User talk:Ymblanter

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Donguz Formation

Hi Ymblanter! Donguz Formation was recently created and could use a couple of edits so it doesn't get speedy deleted. Do you have time to look at some Russian sources? --Tobias1984 (talk) 07:13, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

I will have a look, but this is clearly not speedy deletion material. Added to the watchlist just in case.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:17, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Japan

Hi Ymblanter, in case you want to help: The Historic Sites of Japan need to be converted to use {{NHS Japan header}} and {{NHS Japan row}}. For now only the national part. I did a couple as examples. Multichill (talk) 15:41, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I will have a look.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:08, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello; Is it possible to do any conversion by ?bot? as seems to have been done for these Chinese ones? The format of the Japanese lists is intended to be internally similar, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 11:39, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

I guess this is more a question to @Multichill: than to me, but I guess if it were he would do the conversion himself without asking me. Let us wait what he answers. If the conversion is not possible, I volunteer to do at least some of the manual conversion (one-two lists per day).--Ymblanter (talk) 11:50, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

I tried converting with a bot, but didn't manage to do it without too much mess so I abandoned that. Multichill (talk) 16:51, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Cleaning up the Belarus geographical mess

I'm getting unstuck in trying to compile a table of terminology for the Belarus geographical naming conventions. There appears to be a flood of new articles and stubs recently and it appears that English Wikipedia is now leading the way with transliteration/transcription norms (which, as we know, simply isn't Wikipedia's role). As the contributors don't seem to know what to do other than follow the current directives, we're ending up with orphaned pages and broken links absolutely everywhere.

My thoughts are to follow the Belarusian government standards for the English speaking world (which DON'T involve the irritating version of what is essentially Latinka), i.e. as laid out per this map and other official sites. What's good enough for the Belarus government should be good enough for us.

You can check the sad beginnings in my sandbox. Any constructive input from sensible Wikipedians would be appreciated.

I've left this message on Ezhiki and TaalVerbeteraar's pages as well. Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:54, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

The beginning seems reasonable, thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:53, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic

Greetings. Any chance you could proof/source improve my Russian translation of the history and expand it further?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:29, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I will have a look.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:35, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Draft:Nikolay Antipov

Hi Ymblanter. Draft:Nikolay Antipov was on the verge of G13 deletion, but the man is obviously notable. It looks like a machine translation of ru:Антипов, Николай Кириллович. I have added a few English language book citations, would copy-editing be an easy task for you? Thanks, Sam Sailor 18:28, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for reminding me, I will be slowly working on the draft.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:34, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Great, thank you. Sam Sailor 18:46, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Global renamer

Would you consider applying? We could use another active Russian speaker. Something we’ve been working on is getting people not to handle as many requests from languages they aren’t familiar with and this has lead to a small backlog from some wikis. I know you aren’t active on ru.wikipedia now, but being able to read the requests on meta and figure out if it’s within policy would be incredibly helpful. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:17, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni:, do you have any idea how much time investmet this could be? I am operating close to the upper level limit of my abilities, and if it is enough to check some page once per day and react to pings, I could still do it, but continuously monitoring a page would probably be too much.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:06, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

I think that’d be the most, and checking once every few days would even be helpful. It’s a volunteer project and getting more volunteers from different language groups is always a plus. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:15, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I will have a look.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:37, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Contest

Hi. I was actually thinking of organising a contest to get my old stubs expanded. Basically what I did in the early days on here was to identify notable missing articles, simply identifying them and getting them up, thinking in the long term at what is best. The problem is that a lot are really off the anglospere radar and don't get expanded but really should have decent content even if short. The idea that I mass created copyvio articles amuses me, I doubt there's more than a few dozen out of 100,000. I might see if I can get a hotlist of stubs created and run a contest to see who can expand the most. Alternatively I can request deleting them all which would mostly be negative as most can be fleshed out..♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:11, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

The list is at the CCI investigation page(s). No, I do not think you should delete them, and indeed most of them (I do not know whether most is 90%, 99% or 99.9999%) do not contain any copyvio. But having them expanded would be nice. For Russian districts, I am going through them anyway, and it still could take years, but if I am still alive I will do them. I sometimes write on more exotic topics, but for example Chinese stubs typically require some understanding of Chinese sources for their expansion, and attention could be brought to them it would be great.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:17, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

The task of building this encyclopedia is just so gigantic isn't it? I feel guilty in seeing so many short stubs but really should have been created with much more content but it was all done with the mindset of trying to make this encyclopedia have coverage of everywhere on the planet and really try to tackle systematic bias. I did a lot of good, a lot of them have been expanded but there's a worrying number untouched in ten years. Nobody is developing them. You know Czech and Turkish villages, German rivers etc, articles we should have but nobody is editing. We need something to get them improved. There's probablt a lot of African villages which should probably be redirected into a list, some of those villages in Burkina Faso and Benin etc are still unlikely to have anything online within the next ten years, though on a county or municipal level it seems to be gradually improving in some areas as they come online.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:56, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Yes, this is an evergreen question what should be redirected and what should have separate articles. This is of course diffisult but I would say administrative divisions of levels 1-2-3 are probably fine, and reasonably big settlements (say above 10K) should be fine as well. For the rest, I would say we either have easily available sources or not. Once I tried to expand an article on a Czech village and could not find any information above the standard one which was already in the article. On the other hand, a Czech speaker would know what to search for and might be more successfull. African villages are probably hopeless for the time being unless there are very clear sources covering them. I created some time ago an article on a new province of Zambia (first level administrative division), English is an official language of Zambia, and it was still difficult to find any reasonable information.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:11, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

I mean look at Madjoari Department (not mine). Even the bigger province is a short stub Kompienga Province. If we can't even get that right it's useless worrying about hundreds of localities within them. If all we have is a population figure I think we should redirect them all into lists by district/province like a gazetteer until there is sufficient info. I'm more embarrassed at seeing how many stubs I created which are still empty than worrying at people finding vios!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:22, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

When I was writing about districts of Mozambique, it was easier for me that articles already existed, templates were there, and I just needed to add info from my sources. I suspect Burkina Faso is similar, and I speak French. Villages could be a completely different story whatsoever.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:34, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Ulaankhus

Hi, can you find anything on this in Russian or find a way to translate Mongolian, I tried to destub it but struggled with the web sources I found. Russian wiki has some decent info on it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:37, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I will have a look. --Ymblanter (talk) 13:47, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I found a source for the population at here 8010, looks like there's some other facts in there in the tables. I remember about 12 years back the sums were all half liners and there was no info on the web at all about them!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:02, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Cheers. It would make a massive difference to the encyclopedia wouldn't it if we could get every article on localities up to that sort of minimum quality. Most of the districts are still one liners.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:51, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Yes, and this is what I am systematically doing with Russia (see e.g. Firovsky District as a random example). Concerning Ulaankhus, it also borders with China (and actually its borders with Russia and China are separated), but yesterday I could not figure out how to write this properly. The article I found also contains some information on the geography (mainly relief), I will see whether there is something useful to add to the article.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:54, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I was just looking at that, that narrow strip to the southwest, Xinjiang I think. You and Ezhiki have done a terrific job with Russia, it's massive!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

This is definitely Xinjiang, but to add it in the list, we need to know which Mongolian sums this border separates, and I could not figure this out yesterday. Thanks for compliments for Russia, Ezhiki is unfortunately inactive but I am still around. There is still plenty of work to do there.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:03, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Firovsky District is several times more than adequate, a lot of these stubs if they even had a paragraph of text like the lead it would make a big difference, something which actually looks like something you'd see in an encyclopedia, not a crappy online database. "Life is what you make it" they say, well "The encyclopedia is what you make it" rings true too! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:07, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

I added a translation from Russian wiki for Altai, Bayan-Ölgii but I couldn't access the sources. Can you see if you can source it. If not I've just remove it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:58, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

I think I tried to get the sources from the Russian wikipedia yesterday and one was off-line and another one was archived but not particularly reliable. I will have one more look in the evening.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:07, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

There is only one Russian source there, [1], which has quite a lot of info about the aimak (though the reliability is questionable, but it should be ok at the end), but very little specifically about the sum.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:00, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. I started Kikhchik, Russian wiki has two settlements of the same name, one a village which existed nearby long before that was set up. I think it would be best to have one article covering them both but you might disagree. Looking in Google Books the river seems the most notable. It's transwikied and if possible the source need checking and verifying. Won't keep bothering you as I know you're busy but you might want to look into it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:08, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Ban on Wikimedia Commons

Good day. Please unblock me on Wikimedia Commons, I am already corrected. Here are my photos that I uploaded locally to Ukrainian Wikipedia.--Максим Огородник (talk) 08:21, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

I am afraid after years of uploading blatant copyvio and sockpuppetry it will take longer for you to convince anybody that you are "already corrected"--Ymblanter (talk) 08:31, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Please give me one last chance. I will no longer break the rules.--Максим Огородник (talk) 14:00, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

From my point of view, you had already enough chances. I think your best option is to ask another Commons admin.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:08, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

List of Nobel laureates by country

Hi,

again a protection needed - you once did on 26 October for two weeks, but since again IP disruption follows in the same manner recurrently... and please revert as well the last 3 edits as the IP is pushing the same fringe material ignoring the talk page since almost 4 months...Thank You(KIENGIR (talk) 01:55, 8 February 2020 (UTC))

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 07:34, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2020 Nakhon Ratchasima shooting

On 8 February 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2020 Nakhon Ratchasima shooting, which you created. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Ad Orientem (talk) 21:21, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks--Ymblanter (talk) 21:28, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Budapest

Hi,

long standing IP disruption, adding recurrently oceanic climate...since a half year for sure, in not a one already...more of us delaed with it, was even at talk at March 2019, but we have no chance...please revert and protect. Thanks again for your time.(KIENGIR (talk) 03:08, 9 February 2020 (UTC))

I blocked the IP and configured pending changes for a year.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:17, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, unfortunately immediate block evasion ([2]). I reverted the pending review.(KIENGIR (talk) 22:34, 9 February 2020 (UTC))

And again ([3])...(KIENGIR (talk) 00:19, 10 February 2020 (UTC))

Blocked this IP as well.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:39, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

WikiMan1272

Blocked user, user:WikiMan1272 is abusing her talkpage. CLCStudent (talk)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 15:51, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Ask for advice

Hello mate! In December I had requested a page protection and you added a semi-protection for one week [4]. As I explained there, a sockpuppet who has all his accounts blocked [5] perform the same editing behaviour using dozens of different IPs, insisting on the same things no matter what the others say and edit-warring for months. He has also insulted me. Could you please tell me what's the best way to cope with this, since he uses so many IPs? - Sthenel (talk) 14:32, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

I added pending changes for a year, may be this would work--Ymblanter (talk) 16:10, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! - Sthenel (talk) 21:48, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Sure, no problem--Ymblanter (talk) 23:18, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Request to categorize

Hi. Álvaro Arzú Escobar was also a president of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala. Thanks in advance! Thinker78 (talk) 15:57, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

 Done, you could have done this yourself.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:07, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

I could but I know learning new things in Wikipedia can take time and right now I don't have time to dedicate to that. I am barely editing due to time constraints. Thank you for categorizing it. --Thinker78 (talk) 17:25, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Question about alphabetical order

I noticed the entry of Alvaro Arzú Escobar was automatically placed under the letter E in the Category:Presidents of the Congress of Guatemala page. But his last name is "Arzú", "Escobar" is his maternal last name which is generally not used in daily life. Just bringing it to your attention. --Thinker78 (talk) 17:31, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

 Done, fixed--Ymblanter (talk) 17:52, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Sorry to bother again, the Category:Presidents of the Congress of Guatemala,/no page now has some entries whose last names are used for the alphabetical order and other entries whose first names are used. I wanted to fix it myself but I don't know how. Thinker78 (talk) 23:30, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

There was only Allan Rodriguez who was sorted by the first name, I fixed this article as well.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:42, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

You added yourself to the list of presidents?--Thinker78 (talk) 20:34, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

No, actually, you added me. I will correct it now.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:37, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

LOL sorry! Thinker78 (talk) 00:11, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Question about "reviewed"

Hi Yaroslav,

I see at the page curation log that you "marked Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority as reviewed", a few minutes after EranBot "marked revision 941216864 on Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority as a potential copyright violation".

I'm not asking anyone to take a side in my dispute (and hopefully soon further discussion) with the administrator that deleted the previous version of the article, but I am wondering what "reviewed" means in this case. Thanks.

Groetjes.

--Craig (t|c) 09:34, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

This is strange, I clearly checked the version I had for copyright violations and did not find any. I will have a look.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:42, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

OK. I'm heading for bed soon in this time zone, so if I don't see a reply before then I'll check in the morning. Maybe by then the other administrator will have replied. Thanks. --Craig (t|c) 10:30, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

I actually checked it again, I do not see any copyvio.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:35, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

The copyright material was commented out; that's likely why you did not see it. I am not sure if Earwig's tool would see it either. — Diannaa (talk) 14:56, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, this explains it. Indeed, I did not go to the code of the page.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:40, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Ohhhh, so all of this palaver was about the "mandate" list?! Would have been nice to know that at the start, then this could have been addressed immediately and painlessly. --Craig (t|c) 11:06, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Kyiv

I wasn't picking a fight, by the way, and certainly not with you - I was just explaining why I didn't think twice about the move to match the opening definition. It looked as if it had been forgotten about. Guy (help!) 22:35, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, and I certainly did not mean you were going to fight with me. It is just all has been discussed to death, with all possible arguments provided, and, despite this, we have driveby editors changing Kiev to Kyiv on a daily basis. I sustect the origin of Kyiv in the lead is the same, if it is still there I will change it now, because the article has to be consistent.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:21, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Question

Hi,

a short question, on this picture, on the legend of the top right, could you wirte to me in plain translation what is exactly written? (I recognize Karta and 1871 roki that I undestand, but what is between XXKO-Russ??? YYYYY ZZZZZ). I want to decomponate if Russian, Little-Russian, Ruthenian, Rus' or exactly how it is called concerning the dialects. Thank you for your precious time!

Image here-> [[6]](KIENGIR (talk) 03:18, 21 February 2020 (UTC))

It says "The map of south-Russian accents and dialects as of 1811"--Ymblanter (talk) 06:18, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Assistance Needed

Hi Ymblanter,

Sorry to bother, but I've been having an issue on a report I made here, the account I reported even vandalized said report by trying to switch the account details. I'm sorry but I just need your assistance on this; I can't believe even the report I made on vandalism has been, in itself, vandalized by the said account. Looking forward to your speedy attention and action on this one.

Thanks so much. Migsmigss (talk) 11:19, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

The account is already blocked--Ymblanter (talk) 11:53, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Yes, thank you. And sorry for the bother. I appreciate the speedy reply. Cheers!Migsmigss (talk) 11:55, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Rebellion of the Pilots

Hi. You created a POV template on this article after the edits I made. The only non-neutral sounding statement in the whole article is the first sentence of the second heading which states "The Trujillo dictatorship was a totalitarian system, which violated public liberties, and treated the Dominicans as a slave people, whose work served to enrich the personal coffers of the dictator and his family". I do not think however that this is a non-neutral statement because we are talking about a bloody dictatorship here.

Can you be more specific about which statements need to be or sound more POV? Everything else besides the first sentence of the second heading are facts backed by legitimate sources.AeroCap (talk) 22:39, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

In addition to what you mention, the text you introduced routinely refers to Trujillo as "tyrant". Did Ramfis Trujillo really "murder" the plot executors? Why do not you write then that they previously murdered Trujillo? This is not really acceptable for a Wikipedia article. Before your edits, the article was more or less neutral.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:20, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Maybe you should read the article of dictator Rafael Trujillo and see how POV it sounds. Yes, Ramfis Trujillo executed all of the men responsible for the assassination of his father except two that got away. To your question Why do not you write then that they previously murdered Trujillo? I did write a whole heading about the assassination of the dictator.AeroCap (talk) 15:29, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

I have an impression that your understanding of our neutrality policy is pretty poor. I will put the POV template beck.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:31, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Putting the POV back without specifying why is violating the policy as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute#Adding_a_tag_to_a_page specially after I have fixed it the more non neutral sounding part. And no my understanding of the POV policy is not poor. Calling a dictatorship a tyranny is not a biased/original research thing. You also revealed that your knowledge of this historical event/article is poor which makes you more likely to misjudge what is non neutral sounding and what is not. The facts are cited with reliable sources in this article.

I will remove the word tyranny/tyrant from the article in order to make it more "neutral". However if this is not enough for you, I will have to report what seems to be irrational and stubborn behavior. AeroCap (talk) 15:54, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

You can start with reporting me, because you clearly do not get what I am trying to explain you. Again: for the sake of the argument, let us imagine I believe that President Trump is an idiot. There are millions of people who also believe he is an idiot. If I add to Donald Trump a statement that he is an idiot, or if I even write "this idiot was elected the US president in 2016", it will be a pretty clear POV statement (in addition to being a BLP violation). --Ymblanter (talk) 16:02, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Ban evasion

Hi. A user that was recently banned for edit warring and making personal attacks against me has made a new account, continued the edit war and attacks and posted an unban request on the master's talk page before self-reverting it. Could you deal with it please?

Lazer-kitty (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Zestkick (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

GhostOfDanGurney (talk) 06:57, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 07:27, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your time. GhostOfDanGurney (talk) 07:31, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Sure, no problem--Ymblanter (talk) 07:32, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Obvious bad moving to draft namespace by user:DGG

Sorry for interrupting, but please revert the situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Toomas_Sulling&action=history It is obvious that it is suitable for namespace 0. The reference by Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers is definitely reliable--Estopedist1 (talk) 09:47, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Why do not you talk to DGG? --Ymblanter (talk) 10:00, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

OK, Estopedist1, I may have been too fast. But if there's a link to the Estonian WP, add it,. DGG ( talk ) 10:07, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Totalitarianism

Hi, by the article an IP with misleading edit logs and the ignorance of the talk page commited 5 (!) reverts within 24 yours, the last one even after more users warned him in his/her talk page as well. I kindly ask your intervention, the last stable revision is the one of Thepenguin9. (Rjensen's later edits are unrelated). Thank you(KIENGIR (talk) 23:01, 10 March 2020 (UTC))

The IP is at 5 reverts (4 reverts within 24h), so I could have blocked him without further warnings, but they have got the last warning after their last revert and have not edited since. I would suggest restoring the last version, and if they continue reverting without discussion, I can block them.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:20, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

No, I see they reverted after the last warning. I will block them now, anybody can restore the last version.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:22, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Just out of block, edit war was continued: ([7])...(KIENGIR (talk) 13:47, 14 March 2020 (UTC))

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 13:52, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi,

unfortunately the IP returned, but as a registered user now "IndigoFenix" (self-admittedly), and just harmed the 3RR ([8]), ([9]), ([10]), ([11])...Thank you for your time.(KIENGIR (talk) 20:50, 7 April 2020 (UTC))

I blocked indef--Ymblanter (talk) 21:02, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Please check the page and geolocation, and/or other investigation about user HoboKenobi47...his argumentation, continous removal of the same subject is suspicious...Thank You(KIENGIR (talk) 01:24, 27 April 2020 (UTC))

I am afraid this is material for SPI. I am not a checkuser.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:36, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

March 2020

Why do you insist on using the Greek letters on the Phi Gamma Delta page (which are sacred to brothers) when the English wording of the letters and the image of the flag work just as well in place? There could also be a link to the Greek alphabet. I don’t believe it to be censorship because all of the relevant information is still there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.185.138.152 (talk) 22:42, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

And Latin letters are sacred for me, please do not use them. And btw do not write black on white, and please do not use electricity when you are contributing to Wikipedia.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:22, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, this is a little coutesy post in order to thank you for your swift page protection on Al-Farabi. Best.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:04, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Sure, no problem --Ymblanter (talk) 06:28, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Kazakh names

By law, on the page of each country or city, it is customary to leave the name in those languages that are present in the region. You do illegal things by adding names in Arabic. Please, stop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JackAtkinson22 (talk • contribs) 08:34, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

I do not understand your logic. Why are you adding the name of the cities in Arabic on the English page? Create a hotel page in Arabic and write everything in Arabic there. The English page should only contain names in those languages that are present in the region. In these regions there is no Arabic language, and never was. For that matter, why do you add the name in Chinese there? Or in Japanese? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JackAtkinson22 (talk • contribs) 08:41, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Stop immediately and read our policies. Kazakh was written in Arabic alphabet before the 1930s--Ymblanter (talk) 09:05, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Please stop vandalizing, and explain to me your logic. Why are you adding names in the "Arabic" language, and specifically in the "Kazakhstani" cities and regions? 3 languages ​​are common in Kazakhstan: Kazakh, Russian and English. Therefore, city names can only be in these languages, period. I know better than you about the country in which I live. JackAtkinson22 (talk) 09:21, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

responded at your talk page, If you keep removing the names, I will block your account for vandalism.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:29, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Arabic script is not an official script of Kazakhstan. Indeed, it was used until 1929, i.e. 90+ years ago. Please explain why should we add it to the opening sentence of Kazakhstan-related articles? I don't see it in MOS, upon a quick look, on the contrary, I see MOS:NICKCRUFT. Materialscientist (talk) 10:00, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Well, I did not add it to the articles, and I think it should be some general discussion on whether this script should be there or not (and I would probably support removing it). But mass-removing without discussion but with edit-warring is certainly not ok.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:07, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

WP:MOSGEO says old names could be listed, whatever we understand by old names.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:09, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

And, if I remember correctly, the argument (again, not given by me) was that Arabic script is still being used in Kazakh in China (which is kind of official since they have an autonomy there).--Ymblanter (talk) 10:14, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. EvergreenFir (talk) 20:51, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I will have a look.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:16, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Great thanks!

Sorry for this message, but great thanks for reviewing my articles of Estonian village! All existing Estonian villages should be in enwiki--Estopedist1 (talk) 07:28, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. I hope once the one-line stube have been created, you would go ahead to fill them with more information.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:30, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:56, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:34, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:36, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

I recommend de-escalation, not escalation

For this topic area. Please see my analysis at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Statement_by_Piotrus. With the most problematic editor in this topic area gone, we should bury the hatchet, and mend fences. (For the record, I haven't reported anyone to AE or such in years; the wiki-world would be a better place with more AGF). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:09, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, I will have a look again.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:32, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Ignaz Semmelweis

Hi,

an IP is POV pushing and ignoring the BRD principle, did not remain in the talk page...what is concerning in its last edit log he is accusing me with various epithets, although I demonstrated in the talk the problem at every point. Please restore the last stable and protect in case, unfortunately the IP seems not very calm...Thank You(KIENGIR (talk) 19:01, 26 March 2020 (UTC))

I fully protected the article for 3 days, which is pretty much the only thing I can do at this point.

Thank you. I have to inform you the IP reported me as a vandal ([12])...I reacted there that already administrator action happened...agh, this cases are...boring...Thank you for your time!(KIENGIR (talk) 19:11, 26 March 2020 (UTC))

Drug price RfC closure

Hello Ymblanter, at the drug prices RfC I noticed that you had some time ago put a "close in progress" message. I know you've gotten rather busy since then; will you still have time to do that or would it be better if we asked at AN to see if anyone's available? Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:44, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Yes, Wugapodes and I agreed on the principles and we have a draft text. With some luck, we should be done in a day or two. My apologies again.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:48, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

No troubles, and much appreciated for you guys tackling that mess. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 21:24, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

 Done now.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:55, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

!! Urgent !!

Can you please block 123thejoker1234 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) as this user keeps on trolling despite warnings. I am now just playing a game of whack-a-mole now. Aasim 08:46, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Newyorkbrad got there a few seconds before me, we block-conflicted--Ymblanter (talk) 08:52, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Urgent Request

Hi @Ymblanter: Can you perform edit protection on these two pages for a specific time. I have added the request at the Page Protection area, but it is still pending. These two pages have been victim of disruptive editing from few days. An edit protection may stop edit wars and possible vandalism. Then main editor is in an ANI discussion also. Thanks - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (^talk) 12:40, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

I have just declined the request. These article are not eligible for protection. This is a content dispute, you need to sort it out with your opponent at the talk page.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:49, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your extraordinary effort

		The Admin's Barnstar
		With appreciation, to Barkeep49, Wugapodes, and Ymblanter; thank you for your tireless (and underappreciated) work in seeing through the pharmaceutical drug pricing RFC. It was admirable of all of you to have taken on this necessary admin task when no one else would touch it. And sorting through my verbosity could not have made a difficult task easier! Be well, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:47, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:56, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

+1 and have a cupcake. -- Colin°^Talk 16:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

List of ATK players

You have fully protected List of ATK players as an edit war was taking place with regards to whether List of ATK players should redirect to List of ATK (football club) players. Since then, this question has been resolved through an AfD. Please consider unprotecting the page. --MrClog (talk) 18:22, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:25, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Rollback rights request

Dear Ymblanter

I would request you kindly provide/approve rollback rights. I intend to use this tool to stop vandalism. I have gone through WP:VANDAL and WP:ROLLBACK and have reverted few times vandalism and helped in increasing the page protection on the basis of attacks. I have also made a Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback. Thank you. Amkgp (talk) 18:38, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You don't need to contact individual administrators with your request. Filing it at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback is sufficient. --MrClog (talk) 18:43, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Indeed, there are two requests filed before yours. Please wait patiently. I have closed one request, but I can not really close all three. I or somebody else will act on your request soon.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:47, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks MrClog and Ymblanter. Next time onwards will follow the procedure only. Thanks. Amkgp (talk) 18:51, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Conflict of interest (COI) message

Hi, hope you are fine. I have added and edited few information in this content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Askari. I was add his recent pic. And some newspaper column which is published in famous newspaper. All the information i added is correct and there is a source for it. But I saw a notification above his page that is "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page."

He is not my close connected person. I know him well because he a famous person in our country.

How I can remove this message "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page." from his wiki page.

please remove that message from his wiki page. If you want I will clean up my editing from his wiki page.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mehedi-iu (talk • contribs) 16:24, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

You were systematically rewriting the text in a style completely inappropriate for an ancyclopedia. It is in fact an agiography. IThe readers have a right to know that this is not a proper encyclopedic text.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:34, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

No problem, Mehedi-iu. I've taken off the tag about you possibly having a connection to the subject, and added the ones about it not being written in the correct, WP:NEUTRAL WP:TONE. Tone can be a difficult problem to solve, but you can probably find ways to make it less hagiographic if you look for specific facts. Consider He had occasions to work and mix with multinational and multicultural academics and scholars as a good sentence to re-write with specificity. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:47, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

ANI thread

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Legal threats by A.Savin. Obi2canibe (talk) 19:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, I have seen it already.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection request

Hi Ymblanter, You added a protected page template for Abiy Ahmed and thank you very much. I have already arranged the prime ministers postion numeral observed at List of heads of government of Ethiopia. Then I see their postion chronology list. Could you please secure the page Abiy Ahmed with temporary semi-protection in order to avoid further abuse with controversial page? The Supermind (talk) 19:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

No, I am sorry but I do not think the current level of disruption merits semi-protection, pending changes protection works as intended.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:00, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

how I remove "The neutrality of this article is disputed. "

Hi hope you are fine..First this article(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Askari) have no notification above the article. I was added some information from various strong source and I rearranged the article that's looks good. There was few miss information like his short story was in article section thats why I make a short story section there. Also I have added some reputed article from various strong source actually he has houndred plus article published but i took few( from strong source).

I am too much disappointed when I see the notification above the article that is"""The neutrality of this article is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met. (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)"""

I was jut try to complete the article but now its looks bad.

Please let me know what I have to do now for removing that 2 notification. If you want I will delete all the things which is added by me.

Please let me know the exact things..

i am waiting for your kind response.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mehedi-iu (talk • contribs) 20:16, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

You were told several times what to do but I am afraid you just did not listen. Please read WP:MOS and act accordingly. If I see more new single-purpose accounts editing the article introducing puffery language I will fully protect it.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:21, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Ymblanter, the template on the article has been removed once again... — Yours, Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 09:21, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I restored and added COI again. It is clear that we are dealing with COI editing and possibly with undeclared paid editing, when the customer is unhappy with the result.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:42, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Request

Could you please also revert Łazar P‘arpec‘i, Ełišē, and Koriwn. Thanks! ----Երևանցի ^talk 11:02, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I am planning to revert all these moves.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:47, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

COI Issue

As a contributor I do not have close connection with the subject Rashid Askari. But I know from various authentic sources that he is a renowned person in Bangladesh in many respects. I added some sources/references to help maintain the encyclopedic tone with a view to removing the template messages.

Also I have noticed that another wiki person has changed Rashid Askari’s content to keep it in the encyclopedic tone and now it is in perfect encyclopedic tone. And hence I removed the notification “tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia”. I am sure that no information about the subject is incorrect and all the information is strongly documented. So I would request you to remove the template messages at the top. As a wiki volunteer, I am trying to make the concerned content error-free. So I request you to encourage me to help contribute to the new contents by way of making them error-free.

Thanks

I responded at the talk page. I believe the article does not conform to the Wikipedia style. Also I find extremely troublesome that this article is almost exclusively edited by single purpose accounts who are extremely preoccupied by removal of maintenance templates.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:36, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

neutrality of this article is disputed

Hi, hope you are safe from corona.

As a contributor I do not have close connection with the subject Rashid Askari. But I know from various authentic sources that he is a renowned person in Bangladesh in many respects.

I am a new wiki contributor. As I am Bangladeshi that's why I know about him from newspaper because he is renowned person in Bangladesh in many respects. So I just try to improve his wiki. Is it my fault. really I am too disappointed you thought I break the wiki rules. I love wiki thats why I want to be part of wiki.

May be his article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone but neutrality of this article is disputed is wrong. I am not personally or officially connected with this person.

Before my editing there was no templte like neutrality of this article is disputed. When I try to improve it now showing this. its make disappointed.

Please adding this "article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone" and remove this two templte " neutrality of this article is disputed" and "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject.""

If there is a problem I will never edit his article but my request is remove that. really Its makes me disappointed.

Thanks

I am sorry but I do not have an impression you are listening to me. Also, you persistence on removing the templates without the article being improved and the issues fixed actually suggests you have a conflict of interest. I am even afraid you might be an undeclared paid editor, and your employer is unhappy with the presence of the templates.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:15, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Error in processed CFDS request

I just noticed that Category:Rose-Hulman Fightin' Engineers basketball was nominated to be renamed to Category:Rose–Hulman Fightin' Engineers basketball players after you processed it, but the target shouldn't have "players" in its title. Could you fix this on WP:CFDW? Regards, Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:30, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Also Category:Rose-Hulman Fightin' Engineers football players shouldn't be renamed to Category:Rose–Hulman Fightin' football players but Category:Rose–Hulman Fightin' Engineers football players. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:34, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed the second one. As for the first one, the category was listed twice. I think the idea was to move Category:Rose-Hulman Fightin' Engineers basketball players to Category:Rose–Hulman Fightin' Engineers basketball players but it does not exist, so I have just removed it from the list.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:43, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Fixed the second one as well--Ymblanter (talk) 07:08, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

COI Issue

Hi, I’m hoping you are fine and safe from coronavirus infection. I’m little upset that you have got me wrong. You know I am not that an old and experienced wiki editor, and didn’t know all the rules of the wiki edit. As I became interested in becoming an editor and was looking for a topic, I spotted the wiki content of Rashid Askari. I thoroughly read it to know about him and found that the content was short of info which are available in different newspapers. I felt that his wiki needed improvement. So, to begin with as an editor, I selected him as my subject. I started studying him and added his short stories, articles and books from many strong sources from home and abroad. I had the idea in me that if I use authentic sources I must quote and unquote the statement as it is exactly found in the original sources. But now I have come to know that the wiki content must not be written in any flowery or high-flown language even if it is there in the sources. Besides, one day, I, quite unknowingly, reverted to the content more than thrice to separate the short stories from the articles to classify them into a new category, which you did not accept very well. I thought I would begin with a new one after I am completely done with the Rashid Askari one. As a matter of fact, I want to gradually grow as an expert volunteer wiki editor. And this is my first attempt. So, the appearance of the template messages (“neutrality of this article is disputed” and “A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject”) at the top of Rashid Askari wiki content, which resulted from my erroneous edit, has disappointed me. So, I repeatedly added info and took several attempts to remove the template messages. But rest assured that, I am, by no means, a paid editor and I have on connection with Rashid Askari. How far is it justifiable to pay an amateur and unprofessional editor like me? Please be kind to me on this ground that, for my own inadvertent mistakes and for no fault of the subject, his entry is having burden of the error messages. Hope, you’ll understand the situation. Therefore, I earnestly request you to remove the two above mentioned messages and keep only the “tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia”. I’ll keep trying to further edit very carefully and meticulously in keeping with the wiki rules and then submit that to you for review and only after you confirm, I will remove the third error message. Finally, I earnestly request you once again to help me grow as an expert wiki volunteer and oblige thereby. Thank you so much indeed. Stay safe and have a nice time

I am waiting for your kind response.

Thanks

No. I am not going to remove the templates. Thank you for understanding.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:22, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Electronic body music

User Gentlecollapse6 removes permanently sourced content and calls it "unsourced". He adds his personal view. For example "Electro Disco Terrorist Music" is not an established term. Try Google. You will not find any proof that Front 242 ever used this term to describe their music. Furthermore, he permanently adds this Disco nonsense. Not a single source includes "Eurodisco". So please, revert the version.

I do not see any discussion at the talk page of the article or the talk page of the user, and I do not see why ( should be conducting edit-warring in this article.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:19, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Of course, there is a discussion. But it's useless. This guy is stubborn. He removes older souces to add his nonsense.

No, I do not see any talk page discussion.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:24, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Electronic_body_music#"Electro_Disco_Terrorist_Music"...

Ok, you made a point, in 2018, they disagree in 2018, you disagree in 2019. Whay I should just revert the edits in a protected article based on your opinion? Try to convince the user, if it does not work you can ask at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Music. I do not have any special knowledge in the field and I am not going to listen to you, nor to your opponent. My role was to stop ongoing disruption in the article.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:34, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

You obviously don't know this user. Again. It's like talking to a wall. Add my sourced content back to the article. And remove this "Electro_Disco_Terrorist_Music" nonsense. There is not a single source. Some kind of journalist used it in one web article. It doesn't prove anything.

Sorry, I am not going to be involved with this article beyond pure administrative intervention. I am not going to decide who is right and who is wrong.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:34, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Eh?

These were not listed for 48 hours, just 7. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:31, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Yes, you are right, I returned them for the discussion.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:37, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Talk:Saif Ben Ammar

Hello,
Thank you for your action. Is it possible to hide the change description too due to the fact the section header appears there for everyone? Moumou82 (talk) 21:30, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

 Done, no problem. I have written to the oversight, they will do if smth else needs to be done.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:35, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello

I saw that I put wrong the moving categories, sorry for that. :( I have also a merge proposal here -> Talk:CS Mureșul Deva and here -> Talk:LPS Cetate Deva, if you want to express your opinion, you're welcome. :) Rhinen.

No problem, I should have been more attentive. I will have a look if I have time, but generally I am not an expert in Romanian football.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:42, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Special:UncategorizedFiles

Hi!

Im'm trying to empty this category and it's a little tricky because there is a few local file pages that is redirected by a redirect on Commons. So it is not easy to find them and not easy to link to them. There is an example here:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Messier%205%20Hubble%20WikiSky.jpg&action=edit

Can you delete it? --MGA73 (talk) 19:17, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

I just found this Wikipedia:Database reports/File description pages shadowing a Commons file or redirect. I think it may relate to some of the files. I think it is best to take one file and see how it works before deleting more files. --MGA73 (talk) 19:21, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

I certainly can technically delete the file, but I do not understand whether it fits our criteria of speedy deletion because I do not actually understand what the local description means. It would be better to ask at WP:AN--Ymblanter (talk) 19:24, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

I would say F2 but will ask at AN.--MGA73 (talk) 06:34, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Oh fixed https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Messier_5_Hubble_WikiSky.jpg&redirect=no --MGA73 (talk) 06:44, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Great, thanks--Ymblanter (talk) 06:46, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

We need help for Genghis Khan's controversial dispute for the talk page

TrynaMakeDollar suggested we asked a admin for help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Genghis_Khan#Edit_request please help out sort out this problem. Hunan201p keeps doing original research with vandalism and manipulating text references. Queenplz (talk) 19:10, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

I replied there. I can not really resolve this content dispute, and it is not yet at the level of bad behavior which requires admin intervention.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

There is a blatant list of bad behaviour from Hunan201p. He just deliberately removes essential words and sentences from it's reference. He is basically just cherrypicking the parts he likes, placing the order of dates of information all wrongly. All which are against wikipedia's policy; original research, neutral point of views https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Genghis_Khan#Edit_request I replied at the bottom Queenplz (talk) 03:31, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

No, this is a content dispute. They remove content which you do not like citing reliable sources.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:06, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Editor making slurs against another editors Ethnicity

Hello,

Can anything be done about the editor who made this edit summary [13]? He's been attacking Iryna Harpy for being of Ukrainian origin for years now, as can be seen for instance Talk:Religion in Russia#About the unreliability of the Arena survey and making bizarre claims such as that we're trying to diminish the number of Orthodox Christians in Russia as a form of Russophobia. He doesn't edit very often though.--Ermenrich (talk) 01:00, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

I blocked for 2 weeks. If they start block evasion as they promised feel free to file SPI.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:12, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Kim Jong-un protection downgraded

I'm pretty sure you intended to semiprotect rather than fully-protecting. But I thought I'd drop you this note nonetheless. Regards,El_C 03:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, it's been pointed out to me that I was in error. I've re-upgraded the protection. My apologies for the mishap. El_C 03:51, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

No problem. I indeed fully protected it becase there were bad edits by experienced users, and we will need to catch a moment when the full protection expires to prolong it or to restore semi--Ymblanter (talk) 06:46, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Ymblanter. I agree that careful monitoring will be needed moving forward. El_C 06:49, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Very quick question

Hi Ymblanter, thank you for reviewing the page I just created at Mugnone River. How do I see the results of the review? Or where on the page is it listed as a stub/etc.? Thank you, Ikjbagl (talk) 07:55, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for creating the article. There are no result of the review, I do not see any issues with the article except for obviously it is a one-line stub. Somebody will stub-tag it at some point, you can also do it yourself if you want.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Comment on Electronic harassment page protection request

Hi, I belief this decision was made based on a mistake. There was no IP making a constructive edit. The IP edit that was accepted was a self-revert of a test edit by the same IP. I did check the version history carefully before I made the request. We had no constructive edit from an IP or new user for a long time. This was the last edit that was (a) not from an established user (1000+ edits, >1 year) and (b) not obvious vandalism, and this was the last non-vandalism edit from a user who might have been not autoconfirmed at that time: September 2019. That's 6 months or 38 separate vandalism+revert events ago. And half of these 6 months the article was semi-protected, so we have one vandalism event every 3 days on average and a constructive edit maybe every 6 months. --mfb (talk) 15:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

I now protected for 6 months--Ymblanter (talk) 16:27, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

I Don't No How To Put A Request For Protecting An page KumarVenati (talk) 15:31, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

WP:RFPP--Ymblanter (talk) 15:34, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Request

I Saw Your Edit For Protecting A Page Named Rajya Sabha

I Am Requesting You To Protect The Following pages

• Lok Sabha
• Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Rajasthan Legislative Assembly

Sir,Please Protect The Pages Same Manner Like Rajya Sabha KumarVenati (talk) 15:23, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

I protected the last one for a week. In the first one, I do not currently see the level of disruption which would justify orotection. In the second one, if the user returns, they must be blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:29, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm not a sockpuppet

...as two or three seconds of thought would have told you. I am making substantive (and intelligent) additions to an edit that was added by a Politico sockpuppet to Pat Toomey's page. It is an edit designed solely to draw attention to a trivial Politico story. Several foolish and/or naive and/or self important other editors stepped in to insist that the trivial sockpuppet story had to remain in place just because they said so. No evidence or argument provided to justify their demands, and the were willing to edit war to maintain the sockpuppet's editorial insertion. When I gave up trying to convince people who couldn't be reasoned with, and instead added factual context revealing that the added story was trivial, they began doing the reverse -- edit warring to remove the offending context. This isn't about reason or evidence with them. It's about asserting power. Hence their false claims that I, rather than the Politico editor, am a sockpuppet.72.86.138.120 (talk) 22:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Ok, sure. Materialscientist and JzG are both sockpuppets of Politico. What a smart person to have two sockpuppets who are both administrators.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:23, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

No they're fools. As you seem to be.72.86.138.120 (talk) 05:31, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for 31h for personal attacks--Ymblanter (talk) 05:35, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Subdistricts of Afghanistan

Hi, can you find a list of subdistricts of Afghanistan? I can't seem to find any. Of course even the districts mostly need expanding and researching but it would still be good if there was a list somewhere.† Encyclopædius 14:12, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Mmm Kot-e Ashro looks like it is actually the town of Jalrez itself now. Falling Rain isn't reliable but is usually right on coordinates and looking on google maps it says it's Jalrez now. This source though says Kot used to be the district capital until taken by the Taliban. Odd. What do you think?† Encyclopædius 15:02, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Usually these things come out if the census, but then one of course needs to be able to read Pashto, and also I am not sure there was a census in the last 50 years. Any other statistical info would be good as well.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:31, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

I can't find the coordinates for Zaiwalat either. It's an educated guess for now but not sure.† Encyclopædius 15:57, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Found it I think.† Encyclopædius 16:58, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I spent some time searching, I can not find the list of subdistricts. Will try again tomorrow.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:41, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

This one says that the subdistricts were eliminated by Taliban in 1996 and are not in use anymore.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:10, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Pelasgians

Hi,

unfortunately an editor in this page recurrently disregarding our policies, it started with two bold edits ([14]), ([15]), after I indicated shortly there are problems and no consensus, issue has to be discussed. I've tried more solutions, opened a discussion - and was very patient anyway - but the systematical reverts continued, now the user is at 8 (!) reverts ([16]), ([17]), ([18]), ([19]), ([20]), ([21]), ([22]), with totally disregarding WP:BRD, lack of WP:CONSENSUS, or any dispute resolution policy, what really concerns me the last two reverts have been made after I left an edit-warring notice on the talk page ([23]) and literally explained our policies even much earlier...

The editor argued in the talk that his edit-warring is anyway justified and applying the rules of WP is just a vicious bad faith attack against him (??)...in his last revert, even misleading statements he did in the edit log, accusing me not responded, (he did not even wait me to react), on the other hand he still cannot understand that restoring a page to a status quo ante per policiy does not equal with deletion...last but not least, he stated I falsely accused him of edit-warring, that is obviously hilarious, and if the remain in the talk page would be my desire, not a dispure resolution policy...

This is the point when an admin should intervene, the last stable version is the revison of 13:33, 10 April 2020‎ Rich Smith, although I restored earlier not all of the contributions, but only the disputed ones, but still WP:ICANTHEARYOU is ongoing from the user's behalf...(KIENGIR (talk) 18:06, 30 April 2020 (UTC))

I fully protected for three days--Ymblanter (talk) 18:13, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Edit request

Hi, thanks for semi-protecting Portland International Airport. Could you please revert the edit made by IP 107.242.121.24 on that page, which was made just before you applied the semi-protection? That was the type of disruptive editing that the semi-protection was meant to stop. Thanks. 172.58.44.167 (talk) 18:35, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:40, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Disruptive Editor at Expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia

Can anything be done about the user who made all these diffs? Refusing to go to talk and adding POV material in various iterations. [24], [25], [26], [27], [28] [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34] (He appears to sometimes edit as an IP as well, cf.: [35]).--Ermenrich (talk) 18:04, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

I reverted to the pre-war version, protected the article for three days, and gave the user a discretionary sanction alert.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:13, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

The Germans arrived to the Czech Lands in every century, including many since 1850. Yes or No? If No, Please give references.

The U.S. commission to the Paris Peace Conference issued a declaration which gave unanimous support for "uniti of Czech Lands". Yes or No? If No, Please give references. --Posp68 (talk) 18:36, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

This is not a proper venue to discuss this, and generally I am not interested in a discussion of this issue.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:38, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Why do you censor then?--Posp68 (talk) 18:44, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

I do not censor, I stop disruption. So far I have chosen protection, my next choice will be a block.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:48, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

If you are not interested you should not have the authority to block, because then there will be censorship--Posp68 (talk) 19:01, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your opinion, but Wikipedia policies say otherwise. May be you should read them before continuing your disruption.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:06, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

You're welcome. Is Cambridge Univerity Press blocked from Wikipedia? Why are you accusing me of disruption?--Posp68 (talk) 19:22, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

I guess you need to read WP:RS, WP:POV, WP:V, and WP:WEIGHT. After that you can go to the talk page of the article. As I have already mentioned, this page is not a proper venue to discuss the content dispute you have been involved into (and I have not).--Ymblanter (talk) 19:25, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Is Cambridge University Press blocked from Wikipedia. It was I who was disrupted. See View history for the article: Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia if you are interested.--Posp68 (talk) 19:30, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

You started editing, and,m when reverted, you had to go to the talk page and try to find a solution. Instead, you continued edit=warring. This is disruption.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:32, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

So Cambridge University Press is blocked and Wikipedia is cencored.--Posp68 (talk) 19:39, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Which means you have not understood a single word of what I have written here. This, moreover, means that you should not be editing Wikipedia. I will likely block your account as soon as you resume disruption, be it under your username or as IP.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:44, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

So I have to ask permission from Talk Page to quote Cambridge University Press in Wikipedia. It reminds me of censorship --Posp68 (talk) 20:04, 2 May 2020 (UTC)