User talk:Darkness Shines

Unblocked

Per your agreement by email with the following conditions, your indefinite block is lifted.

1. Your indefinite topic ban from all pages related to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, broadly construed imposed on 15 May 2014 remains in force, subject to the usual enforcement procedures.
2. You are be limited to one account.
3. You are required to remain civil. As a condition of your unblock, you must acknowledge that any edit which, in the opinion of an uninvolved administrator, contains personal attacks or gross incivility will be met with blocks of escalating length, ending with an indefinite block after the fourth offense.
4. Blocks under clause 3 may be appealed to AE, excepting an indefinite block, which can be appealed to BASC only.
5. These restrictions will be logged at Wikipedia:Editing restrictions. A copy of these restrictions will be placed on your user talk page, they must not be removed until at least 1 month after your most recent block (for any reason).
6. These sanctions will expire 12 months after your ban is lifted, or 12 months from most recent block, whichever is later, even if such block is not imposed under these sanctions. (Note that your topic ban mentioned in the first clause will not automatically expire, that will have to be appealed in the normal manner.)

Let me be the first to welcome you back, and wish you happy editing.

For the Ban Appeals Sub-Committee;

Courcelles (talk) 17:17, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

• Welcome back to en.wiki. ! OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 17:18, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

• + 1 - Sitush (talk) 17:41, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Cheers guys, will be a while till I am my old abusive self ) Darkness Shines (talk) 18:00, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

It might be an idea not even to, ahem, abuse yourself, at least for a while. "Fecking typos" might upset the civility police. - Sitush (talk) 18:43, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

• + 1 Writegeist (talk) 18:18, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Sit, I feel quite sure that I can use my own peoples language, those that may not appreciate it I figure I can call "racist" or "mickophobic", anything along those lines ought to shut them up ) Darkness Shines (talk) 18:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Glad to have you back. — Yash! ^[talk] 19:04, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Second that ^ Fitzcarmalan (talk) 19:37, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks Courcelles. Welcome back DS--no monkey business please. :) Drmies (talk) 01:32, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

I didn't know you had been unblocked, apologies for not noticing sooner, and a very belated welcome back. I'm glad things have been remedied this way. Nick (talk) 13:11, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

• Just noting that I've blocked DS under provision 3 for three days. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:19, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

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Quite urgent. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 07:28, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

On it mate Darkness Shines (talk) 07:44, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Female infanticide in India

The article Female infanticide in India you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Female infanticide in India for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Brirush -- Brirush (talk) 21:01, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

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--ЗОРДАНЛИГХТЕР (talk) 05:22, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

A request made at WP:RFPP. Babita arora 06:24, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Topic ban

DS, it's been pointed out that your work on Female infanticide in India would appear to be in violation of your topic ban. I don't see any evidence that this ban has been rescinded, but I may have missed something. Please could you explain why you believe these edits do not constitute a violation of your topic ban on articles relating to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan? Yunshui ^雲_水 11:20, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

@Yunshui: There was consensus on WP:ARE that he is allowed to bring up one article of this area to GA and he selected Female infanticide in India. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 11:46, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, that's what I was missing. Possibly not the best decision ever made at AE, given the dispute that seems to have resulted, but since DS has been specifically told that he is allowed a one-article exemption to the TBAN, and since he has abided by this, I don't consider it a violation. Much obliged, OccultZone. Yunshui ^雲_水 11:53, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom discussion

Hi DS. As a courtesy, I feel I should let you know that I've initiated a discussion on the ArbCom mailing list regarding your topic ban exception. I haven't yet taken a strong position myself - I'm not totally convinced that it was a good idea to grant you that exception, but at the same time there was definite provocation from another editor involved - and I have asked the Committee to discuss whether we should allow you to continue to edit Female infanticide in India, allow you to edit a different article (per your request to Callanecc), or reverse the exception and enforce the topic ban in the future for all ARBPIA articles. I do not expect (nor would I endorse) any block of your account as a result, and if you have any evidence or comment that you would like to add, you are welcome to email it to me and I will include it in the discussion. We will of course let you know the decision in due course. In the interim, the current AE ruling still stands, and so you are free to continue editing the FiiI article to bring it to GA standard - I'd encourage you to be circumspect in your editing there, though. Reagrds, Yunshui ^雲_水 13:20, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

I think it very off that you are discussing me off wiki. such a discussion ought to be transparent for all to see. I am not going to edit that article anyway, as I have again been hounded and noting will be done as the hounder is an admin. ?I really do not care what you do, as regardless of were I edit FPaS turns up to start on me. Darkness Shines (talk) 13:57, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

It was that or drag you through ANI; I felt an off-wiki discussion would be more considerate, to be honest. Yunshui ^雲_水 14:07, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Like I said, I do not care, any enjoyment from trying to bring it up to GA is ruined now, I will not be editing it again. Darkness Shines (talk) 14:10, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

It is beginning to seem as if FPaS may be hounding. I was surprised to notice it but the evidence seems to be there. - Sitush (talk) 14:15, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

He has been after me for years, and has admitted that he hounds me, of course noting is ever done about it. He will not stop till I either quit, or he gets me blocked. Darkness Shines (talk) 14:44, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Didn't realize you were back DS. A belated welcome. And, yes, I'm sorry to say it does look like FPAS is there, lying waiting to pounce so to speak ([1]). But do try to hang in there. --regentspark (comment) 15:13, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Well you are an admin, enact an IBAN, it is high time something was done. Darkness Shines (talk) 15:22, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

I agree something needs to be done. Unfortunately I'm a dilettante admin these days and don't have the time to do all the diff collection and case building required. Someone else needs to prep the case. --regentspark (comment) 15:33, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

(out) Well I certainly can`t be arsed to, I will just have to hope he gets bored of it I suppose. Darkness Shines (talk) 15:37, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi DS. Just to keep you informed - it's been decided on the ArbCom list that no further discussion needs to take place, and no action will be taken by the Committee in relation to the above issues at this time. The status quo therefore prevails: you are still topic banned from all ARBPIA articles exceping Female infanticide in India, and you may if you wish follow your earlier course of action in requesting that you be unbanned from a different article instead (I would suggest doing this through WP:ARCA, but you aren't obligated to). Yunshui ^雲_水 13:19, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Deleted statement

Hi! In reference to your remark: "I noticed that you recently removed some content from 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Darkness Shines (talk) 18:30, 17 April 2015 (UTC)"

I thought I did exactly that. I wrote: The statement is not confirmed by it's sources.

The fact is, I checked all the provided articles and none of them support the contaversial statement that already "In late February 2014, Russia began to send troops and military equipment into Ukraine ".

Cheers, Hecatonkheir

Hello! There is a DR/N request you may have interest in.

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New editor has taken you to AE

With their first 3 edits. Dougweller (talk) 18:52, 21 April 2015 (UTC) Having reread that several times,wonder. who is the best ex?

having tgrewSD RT

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ANI

Once more. [2] Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:50, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Outing?

How is it an outing when you made the connection yourself?

There is no shortage of material linking the accounts...Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DarknessShines2/Archive for one. Don't go tagging it for Speedy deletion either or you could be blocked.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 18:32, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

It was deleted for a reason, and it most certainly violates outing as it has been made cleari do not want my rl name associated with wiki Darkness Shines (talk) 18:37, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

What was deleted? The original SPI was moved (renamed) and not deleted. The history is still there. This is not an outing.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 18:42, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

It is fucking outing, and if had not been deleted then how the fuck did cm just recreate it? Darkness Shines (talk) 18:46, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

The first time it was deleted was 14 minutes ago by Tiptoety. Leaving a redirect is not considered an outing per the policy, "...although references to still-existing, self-disclosed information is not considered outing." I'm being clear because you have essentially accused another editor of outing and I'm letting you know there is nothing sanctionable there.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 18:58, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

My deletion was not the first deletion, please see this and note the deletion summary. Thanks, Tiptoety ^talk 19:04, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Tiptoety, the answer is relative though. It is the first time it was deleted after he made the admission. The 2010 rational seems to have been incorrect after all...
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 19:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Gender Alert

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Template:Z33 Robert McClenon (talk) 14:17, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

And what the fuck is that fo?

• Everyone who edits gender-related controversial articles gets one of those. It's not a warning, only a notice of discretionary sanctions on those articles. Black Kite (talk) 22:23, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict):Yo, chill, its handed out to anybody who goes near a gender-issues-related page. The infanticide page is one such. Vanamonde93 (talk) 22:25, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

• • I do no edit gender related articles?? Darkness Shines (talk) 22:27, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Just noticed who gave that out,lulz. Darkness Shines (talk) 22:50, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration Enforcement Request

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Darkness Shines --AmritasyaPutra^T 05:24, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration enforcement block

To enforce an arbitration decision and for incivility and personal attacks (1 & 2) per item 3 of your BASC unblock conditions, you have been blocked from editing for a period of three days. 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. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:31, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

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Precious again

innocent victims
Thank you ("you obviously can edit really well when you choose" and don't give a shit) for quality articles such as Rape during the Bangladesh Liberation War and Cambodian genocide, opening our eyes for innocent victims, for striking, saying sorry and thanks, - thank you, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 856th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, - during that year I learned what AE stands for, - better blocked than missed, take care, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:20, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

It does seem excessive. DS was indef blocked for socking, not for incivility. Placing special civility conditions on him is overkill. But, I'm not sanguine about his surviving here for an entire year - the next block will be longer, and the dreaded banned for ever looms. --regentspark (comment) 14:46, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda, but as I am going to get indeffed again I will no longer be editing, happy editing to you guys though. Darkness Shines (talk) 15:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

ARE request

Consider checking Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Darkness Shines, it is likely that your statement is going to effect the admin actions that concerns this account. Thank you. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 16:24, 15 May 2015 (UTC)