User talk:Ypatch

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Nomination of K11 MUSEA for deletion

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Hi, articles are normally placed in the most specific categories applicable. For example, Shi language is already a member of Category:Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Category:Great Lakes Bantu languages, and via these two the article already fits in the category tree under Category:Languages, so there's no need to add it separately. I would highly recommend reading WP:SUBCAT. Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 00:50, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

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Vanamonde93, thanks for the notice. This sort of WP:TENDENTIOUS editing seems ongoing though. Have you seen this?: [1] [2] Ypatch (talk) 16:01, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

@Ypatch: That page has been monitored by El_C for a while, so I've generally left it to him; but thanks for the link. Vanamonde (Talk) 16:05, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Executions by Spain

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Block

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December 2019

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Dear fellow editor. The world is struggling to stay safe from the harms of a some tens of nano-meters sized virus. I wish you and your dear ones full safety from the dangers of this unilateral love! Regards. --Mhhossein ^talk 08:21, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

MEK page

Hey Ypatch; thanks for all your help at the People's Mujahedin of Iran, your input has helped remove a lot rubbish out of that article. I was wondering if you could comment on this new TP discussion? Thanks again. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 18:32, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Ali Sayad Shirazi

Content you added to the above article back in August 2019 appears to have been copied from the source documents. Copying text directly from a source is a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, your additions had to be removed. Text you add to Wikipedia should be written in your own words. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. — Diannaa (talk) 12:31, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Topic ban from Iranian politics

The following sanction now applies to you:

You are topic-banned from post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed, for 3 months.

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Ypatch, you may have found errors that Saff V. has made, but in doing so you've demonstrated again that you're treating Wikipedia as a political battleground, and that's not okay; specifically, the willingness to throw any accusation at Saff V. in that particular discussion. If that had been an isolated incident, I would have stopped at warning you, but I have warned you several times before about your conduct in this area. I would recommend that you use the next three months to edit in other areas and show that you can work collaboratively. Vanamonde (Talk) 18:11, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

@Vanamonde93: don't shoot the messenger, please! ok, but seriously, I did think Saff V. needed to be sanctioned - not because of their political bias, but for the way they were editing. It appears this somehow was construed as battleground on the report I did about Saff V.'s edits. May I ask what exactly led to my block? Ypatch (talk) 23:17, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

It was not the fact that you made a report; that was the correct thing to do. It was the content of that report, combined with your previous conduct. I've warned you on multiple occasions, including when you violated the consensus required restriction at the MEK article. Then there's the issues with paraphrasing, and your inability to understand when paraphrasing is appropriate and what accurate paraphrasing means. In the report you made, you accused Saff V. of removing well-sourced content, and when I questioned you about it you tried to fudge the issue; the fundamental point was that the removal was in fact well-justified. I think some time away from this charged topic will be good for you; ideally, you should spend it building content in some other area. Vanamonde (Talk) 03:02, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

@Vanamonde93: I did make mistakes on the MEK page, yet I don't think my edits were scrutinised in the same way as Mhhossein's edits. Mhhossein also made reverts that were inappropriate, and keeps trying to fill the article with things like "the MEK is a cult" while removing anything historical that will give the MEK any validity. He has been doing this sort of thing for a long, long time, and for this has received more warnings than me, yet he is still doing this sort of thing, like today, for example removing "By October that year many thousands of prisoners had been executed without trial or appeal" based on the RfC you closed (that sentence was not even mentioned in that RfC). These are not innocent mistakes, and even if they were, they should be treated with the same scrutiny everyone else is getting in these articles.

About my block, I'll take it on the chin, that's fine. I'm starting to think that you're right that this may be good for me. Ypatch (talk) 17:23, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm monitoring the conduct of all the users on that page, never fear. But please note that this is precisely the sort of thing I would describe as battleground behavior. Your own actions need to be policy-compliant, period. As such what Mhhossein does is utterly irrelevant to this discussion. If I have somehow been favoring Mhhossein in this dispute (he would find that suggestion amusing, I think), that's an issue with my conduct, and this is not the place to discuss it. Vanamonde (Talk) 18:00, 29 April 2020 (UTC) Addendum; Mhhosein's removal was actually fine; there are two sections titled "RFC" on that talk archive, and the second one was relevant to this diff. This is another example of needing perspective; I think if you were not already convinced that he was in the wrong, you may have found that out for yourself. Vanamonde (Talk) 18:02, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

@Vanamonde93: Sorry, but I don't see where in that RfC it says that it was ok to remove "By October that year many thousands of prisoners had been executed without trial or appeal". Ypatch (talk) 20:20, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

You're kind of missing the point, Ypatch, because there was never consensus for any of that content in the first place; it hadn't been in the article very long. Moreover, you ought not to be discussing this anyway. Appealing your own ban is covered by WP:BANEX; discussing other peoples' supposed misconduct is not. So please let it go. Vanamonde (Talk) 20:40, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Vanamonde93: could you please confirm if my block is now up? thank you. Ypatch (talk) 11:51, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Yes, your topic ban has expired, and you are free to edit the topics from which you were banned. Please remember that this isn't a license to return to previous behavior; you are expected to have learned to edit collaboratively in the interim. I will not hesitate to reimpose the ban if I see more battleground editing. Best of luck. Vanamonde (Talk) 15:38, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

August 2020

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January 2021

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Mhhossein ^talk 12:18, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Bad sourcing

Please do not add material sourced by auction sites as you did here. See WP:RS. Possibly (talk) 22:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Addition of external links in the body of articles

Hi, I just wanted to quickly explain why I reverted your edit at Aberdeen Country Park. Per WP:ELPOINTS, external links should generally not be included in the body of articles. Best regards, Citobun (talk) 09:32, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Arbitration case opened

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Proposed decision posted at the open Iranian politics case

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