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I'm currently evaluating my participation in the English Wikipedia and am therefore not likely to be very active or respond to messages in a timely manner. While editing Wikipedia is a hobby, it has become an increasingly frustrating one. I don't think my expectations of an encyclopaedia match with that of the community. There will always be issues with large projects such as this but at present there are a few points that highlight the chasm between the two lines of thought. Primarily, the creation of good encyclopaedic content seems to have taken a backseat. Secondly, the Foundation's attitude towards content development in the project, especially that of publicly taking sides in disputes etc, in the process disrupting an already fragile ecosystem here. Over the past few months I haven't been as active as I was earlier, but every time I come back I see examples of why it's no longer enjoyable -- blocks of excellent editors, a resistance to handle POV pushing effectively and such.

Attacks at Talk:Bhagavad Gita

There are problems at Talk:Bhagavad Gita. A discussion concerning dating the work initially involved CorrectKnowledge and Tito Dutta. I was asked to take a look at it and did so, starting from this comment. Things smoothed out ok and the two people were progressing things nicely. Then BrahmanAdvaita joined in the thread here.

Things have gone downhill rapidly. Although myself, Tito and CK have continued to maintain a courteous tone and have been attempting to progress things, BA soon began resorting to attacks. They filed at SPI (probably good faith, but ludicrous nonetheless), then began to lose the plot a little wrt to policy. Subsequently, a lack of AGF began to creep in, and here also. At that point, with things going round in circles regarding requests for BA to provide more info, I put my foot down. And then the ridiculous accusations of lying etc started with this, Tito pointed out the obvious, although perhaps BA has just been away for a couple of days etc, and I tried to get things back on track with requests (yet again) for substantive input instead of waffle. That resulted in another accusation of lying, for which I issued a templated warning. BA persisted, appeared to do some outing, made a poor claim of bias and produced a really weird comment about me before changing their mind.

While Tito and CorrectKnowledge are working to resolve their differences and have jointly accepted my input in a sort of advisory capacity (I have no opinion on the content and am just guiding them re: reliability of sources and policy), BrahmanAdvaita is losing his/her rag a bit and it is not productive. CK has just asked Redtigerxyz for input - a good thing - and if needs must then this can go to WP:DRN, but I am away over the weekend and somewhat concerned that BA is increasingly overstepping the civility mark. Can you keep an eye on things? - Sitush (talk) 13:49, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If Redtigerxyz has been asked for help, then the discussion will go somewhere, he's probably the most experienced editor at WP:IN on these topics. I'll add the article to my watchlist, but I may not have much time to look over it until after another 24 hours. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff

It appears that things are going smoothly now? —SpacemanSpiff 08:44, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It does, with the exception of one person. Redtogerxyz kept out of it, btw. - Sitush (talk) 11:55, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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GS at Kulin Kayastha

Please see Talk:Kulin_Kayastha#Arbitrary_heading and the contribution history + talk page of Hrishiraj talk. This crap has gone on for long enough, IMO. - Sitush (talk) 20:22, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

i already tried it but it has not worked because every source been provided by me has been said not fully sourced but the source which is also not fully evidence proof has been accepted so thats why i have to went for this activity, because many people raised questions about the article & no definite answer has been given!still there is no evidential scripted family tree produced which support the theory that kulin kayasthas are sudras, then why not the article has not been changed? if anybody dont have any full probe about the theory then both the theories should be there in the article, because it is already started confusing the readers and forcing us to believe the theory which is not fully evidence proof.

And the one & only Sitush|talk],who called me "crap" , he himself making abusive words for me(crap) probe his way of mannerism . He is constantly reverting the other's sources & pressing his own belief is a definite act of vandalism, & if this is going on then i will again put up things like that & for that if wikicommunity want to put bann on me then i accept that.--Hrishiraj talk (talk) 07:10, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]