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quick revision deletion request
hello, A pretty bad edit was made on Bird-of-Paradise, as seen here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bird-of-paradise&diff=prev&oldid=1239026637. I think it's worth a revdel. Gaismagorm (talk) 23:31, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done, thank you. Vanamonde93 (talk) 15:42, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- no problem! Gaismagorm (talk) 15:42, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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- Thanks Netherzone, received. I'll reply as soon as I'm able. Vanamonde93 (talk) 20:37, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
KlayCax Tban
Hello. I see that you gave KlayCax a topic ban and a warning about infoboxes. I was just wondering if you were going to formally post a notice on their talk page about the topic ban, and a infobox warning notice as well. Prcc27 (talk) 08:11, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reminder, I seem to have let it drop amidst all the logging and closing. Now done. Vanamonde93 (talk) 15:42, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
Adminship
Hi Vanamonde,
I want to request for adminship.
Sincerely,
कङञ@Vanamonde93 कङञ (talk) 14:26, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @कङञ: You have 79 edits and are still very much a newcomer to the site. I'd suggest gaining more experience before asking people about that path. Successful admins have usually spent years editing and have thousands of edits to their name. I'd just focus on improving articles that interest you which is what we're really about. You don't need adminship for that. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 14:30, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
Featured articles
Hi Vanamonde. I'm still working on Jehovah's Witnesses but it's in much better shape than it was when I first started rewriting it two years ago. [1] I think I'm getting closer to where I could start the FAC process, though? There's still some stuff I'd like to do before I even start that (see my sandbox) and this will probably involve several more hours of work. But when I feel like I've done the best I can, would you be willing to provide advice? I've never tried to write an FA before and I realize this is an ambitious first. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 17:51, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Clover, it is a little outside my wheelhouse but it would be my pleasure. It's a large undertaking, so thank you for doing that. Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:03, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- I'll get back to you when I've done everything I can think of to improve the article then. Thank you! Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 18:07, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
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AE appeal
Hey, just notifying that I've filed an appeal of the enforcement decision you adjusted a whole back. You can find the discussion here. Toa Nidhiki05 12:42, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2024 August newsletter
The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:
Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
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Left Hand of Darkness
Greetings and Felicitations - small detail here - the book in question is a great book - I read it numerous times, love the book, the topic the themes. Is it the BEST book ever of this style - well the single citation thinks so, but this is not really NPOV or balanced. I'm just being thoughtful. Happy to chat on the matter - no edit warring stuff. I added language that is more balanced - often wonder why it was never a movie - love her work. CautionaryNote1990 (talk) 13:22, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Vanamonde, I've blocked the OP as a sock. The master is stale, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were other accounts that have gone undetected - you might wish to consider checking.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:36, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks Bbb23 - I think I'm in the clear here but I don't think I should make a habit of checking accounts I reverted on articles I wrote. Would you mind kicking this to SPI if you think a check is needed? Vanamonde93 (talk) 14:43, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Understood, but I don't think I'll file at SPI.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:58, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks Bbb23 - I think I'm in the clear here but I don't think I should make a habit of checking accounts I reverted on articles I wrote. Would you mind kicking this to SPI if you think a check is needed? Vanamonde93 (talk) 14:43, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
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O.maximov turned out to be a sock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive338#O.maximov Doug Weller talk 09:35, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know. He's clearly putting a lot of effort into obfuscating his experience. Vanamonde93 (talk) 15:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
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Topic ban
Hi over a two and a half years ago you and others voted to topic ban me from the topic you well know about. I haven't been the same since on here, and the mistreatment I felt I received has put me off working as hard as I normally might have. Can you please request to reverse the sanctions placed on me. I haven't even looked at any related articles since, and I would promise as I did before to stay away from editing related articles. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:13, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling motivated, but I can't file an appeal for you; we don't permit third-party appeals. You will need to appeal your sanction, at AE or ARCA. And you will need to convince us that you will commit to editing within policy, regardless of your personal views on the topic. Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:25, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for your comment, and for taking the trouble to read through the background.
yes, it's boring to stick narrowly to source material, but that's what editing a CT on Wikipedia requires.
The page where I cited that joke, like a very large number of IP pages, is marked precisely by too many editors not sticking to the source material, but talking their way around it, in many cases, documentably, without even troubling themselves to read those sources. This is the curse of that area. Best regards Nishidani (talk) 06:37, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- I don't disagree, Nishidani, and I've gone on record several times that editors ignoring or misusing source material are the most serious form of disruption we face in several CTs. But responding with strong language - or other rhetoric - makes it near impossible to deal with that problem. I hope to see you around. Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:30, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- I'm extremely careful about language. Any practiced writer knows that every word that comes to mind opens up several options, each one potentially riding off in a different direction. And the art one learns consists of herding them along, thinning out the the limper or rebarbative or untamable ones, until the remainder can be corraled into a sentence that best suits the desired intended meaning. The premise of focused writing is that the mind must, in short, conduct a dialogue with itself as it oversees the surge of language, before speaking to an other.
- My use of that joke was not rhetorical in the detrimental sense of that word: (Brian Vickers has a wonderful book on the abused term showing how central it was to civilized discourse traditionally). In theory, everything said can be parsed in terms of rhetoric's extensive taxinomy. A completely innocuous note can be heard/read (as often in conversation when it was an art), beyond whatever its author's intention, to yield up a tone of crassness, Schadenfreude, contempt, an ironic smirk, etc. seething between the simple form of a straightforward to-and-fro of chatting That is why we read novels: the best authors thrive deliciously on ambiguities intrinsic to language's mischievous playfulness.
- Rhetoric doesn't, in this high sense, mean a kind of disingenuous verbal posturing to achieve, cynically, a contrived effect. In the disputed edit, I underlined my view by citing an academic source, so that what I said wouldn't be dismissed as some off-the-top of the head opinion (which is mostly what happens on talk pages). I added the joke as an 'illustrative' afterthought to, I thought, gentle the laborious academic source's thrust by something that would appeal to commonsense.
- Jokes are deep, far too complex in their compact, unpacked laconic insights into culture and psychology, to be shrugged off (not that you were doing this in choosing the term) as 'rhetorical'. For me, rhetoric in the modern sense is a damaged good monopolized by politicians and their journalistic sutlers, used cynically to persuade others of something the speakers may not even quite believe or even think. (if thinking is appropriate to describe the thoughtless 'weaponization' of words to win an argument, or blindside one's interlocutor, or spellbind an audience).
- A good many AE cases against me, and there are many, have pivoted on taking anything I write that goes beyond what Miss Manners would say to her daughter as 'intemperate', 'inflammatory', 'antisemitic' or whatever. And most did not achieve their end when the issue was laid before peers for a judgment. I admit I have been exasperated at times but that has not been the norm, quite rare in fact. At least five stick in my craw, because they arose, not from the animosity of editors, but from admins who failed to read correctly what I'd written, and rushed to a sanction. Most were overturned within a day or two when the misprision, or failure to catch the irony, was explained (often by others). I have consistently said when that happened, once the issue was cleared, that I don't fault the admins in question (save in one case). For the simple reason that, were I placed in their position, with that terrible fardel of having to read a huge amount of indifferent prose and random argufying, I would throw up my hands in despair. I admire them for that unthankful task and consider that flawed moments of judgment cannot but crop up, even with the best of wills, due to the rapid nature of wikipedia talking.
- This margin is greater the greater the conflictual reality we strive to represent in 'contentious' topic areas. In that area, my concern from the beginning has been a systemic bias that saps NPOV. Precisely because we all have, or should have, after the Holocaust, antennae fine-tuned to antisemitism, a mainstream tendency has arisen which, in conflating Israel a nation-state with Jews as one coherent identity, has engendered a hypersensitivity to the one, the political reality that, properly, should be reserved rather for our regard for every single Jew. But when two peoples are in a chronic state of conflict, our sensitivities cannot be unilateral. One cannot allow oneself to indulge in hypersensivity for one side's dignity or image, while tacitly ignoring the right to a claim on our sensitivities by the other party. It violates NPOV structurally. That is why, apart from trying to ensure a fair representation for the silenced party, I nonetheless wrote a good many complex articles on aspects of Jewish culture, and have advised all editors to prove their impartiality, whatever their POVs, to write up articles that bear on both worlds, preferably unrelated to politics.
- But - if TLDR hasn't kicked in - finally, the sanction, which I take to be just one more instance of a hasty ergo flawed judgment, tells me two things. One, that a further precedent has been established that, inadvertently, will ease work for the ingrained habit of hawkish editors who comb minutely my every edit, to find even more proof for more such cases at ANI/AE in the future. 8 times this year (August 23-October 24) someone, half of them socks, have managed to get the ear of admins to complain. All failed except for the 'raising the temperature 'no-smoke-without-fire syndrome effect' which, ultimately, I believe, kicked in here. Secondly, per my remarks on language and rhetoric, I realize that I am simply not cut out for contributing to wikipedia if the care I exert to get things right so often leads to misunderstandings. So I am closing shop. Yesterday, when I decided to abandon a place I love, I felt relief, and I spent an enjoyable afternoon talking with an archaeologist about Romulus and Remus, and obscure figures like Caeculus, without a thought for the responsibilities I once assumed as a daily tithing of my time, to try and do a little to lower the tone and reality of violence which afflicts our world. My very best regards then, and keep up the good work.Nishidani (talk) 20:52, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- My regards to you too. You will understand that I can't opine directly on a lot of what you have said, but I do acknowledge our weakness in dispute resolution of focusing on presentation over substance - that is, language over content. I will not say language isn't important, but it's not the only problem, but it's the easiest to police. Vanamonde93 (talk) 23:10, 26 October 2024 (UTC)