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    Remove unsourced content added by disruptive, bad faith, and biased editor Spworld2

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    Uninvolved editors feel this is a content dispute full of assumptions of bad faith by Neutralhappy. The claim of a COI isn't well supported and looks more like a topic of interest for Spworld2. The content dispute should be settled in the existing forums already in use.--v/r - TP 14:27, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    It seems User:Spworld2 is incorregible. Because of too much influence of a COI (WP:COI), Spworld2 would be ready to get even an indefinite block. This is because EK Samastha and its followers are strong in claiming the legacy of the Samastha founded in 1926 that they conducted the centenary declaration conference (as per a source) or the inauguration conference in Bengaluru, which is outside Kerala, while EK Samastha's name includes "Kerala" and the full name means "All Kerala Ulama Organisation" as per the EK Samastha's website; after the promulgation conference by the faction of AP Samastha in Kasaragod. Spworld2 apparently and certainly belongs to a particular type of supporters of EK Samastha who are not ready to edit neutrally or edit as per the source. So an indefinite topic ban on both Samasthas and related topics, such as its subsidiaries, would be needed. I at least seek the intervention of admins to remove the unsourced content, especially the unsourced content in Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction). See also several disruptive and unhelpful edits by Spworld2 Neutralhappy (talk) 22:27, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Spworld2 has been informed about this ongoing discussion on their talk page. Neutralhappy (talk) 22:34, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Neutralhappy, you need to provide convincing evidence in the form of diffs. You have not yet done so. Cullen328 (talk) 23:41, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Also, any editor can provide sources or tag with "citation needed" or if all else fails, remove implausible or false unsourced content. That does not require administrator's tools. Cullen328 (talk) 23:44, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The diffs seem to be presented in this version of the filer's sandbox (linked in mobile view in the last sentence), with this post serving as a summary. Left guide (talk) 23:50, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Now, I have provided convincing evidence in the form of diffs. Spworld2 would definitely need an indefinite topic ban on both Samasthas and the related topics, such as their subsidiaries. Neutralhappy (talk) 11:13, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Remedies
    • 1) Remove all mentions of the term "(AP Sunnis)" in bold in the article, except in the title, since it is not part of the name of the organisation of AP Sunnis.
    • 2) Remove the statement that Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) is known as "Samastha (AP Faction)", because it is unsourced. Instead, say it is known as "Samastha" since the sources say so (1, 2, 3, 4).
    • 3) How should we treat the time of formation, the founder, and the history until the so-called split of Samastha in 1989? Based on the source or by arbitrarily considering one of them or both of them as new organisations? Please help decide it.
      • I suggest the removal of the unsourced statements (including in the infobox) that the AP Samastha was founded in 1989 and that the founder of AP Samastha is Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar.
    • 4) Remove the mention that Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar ever became the president of any Samastha, since no source supports it.
    • 5) Remove the mention that headquarters of AP Samastha is Markazu Saqafathi Sunniyya, for two reasons: it is unsourced and it appears dubious since a post of a Facebook page, supporting the AP faction, says "Samastha Centre, Kozhikode-6" below "Samastha Kerala Jam-iyyathul Ulama".
    If I remove the unsourced content, Spworld2 will add it again. So someone else need to intervene. Neutralhappy (talk) 06:09, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Addition of unsourced content by Spworld2
    • Spworld2 also added unsourced content (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) in the infobox that the formation of Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) is in 1989 and its founder is Kanthapuram. The sources cited by Spworld2 to add 1989 as the year of formation or Kanthapuram as the founder in the infobox do not support the addition by Spworld2. These two (1, 2) are the sources Spworld2 used to add 1989 as the year of formation and Kanthapuram as the founder of Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction), in the infobox. These two do not support Spworld2's claim. On the other hand, Spworld2 wants to add 1926 as the year of formation and Varakkal Mullakoya Thangal as the founder of Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (EK faction) in the infobox of the article for Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (EK faction).
    • Spworld2 again wrongfully changed the year of formation of AP Samastha without citing a source. The source given does not even mention "1986".
    • Spworld2 wants to advance the position that the founder of AP Samastha is Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar, without citing a source.
    • Spworld2 added the headquarters of AP Samastha as Markazu Saqafathi Sunniyya without citing a source, though this appears to be wrong since the place shown below "Samastha Kerala Jam-iyyathul Ulama" in a post of a Facebook page supporting the AP faction is "Samastha Center, Kozhikode-6".
    • Spworld2 says Kanthapuram is the founding president of AP Samastha, which must be false, not only because there could not be a single source stating Kanthapuram ever was a president of any Samastha, either before the so-called split in Samastha in 1989 or after it; but also because at the time of the reorganisation of Samastha in 1989, Kanthapuram was made the general secretary and Ullal Thangal the president.
    Removal of sourced content by Spworld2
    • Spworld2 also removed content to advance the view of the people associated with EK Samastha by removing the sourced content.
    • See also this sourced content removal by Spworld2.
    • See this sourced content removal by Spworld2.
    • Spworld2 removed the sourced content about the flag of Samastha, probably to suppress the AP faction version of the narrative about the flag.
    • Spworld2 removed "Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama" because Spworld2 hates AP Samastha being referred to as "Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama", though the sources given against it refer to AP Samastha as "Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama". See what the sources say also. Instead, Spworld2 replaced the term "Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama" with "All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama", another organisation of AP Sunnis.
    • Soworld2 removed the sourced content, giving a false edit summary.
    Unhelpful editing by Spworld2
    • Both Samasthas are known as Samastha. But Spworld2 made this unhelpful edit, by changing also known as Samastha to also known as Samastha (AP Faction) even though there are numerous sources to support it and 5 sources are present in the article to support it. Note there is not a single source that says Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) is known as "Samastha (AP Faction)" or "Samastha (AP faction)". Spworld2 apparently and probably made this edit to get a positive result to the Spworld2's move request and thus get the page moved to "Samastha (AP Faction)".
    • Spworld2 made this unhelpful edit by changing "Flag of EK Samastha" to "Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama flag". In fact, it is the flag of EK Samastha only. This edit by Spworld2 would mislead readers that there is no difference of opinion regarding the flag used by both Samasthas. In fact, AP Samastha uses a different flag. This is especially problematic since both flags appear to be the same, though there are minor differences.
    • Spworld2 removed "of EK Sunnis", which distinguishes the organisation, by this edit. In addition, Spworld2 removed the part that clarifies the misunderstanding that there are two Samasthas in the same edit.
    Spworld2's character of not maintaining neutrality
    Unwanted placement of clarfy tag by Spworld2
    • Though there is nothing unclear Spworld2 placed the clarify tags (1, 2), without giving a reason. Later, Spworld2 removed the content altogether just because Spworld2 hates AP Samastha and its success.
    Repeated addition of EK Samastha's only position without citing source to support it, by Spworld2
    Disruptive edits by Spworld2 even after getting warning
    • Spworld2 added an unsourced content, even after getting a warning (see: 1, 2). The source says about the split of Samastha in 1989, not the formation of AP Samastha. Nor does the source say Kanthapuram is the founder of AP Samastha.
    Links of previous discussions
    Neutralhappy (talk) 11:05, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I can see nothing here that belongs at WP:ANI. This discussion only seems to add one venue to the already too long list of venues where the content issue is being discussed. Phil Bridger (talk) 12:10, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I rather disagree with you since this WP:ANI is meant to deal with chronic, intractable behavioral problems, as this venue itself says:

    This page is for urgent incidents or chronic, intractable behavioral problems.

    I came here not mainly to discuss but to get an action taken against the bad faith, disruptive, and biased editor Spworld2, or mainly to get the unsourced content removed. Neutralhappy (talk) 13:39, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This board is for deciding whether an editor is "bad faith, disruptive, and biased". If you presuppose that, as you did in the original title of this section, then there is nothing to discuss. All I have found out here is that Sunni Muslims are just as factional as evangelical Christians or Trotskyites. Phil Bridger (talk) 13:53, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    First of all, thanks for your reply. Have you found out that America is known as USA? If yes, should we avoid saying America is known as USA in the Wikipedia article on America, because some people hate to refer to America as USA? What is your answer? Whether it is yes or no, the same applies to both Samasthas, since both of them are known as "Samastha". Spworld2 hates to refer to AP Samastha as a Samastha, so Spworld2 replaced "known as Samastha" with "known as Samastha (AP Faction)",—which is similar to saying Taiwan is "known as China ([name of founder of Taiwan] Faction)",—without citing any source though the given sources against it refer to AP Samastha as "Samastha". If it is not a problem, the same should apply to EK Samastha, where Spworld2 had not applied the same, by replacing the term "known as Samastha" with "known as Samastha (EK faction)", because Spworld2 wants to project only EK Samastha is known as Samastha, obviously to advance the view of the EK faction (people affiliated with EK Samastha) that the only EK Samastha is the real continuation of the Samastha founded in 1926. If it is not a problem add "known as China ([name of founder of Taiwan] Faction), by replacing the "[name of founder of Taiwan]" with the founder's name in the article Taiwan. Likewise, add similar terms coined by Wikipedia editors in several other articles. Neutralhappy (talk) 14:54, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Spworld2 removed the boldening of the term "EK Samastha" because Spworld2 wants only EK Samastha referred to as "Samastha" without qualification. Which Wikipedia guideline suggests mentioning alternative names of a subject without boldening it. Therefore, it is not only an act of disruptive editing but vandalism also. Neutralhappy (talk) 15:22, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This edit by Spworld2 changed "also known as Samastha" to "also known as Samastha (AP Faction)", the change this move request is seeking for, without any supporting citations, though the use of "Samastha" to refer to Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) was supported by 5 sources at the time of this change. Neutralhappy (talk) 18:21, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    As for Phil Bridger's comment, each sentence (specially shown) is rebutted as follows:

    This board is for deciding whether an editor is "bad faith, disruptive, and biased".

    I do not contest this, nor do I need to.

    If you presuppose that, as you did in the original title of this section, then there is nothing to discuss.

    A discussion can take place even if all sides has already taken opposing positions. Furthermore, this venue is to report "chronic intractable behavioural problems", which has to be ascertained before reporting on this venue.

    All I have found out here is that Sunni Muslims are just as factional as evangelical Christians or Trotskyites.

    All you have found may be the whole universe, but they may not be relevant here. Here, we need evidence such as, sources, and diffs. Neutralhappy (talk) 16:01, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Neutralhappy: Have you attempted to resolve this issue at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard? If not, I think that would be a logical next step for you and Spworld2 to resolve these disagreements. Left guide (talk) 01:10, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry, I was busy and didn't see the discussion. There was no World War here to mention so much Removed some content that was not article related and misquoted and clearly explained it. Not much to discuss, apparently in this section Spworld2 (talk) 04:58, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    If Spworld2 is saying, "Removed some content that was not article related and misquoted and clearly explained it. Not much to discuss, apparently in this section" about the edits Spworld2 made on AP Samastha and EK Samastha, it is false, since they were neither misquoted nor unrelated. Neutralhappy (talk) 05:57, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Fact
    Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama is a Sunni Islamic organization established in 1926 in Kerala, India.
    This makes it the largest legally functioning Sunni Islamic organization in India.
    In 1989 (1986-1989 Time phase), due to a slight difference of opinion from this organization, under the leadership of Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar, he resigned (separated) from this organization and went and formed a new organization. It is known as AP Samastha, AP Sunni, Samastha (AP Faction) and Kanthapuram Faction[1][2][3] [4].
    Established in 1926, the Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama organization is still functioning in India.
    But this editor (@Neutralhappy) has the information and history of the organization founded in 1926 in the same way Wrote in the new organization adding unsourced information along with it.
    This editor focuses only on this page and spends a lot of time on this, and it is discussed in many places to keep it alive. Writing in promotional style. It feels WP:COI Spworld2 (talk) 06:02, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    You are telling a lie that Kanthapuram resigned from Samastha. Moreover, the matter that the Kanthapuram faction created a new Samastha that has no legacy of the Samastha founded in 1926 is a POV pushing. In addition, AP Samastha has the same name, registration number, and flag Samastha had before the so-called split in 1989. Neutralhappy (talk) 06:13, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    AP Samastha was formed between 1989 (1986-1989 Time phase)
    When a new organization is formed it will have a year, it will have a cause/reason, it will have a founder,
    the same description and the same year of formation should not be written the same in two articles.
    In the absence of the above facts it is against policy to create the article as a new organization.
    According to your arguments
    If these two are same ??
    Merge into Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (existing organization) article Spworld2 (talk) 06:42, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Problems with sources cited by Spworld2
    The following are the sources cited by Spworld2 here to say the AP faction formed a new Samastha that has no legacy of the Samastha founded in 1926. The first and the second sources do not say it at all, while the third and the fourth ones are the same source that says the AP faction created a new organisation after a split in Samastha. This is the fist time Spworld2 cited a source before me to claim the AP Samastha has no legacy of the Samastha founded in 1926. See what is the problem with them:
    This does not say the AP faction created a new Samastha.
    This also does not say the AP faction created a new Samastha.
    This source claims the AP faction created a new Samastha, without interviewing the witnesses or the leaders of either faction who have the most authoritative knowledge. This happens when they depend only on sources having a conflict of interest, without taking into account what the other side has to say, while this also makes the study not all dissimilar to conflict of interest sources and biased sources. The EK faction's main activity since the so-called split in Samastha, for about two decades, was to allege so many different frauds with the AP faction, particularly Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar. For that, the EK faction tried their level best to calim AP Samastha is a fake one. However, independent periodicals still continue refer to AP Samastha as "Samastha" without any qualification and as "Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama" without any qualification. There are several sources that use the term "EK faction" and "AP faction" to distinguish both of them form the other, meaning generally independent sources tend to agree both Samasthas' claim of being the real Samastha.
    This source claims the AP faction created a new Samastha, without interviewing the witnesses or the leaders of either faction who have the most authoritative knowledge. This happens when they depend only on sources having a conflict of interest, without taking into account what the other side has to say, while this also makes the study not all dissimilar to conflict of interest sources and biased sources. The EK faction's main activity since the so-called split in Samastha, for about two decades, was to allege so many different frauds with the AP faction, particularly Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar. For that, the EK faction tried their level best to calim AP Samastha is a fake one. However, independent periodicals still continue refer to AP Samastha as "Samastha" without any qualification and as "Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama" without any qualification. There are several sources that use the term "EK faction" and "AP faction" to distinguish both of them form the other, meaning generally independent sources tend to agree both Samasthas' claim of being the real Samastha. Neutralhappy (talk) 08:15, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Conflict of interest editing by Spworld2
    * Spworld2 wanted to get the article Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP Sunnis) deleted, which at the time was Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (of AP Sunnis), probably because Spworld2 wanted to advance the view of people associated with EK Samastha that EK Samastha is the only and real Samastha.
    * To advance the view of people of EK Samastha in wkivoice, Spworld2 removed a move request to rename and move Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (EK faction) and Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP Sunnis) to Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (EK faction) and Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) respectively.
    * Spworld2, being failed to get the page for Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) deleted, began the attempt to move and rename the page as Samastha (AP Faction), probably because Spworld2 wanted to remove the full name of the organisation, which is often quoted by reliable sources, so that readers would think the only organisation with the full name "Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama" is that of EK Sunnis. Earlier, Spworld2 tried to remove "Samastha" from the full name (1, 2, 3) so that readers would think Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) is not officially known by its full name "Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama", or as just "Samastha".
    * See also this removal, which was undone by an admin.
    Pages created by Spworld2
    * The pages created by Spworld2 show Spworld2 is closely associated with Indian Union Muslim League and EK Sunnis (people affiliated to EK Samastha), which the overwhelming majority of followers of EK Samastha support. Spworld2 created the article 100th Anniversary of Samastha Kerala for the promotion of the future event and EK Samastha's claim of the legacy of Samastha founded in 1926. Spworld2 also removed the notability tag added by someone else from the article 100th Anniversary of Samastha Kerala. Furthermore, Spworld2 created the article Majlis Al-Noor, which is about a program of EK Sunnis (people affiliated to EK Samastha). Interestingly, Spworld2 appears to have a close connection (maybe as a leader such as a local leader of any subsidiaries of EK Samastha) to the subject because Spworld2 has uploaded an image used in Majlis Al-Noor, which might only be uploaded by those who are close to the subject because of copyright. The flag of Haritha (organisation), which is associated with Indian Union Muslim League, has also been uploaded by Spworld2; that in turn shows Spworld2's closeness to the group or the faction, such as being a leader of this political party or being close to the leader of a subsidiary of EK Samastha. See Spworld2's complete list of uploads; which in turn shows probably Spworld2 has been to or lives near Puthanathani, a place in Malappuram district, in the two constituencies of which the Indian Muslim League fielded its candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Likewise, Spworld2 created articles on places and institutions in Malappuram district. The edit by Spworld2 shows, Spworld2 knows Malayalam, though the source does not support Spworld2's claims in the edit. Spworld2 edits are largely on articles related to Kerala politics or politics in which Indian Union Muslim League has an interest. The other articles Spworld2 created are related to GCC, where a large number of Malayalees work. So it is certain that Spworld2 has a close connection to at least the leaders such as the local leaders of the subsidiaries of EK Samastha. The following is a list of the articles Spworld2 created as of 13:34, 6 September 2024; and those that have association with Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) are shown in bold, and those with EK Sunnis or EK Samastha with an underline:
    We can see the articles edited by Spworld2 here. Neutralhappy (talk) 08:27, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This source says most of those affiliated with EK Samastha are members of the IUML: "It is a known fact that most of the Samastha workers are members of the IUML and the party is confident that the issues with Samastha may not have any political fallouts." Neutralhappy (talk) 08:44, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    So what? S !! All this is created by me, what is the problem??
    Write more articles on the subject of knowledge, and create related articles when writing an article. What's the problem with that? There is no interest in a war over an article, I don't like arguing a point and writing a lot of essays about it
    Keep it simple Spworld2 (talk) 11:00, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Paid editing behaviour by Spworld2
    Earlier, Spworld2 tried to get the article on Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) disappeared from Wikipedia. Now also, Spworld2 wants to get that aim fulfilled by proposing the merger, in a comment, (earlier also, Spworld2 had suggested the same merger, in a comment), of the article Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) with Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (EK faction). This seem like the typical behaviour of a paid editor having made an agreement to get the article on Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) disappeared, through the process such as deletion or merger, in whatever way possible, even at the risk of being banned or blocked, indefinitely. Alternatively, Spworld2 themself seems to be more interested to further the EK faction's view than being needed to be paid, just like those affiliated with EK Samastha. Neutralhappy (talk) 13:27, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I am not affiliated with any organization. I don't write for anyone's money, I write in my free time
    All this is just your wrong feeling, Just your fake propaganda Otherwise only slander ,
    The anger at what the COI told you is telling back to me
    I know about the organizations in Kerala, I know about the political parties, I know about AP Samastha, of which you are the editor . Writing articles under the Kerala Wiki project.
    When an article is written, its corresponding article is written, all according to policy Spworld2 (talk) 13:31, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Lying by Spworld2 besides typical paid editing behaviour
    See the nomination of AP Samastha, which at the time was Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (of AP Sunnis), for deletion by Spworld2. Now, Sporld2 apparentlylies that Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) does not exist, by labelling Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (EK faction) as the "existing organization". Neutralhappy (talk) 10:39, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Lies and deception by Spworld2 to continue disruptive, bad faith, biased POV pushing
    Spworld2, at 8:46 16 September 2024, (see also: 1, 2—in which User:Spworld2 is seen, 3—how it appears in Spworld2's user page), has admitted that Spworld2 is a supporter of the Indian Union Muslim League and that Spworld2 has Malayalam as the native language. The EK Sunni supporters of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) would likely have more hatred towards the AP faction than the EK Sunnis who do not support the Indian Union Muslim League, since several leaders of the IUML are Mujahids. The biggest enemies of non-Sunnis, in Kerala, including Mujahids, in Kerala, is Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar, general secretary of Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) and the AP faction Sunnis. But, just within 5 hours after the admission, Spworld2 lies that Spworld2 is not affiliated with any organisation. It is obvious Spworld2 is blatantly lying, like Spworld2's other lies, such as those seen in Spworld2's edit summaries in Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction), allegations against me, Neutalhappy, and the addition of the false, unsourced content. Spworld2 also lies that Spworld2 knows about Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction), because Spworld2 does not appear to know the headquarters of AP Samastha, and whether ever Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar became the president or the founding president of any Samastha. Spworld2 also lies that AP Samastha is known by the term, coined by Spworld2, "Samastha (AP Faction)". Actually, either Samastha is known as "Samastha", which Spworld2 replaced with "Samastha (AP Faction)", though there were 5 sources supporting the fact that AP Samastha is known as "Samastha". Spworld2 engaged in edit warring, disruptive editing, vandalism—(1: grammatical and spelling mistakes, 2: removed the boldening of the term "EK Samastha", violating the Wikipedia guideline to bolden it, because Spworld2 hates EK Samastha to be referred to as "EK Samastha"; in other places Spworld2 removed terms indicating the EK faction, such as "EK faction" altogether),— and bad faith editing (unhelpful editing) on the article Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction). Spworld2 also lies that Spworld2 is not interested in edit warring. But, had Spworld2 not interested in edit warring, I would not have reported about Spworld2 on WP:ANI, but just would have undone Spworld2's problematic edits. The edit history of Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP faction) proves the edit war conducted by Spworld2. So, kindly TOPIC BAN Spworld2 on both Samasthas and the related articles, since it is unavoidable. Neutralhappy (talk) 19:55, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    See this. Neutralhappy (talk) 13:55, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    By my count, Neutralhappy has contributed over 39,000 bytes to this report. That is very much WP:TLDR. Diffs are important, but everyone here is a volunteer, and most have better things to do than wade through ~40k buytes of forum shopping, as this issue was already brought up by Spworld2 on WP:NPOVN.

    From a glance, this seems to mostly be a content dispute, sprikled with assumptions of bad faith by Neutralhappy, including in the very title of this section. Neutralhappy, if you want people to read your report, I recommend starting a new subsection, and presenting briefly the most important parts of your case, including at least 3 but not more than 10 diffs showing the most egregious problems. If it's over 1,000 words, it's likely too long. Be sure to cite the policies each diff violates. Or, better yet, try the steps in WP:DR, including WP:3O to get uninvolved editors to weigh in and solve the content dispute. If Spworld2 edit wars against two editors, that's a very easy block, and requires very little documentation. EducatedRedneck (talk) 11:37, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    • Neutralhappy, there is no nice way to say this. You have obviously gone through a lot of work pulling this complaint together. But for any sanctions to result from an ANI complaint, the misconduct either a) must be blatantly obvious to any editor or b) have a reasonable amount of compelling evidence presented that a large assortment of uninvolved editors can easily assess and come to conclusions about.
    By "reasonable", I'm thinking of 3-10 diffs of bad behavior, not a very long, multi-sectioned narrative. You are not going to find many uninvolved editors (well, except for EducatedRedneck) who are willing to put in the time and effort to assess your complaint here and this is likely to be archived without action being taken. Editors are busy, they don't have the time to devote to all of this when they have other editing activities to do. As I advised another editor (below), cases this complex should be brought to ARBCOM if that is a suitable forum. ANI is just not set up for evaluating this large amount of content and could end up with a BOOMERANG on you. Take this as a lesson learned for the next dispute. Liz Read! Talk! 01:39, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • Looking through Spworld2's contributions, it seems the user is treating Wikipedia as a gossip column of a tabloid by adding sensational content such as run-of-the-mill issues/verbal spats/allegations under the heading "controversies", disregarding WP:CSECTION and it's long-term notability. Some of the articles created are also sensational in nature. 117.230.80.72 (talk) 14:57, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
      Admins please note: this is the first edit from this IP ( 117.230.80.72) , the only IP not active in this discussion, first edit participating in this discussion
      Comment is like an experienced user Spworld2 (talk) 11:18, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    Edit warring on Alanis Morissette

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    No further reversions, so stale. Please bring to ANEW (edit warring doesn't require breaking of 3RR) if it resumes. Star Mississippi 00:05, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    Cruzado (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    After noticing they had added some content to Alanis Morissette (disruptively), I initially did assume this editor to be good-faith, trying to fix the MoS problems they had caused. But look at what they did subsequently: claiming I had reverted "a legitimate update" "without reason or explanation" (even though I did explain, see this and this) and restoring their edit repeatedly (despite opposition from me and @Fulfiller, see this). I asked them to stop disrupting the article, but they refused (see this conversation). Thedarkknightli (talk) 01:34, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    If it is indeed edit-warring, I'd file a case at ANEW. But it looks like a content dispute and there is no discussion about this on the article talk page. There has been no activity there since January 2024. Liz Read! Talk! 02:15, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi @Liz, thanks for your timely reply! Well, I've just started a conversation on the article's talk page. For the reason I didn't file a case regarding them at ANEW, Cruzado didn't violate WP:3RR (so I don't think they'll be prevented from disrupting the article if I did). Btw, I admit my ignorance of the rules. Thedarkknightli (talk) 03:59, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I understand, Thedarkknightli and I thank you for providing diffs. It's just that escalating disputes to ANI can lead to unpredictable results as both the reporter and the editor being reported are usually scrutinized. Liz Read! Talk! 05:06, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I bet that Cruzado will continue to restore their edit unless they're indeffed. Thedarkknightli (talk) 14:49, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi @Cullen328 and @LizardJr8, could you please take a look at this? Thanks in advance! Thedarkknightli (talk) 23:23, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I wouldn't want to presume future actions. I would note that it has been 3 days now, without reversion. LizardJr8 (talk) 23:53, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    Harassment by Steven1991

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    Hi, Steven1991 seems to have a pattern of engaging in personal attacks against multiple users, including myself. Attacks seem to generally consist of accusing us of "harassment" after some of us commented on a previous ANI post. [[5]][[6]]. User has made statements indicating that they do not plan to stop even after having been told to do so[[7]]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Insanityclown1 (talk • contribs) 04:31, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Insanityclown1, the editor has already been blocked after they made these edits so what additional results are you looking for? Also, remember to sign your comments. Liz Read! Talk! 04:55, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Complaint probably isn't ripe at this point, but was concerned by his comment that made it sound like he had no intention of stopping the activities that got him banned in the first place. Insanityclown1 (talk) 05:11, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Looking at User talk:Steven1991, it seems that the person shows no indication of becoming more cooperative therefore my opinion is the person must be indeffed. --Altenmann >talk 17:27, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    P.S. In addition to the current block, the user was already blocked in the past for 48h for exactly same behavior. Lesson not learned, it looks like. --Altenmann >talk 17:31, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Altenmann the editor was blocked in 2019 for some problems [8], that was over 5 years ago and although the editor has a very sparse editing record, I don't think it should count that much when considering current blocks. I also don't know that it's "exactly same behavior" since at least from the block log the stated reason was "edit warring and editing logged out to evade scrutiny". While edit warring has unfortunately continued. I don't see anyone has presented evidence of the editor logging out. Further using misleading edit summaries wasn't mentioned in the past and seems unlikely considering they were barely using edit summaries at the time.

    While the editor did say some stuff on their talk page which was concerning, we tend to ignore some minor blowing off steam when an editor is blocked and I'm unconvinced anything they said then is really enough for a longer block. Frankly I would personally take the sexual abuse comment to be crossing the line enough for an indef, but Drmies didn't see it that way and so IMO it's not worth pursuing further.

    So what matters is how they actually edit going forward. Now that their block has expired, their editor interaction seems to have restricted themselves to emptying their talk page which they're allowed to do and posting these two comments on ANI [9] [10]. I don't think either of those really cross the line sufficiently for a block.

    OTOH, surprisingly this wasn't discussed previously but many of their recent (direct article) edits both before and after their block seem to clearly be within the Arab–Israeli conflict topic area. To articles that aren't sure but they're editing stuff which directly mentions the current war e.g. [11] and [12] and before the block [13]. They were already given a CTOP alert for the A-I conflict previously and so informed of the WP:ARBECR requirements so really should not have been making these edits.

    I've directly asked them to stop [14]. If they continue to make edits which are so clearly within the A-I topic area, IMO an admin should just block them under CTOP or at least give a logged warning. These articles are generic enough that most of them don't need ECP and editors need to self regulate. And there's enough that I don't see a partial block will work. If no one is willing to do so from here, opening a WP:A/R/E case would be the simplest solution.

    Nil Einne (talk) 14:00, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Continued problematic edits by User:Steven1991

    Steven continues to add inflammatory and frankly superfluous language to articles while disguising them as "grammar." Such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zio%20(pejorative)&diff=prev&oldid=1247088966 here. This strikes me as an attempt to add inflammatory language unnecessarily while trying to fly under the radar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Insanityclown1 (talk • contribs) 22:16, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    It is not “inflammatory”. Your response does not seem to be aligned with WP:AGF and WP:NPA. I don’t understand why you seem to be targeting me – there is no bad faith on my part to any extent. Steven1991 (talk) 00:55, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Looking at this user’s contribution history, they appear to have filed several complaints against multiple users over minor disputes. It raises doubts of vexatious complaints. Steven1991 (talk) 01:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I think both sides could benefit from a little more WP:AGF in this case. Insanityclown, I concur that the edit summary was misleading, and did not reflect the nature of the edits. This is an issue. As noted below, I don't think this necessitates them being deliberately deceptive. It's worth keeping an eye on, but even with the pre-block edit pattern, I don't think this one diff is enough for me to suspend WP:AGF. Do you have any more egregious examples? The few I found were all of the same "could have been a mistake" variety.
    Steven, I can also see how labeling the phrasing changes as "grammar" could be a well-intentioned error. However, your addition of progressive journals like [Mosaic Magazine] adds the impression that other journals have said the same, which changes the meaning of the sentence. Similarly, adding some to make the phrase "adopted by some progressives" changes the meaning from being widely accepted to a minority, which likewise is a content, not a grammar change. Can you see how another editor may have been misled by this edit summary? For good or ill, your contributions are under a microscope now, so you should be careful that your edit summaries accurately reflect their contents.
    Finally, Steven, note that WP:NPA says personal attacks are Accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence. (emphasis mine). Insanityclown1 provided evidence above. They may be wrong, but it's not a personal attack to be wrong. This is the appropriate place to raise concerns about an editor's behavior, and they did so with evidence. EducatedRedneck (talk) 13:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Repeated accusations of bad faith in attempt to discredit, which is disrupting ability to work constructively

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    There has been a Talk page "war" that has gone well off the rails at this point involving my overly-verbose self (sorry) and the original article writer for multiple articles. I self-declared a COI and attempted good faith extensively, but the views of the other editor @Desertarun have only become more unprofessional. If nothing more, their conduct is making it difficult for me to engage with other editors who have been helpful in the conversation (thank you to @ProfGray in particular). @Desertarun has been libelous repeatedly, accusing me of WP:CANVASSING when I did not, of editing in bad faith when I have not, and has constantly referenced WP rules in error in an attempt to discredit the source, and myself for using them (incorrectly citing WP:SPS, WP:PRIMARY), and constantly brings up my self-declared WP:COI as if it is disqualifying at every level. In one instance, they opened a formal Requested Move in my name (even though I had not formally endorsed the requested move they proposed in my name).

    A major concern behind this, I am increasingly confident that user @Desertarun has their own undeclared COI, or at least a problematic bias deserving attention. One of the reasons for this dispute devolving was they wrote multiple articles in ~2020 with the unusual disambiguator (DAB) of "(slave trader)", which is almost entirely unique to their articles. Their articles covered historical figures of some note for multiple "significant views", but wrote only on their slave trading aspects. There has been no dispute of their notoriety as slave traders, nor even that this is an inaccurate DAB, but it certainly isn't one aligned with WP:CONSISTENCY as almost all similar biographical articles use DABs like "(merchant)" or "(lord mayor)".

    However, and this is why this really feels like it needs the incidents board, I have to be blunt and forego politeness: user @Desertarun is not a careful reader, and has included many inaccuracies in their articles systemically. More problematically, at the time I discovered their articles, it included invented phrasing like "Baker and Dawson slave trading company" when the source they cited referred to them as "Baker and Dawson shipbuilding company." Uncareful reading has led to many confusions in their articles, some minor, but also some major, and these I have detailed extensively on Talk:Peter_Baker_(slave_trader). What is even more disconcerting is that this user is writing on figures of genuine historical importance, and there is a serious concern that their content has spurred citogenesis/circular reporting issues not just on Wikipedia, but in secondary sources that they have then used to reinforce their own biases. For instance, see: Talk:John_Dawson_(slave_trader)#Requested_move_20_September_2024. @Desertarun not only arbitrarily accuses me of bad faith, of the source material being both primary and unreliable (it is neither), but... they are literally fighting against a mistake they (and possibly others) clearly made where they simply confused two related J. Dawsons. Newly-digitized source material written by the grandson of John Dawson (b 1799), and great great grandson of James Dawson (b 1752), makes abundantly clear that John Dawson wasn't even alive at the time of James Dawson's slave trading peak in the 1780s. And yet the article John Dawson (slave trader) is written overtly covering James Dawson's exploits. Rather than recognize this error, @Desertarun has attacked me, and the source (HS Phillips 1953), the long-deceased flippin' grandson of John Dawson, of not knowing the correct names of his own family. This incident pushes past a red line for me, where it is clear that @Desertarun is not interested in reasoned debate, but simply seeks to block every correction I attempt to these articles, which are riddled with errors and WP:WEIGHT issues. Arbitration and some sort of more-than-volunteer involvement in the Talk of Peter Baker (slave trader) and John Dawson (slave trader) feels warranted at this stage.

    I have a self-declared COI to these individuals, which I stated up front, and outlined explicitly here[15]. But these repeated attacks on my character and wilfull ignorance of Wikipedia policy and codes of conduct are making it very difficult to have reasoned conversation about this controversial topic. I really can't just keep responding to every libelous attack on my character to ensure my original query is not discounted due to accusations of bad faith. This is making the Talk pages unnecessarily long and confusing to follow.

    Thank you for stepping in and helping to resolve this issue.

    Best -- Crawdaunt (talk) 05:12, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Noting that I have removed a transclusion of the non-free image File:Citogenesis.png from this report, since it has no non-free use rationale for ANI and isn't a subject of (or otherwise discussed in) this report, meaning having it has little effect over a link to citogenesis or WP:citogenesis and thus fails WP:NFCC#9. Victor Schmidt (talk) 06:28, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    At its essence this dispute centres around this users desire to remove the disambiguator (slave trader) from the name of his ancestor Peter Baker (slave trader). This user has a declared WP:COI, but doesn't understand the limitations this brings to his edits. Another of his relatives is John_Dawson (slave_trader). He recently did a request move for John Dawson to James Dawson. That article has 14 references that call this person John Dawson and he's wanting this move based upon just one self published source - by another of his relatives. I believe this ANI was made because in that page move request I said i believe it was a "Bad faith" nomination, I've now struck those words from my oppose move vote. Desertarun (talk) 08:36, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    In addition the work he's using to edit the Peter Baker (slave trader) article i believe to be both Primary, unpublished, unreliable and a WP:COPYVIO. It was written by one of his relative in 1953 and is held in a museum collection. This user uploaded the file himself and I believe it needs looking at to determine the exact problem. It is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Item_SAS-25A-1-9_-_3_Generations_of_Old_Liverpool_Shipbuilders.pdf Desertarun (talk) 08:49, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I just fixed an error on the article relating to this source, and looked into it as I did. It's an unpublished pamphlet handwritten by one of the subjects ancestors and it's unclear what it's based on. It might be helpful if other editors give their thoughts on if it's a reliable source. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 10:48, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Genuine question on "unpublished": this document is part of the National Museums Liverpool permanent collection, accession SAS/25A/1/9. @ProfGray wrote this citation out. What I did was digitize it and upload it to Wikimedia commons, such that it could be read and scrutinized. Is a museum archive item an "unpublished" document? See: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/papers-re-baker-and-dawson-family-shipbuilders-liverpool
    My TLDR: Desertarun has written numerous articles that contain inaccuracies. In a most extreme case, they wrote one titled after the wrong J. Dawson. Document SAS/25A/1/9 is a clear-as-day proof of this, as John Dawson wasn't the son-in law of Peter Baker, James Dawson was. I think we can trust John Dawson's grandson, author of the museum archive document, to report that accurately. This has become a possible citogenesis/circular reporting incident. Best -- Crawdaunt (talk) 13:46, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The article was created in December 2020; the cited references seem to have been published earlier than this. Brunton (talk) 14:52, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Document SAS/25A/1/9 isn't proof of anything. Its the disputed source - it is handwritten in an exercise book! Its a primary source and no doubt riddled with inaccuracies. Desertarun (talk) 14:55, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I have further sorted out (I believe) part of the John Dawson - James Dawson confusions and posted these to both the Peter Baker and John Dawson pages. TLDR: there was a John Dawson slave trader that went bankrupt in 1793 and died in 1812 (Pope 2007). But this isn't the Dawson from Baker and Dawson. James Dawson (of Baker and Dawson) remained in charge of the company until his death in 1824 (Phillips 1953). It's a simple correction to disambiguate these two J. Dawsons made possible by this Baker-Dawson family lineage document (Phillips 1953). Best -- Crawdaunt (talk) 16:06, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    For the benefit of observers and posterity for linked relevant discussion to this incident, see [16], which addresses these questions confirming this is a published source per WP:RS, and is indeed WP:SECONDARY. Best -- Crawdaunt (talk) 16:20, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    My point was more that this something someone wrote, it's an interesting historical object but that it exists and is accessible doesn't make it a reliable source. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 16:38, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Placing an object in a museum isn't 'publication' by any reasonable definition, but regardless of that, the document in question simply does not meet Wikipedia requirements as a reliable source: WP:RS requires that sources be reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. It cannot be cited. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:15, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I think the RS standard is used for sources that are used to establish notability. I don't think that primary sources are forbidden from articles. They just have to be used carefully and judiciously. Liz Read! Talk! 07:05, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The question here is not to do with the source on its own, it's that the source in question is contradicted by published independent RS. Brunton (talk) 13:32, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Writing down your "family records and traditions" doesn't make it reliable, if it did you could just setup a website containing the same information. If a historian was investigating the subject they might find the pamphlet an interesting historical object, but self published sources should have some standards. Maybe it could be used as a primary source using intext attribution, but then it would be a matter of due if the writings of the subject great great grandson should be included. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 13:55, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    AN/I recommendations: My sense is that @Desertarun has been mostly civil, not disruptive, though I disagree with: charging "bad faith" (even w link to humor page), certain policy assertions (e.g., primary), and the unusual technique of creating an WP:RM that they actually oppose, perhaps to make a WP:Point. If admins agree with these concerns, I suppose that can be communicated to the editor, no need for further sanction IMO.
    AN/I is for conduct, not content disagreements, right? I've already discussed the reliability problems with the 1953 family history manuscript (i.e., unreliable for most purposes), and the proposed name changes, on the relevant Talk pages. If need be, these content diagreements could be resolved with e 3PO or RfC.
    If the above is roughly on target, then @Crawdaunt could be advised on how to best pursue their content concerns outside of ANI and to not restate same issues in multiple locations. ProfGray (talk) 14:31, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for considered responses all. To be absolutely clear, we are talking about this document: Papers re Baker and Dawson family, shipbuilders, Liverpool. SAS/25A/1/9. National Museums Liverpool.
    It is published by National Museums Liverpool per definition of published in WP:RS. National Museums Liverpool is an independent body that took this information and independently judged it to be of merit for storage in its permanent collection. Is this scientific peer review? No. But that standard is not held for most historical documents from an era before modern peer review.
    WIth that said: @Liz yes absolutely. Regardless, this is not a primary source. The author was born 150 years after the subject matter died. The author has a COI. This an incredibly important distinction per WP:RS, particularly for historical documents which are often written by individuals with COIs related to the subject matter (but without whom, we would not know the history).
    FINALLY: this incident report is about the libel I am facing from @Desertarun. If we must focus it to a specific event, I will cite [17]. To give further context to this: on Peter Baker (slave trader), @Desertarun actually invited me to contribute to the page using Phillips (1953) as my source (link). When I wrote in this information, suddenly, he attacks me and the source in an effort to discredit both under spurious definitions. I am disappointed these continue to be raised here, and ask editors to consider if their perception is coloured by @Desertarun's original framing, or if it is arrived at fully independently - It can absolutely be the latter, but request a moment of reflection here.
    Regarding the discussion on these controversial pages: I would please request a more civil policed discussion that considers the points being raised for their legitimacy, and not solely for who said them. I am dredging up some longstanding historical confusions, inaccuracies, and more by going down this rabbit hole. For instance, see: [18], which contains a further account of how this name confusion may have arisen, given the original source of Williams (1897) self-acknowledges their own source had the name wrong, and it was Williams (1897) who did the correction to "John Dawson". I now believe this is the root of the citogenesis issue plaguing this and other documents, and now also Wiki pages. Best -- Crawdaunt (talk) 15:39, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I skimmed the early part of this thread earlier but frankly barely remember it so I have no real idea who you are. I think you're someone's descendant but I don't particularly care. The problem seems to be that you lack any good sources to challenge the existing ones. The one you keep promoting is highly questionable for Wikipedia purposes. It might very well be correct but that's not for us to decide. This seems to be a classic case of WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS. You need to convince someone else to do a write up based on your findings and get it published somewhere suitable to correct the historical record rather than trying to start with us. Failing that you could do a write up yourself and try to get someone reliable to publish it. Again I'm really unsure of who you are and I'm fairly sure if say the same to a professional historian completely uninvolved or unconnected to any of this previously. (Well I'd suggest they write it up and get it published aa the first suggestion .) Note that the evidence presented here suggests that even if we did contribute to the alleged problem, we're definitely not the ones who started it so it's not like this is a problem we created. Nil Einne (talk) 00:06, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree. Although at this point all references are additionally supported after requests to support further (recent edit requested by ProfGray). I agree and have recused myself from these pages any further unless requested for comment.
    I agree there is also WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS concerns both for my own edits, but also for the original conceptions of these pages. Desertarun wrote over a dozen articles in 2020 on historic figures with the unusual DAB (slave trader), which comes almost exclusively from Desertarun and isn't standard for slave traders of this time, except those articles written by Desertarun. They then nominated many for WP "did you know." So if you invent a DAB, then pump it to the front page, and also invite edits by a fellow Wiki editor based on a newly-digitized source, but then reject them and start using libel and making false claims about the content, I believe there is a conduct issue and also a systematic attempt to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS.
    On the WP:RS concern, @ProfGray has worked very constructively to adopt the information from this source where it is appropriate, and raise concern where it is not.
    This is my last comment here. I do believe it is right to have raised this incident, and accept if the judgement is that I have been at fault in no small part. I hope the logging of this incident might be useful in the future if further concerns about Desertarun-written "(slave trader)" DAB articles arise. Best -- Crawdaunt (talk) 00:19, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Disruptive IP range

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    103.38.17.0/24 Has edits going back years, mostly disruptive (OR and outright vandalism, mostly no-ES with unexplained removals and unsourced edits). The IPs appear to belong to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Symon Sadik in line with that network's focus on Shakib Khan and Cinema of Bangladesh (e.g. [19]).

    I can't see anthing good coming from this range and a block appears necessary considering the extent and amount of disruption that is coming from here [even if we were to disregard socking]. Gotitbro (talk) 14:05, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Gotitbro, please provide examples of this disruption you're upset about. Liz Read! Talk! 06:24, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    FANPOV insertion: [20], [21], [22]; vandalism: [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30] are some of these. Most of the edits from the range are box-office fudging (some examples): [31], [32], [33], [34]) and just general disruption in South Asian cinema related articles [as mentioned above "OR and outright vandalism, mostly no-ES with unexplained removals and unsourced edits" is usual within these edits by the disruptor]. Gotitbro (talk) 07:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello, Gotitbro,
    The edits I checked were pretty bad so I've blocked the range for a week. I have limited experience with range blocks so if another administrator could check my work, that help would be welcome. Liz Read! Talk! 02:48, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Unsourced bloat on Argentine demographics

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    Several ranges of IPs are persistently inflating numerous Argentine demographics without source. Recently the most active ranges are 41.250.0.0/17 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log) (eg. diff in French diaspora), 105.155.128.0/17 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log), 41.141.0.0/17 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log), 105.154.0.0/20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log) (blocked). IPs with identical behavior were around at least since August 2023 (diff by 105.156.13.118 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)), and became particularly active from March 2024. Some have had short blocks, but more comprehensive broad and long term blocks are anticipated, even at the expense of collaterals. Note that ST47ProxyBot caught some, if that helps.

    Observed ranges (revised):

    Some of their frequent targets:

    They are also globally active:

    --Wotheina (talk) 14:29, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    A few more illustrative examples:

    --Wotheina (talk) 03:57, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Wotheina, thank you for identifying these IP ranges but you need to provide some diffs of the damage that is being done because no one is going to go through the contribution history of all of these IP accounts looking at all of their edits. Liz Read! Talk! 06:22, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Sure, I had to.
    Observed ranges (revised):
    --Wotheina (talk) 09:08, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This is still an awful lot of information to comb through. I'm not optimistic that there will be an admin or editor willing to spend the time to plow through all of this but who knows, maybe one will! But I know I don't have the time to do so. You might look through this page and see ANI reports that are quickly responded to and model your next complaint on the format they have. They are generally brief and concise and easy to quickly digest. I appreciate the time you took to put this all together but it's just a lot of data to assess. Liz Read! Talk! 02:44, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Mod removing legitimate requests on Talk Page (nsfw)

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    Mod MrOllie is removing my request for someone add a Ejaculating Penis on Wikipedia page: The Human Penis, similar to how the Wikipedia Site for another language does it. He gives No explaination and is abusing Mod Power with this and He even threaten to remove right to edit. DaKocamasra1 (talk) 23:58, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Have a look at the OPs comments (as well as those from the IP addresses used, 95.91.249.178 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 2A02:810D:8080:2780:5CD1:D5FD:99FE:F41D (talk · contribs · WHOIS)). I don't have anything else to add. MrOllie (talk) 00:09, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    NOTHERE'd. DaKocamasra1, not MrOllie. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:21, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It was amusing to read the trolls' posts on the human penis talk page. One apparently was arguing that we need a full "gallery" of images to illustrate that article. I pointed them to the Commons where they can find plenty of penis photos. Liz Read! Talk! 02:37, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Gwapo461 reported by User:Mvcg66b3r

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    Gwapo461 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Creating a blatant hoax at Draft:DXZK-TV (already marked for speedy deletion). May have questionable edits at other articles (see contribs). Mvcg66b3r (talk) 04:50, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    This never should have reached ANI, but I'd like to make a comment while I am here.
    From time to time, we find users making hoax broadcast station pages, sometimes in draftspace but usually in userspace. These are blatant hoaxes to people with topic familiarity but not necessarily to general editors. In userspace, these are U5 NOTWEBHOST violations. But when they slot into draftspace, they somehow become way too difficult to remove. Some pages in draftspace, especially obvious hoaxes, never can be encyclopedic topics, but yet we have had Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:KFBG-TV (2nd nomination), Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:KBQS-TV, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:WWWJ-FM, etc. I understand why there is leniency around the Draft namespace, but these are not viable topics for articles. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:44, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There is a problem here, Mvcg66b3r and Sammi Brie. For CSD, it has to be an obvious hoax, one that anyone could spot. For editors who are knowledgeable about radio stations and broadcasting, I guess you can tell when a draft or main space article is inaccurate. But to the admin patrolling CSD categories, it might just look like a regular radio station article. Of course, if there are sources, they can confirm the existence of the subject but not all drafts are sourced. Is there any way to tell a real radio station from a phony one? Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Liz The easiest way would be to consult lists of authorized broadcast stations. Especially in call sign-titled countries, these can quickly prove or disprove existence for currently operating stations. It might also be possible to infer reliability for some users (especially those that do kids TV hoaxes like these) from prior activity. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:40, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Persistent MoS violation and refusal to explain

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    Croystron (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    This editor has brought MoS problems to an awful lot of film/television-related articles and never explained their edits (see this, this, and this). They continued disrupting Wikipedia even though they had been warned about these multiple times (see this, this, this, this, this, this, and this). Thedarkknightli (talk) 10:50, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi @Quaerens-veritatem and @Nicholas0, could you please take a look at this? Thanks in advance! Thedarkknightli (talk) 04:53, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Agree. This editor has been asked to provide summaries on the editor's talk page (twice by me), and has been told about the MoS, but has made multiple edits ignoring it despite warnings by other editors, all warnings without any result. This is especially problematic as the editor's edits are often reverted or are otherwise problematic. Although the editor has been editing for only a year, the editor has over 3,000 edits and should have attended to his talk page warnings and stopped disruptive edits by now. Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 05:54, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This editor has never replied to any messages on their Talk page, so I have to assume that they have never read them. They probably don't even realize that anyone is sending them messages. I'm not sure how to contact them in another way to get their attention. Nicholas0 (talk) 10:25, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    With my talk page warnings I also pinged the editor. I don't think we can assume he's not reading them versus the editor is just ignoring them. Also, the editor hasn't learned from repeated reverts. Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 21:18, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Uncivil comments by AssieBassie000

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    This AssieBassie000 (talk · contribs) was recently reported for adding unsourced information but the thread was archived with no further action. Now they are using uncivil edit summaries. See this [35] diff. --Jetstreamer Talk 15:39, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    BTW, the user keeps making unsourced edits [36]. Anybody taking this seriously?--Jetstreamer Talk 15:51, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That is quite uncivil, but I am more concerned by the user's lack of edit summaries even on major edits(!) and the unsourced edits.
    (As a side note, I think you should add more diffs to your reports, as only one diff per claim makes it difficult to evaluate whether these are chronic problems.) WADroughtOfVowelsP 16:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The uncivil edit summary is block worthy, and the unsourced edits and lack of communication is also concerning. I'm not sure this rises to the level of an indefinite block though. PhilKnight (talk) 16:28, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Also of note that I previously didn't mention:
    WADroughtOfVowelsP 16:46, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I am inclined to block them for a week, and make it clear if problems continue they will be blocked indefinitely. But I'll wait for more opinions. PhilKnight (talk) 17:42, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with you, PhilKnight. Cullen328 (talk) 18:35, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. I have now blocked them. PhilKnight (talk) 18:52, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @PhilKnight: I'm fairly certain they're a sock of User:Stricklunk880 as their editing pattern is identical. This is a long term airport disrupting sock puppeet editor I believe. See interaction history. Changing of small tagging (that shouldn't be there in the first place), overlinking and deleting native names from the article bodies. Canterbury Tail talk 13:01, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Checkuser confirms the sock puppetry. Indefinite block now. Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 13:12, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Many thanks. And gives me more confidence to block these accounts when I see them now. There are a few sock accounts that persistently disrupt airport articles. Canterbury Tail talk 13:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Apparent phishing by Zayn Hesham

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    Indeffed by Bbb23. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:56, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    All of User:Zayn Hesham's edits are requests on random users' talk pages (including mine) ostensibly to ask for help but then asking for their email addresses. Looks phishy. Largoplazo (talk) 07:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Another notable aspect about them is that they're the exact same. I do agree that they look phishy (and fishy). WADroughtOfVowelsP 09:09, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Zayn Hesham has Wikipedia email enabled, so there's not even any need for them to ask for others' email addresses. I've explained this on their page. Bishonen | tålk 09:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]
    By xwiki tracing, I'll note that User:زين هشام is another account of theirs, and wikidata admins who look at the history of wikidata:Q119790860 might be able to find an IP that editor was also using for self-promotion. DMacks (talk) 14:18, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This comment doesn't bode well. I'm trying to figure out of it rises to the level of a personal attack or not. Either way it doesn't suggest they'll be a productive member of the community. Canterbury Tail talk 14:45, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Considering they said they’re here to promote, I’d advise WP:NOTHERE be invoked. I find this to also be supported by what they were trying to do with their user page, on their old account that DMacks sniffed up. ([37]) with a little information and not too much Sounds to me like they know the harm that can occur on having an article on WP:YOURSELF, and would whitewash. That’s WP:OWN trouble waiting to happen. MM (Give me info.) (Victories) 15:31, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    From WP:NPA: Insulting or disparaging an editor is a personal attack regardless of the manner in which it is done. I think they were trying to disparage you (say you were of little worth) with I don't see you and you had the honor of talking to me. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 15:40, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh, yes, I see that on Arabic Wikipedia, under both accounts the user page content has been removed and warnings about inappropriate user page use appear on their talk page. Largoplazo (talk) 16:38, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    IP persistantly readding unsourced material at Battle of Trafalgar

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    Please see article history here where the same IP (and in one case a different IP) has added the same unverified material a total of six times since 19 September despite edit summaries removing the material because it is unsourced. The second IP (presumably the same editor) acknowledges the addition to be WP:OR in the summary of this edit. Cinderella157 (talk) 09:55, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Has been blocked. Cinderella157 (talk) 23:53, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Vijay bhaskara reddy k - Copyvio

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    Too many problematic contributions. A large set of subpar articles about various temples have been draftified in the last few hours by NPPs. No response on the talk page and there are multiple instances of copyright violations, including 20 images on Commons. WP:NOTHERE Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 11:07, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I actually remove some of the copyvio he/she made on Sri Talpagiri Ranganadha Swamy Temple, Nellore where he/she basically copy paste the content and I also notice he/she made a close paraphrasing in some of article he/she made, (i didn't revdel as they Earwig only show around 40%) and just copyedit it. I was considering reporting but it think it is WP:BITEY. But I did not know that the photos were copyrighted lol. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 11:24, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Another one here, Kothakodur Beach was tag for CSD for G11 and by plugging this in Earwig it also is a copyvio of this Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 12:47, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Miminity, this is a tangent but how on Earth did you get a report from Earwig? I used to use it but haven't been able to get a report since early 2024 because it is always over its limit. I'm shocked you were able to use this tool and get any information back. What's your secret? What time of day did you use it? Thanks for any information. Liz Read! Talk! 06:53, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Liz: I often use it like 8-10 UTC (which basically evening here) but sometimes I use the "use links in the page" option. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 07:02, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Liz, if you uncheck the "use search engine" button, you'll be able to get it to run, since the limit only applies to google searches. They're working on making the tool log-in required, which should help with running through all our search engine credits. -- asilvering (talk) 09:34, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Requested block at commons c:COM:ANB#Vijay bhaskara reddy k. Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 15:55, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment Blocked on Commons for uploading copyright violations after warning. Yann (talk) 17:37, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment Today they recreated Sri Chamundeswari Ammavari Temple Gangapatnam, Swarnala Cheruvu Nellore, Kanigiri Reservoir Buchireddypalem (original at Kanigiri Reservior Buchireddypalem), Penna Barrage Nellore (original at Penna Barage Nellore) and Survepalli Reservoir (original at Sarvepalli Reservior), all previously created by User:Perungulathore, blocked 4 days ago, and articles mass deleted. A quick checkuser for block evasion seems appropriate, especially as User:Perungulathore admitted paid COI at their user talk: "I was build up the pages belongs to Tourism places of concern area on behalf of the Government."Wikishovel (talk) 12:16, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment another copyvio on Kanigiri Reservoir Buchireddypalem copied from here. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 12:42, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Turns out the whole article is copied from that URL and an abstract from a predatory journal: db-g12. Wikishovel (talk) 12:51, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Repeated copyvio. Clearly WP:NOTHERE Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 12:55, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I've opened an SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vijay bhaskara reddy k: turns out that was the older account. Wikishovel (talk) 10:00, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Another promo article created G11'd it --> Archaeological Museum Nellore City Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 11:38, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Previously created by User:Perungulathore at Archaeological Museum Nellore and Nellore District Museum, thanks, now added to the SPI. Wikishovel (talk) 11:52, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Looking through his contribution twice copyvio here --> Draft:Penna Barrage Nellore copied from here and here (This one is just 99% copied) respectively Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 11:49, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    They just removed the copyvio notice and added a sentence I could not understand, then moved the page out of the draftspace. I have reverted the edits and move. Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 13:03, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Personal attack

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    Reporter has been blocked for DE. There is no merit to their sock allegations about these established editors. Star Mississippi 01:06, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    Oblivy, Russ Woodroofe and personal attacks on create new Page s from my account. Now it can be see that both the users, @Oblivy, @Russ Woodroofe are being targeted this page will be created from my account. Sockpuppet investigations can be clearly seen in the previous AFD how they like to target and vote for delete pages.here These two accounts are handled by the same user on different devices, of their account edits here, here are checked, they are just constantly targeting one pages. Monophile 💬 02:38, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Am I right in saying that you have started an SPI about these users, and one other, because they have voted in an AfD to delete an article you want kept? Where is this personal attack and what evidence can you provide for what you are reporting? Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 12:55, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Monophile created a malformed SPI, which I've deleted, and added a quick checkuser request at SPI, which I've reverted. I've blocked them for 48 hours.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:23, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks @Bbb23 for sorting this out while I was away-from-keyboard. Here's a bit of context:
    • recreation of deleted page (nom'd by me) [38]
    • AfD of a newly-created page (nom'd by not-my-sock) [39]
    The AfD comments struck me at the time as a hair's-breadth away from violating WP:NPA but I didn't want to end up here if it could be avoided. Hopefully the block will give them a chance to reconsider their editing approach. Oblivy (talk) 13:56, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    You did not notify Russ Woodroofe about this discussion. I have done that this time, but if ever you launch another discussion about another editor, you must leave a notice on their talk page. NebY (talk) 14:51, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Is Monophile part of the NasirRanjhyWala drawer? Not as focused on that one person's article, but I see enough to ask for CU to consider taking a look (not posting that evidence here). DMacks (talk) 15:01, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    All the accounts in that case are stale.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:05, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Trying to interpret the original post, I think that Monophile (talk · contribs) is making accusations of harassment. I will disclose that per WP:HA#NO, I did examine Monophile's contributions for policy violations. I had watchlisted Tushar Palve during the recent deletion discussion. Monophile requested refund to draft of that article [40][41] (granted by Explicit with a strong suggestion to run through AfC), and subsequently moved the minimally-edited page back to mainspace, where it was speedily G4 deleted [42]. The editing pattern gave me pause, and left me with questions on both the judgement and grasp of policy and guidelines of this fairly new editor. I saw a similar Mumbai physician of similarly questionable notability, again with lots of references but little substance, and (after a WP:BEFORE) nominated for deletion. I do not think that this constitutes harassment, and do not see anything from Oblivy that could even remotely be harassment. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 15:37, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Like @Russ Woodroofe I watchlisted Tushar Palve and @Monophile’s talk page because of the prior AfD and our interactions. That's how I saw the recreation/deletion of Tushar Palve yesterday, as well as the nomination of Dhiraj Sonawane for deletion. Given my prior interactions with Monophile I could have waited before piling on -- while I don't think there was anything wrong with the substance or tone, the pace probably added to their frustration. This does look like inexperienced editor trying to create meaningful pages, but growth has to happen. That means considering what other editors say rather than lashing out. Editing existing pages may be a more promising path, as deletion discussions IMHO are not a model environment for new editors to learn about either policies and guidelines or civility. Oblivy (talk) 23:16, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    Multiple different IP's constantly vandalizing the article: Battle of Barawa

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    Hi, as you can see here in the editing history of the article, this page has persistantly been vandalized and there will always be someone who uses different IP's or makes new accounts in order to continue this. At the moment I am writing this, the page is completely vandalized. In the last few days I have already reverted the edits of these IP users 3 times but I don't want to continue doing it in order to avoid participating in edit-warring. I tried using page protection, see here, but the response wasn't very helpful, perhaps the person who responded to my request didn't understand this situation very well. From the history of this page, even if this last Ip user is blocked, more IP's will strike again in the near future, it's very frustrating. Once again I don't want to participate in edit-warring or any activity that would break wikipedia's guidelines so I am leaving this here and hopefully an administrator will understand this issue and help me. Thanks for everything. Javext (talk) 12:53, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a week. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 17:19, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    IP hopper (re-)introducing bad copy-edits and WP:NOTSEEALSO bloat to CTOPICS

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    Drmies has imposed a range block that includes the only IP who's edited recently. There's nothing more to do here.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:15, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    User has been warned countless times and generally does not appear to respond to talk page suggestions whatsoever. They are edit warring as can immediately be seen from their selfsame additions to Radical right (United States). The IPs also never use edit summaries.

    Here are my own recent finds:

    Not stale, potentially worth blocking

    Stale

    Apparently, this case has an even more expansive history than I thought; and there have even been some ineffectual bans the IPs are now evading:[43]

    From a user talk page
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    Located in Pittsford, outside of Rochester, New York. Beginning in January 2019:

    Also, apparently unrelated, in Montreal:

    Conclusion) Recurrent interests of the apparent LTA case include racism of all varieties, right-wing politics, but also e.g. peculiar articles like the Pre-Adamite and British Israelism ones. Biohistorian15 (talk) 15:13, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    {{Checkuser needed}}! A CU should really check the last few stale IPs as well to exclude that this is additionally a case of edit warring qua WP:LOUTSOCK across multiple articles. Biohistorian15 (talk) 15:17, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    A CheckUser will not connect IPs to named accounts for privacy reasons.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:34, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Bbb23. Well, but if I'm not mistaken, they can still block such accounts on their own without telling anybody here. Right? In that case, please restore the template/point some unnamed CU to this case. Biohistorian15 (talk) 15:47, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Doesn't need a CU to block based on WP:DUCK – robertsky (talk) 15:50, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Whether or not IPs can be blocked, it seems like you are asking a Checkuser to check a lot of stale accounts which I think they will see as a lot of work for not much payoff. Why did you not file this at SPI, why did you come to ANI? SPI is severely backlogged right now, there are lots of open reports from the summer that still have yet to be investigated and if there isn't urgent vandalism, I don't see this sock hunt as attracting their attention away from more compact and polished reports that have been filed. Liz Read! Talk! 06:42, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Liz. Yeah, no, it's unlikely that this is a case of WP:LOUTSOCK anyway. The IPs have thousands of contributions if you add up/extrapolate.
    I just didn't/don't know what best to do in such a situation. Maybe open an official WP:LTA case filed under the oldest known IP? Biohistorian15 (talk) 10:41, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There appear to be a lot more implicated IPs as far as I can tell. But this should be enough to demonstrate that there might be some serious LTA going on. Biohistorian15 (talk) 17:31, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It's a wide range of IPs, and it has been going on for I don't even remember how long - I can say that at least a year or more, probably longer. Their edits are essentially of two varieties: (1) gross expansion of "see also" lists (like way over the top inclusions) and (2) copyediting to a more pedestrian wording (unnecessary conjunctions, overworded clauses, and similar) that does not improve article quality. They will ignore all forms of attempted communication, whether that's article talk, edit summary, or user talk notices. So LTA would be putting it mildly, IMO. It's been going on so long, I'm essentially numb to it at this point. Some of the IPs have received blocks, and that has usually occurred during periods of significant, repetitive disruption. ButlerBlog (talk) 23:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I think that's the bilateral relations troll (previous discussion). Drmies, can you confirm? LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 00:48, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    Thewikizoomer Bludgeoning

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    Editor user:Thewikizoomer has been blugeoning other editors at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited amongst other Afds, driving editors away and stopping it coming to consensus. This is one of three articles with similar names including Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited and Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited that were sent to Afd after a merge discussion at Talk:Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Limited was opened and failed. The editor bludgeoned folk there, was warned. The merge never got anywhere. The articles were then moved to Afd to get a better consensus. However, the editor is bludgeoning folk there as well, was warned at Afd, but still doing it which is stalling the discussion on them as well. I'd like a couple of weeks of clear discussion so it can come to a consensus without interference. The editor has made his point clearly in all three Afds. Can somebody have a chat with the editor. scope_creepTalk 17:11, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment: It's not bludgeoning.
    I never said a single point again and again. My discussion lead to clearing misunderstanding that took place.
    Most importantly, my inputs may have also made it clear to users unfamiliar with the subject that they are different companies.
    And also my inputs were civil, reasonable, and much needed for reaching consensus. The discussions available at Afds are self explanatory to this.
    Also the user @Scope creep may note "Sometimes, a long comment or replying multiple times is perfectly acceptable or needed for consensus building." as mentioned in WP:BLUD.
    If anything is undesirable here, that is trying to create hostility by using words such as "one more comment and I'll take you to WP:ANI" like an involved user said here which doesn't appear to be a comment to be made on a collaborative project like Wikipedia.
    It's unreasonable to says it is bludgeoning. Thewikizoomer (talk) 17:27, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Also I can't help it if there are no the merge proposal lead nowhere due to lack of participation. I can't be blamed for that. Thewikizoomer (talk) 17:28, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    You're literally aggressively responding to every single comment, sometimes multiple times. These links read like you're clearly trying to dominate the conversation per WP:BLUDGEON. Responding to people with things like "so according to me it doesn't make sense" and "it's still unfair" are not helpful or substantive. Make all your points and leave others to make theirs and let the closer evaluate consensus. An ANI warning was fair at this point, though I don't think action needs to be taken if you actually back off and quit trying to be the grand inquisitor of this article. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 17:56, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    My intent was never to be aggressive or dominate, the intent was to clear misunderstandings and nothing else as most users may not be aware of how Indian Power Sector is structured or work, so yeah, let us let the closer evaluate the consensus. Thewikizoomer (talk) 18:14, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment — I find Thewikizoomer's behaviour to be very problematic, for example they responded to scope_creep's comments with the exact same comment beginning with "Oppose merge all" in bold despite them already voting [44] Constant badgering[45][46][47][48]. Accusing scope_creep[49] of personally attacking them when there was nothing in their reply that could be considered as such [50].Their recent edits where they moved Pune airport to Jagadguru Sant Tukaram Maharaj Airport[51], as well as renaming mentions of it on different articles [52][53][54][55][56][57], in spite of the fact it is not the official name yet, let a common one[58]. Their mass merging proposals of NTPC building articles are problematic as well. [59][60] Especially when the rationale for it is seemingly lacking in any actual policy. "Owned by NTPC and there is little to no reason to have separate article, All plants are owned by one company". They have nominated articles[61][62] created by @CharlieMehta: who voted oppose on the original Afd, in their reply to Thewikizoomer they said[63]:"I have noticed your actions on the NTPC Power Plant pages I created as per WP:NBUILDING rule. This seems to be driven by a sense of vengeance". Since this report was filed, they have been mass welcoming new users despite some of those users having zero edits[64][65][66][67], I can't see this as anything other than an attempt to bury their edit history in order to avoid scrutiny. I would also like to state that Thewikizoomer is aware of CT IPA. Ratnahastin (talk) 01:35, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Welcoming this user with an obvious inappropriate name and thanking them for their non-existent contributions...then reporting them to UAA a mere minute later shows we may have a WP:CIR case here. Nate • (chatter) 01:52, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I welcome new users when I have time to do so. Also being a user with over 5000 edits, it would be very dumb of me to think that this welcoming of users will "bury" my edit history. The welcoming of users is done as my everyday interest and nothing else.
    To other mentions, I think I've already responded in respective replies. Thewikizoomer (talk) 08:06, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Thewikizoomer: You haven't addressed any of the issues that have been pointed out by me and MrSchimpf. You say that "I welcome new users when I have time to do so" but this does not address why you welcomed users that have made zero edits to this site. As WP:WELCOMING clearly states "welcome new users who have already made constructive edits". Starting welcoming new users right after proposing merger of over 30 articles [68][69] does give an impression of burying edit history.
    You haven't explained why you moved Pune airport to Jagadguru Sant Tukaram Maharaj Airport , when no such name change has occurred yet[70]. And even if the name change occurred, it would still be disruptive to move that page, see WP:OFFICIALNAME.
    How do you explain your blanket merge proposals of NTPC power station articles[71], especially when you have proposed multiple of them to be merged within a single minute [72][73][74]. I don't think that short window of time is enough for you to decide whether an article should be merged or not. Ratnahastin (talk) 09:09, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I reviewed all of them and before-hand and nominated for merger. I'm not aware of WP:WELCOMING, now I am. Pune airport name change did occur and citations can be found too in the article, I added more than 1 citation regarding name change. Thewikizoomer (talk) 15:55, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That is pure disinformation. No name change has occurred so far. Which source are you talking about? Ratnahastin (talk) 16:18, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Pure disinformation? This and this. Cited in the article. Thewikizoomer (talk) 16:30, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Citation Thewikizoomer (talk) 16:31, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The source noted "The decision was taken at a state cabinet meeting, an official said, adding the proposal will be sent to the Centre."[75] The fact you have misinterpreted and misrepresented these sources to portray an approval of a proposal as an actual rename serves as a testament to your WP:CIR issues. Ratnahastin (talk) 16:45, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The proposal was accepted by MOS for Civil Aviation. Thewikizoomer (talk) 16:47, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Show me where the central government approved the name. Ratnahastin (talk) 16:50, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment: Any issues other than WP:BLUD, use appropriate forum. Thewikizoomer (talk) 16:50, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Topic ban proposal for Thewikizoomer

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    After checking diffs presented by Ratnahastin [76][77][78] and reviewing Thewikizoomer's behaviour in this thread, especially comments such as this Comment: Any issues other than WP:BLUD, use appropriate forum when this board is exactly for highlighting a user's problematic behaviour. And that he is still continuing to misrepresent sources in order to defend his disruptive page move.[79][80] This was after he received warnings for undiscussed page moves [81][82]. He made a page move request today by citing that the target name was more popular in Google books ngram, when in reality it's the opposite. [83] This blatant misrepresentation has shown us that he has serious WP:CIR issues and is causing alot of problems in ARBIPA topic area. Therefore, I propose that Thewikizoomer be topic banned from all articles related to ARBIPA (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) broadly construed. Georgethedragonslayer (talk) 17:27, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:100julian

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    Already reported them to AIV, no need for this thread. Remsense ‥ 论 00:34, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    User seems to be running an automated script to replace all occurrences of "i.e." by "that is" on many articles in rapid succession. Has been warned repeatedly, needs swift blocking. Tito Omburo (talk) 00:30, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    Cullen328 has removed TPA. Star Mississippi 01:07, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    TPA

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    Actually, could someone remove their TPA if deemed necessary? They're going a bit crazy there. Remsense ‥ 论 00:45, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    Persistent addition of unsourced content by 176.84.121.244, again

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    Cullen328 gives them 3 months to reflect on their life decisions before rejoining. (non-admin closure) The 🏎 Corvette 🏍 ZR1(The Garage) 23:01, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    176.84.121.244 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Keeps adding unsourced content to articles, continued after final warning and hasn't responded to warnings, and behaviour continued after a 72h block on September 8th. See previous ANI report. Examples of addition of unsourced content: 1, 2, 3. Waxworker (talk) 02:33, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The IP editor has been adding unsourced content for a month and every one of their edits has been reverted. A 72 hour block was ineffective, so, I blocked for three months. Cullen328 (talk) 08:02, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    Floppy disks are cool

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    Was a sock, blocked almost instantly. The 🏎 Corvette 🏍 ZR1(The Garage) 23:12, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    is obviously a sock of someone, but are they actually who they claim to be on their userpage? The last report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Zsfgseg/Archive was 7 years ago. Can someone take a look? Thanks. C F A 💬 03:14, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    ... Aannnd blocked just as I posted this. C F A 💬 03:15, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    All known accounts are very  Stale, so Checkuser won't be any help. Behaviorally, yeah that's probably him. The pattern matches; some people just have too much time on their hands. I'll file a pro forma SPI to get it logged in case this it can be useful for a future CU. The WordsmithTalk to me 03:30, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
     Done The WordsmithTalk to me 03:39, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    Off-wiki harassment from article's subject

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    I have created and maintained a section the the Charities Commission enquiry into, amongst other things sexual abuse of the charity's beneficiaries at an RNIB facility in Coventry. The content is supported by national news outlets considered reliable for contentious statements;

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    Since adding the content staff from the charity have contacted me via social media demanding my full name and address and when I refused to provide them with this information gangs of Police officers have been showing up at my house banging on my door in the middle of the night waking up the whole street and when they didn't get a response they went to my sick elderly parent's house and woke them up too. I believe the article's subject is weaponising the Online Safety Act 2023 to whitewash their reputation, mislead their donors and keep their Royal charter by any means neccessary. What steps can be taken to de-escalate this matter while preserving the article's independense and objectivity? What legal rights do I have as a content creator on this platform?𝔓420°𝔓Holla 09:56, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Alright, I'll bite: since you have no personal information on your user page, how is it the charity could have possibly found you on social media? How would the police be coming to your door? As far as "weaponising" the Online Safety act goes, the information about the inquiry appears not merely to be in the article, but dominates it. The article's "independence" and objectivity does not now seem to be at stake. As far as what dealings you and your family might have with UK law enforcement, that's not part of Wikipedia's remit, nor does the WMF have any authority over that. Ravenswing 10:07, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Any number of ways, it's a small country where everyone knows everyone.
    In terms of due weight. I mean, it's difficult to balance the POV when the secondary coverage of the scandal outweighs anything they've done before or since with the possible exception of election accessibility. 𝔓420°𝔓Holla 10:29, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    If the situation is precisely as you claim (@Headhitter: have you had a similar experience?), foundation:Legal:Community Health Legal Defense Program may be of use. DatGuyTalkContribs 10:43, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    You are underestimating how much information a dedicated person can find about a person online. One photo can compromise location, one shared username(or even email) could expose private accounts, email and some money is all that is necessary to reveal personal information collected by data brokers. I deliberately performed a clean start for this reason, 'ca' is basically unsearchable. Ca talk to me! 11:12, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Succinctly, see https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/support-and-safety/dealing-with-online-harassment-communication-best-practices/what-kind-of-support-can-the-wikimedia-foundation-offer
    Generally on Wikipedia here, as long as there is no legal threats on the platform, there is nothing much we can do. Even if there is, it would likely result in a block on that account making the threat. As for your offline personality being known, there's nothing much we can do. You may have to seek legal advice on your own. – robertsky (talk) 10:41, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hmm. As a Brit myself, I am unconvinced by "it's a small country where everyone knows everyone." I am certainly not on friendly terms with every single one of the other 69 million people on these isles. Regardless, about the article - that section dominating an article for a 156-year old charity is massively WP:UNDUE and needs to get trimmed significantly. It probably doesn't need to be mentioned in the lead either. Black Kite (talk) 12:04, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Seconded. By a Brit who actually lives in Coventry. Narky Blert (talk) 18:14, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    And thirded. I have never seen the UK described like that, except by very ignorant people from other countries who were disappointed that I didn't know Prince Charles (as he then was) personally. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:26, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It would be more believable if one comes from a smaller country like myself, but even then, I wouldn't know everyone in this 42km-long island, neither do I expect everyone to know me. – robertsky (talk) 02:08, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    And really, it's not believable at all. Only in lurid fiction and tabloid fantasies can one find omniscient charities who can mobilize squads of brownshirts at the drop of an utterly unremarkable username. We're being BSed here. Ravenswing 14:55, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Indeed; I couldn't even tell you if banging on my door in the middle of the night was waking up the whole street. Checking the article's history, I find I have created and maintained a section the the Charities Commission enquiry is not the whole story; GDX420 also deleted much positive content.[88] Expostulating about the scandal outweighs anything they've done before or since (above, albeit slightly qualified) and an edit summary about Alton Towers for nonces[89] adds a flavour of WP:RGW. NebY (talk) 13:05, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Honestly it seems like GDX420 is determined to just turn the entire article into a hit piece against the RNIB, and their edit history does show that perhaps they're a little too obsessed with doing so. Does the scandal have a place, yes it does. Does it deserve to override everything else and even delete general information from the lead, absolutely not. I'd suggest GDX420 is outright blocked from the page and everyone else gets involved in resetting it and rebalancing the article and removing undue. Canterbury Tail talk 13:14, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes. Whether or not off-wiki events have occurred as described, GDX420's description of their stance – "I believe the article's subject is weaponising the Online Safety Act 2023 to whitewash their reputation, mislead their donors and keep their Royal charter by any means neccessary" – and edit summaries such as Anyone who disagrees is complicit with child abuse.[90] don't indicate someone who can edit the article collaboratively and in accord with WP:NPOV. NebY (talk) 13:52, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I hadn't seen that particular edit-summary and on that alone I have partially blocked GDX420 from the article. If I'd seen it at the time, that block might well have been site-wide. Black Kite (talk) 14:07, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Black Kite I think topic banning GDX420 from attempting to investigate or fix COI editing would be a reasonable step here, since a lot of the disruption seems to stem from their belief that this article is being edited by COI editors. They have had issues with lacking the competence to properly deal with paid editing in the past, resulting in two previous ANI threads [91] [92] and their previous block. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 16:36, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Positive content written in an unencyclopaedic tone and sourced to the organisation's website? 𝔓420°𝔓Holla 13:53, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    How is this content that was removed unencyclopaedic and inappropriately sourced? Traumnovelle (talk) 20:12, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    In 1914, the organisation relocated to larger premises in Great Portland Street and changed its name to The National Institute for the Blind, or NIB, to reflect its status as a national body involved in all aspects of the welfare of blind people.[1] Traumnovelle (talk) 20:12, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The police banged on your door in the middle of the night, didn't bring any tools to forcibly enter, just left after waking up the entire street, and then went to your parents' house to ... mosey around? Pull the other one. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:09, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    References

    1. ^ "Royal National Institute of Blind People 1868". Science Museum Group. London. Retrieved 11 August 2024.

    User:MuhammadNoorAlHasimi: Possible compromised account

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    (non-admin closure) Blocked by Black Kite as compromised account and vandalism. Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 13:43, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    User:MuhammadNoorAlHasimi have been a constructive editor on death-related topics from 2022-2023. However, after a year of inactivity, the account has returned and are disruptively editing and vandalising Skibidi Toilet and 'brain rot' adjacent topics, popular with Gen Alpha. See Special:Contributions/MuhammadNoorAlHasimi. Ca talk to me! 11:03, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Iv reported to AIV as a possible compromised account LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 11:38, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    And I've blocked it indefinitely with a note in the block log. Black Kite (talk) 11:57, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 12:31, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    Saynotozionism12345 - WP:NOTHERE new editor

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    BLOCK INDEF, TPA REVOKED
    (non-admin closure) Indef blocked, TPA revoked. Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 13:41, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    This new editor's username and user page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Saynotozionism12345) features strong language and aspersion casting that show they are not probably here for building an encyclopedia. ABHammad (talk) 12:41, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    They're compiling a list of users to harass. They gotta go. King Lobclaw (talk) 12:45, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment I reported it for UAA and tagging the userpage for CSD Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 12:47, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Might be time to remove talk page access too. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email) 12:57, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    TPA removal would likely be wise Babysharkboss2!! (No Life 'Til Leather) 13:21, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Pinging the blocking admin. @Zzuuzz:. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 13:25, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    TPA have been REVOKED Babysharkboss2!! (No Life 'Til Leather) 13:33, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    Disruption by CrashLandingNew

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    Looking at his block log, one would have expected him to improve but unfortunately continues his WP:DE.

    Yesterday, he changed the text of an article by misrepresentation the source and used a misleading edit summary.[93]

    Today, he went to edit war with me by falsifying my edits as "vandalism" contrary to WP:NOTVAND.[94] Evidently he is falsely terming productive edits as "vandalism" for weeks now. [95] ZDX (User) | (Contact) 14:23, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    • Apparently User:ZDX hasn't learned anything from his own block log. He deleted my citations on the page mentioned above and pasted his own POV without any reasoning. This user has no idea about Indian elections and appointment of office bearers it seems. My edits on the page speak for themself, I have added proper citations and reasoning only to be removed by this user because he wants to paste his POV, his edit summaries summarize his MO, he believes something and wants to paste them here. For instance, he believes a CM/Chief Executive, appointed after the elections was the leader in an election by default even when he didn't participate in the elections under discussion in any capacity. CrashLandingNew (talk) 14:51, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • I agree that CrashLanding should be sanctioned for attacking constructive edits as "Vandalism" even after this report.[96] Ratnahastin (talk) 16:17, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Impru20 and icons

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    First of all, I just want to say that it looks like this user does a lot of good work on articles here, and I'm a bit saddened to come here for something so silly.

    This began when I changed some icons on Spanish elections pages from Green arrow up to Increase, from to Decrease, and from to Steady(diff) – this made almost no visual difference and the latter are templates that include alt text, which is necessary for functional icons. Impru20 reverted my edits with no explanation, so I went to his talk page to discuss. There, he accused me of revert[ing] a stable version with no explanation whatsoever (diff). A discussion that was not particularly productive ensued, and I, probably unwisely, decided to boldly make the same edit across all Spanish election articles using JWB. I thought this would assuage his concern about consistency, and I was concerned about functional icons with no alt text. Impru20 reverted all of my edits with the edit summary reverted consciously bad-faith edit conducted in the middle of a discussion. Due to the masive nature of this, it could be considered as disruptive (diff). I consider consciously bad-faith to be a personal attack. I raised this point on his talk page, and he continued to be quite uncivil in his replies, warning me about WP:BOOMERANG (diff).

    Yesterday, I restored my edits (which, as I have stressed to Impru20, were necessary to comply with WP:ACCESS). Impru again mass-reverted with the summary Reverting unconsensuated edit. Also, waiting some time to enforce a change deliberately avoiding the discussion on the issue is not a good practice. Doing it massively through hundreds of articles after being warned against it is also not a good practice (diff – he did introduce alt text in the second round of mass reverts, but it is not particularly helpful, as it describes the appearance of the icons instead of what they mean). His behavior over such a minor change makes me think that WP:OWN may be an issue here. Both of his mass reverts have made Wikipedia less accessible, and his personal attacks and incivility in his summaries and on his talk page are unbecoming of an editor of his experience, and should be addressed. WMSR (talk) 18:54, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I, probably unwisely, decided to boldly make the same edit across all Spanish election articles using JWB. I thought this would assuage his concern about consistency How could you possibly think this action would be seen as anything other than a provocative edit that sends a clear "fuck you" message to the other editor? Since you took this action in the middle of a discussion, how exactly are you going to argue that it was not disruptive? The implication that your actions were perfectly innocent and in good faith, and Impru's reaction unpredictable and unreasonable, is offensively disingenuous. Your second message on Impru's talkpage was to accuse them of WP:OWN.
    You may have a good point here about accessibility issues, but from a behavioral standpoint, it's not Impru's behavior that I find concerning. Why did you not start a discussion at the article talkpage? Why did you not seek broader consensus? Why did you decide to edit war, ignore Impru's concerns, and then open an ANI report? Being right on content doesn't excuse poor behavior. Grandpallama (talk) 19:21, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with Grandpallama in almost all respects. This is a classic example of WP dispute generation, which makes me sad. The only points I would add to his review are:
    • They're both edit-warring using JWB. I assume, like AWB, that this could theoretically be grounds for removing JWB from both of their toolbelts? I'm not necessarily advocating for that, so much as trying to emphasize to both that they should not continue down this path.
    • While I do agree that WMSR is "more" responsible for this conflict, I think Impru20 could have helped by not responding to minor hostility with more hostility, and not responded to a misues of JWB with a misuse of JWB.
    • I don't suppose that the two editors could recognize they both acted imperfectly, that they're both long term experienced good faith editors, and just agree to start all over again? A do-over? A calm, respectful (friendly would be great, but probably asking too much - unless they want to give me a pleasant surprise) discussion to truly understand each other, if necessary followed by a 3rd opinion or other dispute resolution method?
    Floquenbeam (talk) 20:15, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) Accessibility alone does not justify such a behaviour, but even then: I was not even against solving those issues! You will be able to check that from my talk page discussion, in which I actually proposed WMSR compromise solutions that maintained both the icons and achieved accessibility. They could have contested them, but they basically refused to even discuss them, instead resorting to mass-editing and to attack me on my user talk page. Yeah, I ended up warning WMSR of WP:BOOMERANG along with a profound sense of frustration after they had suggested bringing this to ANI ([100]).
    The issue here is that WMSR was openly provocative and aggressive from the very beginning. They have never attempted to seek a compromise despite multiple requests, they never explained why the compromise solution that I proposed was unacceptable (spoiler: it wasn't) and their only course of action was to 1) adopt an aggressive behaviour in my talk page with outright attacks (their first reply to my was to accuse me of WP:OWNing just because I disagreed with their initial few edits), 2) to keep linking random wiki policies in an exercise of wikilawyering, 3) once these two failed, to resort to massively edit hundreds of articles despite being well aware that these edits would be contested (since this came when the discussion had started and was well underday), and 4) to threaten me with bringing this to ANI should I did not accept their edits. Heck, their initial response to my initial complaint to their massive edits was to tell me that "this is going nowhere, so I have made hundreds of edits and if you disagree with them just seek recourse elsewhere" (hinting at admin intervention at [101], then more openly at [102]). So you have a content dispute and, instead of trying to solve it amicably, you just attempt to intimidate the other user and force admin intervention even when ANI is not for such kind of disputes?
    I acknowledge that I did not take the OWN accusation well. That was basically WMSR's second comment in the discussion and came after I inquired them on their reasoning for their edits. I cannot see how on Earth this kind of behaviour could be seen as any other than disruptive from that point onwards, but particularly from the moment that WMSR disengaged from the discussion to mass-edit hundreds of articles (which I then reverted back to their original versions).
    The "I, probably unwisely, decided to boldly make the same edit across all Spanish election articles using JWB. I thought this would assuage his concern about consistency" claim is (sorry) an absurd claim. WMSR should know that making literally hundreds of edits at once while a discussion is ongoing is not a good-faith course of action. Plus, WMSR just did this again less than 24 hours ago, after having left the discussion for two weeks and leaving my last comment unanswered (which was basically the specific, last proposal for a compromise solution). How can anyone even think of this being done innocently and thinking that this would "asuage" any concern?
    Btw, my last edits on all of those articles (which involved reverting WMSR second provocative mass-editing) did actually implement accessibility according to WP:ACCESS (or, at the very least, the best I could do it), by taking the advantage of the reverting to implement the compromise solution that they just refused to even address in my talk page. I seriously don't understand what their motives are here, but it's fairly obvious that WP:BOOMERANG applies here. Impru20talk 20:19, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This may not resolve the JWB misuse during the edit war, but I personally believe that WMSR is very much experiencing a WP:BOOMERANG here. Perhaps this conversation here is enough to WP:DROPTHESTICK. Conyo14 (talk) 20:23, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) Oh, and on Floquenbeam's remarks: I don't want to use JWB to resolve the dispute. I only had to in this case because that was the only mean of undoing such massive changes so swiftly. I am more than willing to voluntarily refrain from using it in this dispute. Even then, that should not hide that WMSR has used it in a provocative and aggressive way twice, both of them without previous notice and under threats of ANI intervention if those edits were contested (as I linked above; threats that have ultimately materialized today), so it's probably them who should commit themselves to stop doing this. Impru20talk 20:25, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    So I guess that's a "no". Floquenbeam (talk) 20:31, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It's a "yes" (on my part) to not use JWB again in this dispute, and a "no" in allowing WMSR free use of it as if nothing had happened, seeing how that could spark issues in further situations in which they come across content disputes. Using JWB to "solve" a content dispute by editing hundreds of articles so that the issue seems "locked" by making it seemingly impossible for the other part to restore them manually, then threaten the other part to refrain from using JWB to revert them or else they will be brought to ANI, is not how JWB is intended to be used. Not saying that I will press for that (on my part, I just find this highly disruptive and frustrating). Impru20talk 20:37, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I think we got your point now. You may want to take some time away from this. WMSR may receive a WP:TROUT for his actions here. If he continues you may want to return and justice will be swiftly given. Conyo14 (talk) 20:47, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yeah, I am dropping the stick here, thank you. Impru20talk 20:58, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I am definitely seeing where my behavior was in the wrong. Content-wise, I still do not understand the dispute. That said, I definitely failed to take the high road, and I see that I misused JWB in the process. This definitely calls for a trout Self-trout. I really would value an opportunity for a "do-over" and a second opinion on the content dispute at hand. Impru20, I'm sorry for all the stress I've caused. WMSR (talk) 00:28, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Infoboxes are under discretionary sanctions. I alerted both editors. I was going to remove their access to AWB/JWB, too, but it looks like the drama has died down, even if only slightly. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:13, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Actually, so are election results now, right? I know almost nothing about that recent historical elections arbcom case, but is there any reason to believe one of these two editors is involved in (hang on while I look up the term used in the case) "Election Twitter"? Results of historical national and sub-national elections are now a contentious topic. Floquenbeam (talk) 21:29, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Added alerts for that, too. I don't really know anything about Twitter, though. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:25, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Broadcastwitnessnews92 competence issues

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    Broadcastwitnessnews92 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) started editing Wikipedia today, and has already garnered multiple warnings, including final warnings, regarding vandalism and page hijacking. All their edits have been reverted. When I look at the edits, I don't see vandalism or hijacking, just a lack of understanding of the topic (perhaps a lack of understanding of the English language) and misguided attempts at improving the page. The editor has not once stopped to respond to any of the notices.

    For example, in Special:Diff/1247550796, the editor added, after "The vaginal opening and the urethral opening are only visible when the labia minora are parted.", the following completely wrong information: "The primary function of this system is to produce, maintain, and transport sperm and protective fluid (semen)."

    And, in Special:Diff/1247481033, "For example, nudity in the context of naturism would normally be regarded as non-sexual. Ensure the equation is in standard form, which means all terms are on one side of the equation set equal to zero.", where the italicized content is the addition by this editor. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:32, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I'll block them if they keep editing without responding. I've left one final message on their talk page. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:50, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Now blocked (by Discospinster) Floquenbeam (talk) 20:52, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:2024 Lebanon pager explosions#Requested_move_19_September_2024 admin help needed

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    I struck out a couple of comments in that discussion made in violation of WP:ARBPIA (specifically WP:ARBECR). One of the comments struck out was from an IP that a participant, DaringDonna, called out as antisemitic blood libel, and she would like to have the comment removed. I don't know exactly what to do here, I am afraid going further than striking out for ARBECR (for example, collapsing or {{redacted}} it), would not be in line with how involved editors should act in discussions (yes I am technically involved simply by proposing the move), I am also aware of WP:NPA which prevents most of these serious aspersions. Can an administrator investigate and take an appropriate decision? Such claims are very very serious and especially casting doubt on WP:AGF, unless if it is very obvious to most editors; if the IP comment needs to be removed and WP:RevDel'd, so be it. If further page restrictions or personal sanctions or warnings or no action (even against me) is needed, so be it. But I feel there needs to be more moderation as I have seen a lot of slow reactive not proactive measures in these topic areas. Awesome Aasim 22:03, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Awesome Aasim ECR is a bright-line rule in ARBPIA, so I don't think you'd be out of line collapsing/removing the comment entirely - just make sure it's applied universally. IPs and non-XC editors aren't allowed to contribute anything in the area besides edit requests, so votes on a move aren't allowed. The Kip (contribs) 22:09, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yeah, that is what I thought. But I already struck that comment out. It wouldn't hurt to collapse the replies to the ECR violating comment? Awesome Aasim 22:28, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I have removed the comment along with the discussion that resulted. Someone else is free to remove all other comments which violate ARBECR but I don't think we need consistency. If a comment violates ARBECR and is clearly causing disruption it's reasonable it might be treated different. I mean under the old ARBECR not all comments from non EC editors would be a violation but disruptive ones would be. (And even now with edit requests which this clearly wasn't, disruptive ones are a problem but otherwise they are okay.) Alternatively you could say we are being consistent in removing all disruptive ARBECR violating comments. (I didn't remove any other comment but if someone points out something else equally problematic I'm happy to. The only other struck comment I noticed doesn't seem to be similarly problematic.) I'd note that the claim the IP didn't provide a source isn't entirely true, they did [103] but I don't think Mohamed Kleit's opinion is an RS so the OP did fail to provide an RS. As for the other comments in the thread that I removed while they might not be a violation by themselves and I'm not going to revert if someone reinstates them; it seems to me removing the disputed comment but leaving the discussion it spawned just generates more confusion plus risks drawing attention to the issue. Nil Einne (talk) 05:13, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you. I hope that we don't get any more ARBECR after the RM expires. Awesome Aasim 05:27, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for removing the discussion. Just to clarify, I did not say there was no source, I said there was no RS (reliable source). I did look it up before I made my comment, and saw who exactly the IP was quoting. Not someone who could be considered reliable as a source. Thanks again. Removing the comment is a win for sanity at Wikipedia. DaringDonna (talk) 15:32, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Another kind-of related thing: There appear to be several derailments in the RM. Can those be collapsed? Thanks. Awesome Aasim 23:07, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Alimusa893 promotional spam account, WP:NOTHERE

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    User:Alimusa893 was indefinitely blocked by User:Johnuniq as WP:NOTHERE. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 12:14, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    Alimusa893 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Their edits, as far back as 2020 and more recently in the last day or two, appear to be copy-pasted promotional nonsense, clearly not building an encyclopedia, sometimes vandalizing existing text along the way: [104], [105], [106], [107], [108], [109], [110], [111]. Based on a quick Google search, I think at least some of the copied text can be found social media or elsewhere on the web, which might raise copyvio issues (though it may be the user's own promotional material posted elsewhere). R Prazeres (talk) 06:12, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Indeffed. Johnuniq (talk) 06:20, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That was swift. Liz Read! Talk! 06:32, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    User conduct

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    I am writing to formally report the disruptive behavior exhibited by user during the ongoing RFC process. Despite the warning, they continues to undermine the purpose of the RFC by repeatedly closing the discussion: they has repeteadly derailed the RFC and refusing to engage in constructive dialogue. Preventing consensus. they has actively worked to prevent the community from reaching a wider consensus by monopolizing the discussion and dismissing opposing viewpoints. Gagging the procedure: their actions have effectively stifled the RFC process, preventing the community from having a fair and open discussion. I urge you to take immediate action to address this issue and ensure that the RFC can proceed in a productive and respectful manner. DwilfaStudwell (talk) 08:21, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    My apologies, seriously: I should've been far less impulsive, and more willing to listen to the type of editor that can pick up all this lingo and knowledge of site procedure over the course of 30 edits made in less than a day. Remsense ‥ 论 08:26, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Looks like a good RFC close to me. The RFC was malformed (see WP:RFCNEUTRAL) and the outcome of the discussion was obvious to anyone but you. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 13:39, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It would be a practice point for me to remember to state explicitly that the RfC was malformed next time. Remsense ‥ 论 19:52, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Probably a WP:BOOMARANG situation. Very strange that DwilfaStudwell's fourth edit was to template warning an experienced user. Now this user is opening up a discussion here. This doesn't seem like a editor who is here to improve the project or work well with others. Nemov (talk) 15:20, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry @DwilfaStudwell, but that looks like a good close. You'll have to accept that you're outside consensus on this one. -- asilvering (talk) 17:08, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    You really ought to be WAY less combative if you want to collaborate with other people. If things worked like your template warnings would lead us to believe there would be very few editors left that didn't get blocked. This isn't the way to go. – 2804:F1...A5:98DF (talk) 20:06, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Emmay33

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    Emmay33 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been warned about changing English spellings, but is continuing the edits. I don't know if the previous block was related to that, but a final warning or additional block may be warranted. APK hi :-) (talk) 09:27, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I've just flagged this at AIV. I'd given Emmay33 a final warning for repeatedly ignoring WP:ENGVAR earlier in the month, but a lot of their edits are still going against that, changing individual words in British/Indian articles to the American spelling. Seems either a WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU issue (they've never replied on their talk page) or a competence one. Belbury (talk) 09:33, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Persistent attacks and provocation by Zemen

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    Zemen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    This is just their attacks, I could cite their disruptive edits too. Their talk page history is full of warnings [112].

    Focusing on my alleged ethnicity again. E and O are not even close to each other on the keyboard, it's not that hard to spell "Persian". Clearly, he means "Poorsian" ("Poor-sian"), a common xenophobic remark against Persians.

    "Farsist" means "Persianist", whatever that is supposed to mean. More namecalling.

    When I tried to explain to them why it was not nice to resort to namecalling ("farsist") and WP:ASPERSIONS, they instead resorted to provoking me

    I asked you once directly and three times indirectly to end the arguments because we won't reach a conclusion, and you don't like to see 'a word', but you kept going, that I don’t know what you want. you can just remove my edits and let me know what to do in the edit summary, not come to my talk page and arbitrarily tag just because three of my edits don't 'look neutral', which is an indictment of racism and I'm against it, I didn’t even know what you meant that time. All that aside, why is "good that you understood your purpose. good look" a bad thing? btw it's my talk page, laughing or eating chips, not your problem. Zaman (talk) 14:01, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Not only what you said makes no sense, has zero diffs, and barely addresses my report. Now you're doubling down at Talk:Gordyene (in the very section I opened by asking you not continue your attacks [113]) regarding your attacks against me [114] [115]. Would appreciate if an admin would look at this, fail to see how this user is a netpositive to this site. HistoryofIran (talk) 14:20, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Everything you say is nonsense, look I can tell you so. If you think everything I say now and in the future is 'nonsense' why don't you try to avoid me? why do you keep replying? you're almost bothering me. Zaman (talk) 14:37, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Nt: I actually wrote that in porsian not poor-sian and it's a typo, I used it on my keyboard before so the system set that. I didn't write this on purpose, it's childish to blame me with that. Zaman (talk) 16:05, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Your talk page exists for other editors to communicate with you. It's neither a blog, nor a Discord chat, nor a jocular texting conversation. Ravenswing 14:39, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ravenswing: He keeps bothering me and keeps replying to only three edits, what do you want me to do? he's annoying, and I text the way he deserves. Zaman (talk) 15:13, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Zemen, you need to stop the personal attacks. Nobody 'deserves' incivility. If you wish to make amends, I suggest that you strike through the personal attacks and do not make any more. Would you be willing to do that? QwertyForest (talk) 15:30, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Still don’t know which personal attack you guys accusing me of. he called my edits 'non-neutral', simply because I tagged his language and not the other, and I told him in return that your comments are 'too persian' not following wiki rules. What is there to accuse me of here? Zaman (talk) 15:53, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Zemen, placing notices like the ones you've received is a very normal thing that editors do here, to give some explanation for why they are reverting another user's edits. You need to be able to receive these notices without perceiving them as personal attacks. @HistoryofIran, you need to be able to assume good faith and try to work things out more thoroughly before threatening other editors with ANI. If they're a sockpuppet, they'll step on a rake soon enough. -- asilvering (talk) 16:46, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry, but I don't think that Zemen is a sockpuppet? And I was not threatening them, I was warning them, which I did after they had engaged in WP:ASPERSIONS and namecalling several times. As you can see, they're still doubling down, showing signs of being WP:NOTHERE. The worst of these attacks is no doubt "Poorsian", which is just xenophobic and has no place on this site, yet they clearly don't care. I have already tried to work out stuff with them, such as the afromentioned Talk:Gordyene, which resulted in a barrage of attacks. HistoryofIran (talk) 16:50, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    My apologies for the assumption; I misunderstood your comment, These don't look like "common mistakes made by new users" to me. I did read that talk page before making my initial comment, and I think you would have gotten much further with more patience. Please try to work things out, rather than further provoking editors who are already clearly upset. -- asilvering (talk) 17:02, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    "Further provoking editors who are already clearly upset"? Sorry, but really? What gives them the right to be upset? Are we just going to ignore their blatantly xenophobic (borderline racist) attacks? I am the one who should be upset here. I am just following procedure, I can't have the patience of a saint when a user is persistently attacking me and just generally disregarding our policies. You gave them a chance to strike their personal attacks, they refused and doubled down. Are there not any repercussions? Or is WP:ASPERSIONS and namecalling due to ones alleged ethnicity (my ethnicity is not disclosed on my userpage, in fact Rasht is not even a Persian city..) okay now? I hope you understand my frustation. HistoryofIran (talk) 17:09, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Anyone has the "right" to be upset. It's a normal human emotion, and it's perfectly normal to feel that way when someone has frustrated you. Reversions are frustrating; they're upset. You feel attacked and are also upset. I can certainly understand your frustration. But neither of you are going to be much good at communicating with each other while you're both upset, and as the significantly more experienced editor, I'd expect that you know when to take a step back. I haven't looked at the sources, but given your experience, I expect you're the one who has the right of the content dispute here. Once you can explain that to the other editor without feeling needled by their response (which may be confused, or ignorant, or rude), you should try again. Engaging further right now, and getting into arguments on each other's user talk pages, is just going to make both of you more upset. -- asilvering (talk) 17:21, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Asilvering, Zemen is persistently engaging in WP:ASPERSIONS/WP:NPA, which you and I both know is not okay. Especially not due to ones alleged ethnicity. HistoryofIran (talk) 17:24, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    And now up above Zemen is calling me childish (yet another attack) [116] Claiming "Porsian" ("Poorsian") is a "typo", which I find it hard to believe, when O and E are not even close to each other, how could the "system" possibly change those two. HistoryofIran (talk) 17:12, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @HistoryofIran, Your interpretations are not good, I hope you think a little better. I don't have to lie to you, I've used the 'porsian' phrase before, and the system suggests that I've used it before. Zaman (talk) 17:36, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Feel free to explain how my "interpretations" are not good and what this so called "system" is, and what "Porsian" means, since it's not a synonym for Persian. I've given you more than enough WP:GF, and you have responded by attacking me. HistoryofIran (talk) 17:38, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    What do you want from me now?? I wouldn't lie to anyone to do it for you, you apparently know nothing about the ADVKu keyboard recommendation system. Plus I didn't call you childish, but your thoughts and accusations are childish. Zaman (talk) 17:45, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It's absolutely mindboggling that you can get away with so much WP:BATTLEGROUND, WP:ASPERSIONS and WP:NPA behaviour. HistoryofIran (talk) 17:46, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok Zaman (talk) 17:52, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Asilvering, Im glad you wrote this comment in this way, thank you very much for letting me know that my goal was not achieved properly, thanks again! I will try to improve on this. Zaman (talk) 17:31, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Nardog / Reverting Additions Due to "Obvious" Generative AI

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    WITHDRAWN. I mean this with the utmost respect and without any intention of suggesting purposeful malice on the user's part. But I recently had an edit to an article reverted by this user as "obvious generative AI."

    The fact is: we don't have the technology yet to determine what's AI-written and what's not, and the only people saying otherwise are snake oil salesmen. Supposed AI-writing detectors are absolutely notorious for false positives.

    Just a handful of links on this:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/14/prove-false-positive-ai-detection-turnitin-gptzero/

    https://www.vanderbilt.edu/brightspace/2023/08/16/guidance-on-ai-detection-and-why-were-disabling-turnitins-ai-detector/

    https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2023/08/14/ai-detection-tools-falsely-accuse-international-students-of-cheating

    https://www.trails.umd.edu/news/detecting-ai-may-be-impossible-thats-a-big-problem-for-teachers

    https://www.turnitin.com/blog/understanding-false-positives-within-our-ai-writing-detection-capabilities

    https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/chatgpt-and-ai-detection-tools-the-1617850/

    Colleges abound with users having to prove that they can pass the Voight-Kampff test (i.e. no, I'm not a replicant).

    The technology is far too immature to be counted upon programmatically, and on your own calling users "obvious generative AI" is 'ad hominem'. If we're going through Wikipedia and somehow going to start wiping out people's edits because they are somehow "obviously" generative AI, I think it ends up having the effective result of - and again, I'm not casting aspersions on the intentions of said user - widespread vandalism.

    As such, I'd highly advocate against users doing so, either sanctioned by above or on their own. MollyRealized (talk) 15:33, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    You want this page, chief. MM (Give me info.) (Victories) 15:36, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Can I ask you: how can Wikipedia editors claim to have an ability that doesn't exist yet (i.e., knowing what's AI-written and what isn't)? Whether or not there's a policy page all about it (I'm sure I could find similarly elaborate policies at every college), the fact is, this ability provably doesn't exist yet ... MollyRealized (talk) 15:44, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Let me answer your question with a few of my own: Why did you wait less than fifteen minutes after posting to Nardog's talk page to bring this to ANI? Why are you assuming that he is using a tool more technological than his own eyeballs, especially given the aforementioned lack of meaningful discussion of this with him? Why are you misleadingly comparing this to "widespread vandalism" when it appears to be a single edit? Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:56, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Even though it's a popular way to debate, responding to a question with questions aren't a way of answering the initial question. MollyRealized (talk) 16:15, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Okay, then let me answer you directly: you opened this ANI thread extremely prematurely; you should have actually made a good-faith effort to discuss this with Nardog before running to ANI to get him in trouble. Moreover, you're misrepresenting his actions by implying he's on some kind of misguided crusade (with your references to going through Wikipedia and somehow going to start wiping out people's edits and widespread vandalism)--all without any diffs whatsoever--when the only recent revert I can find in Nardog's contribs that mentions LLMs is yours. I recommend you withdraw this before you get smacked by the boomerang. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 16:23, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Please don't threaten me, Writ_Keeper. Thank you in advance. MollyRealized (talk) 16:38, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That wasn't a threat. That was sage advice, but not quite a warning, from a site admin. You might notice the complete absence of support for your complaint here, which is why you're being advised that failing to drop the issue is more likely to result in a boomerang than any other outcome. Grandpallama (talk) 17:15, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I seem to have misconstrued the phrase "getting smacked", then. 17:54, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
    I didn't remove your addition just because I suspected it of having been generated with an LLM, but because it wasn't written like anything you see in other articles, as pointed out on the talk page. Whether you actually used an LLM is ultimately immaterial. If you have seen the film and can write a plot, go ahead, but please actually write a plot. Nardog (talk) 15:54, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Ultimately what was inserted into the article, regardless of how it was generated, is not a plot. It's a film school student essay and interpretation. Canterbury Tail talk 16:01, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Okay, so it looks like basically these are just ad hominems and not actually dealing with an AI problem. Now we've got some clarity as to intent. MollyRealized (talk) 16:17, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    If you put that text in front of me, I'd have said it's an LLM text as well. Canterbury Tail talk 16:23, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Me too. If it really wasn't AI, @MollyRealized, my advice is to completely rethink how you approach plot summaries. Describe the plot precisely, and avoid making claims about tone and meaning (that goes in later sections). The plot section should just be a straightforward description of the plot. -- asilvering (talk) 16:34, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Of course. Because obvious slop is obvious. Grandpallama (talk) 17:15, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I honestly appreciate the feedback, Asilvering, as well as the lack of hostility and positive intent. MollyRealized (talk) 16:38, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    MOS:FILMPLOT is a good read of the guideline for a plot. Canterbury Tail talk 17:00, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    To make it visible, WITHDRAWN. I don't see any other clear instruction on how to do so within your protocols. Thank you to asilvering and MM, exclusively and only, for your approach to this matter. MollyRealized (talk) 17:54, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @MollyRealized: it's expected that editors should discuss problems they have with other editors before bringing them to ANI, unless the problem is so severe that it requires immediate attention or for some other reason it's impossible to approach the editor concerned first. If you want to continue to edit here, you need to accept this and apply it going forward. This isn't hostility, it's simply what is expected from all editors on the English wikipedia. Nil Einne (talk) 19:06, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I'll add that talks of WP:Boomerang aren't generally intended as some sort of idle threat or just a way to be hostile. Instead, they are intended to warn the editors concerned because plenty of editors have found themselves blocked or otherwise gotten into trouble because by opening an ANI thread and from their responses within the thread they opened, they've revealed that they and not the editor they're complaining about was the problem. I don't think anything you did here or that was revealed about your editing is severe enough to warrant sanction, but IMO it's definitely true that it's been your approach and not Nardog's that's the real problem and that's why other editors responded as they did. Wikipedia is a collaborative project and so if editors are unable to edit productively with their fellow editors, then this is a significant problem. And yes, editors bringing their fellow editors to ANI which is a very severe measure over something which is not really a a significant problem isn't good for collaboration. And as others have said, it's hard to call the edit you are complaining about a significant problem, at most you could say the edit summary should have better explained the problem rather than just saying it was AI. The reversion itself was well justified. Further since you made no sufficient attempt to discuss it with the editor concern before bringing them to ANI, you did not give them the chance to better explain why they reverted you and fix the only possible problem with their edit. Again this isn't good for a collaborative project. You need to be able to talk to your fellow editors and take on board what they say, even when you find something they said or did annoying. Nil Einne (talk) 19:27, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Edit the error not reading talk page

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    A new editor (Edit the error (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)) uses the iOS mobile app to edit. Although they've only been editing since 6 September, their talk page is full of messages and warnings. They found their user page (and are using it to draft an article) but there's no sign that they've seen their talk page. Some of the messages are about copyright.

    Could an admin apply a gentle mainspace block to get their attention so they read their talk page? Schazjmd (talk) 15:42, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Do you know if they can read page histories? I could make a dummy edit with a link to their UTP in the summary. QwertyForest (talk) 15:58, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    No clue, they're completely unresponsive. Schazjmd (talk) 16:00, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    According to WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU, messages on the iOS app is a bit wikt:up in the air, so, depending on how ‘up to date’ that is, it’s anyone’s guess. MM (Give me info.) (Victories) 16:06, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There was recently another editor also using the iOS app who didn't discover their talk page until they were blocked,[117] so I'm just guessing it's the same issue. Schazjmd (talk) 16:10, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I wish they were responsive; I assumed WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU but I'd like to ask them if they used an LLM to create e.g. this or this. I left them a message about copying another bit from within Wikipedia but those two had some other origin. NebY (talk) 16:24, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I've p-blocked them from mainspace for now. -- asilvering (talk) 16:29, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, @Asilvering. Hopefully they'll respond on their talk page and it can be lifted. Schazjmd (talk) 16:31, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    This isn't looking promising. After their draft article on their user page was deleted, they've just started a new one (User:Edit the error). Schazjmd (talk) 16:45, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That was after I blocked them, and if they haven't gotten any of their talk page messages, they won't have much reason to understand why their user page spontaneously evaporated in the first place. -- asilvering (talk) 16:53, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Either they've created that very quickly - at LLM speed - or they'd already spent time off-wiki creating a new article on a subject on which we already have one. NebY (talk) 17:01, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It looks very much like LLM copypasta to me. -- asilvering (talk) 17:04, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Whilst it may, theoretically, be misuse of their user page why not put a message there, referring to the discussions and user:talk warnings - at least we know (assume?) they read their user-page. Arjayay (talk) 17:05, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't like editing other editors' user pages, but it seems worth a shot in this instance. I've left them a message there. Schazjmd (talk) 17:15, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    They've continued working on their user page, adding an image File:Mala_Beads.jpg that they've just uploaded claiming they're the copyright holder, that it's their own work and that it was created today. It's also at unsplash.com[118] as published in 2020. NebY (talk) 17:41, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    They've now deleted a {{copyvio revdel}} from that page.[119] They deleted Schazjmd's message about an hour ago but carried on editing their user page. They haven't edited their talk page. NebY (talk) 19:07, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The file's been tagged for copyvio speedy on Commons, so we might as well wait for that to happen since they keep restoring it. Obviously they saw the message about their talk page and decided to ignore it. I guess as long as they can't be disruptive in mainspace or add copyrighted content to articles, it's not an urgent problem anymore. Schazjmd (talk) 20:04, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Besides the two Copyvio notices removed ([120])([121]), I’d like to add that this user has three declined AFCs. The user page is probably also good for WP:CSD#U5 if anybody fancies the inevitable edit warring. MM (Give me info.) (Victories) 20:28, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Themmajury page move vandalism

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    See this move: Special:Diff/1247716582. Bobby Cohn (talk) 16:19, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I've reversed it, but you should probably try to explain to them why their article is being deleted. -- asilvering (talk) 16:30, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you. I'll note that I was in the process of formatting a reply when I got bombarded by a bunch of talk page notifications and emails that I couldn't clear. It's hard to figure out how to get rid of that yellow banner when the software doesn't like the location of your talk page. And then you panic/lose a lot of good faith given the new location of my user page. Bobby Cohn (talk) 16:36, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    No kidding. I'm not going to act on Liz's warning, since I can't find the vandalism she's talking about, but I hope one of that editor's next edits is an apology and not more inventively rude vandalism, for their own sake. -- asilvering (talk) 16:51, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The vandalism would be this deleted edit, I imagine. Anyway, blocked indefinitely for disruptive page moves and personal attacks.-- Ponyobons mots 18:33, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Adding to the ANI report (apologies for the initial brevity) that this user has previously been warned about their page move vandalism by @Liz: [122] Bobby Cohn (talk) 16:39, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    73.198.81.234 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is threatening legal action at Category talk:Defunct computer companies based in New York (state). DigitalIceAge (talk) 17:35, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    This might be a case of WP:DOLT. Even the article Ticketron acknowledges that the brand was bought from Ticketmaster and revived. Having Google pick up our categorization and mark it as defuct seems to be causing harm. We should make the changes.--v/r - TP 18:19, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Buying a trademark and starting a new company doesn't mean the old company didn't go defunct. Compare the situation with the Biograph Company, where somebody bought an old trademark and started a new company with the same name some 70 years later. Note that our article isn't about the new company. MrOllie (talk) 18:24, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I have gone ahead and adjusted the opening sentence and lede to establish that the company has been revived re-established. DigitalIceAge (talk) 18:33, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hold on. Had the company been revived? Or is someone else just using the name and mark? That's not the same thing. Canterbury Tail talk 19:30, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm only using Wikipedia's own nomenclature; if you look at Category:Re-established companies, most entries are "some group of investors thrice removed from the original company bought out the trademark". DigitalIceAge (talk) 19:41, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Also I wrote "re-established" in the article, not "revived". Sorry for the mix-up. DigitalIceAge (talk) 19:48, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Okay. Was trying to figure if it was more like Atari. Anyway nothing more to do here. Canterbury Tail talk 20:04, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    IP responded to the talk warning about legal threats and then went to Talk:Ticketron and made an explicit legal threat. MrOllie (talk) 02:13, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    IP also made a legal threat against my ANI notification. For what it's worth, I tried revising the lede to mention the 2017 trademark buyout and subsequent online business but was reverted by Pemilligan. DigitalIceAge (talk) 02:41, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    WP:NPA/WP:ASPERSIONS with a dose of xenophobia by M7md AAAA

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    M7md AAAA (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Looks like its national insult me and Persians day today. Such behaviour has no place on this site (or elsewhere for that matter).

    After that comment, I asked them to remember to have WP:GF, so much for that.

    After that, I reminded them of WP:GF, WP:ASPERSIONS and WP:NPA. So much for that.

    Account created on February 2021, 133 edits, majority of which have been reverted. Fail to see how they're a netpositive to this project. --HistoryofIran (talk) 19:37, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User is conveniently again using selective quotations that suits their bias. "I included several references and citations, you did nothing but include a note by some guy. Ought I find some note about how worthless persian sources are." The charge of xenophobia is nonsensical as the xenophobic opinion expressed by the note that they left is being described as "worthless, meaning that an opinion saying the same thing about 'persians' would be equally worthless.
    This is what was said, the note they left in place of primary sources that actually had numerical figures:
    "According to Daryaee, "Islamic texts usually report the number of the Persian soldiers to have been in the hundreds or tens of thousands and several times larger than the Arab armies. This is pure fiction and it is boastful literature which aims to aggrandize Arab Muslim achievement, which may be compared to the Greek accounts of the Greco-Persian wars."
    Even non-Arab sources were rejected for this user to suit their bias. Even if those primary sources were cited by people being cited in the main article. And I don't even know if the user is Persian or not.M7md AAAA (talk) 19:47, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It's obvious that I cut parts of the quote to only highlight your attacks (hence the "...."), which is what is the point of this report. And by all means, please show the diff that says I rejected a source because it was by an Arab, because such diff doesn't exist. All I did was mention WP:PST, which made you immediately start your attacks. Also, Touraj Daryaee is a historian (he doesn't use the word "worthless" either, more made up stuff), you're not - we base our info on academic sources, as you've already been told when I mentioned WP:RS and WP:SCHOLARSHIP. Yet I am clearly the "hyper emotional" one here, everyone can see your treatment towards me here [123]. HistoryofIran (talk) 19:52, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    In the talk page the user refuses to include anything that doesn't agree with them I'm new to the wiki interface so I cannot use wiki as weapons of abuse as well as he can. I am not interested in engaging with a party that actively hampers knowledge. Here is the previous wiki page, Please look at and judge for yourselves. I even asked for arbitration, but the user here did not relent. The user appears to be the xenophobic here, using personal affiliation as bases. I have no knowledge of his person to base that on anything.
    Prior Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_al-Qadisiyyah&oldid=1247695404
    I did not alter the xenophobic note that he put in place of the figure, or the figures that were there before. I fixed them as they were being cited as medieval estimates, which nonsensical. I added additional numbers and actial primary sources because I am neutral as far as what had happened, but the user here appears to act as if the article is a fact finding mission.
    Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Battle_of_al-Qadisiyyah#Estimates M7md AAAA (talk) 19:58, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    More WP:ASPERSIONS. HistoryofIran (talk) 20:01, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Without evidence? What? How is removing numerical figures for a derogatory note acceptable ? Are all primary sources taboo on wikipedia now? Should all battles from antiquity, or even the modern era (as the figures from them too are contested) ought to be replaced by a concise offensive remark? By the logic the user is employing here, in guise of factuality, that is the case. M7md AAAA (talk) 20:15, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, because I removed those poor citations per WP:PST/WP:SCHOLARSHIP, that does not make a xenophobe, using my "personal afflilation", "using clunky wiki interface as a weapon of abuse", or any of your other accusations. As for your WP:REHASH argument, again, read WP:OTHER. We're not going to ignore the policies of this website merely because you oppose them, and it certainly doesn't give you the right to constantly attack me. HistoryofIran (talk) 20:20, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Apparently the user is unable to use actual words, again utilising wiki interface as their weapon of misuse. And those citations aren't poor, they're all we have. The user is being ridiculous. M7md AAAA (talk) 20:22, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for proving my point. HistoryofIran (talk) 20:24, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Proving what? WP:PST/WP:SCHOLARSHIP does not support removing everything to suit xenophobic tendencies. And again they're the figures being used in modern scholarship, as elaborated in the talk page. What is this nonsense? In addition their ad hominem against my contributions are baseless, they actually resulted in a new article in which they were included ( M7md AAAA (talk) 20:27, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Proving that you seem unable to interact in a consructive manner with editors who disagree with you, unable to stick to comments about the topic rather than editors and, last but not least, unable to avoid personal attacks.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 07:37, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment : The reported editor seems unable to engage in a constructive manner when they have a disagreement with another editor, they comment on editors, not the topic and they make personal attacks. Sounds like we have nothere case here.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 07:18, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Persistent vandalism

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    204.116.115.182 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

    IP user has been persistently vandalizing articles as well as being warned many times since, surprisingly, 2019… Raulois (talk) 19:58, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Okiyo9228 I have blocked the IP. In the future, please use WP:AIV EvergreenFir (talk) 20:34, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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    Vmarkovna (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), while logged out, in Special:Diff/1247753781, she writes As whole, this article reads: Criminally deceptive, unfounded, malicious and criminal labeling to indict murder through Wikipedia meant to be informative only. Not a neutral portrayal of a biography. Pointed to murder, written from a pointed perspective to take life. Non neutral igniting violence in hate crime. This hate crime is punishable by a court of law through fine/imprisonment. Hate crime taking a human beings life through resolved suicide of mot resolved. It is obviously this user, as the extensive edits are the same as previously posted by her on João Teixeira de Faria, e.g., Special:Diff/1247575603.

    See her autobiography Draft:Victoria Markovna for more perspective. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:52, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    It's worth noting that the Vmarkovna has stated on her draft page that she legally represented João Teixeira de Faria (even stating it's what she is known for), making her edits on his article a clear WP:COI. Threatening legal action in an edit summary because she doesn't like the contents only exacerbates this COI and begins learning towards WP:LEGAL. R0paire-wiki (talk) 21:16, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I missed that. She claims article represents criminal malice. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:23, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm almost wondering if this is impersonation. She has two college degrees, passed the California bar exam and yet her English in the edits to the article and talk page, are barely coherent. She uses the word "murder" liberally in a way that has no connection to its actual or legal meaning and doesn't write like a person who is an American attorney. Her Instagram is all modeling photos but I checked the Bar website and a woman with this name is a practicing attorney. There is just something that doesn't gel with her presentation of herself and her claims about João Teixeira de Faria who, she states repeatedly, is just like Gandhi. Liz Read! Talk! 22:26, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    My edits are professional anf pointed at clarity of a human being being murdered by the way this page is written. The word "murder" is used the way it appears in legal act to this writing. I am an attorney United States Supreme Court barred, I write enumerating all basis for rewrite as instructed by you. All words make sense from legal perspective, not from Wikipedia editor's vantage point that doesn't have context. You don't sound like an editor to me as those are kind, not pointed in criminal through accusation unfounded. 2601:600:8E00:1936:9B9:6B54:5097:4D39 (talk) 22:36, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Becoming a member of the USSC bar is fairly easy. I’ve seen reports that there are over 70,000 members, so I wouldn’t be using that as a special qualification or proof of being correct in this discussion. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:45, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Off-wiki postings on social media by the editor are consistent with the thought processes seen here. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:39, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    There is no legal threat in edit summary. There is clarification as to urgency of call to change contents as emergency. Its not "not liking," content. Content is hate speech necessitating immediate resolve. 2601:600:8E00:1936:9B9:6B54:5097:4D39 (talk) 22:40, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    So in this edit summary you stated “Malicious and criminal profiling subject to law suit.”
    With another edit summary stating “The previous version pre rewrite is criminal malice”.
    Taking both of these, it is evident they are both in reference to the article - with an implication the article would be subject to a lawsuit if your edits weren’t accepted. R0paire-wiki (talk) 22:55, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Rsjaffe, there is no legal threat in what was written. What was written in old version of article is clear criminal defamation on its face and could bring legal action as it incites violence and ignites riot. You are taking a human being's life away through criminal prose which is actionable, not a legal threat. You told me to enumerate changes/all basis for edits on Talk page for article, I did exactly that. Keep all changes. 2601:600:8E00:1936:9B9:6B54:5097:4D39 (talk) 22:30, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    To clarify the “no legal threat” comment, you agree you will not engage in a legal or other governmental process that would target other editors or Wikipedia itself. Correct? — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:50, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Even if the Vmarkova isn't suggesting they will personally take any action, the chilling effect of making such threats remains. If there were substantial problems with any of our articles Vmarkova could have brought them up without saying someone might be subject to criminal sanction for not doing what they ask. (They can't anymore now that they've been rightfully blocked.) And WP:NLT aside, it's just dumb to make such threats. As a WP:BLP/N regular, I can say that from my experience such threats do not make us take their concerns more seriously. They actually cause us to take them less seriously since probably 95% of the time when editors make such threats there isn't a problem or at least not a significant one. (Although per WP:DOLT we try not to ignore them.) Editors able understand the basics of how stuff works around here will also know they shouldn't make such threats so are much more likely to be correct when they say their is a problem. Nil Einne (talk) 07:43, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • I've blocked Vmarkovna indefinitely and the IP for one week.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:52, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
      Good block. Frankly, the English here is so incoherent and poor that, even without the legal and COI issues, there would be a legitimate WP:CIR concern around editing enwiki. Grandpallama (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
      I, too, endorse this block for the belligerent and irrational legal threats, and also agree with Grandpallama that this editor lacks the minimum level of English language competence required to edit here. I am very forgiving of the minor English language errors of good faith editors who learned English as a second language years after birth, and who are clearly here to build this encyclopedia. I will happily copyedit their little quirks. They are among our best editors, and I commend them for the work they do. This editor's writing, on the other hand, is at least an order of magnitude worse. Their prose approaches deranged and hallucinatory territory. Cullen328 (talk) 05:19, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Promotional editing and possible UPE by two SPAs

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    Editors reported:

    Gingeksace has created over 60 articles on the Italian poet, Menotti Lerro and his so-called “cultural movement”, Empathism, Lerro’s poetry prize Cilento International Poetry Prize, 55 articles on members and “adherents” to Lerro’s "Empathic Movement" Empathism, 4 articles on Lerro’s works and at least one article on a family member. Articles created by Gingeksace:

    Articles created by Nihaon:

    Forgive me for the length of this report. I am bringing it here rather than to COIN because it’s an ongoing problem, and there have been efforts to resolve these issues, but the problems have recently escalated, and it seems that a type of "walled garden" has been created. These two editors are involved in what appears to be an orchestrated effort to promote Menotti Lerro & Empathism and their associates. Efforts were made to resolve the issues, see Gingeksace’s talk page [125] an Nihaon’s talk[126].

    Regarding User:Gingeksace - of the 68 articles they created, all except 5 are about the Italian poet/entrepreneur Menotti Lerro, his “movement” Empathism and its adherants/members of Lerro’s Empathism manifesto, his Cultural Pyramid of Cilento, Lerro’s “international poetry prize” Cilento International Poetry Prize, his plays and books and associates.[127] Interestingly, Lerro’s article on Italian Wikipedia was deleted for lack of encyclopedic value/notability[128] and there were a few sockpuppet investigations on it-wp. Gingeksace has removed COI templates in the past.

    Regarding User:Nihaon created 7 articles on Lerro’s Empathic Movement members/adherents during the same time as Gingeksace creating dozens. Nihaon also removed COI templates from several articles involving Lerro & Empathism. Of their 900-some edits most have been to add content or name-drop Lerro and or Empathism or Empathic Movement members.

    This seems to be a coordinated PR/PROMO effort by two SPAs to promote Menotti Lerro, and his “Empathic Movement” Empathism, and it’s various projects and members. It’s obviously a COI project, and I feel confident in saying it is likely UPE – perhaps the work of a PR firm to promote Lerro and his associates and projects. Both editors have denied having a COI, claiming to be fans, however Gingeksace admitted asking Lerro for photos to publish, however for an “unconnected” editor they sure know a lot about Lerro’s life.

    Since this campaign began, Lerro is now mentioned hundreds of times on en-wp [129]. While I am not claiming Menotti Lerro is not notable, his article is supported with a lot of local sourcing, and sources by his professor, Andrew Mangham and Francesco D'Episcopo, who is a member of Lerro’s Empathism, other members/adherents of Empathism or other affiliated sources.

    The promo has been occurring at a highly accelerated rate this past month. Administrator attention to this situation is requested. Netherzone (talk)

    Cambridge Scholars Publishing for The Empathic Movement. The "day of pickaxes" is fun tho, anyone with a good translation of E qui si precisa, ugualmente a gran voce, che le speculazioni armate ad arte dall’indomito teatrante, palesano ulteriormente una pomposa esaltazione ben conosciuta.[130] fiveby(zero) 04:56, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Just a brief note to say that I entirely agree with Netherzone's analysis above.
    I only have one further point to add…
    Looking at the Menotti Lerro article I noticed that although both of the users spend a lot of time there editing over extended periods they never seem to be there at the same time.
    I then looked at the two users’ overall editing histories and noticed that they never seem to be online at the same time, often having clear days when only one is online, or otherwise apparently tagging each other in and out (as for example on Sept 1, 15, 17, 19, 20 & 22).
    It looks to me as though one end user has been editing the various articles as essentially a full time (and thus paid?) endeavour over the last 4 weeks, alternating between 2 different accounts. Either that or the activity is closely co-ordinated, which would strongly support the idea of COI/UPE. Axad12 (talk) 04:36, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    One other thing, I note that when directly questioned on COI the user Gingeksace has responded along the lines of (and I paraphrase) “never mind about the COI, just concentrate on whether Lerro is notable or not”, for example here [131] where the user also states their opinion that We all know that behind almost every page of living authors there is often someone close to the same author, which the user goes on to state is (in their opinion) not a big problem if the author is indeed Enciclopedic. They then state the desirability, in their eyes, of a bit more of flexibility and asks Netherzone do not be so focused on the "COI problem" and help the page to be developed if [the subject] earned a place on this FREE Encyclopedia. Life is too short to be so strict.
    As far as I can see that post is an obvious tacit confession of what is going on here. Otherwise why would a non-COI editor suggest that COI concerns are irrelevant if the subject is notable and that in their opinion there should be far more latitude on COI issues?
    Over the last 3 years the user has made 761 edits to the article for Menotti Lerro and 392 edits to the article for Empathism, as well as making a further c.2,000 edits to other Lerro-related articles (most of which they created themselves).
    The exact degree of association between the editor and Lerro seems unclear, but that they are someone close to the author seems obvious. There is clearly something wrong when the connection has gone undeclared in over 3 years (and 3,000+ edits) despite various attempts to ask them to declare COI.
    It seems to me that this is a straightforward promo only account (and ditto for Nihaon). Axad12 (talk) 08:06, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Continued TPA abuse after hardblock

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    User:Cloud software solution has been spamming AI-generated unblock requests 5 times in their talk page, someone please cover the user's mouth up with a duct tape and shut it up. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 01:26, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I am the blocking administrator. Cryptic revoked talk page access while I was visiting with my granddaughter and picking up a pizza. Cullen328 (talk) 03:08, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Persistent addition of unsourced content by 71.36.178.63

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    71.36.178.63 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Keeps adding unsourced content to articles, continued after final warning and hasn't responded to warnings. Examples of addition of unsourced content: 1, 2 (date change contradicted by existing source), 3, 4, 5. Waxworker (talk) 02:17, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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