User talk:Vcuttolo

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March 2018

Your recent editing history at Dinesh D'Souza shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Please do not attack other editors, as you did at User talk:NuclearWizard. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Acroterion (talk) 20:16, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome to ask for help from other editors, provided you do so without attacking someone in the terms you've been using. Acroterion (talk) 20:17, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

July 2018

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Vince Foster, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

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Hello, I'm Teratix. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Suicide of Vince Foster seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Tera TIX 08:16, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop attacking other editors, as you did on User talk:Teratix. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. So Why 09:16, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Conspiracy theories

You appear to believe in a number of fringe partisan conspiracy theories. Wikipedia is not a platform for you to attempt to push those fringe conspiracy theories into the mainstream. This is particularly relevant when discussing living people such as Brett Kavanaugh — claims that he was responsible for "browbeating a witness" needs far more corroboration and reporting than a single, widely-disparaged book of conspiracy theorizing before we include it in a biography. We have strict standards for sourcing biographical articles precisely to protect our article subjects from defamatory or otherwise-inappropriate material being included in their biographies. Before editing these articles further, I strongly suggest you review our policies. If you continue credulously pushing conspiracymongering nonsense into biographies, you will likely wind up topic-banned or outright banned. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 13:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Similarly, this edit is completely unacceptable. Your personal belief that a reporter is a "Clinton apologist" is nothing more than that, and has zero place in a Wikipedia article. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 14:01, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

July 2018

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Suicide of Vince Foster. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to be blocked from editing Wikipedia. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block. Thank you. - Mr X 🖋 12:50, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see you've modified your response to Oshwah to be the rhetorical question I hoped it was. Thank you for that adjustment. Like Oshwah, I'll remove my warning. Acroterion (talk) 01:01, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Barry Seal, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 21:36, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Z33 Doug Weller talk 11:01, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your "improved context" edit to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be a violation of WP:BLP

And possibly of our American Politics sanctions. You wrote "many of whom were armed militants trying to cross into Israel and kill civilians". Now obviously since there's a source at the end of the sentence, if you are following our policies that's in the source. I can't read the article as it's behind a paywall, so would you please quote the portion from the article that sources your claim?[1] That would be a start. It would also need a source discussing her and the bit you added.

Although the latter is moot as you shouldn't have made the edit at all - see below, I still would like to see the quote from the source that backs your added text. Doug Weller talk 11:13, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Z33 Doug Weller talk 11:14, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How this applies to you - you need to avoid any edits related to the conflict until you reach 500 edits

There are specific restrictions involving editors with less than 500 edits.

All IP editors, accounts with fewer than 500 edits, and accounts with less than 30 days tenure are prohibited from editing any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This prohibition is preferably enforced by the use of extended confirmed protection, but where that is not feasible, it may also be enforced by reverts, page protections, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters.

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This means that there are some articles you actually cannot edit. Where you can edit, you may not make any edits relating to the conflict until you reach 500 normal edits. Doug Weller talk 11:17, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced material in Death of Erica Parsons

"Where did " In an unusual move, the Parsonses left the show before the polygraph results were announced" come from? And "The release dates may be academic, as both are facing far more serious legal jeopardy now." - please read WP:VERIFY and no original resarch. Note that this article falls under our biography of living persons policy. Doug Weller talk 11:27, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 2018

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. O3000 (talk) 11:40, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is your only warning; if you add defamatory content to Wikipedia again, as you did at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Tsumikiria (T/C) 01:25, 8 November 2018 (UTC) I clearly and obviously did no such thing. I corrected a mislabeling of a situation upon which she had commented. Even if one disagrees with the facts I presented - and facts they are - it is inconceivable that one would consider my corrections to be a defamatory of Ms. Cortez herself. Vcuttolo (talk) 04:11, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Serial Number 54129. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! ——SerialNumber54129 08:06, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To enforce an arbitration decision you have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours. You are welcome to edit once the block expires; however, please note that the repetition of similar behavior may result in a longer block or other sanctions.

If you believe this block is unjustified, please read the guide to appealing blocks (specifically this section) before appealing. Place the following on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Please copy my appeal to the [[WP:AE|arbitration enforcement noticeboard]] or [[WP:AN|administrators' noticeboard]]. Your reason here OR place the reason below this template. ~~~~}}. If you intend to appeal on the arbitration enforcement noticeboard I suggest you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template on your talk page so it can be copied over easily. You may also appeal directly to me (by email), before or instead of appealing on your talk page. Doug Weller talk 08:47, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement sanction

The following sanction now applies to you:

You are banned for 1 month from editing anything relating to Arab–Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted

You have been sanctioned for violating the restrictions explained to you in August making it clear that you could not edit in this area until you had 500 edits.

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at [[<a-i>#Final decision]] and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

You may appeal this sanction using the process described here. I recommend that you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template if you wish to submit an appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you. Doug Weller talk 09:22, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement sanction

The following sanction now applies to you:

You are banned for 1 month from editing anything relating to biographies of living or recently deceased people, broadly interpreted

You have been sanctioned repetition of problems with your editing at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for which you were warned in August and edit-warring over them.

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Editing of Biographies of Living Persons#Final decision and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

You may appeal this sanction using the process described here. I recommend that you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template if you wish to submit an appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you. Doug Weller talk 09:51, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Some clarification

Instructions are given explaining how to appeal. Note that I to make sure you understood it all, I explicitly wrote "This means that there are some articles you actually cannot edit. Where you can edit, you may not make any edits relating to the conflict until you reach 500 normal edits." Doug Weller talk 09:55, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also please note that I have not banned you from American politics. I strongly suggest that you tread carefully in this area however. Doug Weller talk 10:00, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 2018

Please stop making test edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Rafael Santana. It is considered vandalism, which, under Wikipedia policy, can lead to being blocked from editing. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. ‑ Iridescent 08:31, 11 November 2018 (UTC) I responded on your talk page. Vcuttolo (talk) 08:40, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Topic ban violation and some honest advice

A topic ban means that you may not edit articles or talk pages related to the topic in question. For that reason, I've removed your posting from Talk:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. What you really need to do right now is stop, step back from these issues, and go edit less controversial articles on other topics of interest, while taking time to learn about Wikipedia's fundamental policies like WP:NPOV, WP:WEIGHT, WP:BLP and WP:RS. I'm taking the time to talk to you about this because I'd like to see you develop into a productive editor and I don't think you're one of the many folks who just drops in to troll. But there are complex rules on the encyclopedia for good reason, and ignoring them while railing against what you perceive as political bias is not likely to result in a happy ending. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 08:55, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to take one example edit and break it down to try and help you understand why your edits are not acceptable.

You wrote Ignoring the violent nature of the protests^[1] as well as the large numbers of protesters who were armed members of Hamas (considered a terrorist group by the US and the EU) - some of whom were shot attempting to breach the Israeli border,^[2] Ocasio-Cortez compared the situation to the peaceful teachers' strike taking place in West Virginia at the time, asking what would happen if 60 people had been shot at the latter event.^[3]

Firstly, writing that the article subject "ignored" something is a statement of opinion, and we may not include our own personal opinions in Wikipedia articles.

Secondly, you have entirely mixed up and conflated timelines in a wholly-unacceptable manner. The source you cite for Ocasio-Cortez's statement is from June 27, 2018, where she refers to a particular set of protests. You then attempt to contrast her remarks with an entirely-separate set of protests three and a half months later, sourced to the CNN articles from October 12, 2018. Do you understand how that's unacceptable logically, besides being original research and synthesis? Even taking all the claims in the articles at face value, how can Ocasio-Cortez's remarks be related to something that wouldn't happen until 100 days later? Are you suggesting she can time-travel? It's absurd, it's illogical and it's not acceptable on the encyclopedia. So it was reverted. And then you ignored the good advice given to you that it was unacceptable, so you got topic-banned. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 09:07, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the new post you made to Talk:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for the same reason NorthBySouthBaranof removed your previous one: it was yet another violation of your topic ban. You seemed not to have understood that the topic ban extends to all Wikipedia pages when you made the new post, given that you posted this afterwards; now you know, so please make sure that you don't continue to violate your ban. Do take a moment to read the information linked in the sanction notices above. Topic bans are described here. Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 13:30, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

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December 2018

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add defamatory content, as you did at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you may be blocked from editing. Tsumikiria (T/C) 10:03, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Destructive editing? Based upon what? I added responsible content, and provided three solid sources. Vcuttolo (talk) 10:07, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

December 2018 2

I noticed with surprise that here, you inserted a "falsely" into the (properly sourced) statement that Leah Nelson labeled Colin Flaherty a white nationalist propagandist. The source you added for "falsely" — stated in Wikipedia's voice — was a comment by Flaherty himself. Wikipedia goes by reliable secondary sources, and most definitely not by what people say about themselves. (Nobody is likely to call themselves white nationalist propagandists, just as no political party is likely to call themselves "populist" or whatever. That doesn't mean we can't use those terms, as long as reliable sources use them.) That was not the only poor-quality edit you made to the same article, but probably the most egregious. Please take a look at our policy concerning reliable sources, Wikipedia:Verifiability, before you continue editing. Bishonen | talk 11:42, 16 December 2018 (UTC).[reply]

TBC, I never implied that Leah Nelson was quoted inaccurately. I do believe that she was off-base with her charge.

There are plenty of self-identified "white nationalists" out there, some of whom have criticized Colin Flaherty for not joining their ranks. I have never purchased any of Colin Flaherty's books, but I have seen his work on YT, and it is of extremely poor production quality. Does that make him a "white nationalist"? Hardly.

In the piece to which I linked, Flaherty points out that he goes to any media that will have him. According to Flaherty, that would include white nationalist media, but it also includes similar organs on the extreme left, such as the Nation of Islam. Anywhere he can go to spread his message.

I am aware of the WP second-hand sourcing rule, although I was and am still pretty certain that if a quote is attributed to the subject of the article, or (as in this case) to the author of the work that is the subject of the article, then a direct link to his denial of a charge is warranted.

Considering the charge of racism against Flaherty, I believe it is appropriate to identify the two people who gave him positive reviews as being both black and respected. Truthfully, it didn't look right to me as I wrote it, but I couldn't figure out how else to put the charge of racism into proper context; it is unsubstantiated, and he has highly intelligent and educated black supporters.

I think Wikipdia should be very careful before repeating unsubstantiated charges without rebuttal. I will take all suggestions as to how to do so in this case.

Thank you, Vcuttolo (talk) 12:11, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Attributed? Uh... what did you think I meant when I said it's "stated in Wikipedia's voice" that Nelson's description is false? Did you just hop over that? "Falsely", the way you added it, is stated as an indubitable fact. It's stated as if by Wikipedia. It's certainly not attributed to Flaherty. Only your footnote, for those readers (hardly the majority) who read footnotes, attributes it to Flaherty — not your text. The distinction is vital. If you had written something like "Flaherty denies being a white nationalist propagandist", with a footnote to his statement, that would have attributed it to Flaherty (though I don't understand what it is you call a quote). Then the question becomes whether or not it's WP:UNDUE to point out that he denies it; I don't have any opinion on that.

(Please use colons to indent replies in a discussion, see WP:THREAD or just look at how I did it.) Bishonen | talk 13:11, 16 December 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Yes, I was referring to the part I added when I wrote that Flaherty denied the charge. I will grant that I am less than coherent right now, as I am rather sleep deprived at the moment. I did go back to that page and tried again. Please tell me if I got it right this time.

Thank you, Vcuttolo (talk) 13:35, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:THREAD. When you reply to someone who used one colon, you should use two colons, and so on. See? Bishonen | talk 14:57, 16 December 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Okay! How about my latest attempt at the edit in question?

Vcuttolo (talk) 15:00, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(And sign at the end of your post, not on a separate line. See how your signature jumps out to the left-hand margin, when you do it like that?) I'm not sure if the other editors will accept your text about Flaherty's denial. I'm here purely as an admin, and want to stay uninvolved wrt the article, so I prefer not to have any opinion about it. You have fixed the thing I complained about from an admin point of view, yes. Bishonen | talk 15:05, 16 December 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Got it. Vcuttolo (talk) 15:07, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Suggesting that Kamala Harris had an illicit affair with a married man

Your edit here[2] makes it appear that Kamala Harris had an illicit affair with a married man. However, all RS on the subject make it clear that the man in question had been estranged from his wife for more than a decade - why did you leave out that context? Snooganssnoogans (talk) 09:09, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was under the misimpression that Brown was still together with his wife at that time. When I saw the second revert, I read the added link which explained that Brown was already separated, which is why I chose not to pursue it further.

Do I believe it is still relevant? Well, yes. I think it is worth a mention that Brown had separated from his wife at the time. But I don't think it is worth making a fuss over. For context, I went to Donald Trump Jr.'s WP article to see if it mentioned that he is currently dating Kimberly Guilfoyle while Trump Jr is still legally married to his wife, and there is no mention of his marital status either. I would vote for a mention - married, but separated - but I grant that current thinking seems to be unconcerned about such matters.

Lastly, the Cosmopolitan article linked by the who editor who reverted me seems to be a clear violation of RS rules, as a reading of the opinion piece will show. But again, I chose not to fight that battle. I hope someone does remove that clearly unreliable source, but it doesn't make a huge difference overall.

Thank you for reaching out.

Vcuttolo (talk) 09:47, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement topic ban

The following topic ban now applies to you:

You are banned from any topic relating to Vince Foster or his death, broadly construed, for six months. Acroterion (talk) 13:24, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

You have been sanctioned for persistently posting failing to adhere to required standards of talkpage conduct and for abusing talkpages as a soapbox for your personal views.

This topic ban is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2#Final decision and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. Please go to WP:TBAN and read the information there to see what a topic ban is. If you do not comply with the topic ban, you may be blocked for an extended period, to enforce the ban.

If you wish to appeal against the ban, please check out the process described here, or ask on my talk page and I will explain how to do it. Acroterion (talk) 13:24, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It continues to amaze how some parts of WP are utterly allergic to facts. All I wrote - on the TALK PAGE, mind you, not in the body of the article itself - is that the evidence clearly leans heavily to homicide, not suicide. That, and I mentioned several easily veriable points that are entirely misrepresented in the article. Any reason that a discussion of the evidence in the case is not allowed? Are we in the Soviet Union? I thought freedom of beliefs and of speech was a positive around here. Does WP not believe in such things? You deleted my TALK PAGE comment, which listed several highly respected people who have questioned the idea that Foster's death was a suicide. Why would that be a problem? I also gave sources for those who wish to seek out the evidence for themselves. Why is that a problem? Or would you rather such silence me instead of engaging me in intelligent discourse?

You can block me for 1000 years, but that will not change the fact that the WP article entitled "Suicide of Vince Foster" is chock-full of falsities, verifiably so.

Vcuttolo (talk) 13:34, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The sanctions apply to behaviour on talk pages, as does our BLP policy. Doug Weller talk 14:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a point, Doug? I never said otherwise. All I said is that the resistance to factual evidence is pretty strong around here.

Vcuttolo (talk) 14:41, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A reminder: Per this detailing of what a topic ban entails. Note the last point, using a hypothetical topic ban on "weather" as an example:

discussions or suggestions about weather-related topics anywhere on Wikipedia, for instance a deletion discussion concerning an article about a meteorologist, but also including edit summaries and the user's own user and talk pages (including sandboxes) .

Your whinging here and this edit count as violations, for future reference. Testing the limits never ends well. --Calton | Talk 14:44, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. The facts are not to be raised, period. All of us who care about the truth must be silenced. I'm clear now.

Vcuttolo (talk) 14:51, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Consider this your only warning about breaches of your topic ban - appeals may be made to me (and it must be a good-faith appeal, not a complaint) or to the Arbitration Committee venue noted above. Nowhere else. This [3], for instance, is an example of a topic ban violation - testing boundaries is more of what you've been doing. Acroterion (talk) 15:16, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 2019

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you may be blocked from editing. You've been reverted and seen people objected your edits on the talk page, yet still added virtually the same content with your own original commentary. This is quite a surefire way to get you editing rights revoked considering your previous editing on the page relating to the Israel-Palestinian conflict where you tried to add content that imply the subject endorsing "terrorist" "invaders". Please consider this fair warning on what you might be walking yourself into. Tsumikiria⧸ 🌹🌉 01:23, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Tsumikiria⧸ 🌹🌉 01:55, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. The thread is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Vcuttolo reported by User:Tsumikiria (Result: ). Thank you. Tsumikiria⧸ 🌹🌉 02:06, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 2019

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for violating a 1RR restriction on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:50, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Vcuttolo (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have been accused of edit warring on the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez page, which is simply inaccurate. A look at the reason given by the editor who reverted me, followed by the explanation I provided in my follow-up, will show that I was trying to comply with the wishes of the other editor.

I had added to the "Media" section of the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez article by mentioning that "she has received" criticism for making a number of verbal gaffes, and I added 4 more sources to the 3 that had been there in relation to the issue, for a total of 7. I intentionally did not specify her verbal gaffes as I was trying to avoid piling on; if anyone cared, they could look at the sources.

The editor who reverted me said that I was violating WP:WEASEL by writing "she was criticized". I was also told (by the same editor or someone else, I forget) that the whole did not belong in the "Media" section anyway.

In order to address those complaints, I listed two criticisms of Ocasio-Cortez's verbal gaffes, but no longer by the "weasel" term "she was criticized": I quoted Anderson Cooper interviewing her on 60 Minutes, and Chris Cillizza writing about her on CNN (or in the Washington Post, I forget. He writes for both).

I also moved them out of the "Media" section, and, seeing how they did not fit elsewhere, opened a new section called "Criticism".

For evidence, please see what I wrote as the explanation for my edits, see what the other editors wrote at around the same time in relation to all that, and see what the "Media" conversation on the Talk Page says. I was very, very open about what I was trying to do.

Please take with a grain of salt everything written by Tsumikiria, who recommended me for sanction here, as he has many times before. He wrote a number of false claims about me, and has targeted me for months, as the record will show. He also once reverted me on the basis of having used an Israeli newspaper as a source, saying "everyone knows israeli media lies".

I hope that you can see that in no way was I edit warring here - I was trying to comply with what the other editor or editors had requested.

I also request that, if possible under WP rules, Tsumikiria be asked to stop stalking me on WP, and to stop falsely accusing me.

Thank you.

Decline reason:

The only issue here is if you violated the 1RR restriction on the article about AOC; the record shows that you did. It doesn't matter why you were edit warring. After being reverted, you need to go to the talk page and engage in discussion to reach a consensus. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 08:15, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

I think I'm the editor who cited WP:WEASEL. That was one of several concerns that I expressed with the section in edit summaries and on the talk page. In this edit, you replaced "she was criticized" with she "has been prone to verbal gaffes, leading some to speculate that she is not well-versed on the issues." - without specifying the source of the criticism. That's not an improvement. The easy solution here is to just use the talk page to hash out something that meets consensus instead of just restoring stuff that has been reverted with minimal changes. Nblund^talk 20:06, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's an incomplete description of what I was trying to do. As I explained in my edit, I was in the process of setting the whole thing up differently, but didn't make it very far. You are quoting my first sentence, which was meant to be followed up with specifics. "In an interview on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper asked Ocasio-Cortez about...", "Chris Cillizza, in a column for CNN, compared Ocasio-Cortez's comment to Donald Trump's...". Again, and as I wrote in both my explanation box for my edits, as well in the "Media" discussion on the Talk Page, I was trying to set it up in a way that would work for everyone. It is rather surprising to me that any action would be taken against me, considering that I was very clearly and openly trying to work it out in a way that was agreeable to all.

Vcuttolo (talk) 21:18, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is the fourth time in 24 hours (123) that you promulgate the falsehood that I said "everyone knows israeli media lies". Deliberately misquoting and complaining about other editors in your unblock requests will never fare you well. MSGJ explained quite clearly to you that "a phrase about "verbal gaffes" was added three times in the last 24 hours", which is a breach of the WP:1RR restriction that you're clearly aware of. Unfortunately, if you continue to refuse to listen to other editors' advices and treat Wikipedia as a battleground, your next violation will very likely earn you a much longer block or a much broader topic ban. Please. Tsumikiria⧸ 🌹🌉 22:10, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry if I did not quote your anti-Semitic comment correctly, although I don't know that you are, either. No matter, your comment was anti-Semitic. Either way, before you throw out accusations, you may want to check your own behavior: You have repeatedly accused me falsely, including higher up in this discussion, of accusing Ocasio-Cortez of supporting a terrorist invasion of Israel. That is false, and if you don't stop with the false accusations, you may well be subject to sanction yourself. You really should avoid the Ocasio-Cortez article, as well as matters pertaining to the Israeli-Arab conflict, as your tendency is to push your personal opinion into articles that should be based upon fact. My edit at Ocasio-Cortez in relation to her "massacre" comment was based upon the then-edit protected WP article, 2018 Gaza border protests. Ocasio-Cortez made a comment that was obviously out of bounds; she felt compelled, in a different setting, to admit that she is "not the expert" on such matters. The Ocasio-Cortez article at that time (it was changed long ago) contained a quote lauding her for her criticism of Israel; there was no mention that she had gotten the basic facts wrong.

Back to you. You falsely me accused above, as explained. You falsely accused me of being sanctioned for your false accusation above; I was sanctioned for mistakenly using the wrong source, which was from an incident three months later. You have now been falsely accusing me of edit warring with the recent inclusion I attempted to make of the criticism she has received; in fact, as my comments there show, I was trying to work with those who were unhappy with my first edit, and trying to include the information in the article in a way that was agreeable to all.

Please stop with the false accusations, with the anti-Semitic comments, and with trying to push your POV into WP articles. Thank you.

Vcuttolo (talk) 23:45, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is categorically false, as well as being a gross violation of no personal attacks. If your POV renders you incapable of distinguishing genuine antisemitic hatred and criticism of the Israel state, or if you're deliberately obfuscating them for political advantage, you are not here to contribute to Wikipedia in the first place. I propose another remedy. Tsumikiria⧸ 🌹🌉 00:02, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Address your criticism to yourself. Substitute "African-American media" for "Israeli media", and no one would argue that the comment was racist. Instead, it was anti-Semitic.

My editing history shows an interest in building a better Wikipedia. The overwhelming number of my edits have been entirely uncontroversial; I usually try to straighten out the article's grammar. Occasionally I add personal information, such as marriage or children or hometown. But if an article cries out for other types of editing, there is nothing wrong with providing such. The Ocasio-Cortez article, while an improvement over what it was a couple of months ago, is still largely built on left-wing opinion media, such as the Huffington Post and Slate. That does not lead to balance. Including criticism from sources such as CBS and CNN (not Fox News or the like) was an attempt at providing balance in a very unbalanced article. (At last check, the only reference to criticism there is sourced from left-wing opinion media, and was about Ocasio-Cortez's criticism of others for criticizing her.) Considering the numerous gaffes she has made, which has been noted by mainstream media organizations, the current article lacks balance, in that those gaffes are not mentioned. And if someone doesn't see that, they should look in the mirror before doing anything else on Wikipedia.

You did not address your repeated and continuing false claims against me. It is time for those to stop.

For that matter, I would recommend that you stop interacting with me, be it the direct method you use in coming frequently to my page here, or in reverting my edits. If my editing is as egregious as you falsely claim it is, there are many other editors, with no ax to grind, who will undoubtedly correct me.

Thank you.

Vcuttolo (talk) 02:09, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's a skin suit now. Shed it.

Regarding this, this may interest you. Good luck. --Froglich (talk) 00:55, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is this in relation to the Vince Foster article? Or to Wikipedia's left-wing bias in general? Please remind me.

May 2019

It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence Bobby Cox. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 07:28, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I posted something at the end of the previous spousal abuse discussion on the Talk Page inviting everyone back for another round. You are one of those. If no one knows about the new conversation on the Talk Page, how will we reach a concensus? Bobby Cox is not currently a page that receives much traffic.

Vcuttolo (talk) 09:15, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Whoops. You're right. I messed that one up. I should have put in John Coughlin. My bad. Thank you for the head's up.

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Talk:Death of Jonbenet Ramsey

Much of your extremely lengthy talkpage discussion takes the form of thinly veiled attacks on other editors. This must stop. Acroterion (talk) 00:56, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It can be quite frustrating when an editor pushes his very-limited knowledge POV to distort a Wikipedia article, and undoes hours of work with a three second, knee-jerk mass revert.

Yes, I am aware of WP's rules; I was at times incredulous about some of what was going on.

Vcuttolo (talk) 01:23, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You're doing it again. Stop it. Acroterion (talk) 01:35, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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[3] ttps://freebeacon.com/national-security/ocasio-cortez-compares-hamas-rioters-gaza-west-virginia-teachers-strike/amp/

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