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Portal:Disasters

Hi, just wondering whether you were still interested in maintaining this portal, since the selected article/picture etc have been redlinks for well over a year... Regards, BencherliteTalk 21:03, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

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Barbaro hoaxer again

They showed up and got 14 more socks blocked. However, one of the socks, even though their talk page says they have been indefinitely blocked [1] is no longer blocked. [2] The admin who unblocked them did not realize they were under investigation as sock and says they have no problem with a reblock. [3] Edward321 (talk) 15:26, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

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Re: "Voynich Manuscript at FAR"

My real work has kept me away from Wikipedia for long periods of time, and only now I saw yor note on my talk page about the featured article review of Voynich Manuscript. I believe I was one of the editors who most contributed to that article, and possibly my edits were responsible for bringing it to FA status. I was a bit disappointed to see that it got demoted, presumably after a straw poll among a small random (but not necessarily unbiased!) sample of editors — even before I had a chance to know about the review. Unfortunately that discussion itself has long been deleted, and of course it would be quite pointless to try to do anything about it now. May I only ask, what did Wikipedia gain, concretely, with all that action?
Sigh. It is sad to see such a wonderful idea like Wikipedia being slowly destroyed by creeping bureaucratization. I find myself spending an increasing amount of time reacting to the actions of a small army of self-appointed vigilantes whose "contributions" have been mainly to tag, classify, grade, downgrade, request, disparage, and ultimately delete other peoples careful and valuable contributions. As if that were not enough, many of those bureaucrats use robots to impose their views on thousands of articles. More often than not, a mindless click of the mouse by one of those people forces a plain editor to spend from several minutes to severa hours, just to restore the article to its original state.
I am not paid to help wikipedia; I do it because it feels good — or rather it felt good, now I am not so sure.
Please, if you run across an article that needs improvement, try to improve it, or at least explain in the article's talk page what you think is wrong, dubious, dangerous, etc.. If you can't do that, or don't have the time for it, just leave the article alone. Do not demand that someone else do work that you don't have the time to do yourself. Do not demand that authors defend their work immediately under pain of having it deleted. Do not force authors to read some central bulletin board, or tell them to read hundreds of pages of Wikipedia rules and discussions. They did their part of the work; they are under no obligation to do more, or even to defend it. Those who want more work should do it themselves, and be prepared to justify their actions, case by case, on the article's talk pages.
Well, sorry for the rant, but I must get it off my chest. Please think it over, and get out of that depressing Vogonsphere while you can. All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 14:19, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Azukimonaka

Hi, Nishkid64, happy holidays. Since you've watched the cases on this persistent troll and ranged blocked their underlying IPs back to January, could you look into this new SPI case mainly against 青鬼よし (talk · contribs · count · logs · page moves · block log · edit summaries)? Their edit summaries/writing style|interests/disruptive patterns are all identical, and I think I've given too much opportunities to the sockpuppeter for a long time even though I've sensed that 青鬼よし is Azukimonaka ever since he registered his "new account". Moreover, according to the expose by 青鬼よし, himself, their email address is also identical, and they operated a blog dedicated to harass me, wikistalked my edits, and canvass other Japanese socks/editors to encourage to meatpuppet. If you're bored with the holiday weekends, would you care to look into the case? Also I'm wondering why this request is not automatically shown up yet. --Caspian blue 05:53, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

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IPBE needed for User talk:DaisyQueen?

You instituted this IP block: User talk:DaisyQueen. Could you look into this request, and decide how to handle it? Thanks! --Jayron32 03:26, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

The "WTC" article

I just wanted to leave a message to ask you why you disabled the Waking the Cadaver page (disabled for creation too:S)? Waking the Cadaver is a real band, no fakes or such, a Brutal Death Metal/Brutal Deathcore band. Please let me do one page, if you don't like it at all, delete it x)


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Unreferenced BLPs

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Abu Kalam Azad

Good evening dear VirtualSteve,

I want to complain about some Users who vandalize many articles on Wikipedia and push their own POV´s on them. Some of them are Users like User:Ketabtoon who begin to edite all articles that is somehow related with Afghanistan, it´s people or culture, despite he has no knowledge about Afghanistan and it´s history. If you look on his contributions, you will see that he is always pushing unsourced and unreliable datas on articles and delete scientific and reliable sources, mostly scholarely. Be it about Ghurids, Persian language, Afghanistan, Ghaznavids or Tajiks and many more. He corrupts many articles which is a break of Wikipedia´s law (f.ex. here 1 or 2, 3 only three of many hundred of examples). He was many times reported but somewho he still occur on Wikipedia, although all his edites were banned by many Admins. The further point is, that he is known for beeing an ultra-nationalist Pashtun from Pakistan, who do not accept western, mostly scholaric and objective sources, except sources were terms like Afghan are used, so he can jump up and use it in a wrong context. For example as for Ghaznavids or Ghurids he was keeping the term for Pushtuns, while the term Afghan was used in Britannica for the Tajik people of modern Afghanistan who are also known by the law of Afghanistan as Afghans. He makes use of this point to claim and falsify all articles about culture, history, languages, countries etc. I ask you, as a member of the Admin-Team of Wikipedia and as a represant who is doing this job to provide the world the knowledge it needs, to do something against him. He and the User:119.73.4.199 (who is a banned User and a sock of many banned accounts; User:Khampalak, User:NisarKand etc.) are known for working with eachother. All edites of both Users are not only similar, but to 100% exactly the same, the kind of their writings and the kind how they push their POV´s and even the choise of their not reliable sources. As I mentioned they work together...or User:Ketabtoon is a sockpuppet of NisarKand, User:Khampalak etc. Wikipedia would be exonarated when the Admins would block and ban them from editing. As long Wikipedia accept them, articles will turn to slippery goods on Wikipedia and lose their accurate values.

For ca. 1 year ago, I was reading an article about Abul Kalam Azad, an Indian Muslim politician of Tajik origine. However, the article was using the term Afghan to tie him with Afghanistan, since his ancestors were from Herat, Afghanistan, a Persian/Tajik city. I was looking for sources on library and on the Net to exchange the term Afghan with Perian (Tajik). When I found them, I used a few of them. But some days later, the article was falsified by the User:119.73.4.199 and User:Ketabtoon from Persian to Pashtun, but not even back to Afghan (see on the state definition of Afghan, citizen), as you can see here. He claimed that the term Afghan mean Pashtuns and not Tajik. He did not want to understand the term was used to tie him with Afghanistan, as Britannica and other not scientific and reliable sources do, when it comes to regional heritage or origine of someone or something. For Abul Kalam Azad, I had the following sources where it was stated the person´s Persian origine:

http://www.bharatadesam.com/people/biographies/freedom_fighters/maulana_abul_kalam_azad.php

  1. India Wins Freedom; Orient Longman Book-Institute
  2. ^ Die politische Willensbildung in Indien 1900-1960; 1965, von Dietmar Rothermund
  3. ^ http://www.whereincity.com/india/great-indians/freedom-fighters/maulana-abul-kalam.php His mother was an Arab and the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad Zaher Watri and his father, Maulana Khairuddin, was a Bengali Muslim of Afghan (Tajik) origine. Khairuddin left India during the Sepoy Mutiny, proceeded to Mecca and settled there. He came back to Calcutta

The last source give in addition to the term Afghan as someone who comes from modern-day Afghanistan, his national ethnicity. But it is even interesting to see that User:Ketabtoon uses the same sources that grip on his Tajik ancestory for his Pashtun origine click here. They just jump over the sources and the sourced terms and exchange them with no opponent sources. I want to ask you, if you can give me the permission to correct the falsified paragraph in the article. I appreciate every help from your side. I am going to create an account for myself on Wikipedia and I would thank you very much if I could stand near to you. With best regards, dear friend--94.219.218.209 (talk) 23:24, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Samuel Adams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Samuel_Adams

This article is being reviewed for FA. Can you help me find a few other references besides that book? Adding a few references to confirm some of the book's fact will probably solve most of the problems. JB50000 (talk) 04:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Nish, here's the FAR link: Wikipedia:Featured article review/Samuel Adams/archive1. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 04:14, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

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DaisyQueen

The unblock request for DaisyQueen (talk · contribs) has been on hold for quite a while. Your comments would be appreciated on the request. Toddst1 (talk) 05:50, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

2007 Samjhauta Express bombings

Hi Nishkid64, the Samjhauta Express FA needs modest updating: [4][5] etc. I've added the latter source, and someone else has mentioned Qasmani, citing another source, but not having researched or followed this topic much, I would feel better if one of the original editors looked it over. --JN466 19:00, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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Can you help?

I've been having some problems with this editor[6], who first changed referenced information[7], then stated on my talk page that he didn't changed referenced information[8], then when I added references, he removed the references[9]. Apparently this individual believes that simply stating something on a talk page gives him/her the freedom to remove referenced information and references. --Kansas Bear (talk) 03:08, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

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Vandal user Toutvientapoint

User:Toutvientapoint has been vandalizing several articles in his/her short time on Wikipedia. They have been warned multiple times, but he/she just clears their talk page and ignores all comments. Here are all the warnings he/she have received (I undid all his/her blankings)[10]

South Asia [11] (after this edit, I told them on their talk page why their edit was wrong) then they repeat the vandalism [12] claiming the reversion was unexplained (even though I had told them why it was wrong)

Asia [13] [14] (They removed a huge chunk of cited content)

Can some actions be taken against this vandal, thanks Thegreyanomaly (talk) 21:08, 10 February 2010 (UTC) (This has also been posted on YellowMonkey and EdJohnston's talk pages Thegreyanomaly (talk) 21:13, 10 February 2010 (UTC))

user:Mehrshad123 and user:Kermanshahi

These two users have helped each-other in edit-warring over Fereydoun Farrokhzad and their edit pattern seems similar. Are they related to eachother? What do you think about this personal attack? Alefbe (talk) 01:42, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

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User:Nishkid64/Salt

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Add a "public interest" clause to Oversight

A proposal to add a "public interest" clause to Wikipedia:Oversight has started at Wikipedia_talk:Oversight#Proposal_for_new_.27public_interest.27_clause. SilkTork *YES! 10:34, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Jian Li

I noticed that you provided the update on Jian li's transfer to Harvard. Are you a friend of his? I am a Chinese American who would like to offer support to his case against Princeton. Please let me know how to contact him. Thanks. Duduong (talk) 06:33, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mctrain

I have just posted some suspected socks there. Edward321 (talk) 15:19, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

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Admin Coaching: Reconfirmation

I was looking through the coaches at Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status and saw that your entry was commented out. I have moved it to the "Reconfirmation" section.

Could you let me know if you are still interesting in being involved with Admin Coaching, or if you would prefer to have your name removed from the "reconfirmation" list and placed on the "retired" list. If you want to be involved, could you please move your entry from "Reconfirmation" to "Active" and indicate how many students you would be willing to have (obviously, if you are actively coaching at the moment, then please indicate this!)

If I do not hear from you within a week, I will assume that you would like to have your name removed from the list of coaches and moved to the retired list.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 07:45, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Another sockpuppet of User:Neda Reza Azad

Look at User:Tajiki0013 and its contributions. Alefbe (talk) 20:42, 19 March 2010 (UTC)


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Sockpuppet of User:Prmm and User:Koov

Look at User:Prdd and its contributions. Clearly a sock Bevinbell 22:09, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Blocked, thanks. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:17, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

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Personal attacks from previously banned IP

Hi, noticed you have banned 207.69.139.157 in the past, I now have received a third personal attack (I did not report the other two at Talk:Thornton expedition) from this user after his puppets have been banned. Any help, or anywhere I can report the abuse? Thanks for your time, Brutal Deluxe (talk) 10:20, 5 April 2010 (UTC).

Hello Nishkid, I too have received abusive messages from this IP (it's actually banned User:Brunodam). See [15]. Many thanks, AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 10:56, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

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192.251.226.206

Please see 192.251.226.206 (talk · contribs), which you blocked before, and this diff for the IP's identity. I've reverted the edits since it is a banned user. Erik (talk) 12:01, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

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1880 Republican National Convention

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OTRS help request

Hi Nishkid, can you please have a look at File:PuranaanuruPalmManuscript.jpg and File:VatteluttuInscriptionAtJainaCave.jpg? The original provider of the two images has confirmed that he has send his agreement on licensing to OTRS. But, the status has not changed to OTRS received. Please advice. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 16:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

He has sent an email again, copying me this time. Please have a look. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 08:51, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Please let me create Calum

Hello Nishkid64. I tried to create a page Calum but it appears to have been blocked by you. I can see why, from the history of unproductive pages that people have created. I have real content I would like to place in a Calum page in the form of a given name page with about 30 entries. Can you unblock it please so that I can create it? — Hebrides (talk) 19:45, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

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