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Acadamenorth (talk · contribs)

This editor had an article about his micronation speedily deleted and protected from re-creation. Instead of filing a deletion review, the editor is complaining to me and several others in a very insulting, abusive, and arrogant tone we are trying to offer help. S/he is on other users' user talk pages calling them "anti-socialist" and "10-year-old swashbucklers" (examples: User talk:Fan-1967, User talk:RidG, User talk:Friday), and has blanked his/her user talk page. The user also happens to have a history of abusive edits and vandalism. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 19:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I've moved this from WP:PAIN because I've never used either of these before (never had to), and felt that it was more appropriate here because of the editor's history. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 19:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I have left a note. I notice that User:Friday has had a run-in with this editor as well, and may have insight into the problem. Jkelly 19:45, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Comment I have to admit to being a little confused, though. I've never before been insulted by being called a swashbuckler. Is it considered a derogatory term somewhere? I always thought it meant a character in an old Errol Flynn movie. Fan-1967 22:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

S/he called me that too. It's certainly the strangest insult I've ever received. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 00:24, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Based on some things posted a few months back when the article was being deleted, this is a high school student. Fan-1967 01:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Looks like this editor is up to no good again. I've left a {{npa3}} warning on his talk page, but I don't think s/he is going to stop. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 19:45, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

He blanked his user talk page again. I restored the warning and applied a {{wr}} tag. This is getting ridiculous. Something seriously needs to be done about this editor, as he will likely end up doing the same things tomorrow. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 23:31, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

He's not stopping. Another insulting note left for Guy [1], a POV edit on Marshal Tito [2], and a nonsense article created [3]. I think this is a game to him. Fan-1967 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I would recommend a block, but I'm not an admin. Then again, leaving an abusive message on an admin's user talk page is not the smartest of ideas, so he'll probably end up blocked anyway. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 02:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Lingeron (talk · contribs)

This user persistently uses Wikipedia discussion pages as a means to advocate, propagate, and debate her political beliefs, as though they are mere blogs, thereby disrupting the editing process and violating Wikipedia is not a soapbox and Wikipedia's talk page guidelines. For evidence, one only needs to check some of her recent contributions, particularly her ones to Talk:Anarchism and Talk:Anarcho-capitalism. I've told her on several occassions that her use of disucussion pages for general political debate is unacceptable at Wikipedia, and that she should comment contructively on the content of articles, only. She responded to those notices by denouncing them as "assinine", "total crap", and "harrassing"; by removing them from her talk page; and by personally attacking me: removing this assinine bogus warning from a non-admin airhead, [4] removing further total crap left by a delusional editlor. [5] I admonished her personal attacks using the appropriate template, but she removed it.[6] Needless to say, virtually all of her comments to me and other editors (except those who agree with her political beliefs) have been uncivil.

She has told me that "I really don't much give a @#!& what you think and I can't for the life of me see how any of this is any of your business." She has also told me not to comment on her talk page again. [7] Accordingly, any form of mutal dispute resolution, including RFC and mediation, is out of the question, as those processes are reliant on the editor's respect for the opinions of others.

In summation, her disruptive conduct is analogous to that of a troll and likewise obstructs the improvement of this encyclopedia. And, unfortunately, her evident intransigence, incivility, and disregard for the opinions of others suggests that any type of personal reform is unlikely. I believe that immediate punitive action, at the very least, is in order.

(Please note that I have only worked with this editor for a few days and have already experienced two personal attacks.)

-- WGee 21:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

• Note: The user has been blocked indefinitely as an obvious reincarnation of the permanently blocked user user:Thewolfstar. It took me a while to get a handle on the procedures, as I'm not usually the block-forever kind of person, but Wolfstar is someone I'll learn the methods for. Geogre 21:57, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

• Although I have not personally worked with Thewolfstar, her disruptions to Wikipedia have gained a sort of infamy. Thank-you very much for dealing promptly and effectively with Lingeron; your assistance is greatly appreciated. -- WGee 22:08, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

  I think we have more than one thread about this user, I'll repeat, I support this indef block. ++Lar: t/c 22:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

-) If we needed more proof that it's Maggie Wolfstar, the fact that Lingeron has managed to get three complaint threads going on AN/I at once would be fairly conclusive. Few manage to be that nasty without being instant blocks the way that she can. De nada on the block. I don't like issuing blocks, but this person is richly deserving. Geogre 01:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I feel the same about blocks (even though I'm not an admin), but you're right, it was called for in this case. Thanks for all of your help, everybody. She was disrupting a lot of the articles I work on. --AaronS 01:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Strongly support this block. The sock alone has caused too much disruption in the Wikipedia community, primarily to the RfA process. — Deckiller 03:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• • That is, assuming that I look through the evidence and agree that a connection can actually be made....— Deckiller 03:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I made a comment in the other section pertaining to this user but I will also comment here. I would appreciate it if somebody would produce some evidence linking Lingeron with Thewolfstar. The fact that Lingeron might be doing some things inappropriately does not mean we arbitrarily select a former, banned user and pretend like they are "obviously" the same. The differences look pretty clear as far as I can tell: Lingeron is an anarchist capable of writing legible text; Thewolfstar was a borderline psycho Democratic ideologue prone to emotional rants. If you all want to give more ammunition to the critics of our community who say we arbitrarily ban people who rub the right people the wrong way, then by all means keep up this behaviour. — GT 03:43, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• I just noticed that "new evidence" wasn't dug up; this is still based on the old speculation. A checkuser should be performed before the block. I'm withdrawing my support of this action until a checkuser (or something to a lesser degree) is performed. — Deckiller 03:45, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
• Indeed, this isn't enough to go by. I'm unblocking this user until solid evidence can be obtained. This isn't necessarily an obvious case. — Deckiller 03:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Good points, all. Those differences are important. Lingeron is by no means a Democrat. She has, after all, accused me of shadowy Communist subversion and sedition. --AaronS 03:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I was out of line to support the block without even checking to see if new evidence had been obtained. I hope I have redeemed myself. George, I understand why you blokced the user; but it's going to take a bit more process and time to come to a conclusion. Now, I will leave you guys to come to a conclusion as to the user warrenting another block outside of sockpuppetry (which has yet to be proven). — Deckiller 03:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Same here, and agreed. --AaronS 03:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I was one of the first to observe that Lingeron appeared to be Thewolfstar. It's certainly fair to ask for supporting evidence though. I don't have the time or energy to do a full job right now. Here's a little:

• Political stance: GT said " The differences look pretty clear as far as I can tell: Lingeron is an anarchist capable of writing legible text; Thewolfstar was a ... Democratic ideologue prone to emotional rants". Thewolfstar was no Democrat: see [8] for example: "I'm a life-long anarchist and environmentalist... I already stood up to an administrator and a huge troop of drooling, controlling idiots in this place. They're mainly Democrats." The confusion may stem from the fact that Thewolfstar spent her time editing articles on the Democrats, but she was mostly inserting stuff that the Democrats there didn't seem to care for. Example: [9].
• I believe they also both frequently discuss Thomas Jefferson; here is an example of that from Thewoldstar.

More to come if I have the time. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 04:45, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

More:

• The Lingeron account had had I believe no interaction with Bishonen at all before Bishonen made this post on her page. It's fairly cryptic, and not a direct accusation: "You're making yourself increasingly easy to recognize. Again." How does Lingeron respond? At first, reasonably. A little later, though, she deletes the section with edit summary "and removing this nut case personal attack and lame, senseless accusation". I just don't see that kind of reaction occurring unless if she knows Bishonen knows she's Thewolfstar.
• After Bishonen warns her more directly, Lingeron posts this, including the fascinating "I am currently looking through (Maggie)Thewolfstar's contributions, pages, etc. and do not find this user to even be abusive". Forgive me, but if Lingeron's investigation was even cursory, that statement either makes her insane, or Thewolfstar. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 05:11, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I think that Thewolfstar's last contribiton may be recent enough for a checkuser. Think we should set up a request? — Deckiller 05:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Yes, I suppose we need to. Care to do the honors? Hopefully a simple pointer to this thread will be all the evidence needed. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 05:17, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
      • Sounds good. Again, I apologize if this all turns out to be confirmed and I look like the paranoid idiot here — I've seen some strange things happen in the past, after all. — Deckiller 05:20, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

This user has been disruptive, see the warning I placed on their page. I think it is a Bad Practice to overturn a block without seeking consensus first, that leads to wheel warring. I'm not sure I'd characterise the correlations reported by several admins as "old speculation" either. So I oppose lifting this block of a disruptive and incivil editor. ++Lar: t/c 04:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I understand, and believe me, either way I was stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one — I continue to endorse the block, I get in trouble. I unblock the user for further discussion, and I get a few people mad at me. The block was for sockpuppetry, but nothing had been proven; and the last thing I want is to see a huge embarrassment case made out of this if we're wrong. Either way, bad practice was not my intention; I just want to keep this resonable. By old spculation, I meant the speculation that I already read about (meaning, nothing new was proven prior to the block). — Deckiller 05:08, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not convinced it's thewolfstar, although I only had a small number of dealings with that user (which is funny since my talkpage is linked as evidence of thewolfstar calling herself an anarchist. how did you find that btw?). I actually tried to avoid her after her second post to my page. Thewolfstar never edited the anarchism articles as far as I know, which has been Lingeron's main area of editing. There do appear to be some similarities though, both politically and behavior wise (the constant ranting against socialism, saying it's just fascism for example). It looked like they might be wising up after our discussion a few days ago, but based on some of their edits to their talk page I'm not quite so sure. I say that we wait and see what happens with checkuser and with her future edits before taking such a drastic action as indefinitely blocking, but regardless of if they are a sock or not, they are on thin ice. The Ungovernable Force 05:37, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Do you think a shorter block would be in hand for the other, non-sockpuppet allegations? I think so; but, given the current circumstances, I am no in position to do the blocking myself. — Deckiller 06:11, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

It is more likely than not that Thewolfstar's most recent contribs are too old. Be sure if you file an RFCU to list other confirmed socks that are more recent. Thatcher131 (talk) 06:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Lingeron's first edit was June 18, and Thewolfstar's last edit was May 9 (I believe). Is that still too much of a gap? — Deckiller 06:33, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

We have records on Thewolfstar; I'll check into it. Essjay (Talk) 07:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

IP evidence is consistent with previous Thewolfstar socks. I'd call it  Confirmed. Essjay (Talk) 07:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow, I'm a bit surprised and sorry to have been critical of Geogre and others before. Admittedly I didn't do much more than a short review of Lingeron's contributions. But at least it is, apparently, all settled now and in my opinion this Checkuser should have preceded any indefinite block. — GT 08:43, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

If, in the opinion of the blocking admin, the sockpuppet is obvious, then checkuser is not required; we routinely decline such requests under the rubric "Obvious sockpuppets may be blocked without the need for checkuser." If someone disputes the position that the sockpuppet is obvious, then a checkuser can be requested. To my knowledge (I haven't checked RfCU) no checkuser was actually requested by either side; it was mentioned above, but if I hadn't decided to do it sua sponte, it would not have been done. Essjay (Talk) 09:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Well not that it's necessarily my interpretation that means anything, but to me "obvious" is quite different from "probable" or "likely" or "strongly suspected". — GT 09:10, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, so is someone going to redo the block? The Ungovernable Force 09:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Having handled hundreds of such requests (possibly thousands, I'd have to go look), I don't feel particularly conceited to style myself as somewhat of an authority on the subject. Had the immediate reaction been to list this on RfCU rather than block, and had I been the checkuser who handled it (until about a week ago, it was about a 75% chance I would be), I would have rejected it as obvious. Additionally, we do not generally perform checks of this nature (that is, to clear up questions about a block) until someone asks us to do so; given that RfCU is the appropriate location to do so, such checks are generally not done until listed there. Essjay (Talk) 09:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I have taken the liberty of reblocking indefinitely, referencing this thread, and I welcome review of my actions. I got an email from Deckiller explaing that s/he felt s/he had no choice but to lift the block. I guess I sympathise with the prudence, but don't agree it was warranted. The lift seems to have not taken, which is fortunate, no harm done, but in future, really, I think taking the word of other admins and asking for further investigation before lifting a block may be a better approach. An obvious sock is just that, obvious, and when several admins come to the same conclusion, engaging valuable Checkuser resources, while arguably prudent, and understandable, might be reconsidered. Admins need to, by default, trust each other, and to assume we're all here for the same reason, to build an encyclopedia. ++Lar: t/c 09:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• It's perfectly fine with me that the block was lifted. The actions that followed were all by the book, and I'm pleased that there were questions, that they generated a check user, and that a block has been reinstated. We should be skeptical when indefinite blocks are involved, and I welcome any review of further blocks. (In other words, no hard feelings at all. I'm glad that there were questions and that the questions prompted precisely appropriate actions.) Thewolfstar is pretty dedicated and...upset. Geogre 12:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I think questioning, skepticism, asking for clarification and all are fine but I don't see the need for rash action, there was little harm and some considerable benefit in leaving the block in place (or reducing it to a definite one for the disruption caused) and none in lifting it, in my view. As I said, we could have discussed this without one admin overturning another that way. we were fortunate this user didn't cause more disruption, but that was luck. ++Lar: t/c 17:36, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Clarification: For the record, just so folks know, Wolfstar wasn't a Democrat: she was an anti-Democrat. Her campaign, pursued with the kind of monomania that's scary, was to alter the article on the Democratic Party to make it "socialist." I.e. she edited it a lot because she wanted to tell the world the secret truth about Democrats -- that they're all socialists. Lotsa edits doesn't mean interest. :-) Geogre 12:17, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I oppose this ban against Lingeron. It has not been proven that she is a sockpuppet of TheWolfStar. A checkuser must be run, and the IP results made openly available. This ban is out of process, and appears to be negatively motivated. I request that the out of process and ill-considered ban be removed (again, it was already removed once by a discerning user) until and unless it is publicly proven that the user is a sockpuppet. - MSTCrow 20:12, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• You do? Gosh. Check user was run. Puppetry confirmed. Folks are free to take a look at user talk:MSTCrow to decide for themselves whether this objection is motivated by due concern or prior hostility. Process was followed. Geogre 20:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Prior hostility to whom? I have not interacted with anyone involved in this entire issue previously, save Lingeron. I do not understand the thrust of your argument, and it damages your own character to stoop to questioning my motives. It is not enough for someone to claim that a checkuser was run, I'd like to see confirmation that a checkuser was run, and that the IPs matched. As banning a user is the ultimate action that can be taken against a user, the process must be as transparent and open as possible, to prevent abuses of power. - MSTCrow 23:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
    • As I've been saying ad infinitum on User talk:Lingeron, Essjay saying above that "IP evidence is consistent with previous Thewolfstar socks. I'd call it  Confirmed" IS the confirmation that checkuser was run. Essjay is one of a very small handful of people with the Checkuser right on wikipedia. He ran a checkuser, he gave us our results. The fact that they aren't in WP:RFCU is absolutely meaningless unless if you want to try to set some world record for Wikilawyering. As far as "seeing confirmation" -- the report of a checkuser is always like that, just a few words about the results. We don't get to ponder the full dump, both for privacy reasons and to try to keep sockpuppeteers from getting any better at what they do. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 23:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
      • I don't understand what possible privacy reasons could be involved, or how it would help sockpuppets improve, but I see that per WP:RFCU, not much else can be done at this time. What isn't in WP:RFCU that is supposed to make one capable of wikilawyering? - MSTCrow 00:21, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
        • A full raw dump of a checkuser request would be akin to revealing private information about a user, most notably their IPs used and thus their ISP. Beyond that, revealing the methods by which sockpuppets are caught is akin to revealing what you need to avoid being caught as a sockpuppet. It's not hard to understand.--Rosicrucian 01:06, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
        • Until recently, only things where the request was made at WP:RFCU did it get listed there anywhere. We just started trying to catalog results by checkusers that weren't requested on WP:RFCU over there. (Check out WP:RFCU/SORT if you want to leave a note that checkuser was used somewhere) Go check out Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Thewolfstar. Evidence from here is documented there now. I'm to understand checkuser is used outside of WP:RFCU, esspecially by ArbCom (who holds the right to assign, and the majority of people with the permission). No need for discounting the checkuser results anymore now I hope. Unless, of course, someone wants to question Essjay's character, in which case we're in a whole new ballgame. Kevin_b_er 00:54, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Talk page protected

Based on this diff: [10] in which Thewolfstar is manipulating official notice templates in a way to cloud or obfuscate official findings (the checkuser is confirmed, it's over, this is a sock) I have protected the User_talk:Lingeron page, and Thewolfstar will have to use email to communicate further. I welcome review of this action. ++Lar: t/c 05:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I support it completely. — Deckiller 05:40, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Since Maggie's "contributions" before blocking were to suggest that Democrats are socialist and then, as this account, that she knew the real meaning of anarchism and that all the rest of her input was talk pages and trying to rally soldiers around the grand old flag of "Admins are abusing me: help, help, I'm being oppressed," her talk page is the primary thing to lock. Without the talk page stuff, she's easy to spot and nearly negligible. (I.e. I support the lockdown.) Geogre 11:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

"Oh, Admin, eh - very nice. And how'd you get that, then? By exploiting the editors! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress..." (sorry, I couldn't resist).[11] The Ungovernable Force 06:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't support the talk page protect, I don't see any reason for it, as there's nothing the user could possibly do from her own talk page. - MSTCrow 15:18, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

The user was editing her talkpage to make it appear that she was not a confirmed sock but a suspected sock, and repeatedly denying that the admins had run a CheckUser. In other words, what benefit is there in letting a banned user and confirmed sockpuppet of another banned user continue to use a talkpage as an outlet to manipulate the process and make it look as if she was wrongly banned? Once Essjay steps in on a matter like this, the fat lady has sung. He is about as official a verdict as one could hope for.--Rosicrucian 19:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Given MSTCrow's own experience, I suspect he already knows why user talk pages are protected. --Calton | Talk 07:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

User emailed me with the following.. (my characterization: wikilawyering and wilful misunderstanding of what has been communicated clearly, several times now)

Dear Lar, Please reconsider taking the page protect off my page. I didn't actually know that I couldn't put the other template back up on this page. I put it there because it is the correct one, as I'm nobody's sock. I had put it there before with no objection and so thought it was ok. I promise I won't put it up there again. Please take the protect off my page. I just found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Talk_page_protected "Based on this diff: [19] in which Thewolfstar is manipulating official notice templates in a way to cloud or obfuscate official findings (the checkuser is confirmed, it's over, this is a sock) I have protected the User_talk:Lingeron page, and Thewolfstar will have to use email to communicate further. I welcome review of this action. ++Lar: t/c 05:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)" I was not trying to cloud anything, for God's sake. I was trying, if anything, to lift the cloud of confusion and false sockpuppet accusations that are being made against me. How can you say, "Thewolfstar is manipulating official notice templates" and "Thewolfstar will have to use email to communicate further" I added the suspect template, not Thewolfstar. I am emailing you, not Thewolfstar. How can you make these statements when they are blantantly false? As far as confirmation goes, Essjay's 'confirmation' is based on IP, not users. He says: "IP evidence is consistent with previous Thewolfstar socks. I'd call it Confirmed." Essjay (Talk) 07:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC) My apologies to Essjay but this following evidence is no kind of confirmation. According to the checkuser page Thewolfstar's IP is 24.161.22.244 -- Our IP here is 24.161.28.255 The 24.161.. is part of a roadrunner range. Roadrunner is the only cable connection that people can get anymore around these parts, and in a lot of places, as this company has bought up most of the local ISPs across the country. My cousin has told me that he noticed that their IP was 24.161.28.255 back in March. From what I can gather about roadrunner IPs, they can be stable for some time or they can change fairly frequently, and this is at the discretion of Time-Warner Co. (Roadrunner). Like I said on my page, unless Thewolfstar snuck into my uncle's house at night when they were all sleeping and used their computer, it is impossible that her IP is the same as theirs. And as I have shown our IP here is not the same as hers. As of yet, there has been no real comparison run between Thewolfstar's edits and my edits. On this page the ones providing evidence are saying that they doubt or are unsure if I am Thewolfstar. To block me indefinitely because Geogre and Bishonen have some sort of strong belief that I am this user is outrageous and so completely unfair. Like I said before it's a good thing that this doesn't happen in murder cases in real life! Lars, this whole campaign against me, with it's accusations of being the sockpuppet of a banned user seems to be more about the fact that I voted oppose at Phaedriel's rfa, than anything else. I was exercising my right to vote. Why bother to have a vote if editors are not allowed to vote in the way that they choose? Ironically, I don't even hold any grudge to Phaedriel, nor does she seem to hold one against me. I left a friendly comment to her at her rfa. I was about to leave her a beautiful picture of some peaches on her page, and was working on the image format, which I'm not good at yet, when I found I was blocked. We left friendly comments to each other at her rfa: Dear Shannon, I absolutely Assume good faith on your part; and again, stare decisis and let's not make a fuss out of this; life is too short. I just wished to make sure that the missing parts in your puzzle clicked in its place, for I humbly believe I have no reasons to be ashamed over my actions. All the best to you, Phaedriel 22:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC) Phaedriel, thank you for your response. I will admit that it was said in a kind and gentle manner. I honestly am quite appreciative of that. And I agree. I don't want to make a fuss over this either. To be honest with you I don't feel any animosity towards you at all. . Right now after some of the dumb things that have been said to me in the last couple of days, I do feel some disgust with a couple of other people, though. Shannonduck talk 23:33, 28 July 2006 (UTC) Buchofgrapes said (on the noticeboard) "A little later, though, she deletes the section with edit summary "and removing this nut case personal attack and lame, senseless accusation". I just don't see that kind of reaction occurring unless if she knows Bishonen knows she's Thewolfstar." I removed that accusation for exactly the opposite reason. It was false. I was getting pretty annoyed at these accusations as who wouldn't? There are more editors who doubt that I am Thewolfstar than those who think that I am Thewolfstar. I can tell you unequivocally that I am not Thewolfstar. Please, Lars, in any case, lift the protect from my page so I can at least defend myself against these false puppet accusations. Please give me a chance. I am not who Geogre and Bishonen think I am. I am a good and able editor. If I propounded about the topic 'anarchism' it was only to continue a debate about whether libertarian anarchism is a legitimate form of anarchism or not. I and many others believe it is and only desire the allowance to edit the anarchism articles, and make these articles more well-rounded and more neutral. Also, this debate has been going on for years, it seems, please see the archives on the talk:anarchism page. I apologize for angry summaries. If you saw what has been going on at these articles, I believe you would be outraged at the activity of those who would dominate them, and of those who are destroying the featured article anarcho-capitalism. Compare this earlier version: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anarcho-capitalism&oldid=64001277 with the present one after deliberate edit warring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism with the exact mission of making it lose it's featured status. Please see here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Anarcho-capitalism I also apologize for nasty remarks I made. I will say that they were preceded with some real heavy insults and attacks on me. Still I promise to not personally attack again, even when attacked first. I mean this sincerely. Can you tell Phaedriel that although I voted oppose at her rfa, I have no bad feelings towards her at all and actually like her? Anyway, Lar, please unprotect my talk page and give me another chance. Respectfully yours, Shannon (Lingeron)

I see no reason to change anything and will not be unprotecting. ++Lar: t/c 04:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

She's not wikilawyering. I've noticed on Wikipedia that accusing someone of "wikilawyering" has become a form of name-calling without basis in fact, rather like how some people with no grasp of political philosophies will call anyone they disagree with a fascist. I do not see any willful misunderstandings present, unless they are in a non-public form. What exactly has been misunderstood? My understanding of the issue is that Lingeron was accused of being a sockpuppet with a previous user, that the IPs partially matched, but as it is on a network with a large pool of shared, dynamic IPs, it is very possible that she is not a sockpuppet, and that this possibility should be further investigated. Am I incorrect in any way here? - MSTCrow 18:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, you are incorrect in several and varied ways:

1. Lingeron is a confirmed sockpuppet of Thewolfstar, per Essjay. It's not really a debatable thing here. Essjay said so, that's it, it's over. She's confirmed. No amount of explaining IP addresses or circumstances or implausible theories can explain that way.
2. This finding has been communiciated, and the nature of it explained, at length, multiple times. Arguing against the fact that this is a confirmed sockpuppet case is not going to change that finding, but IS wasting the communities time, big time.
3. Thewolfstar through her Lingeron sock is in fact arguing against this and further, in my view deliberately twisting things around to obscure reality. That's wikilawyering, plain and simple. Sorry if you find it pejorative to call something what it is.
4. Note: Being labeled a confirmed sockpuppet is not the end of the world... (since, after all, we're not talking about murder, we're talking about at most the loss of reputation built up over time with an identity... even if the allegation were incorrect it's not a lot of damage), so why argue the point? If Thewolfstar actually wants to contribute positively here, as has been noted repeatedly, all she need do is do so. If she edits in accordance with our policies, remains scrupulously civil, avoids edit warring, and in general behaves herself, no one would ever detect her next sock. But my bet: we can count on the next sock coming out the same way this one did. Which is too bad, but a cost of how our model works here, as annoying as the cost is, it's worth it.
5. removing warnings or findings because you don't agree with them is a no no. It's just Not On. Do it when you are banned and your page gets protected. End of story.

Your tendentious arguing of this point may earn you some extra scrutiny in future as well, you might want to keep that in mind. Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't you just come off a block for abusing warning templates? That's precisely the problem here with Thewolfstar that got the Lingeron user talk page locked, she doens't get to remove warnings or admin findings, as has, again, been explained at length, and she knows this already so it's not about warning her about it, it's about solving the problem.

Hope that helps and further, hope you or she don't retread the same tired things which have been thoroughly rebutted at this point. ++Lar: t/c 21:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

No, I didn't just come off a block for abusing warning templates. I was blocked due to Calton's abusive personal attacks and vandalism, and then when I called him on it (repeatedly, I might add), he ran off to Bishonen, who then blocked me. A quick review of Calton's talk page, as well as the talk page history, will show that he has removed or vandalized warnings from both myself and Will_Beback. As this equals a ban, end of story, I sincerely hope you will act on this issue in an objective and appropriate manner. - MSTCrow 23:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Does repeatedly calling Bishonen abusive and corrupt count as a personal attack? --Ideogram 23:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

300+ hate mail messages from User:203.10.59.63

Prior to disabling my "e-mail this user" feature, I had blocked the above editor for a long history of anti-semitic, and sometimes childish vandalism (this is characteristic [12]). Please review my actions: I believe they were justified, but always welcome a second opinion.

I immediately received over 300 copies of the following message:

What is your problem you lying despicable scumbag??? All I did was

write factual information about Israel and you've banned me twice. It is

people like you that give Wikipedia a bad name. Within the next 10 years

Iran or Syria will undoubtedly get their hands on a nuclear device and

then you can say goodbye to your cherished illegal state. I won't shed

a tear. They had no right being there in the first place. My edits to

the page about Israel are clear for all to see. All backable by

historical text. You are a dickhead and when Israel gets nuked I'll throw a

party in your honour.

Fuck off and die you nasty little shit!

Wayne Smith.

Currently this person is blocked for another week. Please keep an eye on him: he has a splendidly long history of vandalism, and I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of him. Antandrus (talk) 06:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

What an unfortunate little fellow. You'll want to forward the email to the relevant authorities. A note to his ISP would be in order, as would one to the internet crimes unit of the local police services, should such be available. Incidentally, is that a static, unshared IP? We ought to lengthen his holiday if it is. —Encephalon 08:11, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I was of the impression that IPs couldn't use the email this user feature, has that changed? But the IP reverse lookup goes to bandersnatch.slq.qld.gov.au, which is The state library of Queensland --pgk^(talk) 09:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Is this the same User:Wayne Smith on Wikipedia?? --TheM62Manchester 10:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I've checked, but don't see any obvious connection; that they both seem to be from Australia is probably coincidental. Antandrus (talk) 02:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Unfortunately it is quite possibly a terminal in the library used by members of the public rather than an employee. I suspect it is not therefore an unshared IP in the strict sense. However, there don't seem to be many other editors from the IP in recent times and we can limit the ban to anonymous users.--A Y Arktos\^talk 10:26, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

This user is also UniverseToday (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) (currently blocked) and Universe Daily (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) (currently active and editing), and probably others. Without a checkuser I'm uncomfortable blocking them, but the edit histories make it quite clear that it is the same person. He spams his website all over the place, and includes "Wayne Smith" as the owner; in addition the hate mail I received was from "Universe Today". Antandrus (talk) 14:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Looks now like this guy's been a problem for even longer than I realized: see, for example, this post on long-term abuse. He spams relentlessly and often enough blatantly vandalises. Not sure what to do at this point, other than to alert others to watch for his activity, and to be forewarned that he's a truly nasty one. Antandrus (talk) 15:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Isn't that an "obvious sockpuppet" situation (per above with Lingeron)? If so, you don't need to go bugging chuckuser...er check user. I know you're involved already, so, if you want someone else to do the honors, I understand, but I'd say that getting all the personae is merely conducting a single block. I.e. you're blocking this one single user, who happens to be at multiple accounts. Geogre 16:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, since I was involved in the "conflict", such as it was, I didn't want to become too block-happy. I'm also not entirely 100% sure about a lot of the alleged sockpuppets (e.g. in Category:Wikipedia:Sock_puppets_of_Universe_Daily) since I was never part of the original conflict. Antandrus (talk) 02:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Universe Today (with space) is also his, and not blocked. He emailed me today as UniverseToday (no space, account blocked), called me a jerk, and demanded to be unblocked at once. Much of what he does is add links to sites he owns. These often seem to be close to the names of other popular websites. I say block any account identifiably his. Tom Harrison ^Talk 03:03, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I would support that. If we work backward from the belovéd website links, we're going to find him. Is it likely that anyone else is going to think of his websites and want them linked? If not, the socks are obvious. The 300 copies thing is way, way over the line into the block and block again. Geogre 11:27, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I just blocked Universe Daily (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) as a sockpuppet of this neo-Nazi and hate-mail spammer, as suggested in this discussion. We don't need people like this here. Antandrus (talk) 20:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

{{User Modernbushido}}

Several times I have made this particular userbox template. At completion, it looked like this:

This user is a modern follower of Bushido.

However, this template keps being deleted, with no TfD or even a note to me telling me why. As a non-administrator, I cannot view the history of this deleted template, so I do know know who keeps deleting it. Please look into it; I follow Modern Bushido and I do not like to be told that an entire philosophy is not 'good enough' to have a userbox (which several people use). FOr the moment, I am using my own userspace, but I don't think it should be forced into userspace without a TfD...or at least a reason. ~ Porphyric Hemophiliac § 20:20, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I think you mean "As I am not an administrator" as otherwise the wording doesn't make sense. Anyway, according to template history, it was deleted as CSD's T1 "Templates that are divisive and inflammatory." and G4 "Recreation of deleted material." (even though G4 does not apply to speedy-deleted pages, but that's what WP:DRV is for). Anywho, on 17 July 2006, an admin placed the GUS meta-template on this, then it was deleted on the 21st. GUS is short for "German Userbox Solution" which basically means that the userbox is considered divisive and, in order to make it not look as though Wikipedia supported the userbox, it's deleted after giving people a chance to subst: the userbox onto their page.

The short version of all that is: "The admin in question gave you the opportunity to subst: the userbox and, when time was up, deleted it." If you're wondering, no, I'm not the admin who deleted it. Take care! ~Kylu (u|t) 06:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Ohyeah, clarification: Wikipedia:German userbox solution if you want more info. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 06:31, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Kylu. --Cyde?Weys 18:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Whoa, whoa, hold up there, Kylu. How on earth is this box "divisive and inflammatory"? So who deleted it? And is there a good, logical reason? I understand the userbox solution, but why not simply move it into userspace? And if I was supposed to be 'given time' to subst it, why was I not informed? I'm not an e-psychic. ~ Porphyric Hemophiliac § 00:19, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

You can see the article's deletion log entry without being an admin. Phr (talk) 06:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

It can be considered "divisive and inflammatory" since we have this little piece of recent history: Bushido#History of the 20th Century. Note: I'm not saying that I find it "divisive and inflammatory" for this reason. -- Koffieyahoo 04:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

As I said before, If you're wondering, no, I'm not the admin who deleted it. Nor was I the admin who marked the template as such, or redelected it as recreated material, etc... I was simply explaining the situation. No need to tell me "Whoa", since I'm neither involved nor a horse. :D ~Kylu (u|t) 20:40, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I should point out for future reference that the deletion logs are public record, and that even non-admins can see who deleted a given page by consulting them (there's even a link if you check the page that appears on a redlink!) In this case, look here to see who did the relevant deletions. And it should also be noted that technically G4, speedy-deletion-of-previously-deleted-material, does not apply when the only previous deletion was a speedy or a prod, although of course any speedy criteria that was applied the first time will likely apply again if it's really a 'substantially identical copy.' The only time this really matters is with A7, where if you follow the rules mechanically an exact recreation of a valid A7 with the word "notable" added to it is no longer a speedy candidate and must be taken to AfD... but A7 specifically notes you're supposed to do that with disputed A7's anyway. --Aquillion 06:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Slimvirgin is threatening to delete my subpage

The page is here, her comments are here. She is calling it an attack page, but it only contains descriptions of edits which is explicitly allowed in Wikipedia policy. This is a list of edits that I consider objectionable. I'm not making personal attacks; I'm factually commentating on content in a civil manner, which is specifically condoned by WP:NPA: "Personal attacks do not include civil language used to describe an editor's actions, and when made without involving their personal character, should not be construed as personal attacks. Stating "Your statement is a personal attack..." is not itself a personal attack—it is a statement regarding the actions of the user, not a statement about the user."

As Tony Sidaway has put it [13], "Deuterium is permitted to gather evidence on matters concerning the construction of the encyclopedia and people's conduct within the community." Deuterium 07:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I have asked Deuterium four times what the purpose of the page is, and he is unable to explain. I regard it as an attack page, and have asked him to remove, or in some way neutralize, the descriptions of the people who are listed. We're here to write an encyclopedia, and keeping pages like that is, at best, a waste of time, and at worst causes unnecessary ill feeling. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 07:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Not to butt in, but as a third party, I've just read all the banter, and it appears he has in fact explained it to you... 74.136.222.198 07:45, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Then perhaps you can translate for me, because I'm not getting it. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 07:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I will try my best. He says "It is useful to gather evidence regarding people's conduct as part of the overall process of building an encyclopedia". I take this to mean that he is using the page as a tool to catalog edits which he characterizes as problematic. This helps him both by allowing him to later study similar trends in problematic edits to improve his own writing and conduct, and to keep track of possible evolving problems much the same way you might use a watchlist or recent changes. 74.136.222.198 07:51, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, that's exactly correct. Deuterium 08:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

LOL!! I wonder why you didn't say it yourself if it's "exactly correct." So you're studying similar trends in problematic areas to improve your own writing and conduct? So far, not much improvement, sadly. Maybe you need to add more names. :-D SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Given that Hillman's dig pages (see above) seem to be getting the all-clear, a page of this type is nowhere near as problematic, and I don't see why it needs to go. Proto::type 07:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmmmm. Hillman's page tracks long-term problems with pushing of POV in certain well-defined areas. The page under discussion seesm to be a random collection of "OMG! Rouge admin abuse!" But I could be wrong. For example, calling Magabund a holocaust denier was harsh, but as it turns out Magabund has made numerous edits supportive of holocaust deniers, so although it's a poor kind of an edit summary it is not without a basis in truth, especially since Magabund seems to me to have been deliberately ratcheting up the tension in Talk. If you want to trawl the database looking for edits where people are accused of being holocaust deniers I suspect you will find a large number, almost all form editors with a less illustrious edit history than Jayjg. Just zis Guy you know? 14:12, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Also, I want to point out that I have offered to discuss removing any specific listings that SV (or anyone else) might have a problem with. I have removed one when Timothy Usher pointed out I made a mistake, and I've just removed some others that people have expressed objections to as a good faith gesture. Deuterium 08:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

It could alleviate some objections to not organize it by sections on the users who made the attacks. —Centrx→talk • 08:11, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but it would also make it a lot less useful as I can't see who the troublesome editors are. Deuterium 09:29, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, let's see, you claim that my description of User:Magabund as a "Holocaust denier" is a "personal attack". Now, this is the same User:Magabund who, in his first edits felt the need to defend Holocaust denier David Irving [14] [15] [16] [17], to buff up Irving's article [18] [19] [20], to add Irving to the List of historians, [21] and to add links to Irving's website to other articles. [22]. His first edits also contained a defense of Holocaust denier Fred A. Leuchter [23] He later returned to defend Irving some more, buffing his article [24] and insisting he shouldn't be described as a "Holocaust denier", [25] [26], and buffing up the article of Holocaust denier Germar Rudolf for good measure. [27] He returned again a few months later for more defenses of Irving [28] [29], then a defense of Rudolf [30] and some support of Irving's views. [31] This was all in his first 100 edits, and I've left out a number of his other dubious edits. Now, in exactly what way do you feel "Holocaust denier" doesn't fit? Are you arguing, for example, that "defender/supporter of Holocaust deniers" would be more accurate? Jayjg ^(talk) 09:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, since he hasn't actually denied the holocaust, accusing him of being a holocaust denier is a baseless personal attack. And I don't see the use of characterizing him as a defender or supporter of Holocaust deniers either, as someone can edit in favour of a cause without supporting it, it's called being a devil's advocate. Remember WP:NPA: Comment on content, not on the contributor. Also #

'# Using someone's affiliations as a means of dismissing or discrediting their views — regardless of whether said affiliations are mainstream or extreme. Deuterium 09:28, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Now you're being absurd. People don't defend Holocaust denial in order to play devil's advocate, just as they don't insist 2+2=5 to see what it feels like. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Absurd? I thought WP:AGF required us to not make assumptions about other editors' intentions. Regardless, given that the user in question has not actually denied the holocaust accusing him of holocaust denial is a personal attack. Deuterium 09:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Anyway, if it helps, I've changed the listing to be more neutral and removed the characterization of JayJG's edit as a personal attack. The facts speak for themselves in this instance. Deuterium 10:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

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Deuterium may have the wrong politics. But there is nothing wrong with Deuterium's page. Nothing said on that page is a personal attack--just as those who call the page an "attack page" have not made a "personal attack." --Rednblu 10:17, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I've come late to this discussion, but after reading it, I decided to change the layout of Deuterium's page a bit, leaving the actual descriptions pretty much the same. I managed to fit my rationale into the edit summary: "refactored to better emphasize the "bad edits" themselves, not the people who made them... section headings were an assumption of bad faith, that you expect the same users to make more "bad edits"". Could this be an acceptable compromise? —freak(talk) 14:54, Jul. 30, 2006 (UTC)

I think it is kinda silly that we would allow users to keep these kinds of pages. It seems like Deuturium is just trying to get back at certain users that he has had disagreements with and it does nothing but create tension. How is this at all an acceptable use of user space?- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 16:46, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• If I may say so, this is a perfect use of UserTalkPages. These kinds of necessary arguments and civil discussions should be kept out of the MainPages and out of the TalkPages. What do you say? --Rednblu 18:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

You can say what you'd like, but in this case you'd be wrong. It's a page designed to engender bad feelings among users, often filled with inaccurate and false statements, much like this page: User:Deuterium/Timothy Usher and this page: User:Deuterium/Andjam and this page: User:Deuterium/JayJG. In the latter, the first edit, which he describes as "Deleting relevant, sourced, correct information" is actually the deletion of completely unsourced and factually incorrect material, and the second edit, which he describes as "Removing perfectly good link" in fact involved removing a link to a POV blog. On top of that, he seems to be creating attack biographies - e.g. [32], and has started wikistalking me (e.g. [33] [34]) It's a disturbing pattern of behavior for one so quick to inaccurately point fingers. Jayjg ^(talk) 19:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I can see the emotional intensity in what you say. But then isn't Deuterium partially right in saying that you were "Deleting relevant, sourced, correct information"? For in just simply clicking on the link in the paragraph just before what you removed, I find the following paragraphs at the end of that linked page.

Far-right parties running in next week's general election in Israel have built significant support with anti-Arab platforms.

The Yisrael Beiteinu party advocates redrawing the border to place about 500,000 Arab-Israelis inside a Palestinian state. Yisrael Beiteinu is expected to win about 10 seats in the 120-seat parliament, meaning it could hold the balance of power. Another right-wing coalition is expected to take a similar number of seats.

--which seems to be about 10/11ths of what Deuterium said in the paragraph that you were "Deleting as relevant, sourced, correct information." Perhaps the source misspelled Beiteinu's name you say? In any case, it seems to me that it would be a good thing if civil discussions such as this would be kept off the MainPages and the TalkPages of Wikipedia. Perhaps civil discussions such as this should be here on this page--perhaps on Deuterium's pages. What do you say? --Rednblu 01:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

No, he was wrong, because he provided no sources for his claims, and his claims were wrong in any event. He claimed their platform "involves the removal of Israeli Arabs by supporting Arab immigration", when it supported neither the removal of Arabs, nor Arab immigration. As for the rest, there's no "emotional intensity in what [I] say", and if you want to take your discussion elsewhere, be my guest. Jayjg ^(talk) 01:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding those other subpages, I don't use them anymore and they aren't linked from my main userpage. I would delete them if I knew how, but I'll just blank them for now. Feel free to delete them yourself.

Regarding FreakOfNurture's changes, yes that is acceptable for me and your argument about bad faith makes sense. I'll arrange future listings in that way. Deuterium 04:04, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

To delete pages where you have been the only substantial editor, stick {{db-author}} on them. Be advised that doing this for pages whose talk pages contain warnings issued to you, or pages that are being linked as evidence in things like ArbCom disputes, is a bad idea. --Christopher Thomas 04:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I've added the template to those pages. Deuterium 04:34, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm uncomfortable with Deuterium's page. I don't think it's comparable to Hillman's, which I support. Phr (talk) 06:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Lonyo and User:70.118.115.49

These two (Lonyo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and 70.118.115.49 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)) seem to be tagteam vandals everywhere they go. I don't have the time to mop up after them, so if someone else does, I'd appreciate it. Tomer^talk 04:06, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Um, most of Lonyo's edits seem fine. Could you point to specific difs? Thanks. JoshuaZ 04:18, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Good lord. Try this one on for size. Tomer^talk 07:05, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

To clarify my original request, putting aside my guess that they are one and the same person, I don't think either of them are exclusively vandalistic, but both display vandalistic propensities. Tomer^talk 07:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Interesting, we should keep an eye out on them. JoshuaZ 02:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:LIVING Langan Article

Material has been placed in the Christopher Michael Langan bio that comes from an poor source. The material is "hype" for a documentary film on Langan. The paragraph appears only in a mouse rollover on a picture of Langan on a website. There is no author given. This can hardly be a reliable source and the presentation of the material is insensitive. Seems like a clear violation of WP:LIVING. DrL 06:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Futher explanation The source in question is the production company of a documentary about the biographee. One would think a production company gets to say on their own website what they construe the documentary as showing, and the statement is attributed to the correct source. I do not understand what the problem is, except that it is less than flattering to the biographee (although by no means harmful or abusive)...I think that perhaps DrL would like to look at the box over here, which clarifies some matters to do with vanity articles. The WP:BIO articles do not imply that every biography should be a hagiography; rather, they are there to keep libelous and defamatory material out, and the statement in question is neither.

She has been using the documentary to establish the notability of the subject, so it is only appropriate to include information about what the documentary portrays. And I can imagine few more reliable sources of that information than the production company that made the documentary; DrL seems to be of the opinion that her personal viewing of the documentary affords a better and more neutral source, which is obviously not correct. Byrgenwulf 06:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Using 'she' to imply a certain view of DrL's real life identity might not be proper, or has it been used before that? --Philosophus ^T 06:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

The technical details of the construction of the website are not relevant to the issue. As for the author, the website, errolmorris.com, is the website of Fourth Floor Productions, Earl Morris' production company. The description of the documentary by the producers of the documentary is certainly a reliable primary source. --Philosophus ^T 06:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• I do not think that a mouse rollover at a website (that has no contact information other than an info@ email address) could possibly constitute a reliable source. NPOV and WP:V are very important in a bio, particularly wrt living persons. According to WP:LIVING

Be very firm about high quality references, particularly about details of personal lives. Unsourced or poorly sourced negative material about living persons should be removed immediately from both the article and the talk page.

Obviously this source is not suitable for inclusion. DrL 06:40, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

It is not "obvious", DrL. As I explained on the talk page, the fact that the webpage is contructed like that is irrelevant: all of the information about that series is included in that manner; and it is not a random website either, it is the website of the production company which produced the documentary in question. As has been pointed out, there can be few higher quality sources of information about a documentary than the people who made it. Personal testimony by one (biased) person who has merely seen the documentary is a far less reliable source than that. The source is not unreliable, it is just not flattering, and I think that is why DrL is so adamant it must be removed from Langan's hagiography. Please read the link I gave to the vanity policy, DrL - I see you included the vanity policy in your own comment on a second thought, but it doesn't strike me that you have read and understood it at all, particularly that clause to which I have drawn your attention. Byrgenwulf 06:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

(FYI, I referenced WP:V (verafiability)) DrL 07:03, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• It's not a reliable source and certainly not a "high quality reference" and that's why it should be removed. It's really as simple as that. Why don't you just let the administrators take a look and decide? DrL 06:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• I've rarely heard a sillier argument about a source. Simple question: is the website a reliable source -- period/full stop? If "yes", then the form that conveys the information is utterly irrelevant, whether it be plain text, fancy text, photograph, banner graphic, Flash animation, mouse rollover, or a chorus line of dancing pixies. --Calton | Talk 12:24, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Please read Biographies of Living Persons. Noncontroversial material about a living person may be taken from that person's own statements or an authorized web site. This is not to say that it shouldn't be significantly rewritten to meet NPOV, encyclopedic tone, etc. If there is some reason the statements may be considered controversial or factually doubtful (and not just because it it self-sourced, but for some other legitimate reason) then it can be removed pending more dependable sources. Also, this is not a good forum for this dispute. Admins can block accounts and delete pages, but are not content referees. Since the solution here probably won't involve blocking either of you or deleting the article, you might try a request for Wikipedia:Third opinion or an request for comment on the article content. Thatcher131 (talk) 12:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe that a rollover on a website could be considered a "high quality reference". This is because it is more a part of the interface and the browsing experience rather than the content. Also, it is unauthored, the comments in the Wiki article are inaccurate, plus they speculate on state of mind, rather than factual material. I've edited it a little more accurately and will wait to see if it is satisfactory to all concerned before I take the matter further. Thanks for your advice as to where to bring my complaints if this inaccurate editing persists. DrL 14:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't understand the fixation on the material being in a "rollover". First of all, not all browsers interact with the page source material in the same way; what's a rollover for you may appear as "alt text" for someone else (or be read out loud by an audio speech generator for a browser used by a blind user). In the absence of contradictory evidence, there is a presumption that the material was published by the web site owner in its normal course of editorial production and was not some secret unauthorized material snuck in by a hacker. Or are you arguing otherwise? And given the prominence of Errol Morris and his documentary production company, I see no reason to doubt his own official web site as a reliable primary source as to the content of a film about the subject of the article. Moreover, I'm not sure what this is doing here (with the request for administrator intervention), since it looks to me like a garden-variety content dispute. --MCB 17:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• WP:LIVING clearly states:

• Information found in self-published books, newspapers, or websites/blogs should never be used, unless written by the subject (see below).

That seems pretty clear. I will try to find the correct page for challenging content - thx. DrL 18:07, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

This appears to be a misreading. It is self-published web sites that are unacceptable as sources. Someone's personal hate-site or fan-site isn't considered a reliable source. The web site in question, however, appears to be that belonging to a television program, and thus published with the backing of the organization that supports this work. That doesn't mean it's a reliable source; it just means that it doesn't voilate WP:LIVING. --Christopher Thomas 23:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

This should be discussed on the article talk page. There's no admin issues I can see. Phr (talk) 06:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

User: space articles and an external link

The pages linked to from Special:Linksearch/http://members.comteche.com trouble me. Nearly all are in userspace, with the corresponding users created; their titles resemble article titles (prefixed with User:), and they have copyvio-like contents (although I can't find evidence of copyvio). I noticed this after a stretch of user-creation patrol; after seeing two userspace articles created as the first or early edits of a user with identical external links, I grew slightly suspicious. I'm not sure what to do next, so I'm posting this here. Is it possibly a spammer experiment? --ais523 09:43, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Google pagerank. Hipocrite - «Talk» 10:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure extlinks in user pages get served with rel=nofollow, so Google doesn't spider them and doesn't count them for pagerank purposes. Phr (talk) 23:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Phr is correct. Dumb+Google Pagerank? Hipocrite - «Talk» 01:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, but shouldn't some of those usernames be reviewed? Like Porn Actor and THE VATICAN?--Anchoress 10:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

It's not exactly a copyvio, but the text from Porn Actor is from these classified ads.--Anchoress 10:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I have nuked the spam pages and blocked the accounts - 40 blocks in one hit! a new personal best :o) - and logged the domain at the spam blacklist. Just zis Guy you know? 13:23, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats. Nice one. Tyrenius 18:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Jgwlaw blocked - Sockpuppet?

I have blocked Jgwlaw for 3 days for continuing to act in an uncivil way and making personal attacks. (She was blocked once in April and twice in June.) In this case she gratuitously used and bolded as indicated:

"despite your previous use of Jamming a Pair of Scissors Repeatedly Into Your Crotch"

in the Jim Shapiro DRV. It was not necessary to even mention this, as it is not the name of the relevant web site, just a section within it.

Her attacks usually come in the form of sarcasm, facetiousness and targeted innuendo and derogatory remarks, mostly under the guise of outraged innocence. They have been fairly relentless since the Jim Shapiro AfD started. Recently there was an obvious personal attack on Yanksox (and Samir in passing), immediately after she said, "I'm not attacking Yanksox", although he was in her sights.[35] This might seem relatively mild, but the cumulative relentlessness of it becomes very destructive and undermining. Here is another earlier example.[36]

I had already given her a second warning [37] after a derogatory comment posted about me by her on the AfD. Immediately after apologising and saying "I won't make any other comment", she then immediately, provocatively and needlessly reposted it on her own page under the pretence of making sure that it was the comment I was referring to. [38]

There are some manipulative counter-productive mind games going on here. However, what intensifies them is that they are often carried out in liaison with Gfwesq. They have stated that they are married. They follow each other in quick succession and alternate on Yanksox' talk page [39] and on my talk page [40][41], as well as on discussions on RfA, AN and elsewhere.

She had already been cautioned about acting in concert with her husband for joint "edit warring" by Weregerbil.[42] This refers to a conversation to be found on User talk:KihOshk, which makes unpleasant reading and starts with Jgwlaw stating, "with Gfwesq and I, it would be a consensus over the other author". This conduct is completely unacceptable, and whether they are sockpuppets or not (which they deny), their conduct is no different — actually worse, because no normal sockpuppets could get away with acting so blatantly.

However, although good faith has been assumed, it has patently been abused. In the light of this, until it is proved otherwise and until this collaborative behaviour to the detriment of the project changes, I suggest we treat these two users as sockpuppets.

I'm bringing this up here in the interests of transparency, as I've been a particular recipient recently of their uncivil treatment, not in an editing situation, but via a rumpus from CSD, through AFD to DRV. I have only commented in the latter two and have not marked for support or oppose.

PS Sorry if this is a bit long.
Tyrenius 17:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

They're certainly exhausting my patience, but I doubt one is a sockpuppet of the other. It's just two spouses editing with similar POVs and levels of erudition and verbosity. Powers 20:22, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

This has been appealed to unblock-en-l.

I am extremely concerned at the apparent attitude that a husband and wife cannot both be moderately controversial WP editors interested in the same subject without being accused of some sort of misdeed. The threshold for identifying Meatpuppets is far higher than this.

Tyrenius, please either justify a claim of meatpuppetry, with detailed specifics showing that they act only in concert and show no independent actions regarding these issues, or retract those specific allegations.

It is often stretching proper behavior awhen an admin blocks someone they are engaged in a content dispute with, as opposed to reporting to AN/I and asking for a review and community action by uninvolved third party admins. There are blatant cases where it's clearly called for, but the specific instance here absent the prior pattern is not clearly so to me (your mileage may vary)

I urge an independent review of the remaining user behavior claims to review whether the incivility and personal attack claims warrant a 3-day block, in the interest of having an independent review of the situation. Georgewilliamherbert 02:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

George, I think you should refer to official policy, rather than an article. In addition, "the Arbitration Committee has ruled that, for the purpose of dispute resolution, when there is uncertainty whether a party is one user with sock puppets, or several users acting as meatpuppets, they may be treated as one individual." Sarah Ewart (Talk) 04:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

A cursory examination of the user contributions for both accounts shows different access patterns, edit patterns, and some non-overlapping interests, though there are some apparently professional related similarities. "Uncertainty" does not equal "any claim of". Again: reinterpreting the meat puppet policy to cover related or real life connected people who have had WP accounts for some time, and who happen to have convergent interests and participation in a particular discussion, is a stretch of WP policy, and a horrible precedent at that.

As someone whose spouse (anon) edits WP from time to time, this issue is neither theoretical nor trivial.

If these two are functionally meatpuppeting this DRV discussion then that case has to be made with detailed edit comparisons and the like, looking at what they said, and when they were saying it. Failing to make that case but maintaining the claim is not defensible as compatible with consensus policy nor with WP's best long term interests.

I have no problem with admins taking proper action either in response to "traditional" meatpuppetry (new accounts created, not longstanding WP users), and in response to clear personal attacks and the like. I don't mind meatpuppetry claims if groups of real-life users gang up in WP on topics, if you can provide sufficient evidence. That's lacking here. Georgewilliamherbert 05:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

George, you're worrying unnecessarily. This couple were acting incredibly immaturely, being facetious and sarcastic, and showing no respect for others. It's the behaviour that's the problem, not the fact that they were a couple. Read through the diffs and you'll see for yourself, and Samir's below. Tyrenius 05:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I've made it quite clear I am not engaged in a content dispute. We are not editing any articles together. I am not even involved in a "voting" dispute, as I have stated I am talking a neutral position in the current DRV and did so also in the preceding AFD. The above notice has been on this page immediately after the block was placed, i.e. over 10 hours, so I'm sure a number of admins have checked it out. Furthermore, the block was also specifically reviewed and upheld by NoSeptember, so your request of third party intervention has already been met. Otherwise, the case is as stated. Tyrenius 03:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

As I have been mentioned above, I'm not independent, but I give the following additional diffs that occurred after the block, in support of a continued block: Repeating the scissors in crotch line regarding Tyrenius [43], removal of block notices [44], incivility in the form of sarcasm [45], comments from uninvolved Weregerbil who tried to descalate previously [46], more sarcasm that I thought was inappropriate [47], [48], disparaging Tyrenius [49], inappropriate allegations of vandalism [50], a silly yet invivil characterization of Tyrenius as Tyranisaurus [51], and trolling [52] (and indeed I consider pretty much all of User talk:Jgwlaw as trolling). -- Samir धर्म 05:24, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure how behavior after the block justifies the block, but ok. Obviously jgw responded poorly. I'm not defending that response, but I'm just not seeing any meatpuppetry here at all, and that's supposedly what the block was for. I'm also concerned that Tyrenius may have confused unfamiliarity with Wikipedia processes (as evidenced by both jgw and gfw's legalistic interpretations of policies and guidelines) for provocation ("provocatively and needlessly reposted it on her own page under the pretence of making sure that it was the comment I was referring to" -- you'll notice that jgw has reposted a LOT of stuff on Talk:jgwlaw that was said on other talk pages, and vice versa. That's not maliciousness or provocation, it's just a misunderstanding of how Wiki works.) Powers 11:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

You've misunderstood the points:

• Samir is not saying that the behaviour after the block is retrospective justification. He is saying that it merits extending the block (presumably until such time as good behaviour is evidenced and it is safe to let this person edit again).
• The initial block was not for meatpuppetry. It was for uncivil behaviour and personal attacks.
• The provocation is not because of misunderstanding or lack of familiary with Wikipedia processes. It is provocation pure and simple. Sarcasm, belittlement and facetious lack of respect for anyone in disagreement, or even anyone attempting a NPOV and not agreeing with her/them.
• I am not referring to reposting a valid comment. I am referring to deliberately reposting a personal attack. This was the attack, initially posted on an AfD: "Unfortunately Tyrenius has removed your tag, calling it inflammatory. Sigh. Only the admin here seems to insist on muckraking." On her talk page, I drew Jgwlaw's attention to this and she apologised: "Sorry about the 'muckraking' comment about you." Having done that, she then immediately and needlessly reposted the initial insult from AfD on her talk page with the words "This is what you refer to." I can only see that this action was provocation.[53]
• I have never made any criticism of reposting legitimate material on different pages.
• They quite blatantly act in concert together, and when they are talking to a third person, they make scornful or sarcastic comments to each other about that other person. It is not a coincidence that a "husband and wife" turn up on the same pages all the time. I consider this to be meatpuppetry. It prevents fair dialogue. Check the diffs please in my initial statement. Look at the comment above starting "Unfortunately Tyrenius has removed your tag". It is glaringly obvious.

Tyrenius 20:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, I agree with all of your points except the provocation. It's clear to me that jgwlaw was attempting to provide context for the apology for the benefit of readers who had not seen it. That's obviously inappropriate to us, but given the fact that we know jgw and gfw are not super-familiar with Wikipedia norms, it's an understandable mistake. Powers 22:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I think the job the couple did on User talk:KihOshk is not to be tolerated. They are engaging in a revert war in concert, giving 3RR warnings and calling their joint preferred version of an article "consensus". Is "ganging up" the term I'm looking for (I'm not a native English speaker...)? This is probably due to inexperience rather than malice. I would hope to see the couple to be a little bit more receptive to advice on how not to do things so that the inexperience will be replaced by understanding harmonious editing. I remain unconvinced that it is in Wikipedia's interest to allow families to edit in concert in revert wars. My cursory examination hasn't revealed any 3RR violations but would it be helpful for two people editing in the same apartment to consult each other to get around 3RR? The couple in this case appear to have contact outside Wikipedia, such as when I write on one participant's talk page, the other responds. This falls under the letter, and I feel under the spirit, of attracting users with known bias (even if it as simple as "honey, look at what this Weregerbil dude is saying"). This case does indeed test the limits of what <not-supposed-to-say-this-word>puppetry is. Weregerbil 19:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

By request, expanding on my "...the other responds" comment above: me talking with Jgwlaw[54], Gfwesq responds (I had zero prior contact with him) with a gentle civility warning and speculation on my marital status (I'm not telling, sorry ladies! :-) Weregerbil 22:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Roy Masters article

User 67.150.* keeps posting huge, uncited quotes from Mr. Masters in the article, and reverting any changes he disagrees with (he removes unreferenced tags, etc.) Also, vandalization of talk page including deleting comments, and editing others' comments. (Even pretending to be Wikipedia administration at one point, to "apologize" for my behavior.) Page was semi-protected, but he came right back after it was lifted. Refuses to discuss any disagreements civilly, and generally behaves very childishly. --- Bennie Noakes 20:03, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

See Talk:Roy Masters#Quotes Citations and Talk:Roy Masters#Citations & Editing. ---Bennie Noakes 20:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

That article is a disaster waiting to happen. As per WP:BLP I have stubbed the article until proper sources are found and provided. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 23:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

And, of course, he just came by and reverted all your changes. Less than an hour later! Well, this guy's dedicated, that's for sure. If only he could put that same energy into looking for credible sources, or learning how to cite properly. ---Bennie Noakes 18:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism to Jorge Cauz

Should the following edit: [55] to Jorge Cauz (the biographical article on the current president of Encyclopaedia Britannica) be expunged? Nobody outside has complained about it, and the content is patently ridiculous. OTOH, it is a defamatory remark about a living person, and even though Mr. Cauz sometimes says naughty things about us (I hereby propose a "Wikipedia:Simon Cowell award" for the editor who can successfully haul the most articles to AfD, in honor of Cauz's brilliant prose regarding the respective merits of his and our respective encyclop[a]edias), we ought not be saying naughty things about him. At least not in article space. --EngineerScotty 23:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Lest I be seen as promoting a deletionist agenda, we probably ought to balance that with the WP:Paula Abdul award, for what exactly, I'm not sure.  ;) --EngineerScotty 23:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Ummm editors that violate WP:BLP by having affairs with the subjects? (or something like that) Pete.Hurd 01:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Unsure about adding copyright symbols

66.28.250.194 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • block user • block log) has been going around adding the ® and ™ symbols to Frisbee articles. They claim they represent the Wham-O corporation. I'm not sure if we use those symbols on Wikipedia; I've never seen them used before. --Liface 00:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

We don't use those symbols; see WP:MOS-TM. Phr (talk) 03:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I reverted the symbols at Frisbee (may need to get to some other articles) and left the user a message. The IP address resolves to a law firm in San Francisco, so maybe the foundation will get a call--that's life. Phr (talk) 06:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Academic seduction and User:Aine63

Not long ago, I came across Academic seduction. This area is outside my expertise, but I noticed that the article dealt with the topic only in a rather limited number of cultures. Thus, I added a {{globalize}} tag to the article. (diff). I was mistaken in writing then that the article dealt only with academic seduction in the United States; it does not. User:Aine63 pointed this out while removing the {{globalize}} tag (diff). (S)he then messaged me regarding the removal of the tag (see User_talk:Zantastik#Academic_Seduction) and posted his/her rationale on the article's talk page.

At this point, I argued at length why I do not believe that this article's examples and perspective represent a world-wide view (article talk page).

In the meanwhile, I noticed that another article Aine63 had written, She Creature, was identical to a review of the film on amazon ([56]). I messaged User:Aine63 about this matter, asking if (s)he had had permission or had written the review in the first place; I also made some suggestions as to WP:STYLE. (diff)

User:Aine63 did not respond to my question, deleted my remarks from his/her talk page and stated:

you are definately "hounding" now (your word, not mine)which is a good word for following specific people around Wiki trying to poke holes in what they--sounds like it wasn't my pride that was wounded.) Aine63 18:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC) (diff)

I found User:Aine63's response to my long critique on the article's talk page overly personal and uncivil); I was essentially told to either globalize the article myself (I lack the expertise to do so) or "back off". (diff)

User:Aine63 has made thinly-veiled personal attacks on his/her user page, each of which was added onto the user page at the same time that comments were made on the user's talk page and the relevant article talk page. (see here).

I would like to emphasize that I believe User:Aine63's contributions to Academic seduction to be valuable. But his/her lack of civility and willingness to work together to build consensus in order to improve articles is a problem, and I believe that at this point a fresh perspective from an experienced, neutral administrator would be best. --Zantastik talk 00:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

My comments on my user page are not directed at Zantastik, but common problems at Wikipedia I've experienced and witnessed on a number of articles. I've seen other such comments on user pages, including those of administators. As for his comments on the Academic seduction article, his earlier critique was that there was absolutely no non-US content, which is false as much of the content comes from non-U.S. sources. He had simply not carefully read the article nor checked any of the references. Zantastic then raised the objections that the content was too "anglophone" of which I agreed, and invited him to contribute said content of which he felt should be included. If he could not do so, he needed to back off of the article and wait for me or someone else to add the content. From that point I was accused of not being civil by a friend of Zantastics, User:Jersyko. Now the two of them are attacking another article I created last night, and which is still being constructed. To me, the two of them seem more intent on hounding me, and this post here in the Admin Notice board is just one more attempt. Aine63 01:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I made the accusation of incivility solely because Aine63 said the following to Zantastik (after Zantastik gave a detailed description of his rationale, which Aine63 apparently accepted, on the article talk page), "If you yourself don't have the time, or the inclination (though you seem to have much to say about the topic), then you need to step back." Additionally, while WP:AGF perhaps might compel us to assume that Aine63's edits to your his/her user page are, in fact, unrelated to Aine63's interaction with Zantastik and me, the timing and content of the edits to the user page coincides remarkably with our interactions on the article's talk page. For examle, the statement "Any idiot can criticize", which follows "This user is really sick of . . . Wikipedians with long-winded criticisms on what is lacking in content, the time and energy for which could have been used to contribute the content that is deemed to be lacking," was written a short time after Aine63's response to Zantastik's detailed commentary on the article's talk page. I would also note that Aine63 had no userpage until today. Finally, Zantastik and my "attacks" on Aine63's other article are merely questions of a possible copyright violation. I said as much on the talk page, and I'm still waiting for a response. · j·e·r·s·y·k·o talk · 02:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Given that there are under 150 unique Googles for this term, despite the prevalence of the underlying idea, this sounds a lot like a neologism. Just zis Guy you know? 08:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This article was proposed for deletion but was kept. --Zantastik talk 08:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I can't see why, it has all the hallmarks of a novel synthesis. The chances of any credible academic reference using the term "seduction" to describe sexual abuse by those in positions of trust is, I think, vanishingly small. Just zis Guy you know? 11:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I concur. It's sexual abuse, and I've never heard of any department or university, in any part of the western world (mind you, western and northern) endorsing or permitting it. There have been failures to prosecute, and there have been winks & nods, but by statute it's harassment in most places. I'm as mystified by an AfD keep as JzG is. (It ain't seduction, if one party has a coercive power over the other.) Geogre 14:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Though not necessarily relevant to whether this article is OR, Zantastik notes on the talk page of the article that French universities do not prohibit professor/student relationships and that the practice was prevalent in ancient Greece. In any event, I've become convinced that it is original research and that these topics can be adequately covered in other articles. · j·e·r·s·y·k·o talk · 15:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

While I agree that discussion of whether this article is novel synthesis or not is important, the appropriate forum for this debate is on the article's talk page. I'm pleased to see that it's moving there. However, I raised some rather serious issues about User:Aine63's beheviour that have not been dealt with. Being accused of "hounding" him/her because I raised a question about a potential copyright violation (still unanswered, by the way), the implication that I am an "idiot" and being told to "back off" if I only critique Academic seduction rather than massively edit it... this is a serious matter. I believe that I have demonstrated good faith in these matters but would like an outside assessment of the matter. Potential copyright violations and insults against other users are contrary to Wikipedia policy. --Zantastik talk 18:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Starneptune/User:StarNeptune

Starneptune (lowercase n) managed to get StarNeptune's (uppercase N) username changed. --SPUI (T - C) 02:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

And I thought I was cryptic to the point of obfuscation. - brenneman ^{L} 02:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

An impostor got someone to change the username of the real user. See the contribs. --SPUI (T - C) 02:40, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The use of impersonation may point to this being the same person as the blocked vandalism, impersonation, or troll-only accounts Darth.Culator, RmfitzgeraId50 (note capital I in place of lowercase L), Darth Vacatour regrets..., Zotoros Infinite, Darth Vacatour, Christopher Keim, Dan MacQueer, Dan MacQueen (who stole my real name), and Sozferka, all of whom have trolled or vandalized Wookieepedia. I suspect it's a vandal we blocked from that wiki. —Silly Dan _(talk) 02:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

A little more explanation, since it seems there's a bit of confusion. Somebody came on IRC, complaining that their username had been changed without cause. A quick look turned up the request, but you should become suspicious once you look at the diff. Looking at Special:Contributions/Starneptune, we can see the account was probably created for the sole purpose of screwing somebody over. It's unfortunate, though probably understandable, that this wasn't caught earlier. In short, we have somebody whose username was changed without their consent, and they are understandably upset. Luna Santin 02:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The name change was done without my knowledge or permission. I had tried to log in a couple of days ago, and noticed my account didn't exist anymore. I think Wikipedia had just had a database error, so I assumed it was due to that and recreated my account. It was only pointed out to me today by one of my friends that my acccount was renamed due to a request by an imposter account named User:Starneptune.

I don't beleive this is an isolated incident, as myself and at least two of my fellow administrators over at Wookieepedia have been harassed here on Wikipedia by a user named User:Swainstonation because we had banned him from Wookieepedia for homophobic remarks. User:Silly Dan has had at least two accounts made to impersonate him (User:Dan MacQueer and User:Dan MacQueen), and User:Darth Culator has at least two as well (User:Christopher Keim and User:Darth.Culator). I have reason to believe that these are all connected, and I ask that you check and see if all these imposter accounts are the same person.

Thank you for your time. StarNeptune 02:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Maybe SiIly Dan (again, note capital I), SiIly Dan eats Pelican Shit, and Silly Dan still eats Pelican Shit are additional socks. Anyway, thanks for your help, and sorry a dispute on our wiki carried over here....—Silly Dan _(talk) 03:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Fidel and Raul Castro

Any chance we can put semi-protection on these pages Fidel Castro, Raul Castro. Fidel has been rushed to hospital and Raul is in temporary charge. These pages are bad enough as it is - now everyone's an expert on Cuba's constitutional position on this and I've only got one pair of hands.--Zleitzen 02:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

We don't generally semiprotect pages to stop people making good faith edits. A better solution would be to encourage regular wikipedians to watch the page. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 02:58, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Given that these are BLP cases - and it's a strong possibility that one might well be a Biography of a dead person very shortly - it may save a lot of problems on what is already a very controversial page. And with personal attacks flying around on the talk page from ranging IP's I don't feel much like watching the page over this period. But oh well! Someone'll have their work cut out! :D --Zleitzen 03:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll watch both. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 03:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I can't stress enough how important this is though. Castro's demise is perhaps the most awaited news event for millions of people and is surrounded by political tensions. For wikipedia to get something badly wrong around this issue could have serious implications for the publicity of the encyclopedia. Forget about Ken Lay, if enough people go around wrongly thinking Castro is dead - or has even resigned - then it's trouble. Anon users predict his death anyway on a daily basis - so I recommend caution now.--Zleitzen 03:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Incidentally, we need a freely-licensed image for Raul Castro. I just removed two imagevios from the article. Jkelly 03:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

An administrator - for reasons better known to themselves - has just unsemi-protected the Fidel Castro article. With accusations that Castro has died appearing approximately every couple of minutes this is a big mistake. This is a crucial issue. Please semi-protect again.--Zleitzen 21:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Tojo is Willy

According to several sources from users on this board, they know that Tojo is WoW. It's a known fact of another of his aliases. I mean look at the similiarities... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.188.116.65 (talk • contribs)

Who cares? Both are banned. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 03:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The real rko (talk · contribs · count)

The real rko (talk · contribs · count) just removed the AFD tag from Wrestling General Board (IGN) again [57]. He removed it eariler just two days ago [58], which I reverted and warned him for [59]. Now, should i warn him again, this time with {{drmafd2}}, or does this kind of deliberate behavior warrant a block? Hbdragon88 03:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Defamation in Talk:Yoshiaki Omura

A new user, Abbaenok, presented a very long entry into the Talk at 02:27, 1 August 2006, defending the subject of the entry, which was reverted by Crum375. The material presented by Abbaenok included a series of personal attacks and allegations, with a name presented, and legal noises made. Similar defamatory attacks have been posted to this entry previously, by other users or via other user names, in an attempt to shape the entry, presumably by intimidation. I would think this would require admin attention, given what would seem to be legally defamatory material being posted, and having been posted before, and possible removal of the defamatory material from the History. Hence this post. Arcsincostan 05:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

User Tagishsimon and user 203.184.36.120

I feel like I'm sticking my head in a lion's mouth, but here goes: While reverting vandalism from User:203.184.36.120, I came across some terrible personal attacks directed to him, on his talk page, from User:Tagishsimon. I haven't refactored them, but they are incredibly offensive and hurtful and in no way are convincing this young IP editor to contribute to the work rather than tearing it down. The IP user did tell Tagishsimon, on Tagishsimon's talk page, that he feels he has an open invitation to vandalize any and all WP articles because of the way the welcome message is phrased, but that's no excuse for behavior like this. I felt I had to call attention to the exchange, even with all the Colbert nonsense that's happening tonight. Thanks - Baseball,Baby! ^{balls•strikes} 06:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Frightening. I don't consider that acceptable at all. Vandals are not immune from WP:CIVIL. Powers 12:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Harassment by user 64.7.136.166

64.7.136.166 is gathering the IP address of other users who disagree with his edits on Actuarial Outpost and using that information to harass people at work.

Here and here you can see this user bragging about this harassment on his blog.

Based on this diff it appears this user is now trying to hide evidence of this harassment. Just in case this user tries to hide the blog entries admitting to harassment, you can view the Google cache of those posts here.

Is there any way to take action against this user to stop this kind of harassment? Thanks. SkipSmith 06:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

You could put the {{welcomeip}} template on the talk pages of the IP's being hassled, mention to them what's going on, and remind them that if they enroll accounts, their IP addresses won't be visible. I defer to wiser minds than mine whether on-wiki sanctions against 64.7.136.166 are occasioned by that person's off-wiki activities. I see the blog post says something about external links to that person's firm. You could check whether the links are consistent with WP:EL and remove them if they're not. If he keeps reverting, use the spam templates progressively, and then ask for a block.

• Whoa It looks like the person doing that hassling is the operator of the web site that the article is about. Looking at the article talk page and the afd that closed with no consensus a couple months ago, I'd consider opening a new afd, describing the harassment. Wikipedia really does not need this type of crap. Phr (talk) 07:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, that may be the way I have to go here. I pointed out to everyone on the talk page at Actuarial Outpost that 64.7.136.166 was hiding evidence of harassment, and that user came along and deleted that notice too. I'll put it back up. Maybe at the minimum I can get him for 3RR --- does that apply to talk pages of articles? SkipSmith 17:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The return of Druidictus

Re Druidictus (talk · contribs): not sure if we have a neo-Nazi or just a troll on our hands here, but I thought I'd give the heads-up, since he recently made his first edit in a while, at least his first under this account, and it was a bit of a doozie: an edit to Talk:Ashkenazi Jews that effectively talks (as if it were a commonplace) about how much German science benefited from Hitler kicking out the Jews. Normally, I'd just go "troll, do not feed", except I looked at his contributions, and I decided a note here might be in order. Given the hiatus and then the return in the same style, might a user check be in order? I suspect that he's been editing under a different account and is back to this one because of a block. Of course, I could easily be wrong. Still, alghouth it may be un-wiki of me, but 'm not willing to extend any supposition of good faith to someone who would make that edit. - Jmabel | Talk 06:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Correct link for that diff: [60]. Phr (talk) 07:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Sorry. - Jmabel | Talk 17:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Socks

Checkuser confirmed three groups of suspected socks here: [61]. Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks. Tortfeasor 07:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC) Sorry for posting, an admin got to it. Thanks. [62]. Tortfeasor 16:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Am I doing the right thing?

Am I doing the right thing, looking through Special:Allpages/User, finding banned users' subpages and applying {{db-ban}} to them??

I'm trying to be helpful, let me know if it was wrong. --TheM62Manchester 08:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Depends on what is on them; db-ban is for any pages created by banned users, not necessarily the userpages of banned users. If the only contents of the page are notices about the user's ban, then don't db them, they are a necessary record. Also, anything created before they were banned is not subject to deletion; it's only the creation of a banned user if they create it after they are banned. Essjay (Talk) 09:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

My mistake, I was using them on subpages of AI (talk · contribs), Lir (talk · contribs) and Sunholm (talk · contribs) - if I'm wrong, they can be restored. The content wasn't too offensive, I was only trying to apply CSD G5. Sorry about that! --TheM62Manchester 09:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Sam Sloan

Sam Sloan (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) is a highly opinionated editor (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Dorsch) with long-running disputes against many people on and off Wikipedia (see also Sam Sloan). He just posted this [63] on my talk page. Am I alone in seeing a threat in there? Just zis Guy you know? 09:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Judging by what I've just read, I'd say block him for a period for making threats. --TheM62Manchester 09:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Since I'm the target I'd appreciate it if some other admin did the needful, but yes, I am very much of that view. Just zis Guy you know? 09:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Shall I post {{threatban}} on his page, JzG?? --TheM62Manchester 09:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I hope the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation can afford a spellchecker. I don't see these as serious threats (everyone has a right to open an arbitration case if they feel an admin has done something wrong), but they are undoubtedly breaches of civility (deletion of articles by the proper routes, involving discussion by many other people, does not constitute "vandalizm"). A warning and pointing out the criteria for notability would be more useful. --ajn (talk) 10:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Sloan has a long history of pursuing tendentious edits, and off Wikipedia he is known to have launched vitriolic personal attacks. He undoubtedly brings his battles to Wikipedia. I am not sure what action to take against him and will go with whatever the cabal thinks. Just zis Guy you know? 10:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I've noticed that chess players seem to be even more prone to infighting and personal abuse than Trotskyists or objectivists. You've done a pretty good job of refuting his allegations on your talk page, and I'd be quite happy to back you up if he ever manages to post a valid request for arbitration. --ajn (talk) 10:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm seeing incivility there and elsewhere in his contrib history, if it continues after further warnings a short block seems in order to me. JzG, if you don't want to do it yourself, ask away, many of us ROUGEs would be happy to help... ++Lar: t/c 12:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I saw that message on JzG's page too. I'm wondering what's going on with Sloan. I've been dealing with Sloan on Usenet for longer than Wikipedia has existed, and while I've had my differences with him, he's at least usually a good speller. He's been doing stuff here and on Usenet recently that are weird even for him, and I'm wondering about his sobriety when he posted that thing, and even about his current mental health. His personal situation (because of the USCF election stuff among other things) has to be stressful (look for his name on Susan Polgar's blog [64] to get an idea of what's going on). I have to recommend some sensitivity with him at this point. Phr (talk) 20:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Alex Jones, our encyclopedic source

I think this has gone way out of control. Apparently we are now saying that 9/11, the London terrorist bombings, and many more were carried out by the respective governments. Because Alex Jones says so. And Mr. Jones' web site is an encyclopedic source because Mr. Jones' web site is a reliable source for what Mr. Jones thinks. Thus WP:RS is apparently satisfied. What??? Rapidly running out of patience... Weregerbil 12:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Any bets on the time and date of the anon surge? I say 11pm tonight, British time. That's what tipped the last AFD Will ^{(Take me down to the Paradise City)} 14:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps the conspiracy theories of Alex Jones should be kept in the article about him. -Will Beback 18:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

No need for socks and stockings, when AfD has a great many "keep everything omG you dont want to be meen to anyone" voters going through and voting without, apparently, reading. (Take a look at Us russian alliance and it's AfD. Nominator, one vote, and then me wondering why that keep voter is acting as if on drugs.) Geogre 23:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Ghost of the Ghost of Bluegold (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Above user is a blatant sock of the indefinitely blocked user Bluegold (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Isopropyl 12:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Blocked. Syrthiss 12:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Request help with 24.74.50.252

The apparent same person at this IP keeps inserting a singular piece of arbitary minutiae that editorial consensus at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Comics, Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/exemplars, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/editorial guidelines#The use of in-universe statistics all disallow.

I've given him these links links and requested three times at User talk:24.74.50.252 that he read these policy/guidelines and consensus. But he just keeps going back and back and back, though never three times in a day.

I and at least one other editor, User:Eric TF Bat, have kept fixing the page in question (Thor (Marvel Comics)). Is there anything you can do to help? Thanks very much -- Tenebrae 14:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Request help with User:CyrilleDunant

This user keeps removing a warning on personal attacks from his talkpage despite he has clearly made one, in which he called me "a troll pure and simple". I reported the matter as a personal attack as this wasn't the first incident, my request for intervention was however removed because I did not warn the user first. After this I did, to avoid this in future encounters. Up until now the user has deleted the warning for 4 times (1, 2, 3 and 4) Rex 14:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Blocked for 24 hours for removing warnings and personal attacks. Will ^{(Take me down to the Paradise City)} 14:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I disagree with this block. While it's certainly not polite to call someone "a troll pure and simple", it is not the kind of remark that has ever, in my experience, resulted in a block with no warning. I'm not familiar with this editor, or the one he's in dispute with, but I'd point out the Rex Germanus has recently been blocked three times (within a two-month period) for 3RR, so it looks as if he has a history of going against consensus, whereas CyrilleDunant had a clean block history. Rex Germanus reported the "troll pure and simple" post at WP:PAIN without giving any warning,[65] in violation of the PAIN instructions. His report was removed because there was no warning. He then sent a message to CyrilleDunant, this morning, not for a new attack, but for that one, warning that he would report him (he already had reported him and the report had been removed). Cyrille removed the comment, and Rex reverted him. Then Rex replaced it three times more.[66] [67] [68]

It seems that if Rex had reported this at WP:AN/3RR, it would have been rejected on the grounds that 3RR is not generally enforced against users on their own user space, except in cases of vandals removing genuine vandalism warnings. Only two days ago, I made that point when I dismissed a 3RR report,[69] pointing out that warnings are not meant to be used as black marks which we give to naughty people who then, as punishment, have to display them on their talk page for a certain length of time.

There was a similar case last October, when a new admin blocked an established user for removing warnings from his talk page. Kelly Martin undid the block, and David Gerard commented:

You can't hammer someone into making your comment stay on their talk page. 3RR is not in fact generally held to apply in this situation. If you put it there and he removed it, he saw it. It's not like the diff has vanished. This has been well established in many cases where annoying trolls were bugging people on their talk pages then tried to nail them with 3RR when they removed them. If he doesn't want to keep your comment there, that's up to him, not you, and you don't get to edit-war otherwise. . . . You gotta be joking. He had a 3RR warning put on his talk page, then he removed it. So he was warned and can't deny he was warned. Then what is the point of repeatedly replacing the warning except harassment? That's precisely why 3RR isn't generally applied to a user in their own userspace - people harassing others with repeatedly replacing removed additions, then trying to nail them on 3RR. (David Gerard, 10 October, 2005, this noticeboard)

The issue of removing unwanted posts from one's talk page has been discussed often. Some people think it shouldn't be done, but there is definitely no policy against it, and there are troublesome users who seem to delight in sending unwarranted warnings to their opponents (particularly admins) and replacing them when they're removed. Alienus comes to mind in particular.

So, if we discount the 3RR violation (and I'd very much want to know why Rex kept replacing that post once he knew that Cyrille had seen it), we're left with the "troll pure and simple" remark. Bearing in mind that people are never blocked without warning for something as mild as this and are very seldom blocked for "attacks" that were made the previous day, that Rex had been edit warring with other users, and that no report has been given of personal attacks made by Cyrille after Rex began harassing Cyrille at his talk page, I do not think the block is justified.

I don't want to wheel war, but I'm hoping either that Will might be persuaded to lift the block himself, or that there might be some agreement here that the block can be lifted. AnnH ♫ 16:24, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Has there been any further conversation about this? Jkelly 17:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I left a note for Will, and a few moments ago, he posted back to me to say that he had unblocked. I was particularly concerned because Rex Germanus replaced the warning on Cyrille's talk page (violating 3RR himself in the processs) after he knew that Cyrille had been blocked. I warned him on his talk page, and he apologized. I hope both editors will now stop squabbling and will just get back to writing an encyclopaedia. Thanks, Will, and thanks, Jkelly. AnnH ♫ 18:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for unblocking me (I never knew I was blocked). I never thought I would get blocked for removing annoying messages from my talk page...CyrilleDunant 18:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Ed_g2s is not being civil

User:Ed_g2s is continuting to remove images while a discussion is congoing about whether these images should be used in these manners. Looking at his talk page, another user is also fedup with his changes and is putting the vandal templates on his page but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. Repeated attempts to ask him to stop making changes until the discussion has concluded have failed (See Talk:2006 Colorado Buffaloes football team) and he continues to make changes. I wish to have him warned and stopped to make changes regarding this issue until the discussion is complete (See mediation request: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-08-01 Fair Use Images on Sports Page - College Football Specific), how do I do this? He is also an admin, and I further think this is a poor attitude and example for an admin to set. Is this enough grounds to complain about his admin status, since he isn't really abusing his admin powers? --MECU≈talk 14:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This user frequentley edit wars and is uncivil. He has also broke 3RR three times today (in the span of 24HRs) Matthew Fenton (contribs) 15:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Leaving vandalism warnings on my page when I am acting in good faith is uncivil, Matthew. ed g2s • talk 15:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

They where blanking warnings, !you! blanked content, weather it be image tag or not. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 15:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I have not been uncivil to anyone. There is always discussion ongoing about fair use images because people always complain when their images get removed. ed g2s • talk 15:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually i believe it is always ongoing because you contiued to move it (sneakly i may add) and also frequentley engage in edit wars when you could converse. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 15:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

User is unwilling to follow wikipedia policy: WP:DISCUSS WP:CIVIL WP:POINT. See his comments here: User_talk:Mecu#Need_to_stop_user_temporarilly Further, this is not a place for discussion. --MECU≈talk 15:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't see him being incivil. He is being blunt. How about people stop reverting his removal of images (which definitely errs on the side of not getting Wikipedia sued) until you can see if the mediation is accepted, instead of constantly reverting them and possibly placing Wikipedia at risk.? It takes two to have a revert war, and I'm willing to bet that Ed has policy to back him up. Syrthiss 15:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

It would be civil of him to converse, it would not be civil of him to ignore conversation and just carry on racking up his 3rr vios. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 15:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not involved with replacing images he is removing. I agree that replacing images should stop, but so should his removal. He has stated he is unwilling to comply even while discussion is ongoing. Attempts to ask him for previous discussions resulted in one example that wasn't directly applicable and wasn't much of a discussion. I merely want a truce. His unwillingness to even believe that we are acting in good faith as well and discuss the issue is his uncivility. --MECU≈talk 15:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't doubt you are acting in good faith, but until our policy changes, you are acting wrongly. ed g2s • talk 15:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

So you are just ignoring the possibility that we are acting in good faith? That goes against WP:FAITH, of which you must (read the policy) assume we are doing. --MECU≈talk 15:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

What? I said that I never doubted you were acting in good faith. That means I think you are acting in good faith... ed g2s • talk 16:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

My apologies. I mis-read your statement. --MECU≈talk 16:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Ed is misinterpreting the policy and he is persisting in his misguided efforts to force his opinion on the project. He has blatantly violated 3RR on multiple articles by removing images that have been discussed on the article talk pages and found to be usable under fair use. Rather than engage in those discussions, he has chosen to act unilaterally in violation of our policies. He should be discussing this difference of opinion in a civil manner rather than continuing his crusade. Johntex\^talk 15:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Blocking

Sceptre has blocked Ed g2s for one week. I have asked Sceptre to reconsider, as I do not think that Ed g2s' unfree image cleanup efforts pose a threat to the project and the block seems to be purely punitive and not preventive. I suggest that Jimbo Wales' statement quoted at Wikipedia:Blocking policy also suggests that the wrong party has been blocked here. Jkelly 15:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I am concerd that this block may be to short. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 15:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I support the block. Ed had numerous chances to discuss this, and he continued to act unilaterally in violation of policy. Johntex\^talk 16:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This is not a discussion area. I consider this matter closed. I would make more comments, but this is not the discussion for it. Please make your comments about Jimbo's remarks elsewhere where we are discussing the topic. --MECU≈talk 16:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This is the admin's noticeboard, where we regularly discuss blocks and blocking policy. It is in no way obvious to me that raising the question here is inappropriate in some way. Jkelly 16:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

My initial intent was to stop discussion here, since the block was because of the 3RR rule, that it should occur there instead. But I would like to remove my closure comment and leave this open for addressing my complaint, since the 1 week was because of 3RR, I would like to be addressed for my complaint. And Jimbo's comments are more for the discussion of whether the images were copyvio or not, which is occuring elsewhere. --MECU≈talk 16:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Well let's see, if I saw somebody violate 3RR on 3 separate pages at the same time, I'd probably block for 3 days, and would probably only go longer than that if the user had one or more previous 3RR blocks. That having been said, I haven't actually looked into the specifics of this case, and will do so shortly. —freak(talk) 16:06, Aug. 1, 2006 (UTC)

This user should be blocked for longer as een after he had seen his 3RR report he continued racking up his vios. He is also a role model and thus should be punished. Further he refused to stop and converse. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 16:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

You have more than made your opinion clear, and there is no call to further kick someone when they are down. Further calls for more punishment are going to weaken your argument, not help it. Jkelly 16:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. Someone convicted of a crime for assult that receives a year prison sentence, shouldn't then receive a free pass on theft occured during the same time and the 1 month jail time they would receive for that. Since the revert rule has handed out their punishment, I believe some type of punishment is in order for failing to act civil (as others here have mentioned: He failed to discuss the issue, which is the cornerstone of civility, of which all users here have a right to expect WP:CIVIL). I am not advocating extension of the block, I believe a probation or warning should suffice, but that is not me responsibility to determine the punishment. --MECU≈talk 16:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Bearing in mind the user's extensive contributions to Wikipedia, and the fact that this is the first concurrent block, I support reducing the block to 24 hours. Bastique▼^parler _voir 16:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually it appears that 2 of the 3 cases are the repeated removal of obvious copyright violations, while the other appears to be a matter of dispute. If the status of an image is in doubt, it shouldn't be used until clarified. However, ed_g2s would have done better to actually discuss rather than continuing to revert. I'm reducing the block to 24 hours, minus time already served. —freak(talk) 16:21, Aug. 1, 2006 (UTC)

I believe it should be 3 days an average 3rr vio gets 24h, this sint average its 3 3rrs. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 16:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Your opinion is clear. You can stop repeating it now. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 16:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Unblocking

In reviewing Ed g2s's actions, it's evident that the removal of the fair use images on those pages were in clear accordance with Wikipedia's policy on fair use images. 3RR doesn't apply when policy is being followed. I suggest someone reverse the block entirely, and remove the images. Bastique▼^parler _voir 16:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

He violated 3RR three times, and one of those times i was fully involved. the image clealy did not violate FU. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 16:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

ed_g2s's actions on 2006 Colorado Buffaloes football team and 2006 Oklahoma Sooners football team were correct. Policy says that logos shouldn't be used in a purely decorative way like this. These are not 3RR violations. --Interiot 16:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Theres annother one, and maybe they wouldnt of been 3RR !IF! he had been willing to converse. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 16:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I was under the impression that the only exception of 3RR was for blatant vandalism? Otherwise you have multiple people reverting each under way past 3RR, each of them thinking that they're in the right because they interpret policy differently ... 3RR is designed to prevent disruptive edit warring like this. It looks like this was what happened here. I too am personally of the opinion that those logos weren't being used properly, but it shouldn't have been edit-warred over. --Cyde↔Weys 16:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

We do make an exception for removing defamation. I do not know how we accomodate image cleanup reverting, given the fact that violations of Wikipedia:Image use policy and Wikipedia:Fair use criteria are often reverted by users who have philosophical disagreements with those policies, but without creating an exception that can be gamed in the cases of unfree content that we are willing to defend (such as the J-P cartoons). Jkelly 17:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

That's a tricky one. The blocking policy does not allow exceptions for image copyright cleanup. Maybe it should, but it would have to be worded in such a way that would prevent gaming the system. Everything I've seen from Jimbo on this subject points to the interpretation that he wants admins to clean up these image problems, and it's a bit worrying that someone gets blocked for this. The job is thankless enough as it is, and there are very few admins who are willing to be involved in such a job, knowing that it does not increase their popularity. AnnH ♫ 22:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I support unblocking Ed. His error was when he reverted again when the images were reinserted after his first removal. At that point, instead of reverting he should have blocked. Editors have no right to insert violations of our unlicensed media use policy, and those who do so after having been put on notice that a given usage is not within the policy are subject to immediate blocks without further warning. Instead of continuing to revert, Ed should have blocked the miscreants for copyright abuse. Hopefully, in future similar situations, he will do the right thing and block instead of revert. Kelly Martin (talk) 20:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Name calling isn't appropriate. --MECU≈talk 22:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

He broke 3RR three times, he should not be unblocked. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 20:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

You have made your opinion, and your stridency, abundantly clear. Just what is the source of your excessive vindictiveness in this situation? Kelly Martin (talk) 21:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Well..

• He violated policy 3 times. Not once or twice !three! times.
• He is an administrator, he is expected to uphold wiki policys.
• As an adminitsrator he is expected to abide to them him self.
• He obviously is on a crusade.. Okay, acceptable.. what is not is the fact that he violates policy on this crusade.
• He violates policy he holds "sacred".
• He refuses to conevrse, no one forced him into breaking policy. To put it bluntly; ignorance. He could of conversed he did not.
• The fact that he is an administartor and a role model means he should be punished just like a user, not given the easy route off. Furthermore it is my belief that any admin who could commit these offenses is no role model.
• His crusade weakens the integrity of the project as he acts in bad faith refusing to converse.

Just some of the reasons. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 21:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Blocking editors who revert unfree image cleanup has proved a very unpopular solution in the past. Jkelly 21:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I support unblocking Ed. First of all, he could have avoided this block simply by blocking whoever reverted him in the first place. We're not allowed to block in order to gain an advantage in a content dispute, but a block in this case would not have been contrary to policy. Secondly, this is clearly not a case of classic edit warring, where one person wants his version, and another wants his. This has absolutely nothing to do with which picture Ed thinks looks nicer, or whether he thinks the article looks better with or without a picture. This is simply a case of an administrator trying to clean up a particular problem which Jimbo is concerned about. Thirdly, I'm worried that other admins may become less willing to help with the already thankless task of trying to enforce copyright policy. AnnH ♫ 22:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

A block by Ed in this case most certainly *would* have been against policy. This is a content dispute he is engaged in. The images are not copyvios and restoring them is not vandalism. Vandalism is the only excuse to violate 3RR. Johntex\^talk 22:30, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Request for block to be restored/lengthened

Three 3RR violations by User:ed_g2s has been reported to WP:3RR and a one-week block was issued by User:Scepter. This block was shortened to one day by User:Freakofnurture. I think this is inapporpriate. Discussion at 3RR violation would seem to favor something in the middle - like 3 days. There are 3 seperate violations of 3RR in evidence, so 3 days seems very appropriate. We need to hold administrators at least as accountable as we hold regular users.
I have contacted Freakofnurture to ask that he reconsider his shortening of the block[70] but he declined.[71] In declining, he labeled as "bullshit" the good faith opinions of mutliple users and admins who think that the violation by Ed is serious. I think that is uncivil, and I have informed freakofnurture that I am requesting for another admin to reinstate a longer block.[72]
I am involved in the discussion, so of course I will not alter the block myself. Johntex\^talk 19:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, should be lengthend to 3 days. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 20:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This is not a bureaucracy, and we have no minimum sentencing laws. I see nothing to be gained by a longer block. Friday (talk) 21:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

It would give him more time to let him cool off and consider his errors and how he can improove. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 21:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

At least in the case of the Colorado Buffaloes article, his removal of the other team logos was entirely correct. Fair use does not allow us to use copyrighted images for decoration, the edit summary the teams are adequately identified by their names is perfectly correct, and the reply logos provide commentery in that they represent the team demonstrates a lack of knowledge of copyright issues, and all the discussion in the world on the article talk page won't change it. I agree with Kelly Martin that not only does 3RR not apply to removing copyvios, but a short block would be appropriate for users who insist on reinserting copyvios. Free the Fair Use One! Thatcher131 (talk) 21:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Such is your view and ed's, which is in the minority. This hard-line view and your intrepretation of Fair Use. This is under discussion in many, many places, but most noteably which I see has decided this is the minority view is the Admenment 2 proposal by ed that has far more opposition than support. Nevertheless, this should be minor in the dispute here: Ed's failure to discuss in a rational manner that is expected upon all editors of Wikipedia. The evidence of which is the 3RR. --MECU≈talk 22:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

His approach was not and thus he was incorrect. He blatently refuses to converse. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 21:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This is leaving rude and annoying and entering creepy. You've been asked by three different users here to stop repeating your calls for more punishment. Let it drop. Jkelly 22:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thatcher131 you are incorrect. The images were not decorative, they were used alongside discussion of the teams represented by those logos. Johntex\^talk 22:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Or in other words, they were used for decoration. --Carnildo 22:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Or in other words they were not decorative - they were used as part of the description of the team in question. Johntex\^talk 22:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

JKelly this is not an issue that should be dropped. Removing the block on Ed was a grave dis-service to the project. Admins who violate 3RR over a content dispute should not have their blocks shorten. There was no copyright violation here and Ed had no right to violate 3RR. Johntex\^talk 22:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Violation of WP:STALK

In violation of WP:STALK, User:Hillman has posted the following edits to at least three different user's talk pages. I expect that there are more. He has been warned and advised to stop by several users and a warning regarding this violation has been posted to his user page by a third party. (Note that Hillman edited this user's comments to change the heading "Violations of WP:STALK" to "Possible violations ...") It has been suggested that his behavior may constitute a breaching experiment.

Some of the relevant edits that this user has made are here, here, and here.

I feel this user needs to be banned. In light of his callous disregard for others, and the fact that he continues to violate WP in the face of criticism from other Wikipedians, his ban should be effective for an extended period (at least one week; permabanned, IMO). DrL 15:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Raj Bhakta

Suggesting that the Raj Bhakta page be put under semi-protection. The neutrality of the article has been comprimsed by people who are personally attacking Bhakta. You will notice on the talk page that a user User:GMcGath and edit summaries from another User:Bruceberry have been mercilessly editing and deleting the page. I added factual news events and substantiated claims with cited works that were just deleted by others. I am currently trying to put my cited work back on the page. They are making it a "I hate Raj" page rather than sticking to facts. These two, among others, are abusing the power to delete and edit. Ryanthedon 15:30, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Howdareyou.jpg

User:How dare you? has placed the image Image:Howdareyou.jpg on his user page. What is the policy on inappropriate content on user pages? (I know of a case when a user created a rather offensive one, and it ended before the Arbitration Comittee.) Should it be nominated for deletion? - Mike Rosoft 15:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Have you seen SPUI's user page? There are some questionable parts on Freakofnurture's as well. Unless it gets complained about, I say we leave it alone. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 16:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

"Inappropriate content"? It's just a middle finger, c'mon, we're not a children's television network. We have faaaaar more "offensive" stuff on-wiki. And keep in mind we aren't censored ... Cyde↔Weys 16:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Splash (talk · contribs) indef block of Kramden4700 (talk · contribs) and a few others

I'm not going to weigh in on whether or not these individuals are sock puppets, I'm simply going to say that this seems to be a rather unilateral decision made here with a number of blocks for which I see little basis. The evidence pointed to on one user is a year old, and his latest evidence seems to consist mainly of "contributions". I'm no John Nash, but I'm certainly not sure I see the pattern here. One user has this evidence link on his user page [73]. I'm not sure how Kramden and some of the latest fit into this picture. Having a look at the alleged puppetteers targetted articles, I'm just not seeing it on Kramden's list here. They may very well be sockpuppets but I don't see the connection to Spotteddogsdotorg (talk · contribs). I just want to make sure the 'i's are dotted and the 't's are crossed.--Crossmr 16:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protection request for Kvens of the past

Semi-protection request for Kvens of the past. An unknown user, recently appearing under names WeBeToys, It'sAparty and PauWau, and also using just IP addresses, is without any explanations vandalizing the article and today also the discussion forum. This has been going on for a while now and does not seem to be slowing down. User behind the many sock puppets refuses to participate in discussions. I can check the page every day and revert it, but semi-protection would be preferred to slow down the vandalism. --Drieakko 16:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Not enough recent activity to justify s-p imo. Days have gone without any vandalism. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 16:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok. Based on earlier discussions at Talk:Kven, the puppet master seems to be Art Dominique. He seems to have got very disappointed with everyone not agreeing with his opinions, and is now just overwriting other works with his own without bothering to explain anything anymore. The user is spreading a lot of misinformation that he could easily check himself to be false, but his motivations seems to be something we don't know.

VaughanWatch socks

Wow, I feel like I have opened Pandora's box. Yesterday, I opened up a Suspected Sockpuppet case, Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/VaughanWatch. This is really a continuation of a previous issue, see Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/VaughanWatch.

All of a sudden, a whole bunch more socks have come out of the woodworks. For user IDs that are clearly socks (vandalism only, targetting those involved in the VaughanWatch dispute), I've been blocking indefinitely (as have other admins). I've also temporarily blocked a few IPs (again, so have other admins) that fall into the same boat.

In all cases, I have been logging it in the SSP noted above. Since I am now a participant in this issue, please let me know if you feel I should not be blocking these users. If this is the case, I ask a few admins to watch the SSP noted, my user page, as well as User:pm_shef's user page. -- JamesTeterenko 17:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This puppeteer is getting sneakier. Creating impersonization accounts to vandalize then immediately reverting with another sock. -- JamesTeterenko 17:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Edipedia editing things in my userspace

I don't know if this is vandalism, but I've saved a Userbox in my own userspace for my own personal use, and User:Edipedia has been editing it. Please advise. [74] --- Hong Qi Gong 18:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Although no one owns a page, I think that Epipedia should respect your wishes when editing your userpage. He doesn't have to have the userbox on his page. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 18:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

If you are an admin, can you please warn him? --- Hong Qi Gong 18:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, but I did leave him a note. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 18:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Ask him to subst: it then he can change it if he wishes. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 18:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

He seems to have a problem with the Userbox itself, he doesn't even want to use it. --- Hong Qi Gong 18:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

If you don't want userboxes on your userpage to change, then subst them. I find it disturbing that you think editing something on the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit merits a warning. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 18:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't see how that will solve my problem. He doesn't like how the userbox appears on my userpage. That's why he's editing it. He'd still edit it even if I subst it. He doesn't use the Userbox himself. His behaviour is basically the same as modifying people's personal information on their userpages. --- Hong Qi Gong 18:40, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

In the meantime, you've both been edit-warring in Template:User Han Chinese, and you're both thoroughly entitled to 3RR blocks as a result. Please don't do that. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I can see your problem but the best solution is for you to subst if he changes it revert it, if he changes it again ask him nicely not to do it again and revert. If he does it again then dont revert paste the diffs here and a sysop may be willing to do something more to prevent it. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 18:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm ready to ignore all rules on that template. But that is a seperate issue from the fact that he's editing a userbox on my userspace that he doesn't even use. --- Hong Qi Gong 18:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Woha, You have so violated 3RR, i will remain neutral for now and just warn you. But i advise that you both make no more reverts for now.

I have given you both the 3RR boilerplate and started a discussion on the template page and reverted to prior the edit war. This template should be left like that until your issue is resolved. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 18:58, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. And if User:Edipedia reverts your edit? --- Hong Qi Gong 19:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

You will both be reported and a 24 hour maybe more (67 reverts in 4 days!) block will likely be imposed on you both. Matthew Fenton (contribs) 19:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Excellent. --- Hong Qi Gong 19:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Cooler heads have prevailed. A second template for Edipedia's POV is now accesible here Template:User HanChinese. JohnnyBGood t c VIVA! 19:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monica Coghlan

Could I ask for a slightly-speedier-than-normal speedy keep of this discussion? The stub article Monica Coghlan was nominated for deletion, I expanded it, the only participant changed their opinion to Keep, the nominator withdrew nomination, champagne was shared by all, Wikipedia:The Heymann Standard at its finest. But then the main author of the stub began expressing unfavorable opinions of the nomination in the first place, which isn't going to help anyone, and may cause hurt feelings. Since the discussion meets speedy keep criteria, can I ask someone to close it, and possibly nip an unproductive conflict before it escalates further? Thanks, AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 18:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Done! Excellent work, by the way. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 18:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you kindly, you are fast! AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 18:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Help With Spammer Previously Blocked For Vandalism

There is a user (User_talk:68.235.159.205) with a history of vandalism and spamming who was temporarily blocked a few days ago who again spammed an article with an external link to one of his websites.

The user has a history of spamming multiple articles (and vandalism). All the websites he has added external links for are ad sites for prostitutes and porn. Obviously he is trying to drive traffic to his sites, perhaps because escorts pay a high CPM rate or something.

The articles to which he has added links is detailed on his user talk page User_talk:68.235.159.205. All of the links he has added are laden with ads for porn and escorts and are owned by the same company, thus connecting him to it, as detailed on his talk page.

He was blocked a few days ago. Unfortunately, he is determined to use Wikipedia to promote his site with ads for prostitutes and porn. Can action be taken by an admin to prevent him from doing this again? Otherwise, he will be back with spam...it won't stop.

The articles he has spammed in the past along with links to the Whois records for the links he added are on his User_talk:68.235.159.205 page.

Thank you.

Monkeybreath 19:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

User 68.89.137.103 damaging pages

User 68.89.137.103 (contributions) is continually making contributions which are damaging page formatting, and adding many nonexistant interwiki links to "???" (I suspect he is using some sort of tool to assist his edits). He does not appear to know how to use his talk page, or any talk pages for that manner. I do not believe his edits to be malicious, but is there some way of getting a message through to this user? - Rainwarrior 20:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, his recent contributions look fine to me. If it starts up again, I'll warn him. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 20:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

request for help with user with multiple accounts

I am hoping someone can help me with a user with multiple accounts who is bothering me. They have vandalized my user page and are now posting dozens of times on my talk page. Known usernames include:

• 70.233.181.36 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• Qho (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• QH0 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• HELP (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
• Missingno (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

However, this user claims that some edits are by his brother, and also claims there are four more usernames. Perhaps someone with access to CheckUser could verify this. I don't know what the policy is on blocking an IP when there might be more than one person using it, but I need help. I'm not sure if there is more than one user or not, but I did notify this person that "Impersonation is a form of vandalism on Wikipedia" as edits by Missingno and 70.233.181.36 have been signed by Qho. I'm quietly making my edits and I really don't want to be harassed. I would be happy to provide more examples and details if necessary. Thank you so much for your time. — Reinyday, 21:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Qho replied the other way around over at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Hel-p me. I'd like to move discussion there so we can deal with it all in one place. Thanks. ~Kylu (u|t) 22:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Action at Talk:The Colbert Report

A number of sleeper accounts have sprung from the woodwork and demand to include Wikiality in the article about The Colbert Report, with arguments such as "this should be in the article because a bunch of people want it to be," even though there's no reason to think it's more notable than any other segment on that show. More news stories have been written about Colbert's guest last night, as have stories about Colbert's mockery of Mel Gibson, for instance, but his appearance is not included in the article, nor should it be: with four shows a week, allowing a paragraph about every guest, opening monologue, or "WØrd" segment would flood the article, leading to an indiscriminate collection of information. It is on these grounds that, until notability rising above other Colbert segments is shown in the mainstream press (i.e., multiple news articles, not blog postings, especially more than a few days after the incident) can be demonstrated, the content has been kept out of the main article. It is a case of policy vs. vox populi, and I submit it here for admin review. JDoorjam Talk 21:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Excellent plan. --Lord Deskana (talk) 21:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I've already outlined all my arguments on the Talk page of Colbert Report. I will simply add here a reiteration that Colbert's segment last night had a demonstrable impact on Wikipedia which it diminishes Wikipedia's credibilty for us to pretend didn't happen by excising all mentioning of it from Wikipedia entries. There is a poetic injustice for the wikipedia to not itself acknowledge that Colbert satirically criticized the Wikipedia. Ivymike21 21:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Your comment is a good argument for protection of the article and exclusion of the content, as you describe how the proposed addition to The Colbert Report is really about Wikipedia, not the show. As has already been explained on the article's talk page this is amateurish navel-gazing. People are worried about the quality of the article. This is not a conspiracy to suppress THE TRUTH^TM. JChap (talk • contribs) 22:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I've reduced protection from full to semi-protection on The Colbert Report. My argument stands, but ultimately I think it's healthier for the article to be dynamic, even if it means that giggling self-reference amateurishly flits in and out of the article for a while. JDoorjam Talk 23:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hel-p me

I am being bugged by User:Reinyday.

She keeps going on about my dop. accounts when all I ask her is a question regarding my User pages. I forgot my password and I started a new account and she then starts pulling up all sorts of stuff having to do with my accounts.

The Help account was for until I could find my password.

The Qho account is for me to use.

This account is for until I can find my real password.

And my other accounts are for my brother to use.

See here[75] I did not change her comments I simply added my opinion.

Here are all of the accounts:

User:70.233.181.36 My Ip please keep private

User:Qho My True account

User:QH0 My Dop.

Now the four she did not get till later

User:HELP Inactive, personally i would like to have obliterated

User:Missingno Active

User:Misingno Dop.

User:Kittyispretty Dop.

Missingno will be turned over to my brother if he behaves.

If you can't act nicely to eachother, please just avoid contacting eachother at all for the time being. Also, if you're wanting to keep your IP private, you shouldn't have posted from it, sorry. ~Kylu (u|t) 22:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

My post regarding Qho is above and this post is in response. I always make a great effort to be nice and neither you nor Qho have provided any examples to the contrary. Now Qho/Missingno has removed someone else's post from my talk page and is being incivil enough to write, "All you are is dust in the wind..." He has deleted previous posts here from this page, even after they were reverted. There have been 26 posts to my talk page today by Missingno. Please help me. — Reinyday, 22:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Kylu, I find your reply a bit dismissive. I have made about 9,000 edits and this is the first time someone has harassed me. I don't like it and I am asking for help. According to Wikipedia:Harassment, "Harassment is defined as a pattern of disruptive behavior that appears to a reasonable and objective observer to have the purpose of causing negative emotions in a targeted person..." Examples include:

• saying "All you are is dust in the wind..."
• removing someone else's post from my talk page
• vandalizing my userpage
• saying: He [my brother] told me to ask you this though, " Are you relly female or a male acting like a female? "
• making 26 talk posts as Missingno, 6 as Qho, and 2 as 70.233.181.36

Please let me know if you would like further examples. — Reinyday, 23:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

None of the various accounts listed above seem to have made any edits to articles, and there seems to have been an immense amount of what I can only describe as arsing around on people's talk pages. The "secret" IP address has a notice on the user page to say it's an AOL address, presumably so nobody blocks it for a long period, when in fact it's not AOL at all. I've blocked it for 24 hours, because this needs looking into further and the encyclopaedia is not going to be harmed in the slightest if nobody from that address is able to edit it for a day. --ajn (talk) 23:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Serious threats against me

User:Logeon made what I consider to be very serious threats against me. While ambiguous as to whether they are against my physical safety or legal or otherwise, I would appreciate if something could be done. I understand he's already received an indef block, but is there any way to find out who this person is? And if not, could the record be removed from the history entirely? - pm_shef 21:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I removed the items in question from the page's history. Finding out who s/he is will not be an easy task, as CheckUsering won't reveal more than an IP address and I don't believe using a CheckUser in this case is even permitted by the terms of the privacy policy. If I were you I wouldn't worry too much about it. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Removing it from the history seems unwise, there is now no evidence that can be used in the prosecution of the threatener, and if something happens to PM shef, evidence that might lead police to the threatener has now been deleted. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 21:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Admins are able to read deleted pages. So, it can be recovered for these purposes. Should we be contacting the user's ISP to complain? -- JamesTeterenko 21:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, well if Admins can read deleted pages, then lets keep it deleted. In terms of contacting the IP, it seems like it's a good idea. Would there be any drawbacks? - pm_shef 22:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The only drawback I can think of, is that it takes effort to do it. I personally don't have any experience with this. I am, however, willing to help navigate through this. The downside, I probably won't have time until the weekend. -- JamesTeterenko 22:24, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Requesting block of 172.137.108.138

Hi. Sorry if this is the wrong place, but 172.137.108.138 has been continually vandalizing Redan High School (Contribs). — SheeEttin {T/C} 22:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

18:11, 1 August 2006 Freakofnurture (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "172.137.108.138 (contribs)" with an expiry time of 3 hours (vandalism) ~Kylu (u|t) 22:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Vandal-ball-kicking user names

• User:I Kick Vandals In The Balls
• User:WhenMyUncleVandalizedIKickedHimSoHardInTheBallsWeNowCallHimAunt
• User:WhenMyDadVandalizedIKickedHimSoHardInTheBallsHisToupeeFlewOff
• User:MyGrampaOnceKickedAVandalinTheBallsSoHardHisOwnDenturesShattered
• User:IKickedAVandalInTheBallsWithRocketPropelledShoes.YoureWelcome.

I dont know if this user thinks he's being funny or what, but it's getting annoying. Should we just stay on the lookout for these types of names and permblock on site?Ernie001 22:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

We seem to already be doing so. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 22:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

porn link spammer

85.155.14.200 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is spamming extlinks that go to a porn site. Phr (talk) 00:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Fidel Castro (again)

An Admin named Splash has twice now removed a semi protect on Fidel Castro. This is a big mistake. There have been 3 figure edits on this page in the last 24 hours - most containing misinformation or vandalism. This is a very serious political issue that if badly handled has implications for a lot of people. If, thanks to us, enough users believe that Castro is dead then all sorts of things could go off. And given Wikipedia's well publicised poor record with Cuban issues [76] which is repeated in many journals discussing the failings of wikipedia, there can be no margin for error. Could an admin please take this seriously and semi-protect again asap.--Zleitzen 00:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Now is Wikipedia really likely to cause the end of Communism in Cuba? Is Wikipedia, in fact, anti-Communism, and the vandal has been wrong all this time? The article is linked to from the top of the Main Page of the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It hurts a bit when an article you work on gets lots of attention, but then if you didn't want the attention, the article should have been written on paper. There is always a margin for error, and semi-protection does not remove it. He's getting better already, says the BBC (a news site, note) so it'll be over soon. And people shouldn't be using an encyclopedia for their news, nor deciding when to instigate revolutions (which will not be edited). Having our headline articles do what the headline of the site proclaims is important. And furthermore, the origianl protection, by Jaranda specifically said it was "just in case", a use explicitly outside of policy; and it had been protected for more than 12 hours when I first lifted it. At least one other admin has also unprotected on the same grounds. -Splash - tk 00:23, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

This has nothing to do with Communism in Cuba and everything to do with the media taking a look at our page and carrying the ironic headline "wikipedia announces Castro's death". This has appeared again and again over the last 24 hours - all by unregistered users. Castro's demise isn't a common and garden death and his page isn't your average news headline - it has massive implications. It doesn't hurt me, I can't stand the bloke or the present page.--Zleitzen 00:30, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I've briefly semi-protected it to review the ongoing vandalism - it's now unprotected again (though it's move-protected). Zleitzen, WP:PROTECT is pretty clear on this subject: it has (in big letters at the top of the policy statement) the advice "Articles linked from the main page should NOT be protected (full or semi) except to clean up vandalism. Protection should be kept to 10-15 minutes in these cases." If vandalism continues when it's off the main page, a longer period of semi-protection may be appropriate, but not until then. Yes, the vandalism is annoying, but it's being reverted within seconds or a few minutes at the most. It's nothing we've not seen before on other controversial articles. -- ChrisO 00:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. But I've just got a bad feeling about this - knowing the history of Cuba, wikipedia and the media.--Zleitzen 00:37, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Blocked user evading ban

Can't Nobody Step To Me (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is evading a one week ban by using his sisters account (Chrisbrownwifey06 (talk · contribs)) to ask a question about his ban. I have warned him not to use another editors account, told him when his ban ends (in response to his question) and asked if he can contact the blocking administrator in future. I leave it up to the dealing adfmin to decide what the appropriate action is in this case. Viridae^Talk 00:43, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Another blocked user evading a ban - 203.54.*.*

I really need somebody to look at whether I am being a bully or not as I have yet again been accused of for the umptieth time.[77] I have filed an RfC at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/203.54.*.* and documented recent behaviour at the RfC's talk page. I have yet to find anybody who has supported this editor in their dealings with her. She has abused plenty of others and is active in a number of areas. Is the approach outlined at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/203.54.*.*#Statement of AYArktos' intended ongoing reponse to this editor reasonable? Note this editor's behaviour has been previously raised here and discussions are archived at Archive120#203.54.186.125 and Archive120#Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Admin Stalking - at the latter, in reponse to my previous request for review of my actions relating to this user, User Bishonen stated It would certainly be a shame if AYArktos should feel under any kind of pressure from this bizarrerie. The admin actions are fine, they're excellent.[78] --A Y Arktos\^talk 01:01, 2 August 2006 (UTC)