Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance

Wikiquette alerts are an option for a streamlined way to get an outside view.

Procedure

At the bottom of the list, just post:

• A single link to the problem or issue as you see it (for example, a single posting or section of a talk page).
• Label the comment neutrally but do not sign and do not use names (type ~~~~~, which gives only a timestamp).
• Please avoid embarking on a discussion of the points raised on this page. Carry on discussing it wherever you originally were — editors responding to posts here will come to you!

If you would like to get an outside view on your own behaviour, please post it here too.

Outsiders who visit the link are encouraged to make a constructive comment about any Wikiquette breaches they see. Postings should be removed after seven days.

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• To report obvious vandalism please use administrator intervention against vandalism.
• Personal attacks should be reported at the personal attack intervention noticeboard.
• Violations of the three revert rule should be reported at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR.
• If you feel an article needs protecting against rampant vandalism, please use requests for page protection
• For all other incidents that may require administrator intervention, please use Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Archived alerts

• Archive 1: June 2005 - September 2005
• Archive 2: October 2005 - December 2005
• Archive 3: January 2006 - February 2006
• Archive 4: March 2006 - April 2006
• Archive 5: May 2006 - July 2006
• Archive 6: August 2006 - September 2006

Archive 7: October 2006 -

Active alerts

10-October-2006

[[1]]Unregistered user is repeatedly adding negative criticsms to a BLP article, many of which are not referenced, poorly referenced, or derivative of online articles that do not even talk about the subject. I have attempted to reach out to this person to come to some sort of consensus, but they have labeled me a "Dave Ramsey Lover" and simply re-add their edits. According to the Wikipedia:BLP policy page, negative material that is poorly sourced must be deleted immediately. I have brought this issue to that board, and they agreed with my position. However, this person continues adding these points. Can I get a little help here I guess? I'm not sure what to do at this point.--Arkcana 21:11, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

10-October-2006

I'm not the good guy here and I'll take my lumps with everyone else, but Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stanley Gallon is getting way out of hand. - Richfife 22:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

11-October-2006

I am adding statements which I believe to be true and of common knowledge. HeBhagawan sees they are removed under one or other pretext, one of them being asking for citations whereas he ignores my pointing out other similar un-sourced statements. Apandey jumps in with incivil comments against me. I am also subjected to incivil intimidations by HeBhagawan and Dab. Dab being admin, has commented that my edits were "worse than worthless" to add fuel to the fire. He has asserted that he has no knowledge of the subject "Hinduism" and commented incivil as HeBhagawan and others were against me. The attempt of HeBhagawan appears to monopolise the article. Apandey has no contribution to the article. Apandey's only contribution is incivil comments against me on discussion page. I request to check my edits by a person of knowledge of Hinduism so far as statements falling under true and common knowledge, the incivility issue can be checked by any. I suspect sock puppeteering.Swadhyayee 02:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Kylu. I wish that you would have commented on certain issues to prevent bitterness rising since there were lot of allegations against me that my English is poor and full of grammatical errors, it changes the sense in opposite direction, I am not listening to others and so on. Further, the incivility issue raised by me. I wish that as you already have responded to my request, you as well give your frank opinions in moderate language.Swadhyayee 17:12, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

11-October-2006

User:216.184.26.77 is on a vandalism tear through Reconstruction. Please stop him. L0b0t 19:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Next time report him/her at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, make sure to read the instructions first. --Inahet 20:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

13-October-2006

User:66.158.68.101 is consistently vandalising pages; see Orhan Pamuk. Could this ip be banned?

It depends, has he been vandalizing after being warned? Also IPs are usually temporary blocked as a penalty, I believe that they are never permanently blocked. Anyway it looks as though he has not been vandalizing lately, so no worries as of now. --Inahet

User:Ernham has been blocked for incivility and personal attacks, both on talk pages and in edit summaries. Despite repeated requests this has continued including labelling users with which he disagrees as "vandals" and calling for other users to be blocked in edit summaries. 23:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

If he has been warned with {{npa2}} and {{npa3}} templates but did not cease from making personal attacks, then report him or her at WP:PAIN, an admin will look into it. --Inahet 02:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

14-October-2006

User:FunkyFly is constantly avoiding various Wikipedia rules (poor sourcing or no sourcing at all, no explanations for the changes, using unlicenced or poorly licenced images, support of certain political agendas, mistreating several articles as his/her own private personal web pages, incl. biographies of living persons etc..). Particulary he/she is abusing the following articles: Kiro Gligorov, ASNOM, Ilinden uprising and many other articles mostly related to Balkan issues (meanwhile that list of abused articles is growing bigger). All the attempts for a serious discussion and a peaceful concensus have failed. A suggestion from my side for seeking "third opinion" and sort of arbitration by an invited informal mediator (experienced and relevant Wikipedia user from a third country) was disregarded by the user in question in a very arrogant manner below every standard of civility (link:HERE). The user in question adds highly questionable statements (to the articles) which are not supported by any reliable source, except in some cases, with sources such as: websites of certain radical political parties and document scans issued by a certain state which was an ally of the Third Reich during the Second world war etc. Also the user mentioned above offten attempts to defocus discussions from their main topic by using cynical statements, irrelevant informations, out-of-context quotes, mild personal attacks etc. NOTE: My behaviour may have been also questionable in certain cases and Im ready to be sanctioned accordingly if needed. But, rules should not be imposed in a selective way. --Vbb-sk-mk 22:24, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Can you provide more specific examples where I have been uncivil? And also prove that you are not simply attempting to scare off other editors so that you can push you nationalistic agenda unchecked?   /FunkyFly.talk_  22:50, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

everything is being kept by the system, all the discussions, all of the edits/ reverts etc. What is needed now is a good unbiased third-party observer or a group of observers who are willing to investigate everything in detail and to draw conclusions accordingly. Offtopic (not related specificaly to the user reported above): Meanwhile the previously mentioned systematical abuse of articles specificaly related to Macedonia (region), Republic of Macedonia (or FYROM) and its history continues in the same pattern (just for an example: a fair-use image of a historical flag that I've added to the Ilinden uprising (incl. proper describtion, proper sourcing, fair use rationale for each use separately and incl. a proper type of licencing) has been removed just a while ago)--Vbb-sk-mk 23:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Throwing terms around like "systematic abuse" can do nothing but reduce your own credibility.   /FunkyFly.talk_  23:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Patchouli is on a vandalism spree on Iran-related articles to advance his/her political agenda. He/She has been asked to invlove in ongiong discussions before further edits, yet he/she continues to ignores discussions, and his/her edit discriptions includes only personal attacks of others being on mullah's payroll. For example, although there is an ongoing discussion as to whether include mideast monarchs and Khamenei in the list of dictators, and general consensus is negative, the discussion is ignored by him/her, and the user includes questionable sources with certain political agendas as his/her sources. Refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_dictators&action=history --Gerash77 19:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

16-October-2006

User:67.94.205.21 has been vandalizing seemingly random sites, as well as frequently maliciously editing the websites of Seattle-area high schools. Acts include rascist slurs, personal adverts, intentional garbling/misspelling of words, and malicious fact changing. Please look to his or her user contributions for a guide to said violations of etiquette, as in my search I found almost all recent edits were vandalism attempts. In light of the many recent vandalisms on the part of this user, I placed a vandalism warning on their user discussion page, but there are many others like it. I do not think that will deter the user. Please see [2] 09:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Grover_Cleveland has been a source of mild to moderate harrassment. Besides his constant sarcasm, he has followed me around, editing pages right after I edit them, pages that previously he never went near. I edit so much as a sentence -- there he is, right after. Articles that he previously never showed one iota of interest in. "Stalking" is probably too strong a word; for my part I will just ignore him. But I thought you should know that one of your active editors is behaving this way. Thank you for your time.

16-October-2006

This (ab)user deserves to be banished, don't you think?--Barbatus 14:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

17-October-2006

Personal attacks on editor at Talk:Previsualization. Can something be done?

Ergonomics appears to contain a large amount of copyrighted material. Can someone advise/help? 03:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

This and that one are sure candidates for blocking.--Barbatus 13:19, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

... and this one, too.--Barbatus 15:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Umeshghosh has introduced large sections of copyrighted material to Ergonomics, Human factors, and Celebrity 100. His contributions to Digestion, Physiology, and G protein look suspicious as well. 16:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

This IP should be banished again, perhaps.--Barbatus 18:51, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Yet another offender. Multiple offender!--Barbatus 19:48, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Found that User:Laurencegast has been inserting what I believe to be his real identity into various articles(every contribution he/she has made thus far). Most of them have been removed since they do not belong here or enhance the articles. List of these contributions are here:Special:Contributions/Laurencegast Not sure how this should be handled with the user. 23:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

One more candidate for banishment.--Barbatus 02:19, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

18-October-2006

One more multiple offender.--Barbatus 17:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Another hooligan.--Barbatus 17:33, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I hope some administrator is watching this page and taking appropriate measures.

IP addresses cannot be permanently banned because they may be used by many people and may be reassigned by the ISP to other people. Anyway, this is the wrong place to report vandalism, report at WP:AIV. Thanks. --Inahet 19:28, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Aha! Thank you, Inahet.--Barbatus 19:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Inahet 19:44, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

19-OCTOBER-2006

• User:Sarner was blocked from editing the Bowlby page in the past. He is engaged in the same behavior again: not accepting the consensus among several editors on the talk page, reverting the article to his view alone. Refusing to follow Wikipedia practices regarding dispute resolution: he has not accepted suggestions to take a poll or consider mediation. 00:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• User:TheGreenFaerae has resorted to personal name calling several times over the contested "Possible spoofs" section of Chloe Sullivan#Possible spoofs, and appears unwilling to address policy concerns over his edit (WP:NOR, WP:RS, WP:NPOV) or possible legal concerns, since his edit accuses one corporation of violating the copyright of another.

22-OCTOBER-2006

User:Canaen has on his user page a rant with the following:

"Just because Racist Amerikka says I look like y'all cracker asses,

There was some discussion of this in his discussion page where someone sugested this is inappropriate because it links directly to the wiki article about Whites.05:28, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I've left a note on the user's talk page. Durova 15:29, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

23-October-2006

• I found Corporal Tunnel's comment here lacking maturity and respect for the process. Though WP:CIVIL never mentions sarcasm, I think comments like this aren't constructive to the process. Granted, the AfD is a pretty obvious delete vote, but that doesn't mean the discussion can show disrespect towards the people who created it. 01:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

This user's edit history shows a lot of constructive vandal fighting and a little bit of (probably youthful) sarcasm. I don't see a need to intervene here, but someone might want to leave a polite note on the user's talk page. Durova 14:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

• RE: List of music arrangers By looking at the history, it seems that user:81.64.111.159 and probably one and the same user:81.64.121.113 thinks they own this list because every time someone adds a name to the list, this person removes it, with no explanation whatsoever, and only leaves their contributions intact. This has been going on since Oct 05. I wouldn't call it vandalism, but not sure what to do about it. Any suggestions? 01:51, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protected. Durova 15:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

26-October-2006

I would like to issue a complaint against administrator Lucky 6.9. He refuses to offer a satisfactory explanation for why he's deleting my additions to Wikipedia. In addition, he's issuing threats to me.

I tried to add an entry on Sides the movie on the 24th, and he deleted it within 2 minutes, claiming that because I did not have other people contributing to the page, it was not a sufficient addition. This, of course, is a ludicrous claim, given the fact that the entry had been up for less than two minutes. It obviously takes time for other people to contribute to a new page. I asked Lucky why he twice deleted my new entries, and he simply responded with a threat to suspend my editing privileges. If you go to his page, you'll see that I'm not the only person who has complained about his editing. I would appreciate a response from an administrator who is civil and mature enough to actually address my question. Thank you.

28-October-2006

I would like to issue a complaint against User:Kafziel. He continues to delete my additions to Wikipedia. (Social Investing, Fanniue Mae and Business Ethics) In addition, he has threatened to have me banned from Wiki.

He seems to believe my additions are spam, and as he called them once, sneaky spam. I simply don't think they are. In addition to posting links to my websites, I have posted links of relevance to the topics to Congressional testimony on the US Congress and SEC websites. I don't think these can be considered spam. Please advise. Thank you.

I didn't threaten to have you banned. That's a standard spam warning template, and I only used it after spending a lot of time trying to explain the situation to you. I wasn't even the first one to warn you about it. But I welcome a third opinion, since edits like this and this and this are so obviously spam. On the bright side, your contributions today have been better. You've been adding content instead of links, as I suggested. Still a bit POV in places, but much better than spam. Kafziel ^Talk 13:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

29-October 2006

There is an ongoing edit war on "Ascended Masters" and a couple of related pages. See: [[3]] --Vindheim 01:06, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Aburesz consistently shapes the articles Sanat Kumara, Ascended Master andGreat White Brotherhood with secterian viewpoints, deleting NPOV tags, references to critical sources and even links to competing sects in the same territory. Several editors have posted questions and comments on his talkpage as well as the relevant article talkpages, to no avail. In my opinion he should be blocked.--Vindheim 15:04, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

30-October 2006

Some editors who have voted on WoWWiki's third AFD nomination seem to be out of control, as far as WP:CIVIL, WP:FAITH, and possibly WP:NPA goes. On one side there are WoWWiki admins who argue that their own site is notable enough for it to merit its own article on the English Wikipedia, and on the other side is everyone else. 00:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

31-October 2006

I am concerned at the tone used in edit summaries and messages left on talk pages by User:Wandalstouring. I admit I got a little hot and a bit of a mastodon myself before backing off, checking some sources and trying to correct the material, and am now trying to calm down, but will do that best when neutral, outside, others stick their noses in. See edit history and talk page of War horse in particular, both edit summaries and the tone of the edits themselves, as well as tone of edits to cavalry tactics. This individual also left a couple nasty comments on my user talk page that bordered on threatening in tone. I may have stirred the pot at first, I am now going to back off an just calm down now. 22:42, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

There is an ongoing minor edit war on the Nadia Comaneci page. User:Mai Loon and two IP addresses, which seem to be so close as to be the same user, are continually deleting sourced, referenced information from the article. I, and other users, continue to revert back, but the material just gets changed again the next day. It's not major, but it does give the article a weasel-worded slant by removing one side of a controversy involving Comaneci and failing to tell the reader what the conclusion was. The user refuses to even discuss his/her edits; s/he just keeps silently reverting.

I'm not even sure if this is the right place to add this, but I'm not sure how this should be handled. Thus far, I have tried: 1) asking for comments on article's Talk Page; 2) trying to ask the user to justify his/her deletions in the edit summaries; 3) leaving notes on the user/IP address Talk Pages; 4) Taking a break from the article; 5) remmoving material about BOTH sides of the controversy to try to make the user go away. Any thoughts on how to deal with this would be appreciated! DanielEng 08:57, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

02-November-2006

• Explained on User_talk:Dina#Stop_your_revert-vandalism : this user violates WP:REVERT and WP:FAITH to such an extent it doesn't have plausible denial for its deletion of content, i.e. incompetence resulting in vandalism. -- 62.147.39.202 04:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

04-November-2006

70.185.125.101 has acted uncivil and inappropriate in talk pages of the articles which he has edited. He has been warned multiple times on his talk page, but persists in his caustic behavior. 17:15, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Jvalant is attempting to disrupt the Indian Rebellion of 1857 article , promoting Indian nationalism at the expense of the quality of the article. Whilst implying that anyone who disagrees with him is an "Imperialist" or a "racist". His views obviously need some level of inclusion in the article, but not at the expense of different points of view. 18:00, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

11-November-2006

User:Power_level_(Dragon_Ball) is making repeated personal attacks on User:Someguy0830. He has been warned with a 'be civil' template, but he wants me to remove it (User_talk:Yuser31415). Do you think I should remove it or leave it there? I'm not sure what his game is, but he seems to want all his warnings removed immediately afterward they are put onto his talk page. Looks fishy to me. Yuser31415 ^{talk|contribs} 21:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

No problems, resoluted. Yuser31415 ^{talk|contribs} 01:46, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

12-November-2006

User:DocFisherKing (also ostensibly User:66.246.72.108, among other IP addresses) has a long history of repeatedly reverting my edits (and the edits of other users) to his own versions of the David Duke page, with accusations of vandalism on my part in the edit summary. --Ryodox 09:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)