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:I should like to add that this request has been re-listed after being archived by the bot on October 10.--[[User:MarshallBagramyan|Marshal Bagramyan]] ([[User talk:MarshallBagramyan|talk]]) 20:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
:I should like to add that this request has been re-listed after being archived by the bot on October 10.--[[User:MarshallBagramyan|Marshal Bagramyan]] ([[User talk:MarshallBagramyan|talk]]) 20:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

::Furthermore, even though Tuscumbia has been warned and topic banned twice for specifically choosing to exclude a sources based on his or her ethnicity, he still continues to use it in his arguments as evidenced by a remark he [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AKarabakh&action=historysubmit&diff=455031891&oldid=454945001 made just today].--[[User:MarshallBagramyan|Marshal Bagramyan]] ([[User talk:MarshallBagramyan|talk]]) 16:40, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


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    Tuscumbia

    Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

    Request concerning Tuscumbia

    User who is submitting this request for enforcement
    Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 01:52, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    User against whom enforcement is requested
    Tuscumbia (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
    Sanction or remedy to be enforced
    Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2#Amended Remedies and Enforcement
    Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
    1. [1] First revert on Gülablı article on 27 Sept.
    2. [2] Second revert on Gülablı article on 27 Sept.
    3. [3] Third revert on Gülablı article on 28 Sept.
    4. [4] First revert on 1990 Tbilisi-Agdam bus bombing article on 30 Sept.
    5. [5] Second revert on 1990 Tbilisi-Agdam bus bombing article on 30 Sept.
    6. [6] Third revert on 1990 Tbilisi-Agdam bus bombing article on 3 Oct.
    7. [7] Fourth revert 1990 Tbilisi-Agdam bus bombing article on 3 Oct.
    Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required)
    1. Warned on [8] by Stifle (talk · contribs)
    2. Warned on [9] by Magog the Ogre (talk · contribs)
    Additional comments by editor filing complaint

    The recent edits which I have highlighted above are what I believe a mere sampling of the improper conduct of user Tuscumbia. Though well-acquainted with the rules of Wikipedia and after editing here for well over three years and after having been topic-banned for no less than three times, Tuscumbia displays an editing behavior that is highly unwelcome and needlessly combative. As the above examples show, he demonstrates a proclivity to edit war excessively and to engage immediately in revert wars over the most insignificant issues rather than taking part in fruitful discussions (in what can best be termed as having issues of WP:OWNERSHIP). Even when tags are added to an article, long after an editor has expressed his misgivings on the pertinent issues, he still decides to remove them and claims the other editor's concerns as baseless. But is that really his judgment to make? Although in discussions reasonable arguments (to most viewers) are introduced, Tuscumbia chooses to play games and makes burdensome and unrealistic demands which are not all in accord with Wikipedia's guidelines but appear to aim mainly to exhaust the other editors' patience. And when a user finally expresses his exasperation over these type of time-consuming edits, all he receives is a response like this: "You know what? You can complain as much as you want because that's the only thing you're capable of..." ([10]). How do remarks like this help at all? And even after his long time spent on Wikipedia, he still feels he can create articles with such non neutral POV opening sentences as "The Vrezh...is an underground militant movement reportedly created by Dashnak leadership in 1989 to torment Azerbaijan..." [11] until another editor informs him of why such wording is so problematic.

    Much as I was opposed to it, I was told to present here my grievances by an administrator who is relatively familiar with such cases. I myself do not know what is to be done but familiar as I am with Tuscumbia's long history of edit wars and his tendency to make snide remarks against other editors, I believe perhaps a form of revert parole needs to be established to compel him to express his views on the talk page, rather than drive him to press the revert button with whatever edit he disagrees with. His attitude toward others must also become more constructive because what he is doing can best be termed as stonewalling. Regards, --Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 01:52, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    I should like to add that this request has been re-listed after being archived by the bot on October 10.--Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 20:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Furthermore, even though Tuscumbia has been warned and topic banned twice for specifically choosing to exclude a sources based on his or her ethnicity, he still continues to use it in his arguments as evidenced by a remark he made just today.--Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 16:40, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

    [12]


    Discussion concerning Tuscumbia

    Statement by Tuscumbia

    Frankly, I don't even know how to react to this report which has no grounds, no evidence of wrongdoing and most importanly, is filed in bad faith. First off, the report itself is apparently filed in retaliation to the report I had filed on Takabeg which also included the inputs from Marshal Bagramyan. You might notice that ever since that report was filed (and was archived without result for reasons which I still don't understand), Marshal has been following me on articles I created such as 1990 Tbilisi-Agdam bus bombing, 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown and Vrezh in an obvious attempt of trolling and disruptive editing activity. Now, I would understand if an editor has grounds for concern and puts forward reliable sources to support his arguments, but you will not see that in Marshal's edits and arguments. I will present that evidence below.

    • Article Gülablı: In his report above, Marshall hides the evidence of his wrongdoing. On September 15, he made this edit, replacing the legitimate name of Gulabli with Vazgenashen, which is an illegitimate name given by the separatist authorities currently in control of the village, albeit the name Gulabli is sourced from a neutral GEOnet Names Server. More importantly though, he added this Armeniapedia link as a source for his additions. Armeniapedia is a one sided unreliable source owned and operated by User:RaffiKojian ([13]) who has been recently collaborating with Marshall on articles Dashalty and Barda, Azerbaijan. Off-Wiki coordination? His second edit is the revert to his version from User Dighapet and third edit is the revert from my version where I restored information based on neutral sources, including the name Vazgenashen as called by Armenians and adding links to other Wikipedia, removing the Azerbaijani drone shootdown section which incorrectly referred to the village as Vazgenashen, based on Armenian news piece Armenian Reporter. My second revert on September 27 13:58 and one on September 28, commenting on existence of POV on the talk page [14] and [15]. As another user Vugar mentioned providing a link to Wikimapia, the village Vazgenashen is not even the same village. See the map and description in Russian: Село, построенное после Карабахской войны для армян-беженцев (A village, built for Armenian refugees after Karabakh war)
    • Article 1990 Tbilisi-Agdam bus bombing, my revert on September 30 is the undoing of Marshall's I DON'T LIKE IT attitude, where he replaced the word "terrorist" and removed the affiliation of the terrorist group to Dashnaks, completely disregarding the sources [16] and [17] which corroborate the text of the article. My second revert is undoing of the edit by a sockpuppet Szeget of an infamous sock master Xebulon (I do wonder how this sockpuppet finds his ways to be on the same page as Marshall. Off-wiki coordination? Ducking?) My first revert on October 3 is undoing of Marshall's violation of WP:OR and WP:IDONTLIKEIT because all he does is change the sourced data to make it seem less reliable by removing words like "perpetrators" and reference to Dashnaks, again, when the text is supported by sources and while Marshall does not provide a single source for his changes although I repeatedly asked him to provide sources which corroborate his argument and changes [18], [19], [20] which he, in turn, calls "overburdensome request". My secondrevert on October 3 is the removal of POV and Unreliability tags which Marshall added on October 3 in the absence of any sources to support his arguments and changes. To sum up, instead of looking for sources supporting his arguments, he likes to just add tags. Tags are added when something is disputable and both sides present sources upon which compromise is being reached. This user adds tags as last resort to mislabel the article, already well sourced.

    Last, but not least, Marshall's misuse of admin's note as if it were instructions from AGK to report me, is simply an act of intended misrepresentation. AGK asked to report your concerns on this board to resolve the issues instead of asking him to resolve in on his page, not because he reviewed the evidence and supports you.

    One more thing Marshall selectively forgets when bashing me about topic bans, is that he himself has been a subject to revert paroles and topic bans on AA2 4 times, including an indefinite topic-ban on Azerbaijan-Armenian pages (later reduced to one month) and indefinite restriction for making derogatory statments about sources or their authors based on nationaility, place, publication or similar general characteristic. So, who is really a long time edit-warrior and displays disruptive behavior?

    I, in the years of editing (less that Marshall has spent) have created 343 articles for various subjects including oil and gas fields, government bodies and institutions, food and drinks, TV shows and personalities, crime, terrorism related to Norway, United States, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Angola, Romania, etc. It just happens that most of articles I created fall under category Azerbaijan which seemingly causes discontent for MarshallBagramyan who decided to get rid of me. I think the admininstrators of this board should take a thorough look at the evidence, including Marshall's long term wrongdoings and take adequate action. Tuscumbia (talk) 14:09, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Comments by others about the request concerning Tuscumbia

    Result concerning Tuscumbia

    This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the section above.
    Link to the remedy you want enforced, not the case. It is a small thing, but it is you who should be doing these small things, instead of making an already difficult task that much more work.--Tznkai (talk) 23:57, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    No More Mr Nice Guy

    Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

    Request concerning No More Mr Nice Guy

    User who is submitting this request for enforcement
    ZScarpia   23:33, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    User against whom enforcement is requested
    No More Mr Nice Guy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
    Sanction or remedy to be enforced
    WP:ARBPIA#Discretionary_sanctions
    Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
    1. 23:39, 26 September 2011 No More Mr Nice Guy made a gratuitous personal attack against user Talknic (talk · contribs) on the talk page of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War article, writing: "How about you desist wasting everyone's time with your silly trolling?" He twice reinstated the comment after it was struck-out by me. The comment runs counter to the WP:ARBPIA#Decorum principle that editors avoid "unseemly conduct" such as personal attacks and incivility. The ARBPIA remedies allow any uninvolved administrator to impose discretionary sanctions on any editors working in the ARBIA if, despite being warned, they repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the expected standards of behaviour in Wikipedia.
    Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required)
    1. Notified on 14:12, 13 April 2009 by PhilKnight (talk · contribs)
    2. Notified on 21:41, 26 May 2010 by HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs)
    Additional comments by editor filing complaint

    The ARBPIA rulings say: "Wikipedia users are expected to behave reasonably, calmly, and courteously in their interactions with other users; to approach even difficult situations in a dignified fashion and with a constructive and collaborative outlook; and to avoid acting in a manner that brings the project into disrepute. Unseemly conduct, such as personal attacks, incivility, assumptions of bad faith, trolling, harassment, disruptive point-making, and gaming the system, is prohibited." I do not know any editor who is as relentlessly snide and sarcastic as No More Mr Nice Guy, who appears to be making a determined and succesful effort to live up to his user name. On 26 September, No More Mr Nice Guy left a baseless and insulting remark about user Talknic (talk · contribs) on the talk page of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War article, writing: "How about you desist wasting everyone's time with your silly trolling?" The Wikipedia talk page guidelines allow the removal of personal attacks (and also, as I think the comment fits the description, ironically, trolling: "A troll deliberately exploits tendencies of human nature or of an online community to upset people."). Accordingly, I struck out No More Mr Nice Guy's comment. He then re-instated it, I struck it out and then No More Mr Nice Guy re-instated it again. The following diffs show the sequence of events:

    1. 23:39, 26 September 2011 No More Mr Nice Guy made a gratuitous personal attack against user Talknic.
    2. 13:36, 2 October 2011 Feeling that the comment crossed well beyond the line of acceptability, I struck it out.
    3. 18:54, 2 October 2011 No More Mr Nice Guy reverted the striking out.
    4. 19:50, 2 October 2011 I reverted No More Mr Nice Guy's revert and stated that if the offending comment was re-instated again, I would take it to one of the noticeboards.
    5. 20:04, 2 October 2011 No More Mr Nice Guy reinstated his comment, leaving the edit summary, "Go ahead."

    On making the first reinstatement, No More Mr Nice Guy left the edit summary, "I believe I told you already not to edit my talk page comments." This is a reference to an incident in November 2010 when I struck out an off-topic (irrelevant to the topic) and insulting comment of No More Mr Nice Guy's which he again insisted on reinstating. This diff shows the sequence of edits made at the Human rights in Israel talk page. This link points to the discussion that was had about it on No More Mr Nice Guy's user talk page.     ←   ZScarpia   23:33, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]


    Response to No More Mr Nice Guy's comment of 00:45, 3 October 2011 (UTC):

    • No More Mr Nice Guy says that his comment wasn't a personal attack. The section of the WP:NPA policy which addresses what a personal attack is says that it includes "accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence". It goes on to say that "serious accusations require serious evidence". No More Mr Nice Guy told Talknic (talk · contribs): "How about you desist wasting everyone's time with your silly trolling?" It looked to me as though Talknic was engaging on the talk page in a constructive, reasoned and polite way and that No More Mr Nice Guy had no grounds at all to accuse him of "silly trolling" or of "wasting everyone's time".
    • No More Mr Nice Guy uses the defence that, "I'm not the first person who described talknic's behavior as trolling." It did look to me as though Talknic was being harassed from several different directions, but I didn't notice any other comments as baseless or as unacceptable as No More Mr Nice Guy's.
    • No More Mr Nice Guy quotes the Wikipedia:Talk guideline about editing the comments of others and seems to suggest that I breached it by again striking out his comment after he objected. The guideline - and it is a guideline - does not, though, say "stop if there is any objection", but "normally stop if there is any objection". From my point of view, I was giving No More Mr Nice Guy two chances to avoid being reported for making a personal attack, neither of which he accepted or took other steps to avoid, but merely insisted on reinstating his worthless and abusive comment.
    • No More Mr Nice Guy wrote: "ZScaripa removed my comment without discussing the issue with me beforehand (or afterwards) and removed it again after I objected. He came directly to this board in what seems like an attempt to remove someone he perceives as having opposing views to his." As No More Mr Nice Guy's talk page shows, I tried to discuss one of his talk page comments with him once before. That proved to be something of a waste of my time. That being the case and there being nothing in the guidelines obliging me to enter into a discussion before striking out the personal attack, why would I? No More Mr Nice Guy could equally be asked why he didn't open a discussion with me instead of simply reverting me twice. I didn't come straight to this board, as I could have done and perhaps would have done if had been true that I was merely trying to remove someone who has views opposing my own, but gave him several chances to accept the removal, or modification, of his remark. The second time, I warned him that, if the comment was reinstated, I would take it to one of the noticeboards. He reinstated his comment and told me to "go ahead". I've been editing on Wikipedia for almost six years. In that time I've made reports on the AE and AI on two occasions, this being the second (and the first time against No More Mr Nice Guy). If I was in the game of trying to get rid of editors whose views conflicted with mine, there being quite a few I should think, I'd have been a lot busier than that. In fact, what does motivate me in cases such as this is that, if I see a remark being made to another editor which looks way beyond the bounds of acceptability, I feel duty-bound to do something about it.

        ←   ZScarpia   02:51, 3 October 2011 (UTC) (edited: 10:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC))[reply]


    @No More Mr Nice Guy, 04:12, 3 October 2011: I don't make threats, therefore I carefully considered what to say in my edit comment. I decided that, on balance, it was better to give you fair warning that I would resort to one of the noticeboards if your comment was reinstated. Having been told that your remark was offensive, I hoped that you would carefully consider whether to delete or modify it. What constructive purpose does it serve? The section that I commented in may have been half-way up the talk page, but the discussion there is a currently active one.     ←   ZScarpia   11:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]


    @Tznkai, 04:25, 3 October 2011 (UTC): I will change the link given in the Sanction or remedy to be enforced section to one pointing to the Remedies section of the ARBPIA case. The current link is the same one used in the case against Cptnono above, where it didn't raise any objections.     ←   ZScarpia   09:56, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    @Tznkai, 23:27, 4 October 2011 (UTC): Thanks. When you said, "refactoring someone else's comments, especially directed against you, is also problematic," were you speaking in general, or are you thinking that No More Mr Guy's remark was directed at me rather than Talknic? And is a lesson I should be learning from this that instead of striking personal attacks against other users in the ARBPIA area out I should resort straight to the AE noticeboard?     ←   ZScarpia   00:28, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Ok. Thanks again.     ←   ZScarpia   00:51, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Just for future reference, I want to include a link to the section of of WP:NPA dealing with removal of text: WP:RPA.     ←   ZScarpia   13:14, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Since, this request hasn't been closed yet, I'd like to reply to comments including the latest.     ←   ZScarpia   18:08, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

    [21]

    Discussion concerning No More Mr Nice Guy

    Statement by No More Mr Nice Guy

    I do not believe my comment was a personal attack. It hardly even rises to the level of being mildly uncivil, as anyone who has a couple of hours to spare and would like to read the previous discussions on that page and its archives can see. Furthermore, I'm not the first person who described talknic's behavior as trolling.

    WP:Talk#Others' comments is pretty clear that "Editing – or even removing – others' comments is sometimes allowed. But you should exercise caution in doing so, and normally stop if there is any objection". I objected. ZScarpia re-edited my comment.

    The same guideline also says "This generally does not extend to messages that are merely uncivil; deletions of simple invective are controversial."

    In summary, there was no personal attack, ZScaripa removed my comment without discussing the issue with me beforehand (or afterwards) and removed it again after I objected. He came directly to this board in what seems like an attempt to remove someone he perceives as having opposing views to his. I believe WP:BOOMERANG should apply. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 00:45, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    • If the consensus among uninvolved editors turns out to be that telling someone he's trolling is a personal attack I'll strike out the comment myself. Please excuse me if I don't take the word of an editor who's not only involved up to his eyeballs, but has made such frivolous charges against me in the past. Threatening me in an edit summary that if I don't accept his unacceptable behavior he'll report me can hardly be taken as an attempt to discuss the issue.
    • Here is another editor telling talknic he's trolling on the same talk page. If you bother to read the page you'll see that the accusation is not without merit.
    • Perhaps ZScarpia could let us know what brought him to a page he hasn't edited in six months, and rather than comment on one of the two open RfCs or the merge proposal for example, make a comment in a section mid page and then strike out an almost week old comment of mine. Twice. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 04:12, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    WP:NPA - Personal attacks do not include civil language used to describe an editor's actions, and when made without involving their personal character, should not be construed as personal attacks, for instance, stating "Your statement is a personal attack..." is not itself a personal attack.
    So once again, there was no personal attack, my comment was removed without cause or discussion and then removed again after I objected, then rather than use DR or WQA as suggested in NPA (if this even qualified as a "recurring attack", which of course it doesn't) ZScarpia came directly here. I could speculate as to why he chose this forum, but I think it's pretty obvious. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 21:48, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Comments by others about the request concerning No More Mr Nice Guy

    This appears to be another one of those chronic cases of wikilawyering that admins have warned in the past will result in sanctions. An editor's entire talk page contributions appear to be a combination of WP:IDIDNOTHEARTHAT and WP:OR, yet the editor who tells him as much is brought up "civility" charges. What a waste of time.--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 03:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Agreed, this is not even close to warranting administrator action. Barely even a AGF violation, let alone NPA. I'd suggest solving this between the three of yourselves. Toa Nidhiki05 14:50, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Result concerning No More Mr Nice Guy

    This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the section above.
    Decorum is not a remedy. Please link to the actual remedy you wish for an administrator to enforce.--Tznkai (talk) 04:25, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    OK, as far as I can tell, you all are wrong.
    • Calling someone a troll is an attack on their personal character. Thus is a personal attack. Describing someone as trolling is close enough that it really isn't a useful difference. Compare: "you're an idiot" and "stop your idiocy." It is all disrespectful Any further analysis of this issue would be silly.
    • That having been said, refactoring someone else's comments, especially directed against you, is also problematic. It does little more than inflame opinion, especially when you've been asked to stop. So don't do it.
    • The point of WP:NPA, WP:CIV and most of the conduct policies on Wikipedia is to prevent bickering and promote respect in order to preserve a healthy editing environment. Which is to say, both of you, please try to treat each other better and go write something.
    Request for discretionary sanctions no Declined.--Tznkai (talk) 23:27, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    ZScarpia, I misunderstood and misexplained what happened on the reversion. Let me explain it better. Don't refactor comments, as a general rule. I don't think its within policy, but even if it is, its really bad idea, because it makes the situation worse, not better.--Tznkai (talk) 00:33, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • I basically concur with what Tznkai has said above. While the remark in question was sub-optimal, refactoring it simply made the situation worse, and edit-warring over a strike out on a talk page is, again, never helpful. So it's WP:TROUTs all around, I'd say. There is no need for any sanctions, or other administrative action and this request can, IMO, be closed. Eluchil404 (talk) 13:01, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Toddy1

    Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

    Request concerning Toddy1

    User who is submitting this request for enforcement
    Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 14:29, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    User against whom enforcement is requested
    Toddy1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
    Sanction or remedy to be enforced
    Wikipedia:DIGWUREN#Editors_warned
    • Toddy1 is to be placed under formal notice and warned of possible discretionary sanctions
    Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
    1. 21:55, 3 October 2011

    I think this falls squarely into the category of "making generalized accusations that persons of a particular national or ethnic group are engaged in Holocaust denial or harbor Nazi sympathies". Allegations that diaspora Ukrainians have connections to individuals involved in the Holocaust/Nazi collaboration is unacceptable.

    Additional comments by editor filing complaint

    If this is the wrong way to request a formal warning, I do apologise. I didn't want to seem as if I was admin-fishing, so I came here instead of an admin's talk-page.

    • To Yulia: Regardless of what you believe Toddy1's intentions to be, the wording of the DIGWUREN decision is crystal clear with regards to accusations of Holocaust denial and the like. Note that I am not proposing that he receive any block or ban. Such an action would not be appropriate, as he has not yet received an official warning. My proposal is that he be officially placed on notice so that he will know not to resort to such tactics in the future, lest he be sanctioned. As for the cool-down period, I think that is probably a good idea, though it is up to Toddy himself to take such a break. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 19:33, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      In addition, I would like to say that your comment here was highly offensive and a gross assumption of bad faith. I consider the insinuation that I am a racist or Nazi sympathiser for the mere fact that I lodged this request a personal attack. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 23:35, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • To Tznkai: As Toddy1 has not received an official warning per DIGWUREN yet, I feel that is all that can be done (How odd! An editor requesting something less than a block on AE?). I stated above that I was unsure as to whether this was the correct way of doing so, but that I felt that it was the least tattletale-ish way.
      I linked to the "Editors warned" section as I felt that it addressed the issue here more directly than the generalised "Discretionary sanctions" section. Plus, one can always look a little bit down the page to see them :) ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 00:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

    Done


    Discussion concerning Toddy1

    Statement by Toddy1

    I had hoped that this this unfair request would have been declined by now. As this has not happened, I need to make a statement.

    Events leading to my posting the remarks, the other editor is is complaining about.

    • 1 October 2011. There was what another editor and I perceived to be a racist incident on the article on Ukrainian American. See edit history of Ukrainian American.
      • (Incidentally, I suspect that some of the words used by the editor accused of making racist remarks in edit summaries may have been altered, as some of them are not as I remember them.)
    • 1 October 2011. An editor posted strongly worded remarks[22] on Talk:Ukrainian American, pointing out that an unacceptable racist incident had occurred.
    • 3 October 2011. An administrator posted a warning to the editor who made the strongly worded remarks. This warning can be found at User talk:Yulia Romero#Please moderate your comments.
    • It was at this point that I became aware of the racist incident on 1 October. I was upset and angry, both that the racist incident had occurred and the insensitive wording of the warning given by the administrator. It should be remembered that it was Hitler and the Nazis who alleged that someone who was a Jew could not be a German. Therefore someone who seemed to be saying that someone could not be a Jew and and be Ukrainian very much invited comparison with Hitler and the Nazis. I felt that the admin's message was unacceptable.
    • In this distressed and angry state I posted the message that someone has made a complaint about. I agree that it was not the right message to post, and that it would have been better is someone had deleted it. It should be noted that I did at least have the sense not to post it on Talk:Ukrainian American, but posted it on the talk page of the editor who had made the complaint about racism, and received the warning.
    • The next morning, (08:06, 4 October 2011), I posted a more moderate and reasonable message on Talk:Ukrainian American#Infobox picture.

    I note that someone has argued below that the incident on 1 October was not a racist incident. However, this is English language Wikipedia, and the accepted English definition of a racist incident is "any incident that is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person". This definition comes from recommendation 12 of the Macpherson Report of 1999, which was accepted.

    The message I posted that is being complained about

    You must remember that many Ukrainian nationalists who live in Canada and USA have parents or grand parents who served in the Great Patriotic War on the German side. Some of them were like John Demjanjuk, others served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Ukrainian). Please do not offend them when they make anti-semitic remarks - they all club together and may get you banned for not being a racist like they are.--Toddy1 (talk) 21:55, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Note that contrary to the assertion by the complainant, this message does not make generalized accusations about persons of a particular national or ethnic group.

    In countries that have an established independence, like England and France, "nationalists" is how people from extreme usually racist parties are described - such as National Front (France) or English Defence League. "Nationalists" is also used to describe sectarian groups such as Provisional Irish Republican Army. In the context of Ukraine in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mainstream politicians who favour independence from the USSR could be described as "nationalists"; these days in domestic Ukrainian politics it refers to people like Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. People who make xenophobic or racist edits to Wikipedia tend to be referred to on Wikipedia as nationalists.

    Therefore my remark was not about the members of the Ukrainian diaspora in general, but about a group who make racist and xenophobic edits.

    There must be more than a million people in spread between Canada and the USA who have Ukrainian roots, who I would class as Ukrainian-Canadians and Ukrainian-Americans. In 1947, former soldiers of 14 SS Division were allowed to emigrate to Canada and to the United Kingdom (this is very famous). I am not sure how many of them emigrated to Canada - maybe 5000. I do not know how many Ukrainians who had collaborated in the Final Solution emigrated to Canada and the USA - we are probably talking of hundreds. In any case if you add these two categories together,they are a tiny proportion of the people of Ukrainian descent who live in Canada and the USA.

    The remark that is the subject of this complaint, in effect alleges that many (not all) of the people in Canada and USA making racist/xenophobic edits to articles related to Ukraine are not representative of normal Ukrainian-Canadians and Ukrainian-Americans, but instead are likely to be the children and grandchildren of this tiny minority mentioned above.

    I fully accept that the remark I made was the wrong remark to make. It was made when I was angry and upset about the racist incident and the way it appeared to be handled.

    If the editor who made the edits that appeared to be racist had been the one making the complaint about me, he would to some extent be justified in saying that I had made a personal attack on him. The Unclean hands defence would clearly apply. How is the situation different when the complainant is his friend who at the same time as making this complaint about me was editing on another AE incident to get that editor unblocked?

    DIGWUREN

    Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren#Editors warned says as follows:

    8) All editors are warned that future attempts to use Wikipedia as a battleground—in particular, by making generalized accusations that persons of a particular national or ethnic group are engaged in Holocaust denial or harbor Nazi sympathies—may result in the imposition of summary bans when the matter is reported to the Committee. This applies both to the parties to this case as well as to any other editor that may choose to engage in such conduct.
    • I have not used Wikipedia as a battleground. The complainant has not accused me of this.
    • I do not think that I have made generalized accusations that persons of a particular national or ethnic group.... The complainant disagrees with me here.

    If you look at other Digwuren cases - here is an example - you can see that people who are accused of violating the "Digwuren rule" tend to be accused of doing it many times, not a one-off unwise comment.--Toddy1 (talk) 20:52, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Comments by others about the request concerning Toddy1

    Looking at edits like this I get the feeling Tobby1 is trying to do the right (saying all are equal) thing but he got carried away and tried to outmaneuver (possible) opponents by discriminating them. I advice him to take a off-wiki cooling down period. — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 16:42, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    All editors who talk about "racist bullocks" and Auswitzch [23] must receive a warning. Note that edit by Lvivkse (quoted by Yulia) has nothing to do with racism, however disputable it might be. Biophys (talk) 00:47, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • 1) Toddy1 is claiming his remarks against me were justified due to allegations of 'racism', but he has not provided any diffs to back up his claims, stating above, "I suspect that some of the words used by the editor accused of making racist remarks in edit summaries may have been altered, as some of them are not as I remember them.)". If anything was altered, it would be in the record, we all know edit summaries / history can't be changed. Concerning the racist claims, check my talk page or the above filing request concerning Cailil, as these claims were bogus. I never said one cannot be Jewish and Ukrainian at the same time, oddy1 is repeating these made up claims. No diffs exist.
    2 Toddy1 claims above, in saying that [Ukrainians in North America] "make anti-semitic remarks - they all club together and may get you banned for not being a racist like they are.", claims that "this message does not make generalized accusations about persons of a particular national or ethnic group.", which is obviously entirely false.
    3) He is now saying the definition of a nationalist is "People who make xenophobic or racist edits"; would this be crossing another line? Its pretty askew to reality and just adding to the negative stereotypes being bandied about here--Львівське (talk) 21:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Result concerning Toddy1

    This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the section above.
    All you want is a warning per discretionary sanctions remedy? (wrong link by the way)--Tznkai (talk) 23:58, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • This diff by Toddy1 does seem to be an example of ethnic stereotyping about Ukrainians, and it ought to be sufficient to issue a warning of the discretionary sanctions: "You must remember that many Ukrainian nationalists who live in Canada and USA have parents or grand parents who served in the Great Patriotic War on the German side. Some of them were like John Demjanjuk, others served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Ukrainian). Please do not offend them when they make anti-semitic remarks - they all club together and may get you banned for not being a racist like they are." It is unclear how large a group he is including in this blanket statement, but the whole thing is improper. His response above to the AE complaint seems like an attempt to justify the truth of this remark by limiting its scope, but in my opinion there is no way to fix it. EdJohnston (talk) 00:15, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • Ed Johnston is clearly correct that such statements are the kind of ethnic stereotype identified in the case and fully justify a warning and notification of potential sanctions. A quick look through Toddy1's contributions doesn't show a pressing need for anything else at this time. Eluchil404 (talk) 13:18, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    The Last Angry Man

    The Last Angry Man (talk · contribs) topic-banned for three months. Igny (talk · contribs) topic-banned for six months.
    The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

    Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

    Request concerning The Last Angry Man

    User who is submitting this request for enforcement
    Igny (talk) 01:37, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    User against whom enforcement is requested
    The Last Angry Man (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
    Sanction or remedy to be enforced
    Wikipedia:DIGWUREN I would recommend indefinite topic ban from articles related to Soviet Union or Communism.
    Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
    • Rude remarks
    1. your a joker with a threat to continue edit war circumventing 1RR.
    2. heap of crap
    3. trash
    4. Just read the whole thing here.
    • Edit warring over POV tags

    6 Oct 3 Oct 30 Sep Here is my warning not to revert without discussion. 25 Sep 24 Sep Here is my invitation to a discussion over the POV tag.

    • MKuCR. See here for a draft of an AE request over editing against consensus,


    Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required)
    1. Placed on DIGWUREN notice on 12 September by EdJohnston (talk · contribs)
    2. Warned on 11 September by EdJohnston (talk · contribs)
    3. Warned on 11 September by EdJohnston (talk · contribs)
    4. Warned on 8 September by Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk · contribs)
    Additional comments by editor filing complaint

    This is not a content dispute, so I will not discuss the content issues which brought me here. This is a request to stop TLAM's persistent disruptive behaviour. This might not be the whole picture, more could become apparent after someone reviews TLAM's edit history, and other involved editors start adding their remarks.

    I will add more comments here after the WP:EEML team rushes here for TLAM's defence and mud slinging.

    Re -Mkativerata. Did you read the number 4 diff, or not? Was it mild to you? Was it not directed at other editors?? I am not taking my EEML comment back, but to clarify, I meant their tactics rather than the members of the mailing list, see here or some clarification. Needless to say, my intentional reference to their tactics saved a ton of time for you because you are not reading kilobytes of mud thrown at me by MArtin and others. (Igny (talk) 16:52, 7 October 2011 (UTC))[reply]

    Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

    See here.


    Discussion concerning The Last Angry Man

    Statement by The Last Angry Man

    Igny`s reverts

    • Communist terrorism

    [24] Reverts though there was no discussion on the talk page and the tag was removed within policy and does not use the talk page, He is asked by user User:Mamalujo why[25] he did the revert he posts a threat of AE enforcement on the article talk page, but does not discuss why he reverted the tag in.[26] [27][28] His last revert on Communist terrorism [29] And again does not go to talk. My last removal of the POV was based on Paul Siebert stating he believed it could be removed which meant there was a consensus for it to be removed, Igny then decided to be WP:POINTY and tagged a section. When I said he was a joker I meant he was messing about it was not meant as an attack. Since my unblock I have removed the POV tag on this article twice, the first time as there were no section on talk per policy and the second as there is now a consensus for it to be removed as Paul Siebert has said he believes it can be removed. This is not edit warring over a tag as has been claimed.

    • Holodomor

    Reachs 3R in one day. [30][31][32]

    • Occupation of the Baltic states

    [38] [39] [40][41] [42][43] [44][45]

    • Douglas Pike

    [46] [47] [48]

    • Sockpuppetry allegations,again

    Not surprising really, why not throw in the kitchen sink whilst at it. Am ?I the only person on wiki who has said piss? I very much doubt that,[49] it is a well used English expression. Lets try again is also a well used English expression, take me out and hang me till dead why not. I was unblocked unconditionally by the Committee[50] and have followed policy to the best that I can, I have used talk pages extensively, and have always discussed any reverts I have made on contentious edits. I have not edited against consensus as Igny claims on MKUCR article, there was a clear consensus that the source should not be grossly misrepresented as it had been.

    Reply to Mathsci, moved from his section:
    When you are researching material for a book it is not surprising at all that I would discover the CT article. I have seen Paul Siebert use @, does that make him a sock? I edited from an IP and was asked to create an account, not really that odd is it. The Last Angry Man (talk) 12:11, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Comments by others about the request concerning The Last Angry Man

    Comment by Vecrumba

    The provocative and preemptive personal attack of WP:EEML WITCH! screaming rather underscores the source of WP:BATTLEFIELD attitude here. PЄTЄRS J VTALK 02:08, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment by Tammsalu

    I concur with Vecrumba that mention of "the EEML team rushing here" is a bad faithed personal attack. I note that Igny was previously blocked for "disruptive comments on case workshop, including protracted assumption of bad faith and unfounded suggestions of backstage collusion"[51], i.e. making unfounded accusations of collusion, and it seems he hasn't learned and continues do so on his talk page[52] as well as here. --Martin Tammsalu (talk) 04:35, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    I suppose Fut.Perf's remarks demonstrates one the benefits of adminship, being that one is free to make any kind of assumption what so ever. However given that the range of topics TLAM currently edits was actually suggested to him by Biophys here, Fut.Perf's comment about associating TLAM with "the same ecological niche of a previously banned user in the biotope of our POV-pushing universe" seems off the mark. In my experience Brits in general tend to be less pro-Soviet and somewhat intolerant of Russian patriotic nationalism than most. The plain fact of the matter is that ArbCom did lift TLAM's ban on appeal, without knowing the full circumstances of the appeal I'm not sure these kinds of sock-puppetry accusations are germane to Arbitration enforcement. --Martin Tammsalu (talk) 19:14, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sigh, is this latest unwarranted personal attack[53] by Igny upon my person relevant to his complaint about TLAM? IMO this exemplifies unremitting battleground behaviour. --Martin Tammsalu (talk) 19:53, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment by Lvivske

    I don't have a stake or opinion on the behavior shown in the articles mentioned by Mkativerata, but in fairly recent edits I have noticed battleground behavior from Igny on the Holodomor article (1, 2, 3, where he was edit warring hard the lead up to the article being put on indefinite lock (due to the massive warring going on). TLAM was also in there, but I found he was enforcing the talk page consensus that Igny was opposed to, and his edits were far fewer in the lock countdown. There's a particularly egregious moment on the 25th (1 2), where TLAM removes a June-inserted POV tag saying there's no talk page discussion, Igny reverts, makes some of his own edits, and then says its okay now to remove it. Pure WP:OWN mentality or what? I understand that these topics tend to be polarized between two schools of thought and appear to between two cohesive, chummy groups, but the battleground mentality has got to stop or all these articles will just keep getting locked in limbo.--Львівське (talk) 05:52, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment by tangently involved Russavia

    Ummm, I have a HUGE problem with this. TLAM is clearly a sockpuppet of the banned user Marknutley. That the Arbcom in its infinite STUPIDITY wisdom unleashed onto the community one of the most disruptive editors there is, is despicable, and Igny's edits should be seen within the context of undoing edits by a banned sockpuppet. I will present evidence of the sockpuppetry to an admin OFFWIKI, as it is not a good idea to give such disruptive users an insight into their editing traits which give them away. Any admins out there with the cajones to do what is right here? --Russavia Let's dialogue 05:51, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Actually, ANY admin is within their power to ban a sockpuppet. This user is under no special Arbcom protection, and so they shouldn't be. I have word from the committee itself that their unbanning was a once-off good faith unbanning. I also have word from the committee that anything further in relation to this user is handled by the community, not the committee, although the Committee would appreciate a heads-up. I will inform the Committee of this discussion, just as I will also inform a couple of other users who like to keep the Committee in-check of this discussion. As I said, I will provide to an admin who is willing to look at the evidence said evidence via email, as I am not going to let this sockpuppet know how he has, yet again, been caught out. In the words of Marknutley and his sockpuppets, let's "try again"[54][55]. Or do we simply allow sockpuppets like this to "take the piss" out of the community?[56][57] Russavia Let's dialogue 08:20, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    BTW, if anyone is wondering what I am talking about refer to Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Marknutley. Does anyone see anything unusual in that category? Little Big Man (talk · contribs)? And now The Last Angry Man (talk · contribs)? Both are movie titles BTW. It is wrong that the ArbCom overrides the community in such cases, because there are editors in the community who are familiar with the modus operandi and behavioural patterns of sockpuppets. HelloAnnyong (talk · contribs) is more than familiar with these sockpuppets. It is no coincidence that TLAM became active only after Veryborednow (talk · contribs) was banned as a sockpuppet of Marknutley (talk · contribs). As to anything that TLAM has to say, the byline of File:Little Big Man 1970 film poster.jpg is quite ironic. That TLAM is behaving just like Nutley and his sockpuppets is wrong; it is wrong that the Arbcom allowed him to return to editing. We can right this wrong right now, without blame or without shame. Russavia Let's dialogue 11:09, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    You don`t think your reaching a little here? Film titles? And why not mention that Nutley was blocked from his computer, at his IP address and his service provider long after I registered and began to edit? The Last Angry Man (talk) 11:41, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Thank you ever so much Biophys for the clear evidence that you continue to stalk my edits after all these years. After your harrassment and hounding of the last couple of weeks, this is surely going to make for a damning request for either the Committee or right here at AE. Unless of course you are able to tell us how you managed to find an edit that I made to an article which you have never edited, and for which the PROD notice was not yet placed on the editors talk page. Stalking my contributions is obviously the only way, correct? Anyway, thanks for confirming what I have always known. Russavia Let's dialogue 16:19, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    comment by uninvolved Collect

    Comments accusing a person of being a sock and therefore blockable do not belong here. The content disputes are noted - and that is what they are. Using this board to block or ban a person where they have shown no incivility or other reasons for the block or ban is improper. DIGWUREN is likely equally applicable to Igny et al, b the way, using the identical arguments. Let's stick to proper use of this board. Cheers. Collect (talk) 11:35, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    @MS: Do you really think that the similarities are sufficient to make this an SPI case? I can find "similarities" between Igny, TFD and Paul Siebert in wording and positions on several articles - but simply disagreeing with a person is an extraordinarily bad reason to pursue anything without some actual "evidence" (such as intersection of edits n article and user pages, etc.) As to using "British editing mannerisms" as an argument - I do not see sufficient similarities to label TLAM as MN by a long shot. I suspect at least three editors on Wikipedia are based in the UK as a minimum, including Jimbo Wales who currently uses 'British editing mannerisms." YMMV. Cheers. Collect (talk) 12:28, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]


    Comment by Mathsci

    Please note these talk page comments of TLAM from 2 October.[58] Other edits of TLAM have been discussed with FPaS and others on WP:ANI here. In response to the comments of FPaS, although there are certain minor differences in writing style, generally TLAM's British editing mannerisms (including his "blokish" English) and choice of subject are close to those of Marknutley. For the stubs both editors have created on uncontroversial books, there seem to be very few differences in the style/format of the first drafts of Council of Dads and The Castle in the Attic (MN) and the first draft of Annie Dunne (TLAM). Also the format of edit summaries directed towards individual editors (@ PS, @ TFD, etc) are not common, but shared by both accounts. Beyond these technical details, a newbie making their first edits on wikipedia at talk:communist terrorism, first with a London IP and then with their newly created account, is odd. Put simply: Hersfold was probably correct in his initial assessment. But note the use of the word "probably" ... Mathsci (talk) 11:56, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    I have filed quite a few sockpuppet reports concerning editors with London-based IPs, mostly accurate. This case is more complicated than the others because of a difference in ISP. There is nothing at all certain here, just slightly odd circumstances. Without other editors including FPaS having expressed doubts, I would not have made these extremely tentative comments. Mathsci (talk) 13:00, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment by Biophys

    Nominating for deletion [59] an article created by TLAM [60] looks pointy to me. Biophys (talk) 15:42, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    @Russavia. What?. No, I did not. Sure thing, you can do whatever you want. I do not care.Biophys (talk) 16:57, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    With regard to TLAM, I recently talked with him. After having this conversation, I had an impression that he is not Marknutley who was more experienced than him. Most important, TLAM tried to do right thing. But that was "mission impossible". Why? Obviously, there are some editors in this area who revert others on every possible occasion [61] and are constantly involved in contentious disputes. No one can edit difficult articles in this area, as exemplified by the fate of Holodomor and "Mass killings". We are going to have more such articles.Biophys (talk) 17:50, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Comments by Paul Siebert

    I have one general comment and few comments on the Mkativerata's post.

    1. Both parties, TLAM and Igny, currently are the participants of the mediation case that have recently been open. In connection to that, and taking into account that any sanctions are supposed to be preventive, not punitive, one should keep in mind that the very nature of the mediation procedure provides little opportunity for edit warring and disruptive behaviour. Therefore, in my opinion, the prospective topic ban should not include the discussion on the MedCab page, and both parties should be allowed to participate in it without restrictions.
    2. Re Mkativerata's observations about Igny, I cannot fully agree with them. Whereas I agree that the explicit reference to EEML is offencive towards the overwhelming majority of exEEML members (most of whom abandoned their old tactics), I disagree with others two Mkativerata's observations. Firstly, according to WP:CANVASS, the Igny's notification is an example of appropriate behaviour ("On the talk pages of concerned editors. Examples include editors who have participated in previous discussions on the same topic (or closely related topics), who are known for expertise in the field, or who have asked to be kept informed.") I did not ask Igny to keep me informed, but I has been a participant of the previous discussions, and I do have some expertise. I would say, Igly's notification is redundant (I am watchlisting all relevant pages), but it is not inappropriate by no means; therefore, the example #2 from the Mkativerata's list should not be considered as an evidence against Igny.
      Secondly, the situation with "Communist terrorism" is the example of technical violation: the first Igny's edit was just restoration of the POV tag, which has been unilaterally removed despite the discussion about the article's POV issues has not ended (I personally saw no urgent need in this Igny's step, however, I see no violation here). The second edit was the addition of the undue tag. Igny explained his actions on the talk page (see, e.g., [62]), so this violation seems to be purely technical.
      Thirdly, the "Occupation of the Baltic states" story is also an example of Igny's technical mistake: he left no edit summary, but he explained in details his position on the talk page[63]. I doubt that is an indication of disruptive behaviour. In addition, this case was a (somewhat inadequate) reaction of Igny on the situation when two users made several attempts to unilaterally remove the POV tag from the article having multiple POV issues (under the artificial pretext that one of those issues belongs to the daughter article). Therefore, in that situation it would be hardly correct to apply the sanctions on Igny only.

    In summary, the only indication of Igny's incivility is his reference to the EEML case. In addition, I found his decision to file this AE request premature, especially in a situation when both users are the participants on of the mediation.
    With regard to TLAM, I am not sure I am in position to discuss any sanctions against him, because I am also a participant of the same mediation case.--Paul Siebert (talk) 16:36, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    PS The following TLAM's statement: "there is now a consensus for it to be removed as Paul Siebert has said he believes it can be removed." is a misinterpretation of my position. I explained my opinion specifically to TLAM: ("PS. re your last revert, let me explain that I do not think that the POV issues have been fully resolved. I just hope that we are probably approaching a consensus, so there is no need in immediate restoration of the tag. That position is just a demonstration of my good faith, and I expect some steps to be taken by you and others in a responce.--Paul Siebert (talk)" ). Therefore, I point the admin's attention at the fact that the reference to my opinion is unjustified in this particular case. I especially object to the attempt to use my post, which was made in a desire to create less aggressive atmosphere, in combative purposes.
    Moreover, it is interesting to see that TLAM accepts my opinion when it is more or less in accordance with his views, and prefers to totally ignore it when I disagree with him.--Paul Siebert (talk) 17:01, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment by Greyhood
    • I should second some of the opinions voiced by Paul Siebert above.
      • Igny knew that Paul Siebert also considered a possibility of AE request against TLAM: Talk:Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes#Proposed_AE_request. That's why notifying Paul about the discussion here was not canvassing, but just a matter of common courtesy.
      • As the above point shows, one should better explore the history of recent discussions between the involved editors to fully understand their actions. Igny indeed did explain his reverts on the talk pages even if he had't done that in edit summaries.
      • I support the proposal of allowing all the editors participating in the ongoing mediation to continue participate there, if it is technically possible and if there are no permanent sanctions. GreyHood Talk 19:17, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Result concerning The Last Angry Man

    I propose: 6 month topic ban for Igny; 2 month topic ban for TLAM. Reasons are:
    • Igny -- as far as I'm concerned, Igny is deeply engaged in the very definition of battleground behaviour that discretionary sanctions are designed to stamp out. For example:
    • gratuitous battleground attack in this AE ("after the WP:EEML team rushes here for TLAM's defence and mud slinging")
    • attempts to solicit participation in the AE from perceived friendly editors ([64])
    • Multiple recent examples of edit and tag-warring. See the page histories of Communist terrorism and Occupation of the Baltic states for behaviour such as on-sight reversions without even edit summaries.
    • TLAM -- the so-called rude remarks are mild on the scale. Only the first of the four -- "joker" -- is directed at another editor. However, in light of Arbcom's strong suggestion to stay away from articles about Communism, I don't think that uncivil behaviour like that, with a bit of tag-warring on Communist terrorism thrown in, on a contentious article about communism, can go unsanctioned.
    Given that I'm proposing a couple of hefty sanctions, and there is no hurry, I'll await comments from uninvolved admins and as few as possible from the peanut gallery, please. --Mkativerata (talk) 04:56, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • I would go for 3 months for TLAM, as I see no reason to depart from the usual length applied for a first topic ban. I otherwise concur.

        Russiavia, whatever evidence you have should be sent to the arbitration committee, since it's their decision to unblock TLAM in the first place. It is questionable at best whether individual admins can overturn an arbcom unblock. T. Canens (talk) 06:56, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

        • In considering what to do here, I am finding it hard to wrap my brain around the assumption that TLAM might somehow not be a sock of Marknutley. If ever a new account took over precisely the same ecological niche of a previously banned user in the biotope of our POV-pushing universe, it's this account. Fut.Perf. 09:09, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
          Russavia, if you have BEANS-style evidence, please let me know. Fut.Perf. 11:12, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
          Fut.Perf.: Agree on that last. NW (Talk) 14:43, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
          I don't disagree. But arbcom decided to unblock TLAM...presumably after reviewing all the evidence that was available. In the absence of exceptionally damning new evidence, I don't think it is appropriate for us to block TLAM as a sockpuppet.

          That said, I should make it clear that I absolutely disagree with the procedure employed by arbcom here, if Russiavia is correct that they said "anything further in relation to this user is handled by the community, not the committee". This puts us in the untenable position of having to review the matter without knowing the reasoning behind the unblock. We do not know what evidence the Committee reviewed, other than that technical evidence is involved since a checkuser was ran on the SPI that led to the block. We don't know the strength of the technical evidence, we don't know what behavioral evidence the committee looked at and found insufficient. We have no basis upon which to decide whether whatever new evidence that is uncovered after the unblock would have swayed the Committee's decision. It is entirely irresponsible for the Committee to unblock what a number of experienced admins, including a checkuser and former arbitrator and an experienced SPI clerk, found to be a sockpuppet, with only a cursory and conclusory statement, and then to disclaim any responsibility for the account. T. Canens (talk) 21:11, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Good lord you people are useless, an experienced SPI clerk actually said I don't see a direct connection with Marknutley If you wish to know what the committee looked at ask me. The Last Angry Man (talk) 21:19, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    And you conveniently ignores the case right below where you were blocked...right. T. Canens (talk) 21:31, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    As an admin I assume then WP:AGF does not apply? I was responding to your obvious error above. I also stated I would explain the committees decision based on the evidence if you asked. The other SPI block was based on two things, I use chrome as did Ten Ton Tunic, I live in the same county as Nutley. That was it. Now should you like a full explanation post on my talk page and I will happily write it up for you. The Last Angry Man (talk) 21:39, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    I'd love to keep this open but I think we've heard all we need to hear. Any more discussion here and I'd have been tempted to hand out sanctions to some of the third parties in this AE: Biophys in particular is walking a thin line. All third parties to DIGWUREN requests are on notice. I've read all the contributions from each "side" here. Regarding Paul Siebert's contributions, one of the very few helpful ones, I mostly disagree: This is not constructive participation in a discussion, it is asserting ones own view of the "consensus" and reverting accordingly, which is a tried and tested battleground edit-warring tactic. So, the topic bans are applied as proposed, subject to T.Canens' suggestion: 6 months for Igny, 3 months for TLAM. No exception for MEDCAB. Sockpuppetry allegations can be pursued elsewhere; for now, in light of Arbcom's unblock and the absence of damning new evidence, this is not the place. --Mkativerata (talk) 21:48, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Plot Spoiler

    Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

    Request concerning Plot Spoiler

    User who is submitting this request for enforcement
    TransporterMan (TALK) 19:17, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    User against whom enforcement is requested
    Plot Spoiler (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
    Sanction or remedy to be enforced
    Wikipedia:ARBPIA#General_1RR_restriction
    Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it
    1. 23:06, 8 October 2011 Initial revert
    2. 00:11, 9 October 2011 Second revert, 65 min later (violation)
    3. 00:32, 9 October 2011 Third revert, 21 min later (violation)
    Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required)
    1. Warned on 6 Apr 2010 by Sandstein (talk · contribs)
    Additional comments by editor filing complaint

    Previously blocked on 06:03, 3 June 2010, for violation of this same sanction. Newcomer editor Public awareness (talk · contribs) may also need to be warned under ARBPIA as a result of this exchange.

    Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested
    • Notice to Plot Spoiler here.
    • Notice to Public awareness here


    Discussion concerning Plot Spoiler

    Statement by Plot Spoiler

    Please note, the ARBPIA notice was added to the page after all these reverts had been made. I did not see the ARBPIA restrictions on the page and honestly forgot about that rule. I think this is a relatively minor content issue between Public Awareness that should be covered on the article's Talk: page. Plot Spoiler (talk) 15:21, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    At the same time, I now recognize that the article is subject to the 1RR policy and I will not be breaching it in the future. I apologize for mistakenly overlooking this policy and I hope Public Awareness will WP:assume good faith so we can actually resolve this minor content dispute. Plot Spoiler (talk) 22:36, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    I've now self-reverted my last edit from the article for the sake of 1RR. Plot Spoiler (talk) 01:31, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Comments by others about the request concerning Plot Spoiler

    Comment Public awareness is on three reverts on the article in question, he is removing a quote which is sourced to the New York Times. The Last Angry Man (talk) 19:39, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Look more carefully. nableezy - 19:41, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    I just noticed, have amended my statement. The Last Angry Man (talk) 19:43, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment PA's removal of the perfectly sourced and relevant content is borderline vandalism and any reasonable editor, including myself, would have reverted the baseless removal. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 19:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    That isnt true. Both of these users have blatantly violated the 1 revert rule. Not a single one of the reverts is an allowable exception to that rule. nableezy - 19:55, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    What isn't true?--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 19:57, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    That the reverted edits are "borderline vandalism". That border is well-defined, and this is not that. nableezy - 20:07, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    "borderline vandalism" is actually a liberal description of the removal of relevant sourced material with nonsensical/incoherent edit summaries.--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 20:14, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    So, when an editor removes material with nonsensical summaries such as "better wording" or "dont see any footnotes, but referneces. reference 1 is foreign language article that appears to be an op-ed. unless its attribution is determined and noted, we will keep it simple" that is "borderline vandalism"? Or is it "borderline vandalism" when you, and you alone, makes the determination as to what edit summary is "nonsense"? Again, what vandalism is and is not is well-defined. The reverts listed here do not qualify for a vandalism exception as they were not reverting vandalism. nableezy - 20:21, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    @brewcrewer, the exception to xRR is for "reverting obvious vandalism" (emphasis in original). If you have to resort to wikilawyering, Public awareness's edits weren't "obvious vandalism". — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 20:35, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    if any wikilawyering is necessary, its needed to explain this edit summary. "calling him a liar"? What? Who? Where? When?--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 20:46, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    Please don't change the subject. You're trying to excuse a 1RR violation by wikilawyering. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 20:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    The subject is whether reverting with nonsensical/incoherent edit summaries can be considered vandalism. I have yet to see any policy contradicting said position or any attempt at rationalizing the removals and edit summaries. Attacking me does not count.--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 21:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Sorry, I did at the time of the edit remember something about very limited editing reverts for Israeli articles, but than I saw that Nableezy, AndresHerutJaim (190.17.232.48), and Plot Spoiler all made several quick reverts, so I did make a second revert. The situation was bleak so I went to Fastily (my go to admin) for advice, which I took and went to Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard for help. Vesal did agree with my edit on the talk page for the article, that the current form did "imply that the man is a hypocrite" though he did not agree it was a BLP violation. I'm sure to remember now that I can only revert once for Israeli articles, but, where should I go for help when it is instantly clear the other editor has no interest in listening to get outside help as my section at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard was closed for being "premature"? Public awareness (talk) 20:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    The article's Talk page is a good place to start. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 20:31, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Result concerning Plot Spoiler

    Ludwigs2

    Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

    Request concerning Ludwigs2

    User who is submitting this request for enforcement
    Hipocrite (talk) 14:46, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    User against whom enforcement is requested
    Ludwigs2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
    Sanction or remedy to be enforced
    Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience#Discretionary_sanctions
    Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it

    Poisoning the talk page of an article (includes some personal attacks)

    1. 18:18, 7 October 2011 Poisoning the well - telling a "new" user that his opponents are baiting him, as opposed to attempting to get him to adhere to expected standards of behavior and normal editorial process.
    2. 22:48, 7 October 2011 Poisoning the well - comparing a group of editors he disagrees with to the KKK.
    3. 13:22, 11 October 2011 Poisoning the well - "This is - in my experience - typical of skeptical editors on fringe articles, who become collectively obsessed... So my advice is that all of you skeptics calm down and develop the body rather than fight like spitting cats..."
    4. 14:19, 11 October 2011 Defends the above.

    Gross violation of NPA

    1. 13:26, 11 October 2011 "Stop being a troll..." on the talk page of an editor he is in a dispute with.

    Edit warring

    1. 19:59, 10 October 2011 Bold edit. Possibly reverting something, but generally bold.
    2. 21:34, 10 October 2011‎ Reverts Dominus Vobisdu's revert of the bold edit
    3. 03:57, 11 October 2011 Reverts back to his preferred version from one being worked on by "new user" Givedarkkk and Dominus Vobisdu. His preferred version had previously been reverted by Skinwalker.

    During this timeframe, Ludwigs2 made no edits to the talk page of the article. Only after his possibly third revert did he begin discussing on the talk page, as BRD requires


    1. Warned on 04:09, 22 September 2008 by Elonka (talk · contribs)
    2. Blocked on 23:27, 8 March 2011 by Sandstein (talk · contribs), see also [65], Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Arbitration Enforcement sanction handling.
    Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

    [66]


    Discussion concerning Ludwigs2

    Statement by Ludwigs2

    Comments by others about the request concerning Ludwigs2

    Result concerning Ludwigs2

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