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Support your AFD decision!

I support your recent AFD decision, the one where I said "Keep if cleaned up" -- you're right it wasn't cleaned up. Good decision.--Paul McDonald (talk) 13:10, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Sandstein 13:15, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sock from blocked user Ceco31 (talk · contribs)?

Hi, Sandstein. This user above was blocked several days ago for his disruptive editing by you, but now I suspect the new IP account ‎130.204.184.213 (talk · contribs) to be a sock from the same blocked user. He has began again with the same behaviour: changing the info-boxes on the article Bulgarians and edit-warring on the article Saint Barbara. How to deal with this case? Thank you in advance. Jingiby (talk) 16:20, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, the place for a closer investigation would be WP:SPI. Sandstein 16:22, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User NovaSkola

Can something be done about this user? As i posted in the Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement page this user keeps reverting cited information which he does not like to hear about his country. In the Ibad Huseynov article he removed a cited source, from an Azerbaijani website, where they interviewed a general who fought in the war and contradicted the information that Huseynov killed Monte Melkonian but NovaSkola kept reverting it claiming the website was a blog, which it wasnt. Now he is doing the same thing with the Guba Mass Grave page. The whole page is a POV where Azeris found a grave in Guba and without any sort of studies they concluded Armenians killed Azeris there. That is what was stated on the page. I left that part alone and added a controversies section where i added the Armenian side of the events stating

Hayk Demoyan, the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, has pointed out that no foreign experts have examined the human remains, and that no documentary or archival evidence has been presented that mentions a massacre of Muslims having taken place in Guba

and

Armenia has twice sent letters to the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan academician Mahmud Kerimov, the first written by Levon Yepiskoposyan, supervisor of Human Genetics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian president of the Anthropological Society and the second by the President of the Association of Political Science Ministry Doctor of Political Sciences Hayk Kotanjian, asking Kerimov to form a joint committee to examine the remains at the grave. Azerbaijan has not responded to the letters

Each paragraph was cited but he just kept removing them and adding information which he made up. He added a paragraph about supposed rape taking place in Guba citing a book called "the men who killed me" but the book was about the Rwandan Genocide and had nothing to due with Armenia, Azerbaijan or Guba. Then he posted a line about how Amnesty International claimed 3000 Jews were killed in Guba but again the links he posted to back up his claims did not mention anything about Armenia, Azerbaijan, guba or even Jewish people. It was about Yugoslavia. http://www.icty.org/x/cases/krstic/trans/en/000719it.htm and http://www.icty.org/x/cases/popovic/trans/en/061107ED.htm. Something has to be done about this individual as after Proudbolsahye, Yerevanci and I reverted his changes and stated in our revisions why they were being reverted he kept changing them back and ignoring our concerns. Thank You. Ninetoyadome (talk) 00:27, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You need to make such arguments at the WP:AE thread, and with diffs, sorry. I'm not even reading anything any more that doesn't have diffs in it. Sandstein 05:46, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sandstein. Thank you for the mediation. In fact I just discovered I was part of an AE thread just now. I wasn't informed or anything. I am utterly surprised that my name showed up just for one edit. I apologize if I hadn't made my case clear at the thread but it is already too late. Also, we are able to further sanctions by opening up an AE thread against NovaSkola if we want at this point right? From what I see his current topic ban is solely based off his edit-warring. What he was edit-warring wasn't considered. Correct? Cheers! Proudbolsahye (talk) 06:22, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, sorry that you weren't notified. NovaSkola should have done that, but I did not delay the closure of the thread on that account because no sanctions were contemplated against you. Yes, the current topic ban is because of edit-warring, but I advise against making additional AE requests unless the topic ban is violated or problems reoccur after the topic ban is lifted or expires. Sandstein 08:19, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Novaskola has broken his topic ban already. Please check his contributions. Proudbolsahye (talk) 01:45, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sandstein, can't I least edit Azerbaijani-sport related articles? OK, I've breached Azerbaijani political related articles but what that to do with sports? I ain't writing any political stuff in there. I'm just updating squads --NovaSkola (talk) 14:41, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That aspect of your under appeal is under consideration at WP:AE. Sandstein 16:16, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sandstein, how long I will have to wait until the answer? 3 days already passed --NovaSkola (talk) 16:43, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Until another administrator closes the discussion. Sandstein 17:35, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:NovaSkola's appeal

Please see WP:AE#Arbitration enforcement appeal by NovaSkola. It looks like he is appealing both your topic ban and the block. I copied the appeal from his user talk to AE. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:21, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the deletion of the Meikyū Kingdom page

I have added some information in the Meikyū Kingdom talk section. Is there anything in particular that is needed to revive (and possibly change the wiki entry name) the page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Meiky%C5%AB_Kingdom I will check both talk pages for your response. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.125.224 (talk) 05:15, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job on Edward Snowden

--mboverload @ 19:26, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]