb#Location and Talk:Psagot#legality.--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 19:34, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- The context is provided by the diff. You cannot in good faith claim that the quote is taken out of context when the entire context is provided. These type of bad faith arguments are par for the course in my interaction with editors who disregard sources in favor of their own personal wishes. nableezy - 19:42, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- But you can in good faith argue that "The reason the quote was there was because it is representative of some of the nonsense that users deal with in the topic area" while the edit summary says "return brews finest hour" and it was posted 12 minutes after brewcrewer commented on an AE report concerning you, but almost two weeks after he actually made the comment you quoted? No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 20:34, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, because what you write isnt entirely true, but that is to be expected from you. Brew made the edit on 21:39, 21 October 2010. I initially added it to my userpage 6 minutes later. I took it down and then put it back up in the edit you reference. nableezy - 20:41, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Why did you put it back up? No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 20:55, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Because it's absurd. brewcrewer basically admits that nableezy is right, that's it's in the West Bank, but that the location should still be decided on who controls the area and his idea of what readers are interested in. The sources against Rachel's Tomb as being in the West Bank include an Israeli High Court decision; even Israel disagrees with brewcrewer's proposed location. The quote sums up the only reasoning justifying the edit. It's in the context of the exact same argument used in every disputed bit of Israeli occupied territory, that we should say it's in Israel because Israel controls it. This cycle is repeated over and over and over in different articles by the same editors, wasting massive amounts of time. Maybe nableezy should have just reported brewcrewer for tendentious editing but it's a perfect crystallization of what goes on here (and looks even worse in context).Sol (talk) 21:40, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's obvious brew was saying "the sources are not the issue" not "the sources are not important".
- Why did he put it back up when he did, right after brew did something he didn't like? Coincidence? No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 21:56, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- I dont know, whys the sky the blue? nableezy - 02:41, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- Scattering of sunlight by particles in the atmosphere. Beyond My Ken (talk) 08:44, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's a shame you can't be honest about why you did it. Do I really need to dig up the previous times you put stuff on your user page just to annoy other editors? You didn't used to be shy about it. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 10:20, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- I dont know, whys the sky the blue? nableezy - 02:41, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- The placement is intentionally provocative. Nableezy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been handled with kid gloves despite a multitude of violations on WP:ARBPIA such as calling fellow editors "certain ultra right-wing nationalists" and assuming bad faith, ignoring factual data as it is presented to him :
- "certain ultra right-wing nationalists" (2 November 2010)
- "I dont exactly believe most (all) of what you claim" (1 November 2010),
- "I will be reinserting this material once protection is lifted." (2 November 2010)
- His style is to allege others are bad editors and his efforts are meant to counter them, which is a horrible starting point -- and leads to a horrible editor to work with. One that uses red herrings and ignores content and attempts at reasoning.
- With respect, JaakobouChalk Talk 22:13, 7 November 2010 (UTC) + 22:16, 7 November 2010 (UTC) + 01:50, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- You really want me to respond to this nonsense? You might not look so good if I do. nableezy - 02:41, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- "With respect", after all that?? Nomoskedasticity (talk) 22:29, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- The usual phraseology would be, "With all undue respect..." ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:27, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Because it's absurd. brewcrewer basically admits that nableezy is right, that's it's in the West Bank, but that the location should still be decided on who controls the area and his idea of what readers are interested in. The sources against Rachel's Tomb as being in the West Bank include an Israeli High Court decision; even Israel disagrees with brewcrewer's proposed location. The quote sums up the only reasoning justifying the edit. It's in the context of the exact same argument used in every disputed bit of Israeli occupied territory, that we should say it's in Israel because Israel controls it. This cycle is repeated over and over and over in different articles by the same editors, wasting massive amounts of time. Maybe nableezy should have just reported brewcrewer for tendentious editing but it's a perfect crystallization of what goes on here (and looks even worse in context).Sol (talk) 21:40, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Why did you put it back up? No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 20:55, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, because what you write isnt entirely true, but that is to be expected from you. Brew made the edit on 21:39, 21 October 2010. I initially added it to my userpage 6 minutes later. I took it down and then put it back up in the edit you reference. nableezy - 20:41, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- But you can in good faith argue that "The reason the quote was there was because it is representative of some of the nonsense that users deal with in the topic area" while the edit summary says "return brews finest hour" and it was posted 12 minutes after brewcrewer commented on an AE report concerning you, but almost two weeks after he actually made the comment you quoted? No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 20:34, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- The context is provided by the diff. You cannot in good faith claim that the quote is taken out of context when the entire context is provided. These type of bad faith arguments are par for the course in my interaction with editors who disregard sources in favor of their own personal wishes. nableezy - 19:42, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Comment. Even starting with an assumption of good faith, and ignoring that Nableezy has just been blocked elsewhere for incivility, I find it difficult to believe, after hearing about the history between the two, that Nableezy was doing anything other than engaging in uncivil mocking. And therefore find it unduly stretching credulity to believe his statements here that that was not his intent. But we need not go there, unless someone is seeking to have Nableezy sanctioned for incivility. All we need to do is let Nableezy understand how his edit is seen by the community.
Understanding (now) the consensus view on the subject, of course he, as a non-disruptive editor who is most assuredly not seeking to mock another editor against core wp guidelines, will be quite happy that the offending language that he had posted has been removed. End of story.--Epeefleche (talk) 22:40, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Uhh no, there were a few uninvolved views here, and Ill pay attention to them, but for the most part this section has been dominated by users who havent done much in the past few days except for request that I be blocked. Ill just have to find a creative way to include this quote, a way that would not be "uncollegial". nableezy - 02:41, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- Nableezy, I would suggest that you respect consensus. You were blocked this week. You now indicate a lack of interest in respecting the views of those who supported you being blocked -- as though their opinions about your editing or disruption are not legitimate. You have it wrong. As you were blocked on the advice of those editors, it is precisely those editors who you should be heeding. WP:consensus does not suggest that Nableezy should only heed the views of those who agree with him, and not the views of those who the blocking admins agree with. If you are indeed intending to be non-disruptive, as you maintained, you will heed the view expressed above.--Epeefleche (talk) 09:15, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- In 3 years I have been blocked for 3 hours for civility. I understand why you are repeating this line, Ive seen you play this game before, you like to pretend that a somebody is a "problem user" with a "history of disruption". I dont see a consensus for anything here, and even if there were a drama board is not the place to determine the consensus on what may be placed on a userpage, MFD is. You can continue to comment here, but it wont affect anything I do. If uninvolved users have something to say I will certainly pay attention. Bye. nableezy - 14:10, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- I agree with Nableezy. If we start using labels like "problem user" with a "history of disruption" for every editor who's only been blocked 6 times this year [101], we're setting unreasonably high standards. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 16:01, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- ahh, but all my blocks are in my one block log. How many of your friends can say the same? nableezy - 17:03, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- Unless you have evidence of socking, you should retract that statement. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 19:29, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- The vast majority. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 19:42, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- Nab -- as you know, you have an impressive number of blocks, and separately an impressive number of bans. Some of the editors who you don't want to listen to here are the ones who contributed to complaints about your behavior that led to your blocks and bans. Again, I would suggest that those are precisely the editors you should heed, rather than ignore, if your goal is to be a non-disruptive contributor to the Project, which of course I'm sure it is.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:59, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
- It actually appears that adding up all of your blocks results in a number greater than mine. Does that mean that as you have so many blocks your view is irrelevant? Color me confused, I thought you kept raising others history because you had a clean one. Back to the point, Ill pay attention to whatever uninvolved editors have to say. That doesnt include the editors who made a complaint about my supposedly incivility which resulted in a 3 hour block for me and a 48 hour block for the user who wrote the line that prompted my response. Funny how not one of you had any problem at all with what that user wrote. TBS funny. nableezy - 22:48, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
- couldn't be maybe that the other user's block for PA was disputed by all but three out of about a dozen or so editors, whereas your comment was an undisputable PA; could it? WookieInHeat (talk) 03:53, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
- It actually appears that adding up all of your blocks results in a number greater than mine. Does that mean that as you have so many blocks your view is irrelevant? Color me confused, I thought you kept raising others history because you had a clean one. Back to the point, Ill pay attention to whatever uninvolved editors have to say. That doesnt include the editors who made a complaint about my supposedly incivility which resulted in a 3 hour block for me and a 48 hour block for the user who wrote the line that prompted my response. Funny how not one of you had any problem at all with what that user wrote. TBS funny. nableezy - 22:48, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
- ahh, but all my blocks are in my one block log. How many of your friends can say the same? nableezy - 17:03, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- I agree with Nableezy. If we start using labels like "problem user" with a "history of disruption" for every editor who's only been blocked 6 times this year [101], we're setting unreasonably high standards. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 16:01, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- In 3 years I have been blocked for 3 hours for civility. I understand why you are repeating this line, Ive seen you play this game before, you like to pretend that a somebody is a "problem user" with a "history of disruption". I dont see a consensus for anything here, and even if there were a drama board is not the place to determine the consensus on what may be placed on a userpage, MFD is. You can continue to comment here, but it wont affect anything I do. If uninvolved users have something to say I will certainly pay attention. Bye. nableezy - 14:10, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- Nableezy, I would suggest that you respect consensus. You were blocked this week. You now indicate a lack of interest in respecting the views of those who supported you being blocked -- as though their opinions about your editing or disruption are not legitimate. You have it wrong. As you were blocked on the advice of those editors, it is precisely those editors who you should be heeding. WP:consensus does not suggest that Nableezy should only heed the views of those who agree with him, and not the views of those who the blocking admins agree with. If you are indeed intending to be non-disruptive, as you maintained, you will heed the view expressed above.--Epeefleche (talk) 09:15, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- No opinion - If we want to talk about quotes, I think his "All that will happen is that uninvolved users will be drowned out by familiar faces making predictable positions", said in regards to this AN/I filing, was spot on. If we strip out the noise from the above discussion, we're left with one legitimate opinion against the quotation usage (Sandstein). So how about this; all those involved in the topic area zip it, and let people with no horse in the race get a word in edgewise if they wish. Tarc (talk) 16:29, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- Tarc -- I encourage you not to zip it. Let's AGF, and assume that even editors who have observed and supplied information relative to Nab's prior blocks are entitled to contribute to this discussion. It makes little sense to censor out of the discussion those editors who have made legitimate complaints regarding Nab, that have been supported by admin action. If fairness is our goal.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:55, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
- Comment it would seem the most logical conclusion would be that if brew doesn't mind the comment on nableezy's page, it's fine. that said, if brew feels the comment is being taken out of context in order to portray him in a negative light (which does appear to be the intention), it shouldn't be there. on another note, as per usual nableezy appears to be treading the civility line very carefully, being as condescending as possible without stepping over it (i.e. calling other users comments "nonsense" in this thread). WookieInHeat (talk) 22:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
- Comment I would like to propose we start a page somewhere called "I/P Bickering", thus allowing the rest of the wiki-verse to return to more productive things. This has already become the predicted forum for attacking favorite targets. Sol (talk) 23:03, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Unarchived
Nableezy has again brought attention to Brew's quote (out of context and consensus seems to be against him doing it like that) while also adding two quotes from me on his user page. They are also out of context.[102] Yes I said I was anti-Arab but then I clarified it when requested. Yes I said there should be white supremacists editing but made it clear that it is because articles related to them are skewed. He cut out those bits. If he is purposely pushing people's buttons he needs to be banned from the topic area.Cptnono (talk) 18:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- The old thread, which you've unarchived, was focused around whether my removal of a diff from Nableezy's user page was ok. My understanding is there wasn't a consensus that I had made a mistake. Also, from my perspective Nableezy's user page was problematic as it named the editor quoted, and that is no longer the case. PhilKnight (talk) 18:30, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I misread consensus then. S is it OK then? If so, I will edit my user page accordingly.Cptnono (talk) 18:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Last time I went ahead and removed the problematic material, and the discussion amongst uninvolved editors was finely balanced as to whether my actions were acceptable. In this context, and given this time around the content is less problematic, I don't intend to go ahead and remove the diffs. PhilKnight (talk) 18:48, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- So if I put on my user page "This user is an asshole." is it acceptable? I know how dumb that sounds but it is essentially what he did and I am not using his name.Cptnono (talk) 18:52, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I misread consensus then. S is it OK then? If so, I will edit my user page accordingly.Cptnono (talk) 18:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
TLDR, but to me, the quote seems fine. It is not an attack against the editor who made it: they said it, why would they post an attack against themself? That is a ridiculous argument. So as per WP:USER, it comes within the boundary of what one can generally post one one's page. For instance, I have a diff of someone PROD-ing my talkpage because I am "extremely shameful" – it's just a bit of humour. Cope. ╟─TreasuryTag►Speaker─╢ 18:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Cool. This can be marked as resolved. It looks like I can add "This user is an asshole." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cptnono (talk • contribs)
- If you're replying to me, then I never said anything of the sort. ╟─TreasuryTag►constablewick─╢ 19:01, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes I was. You said that his user page was acceptable. Read the comment right above it. To be honest, it is not something I am not comfortable adding but it makes sense that it would be acceptable under the reasoning provided.Cptnono (talk) 19:06, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- What I said is that the quote referred to at the top of this thread is, in my view, acceptable. What I did not say is that rampant personal attacks are permissible. Perhaps you should read it over again. ╟─TreasuryTag►most serene─╢ 19:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- But he is saying essentially the same thing. He is making me look like an asshole by taking the quotes out of context. I wouldn't mind looking like a different kind of asshole (a jerk instead of a racist) if the full conversation was there, of course. I just don't see the difference.Cptnono (talk) 19:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) He is quoting you. If you'd said that he was publicising the fact that you made yourself look like "an asshole" (your words, not mine) then I might have agreed with you. But if you wanted to avoid the appearance of "an asshole" then you shouldn't have made that quote. ╟─TreasuryTag►belonger─╢ 19:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- But he didn't use the full quote which changes the meaning of the quote.Cptnono (talk) 19:16, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- But he did link to the full quote which clarifies the situation (if you say so). ╟─TreasuryTag►sheriff─╢ 19:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- That is a cop out. He is skewing the meaning of my quote and adding a small link that makes it say something different.Cptnono (talk) 19:21, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- What size do you think the link should be in order to make it fair, then? ╟─TreasuryTag►assemblyman─╢ 19:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think he should provide the full context clearly without the need to use a link. I stand behind what I said but I don;t stand behind he impression he is trying make.Cptnono (talk) 19:24, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- So why did you complain, just above, about the "small" dimensions of the link, if they are actually irrelevant? ╟─TreasuryTag►hemicycle─╢ 19:26, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Because it is a small link. But even if I described it as a big link it doesn't change the scenario.Cptnono (talk) 19:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry. I assumed that your phrase, "...adding a small link that makes it say something different," was an objection to the size of the link. I think that's how a normal person would interpret it. ╟─TreasuryTag►stannator─╢ 19:36, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I didn't say you weren't normal. But is the size of the link the only thing you wish to comment on or will you comment on the stated (and even clarified) concern? You ignored my primary reason and instead started playing a game with single word out of numerous comments.Cptnono (talk) 19:49, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah. But I did it brilliantly. ╟─TreasuryTag►quaestor─╢ 22:19, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I didn't say you weren't normal. But is the size of the link the only thing you wish to comment on or will you comment on the stated (and even clarified) concern? You ignored my primary reason and instead started playing a game with single word out of numerous comments.Cptnono (talk) 19:49, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry. I assumed that your phrase, "...adding a small link that makes it say something different," was an objection to the size of the link. I think that's how a normal person would interpret it. ╟─TreasuryTag►stannator─╢ 19:36, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Because it is a small link. But even if I described it as a big link it doesn't change the scenario.Cptnono (talk) 19:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- So why did you complain, just above, about the "small" dimensions of the link, if they are actually irrelevant? ╟─TreasuryTag►hemicycle─╢ 19:26, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think he should provide the full context clearly without the need to use a link. I stand behind what I said but I don;t stand behind he impression he is trying make.Cptnono (talk) 19:24, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- What size do you think the link should be in order to make it fair, then? ╟─TreasuryTag►assemblyman─╢ 19:22, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- That is a cop out. He is skewing the meaning of my quote and adding a small link that makes it say something different.Cptnono (talk) 19:21, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- But he did link to the full quote which clarifies the situation (if you say so). ╟─TreasuryTag►sheriff─╢ 19:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- But he didn't use the full quote which changes the meaning of the quote.Cptnono (talk) 19:16, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) He is quoting you. If you'd said that he was publicising the fact that you made yourself look like "an asshole" (your words, not mine) then I might have agreed with you. But if you wanted to avoid the appearance of "an asshole" then you shouldn't have made that quote. ╟─TreasuryTag►belonger─╢ 19:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- But he is saying essentially the same thing. He is making me look like an asshole by taking the quotes out of context. I wouldn't mind looking like a different kind of asshole (a jerk instead of a racist) if the full conversation was there, of course. I just don't see the difference.Cptnono (talk) 19:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- What I said is that the quote referred to at the top of this thread is, in my view, acceptable. What I did not say is that rampant personal attacks are permissible. Perhaps you should read it over again. ╟─TreasuryTag►most serene─╢ 19:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes I was. You said that his user page was acceptable. Read the comment right above it. To be honest, it is not something I am not comfortable adding but it makes sense that it would be acceptable under the reasoning provided.Cptnono (talk) 19:06, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Please do not attack other editors, as you did here: User:Nableezy. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. HalfShadow 19:03, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- If you're replying to me, then I never said anything of the sort. ╟─TreasuryTag►constablewick─╢ 19:01, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Cool. This can be marked as resolved. It looks like I can add "This user is an asshole." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cptnono (talk • contribs)
- Nableezy's whole user page appears to be a soapbox and his wikilawyering in this thread is tedious. The quote removed from the user page was an out-of-context dig at another editor. We're usually pretty loose about userpage contents simply because most users aren't so tendentious. But at the end of the day, user pages are supposed to have encyclopedic purpose or they should not remain on the site. If Nableezy wants a soapbox for his political views, that's great, he can start a blog. WP is an encyclopedia and we're not here for that. Also, not that I'm any fan of huckster "street artists", the Banksy painting image on Nableezy's userpage is probably a copyvio.
Nableezy's conduct (battleground editing, wikilawyering)
seriously fails to adhereis in tension with the purpose of Wikipedia, possibly to the point of serious failure to adhere. As such, remedies under ARBPIA discretionary sanctions would seem to come into play. I haven't followed the soap opera enough to call for stiff sanctions right away, but a formal "thin ice" warning seems to be in order.In short, cut the crap. 69.111.192.233 (talk) 20:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that calling yourself Anti-Arab probably isn't going to get a very good reaction from Arabs or most people in general. Qualifying it with "Arab governments and the predominant religion over there have historically been problematic" isn't helping matters. There's precious little good will in the I/P edit battles as is and branding yourself as against a group of people tarnishes a hardworking editor. Sol (talk) 22:52, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think that was addressed to Cptnono not to me. I haven't looked into Cptnono's edits, which may also be problematic. In my view these long term edit battles shouldn't be allowed. If WP isn't capable of putting together a neutral article (as agreed by consensus) on a topic after a reasonable amount of time, it should boot the article to incubation and leave a protected redlink in article space until a neutral version is developed. 69.111.192.233 (talk) 00:12, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, it was, my bad :P My functional IQ plummets from its already modest heights by the end of the week. Sol (talk) 00:16, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
- I think that was addressed to Cptnono not to me. I haven't looked into Cptnono's edits, which may also be problematic. In my view these long term edit battles shouldn't be allowed. If WP isn't capable of putting together a neutral article (as agreed by consensus) on a topic after a reasonable amount of time, it should boot the article to incubation and leave a protected redlink in article space until a neutral version is developed. 69.111.192.233 (talk) 00:12, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that calling yourself Anti-Arab probably isn't going to get a very good reaction from Arabs or most people in general. Qualifying it with "Arab governments and the predominant religion over there have historically been problematic" isn't helping matters. There's precious little good will in the I/P edit battles as is and branding yourself as against a group of people tarnishes a hardworking editor. Sol (talk) 22:52, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Have to agree with TreasuryTag. Seems innocuous, and he links to the full diff. Aren't there more important things to care about? -- ۩ Mask 23:06, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Disruptive IP
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Ip blocked for one month
Is it possible to address the actions of this IP Address please. There edits are just purely disruptive as can be seen from their edits just for today here, here, here, here, here. Apart from the going against WP:IMOS these articles are all subject to active arbitration remedies, as laid out during a previous Arbitration Enforcement case. It just appears to me that ClueBots notices are having no effect. Thanks, --Domer48'fenian' 19:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Students with too much time on their hands. GoodDay (talk) 19:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Agreed. I've blocked the IP account. PhilKnight (talk) 19:20, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. One less to worry about. --Domer48'fenian' 20:05, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous harassing NYyankees51
The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous (talk · contribs) was was warned by two separate administrators (first warning and second warning) to stop harassing User talk:NYyankees51. Despite two warnings, as of today, the user is again harassing NYyankees51; such as, but not limited to, referring to NYyankees51's actions as sloppy and adding disparaging comments about the user on other talk pages. NYyankees51 is currently blocked, and an unblock request is currently being handled by arbitration. Would be nice if The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous left NYyankees51 alone, and let arbitration handle this. Can an administrator take a look, and see if any action is needed? Will notify user of this AN/I immediately after saving page. Akerans (talk) 19:08, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- NY51 has a record of extreme mendacity, has vandalized his own talk page to hide an admins damning statement. I discovered the deception, affected its restoration, and documented that NY51's latest reason/lie for his redaction for the benefit of ArbCom and other editors who inexplicably believe NY51 has reformed, or was never in error and deserving of a block. The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous (talk) 19:17, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Blocked 24 hours. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I agree. What a mess that is. Drmies (talk) 19:42, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Concur with the block; I was far too subtle there earlier. Kuru (talk) 20:08, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Just thought I'd leave these two difs [103] [104] for ANI's perusal. The latter is a removal of the block notice from the talk page, which is not permitted. The former, while not a breach of conduct regulations in and of itself, is a good demonstration of The Artist's attitude. Seth Kellerman (talk) 22:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Blocked 24 hours. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm loth to say "censorship" but...
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
So I contributed my little bit of satire to WT:ACN. It was removed as "incorrect" – which led me to add a disclaimer which rendered it not only satire, but harmless satire.
Now Iridescent (talk · contribs) has decided to twice delete it, the first time with a vaguely POINTy edit-summary.
I can't find any clause of WP:TPO which permits the removal of jokes and/or banter, and while it may not be the most erudite of comments, it's not remotely disruptive, and I'd be interested to be told of any policy basis for its removal? ╟─TreasuryTag►You may go away now.─╢ 19:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- You don't have a God-given right to post irrelevant nonsense on ArbCom pages, and the fact that three independent editors removed it should be a hint enough for you to desist. Wikipedia is not, or at least does not aspire to be a bureaucracy; not every right action must be justified by written policy. To accuse any other party in this teacup storm of pointyness is showing either breathtaking lack of self-awareness or deliberate obtuseness. I suggest you take the advice in your signature and stop wasting everybody's time. Skomorokh 19:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Your opening sentence appears to imply that others do have a God-given right to delete any material they want, whether or not it is actually disruptive. But I'm sure that can't be what you mean? ╟─TreasuryTag►First Secretary of State─╢ 19:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- It ain't worth fighting over. GoodDay (talk) 19:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- It comes across as disrupting a serious request. That said, we tend to allow a little levity on talk pages, even of serious subjects, while trying to keep the article pages a little more straight-laced. If the announcement had been on the Noticeboard (why doesn't it belong there), I'd say the edit was quite misplaced. Tougher call on the talk page.--SPhilbrickT 19:32, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) I would absolutely agree with you if it were on the Noticeboard itself, but on "general participation" pages, the odd sarcastic remark is generally permissible, and practically never deleted. Even on ANI ;) ╟─TreasuryTag►consulate─╢ 19:34, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I'd like to know how Giaco's post[105] is any more worthy of staying on the talk page, especially as someone responded to it as if it were for real. TT's comment was obviously a joke. [Black Kite has informed me that some kind of ID, though not necessarily a passport, is indeed required. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:19, 19 November 2010 (UTC)]
- They also left one out: Regardless of skills, you have to run through a popularity gauntlet to be accepted.
- Meanwhile, if any users are unhappy with ArbCom in general, they could always volunteer to be part of that gauntlet. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:37, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Huh. I completely stand by what I did and reserve the right to do the same sort of thing in the future. ╟─TreasuryTag►presiding officer─╢ 19:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- OK, new discussion at WT:ACN#Recent deletion of comments from this page. ╟─TreasuryTag►stannary parliament─╢ 20:03, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Attempts to use Wikipedia as a collaboration on Yu-Gi-Oh!
- KardGame (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
This user created the "article" Yugioh Deck as an attempt to establish a collaboration site for fans of Yu-Gi-Oh! ([106]). I prodded it ([107]), which he removed ([108]), then I tagged it for A3 ([109]), which he also removed once ([110]) before adding a {{hangon}} tag ([111]). He then asked me a question on my talk page ([112]); I responded that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a place for collaboration on any subject not related to building the encyclopedia, and I even pointed him to Comparison of wiki farms and WP:OUTLET ([113]). He still has not gotten the message, and created the similarly-named Yugioh Decks (since deleted) in an attempt to evade the deletion tag. I request that this user be blocked for disruption/abuse of editing privileges, and Yugioh Deck and any other article he created related to this subject be deleted immediately. —KuyaBriBriTalk 21:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- I am the one who CSDed the Yugioh Decks article, and first saw KardGame on the Yugioh talk page advertising the article.--intelatitalk 21:07, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Please also see his (or her) plea for help --intelatitalk 21:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- This seems like probably a very, very young user who really does just want to chat about his favourite card game and likely wouldn't have the patience to set up a new wiki all on their own (nor should they, as there's already a Wikia for it). Their contributions are in good faith, just misplaced. They should instead be incouraged to find a Yu-Gi-Oh forum where they can talk about their deck all they want. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 22:55, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Bosnian War Introduction
There is a discussion on the Talk:Bosnian War on how to improve the introduction on the Bosnian War article. Myself and other users are experiencing frustration with a certain user by the name of Alan.Ford.Jn which I think has a clear POV and a irrational behavior and even though lengthy discussions and tries to rationalize with him, he continues to revert and disrupt even though he clearly has no consensus nor support. It would be useful if an admin could perhaps help to clear things up. --Nirvana77 (talk) 23:04, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
- Not sure your response to Alan.Ford.Jn's first post is particularly AGF-y but then again I'm sure you have a lot more experience with these editors (this editor?) than I do. If you still think this is a sock the place to report that is WP:SPI. Otherwise, this is a content dispute and you're gonna have to hash it out on the talk page. You might include a general overview of the race relations perspective since as I recall ethnicity was one of the triggers of that conflict. N419BH 23:41, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
User that does not seem to want to edit by Wikipedia rules.
- Langston Bonasera (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Rizzoli Isles (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Rizzoli Isles (talk · contribs), formerly Langston Bonasera (talk · contribs) (both accounts still active) is once again putting up non-free images, and immediately replacing them if removed (latest example Katee Sackhoff), changing cast table formats after being asked to discuss first in talk pages, making uncited edits or citing from blogs, refusing to use edit summaries, creating character pages for actors not confirmed to be added to show casts other than from blogs, gossip or fan sites then edit warring when they are reverted and just too many other Wikipedia rule violations to list. This editor has repeatedly been counseled by more experienced editors, admins and even threatened with being blocked - but these actions only result in a short term improvement. I have requested help and advice before from more experienced editors and admins, who have recommended I bring it here. I have tried to write this off to the editors age (self admittedly mid-teens) and that he lives outside the US, but he has no trouble with the language - the problem seems to be attitude and refusal to accept there are rules that must be followed. Can ANI please investigate this and take some kind of action? Thank you very much for your time. Trista (user Triste Tierra - cannot log in at work) 24.176.191.234 (talk) 23:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)