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2011 CheckUser and Oversight appointments: Invitation to comment on candidates

The Arbitration Committee is seeking to appoint additional users to the CheckUser and Oversight teams, and is now seeking comments from the community regarding the candidates who have volunteered for this role.

Interested parties are invited to review the appointments page containing the nomination statements supplied by the candidates and their answers to a few standard questions. Community members may also pose additional questions and submit comments about the candidates on the individual nomination subpages or privately via email to arbcom-en-blists.wikimedia.org.

Following the consultation phase, the committee will take into account the answers provided by the candidates to the questions and the comments offered by the community (both publicly and privately) along with all other relevant factors before making a final decision regarding appointments.

The consultation phase is scheduled to end 23:59, 4 October 2011 (UTC), and the appointments are scheduled to be announced by 10 October 2011.

For the Arbitration Committee, –xeno^talk 14:00, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

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YFuture time stamped to prevent archival. OpenInfoForAll (talk) 21:41, 5 October 2011 (UTC) Comment period extended. VanIsaac_WS^contribs 16:21, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

User:Floydian's continued proud violations of WP:INCIVIL and WP:STALK

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Despite being repeatedly warned on his incivility, User:Floydian has shown no interest in stopping. And despite being explicitly warned to by an administrator to avoid me, User:Floydian will not stop stalking and making personal and uncivil attacks on me wherever he follows me to. I've been very patient with this user for several months but it's now getting ridiculous.

And as you'll see below, he has no respect of administrators who disagree with him.

Starting with this user's multiple failed AfD's earlier this year that I was involved in, in which this user demonstrated some of the most egregious violations of civility I've ever seen, this user suddenly became obsessed with me, hounding me, showing up in discussions about articles that he had absolutely nothing to do with. Throughout his 7 month long obsession with me and interaction with other editors, he has demonstrated complete inability to interact properly with those he disagrees with. This list of his violations is long, but these are only the ones I've come across in just the few minutes of searching.

Incivility

• Here are just some of the amazing examples of this user's incivility at other editors and a couple to me. These are just some, starting from February into this month (September):
  

"are you fucking blind?"

"Use common fucking sense. That is a reason and an argument. Your vote is useless."

"Fucking tards"

"Way for two voters to change it to whatever the fuck they want to, because they're Admins. WHOO!"

"Its admins like you who don't pay attention to the bigger picture that make doing things take twice as long.", "Thanks for wasting time by making assumptions."

"wait...charitable? You're about as charitable as an insurance company!" , "Prove where I lied (but don't copy my post or I'll be an anal retentive prick because I have nothing better to do with my life)"

"are you really that thick?"

"This feels as fruitless as wiping a kittens nose in its pee to get it to stop peeing on the floor. If you can't be bothered to address basic points of debate, including but not limited to understanding what you yourself have posted, addressing points raised by others, and backing up your consensuses, then you are a waste of time."

Hounding and Stalking (and more incivility)

After the proud spree of incivility in the first few diffs above, Floydian began stalking me by showing up in discussions I was involved with that he had nothing to do with.[1][2]. He then showed up on my talk page, again regarding a topic and discussion he had nothing to do with, and just kept on hounding and baiting me, all on my talk page. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He just wouldn't go away.

In an apparent attempt to save face, the user inexplicably started an ANI against me for calling his behavior childish in the above exchange, despite him attacking me by calling me "childish" [10] and then "thick". [11] In that ANI, administrator Chris Cunningham/Thurmberward closed the ANI with no action but appropriately warned us to avoid each other.[12]

Since that ANI last April, with the exception of one AfD on a road [13] (I have a long history of strong interest in transportation articles), where user Floydian strangely attacks my "honesty" [14], I have managed to stay away from him. User Floydian on the other hand has repeatedly violated the administrator's notice in his own ANI and has continuously been hounding me. Just after that AfD he dropped in on Talk:News International phone hacking scandal (a topic obviously having nothing to do with roads which make up a majority of his edits) right after I made a comment there just to counter my opinion. [15][16] (His opinion was almost unanimously out of line with consensus). After I made an edit related to the Hollywood Freeway chickens article [17], someone quickly started and AfD on it and he immediately jumped right in to advocate its deletion.[18] (with the exception of a SPA, his opinion again was unanimously out of line with consensus).

The final straw came today after I created a stub for Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree George Hicks (broadcast journalist) where I removed a prod and began collecting citations to place in the article. Floydian jumped in out of nowhere and drops this foul language-laced attack on the article's talk page, the very first edit on it. When called on his stalking and his uncivility, his response was:

"once again you just say a bunch of nothing, and do a bunch of nothing, at the same time. What a great contributor!"

While noting that adding citations is always good to any editor, it's clear this user's sole motivation was to hound and harass me instead of improving the article. As of writing this user has made zero improvements to it. (I've made great improvements to it.) I'm tired of contributing and having to worry about his guy who is obviously monitoring my history page and has no sense of civility and boundaries, from jumping into articles I'm working on or discussions I'm involved with to throw attacks at me. My toleration for this is over. It's disruptive, immature and and at best extremely bad form.

Conclusion

What's terrible about his editor is that he thinks his uncivil behavior is perfectly fine.

For the first two diffs above, when called on his incivility by several users [19][20][21], he not only didn't apologize but actually doubled down. His response was most telling about his view of Wikipedia's civility policies.

“ I will continue to use profane language as I please, there is no rule against that (or can you provide to the contrary?) ”

[22]

And he stuck to his proclamation.

As administrator User:Fastily stated about his incivility in Floydian's failed RfA (have a read, it's quite amazing) which was almost unanimously opposed due to his incivility, "Many users have been blocked for much less." This user has been called on his behavior for the last several months by several administrators and users and yet he has not stopped. Clearly this user has not learned anything about civility in the last year. Nobody has ever been blocked for disagreeing with other users, but profanity laced personal attacks and hounding on this project should not be tolerated. Let's finally demonstrate that our rules against stalking, harassment and incivility are valued. Otherwise this user will continue with this poor behavior and others won't be deterred from it.

Feel free to delve deep into the evidence, diffs and histories and come to your own conclusion. Thank you for reading.--Oakshade (talk) 06:16, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

• Aside: I assume you mean User:Floydian - on at least three cases you mentioned User:Floridan. I presume those were typos? - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 06:21, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Appreciate it.--Oakshade (talk) 06:27, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

You've been complaining about this for some time. Why was this not resolved in April? Doc talk 06:36, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

That was my response in the ANI started by Floydian against me. It hasn't been resolved because Floydian has ignored that ANI closing Admin's suggestion for us to avoid each other. Also his incivility was not scrutinized there so he just continued with it. I wished this was all done, but alas.--Oakshade (talk) 06:42, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

If you're looking for a "civility" block based on a pattern of incivility - I wish you luck in that endeavor. Doc talk 06:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

• What does a bunch of evidence from months ago show? I've actually taken many steps to improve my civility since a failed RFA in the late spring; I have completely cut out my use of foul language (though Oakshade would like to consider words like "hell" and "damn" as foul, we don't live in the 1950s), completely toned down my edit summaries, and disengaged myself from most drama (where possible). I still tell people when they are being poor editors, but that is far from incivility - that is factually based, and telling someone that the edits they make are doing more harm than good is not personal, its part of building a good encyclopedia.

I'm assuming this report is a result of my posts at this talk page. As an aside, Oakshade regularly accuses people of OWNership, as you'll see in his generous collection of evidence, yet treats any interaction I have with him on articles he's created as stalking. Back to that article, Oakshade regularily contributes very dismal quality articles to the encyclopedia, makes no attempts to improve them, and fights vigorously against those who try to encourage him to include a source or write more than a sentence before hitting submit. Many of his articles are taken to AFD where the community's time is wasted for seven days because nobody wants to do the work that the initial creator should have done in the first place (WP:DEADLINE applies here in my mind). But I digress; after avoiding this editor for at least 3 months, I brought in a source to the talk page of their recently created article and asked them, for the love of god, to please include a source and do a little more research. The reason I found the page was because of the PROD placed upon it. Anyways, I don't feel Oakshade has any case here, and so I don't plan to reply any more beyond this once. Just the same thing as months ago, with the exact same evidence, and half a year of separation between then and now.

And as a last point, you added just over 11000 bytes of data in the edit to make this complaint (though as has been mentioned, most of that is probably copied directly from the report in April). Meanwhile, you added 1300 bytes of content to an article. This provides a value many like to refer to as the content : drama ratio. For what really should be a non-issue, you have spent far more of your time focused on this than benefiting Wikipedia. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 08:01, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

You say you have taken steps to improve your civility. I find the following edit summaries contradict that statement:

• once again you just say a bunch of nothing, and do a bunch of nothing, at the same time. What a great contributor! from 28 September
  
• Soon I'll just get your whole university blocked from editing :)
  
• Dummy edit to give dummy IP a hard time when they try to hit undo
  

I also find your response to this report contradicts that statement as well; Oakshade regularily contributes very dismal quality articles to the encyclopedia. I draw attention to the fact that my own ban history was gained through far, far fewer "incidents" and far far less serious reasons. I cannot believe that after the first list posted above, this user has not been blocked. Colofac (talk) 10:21, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

If we can't point out when we think someone is not providing a net benefit, then slowly the encyclopedia will be taken over by entropy. I'm sorry if people take it personally, but perhaps those people should double their effort and prove otherwise instead of taking it as an insult against their character. It's not. It's an observation based on the concrete content that you submit in the form of text, nothing more, nothing less.

The edit summaries you've cherry picked are certainly taken out of context. Perhaps read into them and the surrounding edits before jumping to conclusions? Please observe the history of that IP over the past 3 months and you'll see that yes, a rangeblock for their school is soon to be necessary.[23][24][25]

And if you think calling such a persistent vandal a "dummy" is an attack or personal assault, well, then you don't have a lot of hours logged to Wikipedia. Dealing with clever vandals over the course of three months, regularly trying to mess the articles you've committed a lot of time to, then YES! You become frustrated! Calling a persistent vandal a dummy is well-earned on the vandal's part, and I can't lower myself to the social interaction of a McDonalds Playplace, treating even the most extremist of people as fine and dandy. Vandals are vandals, I'm sure the verbal pain I cause them will be absorbed. As for the first summary, that's exactly the problem with Oakshade - Sooner than taking a source that I offered, along with my observation of Oakshade's persistent creation of two sentence unsourced stubs instead of taking the initial time to create an infomative and sourced article, he accused my of stalking, acting in bad-faith, and reported me here. You tell me where the good-faith was broken in that chain. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 16:37, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but calling someone a "dummy" is very much a personal attack. For someone who feels they can talk about logged on hours, you of all people should know this. Short articles are not "dismal", in fact, would you post the links to short articles the editor has created on my talkpage so that I can edit them to make them better? Calling all their edits "dismal" is uncivil and bad faith. I'm gonna advise you to drop your line on "worth" and "benefit", it is shockingly arrogant and totally unnecessary. I would rather short articles than that attitude. Colofac (talk) 17:50, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I am very much surprised to see you attacking Floydian for incivility. Does this mean we are not going to see anything like this from you in the future (maybe I missed where you conceded that it was wrong and undertook not to repeat it -- it's hard to stay up to date when people keep purging their own talk pages), or are you just being hypocritical? Hans Adler 18:00, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Thing is, have your own history Hans. Things like calling people "pedants" for example. Hypocrisy can be called both ways here. Colofac (talk) 18:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

So you are just being hypocritical. Thanks for the clarification. Hans Adler 19:35, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Really? Because the way I see it, you decided to hound me first, despite your own actions. Hypocrite. Colofac (talk) 19:52, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

In 2009? On Talk:Leeds by referring to a group of people you identify with as pedants? I couldn't help noticing that you were using Twinkle by your 8th edit. Anything to declare? Hans Adler 22:01, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Can I please block User:Hans Adler, User:Colofac, and User:Floydian for personal attacks on each other? --Carnildo (talk) 01:33, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

That would be a big leap of a judgment call, seeing as I'm not part of whatever they've got going on above. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 02:38, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Note - This was archived due to 24 hours of no activity. It's restored here as this should have a definitive ending (block, warning, Floydian's behavior warrants no action, etc.).--Oakshade (talk) 02:36, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

No response means nobody feels any action is warranted. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 02:43, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Nice try, but there were already responses including two advocating your blocking, and while 8 days of no activity might be definitive, 24 hours isn't.--Oakshade (talk) 02:50, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Comment tl;dr. This seems more suited to a user conduct RFC anyway. --Rschen7754 02:38, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

• Comment  At Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 July 13#Birchmount Road, I stated about nominator Floydian, "Statements such as, "I very much doubt Oakshade's 'honesty' " should have led the closing admin to understanding the nomination in general as a WP:IDONTLIKEIT and the reliance of other editors on the statements of the nominator as misplaced."  Unscintillating (talk) 03:59, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
• This case is very depressing. Despite the stringent language in Wikipedia policies WP:NPA & WP:CIVIL, it appears that in practice no administrator is willing to enforce them. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 05:25, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
• Yep, the entire state of the ANI board is very depressing. Loads of admins are little more than passive but arrogant couch potatoes themselves who fail to block even the most arrogant (ab)users like User:Floydian. I think a week-long ban is in order. I'm sorry, Floydian. ᴳᴿᴲᴳᴼᴿᴵᴷ☺ᶤᶯᵈᶸᶩᶢᵉ 09:25, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
  • No, I think you'll find it's because the vast majority of admins aren't going to issue a civility block unless there's a recent, persistent pattern of serious incivility, and (except in the most egregious cases) evidence that it has continued after at least one warning. At the moment, the evidence amounts to three diffs of very minor incivility (if indeed they are even incivil) presented by an editor who is not exactly averse to producing such edits themselves. If anyone wishes to open a user RFC then that is their prerogative, but this is going nowhere. Black Kite (t) (c) 12:03, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Post-close comment

Sorry for commenting here after the section has been closed, but I don't think it can go to the archives in its current state. The section was started by User:Colofac, a 'new' user of less than 350 edits. Here is an incomplete list of some ofthe user's activities so far:

• Edit #3 [reverts http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apl.de.ap&diff=prev&oldid=446839542] a bad but apparently constructive edit from a school IP. Edit #4 reports the IP at AIV for blocking. This was declined.
• Edit #6 is a templated vandalism warning.
• Edit #7 is a WikiLove message to User:Mann jess.
• Edit #8 is the user's first Twinkle edit.
• Edit #11 restores presumably correct, but unsourced, information about Jews in Catalonia after a Spanish IP who doubted it has removed it. Edit #12 is Twinkle giving automatic vandalism warning to the IP. [26]
• Edit # 21 supports someone's block at ANI.
• Edit #22 advises on ANI to report someone to AIV for blocking.
• Edit #25 self-reverts via Twinkle as vandalism.
• Edit #27 is a weird test edit to the Sandbox ("blood leaking from their vagina").
• Edit #32 supports someone's block at ANI.
• Edit #51 aks for page protection at RPP.
• Good report of sock drawer / vandal Pokemonblackds at AIV and ANI.
• Edit #83 asks for a page creator's block at AfD.
• Edit #90 is an outspoken comment at ANI. [27]
• Edit #29 removes an expletive from Muslims Against Crusades, expressing sympathy with the vandal. [28]

The point where I first became aware of this user (but did not get involved) was WP:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive720#Flood of usernames with "NNU" and random numbers. Colofac opened that ANI report drawing attention to a large number of similarly named accounts of students of Jiangdu middle school in China. Colofac asked if there was a way to "stop this", expressing concern that the students might "try and push their vile propaganda through the site". In this context, Colofac had nominated an article with clear and obvious claim to notability for speedy deletion [29] and removed the automatically generated (by Twinkle) welcome message on the creator's talk page with the edit summary "removing unintended welcome. I'm not here to welcome." [30] This led to the user's first and so far only block. [31]

I am not sure who this is, but based on the edits I am pretty sure it must be a returning user, most likely a blocked one. Maybe someone recognises this English nationalist from earlier interactions? I don't recognise him, although his attack on me with a 2-year-old diff suggests I have met him before under an earlier account of his. In any case this user is clearly not a net benefit. As far as I'm concerned further discussion can wait until the account has started editing again, but somehow it didn't seem right to keep the section closed after an admin has asked for insane civility blocks for everyone, apparently without any proper research.

I have not examined the diffs presented by Colofac against Floydian in any detail, for a simple reason: If we allow incivility reports against 20,000-edit users (Floydian) by severely incivil 350-edit accounts (Colofac) to be anywhere near successful, we are setting ourselves up for extreme chaos. Hans Adler 12:13, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Is User:Oakshade the same person as User:Colofac? The initial report above complaining of Floydian's behavior was written by Oakshade who has made about 11907 edits. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 23:41, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

No. Two very different editing styles. I think Hans eyes just tricked him, but the rest of the post should be taken into consideration. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 00:46, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I've added a header for this post-close discussion. Cunard (talk) 00:19, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Go ahead and run the checkuser if you are so confident. It would seem Hans has a personal vendetta against me. You should know that once the checkuser has failed to make any connections, I will be opening an arbitration case against you. Colofac (talk) 09:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

You would need to show that previous dispute resolution (WP:DRN, WP:RFCU) has been attempted first. An arbitration case without those steps will inevitably be rejected. Black Kite (t) (c) 09:47, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm just predicting the inevitable failure of those processes. Maybe too hastily. Colofac (talk) 11:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

It's your arbitration that would fail.... But if you look before you leap and scratch a face off, you'll see that Hans didn't suggest a check user, but rather another editor did. You're hanging out the bait (that is your aggressive assertions) to get a reaction. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 13:19, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

If you say so. I will begin communicating with checkusers now. Colofac (talk) 13:28, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I apologise for my confusion, though I am sure I am not the only one to blame here. The initial report by Oakshade was formatted very, very badly. With two sub-headings before the user's signature it's easy to make a mistake when trying to figure out who created this report. Colofac's overreaction to this distraction didn't help either. Hans Adler 15:10, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

As the WP:CIVIL and WP:STALK violations were so numerous and extensive, this needed to be broken up into sections for readability just like most artciels and RfCs are outlined with several sub-headings. If it was all bunched up into one paragraph, that would've been much worse. If you got suggestions that address your concerns if this needs to be brought up again (let's keep our fingers crossed it doesn't), I'm happy to read them. --Oakshade (talk) 03:09, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Possible legal threat

Sigh...you know it's a bad day when you have to open 2 ANI threads. Could someone please look at User talk:Lovelightlaugh, and review the comment I posted there, which was copied from an email sent to me by that user? I believe it could be a legal threat, and the fact that the user refused to withdraw it ("I sincerely do not know what I will choose to do but will base my decisions of whether this is fairly addressed based on all that which was discussed. I have the right to choose based on fairness, equality, being in the know of what I am making my choices based on. "). This is regarding the article Anastasia Fontaines which I deleted under A7. If anyone thinks that deletion was wrong and/or I'm completely misreacting to the whole situation, feel free to undelete and or trout me w/o asking. I'm off for a bit. Qwyrxian (talk) 07:20, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

You asked him to clarify after advising him that it was perceived as a threat and that the threat would lead to blocking. User explicitly refused to clarify and reiterated a specific condition required to satisfy him, which appears to reinforce that he is still threatening the legal alternative if he does not get his way. Indef-blocked. I left his talk-page unlocked for now should he choose to clarify an intent not to go legal as part of an unblock request. DMacks (talk) 07:34, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

How could you delete an article on a woman responsible for undying wisdom such as "If you take the time to look, you may find that somewhere next to every joke lies the truth." And there's more where that came from... [32]. Paul B (talk) 09:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes cartooney threats are bad but IMHO the article in question wasn't an A7 candidate. The text Some of Anastasia's works include the award nominated Comcast Cranky commercial, the controversial "Viva Viagra and her ensemble lead role as Ms. Dora in cult film Director Gregory Hatanaka film Violent Blue is a credible assertion of significance. This should have gone to AFD. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 13:14, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree 100% with the NLT block, but I also have to agree with Ron that AfD might have been more appropriate here. This seems to be a case where the subject isn't notable but the article does make a credible assertion of importance. 28bytes (talk) 16:30, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

I, too, was on the border as to whether there was a credible claim of importance. There was no solid info about the film, and so wasn't sure if it was a sufficient info for starring in that movie to be "important". In fact, I explained to Lovelightlaugh (by email, because that was how xe was communicating with me) that if we could show that the movie was notable, then that would be sufficient to keep the article past speedy deletion, but would still likely end with the person's article being deleted by AfD (I ran a WP:BEFORE search myself). The editor even gave me enough info by email to make the me think the movie is notable enough for an article, and I encouraged xyr to write it. So, given the comments here, I'll go ahead and undelete the article on the actress and take it to AfD; maybe someone else can find some news articles about her that I couldn't find. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:40, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree that IoS is "borderline". The "cult film" Violent Blue she stars in doesn't have an article but the director does and so does one of his other movies. It may be that the movie is indeed notable but nobody has bothered to write an article about it yet. Notability is not inherited but "importance or significance" can be in some cases. However, it may also be that neither the director nor the other movie is notable but nobody has bothered to nominate them for deletion yet. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 13:09, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

• Ironically, punishing someone, or threatening to punish someone, because they have threatened you (or Wikipedia) with legal action is criminally unlawful (obstruction of justice, contempt of court, etc) in most Western countries. I'm rather surprised that such a policy exists, let alone is enforced so ruthlessly. I have no comment on the present case itself. Deterence ^Talk 09:02, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Blocks aren't punitive, they're preventative. In the case of the WP:NLT policy, the rationale is explained on the page. Absconded Northerner (talk) 09:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, and being locked in a prison cell is not punitive, it's preventative ;-) Deterence ^Talk 09:19, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

It certainly prevents that prisoner from repeating the acts that got him in prison in the first place.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 09:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

You know, Deterence, if you don't actually understand a policy or if you lack perspective -- and characterizing being barred from a private website as a "punishment" certainly demonstrates that -- perhaps you should be less free with the advice. You have less than 600 edits and yet here you are all over this page giving advice. Or, I should say, TRYING to give advice. Not the best approach. --Calton | Talk 13:03, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Calton, I casually gave an accurate legal observation as I was passing through. Which was significantly more constructive that your patronising and uncivil use of a ruler to measure our contributions. Deterence ^Talk 20:06, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

That's a strange new meaning of "accurate" I was previously unaware of. You see, "accurate" implies that the words were not only factual, but have some relation to the topic under discussion. Your comments didn't have the slightest relevance -- making them not in the bit constructive -- and hence my correction intended to discourage even more casual and uninformed commentary from you was perfectly constructive. If you don't know what you're talking about and don't want to take the time to find out, you shouldn't comment: THAT is constructive advice. At least one long-term contributor was barred by ArbCom from commenting here after a long series of uninformed responses were deemed disruptive. Yours can be excused because you're new, but that defense isn't going to last all that long. --Calton | Talk 22:06, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Sorry to butt in, was looking for my case. Deterence, you are not correct. Businesses have a right to admit or deny admittance for any reason what so ever, even if a person has a purchased ticket for entry. Its English common law and possibly dates all the way to Roman times. Today the only exception is the Federal discrimination laws against race, sex, religion, etc. US Supreme Court ruled on this in 1912, feel free to read, its 2 pages long Marrone v. Wash. Jockey Club, 227 U.S. 633, 636 (1912).

Subsequently this ruling was reaffirmed by every single Federal district, and state courts for the last 100 years, and was last used in March 2011, by Senior Judge Roger L. Hunt of Nevada District Federal Court. In the case (Ernest J. Franceschi, Jr v. Harrah's Entertainment), a card counter sued to get into a casino that mailed him an invitation. Judge Hunt could have used specific laws aimed at excluding card counters, but instead he went back to the 1912 SC decision and as he wrote in the opinion "At common law, a proprietor of a privately-owned entertainment establishment may exclude whomever he wishes for any reason, or for no reason whatsoever. Marrone v. Wash. Jockey Club, 227 U.S. 633, 636 (1912). In addition, Nevada and California courts have long since established that the "right to exclude others" is a "fundamental element of private property ownership."" (quote i used from section: Discussion-A-1 of the above link). Please do not take this as a legal opinion or I will have to bill you. ;) Cheers! Meishern (talk) 01:06, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

This all seems like a tangent to me, but businesses in California cannot necessarily exclude customers from entry based on the principle articulated in Allred v. Harris (the case cited in the Nevada federal case). Allred involved the intersection between picketing on private property, trespass, and the first amendment. California businesses are not allowed to discriminate on many bases (far more than the federal bases) and therefore can't "exclude" people from patronizing their business on any of thoses bases. See Unruh Civil Rights Act. And, naturally, each state in the U.S. is different.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:22, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• I'm not sure how my casual comment came to this. --Calton, all I am seeing in your "constructive advice" is a whole lot of argumentum ad hominem - four of the six sentences in your last post (above) began with the words "you" or "your", and one of the remain two was nothing short of a threat to have me "barred", (for what, I'm not the least bit sure.) And you didn't even try to show how I am wrong or how you are right. Constructive?
• Meishern, my comment clearly referred to "most Western countries". In most Western countries, deliberately harming someone who has taken legitimate legal action against you, solely to influence their willingness to take that legal action against you, is considered an attempt to subvert their right to seek justice before the courts. Such behaviour is described in many ways, and in many languages, but include variations of "contempt of court" or "obstruction of justice". I'm not the least bit surprised that the right to exclude patrons for (not quite) any reason is significantly stronger in the United States, where private property rights are considerably more entrenched into the legal system, but, I do remind you that most Western countries lie outside the borders of the USA. Deterence ^Talk 05:14, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• You're misreading WP:NLT. The way I understand it, the point of the policy is not to "influence their willingness to take that legal action against [Wikipedia]". It's meant to avoid disruption and chilling effects on other editors while legal action is in progress. Think of it this way: if you worked for a newspaper, and filed a suit against them, you'd no doubt be put on "indefinite leave" while the suit was in progress, to avoid disruption in the workplace and to avoid "poisoning the well" through your actions potentially influencing the newspaper's position. Same thing here. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 09:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• The Bushranger, I'm not sure your analogy is comparable. If the "indefinite leave" is unpaid, then, most Employment Court jurisdictions would tear the employer a new one for placing the employee under such economic duress while the case remains sub judice (it may be different in the USA, but here in New Zealand the Employment Court would have zero patience for such coercive conduct by an employer). If the "indefinite leave" is paid leave, then the employee is still receiving the predominant benefit (an income) of his/her relationship with their employer. Is a blocked editor still receiving the predominant benefit of Wikipedia? I guess that depends on whether the predominant benefit received from Wikipedia by the blocked editor is merely the freedom to read Wikipedia articles or whether it is the ability to interact with, and contribute to, Wikipedia and its community. Deterence ^Talk 10:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• Isn't this now getting a bit off topic? What it is analagous to is irrelevant. Wikipedia has a NLT policy that we all abide by. Anyone making a legal threat is blocked until such time as the legal threat is removed or legal action is ended. If there's some misgivings about how the policy is worded, the Village Pump is that-a-way. --Blackmane (talk) 10:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• Blackmane, we're just shooting the breeze at the water cooler. Deterence ^Talk 11:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Which is actually why we have to block this user. We have a policy that is blind to the editor's membership in any group. If you make a legal threat against anyone in the community, you are not allowed to edit until the legal issue is resolved, or the threat is rescinded. The policy is simple, and is based on the first amendment right to free association, and does not take into account anything except the presence of a threat. The easiest way to run afoul of the law is to take into account an editor's race, religion, sex, perceived sexual orientation, veteran's status, marital status, creed, national origin, immigrant status, etc. etc. when applying these blocks. The fact that we routinely and consistently apply the rule is actually the key to legal protection. We don't discriminate. We are not required to provide full access to anyone, and nobody but Jimbo Wales and a select few others have it. All access is granted based on a member's actions, and by applying the rules consistently, we protect ourself from legal claims that we deny access because of prejudice. VanIsaac_WS^contribs 11:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Repetition of ethnic slurs on talk page and edit summaries

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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From edit summaries:

(→Proposed wording for rfc: what context of you fucking jew bastard, uttered by our current democrat secretary of state did i leave out?}

(→Proposed wording for rfc: Monkey God, rat bastard, Niggar, faggot, White nationalists)

(→Trivia: typical fucking jew Indian)

From the talk page:

You fucking Jew bastard, Hillary Clinton

• “f***ing Jew bastard” [The Times (London), 18 July 2000]
• “f—–g Jew bastard” [New York Daily News, 17 July 2000]
• “f****** Jew bastard” [The Times (London), 16 July 2000]
• “f—– Jew b——” [UPI, 17 July 2000; euphemized fucking is one hyphen short]
• “Jew bastard” [Reuters, 10, 16, 17 July 2000]
• “Jew bastard” [The Washington Post, 18 July 2000]
• “Jew bastard” [New York Daily News, 18 July 2000]
• “Jew b——” [AP]

Talk:Tea Party movement (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)

Darkstar1st (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Darkstar1st continues to repeat ethnic slurs in talk page commentary and edit summaries at Talk:Tea Party movement, for example here, here, here and there are other examples including in the archives. I politely asked him to stop, but he replied, "if i enjoy them, why try to remove them from the page?"[33] Could other editors please explain to Darkstar1st that this editing is unacceptable and could result in a block. TFD (talk) 20:20, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Just like you actually can say "FUCK" on the radio if you're directly quoting someone, I'll ask if the person being quoted actually did say those words. They are not being used against anyone, they're apparently a direct quote of an important individual ... or am I reading it wrong? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 20:25, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Some of them appear not to be direct quotes, but amalgamations of things said by individuals. Either way I find them in poor taste, but I think that's not an issue in and of itself. What is an issue, from what I'm seeing, is the attitude he has towards repeating them, that he's doing it because he enjoys it, despite the clear disruption it is causing. At the very least a TROUT is in order, if not more.Griswaldo (talk) 20:34, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

if i enjoy them, why (am i trying) to remove them(the offensive language) from the article? which quote did i get wrong Gris? Darkstar1st (talk) 20:51, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

From strictly a policy standpoint, the WP:BLP policy in particular, some of those contentious "quotes" are dubious or merely alleged — and as such, would not be found in Wikipedia article space, so probably shouldn't appear on talk pages either. Other "quotes" are incomplete snippets, or taken out of context to distort their meaning; also attributed to living persons, and thus equally inappropriate. Xenophrenic (talk) 20:52, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

the tea party is not a blp and i am trying to remove the words niggar and faggot from the page, not add slurs which appears to be the opinion of the opposition to my edits. Darkstar1st (talk) 21:11, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

It doesn't matter if the article is a BLP or not. Any statements about living persons fall under the BLP guidelines. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 21:20, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

true, so why is niggar and faggot on the tea party article instead of the persons page, or better yet not at all, why is wp publishing these slurs in the 1st place? Darkstar1st (talk) 21:23, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

We shouldn't be publishing them if they are inadequately sourced, sure, but there's no rule that "slurs" should not be published at all. This is not Whitewashpedia. It depends on the context. Paul B (talk) 21:29, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Either way, Darkstar is trying get some of the discussed words removed. (as near-irrelevant to / undue in the article) One can't argue that it is an wiki-offense to use them in the talk page while at the same time arguing for their retention in the article! North8000 (talk) 21:36, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

This kind of behavior is covered by one of the oldest behavioral guidelines: Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. Darkstar1st is apparently repeating slurs in order to impress upon everyone with how offensive they are.   Will Beback  talk  21:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

It is offensive that Darkstar1st continues to repeat these terms, as he has in this discussion thread. TFD (talk) 04:37, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

• Note For decorum's sake I did not repeat Darkstar1st comments. However I am now posting his edit summaries above, which are typical of the phrasing he has repeatedly added to talk pages. Editors may determine whether this type of writing is acceptable. TFD (talk) 05:36, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Is it really necessary to paste all that bigotry here? I'm sure anyone reading this page can find the comments themselves. Absconded Northerner (talk) 05:49, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I added it in 9 hours after I posted this discussion thread and it appeared that no one had followed the links I posted. TFD (talk) 06:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Frankly, that seems a bit POINTY to me. Absconded Northerner (talk) 06:18, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

What do you think about the postings by Darkstar1st, the subject of this thread?   Will Beback  talk  06:35, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

IANAA but I agree with you that those are also POINTy. Absconded Northerner (talk) 08:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

This has sort of turned into a interesting three level situation. So it's:

• OK in the Article
• Not OK in the talk about the article
• OK (here) in the talk about the talk in the article.

?  :-) North8000 (talk) 10:41, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

The issue was raised here because that kind of writing isn't "OK" anywhere — not on the talk pages, article space or in the edit summaries. Repeatedly spewing just select words which, when presented by themselves after being extracted out of context might be considered offensive, is inappropriate. He's been doing it in edit summaries and on talk pages, and fortunately hasn't yet done it in article space. Xenophrenic (talk) 10:54, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Comment It would seem at the very least that TFD has misconstrued DarkStar`s statement here if i enjoy them, why try to remove them from the page It would seem to me that DS is asking TFD that if he (DS) enjoys saying these things then why is he trying to get them removed from the article. And as these words are in the article, then it is obvious they will be discussed on the article talk page. Perhaps they ought be removed from the article and that would be the end of it. The Last Angry Man (talk) 10:57, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

TFD is saying that DarkStar appears to enjoy bandying them about on the talk page to be provocative. DarkStar denies that. Without seeing into DarkStar's soul it is impossible to know which of them is correct, but there is no misconstruction of a statement at all. The statement is Darkstar's denial. The words are in the article because they have been spoken by Tea Party supporters and are alleged by sources to demonstrate racism within the movement. Removing them would be to whitewash away legitimate sourced criticism. We cannot allow people to remove those naughty "bad words" from articles where they serve the explanatory function of showing that someone said them. That would be like removing references to mass murder from the Holocaust article because it is offensive to read about. Paul B (talk) 11:05, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

That mis-characterizes the main debate/situation. But that's a different, much bigger topic. North8000 (talk) 12:30, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

As someone who is familiar from having been on both the same side and opposite sides (e.g. at Libertarianism article) from Darkstar, if one is trying to read motivation from writing style, one must know how Darkstar writes. Throwing out the key (usually very intelligent) thought or example for impact, often with a frustratingly small amount of related words or discussion. North8000 (talk) 12:39, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

No it doesn't. Unless you have some argument, your assertion is as empty as my previous sentence. I've read the last sentence of your second message several times, but still can't understand it. Is there a verb in there? I'm not being pedantic. I genuinely can't tell what you are saying. Both Darkstar and TFD maybe being disingenuous and pointy. Both may be entirely sincere. Either way, the The Last Angry Man's argument that the logical resolution would be to remove the words from the article is...wholly illogical. Paul B (talk) 12:57, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

The indent suggests that you are responding to my "mis-characterizes" comment, but it doesn't seem to be addressing it. Either way, I should clarify that my "mis-characterizes" statement refers to characterization of the main debate at the article talk page, not to the discussion at this noticeboard. North8000 (talk) 14:02, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Looking at the original poster's concerns, this complaint doesn't appear to have much to do with article improvement, or even article related content. I see a list profanity and misquotes that another editor keeps inserting into a talk page and edit summaries, with no relevance to the Tea Party movement article. Has this been addressed? Xenophrenic (talk) 23:15, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

In a related matter, that same editor has reverted attempts to alleviate some of his BLP violations, as in this edit — that appears to me to be more pointy, provocative and unproductive editing. Am I getting the wrong impression? Xenophrenic (talk) 23:22, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

User:Darkstar1st continues to add off-topic material to Talk:Tea Party movement. — goethean ॐ 17:55, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Slow edit-warring and refusal to follow WP:BRD

User:Cydevil38 is repeatedly reverting edits on the Korean particles article, and refuses to engage in any meaningful discussion by listening to the arguments of others. I have reminded the user repeatedly regarding WP:BRD, and that discussion on the talk page to gain WP:CONSENSUS is a better alternative to the slow edit warring that has been taking place (and slow edit-warring is still edit-warring).

This user is repeatedly removing the Hanja from the page that I created a few days ago, which is disruptive and irritating. Long story short, the Korean language uses two writing systems: Hangul most of the time, and Hanja (in conjunction with Hangul) in certain circumstances, such as legal documents and published academic works (for example, the Constitution of South Korea is written in Hanja). I originally included the Hanja within the article as examples of text, so that the article would be more informative. To account for two different possible ways of displaying Korean orthography, the article contains example texts written in two lots: one entirely in Hangul, the other in Hangul-Hanja mixed script, in a similar manner to how Chinese linguistic pages are glossed with Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, Serbian pages are glossed with Cyrillic and Latin alphabet, Mongolian with Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet and Mongolian script, and so forth. This user insists on eliminating all instances of Hanja, claiming that they are "unnecessary" diff, despite that it is well known even in Korea that Hanja is an indisputable part of the Korean language (see [34], [35], [36], [37], [38]). I interpret this as a form of nationalistic WP:IDONTLIKEIT and an attempt to downplay the usage of Hanja in Korean; no other editors have shown dissatisfaction over the content of the article except for this one editor.

I have provided detailed explanations on the article talk page concerning my rationales for writing the article the way I wrote it; Cydevil38 avoids the question whenever he or she is able to, and makes the false assumption that I am trying to force Chinese language into the article (note that Hanja ≠ Chinese; one is a writing system, the other a language), which makes no sense at all (the Japanese language uses Kanji, but that does not make it any more "Chinese"). As a linguistics-related article, the purpose of the article is to inform with as much detail as possible, and inclusion of Hanja does not thwart that; rather it makes reading all the more educating. There is absolutely no reason why this dispute should exist at all; it is essentially a non-issue being inflated by one very stubborn editor. This user has absolutely no idea what they are talking about, and as shown by their confusion between language and script, I don't think they have the WP:COMPETENCE to be editing a linguistics-based article. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 16:15, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

It's a bit more complex to separate the use of Chinese characters per se from both Korean and Japanese since both of those languages are in some way derived from Chinese, but that's neither here nor there. --Blackmane (talk) 16:29, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Examples of academic publications published in Hangul-Hanja mixed script:

• 漢文讀法에 쓰여진 韓國의 角筆符號口訣과 日本의 오코토點의 비교, 2003
• 韓國精神文化硏究院 新刊案內, 1985
• 韓國의 古代 漢詩 硏究를 통한 東아시아 춤의 理解, 2009
• 국제근로계약(國際勤勞契約)의 준거법(準據法)에 관한 한국(韓國)과 중국국제사법(中國國際私法)의 이동(異同), 2010
• 전후기 (戰後期) 한국농업문제 (韓國農業問題) 의 성격변화 (性格變化) 와 정책대응 (政策對應), 2006
• 韓國의 土活字印刷術에 관한 硏究, 2008
• 한국선시(韓國禪詩)의 발달사(發達史), 2006
• (特輯): 제 12 회 법을 통한 식민지배; 법 (法) 을 통한 일본 (日本) 의 한국식민지배 (韓國植民支配)-제 2 차 (第 2 次) 한일협약 (韓日協約) 후의 민사법 (民事法) 을 중심으로, 2007
• 한국(韓國)의 회사법(會社法) 개정내용(改正內容)에 대한 개관적 소개 -2009 한양대,간사이대 공동발표회에 부쳐, 2009
• 연구논문(硏究論文) : 한국(韓國)의 수출함수(輸出函數): 수출단가(輸出單價)와 수출물가(輸出物價)의 비교(比較) 및 효율적(效率的) 공적분추정법(共積分推定法)의 이용(利用), 1995

These are just the tip of the iceberg. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 16:52, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I won't be taking any administrative action in this since it might look like favoritism, but as for the content issue I think Cydevil38's reverts have no justification (there is no reason to remove what he is removing). It also looks to me like he has not made a genuine attempt to resolve the issue without edit warring. rʨanaɢ (talk) 18:32, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Hanja is not used that much in Korea anymore. Its use is commonly limited to the odd advertisement and sometimes in the newspaper if there is an ambiguous word. Compared to 50 years ago when newspapers were at times 80% or more hanja. It's an unnecessary duplication of content to give Hanja that most people would never see. I'd also question why your "new" article links to sections on wiktionary that don't exist. Every link you've added has a #japanese section attached to it. I'd question why they're there at all. wikipedia is not a link directory and we're not supposed to be linking to external links in the main article text anyway, let alone creating some kind of link farm to wiktionary. I'm also not sure what the basis of an encyclopedic article is here. It seems to be little more than content that is appropriate for wiktionary. You've included no content here that would push this into the realm of encyclopedic article, and it's not a list of things that we'd otherwise have articles on. If this is the extent of the article, I'll go ahead and redirect it because it is nothing more than a language how-to guide.--Crossmr (talk) 23:00, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

The links to Wiktionary are not my fault; they're part of the template, used for uniformity between Japanese particles, Chinese particles and Okinawan language#Particles. And no, redirecting on your part would not be a helpful solution because the article demonstrates grammatical particles used in the Korean language, and is not a how-to like you claim. Other linguistic articles similarly employ the use of textual examples to bring ideas across; this is more or less a standard across many linguistics articles. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 04:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Did you choose to use the template? They're poorly used, and in fact even more broken on the Chinese articles as they actually go to a Japanese section. Blaming the template is hardly a good defence. If the template is broken, fix it or don't use it. It's bad enough that we try and turn some of these articles into an advertisement for wiktionary that we have to turn around and link to the wrong things on top of that. Seee WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS I see no compelling argument that this isn't a how-to article. There is absolutely no encyclopedic discussion of the particles at all. This is WP:NOTHOWTO and WP:NOTADICTIONARY.--Crossmr (talk) 07:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Copula (linguistics) uses example sentences in Georgian, Spanish and various other languages, to demonstate the copula. Predicate (grammar) uses example sentences in English to demonstrate the predicate. Japanese particles uses example sentences in Japanese to demonstrate various Japanese particles. Would it be more constructive to view Predicate (grammar) as a WP:HOWTO article on how to use predicates in English, or would it be more constructive to view it as a lingustics article that explains an important aspect in the English language? Everything can be viewed in two or more ways, it's just that out individual attitudes determine which path we pick. Claiming WP:HOWTO isn't the best way to fix this situation; if you really are that uncomfortable with the article and its lack of detail outside of the list of particles that use the examples, then WP:SOFIXIT - expand the article and add a better introduction and sections of detailed prose; the article is unfinished (I never said it was complete, did I?), and prior to it being an actual article, Korean particles was one of those highly sought-after articles that didn't exist. I've started the article, using the format and structure based on the Japanese particles page; anyone can finish it, so why not let it be you? Would it be more constructive for the encyclopedia to burn the half-built house down, or to actually finish the house?

>Did you choose to use the template?
What do you mean, "did I choose to use it"? Would you rather me waste three times the man-hours fiddling with wikisyntax and end up with a page that's ten times less aesthetically appealing and ten times more messy? Do you "choose" to use the {{Infobox Korean name}} template when creating articles too? Your question is quite odd. A template is a template; it makes articles better whilst making composition easier and work less tedious.

I also think you have your policies confused: WP:NOTADICTIONARY does not apply, as this isn't a one-word article about that word; whilst the, thou and fuck are words notable enough for their own Wikipedia articles and contain encyclopedic material, many are not notable and WP:NOTADICTIONARY is supposed to address those cases. Linking to Wiktionary is not a crime, and linking to any other cross-project page is not a crime; your accusation of "advertising" is quite absurd. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 08:21, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Furthermore, all this talk about HOWTO and whatnot does not belong here at ANI. The focus here is edit-warring; if you want to discuss HOWTO, take it to the proper place, that is the article talk page. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 08:22, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, and it takes a minimum of 2 to engage in that edit war. You've tried to paint the edit war with a certain light to make your edits look fine, but frankly I don't think they are. I would note that you also engaged in edit warring over removing this edit [39] which frankly is also inappropriate. These articles have absolutely no relevance to the article in question. See also are for topics that provide further insight and are related to that topic. They are not. Those pages provide no further information on Korean particles. Your argument still seems to be one mainly of WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS and WP:ILIKEIT. The current article in its current form is nothing BUT example sentences. As you haven't even expanded it beyond that by one sentence, I can't see the compelling reason for having this created in the first place.--Crossmr (talk) 11:38, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Alright, so I've painted the edit war in a certain light, and I've been a participant in this edit war. This was a bad action that I have done, and like all human beings, I do bad actions. I admit that I might have been guilty of violating WP:EW due to my harsh overreaction based on a mixed feeling of emotions, like humans do, and as a responsible member of the Wikipedia community I should not have been doing that. I did before I thought, and this is my fault. However, can you address what I have explained regarding the use of Hanja within academic texts? The examples are right there in front of you. Why is it still being insisted that Hanja is nonexistant and extinct, when there are passages and links right in front of everyone? -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 16:29, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

As for the decline in Hanja use, that is only for mainstream texts such as newspapers, magazines, signposts, et cetera. Reports made by lawyers and the like are still required to use the Hanja script. Even taking mainstream texts into consideration, 50 years isn't that long ago. The decline of Hanja gradually took place over the 1970s, and today your everyday text uses mostly Hangul. However, as a comparison, on mainland China Simplified Chinese surplanted Traditional Chinese since 1956, much earlier than the demise of everyday Hanja, yet Traditional Chinese is still recognised in linguistics and glossed alongside Simplified Chinese in many contexts. From the beginning of Hangul during the era of King Sejong in the 1400s to the demise of Hanja in the 1970s, Korean mixed script for vernacular writing has had a much larger timeframe than Traditional Chinese characters being used in Vernacular Chinese text on mainland China, beginning from the May Fourth Movement and ending in 1956 when the simplified script was officially enforced by the PRC government. Korean mixed script was born earlier than Traditional Vernacular, and "died" (though that's not the right way to describe it) much later as well; even though widespread usage is not the case today, it is still a) linguistically relevant to the study of the Korean language, b) undeniable that it was once (i.e. 50 years ago) the standard way to write Korean, and c) still used even today in academic and legal areas. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 04:17, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Korea!=China. I know China has tried to change that once or twice, but in fact these are two different scenarios. Standard Hanja usage is only to use it ambiguous words, in this case, you've chosen to use it in several non-ambiguous words. As for BRD, you've only just created this article, you were bold in inserting unnecessary hanja, and it was removed there was no consensus for its inclusion and yet you reverted it. The article was not around long enough for the status quo to be the inclusion of Hanja.--Crossmr (talk) 07:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

What you have said is only the case for things such as newspaper reports, when homophones are disambiguated with Hanja. Have a look at [40]; this published paper on economics uses Hanja for many nouns and verbs, irregardless of whether there are homophones or not. An example sentence from this link is "즉 輸出單價를 EG方法으로 推定한 경우에는 非彈力的인 것으로, 輸出物價를 이용한 경우에는 單位彈力性을 갖는 것으로, 그리고 效率的 推定法을 이용한 경우에는 매우 彈力的인 것으로 판명되었다."

Alright then, let's play along with what you've said. Even if that were so, your claim "you've chosen to use it in several non-ambiguous words" does not entirely hold true. For "저것이 漢江이야" used within the page, I could argue that it is homophonous with "저것이 韓江이야". Same goes for the personal name 正男; what separates his name from other names such as 正南, 正嵐 or 正藍? -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 08:08, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

You apparently don't understand the meaning of the word "several". I said "several" as in "many" not "all". The first three I checked are not ambiguous. That is several. If you're genuinely using any words which are ambiguous you can distinguish them with an in-line hanja as the newspaper does. Its completely unnecessary to repeat the sentence just to change a couple jamo to hanja. As for the template, if you want to give the page a certain look either use/build a correct template, but trying to shoe-horn in an incorrect template, as has been done on Chinese particles does not benefit the article. Despite all that, I find your edits to this article to be just as disruptive as Cydevil38s. Now further add that to the dancing we've seen here in this thread, and the attempt to mischaracterize his edits to win a dispute and I'm beginning to see a genuine problem. I've noted in the past you've had issues when you get into disputes with people on pages, you've had a couple of wikiquette discussions over your behaviour, one only a few months ago, and I know on another article you were repeatedly warned about your behaviour towards other people whose edits you didn't like. BRD could just as easily apply to you as you were bold in turning this redirect into an article and you had work reverted so you should have discussed it rather than engaged in further reverts.I should also note that you first revert contained this text For native Japanese and Chinese speakers learning Korean, which sounds exactly like a how-to and not an encyclopedic article at all. I would also note that Cydevil fully explained the rationale behind his first two removals before you degenerated to a generic dismissive revert with rev 2 edits: WP:BRD, take it to the talk page. so far everything appears as WP:IDONTLIKEIT. So you're right. We need to focus on the edit warring that went on here.--Crossmr (talk) 11:38, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

As an uninvolved admin trying to make sense of this, could I ask that either of the main protagonists in this thread please make a specific request for admin action? Or failing that could you take this discussion to a different forum? You seem to have moved away from the original complaint about a third editor into a debate which few admins here will be qualified to comment upon. I don't think this is the right place to resolve your disagreement, though I would advise both of you to try and see if you could move some way towards seeing the other's point of view rather than continuing to move away from one another as you are doing. Try and find what you have in common, rather than what separates you! Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 12:12, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Simply put Benlisquare came here looking for a block of Cydevil38, as its the only admin action he could be seeking in this incident. He tried to label Cydevil's edits as disruptive, I've simply pointed out that his edits are just as disruptive, if not more so. An admin should review the behaviour of the two editors and how they've handled the dispute and see if any blocks or other actions are warranted. I'm also suggesting that past behaviour be examined as I'm noticing a bit of a recurring trend with Benlisquare. In the past it's been noted that he's been uncivil and edited inappropriately in these kinds of disputes, and after my examining this, it looks like he's done so again in a round-about way by trying to mischaracterize Cydevil's behaviour. Specifically this edit [41] has a WP:BATTLEGROUND feel to it as he seems to have simply been reverting both edits simply because Cydevil did them. They're two separate issues and he provided nothing in his edit summary to support both actions. He went on to further that with this [42]. There may be WP:OWN issues here as well from the tone he's creating with those edit summaries and the way he made his request here.--Crossmr (talk) 14:52, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

>it as he seems to have simply been reverting both edits simply because Cydevil did them.
Not at all. Rather, don't you think it's frustrating when someone keeps removing content from an article that you created, and refuses to engage in meaningful talk? There are these strange things called human emotions, and patience is one of them; mine is limited. You seem to sugarcoat Cydeil38's actions, despite that none of his arguments made on the talk page nor in edit summaries make sense at all. I can similarly argue likewise: I've earlier been reluctant to call this out, since I'd definitely been ostracised to hell and back for WP:NPA, but my initial suspicion was that Cydevil38 was the one reverting simply because I was responsible for the article, given our sour history between each other.

>Simply put Benlisquare came here looking for a block of Cydevil38
So I guess they don't give out warnings at ANIs like they used to in the old days, right? Great for you to assume horrible faith. All I am after is that this nonsense ends ASAP, and any form of third-party action is better than nothing at all. This is "Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents" after all, and we have an incident regarding this article.

>it looks like he's done so again in a round-about way by trying to mischaracterize Cydevil's behaviour
Are you aware of how a discussion works? Party A gives their account of the story, Party B gives their account of the story, and a third party makes something out of the two stories. You shouldn't be expecting either party to give a story that is Fair and Balanced(TM), and if that was the case, I wouldn't recommend a career as a lawyer. Cydevil38 has been notified of this discussion; I find it strange that he has the time to revert after being notified, and doesn't bother to state his part of the story, leaving you to act as his liason officer.

>you've had a couple of wikiquette discussions over your behaviour
It would be great if you'd focus on the now and not the then. Digging up what might have happened between myself and others a few full moons ago isn't helpful towards solving this dispute. Putting most of the blame on me for this dispute is uncalled for as well, and anything that has happened in the past in politically-contentious articles such as those relating to the Chinese democracy movement or the Manchus in China are on a different string to this dispute, which is not even remotely related to politics and the like. Alright then, let's say I have quite a history; that doesn't make Cydevil38 any more angelic either, as both pots and kettles are a dark shade of black. I too can play the "he has a nasty history" ad hominem card; ignoring disputes on Wikipedia (there's quite a number to list), even doing a google search for "cydevil38 -wikipedia" will get you:

• cydevil38 says: (2011/07/01 at 4:30 pm) Chinese will cheat every way they can. This is just more proof. Chinese = cheaters Blacks = rapists Mexicans = theives
• cydevil38 says: (2011/06/29 at 5:52 pm) Chinese are so perverted and gross. They should be so ashamed of themselves. If I were Chinese, I would probably kill myself. Those Chinese gorilla’s just can’t keep their paws off Asian and White women.
• cydevil38 says: (2011/06/29 at 6:01 pm) I agree! Chinese should have a bloody revolution... I think anarchy, poverty, and starvation are better than not having freedom and democracy... I think Colonialism from the West would truly help the Chinese.

In other words, I'm quite appalled at how you're trying to make Cydevil the angel with white wings who is the victim of this current situation, and I am also appalled at how you choose to use the "digging up" card to address this issue. Going for an editor's history does no good towards any discussion, and it distracts from the main problems, as (I hope) I have demonstrated. I do not claim that I am a saint; I am a late-adolescent male who likes to pick drunken fights at a night bar just for the kicks of it (though I'd have no idea why I'd ever want to pick fights on Wikipedia), and I am definitely not a good person by 99% of people's definitions. Neither is Cydevil38 by my definition. I get emotional sometimes on Wikipedia during disputes, sometimes even making rash outbursts, as evident by my past. So does Cydevil38. If he didn't, I wouldn't think that would be what a normal human would be like. Given that I have striven to keep out of any form of trouble on Wikipedia for the past few months (hell, I've even declined an invitation to participate in the Senkaku Islands dispute discussion, as I know I get emotional over politics), I have the intention of the whole "fresh start" shebang, which is one of the things discussed in Wikipedia's core policies. Having you go back to them is somewhat like rubbing salt into an old wound. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 16:12, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

For the record, I'm appalled at what Benlisquare wrote of me. I've never written what he claimed I have written. I've never posted on that site. As with the topic at hand, I still see all those Chinese characters as extraneous and not helping out with the readers in getting a better understanding of the subject. Cydevil38 (talk) 20:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

A name used is quite a significant thing, and by no coincidence they are identical. Put yourself in someone else's shoes, and wouldn't it be your first assumption you'd make upon seeing something like that? Sure, I could always be wrong, but I have a justified suspicion, do I not? And as things currently stand, until proven otherwise I will continue to stand by my suspicions. Though the point of listing the above wasn't to make a "who is good, who is bad" statement; rather it's to demonstrate how digging up one's past to argue in an unrelated dispute is unnecessary. It's also a ponter that neither side can use the "but he's a biased editor" clause, as no side can claim neutrality in this situation, me or you.

And it happened off-wiki and is irrelevant here. Even if it was him. What you've done looks like a borderline attempt at WP:OUTING. I was referring to your on-wiki activites as are clearly documented, and April wasn't that long ago. It shows an on-going pattern of disruptive behaviour in disputes. As such, I'm going to be making a request for specific admin action.--Crossmr (talk) 22:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

So are you saying that because a few bad things have happened in the past, that I should never be permitted to make a statement at ANI? That is the impression that I am getting from you. This ANI report isn't as "bad" (I don't even see why it is "bad") as the one above and the one below. It's a legitimate request for third-party action be done in a content dispute. I don't follow your reasoning at all. Are you saying that everything is my fault? WP:OUTING? No personal information was "outed", it does not apply under that context. Calling out an editor's potential attitudes via off-wiki examples is not "outing". It's not like I've leaked addresses, real names and phone numbers, which is what WP:OUTING is supposed to address. Don't mean to make such a harsh assumption, but it appears to me that you'd go for even the slightest detail as an opportunity to strike an attack, using anything as an excuse. What would be anything constructive that might come out of this, might I ask? Disciplinary action for having an opinion? For making a one-sided report on ANI, when according to you I should have made a United Nations Observer's Report on the situation? -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 22:48, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

You have zero evidence that they're the same person. Anyone can copy a username. What I am saying is that in the past you've edited uncivilly and inappropriate in disputes with other editors, you are doing so again and I don't think you should be allowed to continue with that pattern of behaviour. Nowhere did I say that you can't make a statement, what I did say is that intentionally trying to color the debate is also uncivil. You could have posted a neutral request for administrative action but you did not.--Crossmr (talk) 22:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

"You could have posted a neutral request for administrative action but you did not.-" - alright then, I've made a mistake. Per WP:REDACT, I should be permitted to redact my original talk. Now, if you are willing to move forward and drop all this useless controversy, I can rephrase my original post, and seek for neutral administrative action. I don't see why you should be worked up so much; I don't understand the reason for your frustation at all, and since I would expect you to not be perfect in all your words and actions, I'd likewise like you to have the same attitude. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 23:00, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

You can redact/retract it if you wish, but that shows a furtherance of the on-going behaviour. In the past two wikiquette examples you did the same thing, offer an apology/retraction, but continue the behaviour in other places. The problem extends well beyond this example.--Crossmr (talk) 23:12, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Regarding >I still see all those Chinese characters as extraneous and not helping out with the readers in getting a better understanding of the subject, then why is Hanja used on Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, Constitution of the Republic of Korea, Kim Il-sung, Lee Myung-bak, Sunshine Policy, Grand National Party, Joseon Dynasty, South Korea, Sejong the Great, and List of monarchs of Korea? In those cases, are they "extraneous"? Why does the Korean Wikipedia use Hanja to gloss a lot of terms? In those cases, are they "extraneous"? -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 22:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I suggest that you start a content RFC on the article talk page. Get more uninvolved opinions (like crossmrs) and see what consensus suggests. Then, if someone is editing against consensus action can be taken. Karanacs (talk) 16:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Request for specific adminstrative action

I'm requesting an administrator block Benlisquare for on-going and longterm disruption in disputes he's involved in. Wikipedia:Wikiquette_assistance/archive73#User:Mjroots_and_Railway_electrification_system, Wikipedia:Wikiquette_assistance/archive104#Racist_personal_attack_by_User:Benlisquare as well as being told several times here to tone it down Talk:PlayStation_Portable_homebrew while editing with users he didn't agree with. Add this to the mischaracterization above, which he excuses simply because "he's one side of the dispute" and what I view as a borderline attempt at WP:OUTING by trying to link Cydevil to some racist off-wiki comments that Cydevil is denying he wrote. Benlisquare has no proof they're the same person he's tried to use them in a dispute here. This is extremely disruptive and inappropriate. These incidents all stretch back over 2 years and show a disturbing trend, one that isn't likely to stop at the drop of a hat.--Crossmr (talk) 22:51, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Do you really think that you are going to get Benlisquare blocked over two impolite comments he made and apologized for—two years ago? Distracting administrators from User:Cydevil38's slow-motion edit-warring, refusal to engage in discussion, and racist comments is not a much more modest task. Benlisquare brought the wrong kind of evidence to ANI—that which answers a content dispute and not a conduct dispute—but Cydevil38's disruption is plain to see in Korean particles' article history and talk page. It is more an issue of Cydevil38's conduct than of content, because Cydevil38 is tendentiously using two falsehoods to edit-war even after acknowledgement and rejection.

1. Cydevil38 refuses to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence of Hanja's use in the modern Korean language.

   (The flimsy content rationale for his reverts)

2. Cydevil38 claims that Benlisquare was making a "bold change" in adding Hanja, when Benlisquare actually wrote the article and Cydevil38 made the bold and controversial change by removing the Hanja.

   (The flimsy procedural rationale for his reverts)

It would seem that Cydevil38 is more interested in reverting to his preferred content version than in improving the article, because his behavior (repeated reverting) and arguments (discredited arguments repeated) do not change in response to the intervention of other users. His behavior is not collaborative, and if Cydevil38 continues his reversion without fresh discussion or acknowledgement of plain truths (such as that he was the one making the bold change, not Benlisquare), then he should be blocked to prevent further disruption. Quigley (talk) 01:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Do you really think you're going to do much to defend him by trying to misrepresent the evidence? Anyone can clearly see the second wikiquette alert is from only 6 months ago. April 2011. The first one is from 2009. In 2010 he had to told several times on a single article's talk page to tone it down (I haven't looked at any other edits to see if the problem extended further) and then in 2011 he lobs a racially charged term at another user, and now we have him here trying to misrepresent another users edits, and then running off wiki to find unverified links trying to claim the user is a racist. Yes, I do think that deserves a block. As for the content issue, Benlisquare stopped providing helpful edit summaries before Cydevil38 did. One could also say Benlisquare was bold in turning a redirect into an article. Cydevil reverted part of that, and Benlisquare moved into behaviour that appears to be an on-going issue for him. Even if it turns out Benlisquare is right, it doesn't give him a pass on his behaviour.--Crossmr (talk) 08:00, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

As for more recent behaviour, here he is only a few days ago trying to misuse WP:BRD to end another dispute [43]. At this point it seems the map was under dispute and had been changed at least a couple times already.--Crossmr (talk) 08:16, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

And as further evidence of the way he inappropriately addresses other editors [44] because to me it is incoherent faggotry that makes no sense at all, doesn't make my top 10 of civil ways to address other editors.--Crossmr (talk) 08:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

and here is another fine display [45]. Now that you've prompted me to actually go and have a look, I think I should renew my request with additional vigor.--Crossmr (talk) 08:49, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

• Statement by Benlisquare: When was the last time I've even touched Talk:PlayStation Portable homebrew? One year is a very long time: It took one year for the Romans to lose a large chunk of Gaul, and I'm sure one sixth of the lifespan of my WP account and one third of the majority of my active years on WP is quite a significant quantity of time for personal development and change. (check the history; I've only begun to seriously contribute to Wikipedia since 2008; when I first created my account in 2005, it was barely used, sometimes even used for 13-year-old vandalism like all kids do). As for the two Wikiquette discussions, the first was made in 2009, when I was an underage kid. Even scientists have established that the Limbic system of the brain, responsible for emotional impulses, is underdeveloped in teenagers. I don't see why my conduct as a teenage has anything to do with who I am now, as an adult and a full member of society, let alone as a Wikipedia editor. As for the second one, it was a cultural misunderstanding; one thing that is alright with my peers is not alright on WP, and I've learned my lesson - editing Wikipedia is also a learning experience, for all of us. Getting upset and digging up buried incidents is somewhat (but not quite) WP:DEADHORSE - I don't know how to put it, but it's not what I believe is relevant to the current issue. It is a distraction. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 03:24, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

It doesn't matter when you last touched Playstation Portable Homebrew. The point was it is evidence of on-going behaviour. You've had repeated incidents over the last 2 years where you become uncivil and edit inappropriately in regards to other editors when they make edits you don't like to articles you're editing. The fact that you want to start getting in to the "limbic system" shows me that you're trying to dodge responsibility for your behaviour which gives me even less hope we won't see a repeat of this. Above it was the template's fault that links were broken or that they even existed in the first place, then it wasn't your fault for lobbing a racially charged term at an editor, it's a cultural misunderstanding, now its your limbic system causing you to make mistakes.--Crossmr (talk) 08:00, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Crossmr, assuming that you are an adult, do you recall doing anything stupid and unnecessary during your teenage years? And don't tell me something like "no, I was a completely perfect and rational individual all my life". In my country, a 17 year old who date rapes a girl gets 6 months community service and a good behavior bond, but an 18 year old who does the same gets 10 years prison and his name on a list. You have no reason to dig up things from a long time ago and use incidents from 2009 them like they are fresh pieces of evidence.

Let me ask you this: Is this really a disciplinary action you are seeking, or is it just revenge for past events? I don't see how it could be the former. Upon being blocked, will I really be thinking "oh dear, I really shouldn't have posted those nasty comments two years ago when I was a teenager, that was terrible of me, and I really need to reflect on what I am doing"? Or is this a kind of wrongdoing that is already acknowledged for a long time? Is there anything constructive that comes from what you are proposing? Does it benefit anything outside of you "feeling a bit better because you got an old bad guy out for a few days"?

In addition, I am still wondering why the liaison officer (de facto, of course) of Cydevil38 is so keen and interested in this particular case, and why Cydevil38 has little to nothing to add. I have great suspicions on this whole issue being a distraction to protect a dear friend, or that this is directed against me because I've done things in the past that has wronged the motherland. Keep in mind that these are only suspicions, not actual accusations that I am pursuing, so you don't have to get trigger-happy and accuse me of WP:ATTACK for that matter.

As for the limbic system, I'm being quite serious here, but you give a tone that makes me feel like you are mocking me. I've done extensive reading on the human nervous system as a part of ny neurology subject at University, and I am being serious that there is a difference in adolescent and adult brains, and I can provide you the dois of published papers if you like. But like the Hanja publications above, I doubt you'll actually read them.

Finally, am I being casted for This is your life or something? Everything from my past is being reported and scrutinized; do I get a down payment from a television station beforehand? Crossmr, humans are dynamic creatures, they change as they naturally develop. Haven't you ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Saying "no, you're definitely a crook here on Wikipedia and everything you're saying is an excuse" is bad faith on your behalf. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 09:35, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I do have plenty of reason when the complaint being made is about on-going long-term disruptive behaviour. You can't show that without giving diffs from the past. Whether we make mistakes in our youth is irrelevant. What is relevant is that you've had a history of poor interaction with users you disagree with at least as far back as 2 years ago, there is evidence that it continued during the last 2 years, and there are several examples from this year, even as fresh as this incident, and only a couple months ago at that. That is not some isolated incident in the past to be ignored. It is one thing for a user to have an isolated incident years ago, and have years of spotless editing after that. That's distant past not worth bringing up in a fresh dispute. On the other, I've pointed to at least 3 incidents in the last 6 months in addition to the ones going back to 2009, and that's not without taking a hard look at those. What's your excuse for those? Did you limbic system suddenly kick in a month ago? Where was it when you were trying to paint a user as a racist above by linking to unverified off-wiki activity? No, your excuses really aren't holding any water here and it looks like you're trying to pass the buck while continuing your behaviour. And as for revenge, what evidence do you have to support that? About the only place I really recall encountering you that much is on the playstation article and we agreed as much as we disagreed there. That looks like a rather obvious assumption of bad faith on your part.I made the complaint based on the behaviour I observed in this and several other incidents you've engaged in and since I've made the complain I've found even further evidence of your inappropriate and uncivil behaviour towards other users.--Crossmr (talk) 09:53, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

• Outside view by Lawrencekhoo: I've just read through this section and reviewed the edits in question, and I would like to propose that:

1. Crossmr stay out of this issue, as he displays emotional involvement and is not helping matters, and
2. Admins who are neither Korean not Chinese, please have a look at Cydevil38's behavior and issue the appropriate warnings, etc, as there is problematic behavior occurring. LK (talk) 08:06, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

And you're basing that on what? What evidence do you have that I was ever involved with this issue? To my knowledge i've not edited the article before, and I've used hanja in Korean articles in the past where appropriate. Are you suggesting any editor who has ever used hanja on the wiki should refrain from giving an opinion on the matter?--Crossmr (talk) 08:16, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure if its just me, but from reading the tone of your posts, you seem a but frustrated. But then again, reading emotion from text over the internet is definitely unreliable and inaccurate. May I however suggest that we all take 3 days of WP:TEA before coming back? It'll do us more benefit to have WP:COOLer heads, and I don't think any of us are WP:COOL at the moment. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 09:40, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Pressing Need: The it.wiki's freedom is under threat!!!

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Not an incident and doesn't need discussion here. Village pump perhaps. ╟─TreasuryTag►cabinet─╢ 08:18, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. The WMF has made a statement on this already [46]. Pointer to discussion on meta for those interested: [47]. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 08:57, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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I'm an italian wikipedian. I don't know if this is the right place where post the ad, but please read this: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011/en — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.71.82.213 (talk) 22:33, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I don't think there is anything that the English Wikipedia can do regarding a law from Italy.--70.24.211.105 (talk) 22:38, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Where are the italian wikipedia's servers? aren't they all in the same place?--Crossmr (talk) 22:40, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict)The different language versions of Wikipedia are semi-independant... But where are the Italian Wikipedia's servers located? Looking at this and this, it looks like most of the servers are located in Florida, USA; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Seoul, South Korea. I would argue that only US, Netherlands, and South Korean laws apply to Wikipedia. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

You're going to want an LLM in international law before you field that one.--Tznkai (talk) 23:10, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

If Iran tries to apply their laws to my dad's favorite liquor store, it'd result in serious problems for Iran. All the Wikipedia sites are American, Netherlands, and Korean sites which feature different language versions hosted in those three countries. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:16, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah. But what if your dad is in Iran, ordering from his favorite liquor store via the internet? Iran may have limited control over the store, but it can do something about the common carriers, ISPs, and other things inbetween your dad and the store. Oh, and your dad.--Tznkai (talk) 23:41, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

And I thought WP was strict about BLP's? Wow. Doc talk 22:52, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I know that en.wiki can't stop the law. I reported a fact, maybe you en.wikipedian admins can report it on the main page whit a little ad on the top. By this way you can help us!!! Thanks=)--93.71.82.213 (talk) 22:54, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I'll just leave this here.... —Jeremy v^_^v ^{Components:V S M} 22:57, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Side notes: If passed, I think that that law will die under it's own weight/impossibility. But I imagine that Wikipedia already violates North Korean and Myanmar law by merely existing etc.North8000 (talk) 22:59, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

And there is a Burmese Wikipedia, as well, happily running. Prediction: tempest in a teacup. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 23:07, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

The probability of Italy being able to enforce that law against Florida is roughly the same as the probability of Amanda Knox taking another trip to Italy. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:23, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

But they could enforce the law against Italian editors, who, you know, live in Italy. Buddy431 (talk) 01:37, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes. Maybe that's why Italian Wikipedia has (reportedly) been shut down by Wikimedia, to protect them from themselves. I just wonder... when did Italy suddenly become China? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:40, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Well at least Italy is hemorrhaging people like crazy so there won't be any Italians in Italy for this law to restrict (after seventy years). On a more serious note, Buddy is right that even though the servers might be in our 'Murica, that doesn't mean that local laws do not apply to Wikipedians in that country. I do hope that this law falls flat and liberty prevails in your fair country my good sir. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 7 Tishrei 5772 01:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

The news are somewhat disturbing, but what do you realistically expect us to do? Conquer Italy and change its laws? I think all Wikipedias are located in Florida, so the Italian law has no real effect on the Italian Wikipedia, except for the self-imposed lock-down that its administrators decided, which you can read about in the article I linked to and in the Italian press if you the language skills. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 08:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

The laws will change again eventually.[48] Doc talk 08:10, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure that the protest measure taken by Italian Wikipedia administrators (blank and protect all pages) will be well received by the Wikimedia Foundation, but that's something to be discussed with them, and on Meta if you care enough about the issue. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 08:11, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Regarding enforcing the law against Italian editors, as summarized, the mechanics of what the law dictates is that the web site must make a change when there is an allegation. So the "offense" would be "failure to make the change". Since every Italian could make the change, if they tried instead going after the editors, they would need to arrest the entire Italian population for failure to make the change, including the people who wrote the law. North8000 (talk) 08:16, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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User:Ludwigs2, User:HiLo48, User:Tznkai and Talk:Pregnancy.

I have edited pregnancy in the past, and opined repeatedly on images in the article. While reviewing the talk page, I saw that there was a request for an uninvolved administrator to close an rfc, and further there was some... unproductive discussion going on. So I yelled at the two culprits that seemed obviously at fault. This turns out to have been a mistake and the conflict wandered onto my own talk page. As far as I can tell, the overall problem is:

• The pregnancy image is divisive, and has become for a proxy contest about Censorship!!!!
• RfC is a process that invites conflict
• HiLo48 has been kind of a dick to Ludwigs2
• Ludwigs2 has decided that gives Ludgwigs2 license to hat posts that are, in Ludwigs2's opinion, unhelpful, and will not be dissuaded from this.
• Their fight has managed to frustrate me to the point where I want to indef them both and melt the servers.

So, since I'm obviously incapable of handling this myself, I'd like some help, to sort out who needs blocks, trouts, or other solutions as necessary, including myself.--Tznkai (talk) 23:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Forgot to notify at the time I posted, did so here and here, adding myself to thread title.--Tznkai (talk) 23:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Not censored vs. No gratuitous images, just like in the Rfc and completely off topic HERE
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Just one comment: WP:NOTCENSORED. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:56, 4 October 2011 (UTC) I think Tzn's looking for something a little more... helpful. KillerChihuahua?!?Advice 00:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC) {ec}But this is gratuitous nudity. The picture of the human penis passes muster because that's what the article's about. An article about pregnancy has no reason to put a photograph of a totally nude woman right at the top of the article. Yopienso (talk) 00:10, 5 October 2011 (UTC) Honest to goodness, if this thread causes a fight about Censorship!!!111 on ANI I will find a way to melt the servers down.--Tznkai (talk) 00:13, 5 October 2011 (UTC) Be aware of the NLT rule. (No Liquidation Threats). ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:18, 5 October 2011 (UTC) The photo is beautiful, very tame by internet standards, and actually shows what a pregnant woman looks like. Educational, not gratuitous. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:17, 5 October 2011 (UTC) You mean it shows what a nude pregnant woman looks like, right? And that seems to be kind of their point. What does being naked have to do with pregnancy? Niteshift36 (talk) 00:24, 5 October 2011 (UTC) I would think that at your age you'd know how these things worked. You see, the mommy and the daddy... Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 02:11, 6 October 2011 (UTC) I knew someone would try that joke.......even if it isn't accurate. Niteshift36 (talk) 02:47, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

(EC)Ok, this is NOT the place to re-fight the Rfc. Seriously. ANI is NOT for content disputes, so please both of you (and anyone else who is tempted) take all that stuff to the talk page of the article. Tzn has asked for admin assistance with editor behavior problems; if you can help, do so. If you cannot, then fine, but do NOT re-ignite the argument here on ANI. Puppy has spoken, puppy is done. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 00:16, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry. I missed the point. Yopienso (talk) 00:34, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Well, all I can say is that while I will happily trout myself for my behavior on large portions of that page (I despise losing my temper like that), I wouldn't do so for the {{hat}}tings and {{nono}}s. I was very careful only to obscure comments that were unnecessary and insulting (such as being called unwise, unproductive, or other such comments directed at me as a person), and did it primarily so that I wouldn't feel the need to challenge them, which would only serve to create more conflict. It seems a small enough price to pay for peace on the page, though I understand the frustration of not being able to get one's licks in. In fact, I opened a question on this over on wp:AN just before this notice was posted, because it would make my life (and everyone's lives) a lot nicer if this were an accepted practice. --Ludwigs2 00:21, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I've removed the latest personal attack and left a general warning, naming the last two offenders (the one who made the attack and the one who edit warred to restore it.) Hopefully they'll take my advice for a nice cuppa tea and come back more civil. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 00:32, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh and Ludwigs; Stick to talking about the article from here on. I'm not asking you to be the poster child for AGF but I am expecting you to follow TPG. Please post a diff here immediately if anyone else starts making remarks about other editors. Do not reply; do not engage; do not hat. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 01:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Fringe Board Hanger

Resolved

 – Nothing to do here

Check the wikipedia fringe board. This is all the same guy:

• 86.176.222.119
• 86.182.19.180
• 86.177.230.221
• 86.182.191.108
• 86.178.192.40
• 86.182.20.197
• 86.184.85.227
• 86.178.193.2

Hes joined wikipedia to only hang around the wikipedia fringe board calling people "crackpots" and going onto articles calling specific articles he doesn't like "utter crankery" etc then deleting valid references he doesnt agree with, not constructive at all, hes come onto wikipedia to delete articles and bully other users, he has never added anything to wikipedia. Hes also got many other IP accounts atleast another 16 of them check the Wikipedia Fringe Board, some of which he pretends to be a different user, from his posts it even looks like hes talking to himself, he posts on the Fringe board everyday. Clearly a troll account, not constructive, hes also been deleting valid references and lieing about whats in them. 212.219.63.252 (talk) 23:42, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

How would you describe this edit, or this one. Could you provide some diffs (click here to see how) to show exactly what you're talking about? Ian.thomson (talk) 23:52, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Hmmmm. It seems to me that the IP you're reporting (86...) has been fairly constructive in identifying and improving articles which are woefully poorly sourced or outright crankery. I don't see any evidence that he's pretended to be anything other than one user with a dynamic IP, although I'm open to seeing evidence to the contrary.

Curiously, though, when I glance at Special:Contributions/212.219.63.252, I see the original poster removing an apparently reasonable source from a university press and disagreeing with 86... at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stuart Pivar. It looks like you don't agree with this editor on a content matter and are reporting him here as a "troll" and sockpuppeteer (sans any actual evidence) in hopes of getting him sanctioned. I hope that's a mistaken impression. MastCell ^Talk 00:02, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I think the OP is going to want this closed before it WP:Boomerangs back on him. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Sucks to be him, then, eh? Looks to me like the Anon-of-many-numbers is making very helpful edits. I'm waiting to hear 212.219.63.252's explanation, see diffs, etc. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 00:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Pot, I'd like to introduce you to WP:KETTLE. VanIsaac_WS^contribs 01:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Closing this; no admin action is going to be taken. Black Kite (t) (c) 06:14, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

If I was an admin I would block this troll Special:Contributions/212.219.63.252 for 31 hours, he just posted a link to hivemind on Jimmy's bio talkpage and has now gone of attacking dougweller on another talkpage. Off2riorob (talk) 17:37, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

This is the diff of the personal attack on Dougweller, which I removed: [[49]]. I agree that 212 should be blocked for personal attacks and making a frivolous report her on ANI. Boomerang applies in spades. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 01:18, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

EW at astrology

Resolved

I'm only taking this here because we have an editor who is edit warring very quickly at Astrology and it's getting seriously annoying. I've filed a 3RR report here, and though I have him at 6RR 8rr there, he's actually done quite a few more reverts with this and other edits. Refuses to discuss on the talk page and just keeps going at it. Can we get a bit of admin attention? Thank you. N^oformation ^Talk 04:59, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

This account is likely a throwaway sockpuppet so it hardly matters if it's blocked. (I could be wrong, because when a new editor's first two edits are to trivially bluelink their user and talk pages and they immediately display a high degree of proficiency with markup and Wiki-jargon, it's such a promising sign for the future.) The more important point is that Astrology could use many more people looking at it, both admins and ordinary editors. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 12:34, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Edward Davenport (criminal)

Resolved

 – Article moved to a more neutral title, discussion ongoing at article Talk page, lots of eyes on it. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 22:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

In light of the conviction and jailing today of English businessman Edward Davenport on charges of fraud, the page at Edward Davenport (property developer) has so far moved thrice, and is now subject to high levels of anon editting. Kittybrewster moved the page first to Edward Daenport (fraudster) and then to Edward Davenport (fraudster). Following application of a title POV tag and discussion on the articles talkpage by Yunshui, I moved the article to Edward Davenport (businessman). User Kittybrewster then moved it again to its current title Edward Davenport (criminal), to which I have applied a title-POV tag. I am sure that other news stories and hence reliable sources will now appear over the next few days/weeks, but at present on balance of the facts and sources to hand, one act of reported fraud seems not to be reflected in the current title. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 14:15, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I have to say that I dont think anyone should have moved the article either way without a serious and extended discussion. WP:BLP applies. The current title fails WP:POVTITLE as it stands. But lets just have a discussion before making the move. Fmph (talk) 14:23, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I think it should be moved back to its original location, where it should be semi protected and indef move-protected; and the redirects Edward Davenport (fraudster) and Edward Davenport (criminal) be deleted. (Edward Daenport (fraudster) is clearly a typo, I speedy deleted it as such). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

BLP only requires that things are well sourced, it does not say that negative point of view things cannot be said about a person.--Crossmr (talk) 14:39, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

have another read of WP:BLPSTYLE why don't you. And WP:POVTITLE. Fmph (talk) 14:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I think WP:TITLECHANGES trumps WP:POVTITLE. Changing an article title simply to foment controversy is bad juju. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 14:55, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Looking at the news article, "(businessman)" also seems to fail POVTITLE to me. Not saying what the right answer is, but I think "don't describe someone negatively in an article title" may be over-simplistic. We have "Charles Bronson (prisoner), for example. What about solving the issue by researching the subjects full name? --FormerIP (talk) 15:10, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

The disambiguation page shows four articles bearing the name "Edward Davenport", with this particular person referenced as a "property developer". And researching the full name won't address the recentism of the controversy. As a sidenote, I tried moving it back to "(developer)" myself, but ran into problems, most likely because of pre-existing material at the target. I don't have a lot of experience at page moves, but based on what I came across it'll probably need admin action, if the move back to the original target is what WP:CONSENSUS determines is needed. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 15:14, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

As a sidenote, a discussion is ongoing on the article Talk page as to what the correct article title should be. I think we can put the ANI discussion on hold until consensus is reached there. It still may need admin assistance to complete a move, should one be needed, but that's in the future. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 15:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Pro se litigants

• Former pro se 2 (talk · contribs),
• Hopeless2011 (talk · contribs), and long-banned editor
• Kay Sieverding (talk · contribs)

are all making the same comments in regard Pro se legal representation in the United States. I don't have time to put together a formal sockpuppet report, being on my laptop at the moment. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:20, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Quack, quack. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:33, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Non-banned editors warned. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

The references were actually quoted as well as linked and are newspaper articles, 10th Circuit opinions published on their website, property tax rolls, and city council minutes. Arthur Rubin has repeatedly deleted similar postings while never once offering any detail as to how or why they might be inaccurate. His purpose appears to be to control the content of the article. That is contrary to the stated purpose and guidelines of Wikipedia. Former pro se 2 (talk) 16:43, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Again? This has been going for quite a while (at least since 2008). See much of the discussion in the pro se article talk page archive 4. Absolutely NO QUESTION this is Kay back to try again. WP is not a personal soapbox to right great wrongs. Ravensfire (talk) 17:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Kay Sieverding opened. Ravensfire (talk) 17:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Might not be a bad idea to enact a community ban to make it easier to block and revert further socks. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 18:47, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Personal attacks by Yworo

Yworo (talk · contribs) has been editing for over two years, so he's a regular. He certainly should be aware that personal attacks are both unnecessary and destructive to Wikipedia. In a recent discussion on my talk page in which he and I were expressing our opinions about what is considered an acceptable source, he twice (and completely unprovoked) referred to my opinions as "stupid arguments"; see [50]. Now, should he make the argument that he referred to the "argument" (rather than the editor) as stupid, that certainly is splitting hairs. In looking through Yworo's edit history, I don't believe this is the first time he has had an abrasive style in dealing with editors who disagree with him, especially inexperienced editors, the very ones he should avoid even giving the appearance of a personal attack. I hope an admin or someone will have a word with him about this hostile style of discussing issues. I have notified Yworo that I started this thread. Thanks. Irolnire (talk) 16:43, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

If he said you were stupid, that would be a personal attack. Calling an argument stupid isn't saying you are stupid anymore than saying an argument is invalid is calling you invalid. N^oformation ^Talk 18:37, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

It is, however, uncivil to call an agrument stupid. 134.241.58.153 (talk) 20:54, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

i agree, pull up your big girl panties and move on, on a separate note, yrowo has been around for awhile, once he tried to ban me and he is a stupid dummie. Darkstar1st (talk) 21:00, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

...and actually doing a violation of WP:NPA in a discussion about someone else's WP:NPA was not the wisest move ever (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 21:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Bwilkins blocked Darkstar for that remark. Am I the only one who thinks Darkstar was just trying to be funny? --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 21:20, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

As Steven J. Anderson noted, Darkstar1st was obviously "just trying to be funny". Time to step away from the keyboard, Bwilkins. Deterence ^Talk 21:26, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Deterence, you'll need to do your research before even contemplating posting on this board. Indeed, a quick glance at this history between Darkstar and Yworo shows that Darkstar a) has a history with the user and therefore b) was clearly not trying to be funny (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 21:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I stand corrected. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 22:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

No issue :-) (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 22:55, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with Noformaition, and I suspect I'm not alone. Let me extend your line of reasoning to illustrate my point. If you expressed an opinion on a talk page, and my response was "Noformation, that comment you just wrote is the lamest, most moronic, drivel I have ever read", most people would interpret that as a personal attack. Twice telling someone to "stop making stupid arguments and just follow the rules" is exactly the same thing, just not stated quite as boldly. Imagine if every new editor were to be flooded with comments such as "Stop making stupid arguments" or "Stop making such idiotic statements", how would most newcomers take that? Suppose my response to Yworo had been, "Stop expressing yourself like a whiny two-year-old with such insipid nonsense"; would you encourage me to make such response? How long do you think I would continue those sort of comments on multiple talk pages before I got blocked? As I said above, hiding behind the defense that "I said the argument is stupid" is a very thinly veiled legalistic way to attack someone mercilessly and endlessly and then pretend that you're being perfectly civil. Note that I'm not saying that Yworo made a threat, or that he violated any policies other than those pertaining to civility and personal attacks. And I'm not saying that there should be any consequences for his personal attacks beyond someone reminding him that we have policies about civility. You are wikilawyering to an extreme, and if everyone approached civil discussion that way, Wikipedia would quickly descend into a chaotic mess in which WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA are nothing more than empty platitudes that in reality have no substance. I don't think that lowest level of interpretation of civility is what has been intended in these policies. Irolnire (talk) 21:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• If I describe this notification as the petty nonsense it so clearly is, am I also guilty of making "personal attacks"? Deterence ^Talk 21:29, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I strongly agree with Noformation and I know I'm not alone. On the other hand, Irolnire, if you're right about not being alone, that will be established when someone posts here saying they agree with you.

In other news, I notice, Irolnire, that your first two edits were trivial edits to bluelink your talk and user pages, your third was to comment at a deletion discussion, and you found your way to this drama board in less than 20 edits. Now, please, please, please don't take this as a personal attack (please?), but I'm just sort of wondering if you perhaps have gained some experience editing Wikipedia as an IP or even (heaven forfend) using another account that, oh, I don't know, you hadn't used in a while and had, um, forgotten the password to. And maybe it just didn't occur to you to mention this. But I'm not accusing you of anything remotely dishonest or deceptive. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 21:43, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

No, not at all; I don't take any of your comments as personal attacks or accusations, and you ask reasonable questions. Like many people, I read Wikipedia for a couple of years before attempting an edit. I edited anonymously for a few months, mostly minor cleanup. And I recently registered (as I was strongly encouraged to do so). I've never tried to hide this. But to a large extent, how I got here to this board is beside the point. If I had registered 10 years ago or yesterday, the issues would be the same: civility and personal attacks. And by the way, a comment or two in this section may not have used the phrase "I agree with Irolnire", but I think some senitment about comments such as Yworo's being uncivil has been expressed. In any event, you're right. I think we should see if other opinions are expressed. My only goal was to get this out in the open and let Yworo know about it so that he can know what others think. Irolnire (talk) 21:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Stalking ?

Hello, I have a strange problem. I had the "luck" to become new obsession for User:Stubes99. It is about this edit [51], he even went to the trouble of making 2 youtube accounts and a video. Is there anything there can be done against this kind of attacks? Adrian (talk) 17:12, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Wow, that's.....disturbing to say the least. Wildthing61476 (talk) 17:29, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Yep. :) Adrian (talk) 17:31, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Just noticed he sent this to others as well. [52]. Adrian (talk) 17:34, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Interesting vid. Could anybody check its content? Because Somebody deleted it immediately from my talkpage. Fakirbakir (talk) 17:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I don`t want to be rude, but are you serious? Adrian (talk) 17:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Also , can you please stop advertising this "video" and youtube account? Adrian (talk) 17:57, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, You know the banned User:Iaaasi (alias Samiraj, Keeeeper, Bizovne etc..) is a very clever user.Fakirbakir (talk) 17:58, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I don`t know what are you trying to do, but looks like Stubes99 managed to fulfill at least a part of his task. NP, If necessary, I will submit to check user to remove your doubts about me... I don`t know about your knowledge about e-mail addresses, but anyone could have wrote that e-mail, and even if the real Iassii wrote it how does that concern me? For an example I could write an email to Iasii saying you are my puppet and make a youtube video. Does that mean anything? Even if that is the reall Iasii e-mail, how can I be responsable what does somebody else write about me? Or next time if an gmail account appear with my username should we take that as real too? Adrian (talk) 18:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, Why did you delete my text here? You do not have to worry about this vid if you are 'innocence'.Fakirbakir (talk) 18:16, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I have deleted youtube video because it is stalking and personal attack on me. It looks like you are block shopping therefore I don`t want to add anymore significance by pursuing this conversation further. Please stop with personal attacks (implying that all this is for real, and that I am a sock/meat puppet) and if you have any doubt about me please submit an SPI case or an ANI report. Greetings. Adrian (talk) 18:21, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea what's going on here but a basically incomprehensible message just appeared at WP:COIN regarding this situation. See here. OlYeller^Talktome 19:22, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

User:Stubes99 is bored... Let him have his fun :). Adrian (talk) 19:33, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

One thing is sure, User:Iaaasi's email address is correct on the vid. [53] and the message was from User:Iaaasi to Stubes99. Fakirbakir (talk) 19:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Assuming that the claim of the email address was legitimately from the Iaaasi on en (I don't know enough about the history to know the details) - there are three possibilities: (a) The email account is controlled by Iadrian yu, and legitimately makes a sock/meat connection (b) The email account is controlled by Stubes99 (a known sockpuppeteer), and was sent to a secondary email account of theirs so as to allow them to make false claims against someone with whom they have a dispute (c) The email account is not controlled by either person in that dispute - and is Iaaasi trying to cause disruption by making false claims. The video itself does not prove conclusively one way or another towards any of those three options.

Unless a connection can be made via WP:SPI or at the very least WP:The duck test, there's nothing that can be done here - as we don't know at this point which party actually controls the email account. Besides which, YouTube isn't a WP:RS for most article content, and certainly not for blocking. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:08, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

If he'd spent as much time sayyyyy...getting a university degree...just think what good could happen. Instead, immature videos and attacks. What a waste. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 19:57, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Improper category inclusion

عمرو بن كلثوم persistently adds category Racism to Meir Kahane article: [54], [55], [56], [57]. I've pointed out to him or her that the inclusion is improper and that the category page itself warns, in bold, "This category is for issues relating to racism. It must not include articles about individuals, groups or media that are allegedly racist", but my appeal was disregarded. Please take measures. --Vicky Ng (talk) 17:26, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• P.S. This user has been warned regarding edit-warring involving the same article a year ago: User talk:عمرو بن كلثوم#October 2010. --Vicky Ng (talk) 17:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Looks like a slow-burn edit war to me. Starting on 27 September, one reversion a day (skipping a day here and there), always restoring the deleted category. It may not bust WP:3RR, but I don't think there's any question as to the intent. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 18:04, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Warned. One more revert would be blockable, IMHO.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:15, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Jesus, get a load of that user page. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 19:38, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Jesus has already seen it, and all He can do is to shake His head. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:06, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

• Hi there, it seems you are having a discussion here about my edits here, when you can see the edits of User:Vicky Ng at the same article going against consensus at many occasions (see discussion page). This dispute has been judged before as a content dispute see here, and User:Vicky Ng was blocked for one day based on her continuous reverts. I am not here only to keep an eye on this page (which seems the case of Vicky), but I have asked the user in my edit summary to discuss her point of view in the discussion page, which she didn't do, and she ignored such consensus in the past on the inclusion of Kahane in Category:Terrorism. My political contributions are minimal, because of this kind of behavior and edit wars. By the way, you may or may not agree with the facts and quotes on MY user page (mostly facts) based on your political/ethnic origin. Yes, I know talking about Israeli atrocities would unsettle many people in this forum. عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 23:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

BTW, this user has been reverting other users referenced contributions based on her political beliefs, not facts. See here, here and here only in this article. She did get a warning a year ago and was bloacked, and I think she deserves a new warning this time too. Do I need to report it in a new section? Thanks. عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 23:58, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Feel free to discuss Palestinian atrocities on your page also. I noticed that you've just passed your 1 year anniversary on Monday. Given your approach, I wouldn't bet the family jewels on your making it to 2. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:06, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh yeah, things like saying they went mad because their land was stolen, and they have been negotiating with Israel since 1991, to have in return the number of Israeli ARMED (to the teeth) settlers tripling their numbers on Palestinian land and so forth, with no hope for a Palestinian state promised in the same UN resolution that created Israel in 1947. Anyway, this is not the best place to discuss these things now. عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 00:25, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

If by "this" you mean wikipedia, you're right. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:32, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I assume the correct approach here then would have been for عمرو بن كلثوم to add the racism category or a relevant subcategory to the Kahanism article. It looks like an IP added Category:Neo-Nazism to it back in September which is clearly wrong and hasn't been picked up. Given the nature of Kahanism as an ideology according to RS (including the Israeli state itself) it doesn't seem controversial at all to categorize it under racism or a subcat along with the other -isms and such like in there. The problem I suppose is that although Kahanism is an -ism that could reasonably be categorized under racism according to RS, the Kahanism category currently contains the subcategory Category:Kahanists‎ taking us back to square one, Meir Kahane and others. Perhaps the editors can try to work together to sort that mess out rather than edit warring. Sean.hoyland - talk 05:06, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Look at that userpage... also, I also think that the edits constitute a block, he's disrupting the equilibrium of the article. Rory ^{Come for talkies} 07:10, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

What does that have to do with anything ? I don't care about people's user pages. If a bunch of diehard Kahanists or Hamas supporters want to edit the Meir Kahane article and related articles it's fine as long as they stick to policy. Apparently this user isn't familiar with this aspect of policy so people should help them to become familiar. This isn't about Vicky is good, عمرو بن كلثوم is bad. Vicky's track record on Kahanism related articles isn't exactly ideal either in my view. We could do without this kind of edit for example. I would rather see the users have to figure it out on the relevant talk pages according to policy because everyone has to do that. Sean.hoyland - talk 08:02, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

And by the way, since when are Palestinians a "race"? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:03, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Request for Rev-Del on a COIN report

I'm really not sure what the backstory is on this, but an IP user has made a COIN report with a You-tube link that is, I believe, an attempt to "out" another account's RL identity. Request rev-del. Don't want to link the vid here, but it's the newest report at WP:COIN. Thanks The Interior (Talk) 19:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

This times in with the Stalking? section above. Wildthing61476 (talk) 19:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

That's done (I was already on it). But err... check the big red box before adding requests for revdel here again. SmartSE (talk) 20:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Noted. My bad. The Interior (Talk) 20:19, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

ClaudioSantos violates topic ban??

According to the list op Topic Bans ClaudioSantos (talk · contribs) has a topic ban for al Euthanasia-related articles. As stated on the mentioned page: "ClaudioSantos is topic banned by the Wikipedia community from Euthanasia and related topics, broadly construed,...". Knowing his habit of connecting the nazi atrocities with eugenetics and euthanasia, I was wondering if he crossed the line. The contested sentence is Although it was not the ideology underlying Nazi atrocities that Sanger found regrettable, it was the methodology.. Violation or not? Night of the Big Wind _talk 20:48, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I edited the section "Eugenics" at "Margaret Sanger" article, and that paragraph does deal explicity with "nazi eugenics" not with euthanasia. And clearly my edit and the cited source was referring to "Nazi eugenics" related to "Margaret Sanger" and my edit did not relate nor even mentioned at all euthanasia. And this issue has been discussed and resolved already 3 times, here at the ANI and at one admin-talk-page. And all the times it was concluded that editing eugenics topics is not a violation of the euthanasia topic ban. This user NotBW certainly know this as he has been directly involved. I think he is abusing the ANI and stalking me. -- ClaudioSantos¿? 21:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Aha, there is the traditional smoke screen and counter accusation. But, my dear Claudio, you are referring to earlier questions in relation to other articles. And here you clearly make the connection nazi atrocities vs. eugenetics movement. Night of the Big Wind _talk 21:18, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• ClaudioSantos (talk · contribs) has six prior blocks for edit-warring, several of which stem from his relentless efforts to link Planned Parenthood to Nazism and eugenics by any means necessary. He was unblocked early last time because he supposedly understood the error of his ways. Now he's moved on to edit-warring at Margaret Sanger (the founder of Planned Parenthood), pushing the exact same agenda.

  Obviously he's repeatedly trying to force in contentious material and earned a number of blocks, but he's still at it, still refusing to gain consensus on the talk page. How long does this go on? (That is not a rhetorical question - it is addressed to any uninvolved admin reviewing this thread). MastCell ^Talk 21:26, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

MastCell is another user who has been involved in this attempts to look for an excuse to ban me. My last edit at Margaret Sanger has not violated the 1RR and the prior cases are NOT the case now. Actually my edit was reverted 1 time by NotBW arguing that "he does not believe that I have read the source"; thus clearly baseless assuming bad faith due my edit was almost literally taken from a source which was already accepted as a reliable source for that article. Now, NotBW is trying to abuse the topic ban to enforce a broad ban against me, as it has been attempted 3 times up to now. If it was a content dispute at any rate MasterCell did not even complaint about the phrase but he just came first here also to attempt to enforce a ban against me. And MaterCell was also involved in the prior attempts to extend the euthanasia topic ban to the eugenic topic. So it seems MasterCell is always looking for any excuse to try to resolve the dispute contents by forcing punishments and bans against me. Is he stalking me also?. -- ClaudioSantos¿? 21:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Knowing your POV-pushing and creativity with the truth, I still do not think I was overly distrustful to you. Night of the Big Wind _talk 21:51, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I must admit that the sentence is really there in the source. But crucially, the context is totally different. Night of the Big Wind _talk 21:59, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

In my opinion, this guy edits dishonestly and in bad faith, and has problems understanding written English that severely undermine his ability to edit effectively. Worse, he seems uninterested in improving himself in this regard. When challenged on any of the above, he reacts with hostility and claims of persecution, and rarely sees fit to discuss the actual substance of a dispute.

Take this for what you will; I am apparently risking a permanent ban from Wikipedia just by saying this, as you can see from my talk page. Factchecker atyourservice (talk) 22:27, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

[To clarify, I am not familiar with this topic ban or the previous incidents that led to it, and don't take any position on the topic ban itself. I added the above comments because they tend to support some of the things NOTBW and MastCell have said, and also, partly, out of sheer frustration.] Factchecker atyourservice (talk) 22:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Factcheker was warned two times because of his proven personal attacks and rude uncivil comments against me. At any rate, for Factchecker I am just a "fucking idiot" -- ClaudioSantos¿? 23:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I did, in fact, say those things, and was indeed warned twice, with the second warning appearing to imply that any subsequent block would be permanent. This really has no bearing on the complaints that I and other editors have raised regarding your actual editing conduct. Regardless of how inappropriately I acted, has it occurred to you that the frequency of personal attacks against you, real or perceived, may have something to do with your own behavior? And has anyone ever made a criticism that you found to be legitimate or worthwhile? Factchecker atyourservice (talk) 23:22, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Factchecker, you are simply attempting to legitimate your continuous and very rude personal attacks against me. I have to ask also if you are looking for a revenge against me because you were warned by an admin to stop insulting me?. At any rate I have not to tolerate nor to condone you calling me "fucking idiot" with "stupid reasoning" speaking "gibberish", etc. -- ClaudioSantos¿? 01:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Last time the issue came up, the limited consensus appeared to be the topic ban didn't cover eugenics in itself. Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive716#ClaudioSantos_and_eugenics. Has the topic ban changed since then? If not it was suggested last time there may be merit to expand the topic ban, or if his behaviour is too bad, just banning him completely would I guess be an option. However I wouldn't suggest his editing the topic in itself should lead to any action (his precise editing may be a different matter), particularly since he was aware of the previous discussion so even if a new consensus develops, it seems a bit unfair to take action when he was possibly relying on the previous intepretation. Nil Einne (talk) 22:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Part of the problem that he is seeking the borders... Night of the Big Wind _talk 22:39, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

It seems, you NotBW are the one seeking the borders. -- ClaudioSantos¿? 23:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Exactly. My point is that it's time to expand the topic ban to include abortion, Planned Parenthood, and eugenics. He's racked up three blocks for edit-warring on these very topics in the past few months. And that's on top of his prior blocks for edit-warring that led to the topic ban from euthanasia. People who edit these topics constructively shouldn't have to deal with this sort of relentlessly tendentious editing. There are actually general sanctions on abortion-related articles which are supposed to prevent this sort of thing: "Any uninvolved admin may impose a topic ban or blocks on disruptive editors for actions including, but not limited to, edit warring, personal attacks, excessive incivility and assumptions of bad faith. Such topic bans or blocks may be of up to three months duration." MastCell ^Talk 22:41, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

MastCell you always attempt to use any excuse to try this, I believe you are stalking me and less concerned about the disruptions in this wikipedia. Proof: Factchekcer (the user who believes that I am a "fucking idiot") violated the 1RR rule at the same articles more than 1 time during the last weeks and he even got an incredible patience although he insisted on edit warring after being warned[58]; but his clear disruptive behaviour did not deserve your attention surely because he is usually at your side of the disputes. So it seems you are not really concerned about the disruption at those articles but you are trying to eliminate an user who does not agree with you. Another proof: if you were just concerned about my alleged contentious last edit why did not you revert it or attempted to discuss it at the talk page but you just came first here to the ANI? -- ClaudioSantos¿? 22:59, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

If Factchecker violates 1RR and doesn't self-revert, I think he should be blocked. If he gets blocked six times for edit-warring, as you've been, then I think he should be topic-banned. Does that sound fair? MastCell ^Talk 23:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

In fairness, I violated 1RR once because I had never heard of 1RR before and didn't know any such restriction was in place; I violated 1RR a second time because I simply forgot it was in place. I am now wary of the existence of such strict measures. In the meantime, I also participated in the discussion and implemented the resulting consensus even though it was contrary to my own feelings on what was appropriate. This last part is a very crucial step that Claudio is missing and I'd suggest that this is the chief reason this discussion was initiated. Factchecker atyourservice (talk) 23:37, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

No MastCell, as I said, your attempts to ban me are not a fair way to resolve your contents disputes with me. And my last edit was far from become a edit warring, so you even lack of a pretext to try this ban again. It seems you are stalking me. Factckeer I am not missing nothing not even one of your words referring to me, such as "stupid reasoning", "giberish" or "fucking idiot" -- ClaudioSantos¿? 01:00, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I think a discussion on whether or not the topic ban should be extended is warranted. The continued and tedentious behavior exhibited in order to try and create this link has gone on long enough. Falcon8765 ^(TALK) 23:06, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

What "tendentiouslink tendentiously inserted" are you talking about Falcon8765? That Margaret Sanger supported eugenics, coercive sterilization of sick people, ban for sick immigrants based on eugenics grounds is not a "tendentious link tendentiously inserted" but a fact that was even accepted and included into the Margaret Sanger wikipedia-article since long ago and actually not by me. -- ClaudioSantos¿? 23:13, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I didn't say "tedentious link". I said "tedentious behavior". Falcon8765 ^(TALK) 23:16, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

At any rate it is not a link tendentiously inserted but a fact already inserted since long ago into that article and not by me. And actually that link has nothing to do with the current discussion here. But you are another of those users who always came to the ANI looking for a ban against me based on off-topic things. -- ClaudioSantos¿? 01:00, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Stupid question Glancing at ClaudioSantos' edit history, I see a near single-minded obsession with eugenics (and, lets be fair, it is pretty horrifying) and related sanctity of life issues such as euthanasia (again, many people find it pretty horrifying), and a lot of chatter that seems to involve an aggressive attitude and getting into edit wars. What am I missing here that makes a topic ban make sense as opposed to a plain old, and rather long, block?--Tznkai (talk) 00:20, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

So an "obsession with life" is your reason to push a block against me? -- ClaudioSantos¿? 01:03, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I have to second Tznkai's question. ClaudioSantos has been topic banned (once) and blocked SIX times for tendentious and obsessive POV pushing and shows little promise of reform despite numerous unkept promises. An indefinite block seems reasonable to me. Patience is a virtue, but only up to a certain point. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 01:07, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I have been topic banned solely 1 time and I have not violated that topic ban ever. Dominus Vobisdu is clearly lying and misleading misled or he just mistyped, but his comment could mislead other users to my detriment. And the reason to open this thread at the ANI was baseless: solely one edit -already reverted and which did not drive to any edit warring- which at any rate also did NOT violate the topic ban. -- ClaudioSantos¿? 01:23, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I believe the phrasing for which you are searching, Claudio, is "Dominus, if I have been topic banned as you say, could you please provide diffs of those bans? Thank you." I am almost certain you were not calling another editor a liar in a thread about how combative your approach has been. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 01:33, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Or perhaps Dominus mistyped and meant to say "blocked six times" not "banned". This is a common mis-type. KillerChihuahua^?!?[[User:Heimstern/Ignoring incivility|Advice] 01:36, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Indeed I did. Sometimes my keyboard freezes up for a moment and ignores input, as it did in this case. I've added the omitted words in bold to my post above, as well as added the word once so that no one can interpret it as meaning that he was topic banned six times. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 02:06, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Well, then let correct my last comment. Here I also have to add that the user (NotBW) who opened this thread already admitted that the reason he argued to revert my edit was also baseless due my edit was indeed explicity in the source. So his confessed assumption of bad faith ("I do not think you really did read the source") was nothing else than that. And this edit did not violate the topic ban as it was already stablished, because a lot of times it was told that editing eugenics topics does not mean editing euthanasia topics. This thread lacks even of pretexts but not of hostile and sedulous supporters who have called me a "fucking idiot" with "stupid reasoning" writting "gibberish", included some other users bordering the personal attacks referring to my edits with psycho(patho)logisms such as "obsessions", etc. -- ClaudioSantos¿? 01:51, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

User:Bad good dragosh98

Over the passed few days, several editors at WP:WikiProject Football, myself included, have had trouble with this user. He has a blatant disregard for notability guidelines. Many of the articles this user has created have gone straight to afd. Once nomminated, he has frequently removed the afd tags. In at least one instance, Horia Crişan, he has recreated deleted articles repeatidly. He has been involved in at least one edit warring dispute. Most importantly, all atempts to communicate with him, both in English and Romanian, which appears to be his native language, have been ignored. A quick look at his talk page will give an idea as to what the problems are. Best Regards. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:46, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• You may find some previous discussion here, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Problematic_user. I've given up hope for this editor and would support an indefinite block. Drmies (talk) 03:40, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, this user has never once communicated on an article or user talk page, aside from the original non-English note xe left on xyr user talk shortly after joining. The user has dozens of articles deleted, via prod, BLP-prod, and Speedy, and now some are going through AfD. If WikiProject Football is fed up with him, then it seems that even if some of xyr info is useful, the overall drain on resources is such that the user is a net negative to the project. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:18, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I would suggest a one year block. The previous discussions here at ANI have suggested that a major part of this editor's problems is that their understanding of English is, at present, just not good enough to allow them to edit en.wiki articles without causing disruption. Making a quick assumption from the username and the editing behaviour, there's a fair chance the editor is a young teenager whose first language is not English. Doubtless they are learning English in school; if so then it's plausible that one year from now their English might be good enough to participate without problems. A year's break might also help with any other problems that exist aside from the language problems.

I'd also request that, if that's the route gone down, someone phrase an explanation of it politely and encouragingly, and put it on their talk page in Romanian. It's a good idea to make them understand that this is not a punitive block, and that they're encouraged to contribute to ro.wiki in the meantime, and to contribute to en.wiki again when their English skills have developed more. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 05:31, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Steve Jobs

Going to need many eyes on the Steve Jobs page. Getting word via Twitter, but nothing I can confirm of course, that he has passed away. Semi-protection might be needed. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 23:38, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I guess you can say that Steve Jobs lost his last job. Rainbow Dash !xmcuvg2MH 23:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

BBC news website has it as their breaking news ticker; no linked news item yet. Bencherlite^Talk 23:47, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Confirmed by ABC. Is this enough for a semi-protection? Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 23:48, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

And confirmed on MarketWatch. I looked at the article, it shows under Semi as of September 15. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 23:48, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I should have noticed that. Thanks Alan :) Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 23:50, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Just to clarify (for anyone who hasn't looked yet), Airplaneman reinstated indefinite Semi when the Pending Changes test ended, according to the protection comment. That said, the WP:RS announcements are pouring in thick and fast on the usual channels, so I don't think there'll be any question about sourcing, except how many to attach to the article. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 00:00, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

It's up on www.apple.com and on CNN, San Francisco Chronicle and the other SF Bay Area media, etc... 208.185.244.250 (talk) 00:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree with you, just when it was first reported, it was just Twitter reports (hence my post), then it was CNN, then TMZ (I guess they are reliable now) and then the others. Finally, Apple posted a short, simple statement on their homepage. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

• Could someone with more image expertise than myself deal with File:AppleScreenshotJobsDied.jpg. It's a non-free image without a fair use rationale and I personally don't think a valid fair use rationale could be written for it. Thanks in advance, Jenks24 (talk) 00:43, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Deleted. Not only was it not being used, it is also a duplicate of File:Applecom homepage after death of Steve Jobs.png, which is currently in use in the article. –MuZemike 00:51, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Italian wikipedia shuts down

FYI, see here. Bearian (talk) 00:40, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

See also #Pressing Need: The it.wiki's freedom is under threat!!!, above. lifebaka++ 00:52, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps this is better in other areas, but I read this at the first link:

Hence, anyone who feels offended by any content published on a blog, an online newspaper and, most likely, even on Wikipedia would have the right for a statement ("correction") to be shown, unaltered, on the page, aimed to contradict and disprove the allegedly harmful contents, regardless of the truthfulness of the information deemed as offensive, and its sources.

This is strictly against a fundamental pillar of Wikipedia overall, that all content must be independently verifiable. If a person who is the subject of an article is given the right - not ability, but right - to have his or her own version published on the site, without a link to a single verifiable source, it can do nothing but ruin Wikipedia. If information published in a biography is verified, it's completely allowed in the article, and no subject should have the right to change it to whatever they want. I'm sure Jimbo will have a comment on this matter as it proceeds through the Italian governmental channels, and if this bill passes, it might be RIP for the Italian Wikipedia. CycloneGU (talk) 05:07, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Check his wikipage User_talk:Jimbo Wales. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 8 Tishrei 5772 05:14, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

It is indeed shut down :( In ictu oculi (talk) 05:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I asked the same question here 1. It is documented at this article 2. Adrian (talk) 07:53, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Disruption at Pain

Resolved

 – Socks blocked, page protected

On October 1, 206.116.19.28 (talk · contribs) made two edits, both times removing the first two paragraphs of the Pain article (quickly reverted). Since then the two new accounts Alomigor (talk · contribs) and Bananas 77 (talk · contribs) have carried on repeatedly doing the same thing -- they are all obviously the same editor. This appears to me to be deliberate disruption. I am bringing the problem here because there are multiple possible ways of handling it: (1) indef 'em all as voa's, (2) protect the article, (3) run a CU to see if this is part of some obscure vendetta, conceivably against Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs), who has been the most active editor of the article. I will, somewhat reluctantly, notify Alomigor of this section. (The Bananas 77 account is currently under a 24 hour block for edit warring). Looie496 (talk) 00:49, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

If you don't get a quick response here, I recommend WP:RFPP and ask for semi-protection for a week or so. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:52, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I was going to leave Alomigor a warning about deleting sourced information from articles as well as a note about the apparent sock/meatpuppetry, when I saw the comment there about this ANI.

I think the accounts could be blocked for edit-warring and sockpuppetry. --Ronz (talk) 01:00, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Strongly suggest WP:SPI, the quacking is pretty loud. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 01:01, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

• Both accounts blocked, page semi'd for a week. Not sure if SPI is necessary when it's this obvious, but follow your heart. --Floquenbeam (talk) 01:13, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks -- let's see if that takes care of it. Looie496 (talk) 01:34, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Merging the history of a sub-page in user space into a pre-existing article

If a person wishes to make significant changes to an article one option is to draft a new version in a sandbox in their own user space and then edit the article and copy the new text from their sandbox into the article (the sandbox may or may not be called sandbox but it is a sub-page of the user's user space). When this is done the history of the article records the significant change to the article as one edit.

Nev1 decided that the text of the article White Tower (Tower of London) was inadequate. So much so that Nev1 removed the main link to the "White Tower" from the Tower of London article and then a day and a half later redirected the article "White Tower (Tower of London)" to the "Tower of London" article:

• "Tower of London" Revision as of 13:07, 29 September 2011
• "White Tower (Tower of London)" Revision as of 22:45, 30 September 2011

Nev1 drafted a new article in User:Nev1/White Tower so far so good. This is what any editor can do. However on completion of the new draft, instead of copying the new text into the article, Nev1 choose to merge the two articles together creating a unified history. This has in my opinion had two detrimental effects. The first is that it has interlaced the histories of the earlier part of the user's sub-page edits into the later history of the article page. This has for example resulted in changing the edit history of the article to appear different from what it was. For example a revert of an edit that changed the article into a redirect now looks like the revert of something else. The second problem with this approach is that it looks as if Nev1 was editing and developing the article in article space with no objections. This I think gives a false impression that the edit trail was built up with consent (silence equals consent). In general this type of merge seems like a very dangerous thing to do because we all rely here in ANI and other Wikiepdia forum that the history of an article (with occasional small discrepancies to fix cut and past moves) are an accurate record of changes made to an article.

Over a day ago, I asked Nev1 on Nev1's talk page to revert the merge (Revision as of 11:10, 4 October 2011) Nev1 posted a comment to the talk page after my comment (Revision Revision as of 11:27, 4 October 2011)--so Nev1 has seen the request--but no revert of the merge has taken place.

1. I would like to know what the consensus is at ANI. May editors use administrative functions to merge the histories of their own user space article into the history of an article that already exist, or should they restrict themselves to the tools available to an ordinary user?
2. If the agreement is that administrative tools should not be used to perform this action, then should Nev1 or another uninvolved administrator in this specific case de-merge the histories?

NB just so it is clear I am concerned about the method used to introduce new text, I am not discussing the content of the text (because question one is a general one and applies to any new text moved from a users sandbox into an existing article--We will get sidetracked if we do start to discuss the article's content as content is something for the article talk page not an ANI). As I have already explained on Nev1's talk page, if the article and the sandbox are de-merged Nev1 can instead copy across the text from the sandbox to the article as would be done by a user who did not have access to administrative tools. Once that is done then editing of the article and discussing its content on the article's talk page can resume as normal without the current false history created by interleaving a user's sandbox and an article's history. -- PBS (talk) 02:09, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I am but a lowly non-admin, so I'm not sure how much my opinion's worth, but I'll give my two bob anyway. First, it may be a good idea for someone to ping Anthony Appleyard (talk · contribs) and Graham87 (talk · contribs) – they are our histmerge experts. To answer your first question, "May editors use administrative functions to merge the histories of their own user space article into the history of an article that already exist", the answer is without a doubt yes. This happens quite often and users who are non-admins are free to ask any admin to do this for them (watch someone like Anthony Appleyard's talk page and you will see it happen fairly regularly). The only proviso is that the draft article and the one that was sitting in article space must not have parallel histories. In this case, there are only two overlapping edits (one by Nev and one by PBS) that make the history look odd. My understanding is that only two overlapping edits would generally be considered acceptable (and if they were irritating someone they could be hidden by revdelete, or deleting the article and then selectively undeleting), because by incorporating Nev's draft a more accurate depiction of how the article was built is given. To answer your second question, a de-merge is a complicated and tedious thing to do (I have seen one take over an hour, but I don't think this case would be as complicated) and I think that in this situation, the positives of keeping the history as is outweigh the negatives when you consider you consider that the current history is a more accurate depiction of how the article was built, only two revisions look odd in the history and de-merges are time consuming. But again, I should probably stress I am a non-admin and I have never performed a histmerge or de-merge. Jenks24 (talk) 06:40, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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and User:Wlkr999 ==

and User:Wlkr999 suddenly joined in the English Wikiredia. They seems to think that their own arguments and sources are correct, and then it should be achieved their own purpose in several articles of History of Korea [59], Timeline of Korean history [60], Template:History of Korea [61], and Gojoseon [62]. However, I believe that behaviors of two user was intentional distorting the truth about Korean history, and these actions is suppose to contempt for Wikipedia rules such as WP:EW, and WP:TAGTEAM.

especially violates the WP:PA by swear word to me as "Shut up Historiographer, how dare you to claim it is unreliable?".[63] I felt deeply insulted by him, and think it is That's pretty harsh for the other user. I hope and admin take fair action to

and User:Wlkr999 about these hostile personal attack, distorting the Korean history, vandals in Korea-related articles, and violate the several Wikipedia rules. Thanks.--Historiographer (talk) 02:32, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I see several concerning things here. First, I don't see anybody talking on the article/template talk pages--and they (may be)/are new users, so they might have an excuse, but you're a long term veteran Historiographer, so you should know that you can't just try to keep an article in your preferred version just by edit warring.

Having said that, I am highly concerned that these two editors started editing only a week apart, and so far have a nearly 100% overlap: Wlkr999 has edited exactly 3 different articles/templates, all 3 of which Quendearn has also edited (Quendearn's only additional article is Timeline of Korean history. Plus, it rings some alarm bells to me that Quendearn's very first edit had the edit summary of "repaired a ref link; to be consistant with other cites of Wiki". It also bothers me that, when Historiographer warned Wlkr999 for disruptive editing (which may or may not be justified), Wlk999's response included the line, "BTW, I noticed many editing wars in your editing history"--note that this comment was made after Wlk999 had been editing about 1 week. Wlk999's first 4 edits were reverts of another editor. Of course, all of these things are explainable, but put together I'm suspecting off-wiki coordination, sockpuppetry, and/or a returned user coming back under a new name. I know we've had people blocked for bad behavior on Korean history articles before, but no names spring to my mind. Anyone with any more specific thoughts. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:08, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

First, I am new here. If my sentence was too harsh and offended you, Historiographer, I would like to apologize.

Then considering the revision I made, I here need to statement the followings: 1. The refs I used: "Korea, Old and New" and "The Korea, A global studies handbook" are western academic publications (third party press, with Korean authors) and are the standard text-books in US universities on Korea study. The outer links I included are all from .edu sites and with specific authors who are responsible to. "Korea, Old and New", is considered to be "most reliable and useful" by journal of Korean Study (vol.16,pp 118). Anyone can use google scholar to search this book and can find out it has the most citations among the pubs on Korea history. Without any research, Historiographer judged my refs to be unreliable even after I had told him/her what those refs are. For me, such illogical behavior only implies nationalistic emotions and bad intentions. 2. Every sentence (Yes, every sentence) I added or corrected is according to or even from the refs I mentioned above. Historiographer undid many revisions of mine without providing any supporting facts or evidence. I hope admin could check all the edits between Historiographer and I and judge who is telling the facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quendearn (talk • contribs) 05:41, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, as a new editor, you may not be aware, but admins don't do that. We don't arbitrate content decisions and pick the "right" answer (at least, we're not supposed to). Our "job" is to handle issues related to user behavior, along with some ancillary things like deletions and page protections. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:59, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Well then, if Historiographer continues to undo all my revisions without reasons and supporting evidence as what he has done, what should I do? Who should I ask to conclude the "right" one? Quendearn (talk) 06:13, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

There is no "right" one to be concluded. You have to talk it out at the article's talk page. There's a tab running across the top of every page labeled "discussion" that allows you to discuss these issues. As an editor, you are responsible for reaching a consensus on the contents of the article with other editors. Please read up on some policy topics around content disputes, like WP:BATTLE, WP:CON, and most importantly, WP:WIN. You may also want to peruse WP:TALK, just so you get the hang of how talk page discussions go on. I think those will give you a good basis for resolving a content dispute productively. Remember that Wikipedia is foremost a community, not just a collection of facts. VanIsaac_WS^contribs 07:38, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

User:MyMoloboaccount

On History of Wrocław user MyMoloboaccount used Davies' "Microcosm" as the primary source for his edits. I bought the book now and it looks like the majority of his edits aren't supported by the book. I listed them here [64]. Some of Davies' statements are twisted and exaggerated to support MyMoloboaccounts agenda, some facts he doesn't like aren't mentioned, and sometimes the edits of MyMoloboaccount aren't supported by the book at all. Karasek (talk) 07:04, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

I would like to report the activities of some editors – ethnic abuse and edit warring from the side of eastern european editors

It looks in Wikipedia is the ideological group acting together. Its a strong meatpuppetry here and ideological canvassing. I speak about coordinated edits and canvassing of users: User:Norden1990, User:Fakirbakir and User:Koertefa. They often contact the skilled users User:Hobartimus and User:Nmate – this two users usualy dont edit Wikipedias article, but just a monitor users involved in the articles about eastern european topics, waiting for a their mistakes or provocate them by edit warring or wikistalking, contact admins (CANVASS) and write reports. This situation is a long term.

A. User:Norden1990

Iam offended by his statements against Romanians: „It is not possible to discuss with an anti-Hungarian chauvinist, you proved this yourself“ [65] „moved Hungarian Romanian War of 1919 to 1919 Hungarian–Romanian War: Ok, but this is a very unfortunate title, because there was an other enemy in Hungary: Czechoslovakia. On the other hand this article is a typical product of Romanian chau...)“ – he meaned chauvinism[66]

Iam offended by his statements against Slovaks and he is deleteing content in the Slovak related articles: „Slovak? No comment“[67] „Slovakia??? When?“[68] „moved Alexander Rudnay to Sándor Rudnay: He was a Hungarian of Slovak descent not a Slovak. He served in the Kingdom of Hungary, Slovakia established in 1993.“ [69] Slovaks were autochtonous nation in the Kingdom of Hungary before 1918 and distinct Slovak nation durring the Czechoslovakia before 1993. Its ethnic related comments.

He is changeing the names of persons and geographic areas without discussion and consensus: [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] Hungarian names of the towns and vilages in the Kingdom of Hungary were official only between 1868-1918. In the clear Slovak person should be mentioned primary Slovak names of the towns and villages acording to Elonka´s experiment.

Moveing articles withot consensus and edit warring: [82] [83] [84] [85]

User:Norden1990 is highly disruptive user in the topics connected with Slovak history, he is not able to make a consensus and he uses the ethnic abuse if somebody doesnt agree with him. He is not disruptive only in the case of the modern Hungarian politicians.

B. User:Fakirbakir

I feel a personaly touched by his statements and strong ethnic related abuse: „Samofi you are a Slovak nationalist user who hates Hungarian pages“[86] He was asked for a few times to delete it, but its still there: [87]

This statement is an agressive political personal attack to my country and to Slovak people: „The modern Slovakia is a neo-fascist state where the hungarian minority is just a thing what they have to assimilate into the slovak society“[88]

And here other examples of bad behaviour: „You do not understand his complain because you can not see your own troll behavior“ [89] [90] Propagation of „scientific racism“ as a modern theory and edit warring: [91]

Edit warring mentality in the variouse articles and with variouse editors: User:Daizus [92] User:Samofi [93] [94] [95] [96] User:Iadrian_yu [97] User:Octavian8 [98] User:Wladthemlat [99] User:Yopie [100] Other users: [101]

Moveing pages without discussion and consensus: Allied intervention in Hungary [102] Royal Hungary [103]

Canvassing: Principality of Nitra [104] Principality of Hungary [105] Against admins [106] „I know that page does not have to be exist as a full page I know why you supported him but.....Please keep your eyes on him“[107]

Changeing the content without sources: [108] [109]

User:Fakirbakir add a strongly negative contributions to Slovak related articles. He is not neutral and he is often involved in edit warring. His work consist with writing the synthesis. He usualy finds a nationalistic hungarian source what is just a minor theory. Than he is writing a new article like a synthesis to prove that this minor theory is right. His canvassing is based on ethnical selection: [110] - Dear Koertefa, As you see, user PANONIAN (the first one, who redirected principality of Hungary, a Serb user)and user Samofi (a Slovak user) can ruin our editing easily. Unfortunately, English editors, administrators do not know Hungarian history...Thank you for your supporting! (Nálam kicsapta a biztosítékot ez az admin húzás) - it is ethnical based canvassing, it should be no place in wikipedia for this.

C. User:Koertefa

His edits are usualy strongly anti-slovakian and anti-romanian. He is not creating a new articles but he usualy helps to other editors with edit warring after canvassing. He is involved ONLY in the articles where are often edit wars, so he came here only from the ideological reasons. Here is his history: [111] Its only edit warring and ideological warring at talkpages. How many of the new sources or sentences he added? How many articles he created? A planty of users make a disruptions but it should be balanced by benefication of wikipedia. In this case its only disruptions. He is changeing the names of towns against agreeoment that it will the Slovak names of the towns: [112] [113]

He is deleteing the names of the people with slovak descent: [114]

He is often involved in edit wars: [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120] [121]

He vandalized my talk page for a several times: [122]

Contributions of User:Koertefa are motivated only to enforce his point of view and edit warring. He is usualy edit warring against my edits and edits of User:Omen1229 --Samofi (talk) 09:56, 6 October 2011 (UTC)