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Teasing some Slovenian pride

I saw your comment on the Balkans page "slovenia not included in balkans, usually it's situated in europe". Last time I checked Balkans was also laying in Europe :P

Jorisvda, this is a user's talk page, not your playground for biting newcomers. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:53, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Don't you have anyone else to go bully? I see from your talk page that you enjoy doing that. Go start another war against Russia or something. Jesus. Wikipedia is full of know-it-all naggers that think wikipedia is theirs. --Jorisvda (talk)

Well, you're certainly doing a great job of demonstrating how to be a constructive Wikipedian. Enough of the racist remarks. Please try to adhere to WP:NPA. These are policies, not guidelines... and they exist for good reason. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 10:14, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

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Southeast Europe

Tanper, your change is also controversial [1]. Please discuss here: Talk:Southeast_Europe#New_changes. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 23:25, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

You can find many other sources excluding them. The general consensus it that Croatia and Slovenia do not belong. Tanper (talk) 23:28, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

October 2014

Your recent editing history at Croatia shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

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October 2014

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for edit warring and violating the three-revert rule, as you did at Central Europe. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

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Request reason:

User Seader reverted the page with dubious accusations of "Croatian POV vandalism" and deleted all the progress that has been made in the past time. I reverted it back and explained that if he wishes to contribute or add sources, that he can do so by editing but not deleting all the progress made. He refused to reason and continued to do his own way, constantly reverting progress (for example, I tried adding "Football" section in "Sports", but he deleted it with his reverts, along with other added stuff (mostly sourced)and he actually has more reverts than me (which clearly means he broke the three-revert rule as well, but conveniently he's not blocked). He forces the incorrect use of Czechia instead of Czech Republic and else, which clearly means he's not into making the article better, but pushing his own agenda and than accusing others. Also, what you advise me (controversial changes, etc.) is something he should have done in the talk pages first, instead of destroying past work. This seems awfully one-sided on your part, giving me a block when he's no more (not at all) in the right than me and now the reverted artcle/edit is up there again, which is a result of vandalism which I hope you don't approve. But this block makes me believe otherwise.

Also, I shall add that I noticed edits that Seader made on Central European Time removing Croatia from the list, while Croatia as a country at that time was as independed as Czech Republic and Hungary (maybe a bit less than Hungary) which are listed - (all 3 of them were part of Austria-Hungary). This once again leads me to believe that he's only pushing his anti-Croatian agenda (or is just targeting me for whatever personal reasons he has, but objectivity is in no way present on his part) since he's cleary not interested in bettering the articles, but bending them to his POV. Tanper (talk) 20:40, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Looking at the article history, it is clear you were edit warring, and in this context, I am declining your request to be unblocked. After your block expires, you will be able to pursue dispute resolution. However, my advice is that in your next unblock request, you focus on your conduct, as opposed to the conduct of other Wikipedians. PhilKnight (talk) 21:03, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

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Looking at the article history, it takes two to tango since conduct of other Wikipedian did play a major part in all this. My complaints are about poor moderating of the page which clearly let Seader make controversial changes prior to discussing it and having a census and let him constantly revert the progress of the page. I'm fine with my block, but same standards should be applied. Tanper (talk) 23:16, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Tanper, I've been following the article, but had other issues to deal with before checking in on the edit warring taking place there. Please bear in mind the advice I gave you a while ago. There is nothing on the corresponding talk page indicating that anyone other than Seader had informed any other editors of what was taking place in the article. Article talk pages exist for a reason: please use them. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Seader did leave a note on talk pages on October 20th, but the initial revert took place on October 16th without any notices. I thought talk pages are used for discussing prior to making larger edits (and revert certainly is one, since it affects all of work done in the time between), not just leaving one-sided notes as Seader did. In no way did he contribute other than reverting the page again and again. I have doubts about his "honest" intentions, as I noted earlier. Tanper (talk) 11:00, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

my intensions are not the topic since it is clear as day what you are trying to do here in the Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a place to force your own pov, what you are doing. Since your comments here I also see that you point of view is far shifted from reality so that I doubt that any discussion with you is making any sense. When I look at your edits here I can see that from the first edit you did in this Wikipedia you did nothing else than pushing pov, ignoring other informations and sources and also deleting them and using edit wars to force your version through. Wikipedia is not a place for that and I think that an pov politics forum would be the better place for you where you could shine. Kind regards Seader (talk) 23:22, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

@Seader, you admit to not caring about the article you just have been vandalised? Your way of conversation speaks for you enoguh, "Dudes", "Disscusing making no sense" and calling out for PoV just for the sake of it. Tanper (talk) 11:03, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Per Seader, you engaged in a major rework of the article on 25 September (beginning with this edit). Not only did you delete sources, you inserted information about Croatia into sources you'd retained, even though they do not even mention Croatia. Once Seader identified the major changes, s/he made an honest attempt at reinstating the information as it stood prior your refactoring (having introduced absolutely no reliable sources).

If you are going to make bold changes, you engage in WP:BRD. The fact that the bold changes were only recognised a few weeks after their introduction does not mean that they were not bold. Once reversion to a sourced version is made, the onus in on the contributor who made the bold changes (you) to bring reliable sources to the table and explain the removal of sources which had already been in place and deemed to be RS. Instead, you engaged in edit warring. If you intend to contribute to the article after your block, I suggest that you bring sources to the talk page and discuss the content of the article with other editors before you try to make any changes. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:35, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Reliable sources?

Like this? - Apperantly here lies the source for Croatia being in SE Europe, but when it opens on the page where it only speaks of Slovenia. Legit source?

- This might be the only valid source, but it's not The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, but a The Free Dictionary article which just uses it as a source.

- This one talks about Balkan, and then excludes a part of Croatia, which again means it can't be used for making decisive placing of the country, considering for what it is used as a source.

- Ok.

- An US college program used as a source? Really?

- A programme that lists Italy, Slovakia and Ukraine as South East Europe as well. And this is legit to use for citation about Croatia?

And then two "sources" which can in no way be checked, but I doubt them based on the past experience.

As for Slovenia, you also have minus one source since the book speaks of Slovenia as in Central Europe.

Serbia:

- This one basically annulates itself since it lists Serbia as both CE and SEE, which means it can not be attributed to only one claim.

- Just look at the page, and then the same problem arises as with the past source.

- I see no mention of Serbia's geographic location so I don't understand why it is listed as a source.

- here's in english: http://www.vojvodina.gov.rs/en/autonomous-province-vojvodina. Mentions only Vojvodina (not Macva and Belgrade) and does not support the claim it was cited for, just a link to a page.

- No mention of Central Europe, just Austrian Occupation (for meagre 30 or so years). Litteraly every country on the list could do the same (if not more) and for longer periods.

- A map that shows expansion of Habsburg Monarchy, not Central Europe.

All in all, not a single valid source. But I did Vojvodina since it is considered CE by some, but there just weren't sources for that.

I think that covers most of deleted sources. There are maybe only 2 or 3 somewhat valid, but they do not do much on their own. As for the inserting Croatia before citation, this I admit as my mistake since it should go after the citation, but in no way was it intentional.

As for Seader, you stil did not explain his other workings on other articles (hint: CE Time) and deletion of numerous other sources I provided or worked in (demographics), football, etc. Calling me out for PoV vandalism is dubious since I did not focus only one country, but tried to work on the article in General. Tanper (talk) 10:52, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

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If you have issues with the content once your block is finished, please take it to the relevant article talk page in order that other editors can engage in discussion of the content. The process is known as WP:BRD. You're welcome to take your sources to the talk page and discuss any sources you wish to remove: the onus being on you to demonstrate that any sources being removed are not reliable and, conversely, convincing other editors that your sources are reliable. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:08, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm still eager to know how Seader had best intentions given his past edits. Because I'm afraid he might as well pull something of similar despite the discussions. And what is it with all the other content he deleted on the article (sourced, formated, etc.)? Tanper (talk) 02:52, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm afraid that I don't have the time to involve myself this week, as I'm going on holiday. I would suggest that you follow through with the discussion on that talk page... but, please, keep a cool head about it. Concentrate on presenting reliable sources for expanding the content and how you interpret them. Wait for responses (sometimes it may take a few days for other editors to pick up on a thread). I know that the temptation is to be impatient and interpret short periods of silence as being consent, but that does not equal consensus. Focus on being WP:CIVIL and assume good faith in as much as you're able. Again, it's better to take time and be patient about developing a good, balanced article than find yourself in a position of being blocked. Cheers for the moment. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:59, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

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