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Troll editor operating on proxy IPs and possible hacker

See this discussion. A user who I knew, AHLM13, was blocked recently as his account was used for random vandalism twice (more on ANI here and here). AHLM13 denied he did the vandalism and claims his account was hacked. There is an anonymous user operating from proxy IPs who for the past few days has been trolling on people's talk pages while acting as AHLM13 (see the whole army of socks and IPs abusing Anna's talk page; many other user and talk pages have also been abused, including mine). While I had expressed my concerns over AHLM's account being hacked right when he was blocked for his first vandalism spree on 3 May, a couple of users and I have gone over some recent evidence at my talk page and we are becoming more than convinced that this is indeed the case. One thing common with all these socks and proxies is the repeated racist and religious slurs on talk pages, and random messages (usually profane) written in Bengali (AHLM accused a Bengali editor of hacking his account). An involved user, User:CosmicEmperor has expressed concerns on my talk page how his account has been mysteriously 'logging off' and that he may be about to get hacked. Just now, I have also received a threat. If something happens to my account, I would like to make it clear in advance that it should be blocked immediately. It is possible we are dealing with a notorious and vicious hacker. I would really like admins to look into this matter ASAP and uncover who this editor is and what are his motives. Mar4d (talk) 14:44, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Also pinging other involved editors: Lukeno94, @Ravensfire:, CosmicEmperor, @Favonian:, @Anna Frodesiak:, Mike V, AsceticRose, Jpgordon. Mar4d (talk) 14:44, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• I'm only tangentially involved from giving a couple of comments in passing, but there is definitely something weird here. We have two possible options, in my opinion; either AHLM13 has gone completely off the rails, or they're telling the truth. I also believe that there may well be an opportunist vandal who is tagging along for the ride. What we do know is that IPs from a wide range of countries have been posting threats, insults and other pieces of vandalism in various places - but the most common country appears to be India. Meanwhile, I believe AHLM13 is supposed to be a Pakistani - so something's wrong here. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 15:05, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

We need to look at the latest socks of User:Undertrialryryr and user:AHLM13. I don't like AHLM13 but some user is using sock ip against all those Users who were part of collage discussion on Bengalis and User:AHLM13's talk page. My account is behaving strangely. All those personal attacks on Babitaarora was not made by Undertrialryryr. Even AHLM13 can't make such comments against Anna Frodesiak . Every Non-English socks of Undertrialryryr and other socks which came after that may not be what we think. AHLM13's socks and Undertrialryryr's socks are tagged, but they belong to someone who is posting nonsense in my talk page, Titodutta's talkpage, 115ash's talk page. I am also commenting here: I don't want to be responsible for any vandalism from my account. And don't allow anybody to change my E-Mail address please. The E-Mail that I am using for past one month is mine and should be kept unchanged.C E (talk) 14:53, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Those of you still discussing this amongst yourself and engaging the socks on various pages are being trolled. Read Wikipedia:The motivation of a vandal & Wikipedia:Deny recognition. Do nothing other than report future instances to WP:ANI, then use {{hat|Per [[WP:RBI]]}} ... {{hab}} to enclose his trolls. JoeSperrazza (talk) 14:58, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I think everyone's been ignoring the troll for quite a few days but it is getting to a point where it is irritating. Also, I would not like to take the veiled hacking threat lightly. If AHLM13 could get hacked, there's no guarantee of who could be next. Mar4d (talk) 15:02, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

AHLM13 was not hacked. It is just another excuse for good hand/bad hand behavior. His use of proxies will likely make CU results not helpful. Its just one big game. Stop obsessing and get back to editing the encyclopedia. JoeSperrazza (talk)

• The fact that there is a threat to hack other people's accounts is a big concern, particularly with CosmicEmperor (who could hardly be called a AHLM13 supporter) saying that something's wrong on their end. Joe, stop being so flippant - you're not the one being threatened here. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 15:08, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

yes i was happy to see AHLM13 blocked and Undertialyryry's socks blocked. But try to understand AHLM13 can't speak in Bengali slang language. AHLM13 can't say Bengali swear words.

ZORDANLIGHTER never abused a female editor before. AHLM13's account was hacked. My account is logging off the moment a sock IP came. I am not asking for AHLM13 and Undertrialyryr to be unblocked but try to find this hacker. Undertrilayryr's non-english socks were not technically matching with him according to Dord and vangajenie but due to behaviourial; evidence they wre tagged. I am typing in a hurry as i am constantly logged off. I am making spelling mistakes due to that.C E (talk) 16:02, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi everybody. Thanks that you have moved this to ANI, as administrators can help me and you as well. User:Mazca blocked ip 49.156.159.82 by writing that it is me, without giving any proof. Also I ASK TO ADMINISTRATORS TO warn (or maybe be block) User:JoeSperrazza, who is labelling in all accounts that I am a sockpuppet of them. I admit that i create only ahlm85, so that i could explain to everybody what is going on and that those sockpuppets and ips are not me. User:JoeSperrazza tagged all of them as my sockpuppet, by giving no evidences. I asked if a checkuser can proof this. Those accounts pretend to be be, in order to spoil my credibility to other users. Moreover, right now I just got a strange email. I ask ADMINS and CHECKUSER if they can unblock me and do something with this hacker or vandal. I asked an appeal to unblock through email, but they told that I have not any proof to show that I am AHLM13, so now I am alone and i do not know what to do. Please help me. Thank you. --2.96.180.236 (talk) 17:31, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

You shouldn't have commented here. Checking his English I know which one is your account and which is not as he is using Bengali slangs in nafsadh's talk page. Don't comment in WP anymore. You are going back to your previous attitude by asking Joe Sparazza's block. I will not try to unblock you as you AHLM13 is very offensive, but we need to find this hacker who created fake socks which looked like the socks of ZORDANLIGHTER/Undertrialyryr.C E (talk) 17:47, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

User CosmicEmperor' language is strange. Maybe even his account his now hacked. in fact he said that "And someone is logging me off, even if i am signing in. I think my account is going to be hacked. So if today or tomorrow i post offensive comments,. it's not me.". 2.96.180.236 (talk) 18:26, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Regarding Mar4d and CosmicEmperor' concerns that they experienced unusual log off, clearly this needs admin attention. Also it now appears that a notorious person is playing behind the screen. We still don't know who it is. But probably a rigorous CU checking is needed to discover whether AHLM13 was a victim of hacking. Also those proxy/VPN sites should be brought under block.

User:JoeSperrazza is not helping here. I think you are not a party to this and should leave. You can't close a running discussion at your sweet will. You should not impersonate as an admin which you did. -AsceticRosé 00:47, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

@AsceticRose: As i edited the page Baby (2015 film), i came across a new user Aceticrpose mard aurat. The name is like combination of your name and Mar4d's name. in your talk page something is written in Urdu/Arabic or some middle eastern language. Can someone translate what is written there.The one who posted is tagged as AHLM13's sock.C E (talk) 06:16, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I suggest you redact your comments, which border on a personal attack. I impersonated no one. Not only can anyone edit this page, but I have been involved with this situation (see my talk page, for example). Per WP:CLOSE, I archived the discussion once the IP was blocked, which was the only likely admin action that could be taken here (see WP:SPI for more actions that can be requested). I don't dispute your right to re-open, but reiterate that this discussion of hackers is only feeding the trolls and is not based on anything rational. Finally, can anyone here answer the question "What admin action are you requesting"? JoeSperrazza (talk) 00:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

@Nafsadh: has expressed concern that his account was going to be hacked here

This is similar to those problems faced by me and Mar4d.

And also read what i wrote here

Past connection

C E (talk) 06:26, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Let me say something. Although I'm not so familiar with AHLM13, but a sockpuppet investigation were made against me, I can assure that "the so-called" hacker is perhaps "Undertrialryryr". @Joesperazza, none is attacking you, but AHLM13's Ip is fully right, you don't possess any right to tag this, this, this, this this and more as AHLM13's sockpuppets, seen that there is no strong evidence (like CU or SPI) which demonstrate that most of them belong to him. Now assume that I utilise my Ips in order to obtain carefulness of other contributors, by swearing to them and stating that I would be you. Would this be any testimony? I believe that AHLM13, notwithstanding his behavior, needs to be provided another chance.--115ash^→(☏) 10:33, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• • 115ash I was the one who made that SPI. And right now after reading your comment i wanted to login and reply to you but two times my login failed. The problem is that Joesperazza thinks AHLM13 is behind all this and now 115ash thinks that Undertrialryryr is behind this. If both of you look at the details, there is a third one involved who is taking advantage of AHLM13 and Undertrialryryr's past behaviour, and everywhere he is just abusing everybody posing like them.115ash is right. Some socks are not correctly tagged by Joesperazza. Even during SPI against Undertrialryryr i had doubt whether these foreign language socks belong to Undertrialryryr .I posted the same thing else where but as some people won't go through them, i have to put it here

I don't want AHLM13 to be unblocked but lots of proxy IPs and socks are launching personal attacks posing as Undertrialryryr socks and AHLM13 socks. Three times my account was logged off even though i didn't click log out. I changed the password and disconnected my net connection;after that it stopped.

I am telling you: if in future, I post offensive derogatory messages on people's talk pages,then please make sure that my E-Mail address that i have registered is not changed.That's the only way i can regian my account .

AHLM13 claimed he was hacked or he had BROTHER. I don't know about him but even @Mar4d: and @Lukeno94: is doubting about this hacker in ANI.

I have reasons to believe all these cases mentioned below are inter-related:

A)- In this SPI DoRD mentioned "ЗОРДАНЛИГХТЕР, plus a bunch more, are almost certainly the same as the ones I listed above, who may or may not (I'm leaning not) belong to this master."

Technically they were not matching with Undertrialryryr. And i found their editing very different from the previous accounts.Vanjagenije accepted he was not sure but they were tagged "Based on the behavior".

B)- AHLM13's account abused Babitaarora in the same mannerকসমিক এম্পারার attacked her, {私はあなたにを愛し did the same thing, unknown ip, another Undertrialryryr sock

C)- Now today these three proxy IPs disrupted talkpages claiming to be AHLM13, but AHLM13 doesn't speak like that. AHLM13 is Pakistani. How can he use Bengali swear words and Bengali colloquial language.

I- 27.34.251.164

II- 49.156.159.82

III- 14.139.56.13

Now check the last line of this offensive comment on Titodutta's talk page by কসমিক এম্পারার which is very similar to this edit made today by 14.139.56.13 . Those who can read Bengali will understand that they are same.

All three are proxy IPs, as i checked them on internet IP Location finder and they must be blocked indefinitely, not for few hours or one week.

D)- Same guy who removed Babitaarora's complain on Materialscientist's talk page about Undertrialryryr socks. I am sure this is not Undertrialryryr.

E)- Unblock request by 115ash is the same comment he made on Ged UK's talk page with IP-78.149.203.69, and this IP is similar to this IP-78.149.127.141 which we believe is AHLM13 as we found that his English is similar to AHLM13.

F)- If we check the contributions of Undertrialryryr, ZORDANLIGHTER, Blackwizard2000, Enterths300000, Whistlingwoods, Championkiller and vandal account BLACKIEHINDU

They don't match with the contributions and editing style of these sock accounts in other languages.

• • কসমিক এম্পারার (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • ਬਬਿਤਾ ਅਰੋਰਾ (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • زوردانلگهتر (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • זאָרדאַנליגהטער (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • ლანგუაგეხპერტ (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • 私はあなたにを愛し (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • ДфтпгфпуЧзуке (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • หทหฟพทฟก (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • ਜੋਰਦਾਨਲਿਘ੍ਟਰ (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • ЗОРДАНЛИГХТЕР (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • জোর্দানলাইটার (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

later on few socks whose names were in Punjabi language attacked Babitaarora. Their offensive comments and edit history were deleted by Materialscientist,Yunshui and Albertsquare. They were tagged as Undertrialryryr socks. I don't know whether the Ips were same or most obviously the same reason previous socks were blocked due to behavioral evidence. Once DoRD told me that personal details of any user can't be made public which includes IP address, but Check user should at least tell whether these latest sockaccounts : ਬਬੀਤਾ ਦੇ ਪਤੀ, Lundbaaz King Shaan Shahid, Pakistani girl's breasts, ਬਬੀਤਾ ਦੇ ਪਤੀ and ਕਾਸ੍ਮਿਕ ਏਮ੍ਪੇਰੋਰ matches with the IPs of

Undertrialryryr, ZORDANLIGHTER, Blackwizard2000,

or they match with unconfirmed socks written in other languages.C E (talk) 18:49, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• I have to say that my account was randomly logging off yesterday as well (did so about three times, I think), but it's possible that was just due to the fact I'd just changed my password as a precaution, and I haven't seen it do so since. Regardless, Joe, you're dismissing out of hand the entire issue by only considering a small part of it - and when multiple editors are saying that something screwy is going on with their accounts, then the discussion should stay open, as it isn't solely about AHLM13. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 10:37, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
• Couple of things worth noting; I've received a "you're next" threat, and there's a village pump thread on a potential technical issue that an unrelated user has been experiencing. So there is still, of course, the possibility of Wikipedia being glitched, or we could be dealing with someone who is not the most stable of people. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 13:34, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

There is one more 110.78.155.74C E (talk) 13:36, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Here's a suggestion, if it does turn out to be a hacker: use a much stronger password that cannot be easily guessed/bruteforced. In a case such as this, the blame generally lies solely with poor security practices (i.e. an easily-guessed password). —Jeremy v^_^v ^Bori! 18:23, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Editor making bulk changes against consensus (redux)

Serpren (talk · contribs · count · logs · page moves · block log) has for some time been making bulk changes to UK placenames. I informed him [1] on his talk page that per this consensus, it's very clear that bulk changes of this type should cease. This was in many cases mopped up by an admin (User:Redrose64), but Serpren has continued. I reverted him in a number of cases, but he has just reverted back.

This consensus was designed to stop this kind of thing, i.e. editors changing UK placenames to suit their own preference, for example removing "UK" or adding it, or swapping "UK" for "England" and vice versa. There's no consensus on which format to use and it is unconstructive to keep switching between them. I have encountered several editors engaging in this practice (usually adding or removing "UK") and showing them the consensus has always stopped them, until now.

Please advise on how to resolve this, thanks. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:05, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

I now see he actually reported me for vandalism [2] although it's not showing on that page. He did not notify me of this report and even accused me of editing "for political motivations", a clear violation of WP:AGF, let alone being utterly wrong. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:12, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

The consensus Bretonbanquet refers to is "no consensus" as to style (therefore no mandate for bulk changes). However it does refer back to an earlier discussion and straw poll which showed a split consensus (once socks and meatpuppets were removed) between "England, UK/United Kingdom" and "England" (and similarly for Scotland, Wales, N Ireland) in geography leads. (In both discussions it was widely stated by those who usually know about these things that using both the home country and UK was redundant.) Consequently Serpren has some grounds for making their changes, though they would be well advised to stop and seek fresh consensus, since the strawpoll was a long time ago, and not well attended. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:00, 19 March 2015 (UTC).

Yes, as you say, the straw poll is from 2006 and consensus was split. The 2014 discussion to which I linked above also found no consensus as to style and that bulk changes shouldn't be made. This is my complaint; that Serpren is not abiding by that. Nearly all of his edits are changes of this type. Bretonbanquet (talk) 16:06, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

If I may add, Serpren's haste to make these changes has introduced geographic or grammatical errors into at least a couple of articles ([3] [4]). Being so eager to add their bulk changes that they fail to spot any collateral damage is a fairly good indicator that their intentions are not necessarily honourable. QueenCake (talk) 17:19, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

I was under the impression that the consensus was "Cornwall, England, UK/United Kingdom" and have been assiduously working to ensure conformity across Cornish pages. However, should the consensus be "England, UK/United Kingdom" or "England", I will happily stick with that. My profound apologies for any grammatical errors I have caused, that was certainly not my intent. Maybe an adjudication, or new consensus, could be reached? Serpren (talk) 01:54, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

You say that, but at no stage have you been applying this convention of "Cornwall, England, UK" to pages that say "Cornwall, England". You've only been changing pages which say "Cornwall, UK". Perhaps you could explain why that's the case. The consensus you're talking about is here, but as it says, "Although no-one actively changes articles that don't comply with this format unless making other substantive edits to the article, members of the Cornwall Wikiproject do ensure that where it has been used, it remains in place." In other words, and combined with the other consensus about not making bulk changes to UK placenames, don't change the placenames unless you're making other substantive edits to the article. There is no consensus to enforce this placename format across all Cornish articles, particularly as you're being somewhat selective in your choice of articles to change.

There's also the point about inappropriate use of "Cornwall, England, UK" when the sentence already mentions England or the UK, or "English" or "British". That just amounts to repetition and makes the sentence read very poorly. Bretonbanquet (talk) 10:17, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Well where I have added "England" inappropriately, you should feel free to edit it. However, I can see no refutation that the agreed consensus is the term "Cornwall, England, UK/United Kingdom" and will continue to add England where it is deserved/needed Serpren (talk) 00:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC).

I will. So you are saying that you will ignore the consensus about not making bulk changes and you admit to openly editing against that consensus. You also ignore the point in the guideline about the "Cornwall, England, UK" consensus not being enforced unless making other substantive edits to the article, and you also ignore my question as to why you do not add "UK" to articles that say "Cornwall, England" in your supposed quest to fulfil this consensus. At the risk of failing WP:AGF, that looks very much like editing with a political POV, quite apart from editing against one consensus to wrongly enforce another. Bretonbanquet (talk) 10:59, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

There are a potentially-unlimited number of beneficial edits that a user could choose to make to Wikipedia. However, Serpren has elected to spend months making the same unhelpful edit to hundreds of pages, ignoring all opposition, frequently damaging the flow of a page's prose in order to stamp "Cornwall, England, United Kingdom" repeatedly.
It would be naïve to the point of foolishness to assume good faith when a user is so devoted to deliberate disruption and announces his intentions to carry on causing further disorder. Surely a block on the editor is justified to prevent further wilful disturbance of the project. 82.41.197.51 (talk) 04:39, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Discussion retrieved from archives as issue was not resolved
This discussion demonstrates opposition to Serpren's insistance on altering all articles mentioning "Cornwall" (and variants) to "Cornwall, England, UK". However, Serpren has continued (as he stated he would) making mass changes.
I have reverted a series of his edits, as they are obviously generally opposed, only to be hit by the usual threats and inaccurate templates that are part of the joy of editing from an IP address. Therefore, I would politely ask that issue be looked at again and some kind of final decision be reached. 82.41.197.51 (talk) 17:24, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

The edits by Serpren that 82.41.197.51 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been reverting today were done two months ago and were already dealt with above. Furthermore, the IP has falsely accused me of vandalism and politically motivated edits. Re-opening this thread is just a waste of time. DuncanHill (talk) 19:40, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

There were edits made yesterday by the IP that followed the pattern of what Serpren was doing, but I do not believe that IP is Serpren. Serpren himself does appear to have stopped editing in a problematic fashion. The IP above, as well as the other IP, as well as everyone else, needs to cease making multiple changes to placenames; this practice is not in line with the Cornish project consensus. Bretonbanquet (talk) 21:32, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

"Chicken fucker" vandalism

Just a heads up to all admins, the blocked user Fullthrottle523 (talk · contribs) is going round vandalizing BLPs with statements calling the article's subject a "chicken fucker" or variations thereof. I have semi-protected a few articles already, but I suspect there may be more. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

John Oliver's fault, he implied on his HBO comedy show that people should add "chicken fucker" to the Wikipedia pages of people who voted against certain farming regulations. See video for the complete list of people he mentioned (it is near the end). Winner 42 Talk to me! 15:38, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, but it's hard to stay mad at John Oliver when he has the smartest and funniest show on television. MastCell ^Talk 15:44, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Kids eh? Without wishing to sound like a grumpy old fart, 40 years ago people thought Bernard Manning making racist jokes was funny and Jimmy Savile was a harmless eccentric .... how times change. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:53, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

"Fat? fat? Mother-in-law"? Martinevans123 (talk) 19:00, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I just indeffed Lildeal223 thinking it was block evasion.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 15:50, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

The list is the members of the House Appropriations Committee. The previous week Jon Stewart called for vandalizing the Warren G. Harding article. Might be worth filing a WP:RFPP ASAP when anyone sees a show recommending editing WikiP articles in the future. MarnetteD|Talk 15:52, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

There is a long list of targeted articles at the biographies of living persons noticeboard and comments that they should be semi-protected. I agree with User:MarnetteD that when a television personality refers to Wikipedia articles, pre-emptive semi-protection might be a good idea. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Here is a direct link to the thread at BLPN Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive223#Potential for some abuse in the next month or so on multiple pages. I don't know if anyone wants consolidate the two threads or not. MarnetteD|Talk 16:05, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Having actually alerted the admin to the Harding abuse and doing this thread, I didn't know if RFPP would be appropriate due to the fact that it would have been speculative in nature. At the same time, I am wondering if we should ask someone to pen an e-mail to HBO (and even Comedy Central) to ask that they abstain from encouraging mass-vandalism, because it causes a lot of trouble on our end. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 17:26, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I am afraid that they will just laugh at a letter like that. In fact it is likely that will encourage them to suggest new articles to hit. When a show (high profile or otherwise) asks viewers to edit WikiP articles there is no speculation about what will happen. Having said that please note that I said "file" a RFPP not "preemptively protect" - the mere filing will alert admins to the situation and then they can add any articles to their watchlists and protect it when things get out of hand. MarnetteD|Talk 18:18, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• (a) I agree someone should write to Stewart and Oliver. They are both responsible people of good will, and while I'm disappointed no one on their staffs is apparently enough of a WP editor to have warned them off, I wouldn't be surprised if they took our concern to heart, or even apologized.

(b) I do not think preemptive protection is appropriate just because an article is mentioned on the air. It's hard to predict what factors will cause a mention to turn into vandalism, just as it's hard to predict what factors will turn a mention into a new editor or two for us. We should always wait and see. EEng (talk) 18:39, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

They are entertainers and both of mentioned Wikipedia articles before. They and their staff could care less about what happens with Wikipedia articles. Remember that they both specifically asked their viewers to hit the articles in question because it helped them get their point across in a humorous fashion. But hey, look on the bright side, the fact that WikiP was mentioned on those shows puts paid to the "WikiP's demise is imminent" rumors. MarnetteD|Talk 18:52, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, plus Wikipedia deals with vandalism all the time and this probably isn't going to lead to any very significant increase in the problem. Just deal with it in the normal way if you feel so inclined. But remember to check the sourcing - we don't want to end up whitewashing anyone's article if they actually are a chicken fucker. Formerip (talk) 19:14, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Larry Flynt actually bragged about it. I don't know if it's in his article. Randy Kryn 19:18, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, very good points. This incident shouldn't blind us to the fact that, statistically, at least a few of these people probably are chicken fuckers in the privacy of their own campaign-contribution counting rooms, of course. See WP:CHICKENFUCKER. EEng (talk) 22:47, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I've just blocked TimRyan ChikenUcker (talk · contribs). Another aspect to consider.  —SMALLJIM  19:08, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

A nice shortcut for checking these pages is to use Related Changes on the Appropriations Committee page - click here to check -- Fuzheado | Talk 19:25, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I've just thrown an edit filter together to help with tracking this, see Special:AbuseFilter/689 which will flag additions of "chicken fucker" to articles. Sam Walton (talk) 21:14, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the vast majority of those adding this to articles are not adding the exact phrase "chicken fucker". See the diffs here for a sense of the creativity being used to introduce this concept in articles. Be prepared to look for "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", "trysts with chickens", etc. Dwpaul ^Talk 23:29, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

"Crimes most foul"? EEng (talk) 23:33, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Pretty sure egging them on is a bad idea. Blackmane (talk) 01:12, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Egging them on? EEng (talk) 04:22, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

You heard me. :D Blackmane (talk) 04:26, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

You crack me up. EEng (talk) 05:02, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Stop being foul, you @#$%!en $%^#ers. Epic Genius (talk) 17:21, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

The attempts at spelling "fowl" have been poultry. Blackmane (talk) 00:54, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

On a serious note, I think that all of these terms should be flagged as well. Epic Genius (talk) 17:21, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Disruption of AFD discussion

There's an AFD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diploma in Homoeopathic Medicine & Surgery, started by the original creator of the article, User: AKS.9955, who has apparently decided that a community decision on whether to delete or keep it is appropriate - I am aware of no policy reason why an author should not do that with their own article. User:Wikimandia has decided that such an action constitutes a G7 speedy deletion request, and has argued that at some length in the discussion. I have pointed out that he/she is wrong and have asked for his/her policy basis for insisting that it is a G7, and even the author himself has clearly stated that "My personal opinion is not to delete the article". Even after all that, User:Wikimandia tagged Diploma in Homoeopathic Medicine & Surgery with a G7 speedy deletion request, despite that clearly not being the wish of the author. I reverted and warned User:Wikimandia not to put the G7 tag back, and he/she promptly went ahead and put it back again. It's clearly not a G7, and User:Wikimandia appears to be deliberately acting tendentiously. I request admin action against User:Wikimandia to stop the disruption and allow the AFD discussion to progress. Mr Potto (talk) 11:53, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Oh, and he/she's calling the article creator a moron too. Mr Potto (talk) 11:55, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

And he/she's edit warring to reinstate the G7 tag. I've reverted once more but I won't revert any further as I don't want to risk 3RR. (I guess it might be a valid exception even if it's perhaps not blatant vandalism, but I don't want to risk it.) Mr Potto (talk) 11:58, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree. This person is wikilawyering tendentiously. I don't understand why someone would nominate an AfD if they don't want the article deleted, but since that's what they've explicitly said it does not qualify for G7. Reyk _YO! 12:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Lame. User: AKS.9955 nominated two of his own articles for deletion at the AfD but does not want them deleted (??). According to others, he is doing this to prove some kind of point because he thinks someone else should have nominated them for deletion (?). Nobody is discussing the actual articles but it's full of petty arguing. AfD is not the appropriate forum for this. If nobody is sincerely nominating these articles for deletion, they should not be on AfD. Either speedy delete per WP:G7 or withdraw the nomination. If MrPotto is so concerned about being polite, note he called me stupid. —Мандичка^YO 😜 12:02, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you Mr Potto, I am the creator of the article and also nominated it for WP:AfD. I did that simply because the discussions were turning into argument, with both of us trying to prove our points (we both might have valid reasons also). If the articles fails WP:GNG or WP:SPAM, then they should not be on Wikipedia and hence I nominated it (although this action should have been taken by the editor who was discussing the matter with me). In any case, just because the creator nominated the page for AfD does not mean been it should be speedily deleted. I did not open the AfD for discussion and I sure you read there that I raised an objection to the other editor for starting a discussion there. I also noticed that User:Wikimandia abused me there when I was not even talking to her. I have posted a caution on her TalkPage and also a message on the AfD discussion. If she does not put an apology forward, I am going to report her. Thanks for your time. Cheers, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 12:07, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@Wikimandia: Whether or not the AFD is valid and whether or not is it pointy, it is still *not* the equivalent of a G7 speedy delete request. You might think that's what the author should do, but the fact is he hasn't and has clearly said he doesn't want it deleted, and you do not have the right to force a G7 on his behalf. (As for my "stupid" remark, you will see that I struck it soon after I made it, and I apologize for a moment of frustration with someone who clearly wasn't listening.) Mr Potto (talk) 12:09, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• And User:Wikimandia is escalating the personal attacks. Mr Potto (talk) 12:16, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
• I really fail to see how that's a personal attack. Additionally, I couldn't care less that you called me stupid, as 1) I'm not 12 years old and 2) I'm not stupid. Kindly take your drama off AfD and discuss it elsewhere. As you have not made any contribution toward a discussion of deleting or keeping the article, it's unclear why you are there. —Мандичка^YO 😜 12:24, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
  • At the moment I'm there to try to stop your tendentious disruption of the AFD request so that people who wish to discuss it can do so in a calm and peaceful manner, as that seems to be a necessary precursor. Mr Potto (talk) 12:53, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Well this is certainly entering (or is already at) WP:LAME territory. Wikimandia, I really suggest you drop the stick and walk away here. AKS.9955 has clearly stated he doesn't want the article deleted, therefore, it's not G7. The personal attacks are unnecessary as well. only (talk) 12:27, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Agreed, this is new levels of WP:LAME. The claims of personal attacks is also fail as far as I'm concerned. —Мандичка^YO 😜 13:21, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• And the trolling continues. If there are any admins around, do those of us who wish to address the AFD intelligently and in line with policy really have to put up with this disruption for much longer? Mr Potto (talk) 13:42, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with the claim that there is something amiss with nominating your own article for deletion and then !voting against deletion. If I create an article and other editors are of the opinion that it should be deleted but don't know enough to list it at AfD, I might very well list it myself to give the opinion of the newbies a fair hearing. Nothing wrong with that. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:42, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Guy Macon That's what the discussion page is for. Additionally, you will commonly see people creating an AfD and then adding another vote to delete it; that vote is struck out and they are told, "you don't need to add that second vote. Nominating counts as your vote." Would you nominate something for a WP:GOODARTICLE or WP:DYK and then claim you were NOT actually nominating it, you just wanted to see what others thought about it and if it should be nominated? Seriously, does that make any sense?

• By the way, to any admins reading this, I'd like to point out that Mr Potto has had an account for about three weeks, but half of his contributions to Wikipedia are related to this stupid AfD conversation today and most of the others are on talk pages or other administrative stuff. He's not a sock and I'm the queen of England. —Мандичка^YO 😜 16:29, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Personally, I prefer a new user who comes up to speed quickly over an old user who's still so confused about policies that he or she thinks that "long-term coverage" is required for notability [5]. EEng (talk) 19:11, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

When the nominator explicitly says "My personal opinion is not to delete the article and have merely nominated this as an editor "feels" that this article fails WP:GNG and is WP:SPAM (promotional) in nature. Please don't take my nomination OR comment as the recommendation (either way) and use your own judgment", then you either have to be exceptionally stupid or a troll to keep insisting that they're asking for it to be deleted as a CSD:G7. I have to say I'm surprised that someone with your years of experience could understand AFD and CSD so poorly, could have such an apparently weak understanding of plain English, and could apparently be so unfamiliar with the old adage about holes and digging, Wikimandia. Also, your Majesty, if you believe you have evidence that I am abusively using multiple accounts, I believe you are supposed to provide it at WP:SPI rather than throwing around unsupported accusations. Mr Potto (talk) 17:37, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

"Your Majesty" -- good one! EEng (talk) 19:02, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

"I must make a note about this shocking proposal!" Martinevans123 (talk) 19:26, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@Wikimandia: Your personal attack on Mr Potto (accusing of sockpuppetry, especially with no evidence whatsoever) aside, Wikipedia does allow multiple accounts. Your claim of WP:CSD#G7 and attempts to edit war over it is an absolute farce. G7 says "If requested in good faith" It wasn't requested in any faith at all. It was requested unknowingly. G7 is for when an editor created an article, is the sole major contributor to it, and says something along the lines of "I f'd up, its my bad, feel free to delete". I see nothing of the sort here, regardless of whatever implied consent you think is given by bringing an article up for discussion at WP:AFD. ― Padenton|✉   18:16, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

The nomination-counts-as-your-vote-so-you-mean-G7-even-if-you-say-you-don't argument is perhaps the most perfectly distilled example of wikilawyering ever. EEng (talk) 17:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Indeed. Particularly so since an AfD is not a vote. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:53, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I think it's useful to point out here that AfD originally stood for "Articles for Discussion", and at heart that's what it still is, really. EEng (talk)

 Comment::- Articles for deletion (WP:AfD) is where Wikipedians discuss whether an article should be deleted or not. I think Wikimandia misunderstood the WP:AfD process, that it is not a place where articles must be deleted at all cost but where Wikipedians determines the faith of articles after a period of policy-based arguments and the consensus there determines the faith of the article. It's usually not a good idea to assumed that a nominator of an article for deletion is doing that in bad faith and such assumption is usually frown upon. Having said that, I think Mr Potto is too hasty in bringing the issues here, it would have been better to resolve the issues with an univolved admin rather than ANI or better still Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard. I think am familiar with AKS.9955 and Wikimandia and what I can deduce from my experience with both editor is that they need some behavioral guidelines on how to interact with fellow editors if they are really here to build an encyclopedia. @Padenton: I actually thought it was a duplicate, thanks for reverting my edit. Wikic¤l¤gy^{t@lk to M£} 01:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

@Wikicology: I brought it here because Wikimandia was repeatedly adding a blatantly incorrect G7 tag to the article and refused to stop doing it when asked, and was clearly not open to a constructive dialog. That needed to be stopped, and I think this is an appropriate place to ask for help with that (and, I would have thought, an ideal place to find an uninvolved admin as you suggest). And the Dispute Resolution board would have been wrong, as that is for content disputes and this is not a content dispute. Mr Potto (talk) 08:23, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• Wikic¤l¤gy; Firstly you should know what is being discussed here and why this issue has been brought here by Mr Potto. Secondly (and as I cautioned you earlier); be careful of using strong language against me. You have a habit of putting others down just to prove how smart you are; go do it somewhere else. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 06:52, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Personal attacks and repeated abuses by Wikimandia

An AfD discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diploma in Homoeopathic Medicine & Surgery is going on. During the discussion (and without any provocation), Wikimandia abused me. To this, I raised an objection there and also posted a caution on her TalkPage. She not only continues to be unapologetic, but increased her attacked on her TalkPage. There is another ANI (this) open against her. Whilst I am posting this on the notice board, I am issuing another caution notice to her for personal attacks. I hope that the user will be dealt with accordingly. Many thanks, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 12:25, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

There's no need for a separate section for this; you can add the comments in the section above. only (talk) 12:31, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• only, honestly I was thinking the same too but then still decided to start a new topic as both subjects are related but still different. I hope this will be in line. If you still want, I can delete this OR ask for an admin to merge this request with the one above. Please let me know. Cheers, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 12:33, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• How about we just change the heading level to make this a subsection of the above section? (I've been bold and done it, so I hope that's acceptable to all.) Mr Potto (talk) 12:48, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• I agree with Mr Potto. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 12:55, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

WP:LAME WP:LAME WP:LAME WP:LAME WP:LAME WP:LAME WP:LAME WP:LAME WP:LAME WP:LAME WP:LAME —Мандичка^YO 😜 13:21, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Mr Potto, I suggest that we create a separate section for "Personal attacks and repeated abuses...." as the user not only refuses to listen but has not started mocking everyone. I have taken the liberty to re-create the section. Cheers, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 13:49, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Sure, entirely up to you. Mr Potto (talk) 13:51, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Comment: None of this mess would have occurred if those involved had followed Wikipedia guidelines and discussed issues on the article talk page, rather than edit-warring, starting an AfD with an invalid deletion rationale ("I don't want the article deleted" isn't a rationale for deletion, obviously), and engaging in endless sniping at each other in the AfD and here. I suggest trouts all round, along with instructions to use article talk pages for debates in future. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:51, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

This would not have happened had one editor not been edit warring to add a blatantly incorrect G7 speedy deletion tag to the article, and trying to divert this from that simple truth is not, in my opinion, very helpful. If someone (article creator or other) believes that a discussion should be held on whether an article should be deleted, then AFD seems to me to be precisely the place to conduct it. Mr Potto (talk) 19:16, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• AndyTheGrump, That's NOT what is being discussed here now. Issue here is that an editor is being abusive and has been reported. What you are trying to do is reduce number of WP:ANI reports against her from 2 to 1. Don't do it again. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 19:11, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• AndyTheGrump, apologies if I was curt. Its just that I am lost in-between too many abuses and bad comments - it was an honest WP:AfD nomination and God only knows why people started getting personal rather than a simple keep or delete. Back on the subject of this report, I originally had started this a separate topic and would intend it to stay that way. Cheers, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 19:17, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

No less than Administrator Chillum edited this to be a subtopic of the above, and several of us editors agree with him. There is no need to make it a separate topic – Administrators can walk and chew gum at the same time: they can figure out what's going on here. So there is no need for a separate topic for this – please leave it as a subtopic. --IJBall (talk) 19:22, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I think that Arun Kumar SINGH needs to understand that once an issue is raised on WP:ANI, the broader background is very much open to discussion if relevant. And that AfDs are not votes... AndyTheGrump (talk) 19:28, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• AndyTheGrump, I never said AfD are votes - you perhaps confused me with someone else. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 06:52, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

 Comment::- AKS.9955's edit history and the way they often interact with other editors does not shows they are here to build an encyclopedia and they often want to attack and insult any editor who disagree with them. I strongly believe that any editor that is not here to collaborate with other editors is certainly not here to build an encyclopedia. I want to give the chronology of my experience with them. I noticed that User:AKS.9955 usually gives wrong rationale at AfDs and I left a note on their talk page here, they responded by accusing me as "fault finding editor" [6]. I responded to that comment [7] with clarification. They solicited for my help [8] and I rendered it. Few weeks later, I notify them of the nomination of one of their non-notable article [9] and they responded aggressively here, I responded [10], they responded with an attack here and on my talk page here and I responded [11]. They engaged in off-topic discussion and this was removed by Stalwart111 [12] and they accused User:Stalwart111 of WP:GANG against them here the discussion was closed as Delete. Before the discussion was closed, they also left an insulting wording on my talk page [13], I removed it here, they re-posted the same content I removed again from my talk page here. The way they also react to Jeffro77 on their talk page for example here and the editor's own talk page [14] does not show that they are here to build an encyclopedia. I point out all this simply because of my experienced with them and am not sure of what they might have done with other editors too. Their response to my initial comments in the above speak for itself. Wikic¤l¤gy^{t@lk to M£} 09:06, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

 Comment::- Wikicology: Its nice to see how much time you spend on proving how right you are and how to frame someone else. Before you say anything else, you should look at your own AfD record and the lame reasons you have given there. In any case, I have no inclination to talk to someone like you or Jeffro77 and have made it very clear to both parties. What you are doing here is instead of staying on the subject of "disruptive editing" and "personal attacks" by another user in question (for which this ANI discussion was started), you are trying to settle some past scores and also trying to prove to everyone how "wise" you are. In any case, I will NOT respond to any further messages from you unless you have something constructive to say. Stop dragging my name into matters when I am trying to work on more meaningful things. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 09:22, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure there's any "framing" there. The discussion that included me did include a lot of back and forth that could have been avoided if there hadn't been an obvious language barrier. Arun, you jump to conclusions without understanding the policy background and you tend to assume to worst of people (like the suggestion I was ganging up on you and the suggestion you are being framed). The diffs speak for themselves in many of the cases cited. If nothing else, you need to take a step back, breath and read what has been written before shooting from the hip. St★lwart¹¹¹ 10:59, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

• Folks, as far as I'm concerned this thing is settled, and the AFD discussion is progressing just fine. There's been some heated disagreement, but I'm happy to see all sides as having done things in good faith -- good faith editors can very easily get into disputes like this in this unforgiving medium (and it only takes a brief reading of this very page to see that). I strongly suggest we all drop this now and move on, and I'd be happy to see this whole section closed myself. What do you say? Mr Potto (talk) 14:07, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

StudentQuery

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StQuery2 (talk · contribs) is a sock of StudentQuery (talk · contribs). [15]

Please block, and hope, for the love of God, after the massive attempts at explaining wikipedia rules [16] [17], they'll finally get the message and appeal in the appropriate way. Or CIR. 88.104.21.80 (talk) 22:14, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

The appropriate place to file this complaint would be at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations, following the instructions there. SilverSurfingSerpant (talk) 22:20, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

No need to further burden our overworkd SPI board: I have blocked as an obvious duck sock and will explain to the user how to post an unblock request on his original acct. -- Diannaa (talk) 00:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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Abuse of blocking policy by User:Ritchie333

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At 13.10 on 18 May, User:Ritchie333 said "I'm not intending to block the Best known for IP as I'm WP:INVOLVED.[18]

Two days later (not long after he deleted an edit summary with the absurd claim that the word "idiot" was "Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive", see above):

• 19:18, 20 May 2015 Ritchie333 (talk | contribs) blocked 186.9.131.35 (talk) with an expiry time of 72 hours (anon. only, account creation blocked, cannot edit own talk page) (Best known for IP)
• 18:39, 20 May 2015 Ritchie333 (talk | contribs) blocked 186.9.135.203 (talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (anon. only, account creation blocked, cannot edit own talk page) (Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Best known for IP)

186.9.128.182 (talk) 02:41, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I can't help but think this is the same person, under yet another IP, misusing the word "abuse" in efforts to get Ritchie in trouble. Are you the same IP that called someone an idiot in an edit summary? I can't imagine anyone else but that IP who wrote it knowing about it or caring about it (it was only active for a few hours), let alone feeling that the removal of a personal attack was somehow detrimental to the website. Sergecross73 msg me 02:55, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

The revision delete policy is very clear, and Ritchie333 violated it. The blocking policy is equally clear, and Ritchie333 violated it having already shown that he understood it. I note that you have blocked someone you were involved in a content dispute with and made personal attack against as well. Perhaps it's no wonder that you don't understand what "abuse" means. 186.9.134.98 (talk) 03:12, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Three IP editors from the same wireless carrier in Chile, using similar idiomatic English and posting on the same topic. Obviously these are three completely different and unrelated individuals. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 03:05, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

This just screams WP:EVASION. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 03:19, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

And do Ritchie333's actions scream "abuse", or do they merely whisper it? 186.9.134.98 (talk) 03:22, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I see now, maybe you should just create an account? The problem is the IP you are using enables anyone to edit Wikipedia from it. There has been a history of abuse with the IP address you are using so as I said account creation would be best. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 03:30, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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Editors are getting irresponsible nowadays QuartierLatin1968 and Howicus

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Once this editor decided to edit an article, please see to it that the article don't appear messy. This is what this editor did and I even leave a message for her-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:QuartierLatin1968 and also Howicus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Howicus got rid of one section and I would like to talk to him but he said in his userpage he doesnot like to be able to access wikipedia becoz he goes to skol- quite sketchy not be responsible for what he did so make excuses. If I only know these people with their names revealed the people who are victimized by wikipedia will be very happy... this is a problem with your systemToweringpeaks3 (talk) 05:41, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Apparently I'm about to be reported to the White House for either warning him about not threatening off-wiki action, or removing non-reliable references from a BLP, I'm not sure which. Can someone else take a look at this, please? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 12:50, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Blocked by Floq; see thread Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User talk:Toweringpeaks3. -- Diannaa (talk) 13:59, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Battleground behavior by user Hijiri88, proposing topic ban

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The user Hijiri88 posted this message today on the talk page of the article Korean influence on Japanese culture. He says that he will not speak to me anymore regarding an on-going content dispute and will instead ask for me to be topic-banned. However, my edits are constructive and it's hard to see what justification there is for Hijiri's attitude here. There is good reason to believe that the greater problems lie with Hijiri. Therefore, I am in turn requesting a topic ban for Hijiri from the article "Korean influence on Japanese culture" as a result of problematic behavior over the past year, including a very long-term pattern of incivility and battleground behavior. Although Hijiri has exhibited similar behavior in some other articles, cataloging it all would take too long, so I'll keep it relatively short and stick to issues relating to this one article.

Recently the user TH1980 began to make some reliably-sourced additions to the article Korean influence on Japanese culture, but Hijiri immediately began edit warring with him without consensus to delete the material. He reverted the same material TH1980 and I were adding five times in a 24-hour period. While reverting, Hijiri made uncivil and false claims in his edit summaries, repeatedly accusing TH1980 of being a sockpuppet despite having no evidence to support his claim. Hijiri also made uncivil comments to him in the talk page, including asking TH1980, "Who are you, and which other accounts have you used?"

If Hijiri was just having one bad day it would be different, but this has actually been going on for months and months. To see how long this has been going on, consider that way back in June of 2014 Hijiri created an attack page in his sandbox. The page had no purpose but to defame other Wikipedia users who had edited the article Korean influence on Japanese culture as being "POV pushers" and "sockpuppets". This attack page still exists, and now TH1980 is also on the list, who Hijiri claims is an "anti-Japanese" sockpuppet. It needs to be stressed that Hijiri has offered no proof for his nasty accusations and none of these users were ever proven to have engaged in sockpuppetry.

I imagine TH1980, as a Wikipedia user in good standing, wanted to play a productive role in editing the article, but how can he work with Hijiri when Hijiri assumes bad faith so openly that Hijiri repeatedly accuses him of being a sockpuppet to his face? I joined the conversation later and after making one constructive comment Hijiri immediately threatened me, telling me, "you need to be blocked per WP:CIR immediately". Hijiri continued to speak to me in an uncivil manner, including his comments like "learn to speak frickin' English" and "Please learn to speak English". I know how to speak English, so how many times is he going to tell me that? He also said, "I was about to close this comment with "you bloody buffoon"". By saying this, he actually did close the comment with "you bloody buffoon". He told me, "Why can't you get it through your thick skull" that Yamanoe Okura was not a Korean, in spite of the fact that numerous reliable sources, including the Cambridge History of Japan and articles by Roy Andrew Miller, do describe him as "a Korean". When I thanked TH1980 for his edits, Hijiri left a threatening message on my talk page and told me to "grow the hell up". He then made a completely fallacious statement and told me "if you are too stupid to understand that ... well". He openly assumes bad faith when he tells me, "I am only agreeing to post this here... so that constructive discussion can take place on the talk page. You have already demonstrated that you are incapable of this."

Now take a look at this clearly-disruptive comment he posted directly into the article. Hijiri deleted a reliable source while claiming that it was "twisted to say what the Korean ultranationalists who still seem to be running this page wanted it to say". Actually, Hijiri seems to accuse everyone who disagrees with him of POV-pushing or having a hidden agenda. Hijiri claimed that the reason why a "Chinese influence on Japanese culture" article does not exist is because "Chinese nationalists are apparently not insecure enough that they need to go onto English Wikipedia and denigrate another country's culture". At the same time in a related article he again called TH1980 a "Korean/anti-Japanese POV-pushing SPA" and called me an "incompetent user". He constantly accuses people who disagree with him of racism. He has accused both TH1980 and myself of "borderline racism". However, as the user Andrew Davidson said to Hijiri in one discussion about the article, "As for righting great wrongs, you seem to be the one on a mission".

On top of all this, perhaps one of the most serious problems with Hijiri's conduct on the article is his constant use of intimidation and threats against people he disagrees with. I myself have been threatened by him with administrative action literally over a dozen times in this particular article, including on these two occasions among others... "you would probably need to be either banned or blocked. You managed to avoid this result last time", and "I would take you to ANI and ask for a topic-ban, but on what topic would such a ban be? ALL Wikipedia editors are permanently banned from "original research" to begin with. Is it a block you want?" What is notable about these two threats is that they were issued against me BEFORE I had even edited the article in question. I was threatened with administrative action only because I commented on the article. I have never been blocked from Wikipedia before, so there is no reason why I should have been threatened this many times. Incidentally, Hijiri was warned by another user about making threats against me on a different article, but despite this Hijiri can barely make a single post nowadays without threatening me with administrative sanctions.

Hijiri also has problems with using sources, which he often does not read before citing. Perhaps most egregious of all was a whopping 1,000 word post he made rebutting an article which he admits at the beginning "I haven't read". It's a waste of others users time when Hijiri spends so long critiquing sources he hasn't even read. Unlike Hijiri I had read the article in question, so I quoted a relevant section to him. Surely a normal user would have thanked me for verifying the source, but Hijiri just launched into a long tirade against me. Again he accuses me of original research just for quoting a scholarly work in the talk page. Even when I told Hijiri that he should only criticize sources after reading them he responded "the only legal way I can access most of these English-language academic sources from American and European publishers is by ordering them off Amazon... how may I ask do you expect me to judge these sources on their own merits?." Why does Hijiri delete and criticize sources he has not read? Well, once recently the user Nishidani added new information into the article on Yamanoe no Okura and Hijiri immediately began to delete portions of it. After being questioned about the matter by Nishidani, Hijiri admitted that he had deleted the sourced information because he had mistakenly believed that I was the one who had added it to the article. Hijiri notes here he was aware that it "violates AGF to assume Curtis has misread and misunderstood a source I haven't myself read". I think it's natural Wikipedia policy, however, that sources cited should be read and judged on their own merits. One shouldn't delete reliably sourced information just because one doesn't like the editor who puts it in the article, as Hijiri fully admits to doing here.

As you can see, a large percentage of the comments Hijiri made in the talk page, and even in the article itself, are hostile and abusive. Furthermore. Hijiri has done very little to improve the article. Virtually all his edits to the article are just reckless blankings and deletions even of sourced text. Sometimes he is so eager to delete things that he cuts sentences right in half making their meaning incomprehensible. Wikipedia is supposed to be based on collaborative editing, but Hijiri spends more of his time trying to intimidate other users than collaborate with them. I would like the admins to review the above evidence and ask the question as to whether this uncivil and overly confrontational behavior is actually constructive to the goal of improving the article rather than being disruptive.

• Support topic ban as the proposer.CurtisNaito (talk) 20:31, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, I read your entire argument which is well constructed. My question is, how broad or how narrow is the topic ban you are proposing? Is it only for this article or are you arguing for a topical area that would contain multiple articles? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:19, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

When I was reading the page, it didn't have Snow Rise's comment and your response posted but that is what I was trying to address with my comment. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:22, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

I think he should be page-banned from the article Korean influence on Japanese culture. To be honest, I considered asking for something broader, but I was worried the admins wouldn't read it all, because there was an awful lot of dubious behavior to document. Therefore, I decided to stay focused only on issues relating to this one page. If you look below, user Snow Rise says, "I would have supported a topic ban on subjects relating to Japanese history and culture, broadly construed". Therefore, I am proposing only a page ban, whereas Snow Rise appears to be proposing a wide-ranging topic ban. Which of these two ultimately occurs is something that I will leave to the discretion of the relevant admins.CurtisNaito (talk) 22:28, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support While the above is a tad TLDR, it builds a convincing case that Hijiri is not here to work with others, but has major WP:BATTLEGROUND and WP:OWNership issues. It does look like he's deliberately making it impossible for others to contribute to the article, and the unsubstantiated accusations and rude, dismissive comments, as well his behavior in the actual article text itself, indicates to me that he needs to be removed from this topic so quality work can commence. As someone who has never edited the area before, I don't have a pony in this race, but the behavior outlined above, as evidenced by the diffs, is unacceptable. --Jayron32 20:56, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, if you want I can shorten it down. What parts are most pertinent?CurtisNaito (talk) 20:57, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support I am not a Korean/anti-Japanese POV pusher. Edits like this suggest Hijiri is not editing constructively. A topic ban would be the right solution here.TH1980 (talk) 21:07, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

I assume you are aware now that Hijiri88 has attacked you directly in his sandbox as well. My belief is that that whole page is an attack page which should be deleted.CurtisNaito (talk) 21:16, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

@CurtisNaito That is just deplorable on Hijiri88's part. I agree that his sandbox page should be deleted.TH1980 (talk) 02:41, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

• Comment I should add that, in spite of Hijiri's constant threats to have me topic-banned, it seems to me that Hijiri is more prone to dubious behavior than I am. Just within the last few months Hijiri has been described by other respected Wikipedia users as an editor who does not demonstrate "basic competence as per WP:CIR"(John Carter), who displays "gross incivility"(John Carter), who makes statements exhibiting "a powerful confirmation bias on this matter or, at worst, a willful misrepresentation"(Snow Rise), who adopts a "WP:BATTLEGROUND outlook" to editing(Snow Rise), who insults other users and degrades their nationality(Catflap08), who makes "tendentious" edits(Erpert), and who was told, under threat of sanctions, to "adopt a more collaborative approach to editing."(SilkTork) I have not verified the accuracy of all of these allegations, but even so Hijiri's threats and personal attacks against other editors are surely not collaborative behavior.CurtisNaito (talk) 21:24, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Those quotes from John Carter should be stricken out. He himself was demonstrating CIR issues and "gross incivility" in that dispute, and using his disruptive tactics as "evidence" only hurts your case. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 04:24, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support Technically this is a pageban, not a topic ban. Personally, I would have supported a topic ban on subjects relating to Japanese history and culture, broadly construed, since this is obviously an area where Hijiri cannot edit collaboratively with others and I suspect we shall be seeing him here again soon on a similar topic. But I agree that CN has made his case here, and I have now seen enough content/personal disputes involving Hijiri on the noticeboards and elsewhere to know how willing he is to misrepresent the record to try to shoehorn in his preferred approach to content, sometimes seemingly without fully realizing that he is spinning the facts. A message needs to be sent here, since Hijiri has a tendency to pretty much universally reject or rationalize away any criticism of his behaviour. Snow ^{let's rap} 22:01, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

I was thinking of proposing that, but I didn't largely because I think the admins, in accordance with TLDR, often stop reading a post when it becomes too long. I think Hijiri has engaged in the same sorts of battleground behavior in other articles, but documenting that would take so long that no admin would want to read it all.CurtisNaito (talk) 22:05, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the noticeboards have already seen an abundance of evidence of Hijiri's tendentiousness in this area. But as he is facing a pageban here and the possibility of two more in a thread above, I hope he will take the message with whatever narrower sanctions he might receive (or narrowly avoid, if that proves the case) and try to reach towards consensus and middle-ground solutions instead of the type of approach that has brought him here repeatedly. If he doesn't, I'm sure someone will propose a broader TBAN next time he is back here (as it will probably be for issues in the same content area). But as to the TLDR, yeah, I would definitely work on streamlining your presentation next time you might have to post here, even if you have a lot of evidence to provide; I very likely would not have slogged through all of that if I had not been pinged and was not familiar with the editor in question. Snow ^{let's rap} 22:48, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, I could delete or box some of it now if you want. You said before that you support my proposal, so what was it from the above post that convinced you? If there are some parts which are not relevant, I can take them out now if you want.CurtisNaito (talk) 22:52, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support Topic Ban (non admin) After reading what CurtisNaito wrote, and looking at the diffs, there is no question that an Topic ban is needed, and it should be an indef one. After reading a few sections dealing with Hijiri88 behaviour I believe a indef topic ban broadly defined is in order, but the op didnt ask for it. Violations of WP:CIVIL, WP:HARASS and WP:NPA by Hijiri88 have clearly been shown. AlbinoFerret 23:46, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
• Note My "battleground behaviour" has been limited to telling CurtisNaito he is misusing sources and pointing out that many of the other editors he agrees with are obvious sockpuppets. I have spent almost two years trying to explain Wikipedia's sourcing policies to CurtisNaito, and he still doesn't get it. If anyone needs a topic ban it's CurtisNaito from ancient history articles. He has been wasting a massive amount of time on the part of other, more constructive editors like me, User:Nishidani and User:Sturmgewehr88. It's also worth noting that several of the other editors supporting a TBAN for me (Snow Rise and AlbinoFerret) clearly haven't read the talk page discussion in question and are only here as revenge for another dispute currently at the top of this page.because they have made a radically inaccurate assumption about my "disruptive behaviour" on other articles (they were both radically wrong there too -- Ctrl+F this page for "underlying content dispute") and assumed the same is true here. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 00:06, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Excuse me, "revenge"? Would you care to strike that comment, please? I have never been in any kind of content or personal dispute with you anywhere on the project, and every single time I have taken part in a community discussion involving you, it has been because A) I was pinged there -- and three of those pings were made by you (1,2, 3), apparently because you thought my support for the content argument you made would extend to support for your behaviour broadly, which it did not and which I kept telling you well past each of those pings and your efforts to imply to others that my perspectives supported yours) -- and B) the discussion was taking place in a central community forum anyway. To the best of my knowledge AlbinoFerret has also never been in a content dispute with you for which he would be seeking revenge, nor do either of us have the least bit of history of developing content or policy disputes into personal grudges (ironically the very behaviour that has brought you to these noticeboards repeatedly and which you have been warned about by administrators (I have never in my time editing on the project been accused of such behaviour and certainly never received an administrative warning of that nature, nor of any sort, ever). Contrary to your statement (which is predicated on a claim to knowledge you could not possibly have) I did read over the discussions and evidence presented here in detail, and issued my opinion accordingly, which is the sum total of any "involvement" I've ever had with you anywhere.

This kind if behaviour (misrepresenting the perspectives of other editors and the motives of the community members that try to rein you in) is exactly the kind of thing that has made you the subject of so many different community discussions and administrative efforts to control your tendency to needlessly personalize discussions and adopt a battleground perspective to those who don't agree with you or are have concerns about the amount of editorial energy that gets sucked up by your combative behaviour -- and threads on that topic are essentially the full extent of my experience with you. So, what exactly am I meant to be seeking "revenge" for? Please be advised that making accusations of bad-faith actions for which you cannot provide evidence in the forms of diffs is considered a WP:Personal attack under policy, so if this is really the road you want to go down, feel free to see where it gets you; I guaruntee you that it's not going to help your case in this thread...

In the meantime, your efforts at misdirection and misrepresentation of other community members, which grow increasingly thin in general, have in this case devolved into outright lies about the degree and nature of my involvement with you on this project, so I would very much appreciate a retraction. And if you don't want my honest opinion of your behaviour, stop pinging me into discussions that review your behaviour as someone who supposedly will corroborate your positions! Snow ^{let's rap} 02:07, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Fine. Maybe not "revenge". You radically misread the Kokuchukai dispute as being a content dispute between two users with opposing POVs (as has the user you think has a POV opposibg mune) and the exact same thing has happened here. CurtisNaito thinks @Nishidani:, @Sturmgewehr88: and I believe Korean influence on Japan is minimal, but none of us have ever actually said we believe that. We believe CurtisNaito has WP:COMPETENCE issues regarding how to read and cite sources and have grown incredibly frustrated trying to explain WP:PST and WP:V (among others) to him. (Ironically, this is exactly the same as the Kokuchukai article.) Please actually read the discussion in question before supporting one party's request that another be page-banned. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:48, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you feel so confident repeatedly asserting that I did not follow up on that discussion, but -- saying this once again -- I did. But the content issues debated there are only so germane to why I !voted in support of the ban; what drove my decision was primarily concerns about WP:C and WP:NPA. I don't care how frustrated you are as a result of the fact that you feel you've had to repeatedly explain a policy argument to someone on the other side of a content dispute, it is never alright to resort to name-calling here. If you feel your ire rising to that point, you should back away from the discussion until you can make your argument without talking about your opponent's "thick skull". That's the real competency issue I see at work here. And it seems to be a part of a broader pattern, which is part of why I felt confident in supporting the measure proposed; it seems that when it comes to topics concerning Japanese nationalism and cultural identity, you just cannot keep your cool -- nor avoid developing grudges against those who oppose your approach, whose positions you often malign and discredit on the basis of the supposed prejudices of the other parties, rather than keeping the discussion fixed on the policy argument -- and that's very problematic. There have been a number of times (while I've reviewed the talk page discussions for the various Japanese history-related content disputes you've been involved with lately) where I agreed fully or in part with the content argument you were making but found the way you made that argument completely unacceptable and indicative of a lack of collaborative spirit in your approach to those topics.

Civility and cooperation are as essential to competence as understanding of content policies, and it's not an either/or situation -- you need to be able to know how to parse community consensus and do it without resorting to insulting those who see the matter differently -- argue the point, not the traits of the other editor, no matter how steamed you get. You make this all way too personal, and way too fast. If yours is the perspective that truly aligns with consensus (broad and local), then in the vast majority of cases, your approach will be adopted in the long run, provided you keep your cool and argue dispassionately. My support for the topic/page ban stems from the fact that questions of Japanese cultural identity seem to set your fuse short, and I believe in utilizing the minimally-effective sanction -- otherwise I would recommended a block for incivility, personal attacks, and inability to assume good faith. Snow ^{let's rap} 05:21, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose until underlying issue examined It is clear that Hijiri88 is using the wrong tactics (do not discuss editors on article talk pages, and do not use excited language), but I am concerned that the diffs might show that Hijiri88 is exhausted from dealing with problematic editors, and the proposed topic ban might be aimed in the wrong direction. For example, the "learn to speak frickin' English" diff looks like an "omg he was rude" moment, but the substance of the comment seems to be entirely accurate—Hijiri88 had commented on a source and its use of "Korean" as a noun to refer to a person; the response from CurtisNaito offers several items to reject Hijiri88's view, but each of the items is not what Hijiri88 had referred to. I clicked a few more links and did not see anything that could not be argued. Apart from raging at ANI, what dispute resolution has occured regarding the underlying issue? Johnuniq (talk) 01:50, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

That issue was already dealt with. At the time I hadn't checked the same source as Hijiri was using, but after I did it became clear that Miller does refer to Yamanoe Okura as "a Korean" using a noun, see here.CurtisNaito (talk) 01:56, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

The point is that you posted a diff showing someone using strong language, but on investigating the context it turns out that the language was provoked by blather that misrepresented the situation. That took place at the edit warring noticeboard, and what happened 24 hours later on an article talk page is irrelevant. Looking at the noticeboard again I see that Nishidani posted a very convincing statement (diff of tweak, search for "He was the descendent of a Kudara refugee who fled to Yamato" to see the comment) showing that, regardless of what Miller said, the above claim about Yamanoe Okura is absurd. Obviously the issue involves nationalistic POV pushing, but it is hard for those at ANI to determine whose removal would benefit the encyclopedia. Johnuniq (talk) 03:27, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

In regards to the original statement, I don't think there was cause for such controversy. The original source accurately noted that, "Another significant literary accomplishment of this period was the compilation of the Manyoshu... The Korean influence is also present in the anthology. One of the three main poets of the Manyoshu, Yamanoe Okura, it is now believed, was a Korean immigrant in Japan." The original text being put into the article said, "The poetry of Yamanoe Okura, a Korean who lived in Japan, demonstrates Korean influence on Japanese literature." There was no grounds to claim that any factual inaccuracies or misrepresentation occurred here.CurtisNaito (talk) 03:32, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

I am seconding Johnuniq. I oppose one-sided ban for either side & I also support sending to ArbCom I am an uninvolved editor with some passing knowledge with this topic. This really should go to WP:ARBCOM. There is bad behavior on both sides here (have you read some of the edit comments?) - what the sanctions for that should be need to be carefully examined. The fact finding for this topic area is non-trivial (e.g. determinations of POV pushing, reverts based on good/poor RS, etc). One of the problems is that in this area of scholarship there are at least two major factions with regard this topic with two disjoint bodies of scholarly RS. There is a "maximize Korean influence" faction, and there is a "minimize Korean influence" faction. (There is a "no influence" faction, but it's FLAT.) This leads to a major division in the RSs WRT this area - what one off-Wiki scholarly community considers reliable, other off-Wiki scholarly community considers poorly sourced, if not fiction. And vice versa. There is WP:BATTLEGROUND happening here which needs addressing, but this is carry over from the battleground in the scholarship in the area of Korean influence on Japanese Culture - some mechanism for allowing at least these two max/min POV needs to devised. Any resolution needs to find a way for both sides to have their say without the other side trying dismiss it out of hand. There needs at least needs to be at least a section in the article that describes the conflict between maximizing and minimizing. I wouldn't normally say "both sides" about any given topic area, but here the RS are divided into at least two clear camps; POV balance is going to very hard here. ForbiddenRocky (talk) 05:54, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support A 6 month ban on ALL Japanese related articles would be acceptable, Hijiri88 has made editing certain Japanese related articles so difficult by his bullying tactics that many editors will no longer edit those articles for fear of being dragged into this type of administrative action. It is not a matter at this point whether Hijiri88 is actually making constructive edits, the constant fighting that accompanies so many of the articles that Hijiri88 edits shows that there is a substantial problem with the manner in which Hijiri88 edits. Many editors have been dragged into prolonged, protracted debates which never should have happened in the first place......unless Hijiri88 is deliberately trying to cause problems which seems to be the case. Now Hijiri88 is running to other editors talk pages trying to drum up support when all of this could have easily been avoided. Using brute force to get your way even if you are right is not how editing is supposed to be done. Hijiri88 seems to get some sort of enjoyment out of drawing unsuspecting editors into one of these types of administrative actions. Even if the other editors are not as knowledgable about a subject it is not acceptable to constantly show how superior your knowledge is. What I do not understand is why Hijiri88 was allowed to continue doing this type of thing for so long. 119.94.99.143 (talk) 04:24, 16 May 2015 (UTC) — 119.94.99.143 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Hijiri88 here. Note that while I do not knoe for certain who the above Philippines(?)-based IP is, the repeated meme of "I don't know why Hijiri88 has been allowed get away with xyz" bears a close resemblance to what the site-banned user JoshuSasori and the indef-blocked user Kauffner have been repeating for the past two years in the attack site the former keeps on me. (I won't link to the blog itself because it gives my real name and, even more disturbingly, my parents' home address, but if anyone wants the details they are free to email me.) 182.249.3.142 (talk) 06:28, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

• • Typical response by Hijiri88, everyone is a sockpuppet out to get you, why would it matter were my IP is based, and if you did "knoe for certain" who I was what would you do, try to drag me through some sort of extended administrative action, and lacking that info your plan of attack is to try and convince other editors that I one of the large number of banned enemies from your past so that what I have to say here should be ignored. I am simply stating the obvious, that the type of editing that Hijiri88 uses is the cause of much of the problems being discussed here and on the many other administrative actions that Hijiri88 has been involved with. Hijiri88 is an experienced editor and knows exactly what not to do in order to keep this very thing from happening. Constantly giving Hijiri88 a free pass to ignore the rules and procedures of proper editing will pave the way for the next administrative episode.....im just saying....119.94.99.143 (talk) 10:58, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose - while Hijiri88 can get carried away with CAPS/underline/bold/italics/etc, he shouldn't be topic or page banned. CurtisNaito, who has been misrepresenting sources, should. It was only a few weeks ago that CurtisNaito and TH1980 intentionally baited Hijiri88 to revert them, then turned around and reported him for breaking 3RR. That is battleground behavior. I also second what User:Johnuniq said above. However, I do agree that Hijiri88's current sandbox should be deleted, as it violates WP:POLEMIC. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 04:55, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

@Sturmgewehr88: Actually, most of my use of bold typeface on the talkpage in question is to demark quotes from other users with my own responses, and I very rarely use underlining in violation of WP:SHOUT, but to indicate that I have altered my own comment post facto. I say this because other users have interpreted these the wrong way before. I have violated WP:SHOUT in this case, and probably in past interaction with CurtisNaito, but only because (as Nishidani alluded on his talk page) I have a tendency to take AGF too far and assuming that if I keep trying and trying (no matter how frustrating) I can eventually get through to Curtis and he will learn how to follow our guidelines and actually read sources before citing them. Longshot, I know.

Blanked the page myself, but I have no real problem with it getting deleted. I put my "search for the smoking gun" on-wiki to be transparent and encourage collaboration with my fellow non-sockpuppets. I'll keep the search up off-wiki anyway, since the two SPAs who showed up in February were/are almost certainly engaged in sockpuppetry and/or off-site collusion and still haven't been either CUed or blocked. The textbook SPA who made an account, created the article, and disappeared after a month was also super-suspicious.

TH1980 is admittedly much less of a certainty than those three --hence CurtisNaito constantly accusing me of AGF-violation by making sockpuppetry allegations being far out of proportion to the maybe three or four times I directly stated that I thought TH1980 was a sockpuppet -- but at the very least he/she is a tendentious editor who doesn't know how Wikipedia sourcing is supposed to work.

But I'll keep my sleuthing and record-keeping off-wiki from now on, I guess.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 05:45, 16 May 2015 (UTC) (Edited 06:28, 16 May 2015 (UTC) )

If Hijiri broke 3RR then that is at least as much evidence of his battleground behaviour as is it is evidence of same for parties which supposedly "made" him do it; he knew what he was doing and knew the rules of conduct involved, so any rebuff he got at 3RR he earned. But what concerns me more are the issues with civility and the fact that when Hijiri gets into these types of situations, they invariably seem to escalate to the point where community discussion becomes necessitated. You took part in the same discussions with CurtisNaito and managed to not to call anyone any names, opine on the hidden ulterior motives of other parties, threaten administrative action in combative terms, or otherwise needlessly inflame the situation. You and other editors managed restraint in the same context, so why should we permit a lower standard for Hijiri? Snow ^{let's rap} 05:57, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

@Snow Rises: I technically violated 3RR, just barely, once, almost two weeks ago; TH1980 made two more reverts in the same 24-hour period than I. All of my reverts were in accordance with WP:BURDEN and WP:BRD as I was trying all the while to discuss the changes with TH1980 on the talk page and was being largely ignored. CurtisNaito reported me on ANEW and not TH1980 because he was more interested in getting me blocked than in complying with policy. If technically and just barely violating 3RR counts as page-ban worthy BATTLEGROUND bahaviour when I do it, what about TH1980's much more flagrant violations? Does he/she deserve a page ban as well? What about CurtisNaito's own BATTLEGROUND behaviour, let alone the chronic WP:COMPETENCE and WP:IDHT problems regarding sourcing and talk page etiquette? Does CurtisNaito deserve a block or ban for these? If the answer to any of these is "no", I would ask why not? Why would you be in favour of applying a (much!) lower standard to them than to me? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:14, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

This is a POV clash, and Naito's second attempt to get rid of Hijiri. It has the following elements.

• Curtis likes to add stuff that upsets Japanese national amour-propre, while Hijiri is defensive about Japan.
• In terms of POV, I am almost invariably on Naito's side, when I have the patience or masochism to follow these threads, and I disagree with Hijiri.
• When it actually comes to discussing edits in terms of WP:SYNTH, WP:RS WP:OR, etc., i.e. the fundamentals of policy, I come almost invariably down on Hijiri's side. This is somewhat paradoxical.
• The reason why, while sharing Naito's POV, I almost always agree with Hijiri, is simple. In my experience over several articles of the two interacting, (Battle of Shigisan, Emperor Jimmu,Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Korean influence on Japanese culture ) I have found it impossible to edit with CurtisNaito. He gets almost everything wrong, and in trying to persuade him to see the error of his ways, one has to wade through endless WP:TLDR prevarication or sidestepping. Hijiri, on the other hand, understands (somewhat too obsessively at times) policy, and knows what good solid sourcing for an encyclopedia consists of. Curtis's knowledge of Japanese topics looks like that of a high school enthusiast with no sense of critical method. So, if the board wants to get rid of the graduate and promote the teenager's cause, there's little I can do, other than saying I am quite prepared to document Naito's consistent overwhelmingly tedious obtusity, mendacity and prevarication. He is, as demanded, extremely well-mannered, and is, excuse the violation, wholly incapable of understanding the simplest technical objections to his approach (i.e. dumb to all remonstrance). He is totally innocent of any contact with scholarship, which deals in hypotheses and complexities, and is never, as he is, confident that a statement in a source can, ipso facto, be used regardless of its status (dubious or challenged) in the subject's history. I have corrected Hijiri on several occasions, and he, on each occasion, steps back, apologizes, or reflects. No such luck with Curtis. He repeatedly asserts he has read sources he clearly has not (see here, here, or here. The last was particularly memorable: when I cited a scholarly article to rebut his statement, he replied in 20 minutes saying it was good but not long enough. Well, the article is behind a paywall, is 19 pages long. Only a genius with megabucks could pony up, download, read closely the source, and then make a cogent reply in that exiguous time-span. He even went on to justify his original point citing 植村清二's 神武天皇(1957) and 門脇禎's 神武天皇 (1957) while admitting he hadn't read them, as 'biographies'. Neither work is a biography of that emperor). He's a prevaricator, who reads google snippets fished up as he searches for confirmation of his POV, and then creates an inimitably urbane ruckus when challenged. Hijiri is evidently ueber-exasperated. Nothing will wear out a passive-aggressive temper on the other hand. If you want to keep Curtis, while dispatching Hijiri, get CN a masochistic babysitter who knows the ABC, however, and is ready to keep cleaning up CN's messes. He is a massive waster of other editors' time.Nishidani (talk) 09:55, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose Hijiri88 has seen a lot of misconduct on these pages and those who have been opposing him they have been also involved in tag-team. I don't get if Hijiri88 should be topic banned. So many of these allegations have no links to actual discussion, and there is misjudgement of his actions. I am not going to support this topic ban. VandVictory (talk) 09:42, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Comment I must agree with Johnuniq here. If you just look at the diffs provided in the opening statement, Hijiri is clearly rude, dismissive and incivil. But if you look beyond Hijiri's comments and look at the entire talk page, you will see several respected editors who are beyond frustrated with Naito's inadequate use of sources. He is unfailingly polite which is remarkable given the hostile exchanges but according to those who are knowledgeable about the subject, he lacks competency. So, while I don't think a page ban will resolve the dispute on this article talk page which is really about WP:RS and Hijiri's bad behavior seems to arise out of frustration with having the same discussions over and over again. That doesn't excuse the personalization of the dispute and rude remarks. But while a limited civility block might be in order for Hijiri, the dispute on this talk page needs to head to WP:RSN or WP:DR if it is going to be resolved. Giving Hijiri a page ban won't resolve other editors' dispute with Naito's sourcing problems. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 14:37, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

How can you tell who is "knowledgeable about the subject" though? I have contributed to the article far more than anyone else, so why don't I qualify as "knowledgeable about the subject"? I have contributed more "good" rated articles on Japanese history than all my critics combined.CurtisNaito (talk) 15:27, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Curtis, I found your above assertion that you have contributed more toward Japanese history articles than the rest of us combined, based solely on the number of pages (heavily contributed to by other users, mind you) that you happen to have nominated for GA status (!), somewhat offensive. Please name a single article on Japanese history that you created and/or were the main contributor to that is superior to Ono no Komachi, Koshikibu no Naishi, Talk:Kenji Miyazawa/redraft, Shinsen Man'yōshū, Asukai Masatsune, Utsunomiya Yoritsuna and Fujiwara no Kiyosuke combined -- and that's just my work (and a little of Nishidani's) over the past month or so. No, wait: your mention of "Japanese history" is completely off-topic -- name a single article on Japanese history before the eighth century that you created and/or were the main contributor to that is superior to those articles, please. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:36, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I was the main contributor to both of the articles relating to Japanese history that I successfully nominated for "good article" status this year. They didn't deal with issues before the eighth century, but I don't believe you have successfully nominated any good articles from that period either. I'm not so sure any of the articles you just linked above would pass "good article" status review, though if you disagree you could try nominating them.CurtisNaito (talk) 10:41, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@Liz:In regards to expertise on the subject, which version of the article is more professionally written and sourced, my version, or Nishidani's version?CurtisNaito (talk) 17:56, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

I think we should distinguish between allegations and evidence though. So far no one has managed to find even one concrete case of me ever misusing sources. Every time these allegations are made I have to time and time again quote directly from the original citations to prove my case, and not once has the original source not lined up with the text being put in the article or mentioned in the talk page.CurtisNaito (talk) 14:53, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

'So far no one has managed to find even one concrete case of me ever misusing sources.' See. Curtis can't grasp that editors have shown time and again that this is mainly what you do. You cannot read sources in context, and anyone who has the patience to click on any of the pages I cited, and review how you respond, will see that you misuse sources constantly. It's not an allegation. I believe Hijiri and yourself should be sanctioned for different reasons: you are a living exemplar of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT, and Hijiri's exasperation has led to several sanctionable instances of consistent WP:AGF. Perhaps I should be sanctioned also, since your resilent deafness in the fact of proof you cannot understand the subject has led me, twice, to tell you to 'piss off'. Son, you are a disaster on any Japanese article requiring sensitive or sophisticated use of sources, as most of these historical topics demand.Nishidani (talk) 15:05, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Could you please mention one example of me misusing sources? So far you haven't been able to cite even one specific incident.CurtisNaito (talk) 15:10, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

I could give you dozens. But I am reluctant to get sucked into talking with you, because you simply ignore what others document, and keep focused on what interests you. See this thread where you are cited for repeatedly restoring the phrasing 'ancient phrase' to the text, by (a) misreading the very sources you cite and (b) by ignoring the fact that the phrase was coined in 1904. To make you understand this abuse or misuse of sources took donkey's ages. You don't even understand the point I made above. So I will have to repeat it and bold it.

(Curtis) is confident that a statement in a source can, ipso facto, be used regardless of its status (dubious or challenged) in the subject's history.

This means that if you've fished up a source then, regardless of other sources that show it is dated, wrong or misleading, you keep on harping on that source. No one with a smattering of a university education does that knowingly, and it is certainly obstinate to persist as you do over numerous threads, in defending your 'sources' when the problem with their selective use has been repeatedly deocumented. This is puerile obstinacy in the face of complex evidence, and is everywhere characteristic of selective source abuse.Nishidani (talk) 16:02, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

That was primarily a dispute over whether the phrase Hakko Ichiu was attributed to Emperor Jimmu. Analysis of the original Nihon Shoki and of more recent reliable sources left no doubt that the statement was correctly attributed to him. David Earhart's book Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media says "Emperor Jimmu... was said to have the phrase". Japan Encyclopedia defines Hakko Ichiu as "an expression attributed to the mythical emperor Jimmu". Kenneth Ruoff's book Imperial Japan at its Zenith says that Hakko Ichiu "was a saying attributed to Emperor Jimmu". Even one of the books you cited merely said that Tanaka Chigaku "popularized" it. Hijiri deserves more criticism here, because he insisted that Hakko Ichiu was not correctly attributed to Jimmu, while citing a source in the article that said close to the opposite, "When Emperor Jimmu founded the Japanese state 2,600 years earlier, the Japan Times and Mail explained, the land was inhabited by at least five different races. Jimmu declared that they should unite under 'one roof', and in obedience to that command the races became 'as brothers of one family'. Although the newspaper did not press the point, it was the same account of Jimmu extending his sway over the diverse peoples of ancient Japan, based on a passage in the earliest written chronicles of Japan, dating from the eighth century, which inspired Japan's World War Two slogan about the country's divine mission to bring all races and nations of the world under 'one roof'."CurtisNaito (talk) 16:09, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

You are using the usual stratagem of repeating yourself at length to blindside the simple fact, i.e. that you thought the phrase, coined, as many sources, plus an elementary knowledge of Japanese history should have told you, in 1904, was 'ancient'. Just let independent minds review the evidence, advice also I have given to Hijiri.Nishidani (talk) 17:42, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

• Okay, finally got off that bus and can post a full response to all of the completely bogus claims and misrepresentations made by CurtisNaito at the top of this thread. Be warned, this is a big one.

Quotes from CurtisNaito's OP, put in their proper context (don't open unless you want the horizontal screen dimensions of the page to expand -- I don't know why -- and want to read through a VERY long response to a very long collection of half-truths and misrepresentations)

He says that he will not speak to me anymore regarding an on-going content dispute and will instead ask for me to be topic-banned. Yes. because I was merciful and waited much, much longer than I should have to ask for CurtisNaito to face consequences for his passive-aggressive actions against me, Nishidani and others. Before posting the above-linked comment I endured far more TLDR, IDHT nonsense than any good Wikipedian should be expected to bear. It's not my responsibility to give up my valuable time explaining how to read our core content policies or WP:V and WP:NOR to users who have clearly indicated that they will not listen even when I try. After two years, on-and-off, I've had just about enough of it. Other users expressed the exact same unwillingness to coddle CurtisNaito, before I did, so why I am being singled out is confusing. However, my edits are constructive and it's hard to see what justification there is for Hijiri's attitude here. Yeah. Right. I have yet to see someone other than CurtisNaito himself and a small group of other users with equally poor editing ability make this claim. Every single editor who has commented on the edits in question has agreed with me that they were problematic and showed a complete lack of understanding of proper sourcing principles. Nishidani, Sturmgewehr88 and I (and I can only assume countless other users who have interacted with CurtisNaito but not with me) have been forced to waste far too much time on the present talk page and others trying in vain to explain Wikipedia policy to CurtisNaito. I have been patient, taking WP:AGF too far in assuming that eventually CurtisNaito would cop on and come to understand, but to no avail. (Nishidani actually recently called me out for taking AGF too far in this matter.) There is good reason to believe that the greater problems lie with Hijiri. And what good reasons are these? Therefore, I am in turn requesting a topic ban for Hijiri from the article "Korean influence on Japanese culture" as a result of problematic behavior over the past year, including a very long-term pattern of incivility and battleground behavior. Actually, as I have said above and Nishidani has called me out for, I have been showing far too much patience with CurtisNaito. CurtisNaito has some nerve talking about "incivility" when he has been behaving in a manner that indicates he hasn't even read my comments, but rather spouts so much passive-aggressive nonsense that he knows it will push me over the edge, then he Ctrl+F's the page to see if I have used any foul language or made any "threats" against him. Although Hijiri has exhibited similar behavior in some other articles, cataloging it all would take too long, so I'll keep it relatively short and stick to issues relating to this one article. Yes, because on those other pages Curtis was entirely alone in his tendentious editing and misrepresentations of sources, but here he can selectively canvas the one other user who has agreed with him while carefully misquoting other users who don't (see the discussion below of "Incidentally, Hijiri was warned ..."). Recently the user TH1980 began to make some reliably-sourced additions to the article Korean influence on Japanese culture, but Hijiri immediately began edit warring with him without consensus to delete the material. (The first, "gugyeol" edit was total bullshit so I'm going to focus on the second, "Okura" edit.) This is turning WP:BURDEN and WP:BRD on their heads; consensus is not needed to revert a potentially controversial, and dubiously sourced, edit (which TH1980's edits most certainly were). But I even had a consensus, a very clear consensus on the relevant talk page last February to keep discussion of the Okura Immigrant Theory to a minimum. The consensus was formed by me, User:Shii, User:Sturmgewehr88 and a Japanese neto-uyo ultranationalist or two, one of whom was later indeffed for constant personal attacks he made against me because I actually accept the Okura Immigrant Theory. I did not like this consensus -- as I have stated countless times, I consider Okura to have almost certainly been the son of an immigrant from Kudara. The scholarly consensus is that Okura was the son of an immigrant from Kudara, but he wrote in Japanese and was "a Japanese poet", but on the main Wikipedia article on the topic I have already (over a year ago) become resigned to not being able to discuss this in detail. But at the same time as consensus decided that the main Yamanoue no Okura article should give only one line on the Okura Immigrant Theory and maybe cite some of the counter-arguments, someone was maintaining a WP:POVFORK over on the Korean influence on Japanese culture article that described him as "a Korean". This is a very complex issue, and one I have probably spent more time mulling over than anyone else on this project; CurtisNaito and TH1980, both of whom clearly lack the scholarly common sense to understand the problem, should not have tried to unilaterally override last February's established consensus. They also cited a general historical study written by a specialist in 20th-century Japanese history (if I recall, Miller -- a specialist in the relevant area -- was not brought into the discussion until after Nishidani and I brought him up). The opinions of a scholar of 20th-century Japanese history, no matter how well-regarded said scholar was, do not belong in a discussion of Yamanoue no Okura. As an aside, note CurtisNaito names and pings the users who agree with him but when he (mis)quotes the users who don't agree with them he carefully avoids mentioning their names lest they call him out for his misrepresentations (see the discussion of "Incidentally, Hijiri was warned ...", below). He reverted the same material TH1980 and I were adding five times in a 24-hour period. No. The fifth time was not a revert. And at the time CurtisNaito joined the fustercluck in question, TH1980 had already revert four times in 24 hours, I three. Immediately after my previous revert TH1980 and I were both at four reverts in the previous 24 hours (in other words, he had broken 3RR first and my fourth revert -- the only time I had legit violated a WP rule in this case, and then only technically -- was to revert an edit that itself was a 3RR-violation). And yet, despite this, Curtis chose to template my talk page for "edit-warring" and brought only me to ANEW to be blocked. Such blatant wikilawyering and battleground behaviour should have brought consequences, but I remained patient. My patience has since worn thin. While reverting, Hijiri made uncivil and false claims in his edit summaries, repeatedly accusing TH1980 of being a sockpuppet despite having no evidence to support his claim. Admittedly, I may have been wrong in these assumptions, and I have already stated that if I am wrong I apologize. But there is a confirmed history of sockpuppetry by Korean-nationalist POV-pushers in this area in general (and this article in particular), and several obvious sleepers have shown up suddenly in the past few months, to reinsert material that was removed from the article months before they ever edited it; when another account who has never edited the article before shows up suddenly and restores material that was removed months before they ever edited it, I have every right to be suspicious. And when I ask point-blank how they came across the article and they dodge the question, my suspicions are hardly allayed. Hijiri also made uncivil comments to him in the talk page, including asking TH1980, "Who are you, and which other accounts have you used?" Again, per the discussion in the paragraph immediately above this, when a user who looks very much like a sock and/or meat puppet shows up suddenly on a page and restores material that was removed months earlier, when other obvious socks have done so in the recent past, asking them to their face if they are a sockpuppet or if someone told them about the page off-wiki in order to artificially inflate "consensus" for their edits is completely acceptable, and in fact probably preferable to shooting first and immediately starting an ANI thread (DRN and the like are inappropriate places to bring up SOCK and MEAT concerns). If Hijiri was just having one bad day it would be different, but this has actually been going on for months and months. Yes. Nishidani, Sturmgewehr88, Phoenix7777, Ubikwit, Curly Turkey, Nihonjoe, Oda Mari, Canterbury Tail, User:SamuelDay1, User:Hipocrite, Eurodyne, probably several others I am forgetting, and I have all been pointing out for months (years?) that the article in question and related articles are a cesspool of sockpuppetry and POV/OR/TE. The fact that the article has been edited by CU-confirmed sockpuppets and recent activity is highly suspicious and probably meriting an SPI seems to constantly go over CurtisNaito's head even though every other long-term Wikipedian who has commented has agreed with me on the issue. To see how long this has been going on, consider that way back in June of 2014 Hijiri created an attack page in his sandbox. The page had no purpose but to defame other Wikipedia users who had edited the article Korean influence on Japanese culture as being "POV pushers" and "sockpuppets". This attack page still exists, and now TH1980 is also on the list, who Hijiri claims is an "anti-Japanese" sockpuppet. It needs to be stressed that Hijiri has offered no proof for his nasty accusations and none of these users were ever proven to have engaged in sockpuppetry. I have blanked my sandbox. It was not really a violation of WP:POLEMIC, since my goal in putting my findings on-wiki was to allow collaboration with the other users above-listed to help find the "smoking gun" so a CU can be requested. I have, thus far, failed to find any such smoking gun, and I have no problem with the page being deleted. I have copied its contents off-wiki, and I will continue my search in private. As demonstrated above, sockpuppetry has obviously been taking place, and 90% of users who have commented have agreed with this assertion, so trying to figure out who is whose sockpuppet and who contacted who off-wiki is an endeavour I still feel is worth pursuing. But I will keep future sleuthing to myself unless I am ready to open an SPI (or maybe an ANI if the evidence is good enough but I can't find the sockmaster). I imagine TH1980, as a Wikipedia user in good standing, wanted to play a productive role in editing the article, but how can he work with Hijiri when Hijiri assumes bad faith so openly that Hijiri repeatedly accuses him of being a sockpuppet to his face? He can tell me how he suddenly came across the article and restored material removed months before he ever touched the article -- during one of his long periods of absence. Additionally -- "a Wikipedia user in good standing"? He has made less than 500 edits, almost all of them in areas of international dispute between Japan and some other country. He has had an account for three years but has been editing in brief spurts before "going dark", the same as the other users who suddenly showed up on the page recently, who everyone else seems to agree are sockpuppets. I joined the conversation later and after making one constructive comment Hijiri immediately threatened me, telling me, "you need to be blocked per WP:CIR immediately". I'm surprised CurtisNaito has the courage to post a diff here, since he has blatantly hidden the conditional clause if you don't see how this is a misrepresentation of the source. Blocking users who don't know how to read sources per WP:CIR is quite common, and pointing out that if a user doesn't know how to read the source he is citing then he needs to be blocked is no more a "threat" when I say it as when Sturmgewehr88 and Nishidani say it. Also, "joined the conversation" is a very euphemistic way of describing this virtual declaration of war. Hijiri continued to speak to me in an uncivil manner, including his comments like "learn to speak frickin' English" and "Please learn to speak English". I know how to speak English, so how many times is he going to tell me that? He also said, "I was about to close this comment with "you bloody buffoon"". By saying this, he actually did close the comment with "you bloody buffoon". I challenge anyone on this board to engage CurtisNaito in a discussion of whether his sources are appropriate and whether they back up what he is saying for as long as I have and limit themselves to calling him something as polite as "bloody buffoon": User:Nishidani can back me up (has backed me up) on this point -- search the current version of the article talk page for "bullshit", "you can't read for nuts", "I'm fucked if I'm going to waste hours on this", "you're evidently having problems with elementary arithmetic", "for chrissake", "boorish googling", "I see crap", "for fuck's sake", "you shouldn't be editing Wikipedia", "I'll just revert", "talking to you is pointless", "consistently stupid or thick-headed", "piss off"... Of course none of this is to imply that sanctions need to be placed on anyone for reacting the same way I have, the same way all good Wikipedians would, on dealing with CurtisNaito. Place the sanctions where they belong. He told me, "Why can't you get it through your thick skull" that Yamanoe Okura was not a Korean, in spite of the fact that numerous reliable sources, including the Cambridge History of Japan and articles by Roy Andrew Miller, do describe him as "a Korean". When I thanked TH1980 for his edits, Hijiri left a threatening message on my talk page and told me to "grow the hell up". He then made a completely fallacious statement and told me "if you are too stupid to understand that ... well". He openly assumes bad faith when he tells me, "I am only agreeing to post this here... so that constructive discussion can take place on the talk page. You have already demonstrated that you are incapable of this." Per the above paragraph, this is quite a common, reasonable reaction to CurtisNaito's behaviour. Now take a look at this clearly-disruptive comment he posted directly into the article. Hijiri deleted a reliable source while claiming that it was "twisted to say what the Korean ultranationalists who still seem to be running this page wanted it to say". Leaving comments in the article source code to allow for (to encourage) further improvement is quite common. Please see WP:COMMENT. Actually, Hijiri seems to accuse everyone who disagrees with him of POV-pushing or having a hidden agenda. Another accusation made with no evidence whatsoever. I accuse the people who are POV-pushing and appear to have hidden agendas of POV-pushing or having a hidden agenda. I do not accuse Nishidani, Ubikwit, Sturmgewehr88, Shii or any of the other users I almost never agree with of POV-pushing or having hidden agendas. Hijiri claimed that the reason why a "Chinese influence on Japanese culture" article does not exist is because "Chinese nationalists are apparently not insecure enough that they need to go onto English Wikipedia and denigrate another country's culture". Well, CurtisNaito, why do you think there is no Chinese influence on Japanese culture article? Chinese culture has undoubtedly and indisputably had a much greater influence on Japanese culture over the past 1,500 years than has Korean, so how do you explain this discrepancy? At the same time in a related article he again called TH1980 a "Korean/anti-Japanese POV-pushing SPA" and called me an "incompetent user". Yes, I brought the discussion of whether Wikipedia should cover the Okura Immigrant Theory in more detail to the appropriate venue, the Yamanoue no Okura talk page. There, I gave my reasoning for suddenly showing up and starting another discussion of a topic that has been dead for over a year -- a POV-pushing SPA and an incompetent user were trying to cite a warped version of it in a separate article. He constantly accuses people who disagree with him of racism. He has accused both TH1980 and myself of "borderline racism". "Constantly"? I don't recall ever making this argument anywhere but where you, apparently a westerner of Japanese ancestry, and TH1980 were saying that a Japanese poet born (or at least raised from when he was a toddler) in Japan whose father had happened to come from an extinct Korean kingdom, who was naturalized in Japan to the point of receiving the title Omi and bring granted governorship of a province, was "a Korean in Japan". However, as the user Andrew Davidson said to Hijiri in one discussion about the article, "As for righting great wrongs, you seem to be the one on a mission". Again, why the selective pinging of the rare user who happens to agree with you, Curtis? When you quote (misuote, rather) Sturmgewehr88 below (see "Incidentally, Hijiri was warned...", below) you don't ping him. On top of all this, perhaps one of the most serious problems with Hijiri's conduct on the article is his constant use of intimidation and threats against people he disagrees with. I myself have been threatened by him with administrative action literally over a dozen times in this particular article, including on these two occasions among others... "you would probably need to be either banned or blocked. You managed to avoid this result last time", and "I would take you to ANI and ask for a topic-ban, but on what topic would such a ban be? ALL Wikipedia editors are permanently banned from "original research" to begin with. Is it a block you want?" What is notable about these two threats is that they were issued against me BEFORE I had even edited the article in question. I was threatened with administrative action only because I commented on the article. I have never been blocked from Wikipedia before, so there is no reason why I should have been threatened this many times. Incidentally, Hijiri was warned by another user about making threats against me on a different article, but despite this Hijiri can barely make a single post nowadays without threatening me with administrative sanctions. The "threats" he keeps referring to were actually warnings that if he kept up his pattern of passive-aggressive disruption there would eventually be consequences. I have been far too patient with him; now by shooting first he has forced my hand. Incidentally, Hijiri was warned by another user about making threats against me on a different article, but despite this Hijiri can barely make a single post nowadays without threatening me with administrative sanctions. This is a gross misrepresentation of User:Sturmgewehr88's attitude to this affair. Sturmgewehr88 agrees with me that CurtisNaito needs to be sanctioned for his behaviour here and elsewhere. At the time Sturmgewehr88 "warned" me, I had already grown terribly exasperated from interacting with CurtisNaito, while Sturmgewehr88 had only joined the discussion and wasn't at the time aware background of my "threats". CurtisNaito, it also should be noted, cunningly avoided using Sturmgewehr88's name or pinging him because he knew Sturmgewehr88, if notified of this discussion, would agree that CurtisNaito needs to be somehow sanctioned, while at the same time posting a preemptive notification on the talk page of the one other tendentious editor who has been misreading/misrepresenting sources right alongside CurtisNaito this time. Hijiri also has problems with using sources, which he often does not read before citing. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Perhaps most egregious of all was a whopping 1,000 word post he made rebutting an article which he admits at the beginning "I haven't read". It's a waste of others users time when Hijiri spends so long critiquing sources he hasn't even read. Pointing out that non-specialists with absolutely no training in the relevant fields should not be cited on Wikipedia articles does not require that one reads the work of said non-specialists. Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. It's a waste of others users time when Hijiri spends so long critiquing sources he hasn't even read. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. After being questioned about the matter by Nishidani, Hijiri admitted that he had deleted the sourced information because he had mistakenly believed that I was the one who had added it to the article. Hijiri notes here he was aware that it "violates AGF to assume Curtis has misread and misunderstood a source I haven't myself read". I think it's natural Wikipedia policy, however, that sources cited should be read and judged on their own merits. One shouldn't delete reliably sourced information just because one doesn't like the editor who puts it in the article, as Hijiri fully admits to doing here. No, by this point it is not at all a violation of any Wikipedia policy or guideline to assume that if CurtisNaito is quoting a source, he must be misquoting it, as Nishidani agrees.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:46, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

*Comment* Hijiri's conduct is a massive violation of the third principle (or "pillar") Wikipedia has for editing conduct: [19]. His conduct is also extremely childish.TH1980 (talk) 17:10, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

• 'Support topic ban for Hijiri 88. BMK (talk) 17:45, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Please note that the above has been demonstrated below to be a bad-faith accusation by a user who by his own admission is basing his actions in this thread not on the evidence presented -- he clearly hasn't read much of it -- but on his own gut feeling that I "must" (his emphasis) be engaged in BATTLEGROUND behaviour based on some unrelated activity that I allegedly engaged in over the past month or so (he hasn't been forthcoming with the details). Take from this what you will. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:24, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose. It's difficult for a non-expert to judge the appropriate weight on this subject, but the latest revision by CurtisNaito gives the impression that Japan had no culture before looting it from Korea, with extreme statements like "According to Professor Song Bang-song, it was not the case that Korean music influenced Japanese music, but rather than Japan simply adopted Korean music in toto." I suspect the sources have been cherrypicked. Another silly line: "Korean K-pop and K-dramas have become popular in Japan and some Koreans even see Japan's veneration of Korean K-pop idols as being an acknowledgement by Japan of the dominant role Korea has played in influencing Japanese culture since ancient times." The (Korean) source for this states: "Thus, when the Japanese were showing their utmost adoration and respect to Yon-sama, it was felt as if the Japanese were finally accepting the fact that South Korea was a superior culture, as it was historically Korea that gave Japan its royalty, and passed on Buddhism, ceramics and so on from China often with a distinct Korean rendering as in the case of ceramics." I wouldn't say Curtis misrepresented the source, but why include such ridiculous nationalism about South Korea's "superior culture" at all in a serious historical study? We need editors with expertise to keep a check on this apparent POV pushing. Civility is a secondary concern. KateWishing (talk) 19:51, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, I figured since it was good enough to be mentioned in a peer-reviewed academic journal written by two scholars then it was good enough to be mentioned on Wikipedia. I thought it was useful because it tied in the history of Korean influence on Japan with modern-day events. A good chronological narrative should have a fitting conclusion indicating the on-going relevance of the issue.CurtisNaito (talk) 20:11, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support 6-month topic ban for both editors These two individuals are disruptive, one way or another.--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 20:05, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

But surely my version was an improvement over the old version. My version had far more citations and better organization.CurtisNaito (talk) 20:27, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose 6-month topic ban for both editors

CurtisNaito has always been reasonable with those who disagree with him and seeks to compromise, whilst Hijiri 88 resorts to personal attacks or just plain childish behavior to try and ram his - and only his - version of the Wikipedia page through. Only Hijiri's conduct is worthy of a topic ban here.TH1980 (talk) 23:23, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Boomerang for CurtisNaito

Okay, I have had just about enough of this, as have User:Nishidani, User:Sturmgewehr88 and probably plenty of others. Every uninvolved user who has gone through the diffs and the context behind them (User:Johnuniq, User:VandVictory and User:Liz) has observed that I am not deserving of sanctions here, and the users who are actually involved (User:Nishidani and User:Sturmgewehr88) have all agreed that sanctions should be placed on CurtisNaito instead. He has proven himself completely incapable of examining sources again and again on Talk:Soga–Mononobe conflict, Talk:Emperor Jimmu/Archive 2,Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Korean influence on Japanese culture and Korean influence on Japanese culture. He is incapable of examining sources, and his constant whining on talk pages and refusal to listen has been the cause of far too much wasted time on the part of me and other productive users. This pattern is especially blatant when it comes to articles on ancient (8th century and earlier) Japan; while a brief inspection of his other edits would indicate it seems to be a problem there as well (cf his recently defending a "respected scholar" who appears to be an infamous denier of the Armenian genocide), but that's not really my concern. He has wasted far too much good time on the part of far too many editors. Believe it or not when I posted this I still sincerely hoped it would not come to this. Curtis is a courteous and enthusiastic editor, and I suspect he and I share a lot of common interests and would be friends if we met in a pub; but he has wasted far too much of my time and energy on these talk pages, driving me far enough to use profanity (something I don't enjoy), and now he is actively seeking sanctions against me with only the flimsiest of reasons, so my hand has been forced.
So I'd like to propose a TBAN for CurtisNaito on articles related to Japanese history of the 8th century and earlier. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:46, 16 May 2015 (UTC) (Edited 14:50, 16 May 2015 (UTC) )

Also, since this discussion started turning against CurtisNaito, he and TH1980 have started edit-warring to include a massive amount dubiously-sourced and/or unsourced material into the Korean influence article. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:37, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Damn, I totally forgot! I meant to cite the incident that pushed me over the edge and say "See you on ANI, buddy": A few hours before opening this thread, CurtisNaito quoted a Wikipedia article and, accidentally or deliberately, misrepresented it as a Wikipedia content policy, and when challenged on this (twice) he dodged the question. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:24, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support as nom. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:46, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose Hijiri's accusations are ridiculous. Anyone knowledgeable on the subject of Korean influence on Japanese culture can see that CurtisNaito's use of sources is impeccable.TH1980 (talk) 16:20, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
  • • LOL. This impeccable judgement from someone who recently added: Edo Neo-Confucianism was based in substantial measure off Korean writings, especially the works of Yi Hwang,' which both screwed up the source, distorted English grammar, and grossly twisted a single thesis into a specious factoid about the actual scholarship on neo-Confucianism and Korea.Nishidani (talk) 17:42, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Consulting the original source made it clear to me that there was no problem with TH1980's addition. The original text said, "Neo-Confucian learning had made much progress in Korea, where the Yi dynasty had adopted it as the Korean official philosophy. Such leading Japanese philosophers as Fujiwara Seika (1561-1619) and Hayashi Razan (1593-1657) based their neo-Confucian learning on Korean writings, particularly those of Yi Hwang..."CurtisNaito (talk) 17:49, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Comment This has already been thoroughly analysed and rebutted on the page, and you had no answer. Further proof that Curtis knows nothing of the topic. The statement, as phrased, is fatuous, and only goes to show that neither Curtis nor have the slightest knowledge of the topic, since the thesis was rebutted in 1982, the rebuttal endorsed by other scholars. Even after that, he persists in repeating, as above, the meme he's googled. Maruyama Masao's groundbreaking 日本政治思想史研究 (Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan,) has no mention of Korea in its index. When the English version was published (1974) he, in the wake of Abe Yoshio ( 阿部吉雄)'s thesis, admitted this Korean Yi dynasty connection had been a blind spot (1974:xxxvi). In 1983 Willem Jan Boot substantially deconstructed the theory Curtis is still pushing. This illustrates my point. Curtis looks at a quote, and if he likes it, copies it, from a poor source, or out of context, as proof of a thesis, ignoring every consideration of context. Relieve him of his misconceptions by adducing later sources and corrections and he still keeps harping on it. He has a serious behavioural problem. He won't listen.Nishidani (talk) 20:17, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

I strongly supported putting Willem Jan Boot's point of view into the article, but it's hard to believe that the theory of Korean influence on Japanese neo-Confucianism has been debunked. Ha Woobong's 2009 article "Kang Hang and Confucianism in Modern Japan" supports the theory of Korean influence on Japanese neo-Confucianism. Edward Chung's 1995 book "The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Tʻoegye and Yi Yulgok" supports this argument. Marius Jansen's 2000 book, "The Making of Modern Japan" support this argument. The 2013 book "A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597 1600" supports this argument. These books were all written after Willem Jan Boot's book and it's hard to believe that all these authors are really so ignorant.CurtisNaito (talk) 20:24, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

CurtisNaito posted the exact same non-argument as above on the article talk page four days ago, and was quickly rebutted by Nishidani.[20] This is an excellent example of CurtisNaito engaging in IDHT behaviour that causes the conversation to run in circles until the other user gives up in frustration and lets CurtisNaito have his way just to shut him up. Countless hours of labour have been expended trying to talk sense into CurtisNaito over these issues, but he just doesn't listen. These countless hours of labour should have been devoted to building an encyclopedia. How many more hours are going to be wasted on this problem user? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:21, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

My argument here is fairly sensible, and it is that we can't take the opinion of a few books written in the 1970's and 1980's and say that they have debunked the arguments of equally reliable books written in 1995, 2000, 2009, and 2013. Why not include both the 1970's/1980's viewpoint and the more recent viewpoint. There is no reason to not mention both equally.CurtisNaito (talk) 05:23, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose as retaliatory, also as an example of Hijiri88's WP:BATTLEGROUND behavior. BMK (talk) 17:43, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose as BMK said this is retaliatory. This section is a further reason of a need for a topic ban of Hijiri 88. Something needs to be done to protect WP from the numerous WP:CIVIL violations of Hijiri 88. Failure to act now will further embolden bad behaviour as there is no reason to stop the bad behaviour if nothing happens. AlbinoFerret 18:02, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Strong support - per Nishidani's comments and my own experience. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 19:14, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support 6-month topic ban for both editors These two individuals are disruptive, one way or another.--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 20:03, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Both need to rethink what they are doing here, There is far too much litigation between the two over multiple articles. Naito knows nothing of the subjects or policy. Hijiri is far too sensitive, and must acquire some serenity. Curtis's tagteaming sidekick should be banned from the Korean article (see the recent edits of TH1980)Nishidani (talk) 20:26, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

@Beyond My Ken: Please read the discussion that has taken place above, or at least my OP remark in this subthread: if I had a BATTLEGROUND mentality, wouldn't I want to continue wasting time arguing with Curtis? I'm tired of arguing, as is everyone else who has had to deal with CurtisNaito (note Nishidani's apparent regret at having been driven several times to say "piss off"). Also, it can't be "retaliatory" when even Curtis's OP stated that I have been telling him this boomerang is coming this way for months (Ctrl+F the main thread for "threat", but do so after opening my above collapsed comment). It's time to end this the only way it can be ended without a block.

Sorry, your attitude problem is manifest in the inability to compromise or work to arrive at a consensus. In the past month, I've seen threads here about conflicts between you and at least four other editors, possibly more, and, according to you, it's always the fault of the other editor. That simply cannot be the case, you must have contributed to those conflicts in some way. I'm tired of seeing your name in report after report after report. BMK (talk) 03:33, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@Beyond My Ken: Would you mind linking to those other threads so the casual reader can judge for themselves whether your assumption that I was responsible for all or even most of those incidents is right or wrong? Otherwise, merely assering that I must be a problem editor because I have had conflicts with other editors is pretty meaningless, since the same logic could be applied that they must be problem editors because they have had conflicts with me, Nishidani, User:Sturmgewehr88, etc. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:58, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, in fact, I would mind quite a bit, as I have no intention of being your marionette. Those who have followed your history will know exactly what I mean, others can at least take it as given that I believe what I say, even if I might (in their view) be mistaken, and others are, I assume, capable of doing their own research if they doubt me so intensely as to have me proved wrong. In the meantime, please do not ping me again, I will participate in this discussion at times of my choosing, not at your beck and call. BMK (talk) 04:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I ping as a courtesy to let other users know when I am replying to them. If you want me to stop offering you this courtesy, so be it. As to the substance: You opposed my proposed solution because you thought it was based on a battleground mentality; I pointed out to you that it clearly was the reverse, as it is meant to prevent future endless talkpage fusterclucks; you responded by admitting that you were not actually posting based on an unbiased analysis of the evidence presented, but based on your gut feeling that since I have been involved in x number of ANI threads in the past y number of weeks, I must have a battleground mentality. You also clearly didn't actually read those other ANI threads either. Given that I spend significantly less time on ANI than you do, I don't see how your logic could possibly be interpreted as making sense. !Voting based on your own gut feeling that such-and-such user must have a battleground mentality and ignoring all of the evidence actually presented is a gross violation of AGF and is borderline BATTLEGROUND behaviour in and of itself. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 04:35, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@AlbinoFerret: Same as above: if I had a BATTLEGROUND mentality, I wouldn't want to stop wasting my time arguing with Curtis.

@Ubikwit: A 6-month TBAN from what? If you mean the originally-proposed "Korean influence" page-ban on me but to apply to both CurtisNaito and myself for six months, how do you propose CurtisNaito's previous disruption on the "Emperor Jimmu" and "Soga-Mononobe" pages, let alone everything else, be addressed? If you mean some broader TBAN, how do you justify TBANning me when pretty much everyone here agrees that the only sanctionable behaviour I have engaged in was some aggressiveness and foul language brought on by CurtisNaito's own passive-aggressive BATTLEGROUND mentality (as seen in his opening this thread in the first place) and his constantly ignoring everything everyone who doesn't agree with him says. Your recent edits to the article indicate you agree with me and Nishidani that CurtisNaito has been the one behaving disruptively, so ... what gives?

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:37, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@Hijiri88: Right, I should have specified the originally-proposed "Korean influence" page-ban.

The personal dispute between you two is a time consuming distraction, and your confrontational manner doesn't help, even if CN does misuse sources.

A 6-month break from a single article for the three of you would help others (basically Nishidani and me at this juncture) to not have to police the content, and hopefully give you some perspective about how not to engage.

I have a number of quality academic sources on the topic, but don't have time to contribute to the article, and there are probably other editors out there in a similar situation.--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 04:08, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@Ubikwit: Okay, I understand that. Your solution is reasonable, and I would be happy to accept it. In case I haven't been clear enough, I don't much enjoy editing that page to begin with, and a set-term break would definitely do me some good.

But your proposal is not really relevant to the topic at hand, since I would happily take such a page-ban even if it had been raised on the article talk page rather than here, and the propsed TBAN on CurtisNaito would de facto ban him from 99% of that page's content anyway.

The problem with your proposing a bipartisan page-ban within this subthread makes it look like you're specifically opposed to the proposed broad TBAN on CurtisNaito, but ... would I be right in guessing that you're actually neutral on whether CurtisNaito should banned from anything outside the "Korean influence" article?

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 05:02, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Oppose per my comment above. Bad behavior on both sides. Also should go to ArbCom. ForbiddenRocky (talk) 05:56, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

6-month page-ban on Korean influence on Japanese culture for CurtisNaito and Hijiri88

Ubikwit brought this up above, and his reasoning is pretty solid. I don't enjoy editing the article to begin with so I'm not opposed to taking a break from it. This is not a replacement for the above-proposed broad TBAN for CurtisNaito; it is supplementary.

• Support as ... I'm not really the proposer, but ... yeah ... Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 05:02, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Topic ban for TH1980

This editor has been supporting CN's edits, etc., without adequate participation in the content creation process, and should be included if these articles are to be freed from the present disruption.

• Support, as proposer--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 20:13, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose Nothing worthy of a ban is evident. AlbinoFerret 22:40, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose - This is one of the weakest rationales for a topic ban I've ever seen, and there's been absolutely no evidence presented to support it. A mini-trout to Ubikwit for this poorly-considered proposal. BMK (talk) 23:11, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support - per previous comments about this user. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 23:23, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose. No way. You said Th1980 didn't have adequate participation in content creation? Evidence suggests otherwise. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 02:46, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@OhanaUnited: OK, perhaps I should have said "Content building process". Please check the Talk page. At present, for example, he is not participating in Talk discussions per WP:BRD and is instead engaging in a revert war for a substantial revision of the article that does not have consensus and is based on substandard, partisan sources. He has added other similarly biased material in an UNDUE manner fitting the disruptive partisan pattern described by Nishidani. If he isn't topic banned along with CN and Hijiri88, the disruption will not stop, and the goal of preventing disruption not realized. I see the 6-month period as possibly enabling the article to be built up a little using scholarly sources without partisan disruption.--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 05:50, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Incidentally, what scholarly sources are you referring to? When I rewrote the article I believed that I had consulted most of the relevant scholarly sources available in English on this subject. Among the various books and articles dealing with this topic, it seems to me that the article "Korean Contributions to Agriculture, Technology, and State Formation in Japan" and the book "Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures" are the most comprehensive. They were the most significant sources I used for the rewrite. If you can tell me of additional sources, but you don't have time to add them, then I might have some time this week to do it.CurtisNaito (talk) 05:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

It appears that you don't seem to understand that there are books about various specific, narrowly defined topics that also address aspects of the article. One would be the Frellesvig book I added recently on the history of the Japanese language.

Meanwhile, I have a copy of the original 1993 edition of a book (The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan, Gina Barnes) that is being re-released in an updated edition Archaeology of East Asia: The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan, Gina Barnes. That is a source that takes an integral approach to East Asia, so the new edition should be worth waiting for, and I probably will instead of working from the 1993 edition, which I read years ago.

There are other sources, but that is enough to answer your question.

No one that is competent in the field wants to argue with you or anybody else about substandard sources, including generalist infotainment pieces the likes of the Discover piece by Jared Diamond. He is an academic that is known for his popular books--so he has marketing appeal--but his field is not East Asia and he has not been published by a scholarly source on the topic. Thus, it seems that you are cherry-picking substandard sources that fit your 'pro-Korean influence agenda'. The fact that you introduced a single article in English by some Korean academics means very little, as it does appear that you lack competence in this field.--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 12:04, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, I wasn't aware Jared Diamond or William Wayne Farris were known for being "pro-Korean influence agenda". It's true that I consulted them because they discussed the topic of Korean influence on Japanese culture, but I figured that when possible it was better to consult specialist sources rather than generic ones. An article called "Korean Contributions to Agriculture, Technology, and State Formation in Japan" and a chapter of a book entitled "Ancient Japan's Korean Connection" (by Farris) seemed like more pertinent sources than a generic work covering archeology in Korea, China, and Japan. Even so, I will take a look at the source you recommend and see what it has to say about Korean influence on Japanese culture. Regarding the article "Korean Contributions to Agriculture, Technology, and State Formation in Japan", it is a peer-reviewed article dealing with this subject that states at its beginning that it represents the general scholarly consensus on many issues. Although most of its authors have Korean names (except C. Melvin Aikens), many Japanese language sources and scholars were consulted when writing it.CurtisNaito (talk) 13:34, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@Ubikwit: I don't care what happened between the parties or whether one side is "more wrong" than the other. Topic ban proposals should be considered phrased carefully with seriousness, not to be made at the spur of the moment. There has been far too many wikilawyering and drama involved for the interpretation of loosely phased or poorly implemented topic bans. Given that you haven't done enough due diligence when proposing this measure, I will continue to oppose on procedural basis. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:41, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@CurtisNaito: Your editing evinces a tendency toward trying to introduce a radical reframing of the scope of the article by integrating a couple of otherwise reliable sources into a POV pushing revision. Nishidani has show, in the past day, that Farris is reliable and can be integrated in a policy-consistent manner. This is why I have asked you to address each point severally, but you have refused.--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 10:44, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I cited Farris several dozen times, each time accurately. It would take a terrible amount of space in the talk page to quote literally every single page of Farris' entire chapter on Korean influence on Japanese culture. I think it would be more convenient if other users would just read the book. That way it would be clear to them that everything was cited properly. I repeatedly asked other users what they objected to in what I added, but no one is answering. I don't think it's appropriate to remove reliably sourced text without giving a reason for it.CurtisNaito (talk) 14:18, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• Interim support per above-demonstrated TE, EDITWAR, LAWYER, BATTLE, etc. etc. But I question whether a TBAN is really the best long-term solution here -- with all the tendentious SPAs/near-SPAs who show up suddenly and edit-war on that page, are we going to flood the already-bloated WP:RESTRICT list with TBANs for all of them? A block might be more appropriate. I also think arresting the small-time street thugs while ignoring the godfather he works for is probably not the best idea and Ubikwit's proposal there seems to be to give the godfather what he wants by shutting down this one shipment but consciously overlooking 90% of the other drug-trafficking operations going on. (Sorry for the somewhat obtuse metaphor. It broke down something bad at the end there.)

I would also like to ask BMK, AlbinoFerret and OhanaUnited why they are posting here when they clearly haven't read the above discussion? BMK and AlbinoFerret indicated above that they think trying to resolve a dispute in the most peaceful and restrained manner possible is "BATTLEGROUND behaviour", and OhanaUnited immediately above asserts that blindly reverting numerous times to a version of the article that was discontinued months before one ever edited counts as making a significant contribution to building the article; it's not a good-faith misunderstanding, as it was all discussed in great detail further up this same thread.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:04, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, is it not mandatory that the editors who participate in these discussion agree with your assessment of what it is and isn't important, nor do you get to choose who comments.

I suggest that you refrain from additional commentary, as your recent posts have only demonstrated the confrontational behaviors that you have been charged with. BMK (talk) 03:39, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose I think TH1980's edits have been quite constructive. The information TH1980 was adding was reliably sourced and relevant. Hijiri's comparison of TH1980 and I to organized criminals is an inappropriate assumption of bad faith given that our objective has only been article improvement.CurtisNaito (talk) 05:35, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Curtis, going out of your way to interpret other users' comments in the most offensive light possible is a pretty textbook violation of AGF. I did not "compare" your "motives" to those of a crime syndicate; I didn't even mention your motives. My metaphor (not a comparison) was much more a critique of Ubikwit than of you and TH1980, and even then it was not a critique of Ubikwit as an editor but of his very-roundabout proposal for solving the problems at hand, which I was trying to compare to treating the symptoms rather than the disease. It's a solution aimed solely at solving one particular content dispute on one particular article, and so would be more at homeon the article talk page or on DRN, since ANI is for discussing user conduct. The topic at hand is that you have spent the last two years wasting a whole lot of other editors' time by engaging them in never-ending arguments over your own inability to read sources, and Ubikwit's solution, while a good proposal that will not make the problem worse, also completely fails to address the problem. Like a police officer going around filling up his rap sheet arresting small time dealers and ignoring the kingpin (no doubt because it would be too difficult, rather than because of any malicious intent). Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:04, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose This proposition is being done out of spite by Hijiri 88, pure and simple. He is part of a clique which seems to think they "own" certain Wikipedia pages, a massive violation of Wikipedia principles. I will not be shoved off this page.TH1980 (talk) 20:40, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@TH1980: um... Hijiri88 didn't propose for you to be tbanned, User:Ubikwit did. And what "clique" are you refering to? ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 21:08, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@Sturmgewehr88: I oppose User:Ubikwit's proposal then, but it all doesn't really matter, because any sane person who reviews the Wikipedia page in question will see that a select group of users acts if it is "their" page and is hostile to outsiders like me. And they constantly violate Wikipedia standards by their behavior.TH1980 (talk) 22:19, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Send to Arbcom?

Any assessment of this situation hinges on the correctness of Nishidani's claim that CurtisNaito has displayed a long-term pattern of incompetent or irresponsible dealing with sources. That's a serious allegation, but it requires in-depth review and I'm not confident that we can competently judge it here in the atmosphere of a "!vote" at ANI, especially in a topic area most of us probably know next to nothing about. At the moment I don't see how a competent informed consensus could be formed on any of the several proposed outcomes listed above. Wouldn't it be better for this to be reviewed at Arbcom? When filing, it will be crucial to point out to the arbs that what they should review is not just the superficial signs of conflict such as edit-warring or incivility, but the root causes of conflict that lie in peoples's dealing with sources (and that judging this is not "just a content dispute" either). Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Whatever, no one need take my word for anything. I know the topics fairly thoroughly, through primary and secondary sources in Japanese and Western languages. I try however to avoid the topic area because of the need to WP:AGF, and all I can see is puerile bickering and dumb-ignorant edits based on an inability to see good sources and evaluate reliable evidence. I see only POV passions, googling for evidence to support them, and above, all, the tolerance on the page of sheer bad edits or nonsense that anyone with the slightest BA competence in Japanese studies would find laughable (I'm thinking of CurtisNaito in this regard). There are massive corrections to be made, but, as Ubikwit says, one simply doesn't have the time (at least for now), except to note that the litigants who do edit those pages, can't see the obvious (citing outdated sources like Fenellosa et al. from a century back,etc. I gave details a year ago why none of them are reliable, and suggested how to fix the sourcing: almost nothing done, and my edits are invariably to replace bad edits by giving several good sources, which, however anyone could do, if they had the foggiest idea of what Japanese scholarship knows). If there is competent area specialists available to review these messes, by all means get a third opinion from her, them. Nishidani (talk) 09:26, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, I also know this topic very thoroughly, and so far no specific or concrete example of my alleged misuse of sources has yet been given. If this were to go to Arbcom the lack of evidence for this claim would be readily apparent. Nishidani has sometimes been replacing the sources TH980 and I have been adding with different sources, but in most cases I would hardly call them higher quality sources. Regarding Fenollosa for instance, Nishidani's preferred version of the article cites Fenollosa four times. By contrast, my preferred version of the article cites Fenollosa only twice, each time only to provide a reinforcing quote for a statement already cited to a different source. Nishidani apparently favors citing Fenollosa to a greater extent than I do. Between the two versions Nishidani also deleted a quote in the introduction taken from a 2007 article, "Korean Contributions to Agriculture, Technology, and State Formation in Japan", dealing expressly with the issue of Korean influence on Japanese culture, and replaced it with two tertiary sources which barely deal with issues relating to the article at all. "Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing" only mentions the horserider theory and the mimana theory, neither of which are dealt with in either version of the article, and the other, "Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary", only briefly mentions the Japanese colonial period, which again is not mentioned in the article.CurtisNaito (talk) 10:15, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Going to Arbcom with this issue might be good. CurtisNaito you are sure about never misinterpreting any references? VandVictory (talk) 10:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Absolutely. Not one single specific case of me misinterpreting sources has yet been presented.CurtisNaito (talk) 10:27, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Same here, no problem with the proposal. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:36, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

'Well, I also know this topic very thoroughly.' Sigh. I've had to correct virtually every edit I've seen you make, or revert every revert. True, you eventually accept nearly all of these improvements, after persisting on the talk page in justifying the trash you added, but, had you known the material, you wouldn't have dumped in the trash in the first place. I can document this at great length, but suffice it to read the relevant talk pages, and examine each time you've been reverted by a knowledgeable editor.Nishidani (talk) 13:25, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

You didn't have to do that. I think the edits were fine the way they were. I accepted many of your changes, not because they were particularly better, but because they were in most cases not a lot worse. For instance, TH1980 wrote, "Edo Neo-Confucianism was based in substantial measure off Korean writings, especially the works of Yi Hwang" and you wrote "Yi T'oegye had a high repute among many neo-Confucian scholars of the Tokugawa period". There is a slightly different nuance there, but I don't see version one as being substantially better or worse than version two. They both work.CurtisNaito (talk) 13:47, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

@CurtisNaito: "not one single specific case... has yet been presented". Dude, have you not read any of Nishidani's comments? Or half of Hijiri's? This WP:IDHT crap needs to stop. Someone really should bring this to ArbCom, preferably User:Nishidani. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 17:44, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

The only example of misrepresentation of sources which you have ever cited was this one involving two sources which I never mentioned in the talk page and never cited in the article. You have not explained to me how this is even possible. I'm not opposed to going to arbcom because it's hard to imagine that the arbs will accuse of misrepresenting sources which I never mentioned in the talk page and never cited in the article.CurtisNaito (talk) 18:12, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Well. Thanks for the leg-in. No better example of what you are doing, or rather, failing to understand, could be given. This for the record is what happened re User:TH1980's edit.This is the one, which you still insist is fine, and not incompatible with the several sources I have since introduced.

• (a) It is ungrammatical/unidiomatic (based . .off)
• (b) The statement is absurd
• (c) It is sourced to a Korean political scientist Chong-Sik Lee, whose academic record shows no familiarity with the topic.
• (d) it misrepresents the source. That two Japanese thinkers (ca.1600 CE) are by TH1980's source, Chong-Sik Lee, said to have ‘based their neo-Confucian learning on Korean writings, particularly those of Yi Hwang’

TH1980 twisted this into the generalization ‘Edo Neo-Confucianism (1600-1868) was based in substantial measure off Korean writings, especially the works of Yi Hwang’.

This is source misrepresentation, and WP:OR bundled up in one. The putative influence of Korean scholars on two early neo-Confucians in Japan is distorted into a substantial dependence of two centuries of Japanese neo-Confucian thought on Korean writings.

It was a gross nationalistic caricature and displayed a total ignorance of the state of studies on this particular theme.

So I reverted it, perhaps too verbally brusquely, but out it had to go. I was in turn reverted by the same editor.

I explained in detail on the talk page why this edit was fatuous. You, Curtis, did not revert me, but still wanted to retain the original source, and two others, all, as my edits showed, irrelevant because ignorant of what the scholarship on the question now accepted. Even now you maintain that the complete rewrite doesn't substantially differ from the bizarre one line edit User:TH1980 made.

Any neutral eye can compare his original contribution, and its content and innuendoes, with the corrective expansion I had to make to fix it, which reflects the state of scholarship by experts on Tokugawa thought and elidews the nationalist one-upmanship in the original edit to secure NPOV. Your behavioural problem is an inability to read assess the quality of, and understand the content of sources, esp. in any premodern topic area. Nishidani (talk) 18:00, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

The original source said, "Neo-Confucian learning had made much progress in Korea, where the Yi dynasty had adopted it as the Korean official philosophy. Such leading Japanese philosophers as Fujiwara Seika (1561-1619) and Hayashi Razan (1593-1657) based their neo-Confucian learning on Korean writings, particularly those of Yi Hwang..." It's hard to imagine that "Edo Neo-Confucianism was based in substantial measure off Korean writings, especially the works of Yi Hwang" was a misrepresentation. Fujiwara Seika and Hayashi Razan were certainly the founding figures of the ideology. Your idea that the text implies "two centuries of Japanese neo-Confucian thought" is rather unusual as it appears nowhere in that text. Basically, my belief that we should interpret sources based on what the sources say and not based on what we imagine the sources to say.CurtisNaito (talk) 18:17, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• TH1980'"Edo Neo-Confucianism was based in substantial measure off Korean writings, especially the works of Yi Hwang"
• Nishidani:'The putative influence of Korean scholars on two early neo-Confucians in Japan is distorted into a substantial dependence of two centuries of Japanese neo-Confucian thought on Korean writings.'
• CurtisNaito:'Your idea that the text implies "two centuries of Japanese neo-Confucian thought" is rather unusual'.
• Edo Neo-Confucianism:'Although philosophical competitors, Kokugaku and Neo-Confucianism would co-exist as the dominant philosophical thought of Japan until the arrival of Western philosophy during the Meiji period.' I.e.(1600s-1867 =more than 2 centuries)

Failure to read again. Implicature Sigh.Nishidani (talk) 15:21, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

It's not failure to read. Again, I think this is hyperbole on your part. You called it "falsification", but it's easy to extrapolate the idea that, because the founding fathers of Japanese neo-Confucianism were influenced by Korean writings, that in turn means that Japanese neo-Confucianism was influenced by Korean writings. The expression used was "based off". When something is "based off" something else, then the influence might not necessarily have extended beyond the "base". If you want to take a different angle on it, you could accuse TH1980 and I of under-stating the influence of Korean writing on Japanese neo-Confucianism. All that TH1980 said was that the base bore signs of influence. I suppose you could say he is a biased anti-Korean editor for refusing to acknowledge any influence beyond that. However, if TH1980 wanted to emphasize what you are implying, then he would have written in "two centuries of Japanese neo-Confucian thought" instead of not writing that.CurtisNaito (talk) 15:45, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Well gentlemen, the evidence is there, and he keeps repeating his position in the face of it. This is one of the things that made Hijiri get to the end of his tether (and I do not say that in mitigation. He was wrong to lose his temper). There is no way that one can reason with Curtis. It's pure WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT.Nishidani (talk) 18:31, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

There's a difference between disagreeing with you and not hearing you. I heard out your complaints, but it's hard to imagine how anyone can say that such a basic summary of the material presented in the original source is somehow a falsification.CurtisNaito (talk) 18:35, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Man! I gave specific evidence, listed the policy violations, WP:OR etc., poor sourcing, erroneous judgement, and you still avoid replying to the substance of my complaint. You just ignore it, as you do on talk pages on all issues. If this goes to Arbcom, you are on your own. I'm, fucked if I'm going to waste more time on documenting what is obvious. The point I wished to make from the outset is this: Curtis's complaint against Hijiri has merit, as independent arbs have recognized. What was missing was the subtext, the inordinately deaf WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT passive aggressive behavior of the plaintiff. Any judgement sanctioning Hijiri must also pass judgement on Curtis Naito's unacceptable attrition of several editors' patience.Nishidani (talk) 18:42, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I did respond to your concern about the misrepresentation. About the other points, I already answered them above and in the talk page. In the talk page I said, "Citing Lee has the strong advantage of being more on focus in regards to the article as a whole, because the topic of the page cited is listed explicitly in the book's index as being 'Korean influence on Japanese culture'." Therefore, while Lee might not be an expert in philosophy, citing him was relevant to the bigger issue of Korean influence on Japanese culture, which is what Lee was talking about in that part of his book. Furthermore, the statement was not "absurd" because it's the same thing many other recent sources also state. Such highly reliable sources as Ha Woobong's 2009 article "Kang Hang and Confucianism in Modern Japan", Edward Chung's 1995 book "The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Tʻoegye and Yi Yulgok", and Marius Jansen's 2000 book, "The Making of Modern Japan" say the same thing. In cases like this when reliable source disagree, we're better off just putting in both views equally. There was no falsification, we were all just dialoguing in good faith in order to find the right wording to use.CurtisNaito (talk) 18:55, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Sigh.Nishidani (talk) 20:00, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Oppose. This should be treated simply as problematical behavior by two editors, either by an interaction ban, or a topic ban for from 3 to 6 months for both. An Arbcom discussion will simply repeat what is documented here. Unilateral action against Hijiri would be improper because several editors concur that, notwithstanding Naito's politeness, he is impossible to edit with. Nishidani (talk) 20:19, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Oppose What is happening on this page is extreme partisanship at best, at worst, the actions of a clique which seems to think they "own" the page, a massive violation of Wikipedia principles. I strongly object to the claims that me and talk use sources poorly. We are both well versed in research. What is happening on this page is anarchy, pure and simple.TH1980 (talk) 20:37, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, I hope you all see that so far no admin is inclined to dive into this dispute and hand out topic or page bans or blocks. And this ANI discussion is beginning to resemble the article talk page which is maddening to read as someone unfamiliar with the subject and probably even more insufferable if you DO know your way around Japanese history.
The suggestion has been made to pose this as a case request to ARBCOM and that suggestion has received a mixed response. You can take this advice or continue to argue with each other here until this thread gets archived or gets closed by an admin or editor who wants this conversation to be over. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:18, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose You know, on second thought Nishidani is right, as usual. This is a conflict between me and CurtisNaito. We have both been disruptive on the talk page of this one, low-traffic, barely-worth-even-the-effort-that's-already-been-wasted-on-it-much-less-meriting-more-fuss article. An admin doesn't need a PhD in Japanese Studies to see that. A fixed term (six-months or a year would probably be enough), two-way page-ban from the Korean influence on Japanese culture article is in order, to allow other editors to improve ny ArbCom case would almost certainly bring about the same result, just slower and more troublesome-ly. I also would be not averse to an IBAN with CurtisNaito, although past experience has taught me that unless CurtisNaito also agrees an IBAN would not work. Both of these can be accomplished quite readily right here, especially since no one, not even CurtisNaito and I, has actually opposed them. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:17, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppopse Per Nishidani, this is not an Arbcom level matter.--Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 04:12, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Support for topic ban. I find the editor’s behaviour in underlying his case to be out with any given standard within Wikipedia. My comment is not objective as I had quite some trouble with the individual.--Catflap08 (talk) 18:52, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Catflap08 There are three editors with a suggested topic ban, and you did not specifically mention any of them. Who were you referring to? AlbinoFerret 20:10, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• Catflap should not be commenting here at all, because as far as I can tell, the interaction ban between them and Hijiri has not been dissolved yet. There is a consensus for it, but I don't see where it was actually repealed. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 23:08, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

@AlbinoFerret: Catflap intentionally left out Hijiri's name because mentioning him would violate the IBAN that is still in place. In fact, I'm pretty sure that him commenting here at all (which is in the wrong subsection btw) is a violation of said IBAN, or at the very least inappropriate. @Catflap08: you should withdraw your !vote. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 04:10, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Oppose This matter has been discussed at length with no consensus has been reached. I therefore vote it not be sent to Arbcom.TH1980 (talk) 23:23, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Support sending to ArbCom per my comment supporting Johnuniq. ForbiddenRocky (talk) 05:59, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Both editors need to cut it out

CurtisNaito is quite obviously POV pushing in this article, and his lame defense is that he's quoting "academic" articles. I have background knowledge of two of the subjects being discussed in Korean influence on Japanese culture and it is apparent that he is misusing sources and intentionally adopting POV language for those subjects in particular; and when you check the references he added to this article, you see a surprisingly small number of sources being used for such a complex topic. Clearly CurtisNaito can't read Japanese or Korean, but I think this is a much bigger problem than that: he's not actually familiar even with the English language scholarship on the subjects he discusses, despite his obnoxious grandstanding. I agree with Nishidani here: "Curtis's knowledge of Japanese topics looks like that of a high school enthusiast with no sense of critical method." His edits shouldn't be allowed to remain.

But meanwhile, Hijiri88's conduct within this ANI discussion leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

• Hijiri always admits he's wrong when a source has been misused or countering theories have been found, but he almost never admits he's wrong on conduct issues. Wikipedia is not an ivory tower. A lot of clueless volunteers will always be editing here, and the only reasonable ways to handle their ignorance are to remain polite or absent yourself.
• Rather than starting a new section like "Let's talk about CurtisNaito's conduct" for him to vent about CurtisNaito's POV pushing and aggravating behavior, he instead makes a punishment proposal called "Boomerang for CurtisNaito". There are a lot of editors who do this and I despise it every time. If an ANI discussion is about you, it is not your place to try to deflect and get someone else punished. Admins will decide that.
• He also started another section called "6-month page-ban on Korean influence on Japanese culture for CurtisNaito and Hijiri88", once again in order to deflect criticism of his editing into something that would get CurtisNaito removed from the article. Again, I personally think CurtisNaito is POV pushing and degrading the article considerably, but this is not how to handle conflict.

I would personally have supported a boomerang for CurtisNaito, but I have no doubt that the way this ANI was approached -- that is, a conduct, not a content issue -- has made all solutions impossible. Shii (tock) 13:58, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support pretty much everything Shii has written above, oppose everything else. The introduction of flawed arguments from previous ANI threads simply served to weaken this one from the very start. Hijiri is combative and stubborn and opinionated. But as with a great many arguments about their conduct in the past, there are large swathes of editors to confirm that, factually, Hijiri is on the right side of the argument (again). Piggy-backing onto flawed complaints about conduct in an attempt to get the upper hand in a content discussion where you've played a weaker hand is fairly futile. St★lwart¹¹¹ 11:16, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

• Agree, but with a couple of notes on Shii's mostly-well-reasoned and certainly-well-intentioned comment. "Both editors need to cut it out" was actually what I (and User:Ubikwit and User:Nishidani) meant with the suggestion that both CurtisNaito and myself be placed under a six-month page-ban. I opened a new subthread on the subject because Ubikwit's mention of it in several other threads implied that he was opposed to those suggestions, when (it at least appeared that) he was technically neutral with regard to at least one of them. It was not "in order to deflect criticism of his editing into something that would get CurtisNaito removed from the article". I also only used the wording "Boomerang for CurtisNaito" instead of "Let's talk about CurtisNaito's conduct" because I thought this was standard. I didn't realize there were users who didn't like it, and I apologize for any offense this may have caused. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:53, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

(Final?) Proposal

• Prediction - no one's going to close this, no sanctions are going to be issued; therefore...
• Proposal - take all the subject editors, put them in the Wikivault (the old one, with the ripped leather sofas and the broken air conditioner), and lock the door for 1 hour; no talking is to be allowed; (make sure the refrigerator is plugged in and stocked with water)
• Shame - when the door is unlocked, and the participants are on the way out, each of them is to be gently stopped, held lightly by the shoulders and looked at piercingly in the eyes; only when the subject's eyes drop away are they to be hugged and sent on their way
• Party - the participants may have a party afterwards if they wish to; Wikipedia will pay for the pizzas.

BMK (talk) 02:31, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

No takers on this? OK, what if Wikipedia picks up the bill for ice cream and cake, as well as the pizza? BMK (talk) 11:38, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't need them, because this kind of bickering gives me a run of the Jimmy Brits, but I'd suggest suppositories, administered before incarceration for an hour in the wikivault.:)Nishidani (talk) 11:42, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Reminds me of when a college friend and I were "inventing" a theatrical experience designed to be as annoying and abrasive as possible. At one point we thought it would be a good idea to give every one in the audience a hit of mescaline before the proceedings began. Fortunately, we were penniless college students who couldn't even afford to buy ourselves a couple of joints, so everything stayed in the realm of the impossible. Mescaline suppositories, though, that would have been good!..

Sorry about your "Jimmy Brits", I myself have just emerged from 3 days of the same. BMK (talk) 21:47, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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WP:Harassment by User:Fresh Sullivan

Closing by request. -- Diannaa (talk) 03:11, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Fresh Sullivan (talk · contribs) showed poor editing judgment at an article. I reverted him on it, and explained why on my talk page. He still didn't understand why I reverted him, and then proceeded to harass me on my talk page. I warned him not to tamper with my talk page again in an inappropriate way. He commented again; I thought that was the end of it. But oh noooo....like others who cannot take me talking to them sternly, he proceeded to harass me again. In my opinion, Fresh Sullivan is an immature editor who has WP:Competence issues. See this discussion for all of what I mean. Flyer22 (talk) 02:34, 24 May 2015 (UTC) @Flyer22: Attention admins, I truly apologize for this. It was a one time incident. I promise not to let it happen again. Please give me ONE last chance. Fresh Sullivan (talk) 02:37, 24 May 2015 (UTC) Fresh Sullivan, if this bit you removed is the case, then I understand what you mean; on my user page, I note my depression. I apologize for not having initially used softer language with you, and I accept your apology. Flyer22 (talk) 02:46, 24 May 2015 (UTC) This is not worth hurting yourself over; please don't hurt yourself. Flyer22 (talk) 02:50, 24 May 2015 (UTC) Note: I closed the thread on my talk page. This WP:ANI thread should also be closed as soon as possible to reduce any harm to Fresh Sullivan. Flyer22 (talk) 03:10, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

SandyGeorgia

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[21] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:08, 22 May 2015 (UTC) ]] this was left on the talk page for Wikipedia med, could this user be warned for harassment?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:19, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) Criticism is not the same as harrasment. Kleuske (talk) 12:34, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Agreed, if you weren't offering contributions to the discussion that were useful than a user can criticize it.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 12:36, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_MedicineMorgellons' first sentence describes it as a delusional belief, which says a lot about this situation. I suggest a merge and redirect to Morgellons. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:22, 20 May 2015 (UTC) this is not the first time.... − I am not good at writing AFD rationale (or someone has to set up a merge discussion ?), so I'm at least flagging the primary sources for now (basically, it's an article pushing one primary source, PMID 24715950. The editor who let it out of AFC needs to become familiar with Wikipedia policies, and probably shouldn't be working at AFC. POV fork-- redirect to Morgellons. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:23, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Struck unnecessary and unhelpful comment. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 08:12, 20 May 2015 (UTC)So, by the time I finished cleaning it up, I found it had a lot of off-topic content already covered elsewhere, and basically was a POV fork to push two primary sources. I redirected it to Morgellons. I see there have been recurring issues with the editor who created it at Talk:Morgellons. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:53, 20 May 2015 (UTC)Ah, my dear SandyGeorgia, it seems I have made a mistake and incurred your wrath. You have a great career ahead of you as a diplomat. You fire both barrels and get snarky, not just on my talk page, but here as well. It seems that I let some ordure escape to pollute your drinking water. We have filters to remove pollution. You are one of them. Shit happens. Get over it, learn humility and stop being so snarky. If you cared that much you would be working hard at the great firehose of ordure that is WP:AFC. Please try your hardest to remember that we are all volunteers, and that we can all make mistakes. Had you been less unpleasant in the way you have gone about this you would even have received an apology. Do remember we are meant to WP:AGF, and recognise that your snark has come very close to being a personal attack.You need to view this as a great opportunity. You say you are not good at drafting AFD rationales. This is a fantastic time to learn. Treat it as a learning experience. Move along people, nothing to see here.So, to the rest of the project, I apologise for making a mistake. To the failed diplomat? No. Fiddle Faddle 06:41, 20 May 2015 (UTC) Teacup storm now happily resolved with goodwill on both sides. Fiddle Faddle 08:15, 20 May 2015 (UTC)That invective wasn't worth two orange bars. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:46, 20 May 2015 this is not the first time...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:46, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Can someone please just close this? If the user cannot accept criticism than that is their issue, not SandyGeorgia's.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 12:49, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Borderline Legal Threat

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Editor implies that he will seek legal action if his edits are not kept, but I'm not sure if this falls into "What is not a legal threat" territory. They are also failing to comply with COI guidelines even after being told to, so there's that. If some admins could look this over, that would be appreciated. [22] Winner 42 Talk to me! 21:53, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Personally, though it is borderline, what it implies is enough that an admin should handle it. Even Montanabw, another respectable editor, though it was a legal threat so it should be pretty clear that the user should face a block until they recant.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 22:02, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't see it as borderline. Any reference to referring something to counsel looks like it is meant to have a chilling effect. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:05, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Has anyone thought of pointing them towards WP:NLT? Why the rush for blocks or administrative action? It's much easier and nicer to explain policy before hauling someone here. AniMate 22:08, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, as any good lawyer will tell you, if someone is seriously contemplating legal action (or suggesting that they are), the last thing you want to do is try to talk them out of it. Usually what you end up doing is inadvertently giving them more (or better) information to work with. Once it's established that a legal threat has in fact been made, and if it is not immediately retracted after warning, discussion should cease with the editor except between the editor and WMF's legal staff. Dwpaul ^Talk 22:16, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes which is why action needs to be swift in this case. Also reverting large portions of cited material doesn't help their standpoint.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 22:19, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

My take is that this is a new user, but also a user with a single-purpose account who is at 2RR on whitewashing information from the Doug O'Neill article. He acknowledged to Winner 42 that he has a COI, stated, specifically " I am a personal rep for Mr. O'Neill and we recently discovered erroneous and inflammatory information based on references citing noncredible or biased reporting. We would like that information removed before referring to counsel. Is there some way you can take care of this?" which does have an implication of at least a borderline legal threat; and if this editor really is a "personal rep", then he or she is probably engaging in paid editing. All of the above may be, nonetheless, acting out of ignorance of WP's policies. I think the thing to do here is to a) STRONGLY caution him, but give him one strike based on the "new user" angle; b) send him to WP:NLT, c) send him to the relevant pages about COI editing and disclosing of his financial interest, d) Tell him to refer disputes to talk. In the meantime, I invite others who are neutral to take a look at the sourcing on the article and NPOV. I am one person who has edited this article, and per all of the above, I just went in and fixed some dead links, added more sources and did a bit of work to be sure there was (at least in my view) an adequate balancing of POV on the issue. This is a BLP, and said individual who is the subject of the BLP DOES have a penchant for using the real-world legal system (See California hits, I think the WA state ones are someone else), so I would take this editor's threats seriously. That said, the nickname is widely reported upon, and when the issues involving this individual hit the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR and Los Angeles Times, I'd suggest that "noncredible" isn't the best description of those sources. Montanabw^(talk) 22:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• I didn't think it was borderline and have blocked them. Are there BLP issues we need to address? --John (talk) 22:28, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

@John: I don't think there are any actually BLP issues here. All statements in the relevant article appear to be properly cited to reliable sources. You can take a look at the article if you would like. Winner 42 Talk to me! 22:36, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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Request for admin to repeal 3RR warning against myself, user:unframboise

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Hi, I'm looking to repeal my 3RR warning on the grounds that I didn't make 4 reverts, a statement that the person issuing the warning agrees with and I was not the instigator of an edit war (another user who disagreed with an edit that I'd reached a consensus to make was in fact reverting). User:EdJohnston suggested that I start a WPI:ANI thread, so I've linked the 3RR discussion below:

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and also a discussion pertaining the same user that reported me, as evidence of her unilateral reversions:

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I hope this can be rectified.

Thanks, --Unframboise (talk) 18:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Meh. Warnings do not carry official weight, and have no purpose except to remind you about the existence of policies. We can not make you unaware of policy, can we? If we recind the warning, will you forget that edit warring is not allowed? If you go on continuing not to edit war, you will go on continuing not to be blocked. The existence of the warning has no practical effect on your ability to contribute positively to Wikipedia. --Jayron32 18:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure what there is to be rectified. You made three consecutive reverts in a 10-minute period on each of two different articles. You were then warned not to make further reverts. While you didn't violate the three-revert rule, you certainly were edit warring—and any subsequent reverts would have put over over the bright line of the 3RR; a warning was valid and justified. Go forth and sin no more. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• My GOD what a crybaby board this has become. I repeat what I said a few days ago: this board needs a new editnotice making it clear this isn't the place for kittens up trees, lost pencils, and hurt feelings. EEng (talk) 20:34, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Unframboise, while you might view the issuance of this warning as unjustified, I suggest that you drop the effort to "clear" your name or reputation. Everyone gets talk page warnings, you should not take it as a personal slight. Trying to right this wrong can only backfire on you as I've never seen a warning retracted before but I have seen plenty of boomerangs for groundless complaints. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:15, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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Dan9122: problematic?

Dan9122 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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This editor has been concerning me for various reasons: some of their edits seem like legitimate copyediting, but most of them involve unsourced changes to minute details, most prominently years that logos/slogans were first introduced and stylizations. Additionally, the user has been making inappropriate claims on their user page that they are an admin and are affiliated with other websites (one of which was the subject of one of their edits), and has been pushing this non-existent "Google Day" on other users' talk pages with varying comments. Could we have someone look at this? ViperSnake151  Talk  19:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree- it's a strange opener for a new account. Since there's no specific Walter Mitty policy, it would be interesting to hear other opinions. _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 19:53, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I have little doubt that a film version of Walter Mitty in which his fantasy of greatness involves WP adminship would be a box office smash. EEng (talk) 21:21, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

And has again claimed, just now, to be an administrator with this edit to their userpage. Possibly doesn't understand the meaning of administrator (v. editor)? Dwpaul ^Talk 21:25, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

And then there's this. What would a newbie editor be doing creating pages like this (albeit not a proper redirect, and to a target that doesn't exist)? Dwpaul ^Talk 21:32, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

He definitely knows the difference, he has been warned more than once. The redirects are also equally troubling. I have suspicions that this is not a new user, and he should be blocked until it is confirmed if he truly is a newbie.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 21:41, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Support block All the signs are that they're WP:NOTHERE- the userpage fake claims, creating redirects that imply they're not a newbie. Joseph2302 (talk) 01:02, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Continuing to make weird, unhelpful edits, see Contributions- they've just moved a load of random user pages, and this also shows WP:NOTHERE to me. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:04, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Redirects

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We have a user, Human3015 (talk · contribs), who nominated the following redirects related to the Kashmir dispute for speedy deletion. The redirects were deleted under WP:G3 (which is for "pure vandalism and blatant hoaxes"), although none of the redirects meet this criteria. The nominations were made by an editor with aggressive nationalist motivations and no logical rationale has been given as to why these redirects, which are entirely valid, have existed for years and qualify under WP:RNEUTRAL, were nominated. There is for instance no reasoning behind the deletion of Indian occupied Kashmir which is a commonly-used alternative terminology for the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir (there is currently a redirect on Pakistan occupied Kashmir), neither was there any logic behind deleting Kashmiri independence movement which redirected to a page on Kashmiri separatism. I'd like someone to review these nominations, as they are faulty, were made single-handedly without input, don't appear to violate WP:REDIRECT and most importantly, none of them meet G3.:

• Occupied Kashmir
• Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir
• Indian-occupied Kashmir
• Indian occupied Kashmir
• Indian Occupied Kashmir
• India occupied kashmir
• Jammu and Kashmir independence movement
• Jammu and Kashmir freedom struggle
• Kashmir independence movement
• Kashmiri independence movement
• Kashmiri Independence Movement
• Kashmir freedom struggle

Note: This was brought to the attention of the deleting admin, but that admin has suggested this be brought to the attention of a noticeboard. Mar4d (talk) 14:42, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• Restore all The deleting admit does not object; they felt they had their reasons to delete them; IMO an honest mistake, but must be reverted. -M.Altenmann >t 14:53, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Restore all I was notified of one such deletions at my talk page. It is plain out disruptive to mass nominate redirects from different POVs as per WP:RNEUTRAL and this just appears to be a WP:TROUT case for the deleting admin. Redirects are not always neutral because the standing title is neutral. Non neutral terms redirect to the neutral one so that those searching it by their own perspective are taken to the neutral article. Terms such as "Indian Occupied Kashmir" are largely used in Pakistani media and are hence valid POV redirects. Moreover, these redirects, or some that I saw, were deleted per G3... (hoaxes?). --lTopGunl (talk) 15:25, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• restore and trout Someone needs to read up on NPOV as applied to redirects. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:33, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

They are all restored and earlier I declined two more that the same editor nominated under the same criteria. They do not appear to be vandalism and there is o way that G8 would apply to them as they all have valid targets. -- GB fan 15:39, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I have also restored a couple of more that had been deleted. One of them was merged to another article after an AFD and then redirected. -- GB fan 15:48, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

@GB fan: Thanks for the restorations, it's appreciated. However, we now have another problematic editor, CosmicEmperor, who seems to have not read this discussion and is re-adding the speedy tags and using the edit summary "Let administrators decide, don't go into edit war" [25]. Could you look into it? Cheers, Mar4d (talk) 16:24, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• I don't know whether this is in blind support of the previous nom or disruption per se, but the edit is restoring CSD template that was declined by me as a third editor. That's not under the scope of CSD at all not to mention that it was once restored. --lTopGunl (talk) 16:32, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Topgun is suggesting as if he took a very neutral stand as an unbiased third editor. Both Mar4d and topgun comes from Pakistan and they will support each other. When I visited Mar4d's page, it looked as if the redirects were created recently, as only newly created pages are nominated for deletion and the user named human who looked like a good faith editor, nominated them for speedy deletion. The redirects are one year, even more older than i thought.C E (talk) 16:53, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Being from the same region does not mean support. My edit was made in my own right (and as I said, any one can decline a CSD). You seem to decide at your own discretion who is and is not a good faith editor. --lTopGunl (talk) 17:06, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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Disruptive editing by User:Hash Tag 444

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It's clear from their talk page that this new user has problems with adherence to guidance and policy. Discussions have already taken place on their talk page, and I'm now having problems at La Bamba (song) - and potentially at Emmerdale, Vince Cable, and other articles. Not obvious vandalism, but a clear inability to respect other users and policy. Examples of problematic behaviour here and here. Some admin input would be appreciated. Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I suspected Gmythtre of playing the proxy for a banned editor. Compare [26] with [27]. The rest of the edits I believe I was improving the articles. --Hash Tag 444 (talk) 11:14, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment). I note that this edit is permissible under WP:BLANKING and the summary - though not totally WP:CIVIL - is in response to the threat of being reported at WP:3RR. This I see as an explanation as to why the user was behaving as he or she did at Emmerdale, so not problematic there either now that is understood. Given so, if I have to be fair, I must state that the conditions of WP:ROLLBACK were certainly violated here. --Phil Copperman (talk) 11:21, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of the history at Emmerdale, but reinstating a section that included words like "...the core of the viewership is among the more intellectually challenged members of the public" seemed to me to be clear vandalism. But, If my edit is deemed to violate WP:ROLLBACK, I apologise. Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

[28] This edit by Hash Tag 444 is nasty and abusive, insulting millions of people is not the purpose of wikipedia. Spumuq (talq) 11:34, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Also, look at this [29], Hash tag injects obfuscated Javascript into an article, it is not readable and not useful, but Hash Tag's has a defiant edit summary, "no consensus". Spumuq (talq) 11:44, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

It is clear that Hash Tag 444 was attempting to include irrelevant information, and a user with much more experience reverted for the betterment of the article. Hash Tag 444 than placed them back with uncivil summaries and accusations. There is a pattern in his/her edits, that the user knows are not helpful to the encyclopedia.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 11:49, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

To understand what Hash Tag 444 is up to it is necessary to look quite closely at their edits. Further, to understand what has been going on at Emmerdale, it is necessary to look VERY closely at its history. In particular, this stuff about the renaming, the European Court of Human Rights, the stupidity of viewers etc is not new, and is not a content dispute. Hash Tag 444 is not, in my opinion, trying to help. Oh yes and if you think I misused Rollback, please, for goodness sake remove the bit. Clearly someone like me does not need it and will only disrupt the encyclopaedia by its use. DBaK (talk) 11:56, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

More problematic edits to a BLP. [30], [31], [32], [33] The edit summaries are largely unacceptable. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 12:08, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

He don't know what is vandalism? Noteswork (talk) 12:13, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

They're quite aware of sourcing requirements. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 12:23, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• Looking at the editing history of User:Hash Tag 444, I see, among other problems, edit-warring on several articles, sometimes outright vandalism (including creating at least one hoax article), repeated attempts to evade the result of a deletion discussion by re-creating a deleted page (using a different title after his or her first attempt was reverted), an attempt to derail a deletion discussion by removing an AfD template from an article, an attempt to hijack an article by replacing its content by content on a totally different subject, contemptuously dismissive responses to messages from other editors, creating blatantly promotional articles, and so on and so on ... Some of the problems may have been initial failures to understand how Wikipedia works by a new editor, but some of them have continued following messages about the problems, and the editor's general attitude to anyone who expresses disagreement is dismissive and discourteous. Also, there are things like this, which are presumably accidents rather than vandalism, but if such accidents continue too frequently, they constitute an inability to edit properly, which can be every bit as disruptive as intentional vandalism. If there is no change fairly soon, I see a block on the editor as pretty inevitable. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree it is disruptive, but how can this [34] be an accident? An editor who knows what "consensus" is, must know that edit is wrong, and that there is no "consensus" to inject javascript in an article. «AGF is not a suicide pact». Spumuq (talq) 12:52, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

In my humble opinion there are no accidents here. Someone is 'avin a larfff. Oh and this, and this? Pure coincidence. DBaK (talk) 12:56, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

And this. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 12:58, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

These examples should be plenty reason to the block the user, perhaps not indefinitely as of now, but long enough to show this kind of activity is not tolerable. If he/she does not improve thereafter, than I would support an indefinite block. This is being generous, since the user shows a long line of disruptive editing.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 13:13, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• Blocked 31 hours to try to get them to realize this is serious. --Floquenbeam (talk) 13:18, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I hope it works, Floquenbeam, but I doubt it. This user is not here to build an encyclopedia. He came to my attention when he was edit-warring to remove an rcat from a redirect with no other reason than "why wreck it will all that R for this R for that clutter". His edit summary of "Drop it and have a shave you bearded baboon" seems to be typical of his attitude towards other editors.

I checked his recent contributions and found him inserting the words "Spotted Dick" into an article he had recreated after deletion Memory for future - admins will be able to see this diff and judge whether he is just trying to cause mischief.

There was also his renaming of "Alice in Wonderland" and adding a spurious birthdate to Hope Alcocer. My attempts to warn him were removed with the edit summary "rv thread of frivolous crap from RexxS". --RexxS (talk) 13:49, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I'll keep an eye on it. I encouraged the block to this limit, so I will warn AN/I if he continues to vandalize articles. However, feel free to extend the block as I would prefer to avoid vandalism outright.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 13:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, there's a decent chance I've just postponed the inevitable by 31 hours. If so, I'll reblock. Or if anyone else wants to do it sooner, you don't need to talk to me first. --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:14, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Has the user in question posted any actual useful edits in his few days here? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:52, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, certainly. here is an example; there are others. The trouble is, though, that quite a lot of what the user is doing is disruptive in intent or effect, and it's difficult - without making insulting assumptions - to see how the balance works between the innocent and, er, less-good edits. DBaK (talk) 16:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

There have been some good edits made by them, and we had a nice semi-Wiki related conversation about football, but there have also been some really bad edits too, and aggressive edit summaries. I remember an argument with this user about WP:CRYSTAL edits at AFC Bournemouth and 2014-15 Football League Championship.

IMO, they could be a good editor with a bit of help, maybe get a mentor to help them and tone them down a bit? Joseph2302 (talk) 17:18, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

This is a  Confirmed sock and has been indef blocked. Tiptoety ^talk 20:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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There is a content and conduct dispute at Le Sage's theory of gravitation. Normally this could be handled under WP:ARBPS, since this theory is now considered pseudo-science, but the reply by User:DoNotGod to the allegation of sockpuppetry was: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADoNotGod&type=revision&diff=663065825&oldid=663059563

I haven’t filed an SPI at this time, but threatening to sue another editor for malicious defamation is a very clear violation of No Legal Threats.

Robert McClenon (talk) 21:39, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

It reads like a hypothetical rather than a blatant threat. Nevertheless, someone with some clout needs to tell him to recant and disavow it, or be blocked. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:48, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

It's not a hypothetical. DoNotGod has posted a video to his YouTube channel saying that he will "sue Wikipedia" if he is blocked under WP:NLT. [35] I would also like to point out to any admins reading that this guy has two other videos on his channel full of vulgar insults towards editors involved in the relevant dispute, and has also made false accusations of slander multiple times. Insidiae (talk) 22:01, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Note: There are some disturbing off-wiki legal threats as well:

• "Wikipedia Junk .... DVdm is a petty fucktard"
• "(1) Wikipedia editors: just petty fascist propagandizing control freaks"
• "(2) Wikipedia editors: just petty fascist propagandizing control freaks".

I don't think that listing this is against our wp:outing policy, as user DoNotGod seems to have no objection—on the contrary—so I thought I had to mention this. - DVdm (talk) 22:05, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

His comment on Wikipedia reads as a hypotheticals, i.e. "How about if I..." rather than "I will..." He needs to know that he's free to sue, he just can't edit Wikipedia at the same time. And unless he actually outed himself by giving his actual name, I don't see how he can claim he was "defamed". Of course, there's the old adage, "Never sue - they might prove it." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:22, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Yet he remains unblocked. Go figure. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:23, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Blocked. Hypothetical threats can create a chilling effect intended to influence the actions of other editors, which seems clearly to be the case here, and that is just as bad as a direct threat. My block is only for the on-wiki threat, so feel free to discuss whether it was justified, and whether more than the on-wiki conduct needs to be addressed in any potential request for an unblock. Monty₈₄₅ 01:07, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for block. Blocked editor is continuing to threaten to sue in unblock request. Suggest blocking talk page. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:36, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I would suggest going ahead and filing an SPI case between this editor and Snowwhiteunger. —Farix (t | c) 01:33, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

SPI filed against DoNotGod, Snowwhiteunger, and 192.155.217.202. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:36, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Follow-up: SPI report filed here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DoNotGod --IJBall (talk) 05:59, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

And it came up  Unrelated – so apparently those three are not socks of each other. --IJBall (talk) 06:38, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I, for one, would appreciate an apology. The Wikipedia:Consensus was damaged by launching SPI against only those editors who supported including DoNotGod's link, especially since the allegations were proven false. I'd also point out that I lost the password to my preexisting account, which can be seen here: Special:Contributions/Snowwhitefan1 thus laying to rest "meatpuppet" allegations, as well.Snowwhiteunger (talk) 13:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

DoNotGod uploaded this video today, his reaction to getting blocked. Looks like he won't be rescinding his legal threats (in fact he made more of them in the video), so I don't think he'll be coming back any time soon. Insidiae (talk) 06:11, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

The three are not sockpuppets, but they do appear to have been acting in coordination. He may have hangers-on. Wikipedia's policy on so-called meat-puppetry might apply, but I don't claim to understand fully exactly what is and is not meat-puppetry. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:48, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Says he's gonna sue for "malicious deformation". I guess that's like when you dent someone's car on purpose? EEng (talk) 12:57, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I will note that his threats are to sue Wikipedia, which is not permitted because of its chilling effect. He isn't threatening to sue individual editors, which is far more intimidating, because the individual editors don't have the resources to defend themselves aggressively that the WMF does. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:48, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I'd appreciate an apology, as I have not acted in coordination with anyone. What you've done here is undermine Wikipedia:Consensus which is even more serious than your false allegation of sock-puppetry. Snowwhiteunger (talk) 13:28, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Taking into account the unrelated outcome of the SPI, perhaps my apologies would be appropriate at user talk. But then, what to think of this and this, where the entire article is replaced with a link to DoNotGod's personal web page? To be ignored? Meatpuppetry? In any case, an apology would make any kind of legal action moot, and easy to retract by user. Advice would be welcome. - DVdm (talk) 14:40, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Request semi-protection for the page then WP:RBI this person any sock/meat-puppets. Ravensfire (talk) 14:55, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

You've offered an apology here and if he has the wit to come and see it, fine. Otherwise leave it alone. No possible good can come from further interactions with this person. EEng (talk) 14:56, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Which "this person" are you referring to? DoNotGod, the anonymous IP, or myself? I do expect an apology. Again, Wikipedia:Consensus has been undermined here, pretty blatantly in fact, by taking action only against the people who were in favor or including DoNotGod's link in the non-mainstream link section of a theory considered "pseudo-science" by many. A discussion needs to be started imo, on how to move forward. Snowwhiteunger (talk) 13:29, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm referring to DoNotGod. EEng (talk) 14:16, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

No apology, in my opinion, is required, your actions are absolutely suspicious enough to warrant an accusation. Nearly all your edits were toward defending DoNotGod on a talk page, which is very unusual for a newbie.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 13:47, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

As pointed out, I'm not a newbie, unless the term "newbie" applies to users who started editing on Wikipedia in the year 2013. This is mine: Special:Contributions/Snowwhitefan1Snowwhiteunger (talk) 13:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

One edit, long ago reverted, and two years later you come back to side with the blocked user? Yeah, suspicions are granted.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 14:01, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• One argument against the idea Snowwhiteunger's a sockpuppet of of DoNotGod is that he's not batshit crazy the way the guy in the video is. However, that's only in the full light of day. Just on Snowwhiteunger's contributions, puppetry suspicions were warranted. Now we know you're not one. Fine. Get over it. EEng (talk) 14:16, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Once again, thanks for pointing out my first edit was made "long ago" which necessarily means I'm not a newbie. The mental gymnastics in use here by editors attempting to justify suspicions now proven completely false by the SPI are impressive. Also, you are suggesting that I "sided" with a blocked user, when in fact I merely agreed that the link in question was appropriately posted to the "Non-Mainstream" link section of a pseudo-scientific theory article, and this occurred well prior to the blocking of that contributor. I felt the previous links included in the "Non-Mainstream" section were appropriate as well, so by your logic I "sided" with all of those contributors (whose contributions incidentally sat undisturbed in the "Non-Mainstream" link section until DoNotGod attempted to post his link). I'd suggest focusing on the content, not the contributors. In fact, I've been suggesting that all along. Using language such as "batshit crazy" is wildly inappropriate, in any context. Why not respond to me with proper decorum, just as I've responded to you (and everyone else) here. Snowwhiteunger (talk) 14:32, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Using language such as "batshit crazy" is wildly inappropriate – it would seem you haven't seen the videos. EEng (talk) 15:01, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Read the boomerang essay before continuing to make angry posts here. Also, please explain why you are using multiple accounts. Your argument that you are not a newbie editor because you made edits under a different name in 2013 appears to mean that you are a sockpuppet of yourself. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:54, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

These posts are not angry, Mr. McClenon. A well-respected editor (DVdm) suggested apologies might be in order, and I am speaking up to express my belief that yes, apologies are in order. In no way can that be construed as inappropriate or angry. Snowwhiteunger (talk) 15:18, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

He already said he lost the password to his earlier account. As long as there's no attempt to deceive there's nothing wrong with creating a new account in such cases. EEng (talk) 15:01, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Appreciate you pointing that out, thanks. Snowwhiteunger (talk) 15:18, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree with EEng's past comment, get over it. You were suspicious so they checked to be sure. By dragging this on Snowwhiteunger, you are just be uncollaborative and it may WP:BOOMERANG on you.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 15:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

But now that the allegation has been shown to be conclusively false by the SPI, an apology would be appreciated despite the origin of the suspicions. Let not forget that every conversation held on Wikipedia serves as an example to others. Snowwhiteunger (talk) 15:18, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

As to the characterization as a newbie editor, having made one edit in 2013 doesn't make one an experienced editor. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:22, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) He made a single edit with the 2013 account (Special:Contributions/Snowwhitefan1) and that was just a revert. That barely even counts as a contribution. Someone who has never added any new content is, in practice, a newbie. They have no experience of Wikipedia editing. It's not an insult. Paul B (talk) 15:26, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Per the advice (and/or warning) posted on my talk page, I'm going to disengage from this conversation. The "anonymous tip" if you will, disturbed me greatly, and I don't think that's the way Wikipedia wants to lose potential editors. I was called a newbie, and by strict definition (definitions are supposedly important on an encyclopedia website) I was not, because I have in fact edited a Wikipedia page prior to this dispute. Never did I claim to be a very experienced editor. As already stated, I attempted to log in under Snowwhitefan1 but failed to find the correct password, but I didn't attempt to track down my previous edit until today, when I became aware of the SPI for the first time. The previous meatpuppet allegation combined now with the sockpuppet and newbie allegation provided the impetus to take the time to track down that 2013 edit. Combined with the dismissive, unfriendly tone with which the allegations were hurled at me, I don't think I was in the wrong to come back and try to talk it out. Look at how all of my posts have been worded, then tell me where I've said anything inappropriate or counter to the spirit of discussion that Wikipedia encourages. I was told flat out that Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith would not be afforded to me almost immediately after I joined the conversation, likewise meatpuppet and sockpuppet allegations were thrown at me very quickly--despite my reasonable tone. If you really think I've been treated well here, then Wikipedia's standards of discourse leaves much to be desired. Only DVdm has even broached the possibility of an apology, and I give him credit for that much. I'll wrap this up with a few points. Throughout all of this, most of the editors have focused as much on the contributor as the content, and from what I can tell that runs counter to Wikipedia policy. Also, keep in mind WP: CAI and WP:CRED. Also, by focusing things like SPI, BOOMERANG, and similar measures entirely on one side of a dispute, wp:consensus is seriously damaged and serious questions arise. Hopefully you'll think about that. I'm done here. Peace. Snowwhiteunger (talk) 17:06, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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User:Harold Bellagnome // User:Camelbinky

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Seriously, can someone block this User:Harold Bellagnome, once again someone is playing off the trademark of TSM LLC's Henry Bellagnome and playing games, per his/her comment on User talk:Jimbo Wales. I'd like someone to also do a checkuser and see who is doing these socks. [ Unacceptable attack on a sysop/checkuser redacted. BLP applies on the AN board too. If you have evidence of this submit it to the foundation, untill then, it's redacted per NPA and BLP ] This has escalated into harassment offline and against my work as well, it is hard to do legal action against individuals who are harassing me in real life and affecting my workplace if I can't find out who. Please help.Camelbinky (talk) 17:52, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Am I misunderstanding, or are you asking that the real-life identity of this sockmaster be disclosed to you so you can take legal action against him/her? If you are, I think you should be dealing with the WMF directly... AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:03, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Right now I'm asking that this sockpuppet be blocked and the IPs associated with this now THIRD sockpuppet be blocked indef. I don't think that's unreasonable, though I'd ask that we'd also take the step that any actually username associated with the IPs also be blocked for sockpuppetry (probably not a word but I'm pissed this is happening constantly and nothing is being done). This one was made within minutes of me posting on Jimbo's talk page, so it has to be a user who has it watchlisted or constantly keeps tabs on my contributions, which means it's a current user. I can have a lawyer contact the WMF directly regarding what, if anything, the WMF even allows itself to do without a court order.Camelbinky (talk) 21:15, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Anyone (registered user or not) can keep a browser link to Jimbo's talk page - or to your contributions history for that matter. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:32, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

A couple of points; I don't appreciate your oblique reference to myself, nor your veiled accusation of impropriety. I have never "cover[ed] up for Wikipediocracy users" nor, to my knowledge, have I been credibly accused of it. Please provide evidence or strike that. Also, why not name me by name, or at least do me the courtesy of notifying me that you're badmouthing me around the place? That way, it saves me having to find out via Wikipediocracy. Thirdly, you are, of course, free to involve lawyers in whatever you like - that's your prerogative - but I have to draw your attention to Wikipedia's policy on same. Also, Checkusers on WMF are bound by checkuser policy, WMF privacy policy and the access to non-public data policy. For that reason, if you wish to obtain IP information, you will need to check with WP:OFFICE unless there's an egregious abuse which would warrant its disclosure, and I believe there is not. In this case, I did check, and there are no other accounts visible under its IPV6 address, nor are there any others within a reasonable CIDR range. I have tried, but I cannot link any of these accounts to another, or even reliably to each other apart from their useragent. Feel free, however, to ask for a second or third checkuser opinion - Alison ^❤ 01:28, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, that's not cool. Alison is a highly trusted user on both websites. This is true. And frankly, fairly impressive. She manages to do it by being fair and scrupulous, and it's shitty to be badmouthing her for it. And you are required to let someone know if you are discussing them here, even if it is out of the corner of your mouth. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:42, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

And again AN/I becomes the place to badmouth and find what is wrong with the person being bullied instead of just doing something to solve the problem. Lovely. You're all a bunch of hypocrites for claiming to be here to solve the problems and yet you allow the "bloody the witness" mentality that is prevalent here. You have problems with what I say? Fine, take care of my problem and then we can discuss it in a separate thread. But obviously you don't want to do anything. I'll contact the WMF regarding the direct attack upon my businesses online and offline by a user who started with Wikipedia and that Wikipedia continues to do nothing about stopping the proliferation of names based off a trademark of a registered corporation.Camelbinky (talk) 13:59, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I love that the sockpuppet still hasn't been blocked. And that the only ones commenting are those who have harassed me or bullied me in the past.Camelbinky (talk) 14:01, 20 May 2015

If the sock has been blocked where is the template or ANYTHING on the page to let anyone know? I'm not an admin and there is no way I would be able to tell by going to that sock that the sock has been blocked! PLUS why is it that these socks are ONLY being blocked? Um, I'm pretty sure being copyright violations they need to be completely removed and I don't know why this isn't being done. The names are allowed to remain in existence making it look like TSM LLC has something to do with them and the corporation itself has done something wrong through editing and has been blocked.Camelbinky (talk) 14:41, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Sigh. I tried to close this, and was reverted. Camelbinky, anyone can look at block logs: [36], you don't have to be an admin. It is literally impossible for an admin to get IP information; Checkuser Alison has already provided background IP info (twice), and stated that there is no link to an account here, but it is directly against the privacy policy to provide the IP range directly to you. And it would do you no good. Again, in spite of your casual smear against her, she is also the one who blocked the accounts. So no matter how many times you delete the suggestion, you should thank her.

It is also literally impossible for an admin or checkuser to "delete" an account,I suppose you could ask a "Global renamer" to rename them to something innocuous, but the problem is, every single time someone helps you, you treat them like dirt. So I don't know how successful you'll be in getting someone to make an effort. Plus, as several people have advised you now, by making a big deal of this in public, you are giving the troll exactly the attention he wants. --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:59, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I love that the sockpuppet still hasn't been blocked. And that the only ones commenting are those who have harassed me or bullied me in the past. Camelbinky, I redacted your reference to a check user and have asked for it to be RevDel'd and I certainly have not attacked you in the past. While I won't ask you to strike it, I will request a block on Camelbinky at this time for:

• 1 Posting a remark that violates BLP and NPA and further maligns a sysop and checkuser by outright stating they protected sock.
  
  
• 2 Has done nothing but attack users on this section , in a show of ABF as well as IDHT
  
  
• 3 Reverted an administrators close of this topic.
  
  
• 3 I general is out-of-control about this user over his username.
  
  

Obviously this user is not a good faith user, however, Camelbinky is out of control about this. Hate to reccomend a block for anyone, but I do in this case KoshVorlon Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti 16:56, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Blocks aren't what's needed here, stick dropping is what's needed here. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:18, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. Let's just move on. All socks checked / blocked. If Camelbinky wishes to bring this up with OFFICE, he can go ahead and pursue that - Alison ^❤ 21:27, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

• And in other news, I've gone ahead and deleted all the userpages created by the socks, as they were starting to appear on the first page of a google search for "Bellagnome". Let's not recreate them, nor add "marks of shame" to the pages, or it'll just end up looking bad for Binky, as his trademark gets sullied by his own demands - Alison ^❤ 07:37, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• Camelbinky still owes me and Drmies apologies for ridiculously false allegations levied at Jimbotalk [37]. The legal threats in this thread are also obnoxious. I suggest a boomerang block for personal attacks and violation of NOLEGALTHREATS. Carrite (talk) 07:03, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Let's make that formal:

• Support - Indefinite boomerang block of Camelbinky for a stream of out of control personal attacks, bad faith insinuations, and legal threats. Carrite (talk) 07:16, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Nope - just let it go, and allow Binky to cool down and move on with things. There's nothing served by blocking the guy, other than fueling his sense of injustice - Alison ^❤ 07:33, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose per Alison. AndyTheGrump (talk) 07:43, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose per Alison (smooches from the motherland) though I appreciate Carrite's comment. As a side note, holy moly Camelbinky, what a bunch of assholism. Still, "acting like a total asshole" is not a blockable offense until it becomes severely disruptive, and you're not up to snuff yet. One day you'll look in the mirror, I hope. Drmies (talk) 08:19, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support sadly. He's a good editor, but he's more or less gone off the deep end (check his contributions and you'll see that he's been on a tear about H* Bellagnome, and per Carrite, he's issued outrageous personal attacks here and on Jimbo's page. I'd say enough's enough. KoshVorlon Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti 10:54, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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Human_Chlorophyll and Talk:Jesus

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• Human_Chlorophyll (talk · contribs)
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Human Chlorophyll started a discussion with "I know that it is impossible for a Muslim like me to reach consensus with anyone of you, since most of you are Christians or from Christian background" - a clear failure to assume good faith, and a sign of WP:BATTLEGROUND (if not WP:SOAPBOX, because why make such a post if you truly believe that the discussion is pointless from the get-go?). He wants the article to describe the crucifixion of Jesus as just a Christian religious belief, citing "Muslim scholars" out of one side of his mouth while denying out the other side that he wishes to present the Islamic belief that Jesus wasn't crucified as fact. All of the sources in that article, in Crucifixion of Jesus, and in Historicity of Jesus indicate that the crucifixion about the only thing relating to Jesus that can be agreed upon, and is agreed upon by anyone who thinks Jesus existed. There was and is a clear and firm WP:RS-based consensus to state the crucifixion to be as certain as whether or not Jesus existed (and moreso if that were possible). This is a behavioral issue, not a content one; or rather, it is only a content issue insofar as a user is disrupting a talk page because the reliably sourced content does not support his personal POV. Human Chlorophyll's argument makes as much sense as arguing that the articles on Jesus, Enoch, Elijah, and Muhammad al-Mahdi should be treated as WP:BLPs.

The majority of Human Chlorophyll's activity is to advocate the use of Islamically-biased sources, dismissing mainstream secular academic sources as being "from Christian or ex-Christian background," dismissing their findings as just their "opinions" (and not their professional assessment of academic consensus), and saying that the likes of John Dominic Crossan and Bart D. Ehrman are "not historians". As shown in this post, he also:

• simultaneously tries to argue that he's not pushing an Islamic POV while asserting that the article should reflect the perspective of Muslim scholars
• misrepresents cherry-picked sources (using sources that admit they're discussing a different figure, or that argue that there was no historical Jesus to crucify)
• advocates his original research over the cited and published reliable sources by accredited mainstream academics

Here he demonstrates crippling incompetence by (as Paul Barlow explains) confusing the editors of the book with the author of the cited essay within it, and completely missing the point of the source he cited. Here he also makes bad-faith and unevidenced accusations of sockpuppetry.

The rest of his posts are pretty much repeats of the above. Human Chlorophyll is WP:NOTHERE when it comes to topics relating to Jesus. And that's assuming he's not just here to push an Islamic POV. We need Muslim editors. We don't need POV-pushers, regardless of their worldview.

He might be useful in other topics. I'll leave it to the community to decide whether a topic ban would be more appropriate than other actions. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:46, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

There are many ways to address content disputes per WP:DR, and topic banning a user is something that requires some kind of proof of disruption. Just because a user disagrees in talk, that is not enough for a topic ban IMO. - Cwobeel (talk) 20:52, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Human Chlorophyll needs to focus on content and not editors. When they do that, the results can be positive, speaking from experience. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 20:58, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)This isn't simple disagreement over content. The academic consensus clearly states one thing, and only religious sources state the other, but Human Chlorophyll is fighting against that consensus using biased and/or misrepresented sources. His presence is a waste of everyone's time, as much as a die-hard young earth creationist's at Talk:Evolution. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:03, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support topic ban Human Chlorophyll is definitely WP:NOTHERE to contribute, and I'm getting a bit tired of all the repeated accusations I'm a sock [38], [39]. The problem is that the user refuses to WP:HEAR anyone else, which has nothing to do with content. The discussion is not going anywhere, at this point it's getting tendentious. The behaviour, the repeated personal attacks and the assumption of bad faith from the very start of the discussion [40] all show a battleground mentality. It seems the only options to a topic ban is to keep the discussion running indefinitely even though it's not going anywhere, or every other user involved getting worn out so Human Chlorophyll gets his way.Jeppiz (talk) 21:21, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• I've warned the user about the ridiculous sock accusations. Bishonen | talk 22:37, 18 May 2015 (UTC).

• I don't really care one way or another, but All of the sources in that article, in Crucifixion of Jesus, and in Historicity of Jesus indicate that the crucifixion about the only thing relating to Jesus that can be agreed upon, and is agreed upon by anyone who thinks Jesus existed. is not agreed upon by those who believe that Jesus existed. See:

1. Norman L. Geisler & Abdul Saleeb, Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross 282 (2002).
2. Abraham Sarker, Understand My Muslim People 258 (2004).
3. Harold G. Koenig, Health and Well-Being in Islamic Societies: Background, Research, and Applications 84 (2014).
4. Juan Eduardo Campo, Encyclopedia of Islam 397 (2009).

All of these sources state the widely held Muslim belief that Jesus was not crucified. Just because Christians believe that Jesus was crucified, does not mean that everyone who thinks that Jesus existed believes that he was crucified. This is a content dispute and should be handled accordingly. GregJackP Boomer! 23:40, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Those sources support the already included statement that Muslims do not believe Jesus was crucified. That is not the issue. Those sources have nothing to do with the history of first century Roman Palestine, but with a religion that started several centuries later. They do not have anything whatsoever to do with what mainstream secular historians think on the matter. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:17, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Works for me. If there is already coverage and he doesn't understand, I can support a topic ban unless he repents. GregJackP Boomer! 05:04, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

What is the problem of adding a sentence or two to describe the Islamic view on Jesus? Again, this seems to be a content dispute, so take it to talk, and maybe use WP:OPPONENT as a tool. - Cwobeel (talk) 23:53, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

The article already says that Muslims do not believe Jesus was crucified. Human Chlorophyll has been calling for downgrading mainstream secular academia's assessment to being just a Christian belief, despite the sources saying otherwise. The idea that Jesus existed but was not crucified is pretty much just Islamic doctrine, not the assessment of mainstream secular historians. The sources cited in the aforementioned articles are clear on this. Human Chlorophyll started off making it clear that he does not believe consensus was possible (indicating a failure to assume good faith and a battleground attitude), he has shown that he do not regard any source as acceptable if it does not fit his POV, and he repeatedly misrepresented sources. If someone came onto:

• Talk:Evolution, said that the Bible says God made the world in six days, insisted that the article present evolution as just an atheist belief...
• Talk:Global warming, said that some random politician doesn't believe in climate change, insisted that the article present climate change as a socialist belief...
• Talk:Vaccination, said that Jenny McCarthy thinks vaccines cause autism, insisted that the article present the efficacy of vaccines as advertising by "big pharma"...
• Talk:September 11 attacks, said that jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams, insisted that the article present what happened as government propaganda...
• Talk:Holocaust, said that Hitler didn't have any plans for wiping out the Jews, insisted that the article present the deaths as a Jewish belief...

...and followed it by citing sources for the exact opposite point of what they actually said while accusing regular editors of being sockpuppets, we wouldn't call it a content dispute -- we'd tell them to stop POV-pushing and block or topic ban them when they don't. It's the exact same deal here.

Ian.thomson (talk) 00:17, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Cwobeel: we already have a whole section in the article exactly on the Islamic view on Jesus. That section mentions that Muslims don't believe Jesus was crucified. So nobody is opposed to saying that, and the article said that already before HC turned up. The question is whether the section on the academic view on Jesus, obviously different from both the Christian and Muslim view, also should mention the Muslim belief. And if it were a content dispute, it wouldn't be here. It's an issue of WP:HEAR, not going anywhere.Jeppiz (talk) 00:21, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Ok, let me explain this without mentioning what the article is, since that seems to be confusing people. If we ignore what the article is, ignore the content, we're left with this:

We have an article where mainstream secular academia has arrived at an almost unified conclusion regarding the status of the subject. There is some religious disagreement that has to split hairs and calls the mainstream account an illusion, and that belief is noted for what it is. We have multiple sources cited in the articles supporting all that.

A user has come in stating that they do not believe that their posts will not lead to article improvement, before suggesting changes based on religious sources or cherry-picked misrepresentations of mainstream sources, fails to heed anyone's explanations as to why their edits will not go through, and makes bad faith accusations of sockpuppetry against some of those who explain this. Furthermore, this user has tried to push their POV onto other articles. -- Those are behavioral issues, and this is the sort of thing topic bans are meant to deal with, users who might be useful elsewhere but whose presence in specific articles is a waste of everyone's time.

If this was any article but Jesus, we'd at least tell that user to back off, instead of telling the filing user to go through basic steps that he usually goes through with elsewhere. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support topic ban per Ian Thomson and Jeppiz. Bill the Cat 7 (talk) 12:12, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

• Reluctant support topic ban. When this discussion thread was started on the talk page, I was relatively sympathetic to Human Chlorophyll. It is, of course, important to include the information that Muslims have traditionally argued that Jesus did not die on the cross. However, this is not the same as saying there was no crucifixion. The Quran is clear that it appeared that Jesus was crucified. The most common interpretation is that God miraculously lifted Jesus to heaven and simultaneously transmuted Simon of Cyrene into Jesus's physical form, so that he would be crucified instead. This, of course, is a completely unfalsifiable "body swap" argument. Perhaps JFK was miraculously transported out of his body before his death and subsituted by Sam Giancana. We can't prove it didn't happen, but it doesn't alter historical events. So even the mainstream Muslim view does not deny the crucifixion. It just adds an unfalsifiable miraculous element. But Human Chlorophyll does not want to discuss this. He fills the page with utter irrelevancy and obfuscation. The last straw has been my attempt to explain his citation error (alluded to by ian.thomson above). It was an easy mistake to make; not a big problem. As long as it's acknowledged we can move on in the discussion. The problem is the endless stream of abuse, sneering, denial and constant IDIDNTHEARTHAT that makes sensible discussion impossible. Paul B (talk) 13:50, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

• Reluctant support topic ban, and only because he continues to edit after ragequitting. He should be allowed to apply somewhere to get it released. Shii (tock) 14:07, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support timed topic ban(uninvolved non admin) In hopes that Human_Chlorophyll comes to a better way of editing. Learning how talk page disccusions can sometimes show us where we are wrong is important. I suggest up to a 6 month topic ban so they can grow as an editor, the account is less than a month old. AlbinoFerret 15:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

I think a timed topic ban would be the best, yes. At the moment, the WP:HEAR issues make the user's editing a problem. If they remained on Wikipedia and edited other topics, they might learn, so a timed topic ban is probably the best solution.Jeppiz (talk) 15:40, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you for the clarifications, I see now how problematic this is, so I Support a timed topic ban. - Cwobeel (talk) 18:21, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
• Looking at his sources, his Voorst book claims that the Jerusalem Talmud mentioned stoning, and then that the Babylonian Talmud mentions hanging. It gets worse from there. Does he want to say that Jesus was nailed to a pole instead of a cross with his Telegraph reference? I scrolled a page down from his "Muslim scholars" keyword search, HC landed on a right-hand page, and it showed the name mentioned on the top-left corner on the next page, rather than the ones on the sidebar. Clearly a bad POV-push, but he assumes other users are too irrational for consensus. I think there is a problem with his refusal to pay attention to editors he disagrees with. Timed topic ban (scope?) Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 17:13, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

• Time to close? The discussion seems to be more or less over and the support seem unanimous, so perhaps it could be closed?Jeppiz (talk) 12:37, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• support topic ban - WP:NOTHERE Jytdog (talk) 13:01, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

 Comment: by Human Chlorophyll: I will summarize what exactly happened in few lines:

1. The infobox in the article Jesus presents the opinions of 4 "biblical scholars" (3 of them are preachers & none of them is a scholar of history) who claimed that "the crucifixion of Jesus commands almost universal assent" & that "non-Christian confirmation of the crucifixion of Jesus is now firmly established". For me, a person who has been in the Muslim world for 20 years, I know that this is nothing but a blatant fallacy. There is no such universal assent as long as 2 billion Muslims are living in our planet Earth.
2. So I went to the talk page, opened a new thread, and cited the Global Arabic Encyclopedia which was edited by 3000 scholars from the Arab world. It utterly denies the crucifixion and consider the Islamic beliefs about Jesus to be the ultimate truth.
3. I said to them: just as scholars from Christian background have approved this Christian story about "the crucifixion of Jesus", scholars from Muslim background have disapproved this story.
4. I was very natural and maintained a natural position. I didn't make mention of my beliefs at all. I simply said to them that "the crucifixion of Jesus" doesn't belong to history. It only belongs to faith "to the Christian faith". Why? because it isn't based on any historical evidence. It is solely based on the Christian religious tradition.
5. I cited this online easy-to-check source in English for them and it says it in clear English words: "Muslim scholars have overwhelmingly rejected the crucifixion".
6. I cited this article in the Telegraph also which is under a broad title "Jesus did not die on cross, says scholar" (it is referring to a Christian scholar "Gunnar Samuelsson" - Assistant Professor in New Testament Studies - who denies the crucifixion) saying that: The legend of his execution is based on the traditions of the Christian church and artistic illustrations rather than antique texts, according to theologian Gunnar Samuelsson.
7. I also referred to the Talmudic claim that Jesus was stoned rather that crucified: Voorst states: ["the earlier traditions given above from the Jerusalem Talmud say that jesus was stoned". Jeremy Hugh Baron states: "the Talmud assumed that Jesus was stoned to death". John Relly Beard states that this what the Talmud itself says.
8. I also cited this source which specifically states that "Jesus in the Talmud is himself the historical Jesus"

What did I get in in return from the cabal of Christian editors?

1. Virtually nothing but ad hominem. They didn't make any effort to respond directly to the points I raised. Instead of that, they started to attack me in person. They called me "religiously biased", "POV pusher", "incompetent person", "disruptive editor", "we will delete your thread", "we will block you".. etc
2. Per the Hierarchy of Disagreement, they have only shown me how weak they are.
3. All of Jeppiz, Ian and Paul accused me repeatedly and falsely of being an incompetent person (i.e. ad hominem) in spite of the fact that I am far more competent than them. Why? because I can read in both Arabic and English. I can read both the works of Muslims and the works of Christians. On the other hand, they can not read the works of Muslims. I know both Islam and Christianity. I know both the Qur'an and the Bible, while they don't know Islam. In addition, they are alcohol consumers while I am not. This gives me an advantage since I don't lose my mind while writing as they do.
4. What else did the cabal of Christian editors do? nothing aside ad hominem. Their only defense against me was this. They proposed to ban me because they can't tolerate the views of others (even when they are only mentioned in the talk pages). They can't tolerate Muslims in particular. Why? because Islam is growing much faster than Christianity and they wish to suppress Muslims in any possible way (but the fate of those Christians is to fail).
5. The funniest one, in my view, was Jeppiz, who wanted to delete the thread since the time it was opened, and contacted Ian on his talk page asking him to propose to ban Human Chlorophyl, and promised him that he will give him his support. (like a cabal or not?)--Human Chlorophyll (talk) 15:13, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Note: "Virtually nothing but ad hominem"? I found some responses & defenses to your points by Jeppiz & Ian, as well as interaction to the post from Kww, Skyring, Richard-of-Earth, and Paul Barlow before Ian closed the thread. All of the comments appeared to be written by fully sober (not inebriated or drunk) editors. Also, this may not have been what you wanted, but Jeppiz felt the question was irrelevant. You got many responses. Ian's opinion of this discussion included a defense of his points. Here is an opinion about your Talmud sources from Johnbod

That's a lot more than "ad hominem". As for the hierarchy of disagreement, they are generally within the 3rd-5th (not the 6th) quadrants, given that I've shown they've "addressed the substance of your argument". Jeppiz decided that your comment about you deciding some kinds of editor won't be neutral was not conductive to discussion. It implies you have a battleground mentality rather than a collaborative one. Also, if you think Jeppiz and Ian are sockpuppeting and therefore one and the same, why not go to [[WP:SPI] and file a report? Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 17:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• Comment I really must protest at this "they are alcohol consumers while I am not. This gives me an advantage since I don't lose my mind while writing as they do." This is how Human Chlorophyll describes Paul B, Ian.thomson and myself [41]. I'd dare say HC knows nothing about our lives and possible alcohol consumption, and the accusations that we are drunkards who "lose our minds" is quite frankly outrageous and completely irrelevant to any discussion. I've argued that HC is WP:NOTHERE and I think he just made this case himself better than I ever could. Rather than a topic ban, I'd consider an outright ban. If ANI decide for a topic ban, I'd suggest it cover any article related to religion, and this user shows over and over again that they won't even try to contribute in a constructive way. From their first post insisting we cannot be neutral because we're not Muslims to this insulting post claiming we are drunk, the user consistently takes a battlefield mentality to the project.Jeppiz (talk) 17:22, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Comment: And I really must protest at Human Chlorophyll's referring to their post above as "a few lines". Bishonen | talk 17:59, 21 May 2015 (UTC).

• Comment No WP policy prohibits editing while comfortably numb or just plain drunk. And not that I do it, but WP policies also do not require one to be wearing underwear while editing.  :) Ok, this has gotten crazy now. I support Jeppiz in just outright banning him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill the Cat 7 (talk • contribs)

One indication that I've been sober for all this: my posts lack a sanguine charisma. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:45, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• I've just indef blocked this editor. It might make sense to finalize a topic ban discussion on the off chance that they are unblocked. But there's no rush anymore. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:45, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Drinks all round then? Paul B (talk) 17:48, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

None for me, thanks. Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 17:54, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

New Task: Finding more non-Christian scholars who concede the crucifixion. Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 19:32, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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User:drmargi

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Page: CSI: Cyber (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
List of CSI: Cyber episodes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi, I'm new to this reporting thing so I hope I'm not too choppy in my explanations. Recently, it was announced that Peter MacNicol was departing CSI: Cyber. Sourced from dozens of media outlets including deadline, an amendment to the CSI: Cyber page was made to note he appeared in season 1, whilst a note was added to the List of CSI: Cyber episodes page, that I created, to note that he departed the regular cast at the end of the first season (emphasis on 'regular' due to the minute possibility he may reappear at some point), which, I believe to be unlikely.

user:drmargi then began an edit war noting that deadline was not a reputable source, nor were Irish sources, or any source noting their personal confirmation of deadline's original report. A discussion was started on the talk:CSI: Cyber page, and many editors agreed it should be noted that MacNicol has departed, as his last episode has already aired. Drmargi withdrew herself from the discussion but has continued to revert edits, although has not yet breached the 3RR rule. Today, what I believe to be a consensus was reached between those still discussing, and as a result I re-inserted the hyperlink referencing MacNicols departure. Since then, drmargi has reverted this edit several times on both pages:

Cyber

1. [42]
2. [43]
3. [44]

Cyber episodes

1. [45]
2. [46]
3. [47]

I have countered these reversions, each time adding notes such as - "Consensus has been reached on the talk page to include this piece of information. Please join the discussion before deleting again - everyone is welcome to give their two cents" - "Edit warring isn't helping anyone. Please cease and desist. Discuss like an adult. I don't want to see anyone break the 3RR rule and get themselves into trouble." - "Join the discussion. The only person being disruptive is you. Please don't do your reputation a disservice by edit warring and breaking 3RR"

This was met by threats on my talk page, stating that my accidental omission to login would next time "result in further action that may result in your being blocked," later adding "Having reverted once logged out (as you acknowledge above) and three times logged in, you have now violated WP:3RR, and refuse to abide by WP:BRD, which requires an article be left at status quo during discussion (if you can call that squabbling session on the talk page a discussion.) You also refuse to abide by WP:NPA not only with me, but with other editors. This is going to the 3RR noticeboard. Your "logged out" editing is always just a bit convenient." This statement is in fact false as I had not reverted any edit whilst logged out, but instead made the original edit myself, noting immediately on the talk:CSI: Cyber page that U "couldn't log in - sorry."

I'd like to note that prior to making the original edit I posted a message stating "I think that's the consensus arising. I'll make the edit, and hopefully instead of reverting it straight away the editors in question will discuss any further changes if they still disagree," so no harm was meant.

user:maticsg1 summed it up perfectly, I believe, when stating on the talk page of Cyber that "drmargi reverts the edits, pointing to a start of a discussion about them, after discussion starts she states that she finds sources unreliable. After her statements are challenged by multiple users, using valid arguments, the user - seeing all this - goes behind multiple editors' back to the Wikipedia Director saying that we "don't have a year's experience", "don't understand WP:RS or WP:VERIFY, two of them are basing their edits on a gossip site reporting rumors" and that we "need a firm hand". When the discussion comes to a point when everyone currently involved agrees about the reliability of the forementioned source and trying to implement changes, once again, changes are reverted pointing to this discussion. It is imposible to reach a consensus that way, and I don't know, maybe that's the whole point as in that it can be said that the consensus was reached if someone is not involved in the discussion anymore, I don't know and I won't speculate, but the fact is, and I have been refraining myself from saying that for a few days now, because it may be a little "inpolite", but "reverting justified article changes by different editors repeatedly over an extended period to protect a certain version" is an action of WP:OWNBEHAVIOR. Maticsg1 (talk) 16:29, 19 May 2015 (UTC)"

Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. It seems like such a big fuss for a post script note stating MacNicol departed the regular cast after the first season.

Unframboise (talk) 18:09, 19 May 2015 (UTC) Thanks, unframboise. 19:09, 19.05.15, GMT.

If I may add, it is not the first time user:drmargi has been doing this. On the same article, a few days ago (May 14) the same user was "reverting justified article changes by different editors repeatedly over an extended period to protect a certain version" about a cast member that has been confirmed by CBS (Ted Danson, can also be found on the Talk page) which is against WP:BRD and is an action of WP:OWNBEHAVIOR. Maticsg1 (talk) 18:15, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

OP has knowingly used an IP edit to breach WP:3RR. See filing at: [48] The go amuse yourself with the squabbling match/insult-fest that passes for discussion on the CSI: Cyber talk page. This is one of three very inexperienced, aggressive editors who cannot resolve this issue civilly and in a collaborative manner. It's regrettable they lack the judgment to separate rumor and speculation from reliable information, per WP:VERIFY, when a little patience is all that's needed. That's all I have to say on the matter. --Drmargi (talk) 18:17, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Just adding a quick post-script to thank maticsg1 for their input, and also to note that user:drmargi has now followed through on her threat to lodge a complaint with the Edit Warring board here [49] despite me not being in breach of the 3RR rule. I would appreciate if this situation could be resolved quickly and comfortably for both parties. unframboise, 19:19, 19.05.15 (GMT).

If you are 148.197.152.197 then you did breach 3RR. Even if you aren't, you were still edit-warring. You made 3 reversions in 10 minutes as Unframboise. --AussieLegend (✉) 18:50, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

3RR states that you have to revert four times in order to breach. I reverted three times, as did user:drmargi. Both of us in the same amount of time. The original edit was an edit upon which a consensus was reached upon, and not a reversion of a previous edit. user:unframboise (talk) 18:57, 19 May 2015 (GMT).

Reverting 3 times in 10 minutes is still edit-warring. There are only 3 editors involved so there is no strong consensus and the sources that you're using are fairly weak. I can certainly understand Drmargi's frustration, seeing edits forced into the article while there is an active discussion underway (which goes totally against WP:BRD and WP:STATUSQUO), but edit-warring by anyone is inappropriate. There's enough guilt to go around here but this is essentially a content issue. --AussieLegend (✉) 19:11, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

I will certainly take responsibility for my part in this and apologise. It's definitely a content issue, but when drmargi insists on reverting, her refusal to discuss at this point is also an issue. The participants of the active discussion all agreed that the content should be included, if drmargi feels that she needs to argue the opposite, it should be done via discussion and not edit warring. It may be helpful for an outside user to decide whether this content should be included once and for all. Thanks for your input, Aussie! -- user:unframboise (user talk:unframboise) 20:15, 19.05.15 (GMT).

3RR aside, this complaint is about content dispute. I occasionally edit this article, as it is on my watchlist. I am quite honestly shocked by this. First off, Deadline is a source used by many articles (yes, I am emphasizing). For example, Dirty Grandpa. Deadline is a trustworthy and reliable source when it comes to entertainment news for movies, music, TV, etc. I honestly don't know how Drmargi is questioning a rather every-day source used by many well-experienced users on this Wikipedia. It doesn't matter what kind of experience you have on Wikipedia; a user is encouraged to edit when they have found new information on the article with proper sourcing. The user in question's statement is rather biased and unjustified. Their behavior looks rather WP:OWN if you ask me. Reverting a well-trusted source used by many users... I totally agree with User:Drovethrughosts with their statement on the talk page: "I'm confused as to why Deadline.com is being questioned as a reliable source. As far as I'm aware, they're a top tier source for entertainment news. This isn't coming from someone random blog or person, it's from Nellie Andreeva, a professional entertainment journalist, it's her job to have "insider scoop" and knowledge. This isn't hearsay from someone on the street or someone running a personal TV blog from their basement, it's from a highly reputable source, so I don't understand why it can't be included. Several other reliable sources have reported on it such as Entertainment Weekly ("Now, EW has confirmed the Deadline report") and TheWrap ("TheWrap has learned"); they're not just sourcing Deadline, they're independent reports or confirmations." And Drmargi's comment on their talk page is, in my opinion, WP:NPA: "That guy is in the UK, and doesn't know the first thing about American entertainment media, or he'd never have said what he did about the Hollywood Reporter." I'm sorry, but does it matter where you're from to edit the English Wikipedia for whatever reason? Unframboise followed WP:SOURCES and WP:VERIFY, so no. I'm from Canada. Do I qualify for not knowing anything about American entertainment media? Exactly. This is very unfair for an argument to revert a person just because you personally think the source is bad or doesn't meet your policies or just because you're from America you know everything American. Plus, Drmargi, you were more than welcome to participate in the discussion, but you chose not. Way to resolve a dispute and avoid unnecessary blocking, page protection and edit warring. Per WP:DISPUTE, you were ought to discuss with other involved editors about the matter. You refused to continue to discuss the matter. Look at what it has turned into: unnecessary edit warring. Aside from my "complaint", I agree that the content should be added (but should be introduced in a different matter) based on many articles (main one from Deadline) that have in fact confirmed what Deadline wrote. Callmemirela (Talk) 00:28, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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Please revoke talk page access

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User talk:Voltasusa is still being used as a vehicle for unambiguous advertising, after the user was blocked as promotion-only account. Can someone please revoke talk page access? Joseph2302 (talk) 12:38, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Owning issue with another editor

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Gabrielkat is on the borderline of owning articles to their own personal preference, primarily on the page for The Bold and the Beautiful. For the past several weeks, in updating the weekly episode count in correspondence to the WikiProject Soap Operas, Gabrielkat has gone on to revert my edits on several occasions, only to re-instate them as their own seconds later (I have the notifications of being reverted if anyone wishes to see screen-captures). I warned the user about this behavior (Message 1, Message 2) only for said-warnings to be reverted almost immediately, with no discussion or response from Gabrielkat, and for their editing to continue. They've been warning for disruptive editing by other editors, and said-warnings have gone to be ignored or ultimately removed from their talk page. It is my belief Gabriel is on a soft-path of owning the page and only intending to edit for their own personal gain (I cannot state otherwise as user refuses to correspond with me), and given their edit history from their talk page, they seem to be a bit uncivil. Again, I can only go off of their behavior towards me and my attempted correspondence to them. This could also stem from me reverting them with their edit violate the consensus at the Soap Opera Project when they updated the episode count prior to the final airing of the Friday airdate episode, but surely this behavior should not be tolerated for the fear of it boomeranging out of control. As of Friday, May 22 they admit they want to update the episode count by stating "Let me update the weekly episode count". If that isn't an attempt to own the page, I don't know what is. livelikemusic ^{my talk page!} 18:04, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• Well, I was able to update the weekly episode count for The Bold and the Beautiful fair and square three Fridays ago (May 1). I was also about to update the weekly episode count for this week, but you decided to do it yourself anyway. Why is that? Gabrielkat (talk) 18:14, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

@Gabrielkat: Why not? And why does it matter assuming the information is updated correctly? Dwpaul ^Talk 18:19, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Since they're both presumably fans of the show, and both are eager to update the episode count, maybe they could agree to each update it on alternate weeks. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:27, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Chinese IPs at Barbra Streisand

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We can use some more eyes at the Barbra Streisand biography. A series of IPs from China is involved in edit-warring there. The recent spate is over the addition of about 5kb to the Legacy section. The IPs involved are:

• 183.62.57.212 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) May 22 (also October 2014)
• 2001:250:3000:5C21:4507:1F1F:814D:EA91 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) May 22
• 14.27.85.149 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) May 21
• 2001:250:3000:5C21:10C1:BD54:3072:D53C (talk · contribs · WHOIS) May 21
• 2001:250:3000:5C21:F8D1:7D66:3C02:888D (talk · contribs · WHOIS) May 20

Collectively, the IPs have broken 3RR by reverting 6 times in the last 12 hours. Can we get some article protection, some IP blocks, and maybe a rangeblock or two?

In the past, the IPs have added copyright violations, and in general have added trivial information, poorly written and poorly integrated. The following IPs from China were causing problems in the past few months.

• 2001:250:3000:5C21:F8EA:69EF:3730:15F4 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) May 4
• 220.162.7.189 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) April 15
• 117.24.16.165 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) March 22–25
• 117.24.17.147 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) March 19–21
• 117.24.16.233 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) February 24
• 220.162.67.51 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) February 17–18
• 2602:306:C592:5950:F9B3:6848:3515:F743 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) February 17
• 124.72.110.195 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) January 17

The first thing is to protect the article. Binksternet (talk) 06:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

WP:SPI perhaps?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 07:14, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Every thing they added have relible source or link(Today USA,AFI,Grammy,Elle offical site),and it's obviously not trivial information, poorly written and poorly integrated things in Today USA or AFI ,Grammy offical site,Rigut? Every other artist's legcy setion will include their influence.Binksternet can also edit it,but he remove all? Maybe they attempt to overshade Barbra's legcy?how dare someone say somthingh come from Today USA,AFI,Grammy,Elle offical site is trivial information, poorly written and poorly integrated? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:250:3000:5C21:4507:1F1F:814D:EA91 (talk) 07:26, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Looks like more than a little puffery [50]. But then I don't want to be labeled a Barbara hater.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 08:54, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I have semi-protected the article for two weeks (as Bushranger used to say, WP:RFPP is thataway....) - that should hopefully keep the edit warring at bay for a bit. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:28, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Problematic editing by IP 198.147.202.124

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198.147.202.124 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been making inaccurate and/or incomplete stats updates on New York Yankees player pages for a while now. I have addressed this is on his talk page four times [51], [52], [53] and [54], but the disruption has continued. Examples:

• After my final request for the user to update all of the stats, the user made these incomplete updates (in some cases, he also introduced data that was incorrect): [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63]. Keep in mind that these are only the ones that happened after the final request to stop. The user has also changed a couple of statyear fields to read '2015 season', even though I explained that this was not supposed to be done until after this current season ends.

• The user has made unsourced claims that article subjects are devout Christians at least three times: [64], [65], [66], despite a warning by another user.

I have gotten tired of repeatedly having to fix the articles this IP has messed up. Having been unable to even get a response to my requests on the IP's talk page, I am bringing this here for admin intervention. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 15:03, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• I agree the block is due. The IP does not respond in talk page, adds unreasonable texts, even blanks pages, i.e., IMO basically disrupts wikipedia . -M.Altenmann >t 15:15, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• This has been here for a full day and not one admin has commented. Could someone at least look at this situation? Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 17:45, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Blocked for two weeks and left a note. Surprised that just one editor appears to be using what is listed as an library IP address. Abecedare (talk) 07:18, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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Restoring Talaash (Colors TV series) and than redirecting it

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A person with a same IP address first restores the Talaash (Colors TV series) page and within one minute, that person redirects the article. I don't know what's wrong with this person? KunalForYou ^☎️📝 15:50, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Not sure what the IP was trying; they have similarly self-reverted on a couple of other pages. AGFing for now and just leaving them a note. But if the behavior continues you can contact me on my talk page and we can see if semi-protection or blocks are needed. Abecedare (talk) 08:00, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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Weird IPs

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Nowadays a new type of extremely long, confusing IPs are editing Wikipedia. First I thought it must be username. Ips such as these 2602:306:8B0B:5020:68:EF0B:4734:D9C2, once I even saw an alpha-numeric long IP which i thought as a long name of an editor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2602:306:8B0B:5020:68:EF0B:4734:D9C2

This is not the only one, there are others also. What i am saying is that it becomes very difficult to remember their names or mention them anywhere. I request those who use this kind of huge alpha-numeric IPs please create an account. Mostly they appear in Hollywood movie pages.--C E (talk) 10:01, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

You can request it but they aren't going to have to do so. I believe this is a IPv6 address.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 10:13, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Yeah IPV6 addresses. Blame belongs to everyone wanting access to that damned interweb thingy meaning that the old stlye ones are no longer enough to go around. Amortias (T)(C) 10:38, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

While they can be a little confusing, they're the future of the Internet, and they have as much right as the old fashioned horse-and-buggy IPV4s to edit Wikipedia. No admin action requested or possible. We can't ask them to get off our lawn. Acroterion (talk) 11:05, 23 May 2015 (UTC):::::

CosmicEmperor, what may not be clear is that this is completely the wrong venue for such a discussion, even if it had any viability. That venue would be WP:VPM, or WP:VPR if you have a concrete proposal such as a software change. That's why the thread was closed, and probably will be closed again. ―Mandruss ☎ 11:13, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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Action required against user "wiki-shield"

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"Wiki-Shield" is now proceeding to blank out critical sections from Arrowsmith School while adding poorly sourced promotional claims [67]. This person then went ahead and did the same with Dore Programme [68]. He's engaging in the same behavior as user:Brunasofia. I strongly suggest that this person be watched more carefully because he's going be a nuisance and engage in promotional behavior. He was also edit warring with me Cogmed inserting unbalanced claims. I don't have the kind of time to battle every POV-pusher here, so I encourage admins do what is needed of them. Thanks--Taeyebaar (talk) 20:07, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Admins, please also have a look at this topic.--Taeyebaar (talk) 20:09, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Request for close As shown above this has been WP:FORUMSHOP to WP:AN. That post at WP:AN has attracted comment. There's no need for both noticeboards to discuss.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 20:30, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Oppose He has proceeded to edit war and blank reliably sourced sections and edit war on multiple articles (which has been reverted by other editors, but refuses to stop) since that AN report as I have linked. this comment should also give others an idea of his intentions. --Taeyebaar (talk) 20:39, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

So even though it's WP:Forumshopping it should remain because you think he's just done something very bad? I'm sorry I don't see that exception listed over at WP:FORUMSHOP.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 20:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

He keeps removing reliably sourced material and has been reverted by others as the links I provided show. What should be done then? Do you think I'd be bothering with this report if he didn't keep blanking out reliably sourced material from various articles, only to burden others to revert him.--Taeyebaar (talk) 20:47, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

In fact I oppose too. Wikipedia editing is not about "reliably sourced material", it is about improving the articles. My edits for the article on Arrowsmith School were objective, neutral, and didn't have any "poorly sourced promotional claims" as Taeyebaar claims. The resulting article was clearly in compliance with WP:NPOV policy. Yet, Taeyebaar overwrites all of my edits for no apparent reason. Considering the situation and Taeyebaar claims WRT different articles, I ask some experienced admins/editors to evaluate the last two version of Arrowsmith School article and provide their opinion here. I cannot spend my days bickering with Taeyebaar and hopefully, there is a way forward that doesn't involved constant requests for intervention. Thanks for your time reading this. Wiki-shield (talk) 20:50, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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My edit requests are continuously deleted without reason.

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Headline states my grievance, awaiting corrective action. 188.67.214.203 (talk) 06:59, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

The diffs in question are: here and here – reverted by Nick-D. Conclusion: Nick-D did us all a favor – thanks Nick-D!... Now the more relevant question is: what are you trying to do here, 188.67.214.203 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)?! --IJBall (talk) 07:03, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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Inappropriate Actions and behavors by Editors Padenton and Msnicki

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This was moved from Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests Sorry for starting in the wrong place. Not easy to get your footing where the right place is. Thanks to User:TransporterMan for pointing out my error.

I would like to draw your attention to [[69]]. The editors that proposed this deletion have been running their own personal vendetta.

This deletion request is, in my opinion, a vendetta against my arguments to keep the article NIM. [[70]] by Padenton|✉  and Msnicki (talk) who have tried to retaliate by deleting a slew of articles. Sources of information that were and are in my opinion quite notable are being deleted by Padention and Msnicki. Notice from a comment in the comment in the Nim deletion discussion how many articles are now missing.(Written by Itsmeront 23:06, May 11, 2015‎)

• Keep. There are Wikipedia articles about hundreds of programming languages. Many of them don't have any secondary sources. So why do you think Nim is not notable, but the following languages are? Obol (programming language), Picky (programming language), Little Interpreted Language, Seph (programming language), Halide (programming language), Roy (programming language), Plaid (programming language), Join-calculus (programming language), Objeck (programming language), Nemo (programming language), Ooc, Cl4 (programming language), Slave Programming Language, PureScript, Hope (programming language), MX Language, MCTRL, SmilScript, Wigzy, Mobl, Napier88 (I have just picked some random articles) --Trustable (talk) 23:49, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
• That argument is Wikipedia:Other stuff exists. Just because those haven't been deleted, doesn't make this article subject notable. ― Padenton|✉   00:20, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Also note in [[71]] when the vote when against them Pandenton 'Msnicki' decided to inappropriately push the issue [72] "Sorry, I really hate when people blackmail me. Please take it to DRV if you think it has any merit.--Ymblanter (talk)"

This is just another long run of actions that should have wikipedia editors to consider the modivations of these editors.

Itsmeront (talk) 23:03, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

• Time for a WP:BOOMERANG.

1. The article you made as a memorial for your friend does not establish his notability and his notability is in question, which makes it perfectly fair game to be nominated at AfD, especially since searches do not establish his notability either.
2. Those were all deleted fairly, you're welcome to talk to the closers and seek deletion review. Otherwise, get over it and stop re-posting this everywhere hoping someone will care, because they won't. I doubt even Trustable cares. You're welcome to ask him/her.
3. I have NEVER edited on Ymblanter's talk page, and the history proves it, so don't accuse me of stuff I have never done. The vote also didn't "go against me", it was no consensus for both the AfD and the deletion review.
4. It's nice that you notified Ymblanter on his talk page. But you failed to do so for myself and Msnicki as you are required to do in any editor dispute.

Can someone close this as there isn't a single honest thing Itsmeront has said and this isn't even close to being the correct venue? Though he's been forum shopping on this already a fair bit. ― Padenton|✉   04:23, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I corrected the reference above and attributed the blackmail to Msnicki. I also added a notice on both of your talk pages. Dr. Raab was was notable on his own, he was the heart and soul of a very large open source community, the deletion request is a tatic and harrassment. See also: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Roscelese for previous warning and collusion and the following on Msnicki (talk) page:

Please stay as far away from me as you can. If I do something wrong, surely somebody else will notice and take care of it. You do not need to try to police my activities or to make frivolous accusations that I started an attack page. Really? The nerve!

[diff] Content was deleted after I pointed to it.

Itsmeront (talk) 07:53, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the link to ( Trustable Talk) I do think that the comments from Caroliano are very useful and should also be reviewed.

@Padenton: You nominated a whole bunch of programmming languages at the same time based on his list. I can't do a serious search for sources on so many languages at once, and I don't want to see them all deleted, so I came here to ask for help, as he was interested in Nim deletion, maybe he don't want some of those languages articles lost. And I do think Wikipedia is being hurt by this. Caroliano (talk) 20:27, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Itsmeront (talk) 08:11, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

@Itsmeront: Not sure why you're linking the Roscelese enforcement request I brought to ArbCom, it doesn't support or serve as an example of a single claim you've made. All it shows is I'm a responsible Wikipedia editor that seeks admin assistance when an editor with previous restrictions reverts 1 1/2 weeks of a new editor's changes, possibly providing insufficient explanation. But here's an idea: how about you stay out of discussions you know nothing about? It seems more likely that you are the one with a grudge here, if you're digging through my history looking at every discussion I'm involved in. Is your goal to link to random discussions involving responsible acts by those you've accused in the hope that the reviewer of your claims will not read it and judge us guilty based on our being in those discussions? I said ask Trustable if he/she cares, not ask Caroliano. ― Padenton|✉   14:09, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

section deleted by request of EdJohnston. Itsmeront (talk) 20:46, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Everything above copied and pasted by: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itsmeront (talk • contribs) (this line written by Padenton)

Statement by Padenton

Once again, I'm not sure why Itsmeront has chosen to stalk me to unrelated discussions about which he knows nothing and then claim that I am the one harassing him. I am certain that EdJohnston would be happy to comment on taking his words so wildly out of context. My statement on Itsmeront's complaints regarding me and Msnicki can be found here: [73]. I don't have the time nor interest in making sure Itsmeront has accurately quoted everything I said above (given the proof shown that he has made false accusations towards me before), but you can read my statement at that link. Once again, I am requesting this be closed with a boomerang of some kind for Itsmeront for the reasons I have already mentioned in my responses at that link. ― Padenton|✉   18:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree with User:Padenton. It makes no sense that User:Itsmeront has done a cut-and-paste from an unrelated posting about ARBGG at WP:AE#Roscelese and brought it here. Unless Itsmeront is willing to revert his copying from AE, my suggestion is that an uninvolved editor should collapse that material. EdJohnston (talk) 19:22, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi EdJohnston. Thank you for your comment. I have removed the material you found non-sensical. The point I was trying to make by including it was that Msnicki and Padenton attack people that disagree with them with an "I'll show them", attitude that I find harmful to Wikipedia. One would NOT reasonably expect reprisals after making a successful argument in support of an article. Attacks against articles that have been adjudicated previously and found to be notable are now brought up for deletion, by the same two people. Other articles mentioned in an arguemnt that were notable, see: WP:N#TEMP are being recommended for deletion on mass. And in my opinion, deleted while nobody is looking, out of spite, or lust for reputation or power without proper research or consideration. I was hoping to show a pattern of this behavior with other users experiences, but I understand your point and hope that others with similar experiences will speak up. I doubt that Wikipedia would want to discourage argument by allowing over zealous editors to fight people that disagree with them with personal vendettas. Itsmeront (talk) 20:46, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

It's funny that despite everything you've done, you still seem to think that Msnicki and myself are the ones with the vendetta. This "I'll show them" attitude you claim I have is baseless. And far more harmful to wikipedia is your lack of integrity and repeated attempts to falsely accuse me of things I haven't done, your dishonesty in cherry-picking and taking comments out of context, and your attempt to canvas editors you see disagreeing with me in order to start a lynchmob:

1. Such as claiming I blackmailed Ymblanter on his talk page when I have never even said anything on his talk page
2. Cherry-picking comments of a completely unrelated discussion you know nothing about that I am participating in and copying and pasting them in here (especially without making it clear that they are excerpts from a completely different discussion)
3. Failing to notify editors who you are complaining about which I had to remind you of at Editor assistance.
4. Canvassing of editors I am in completely irrelevant disputes with in the hopes that they support your inane claim based on some issue they have with me elsewhere (This is called a vendetta, you hypocrite) as you did here: User_talk:Sonicyouth86#Wikipedia:Administrators.27_noticeboard.2FIncidents.23Inappropriate_Actions_and_behavors_by_Editors_Padenton_and_Msnicki.

The deletions of the articles on the list Trustable made in the Nim AfD. Let's discuss that for a minute.

1. You brought up the complaint that I nominated several of the articles Trustable mentioned for deletion in the Nim AfD.
2. You brought it up in the AfD here: [74]
3. You brought it up here Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#Inappropriate_Actions_and_behavors_by_Editors_Padenton_and_Msnicki
4. You are now bringing it up here in ANI.

And all this time you fail to realize that Trustable fully supported my taking those articles to AfD. I notice you didn't notify Trustable of the new discussion.

That almost all of the ones I nominated ended up with a consensus to delete proves that other editors were unable to find evidence they met the notability guidelines, and that the AfD was warranted. The only articles that I nominated and remain from that list are:

• Halide (programming language) - Closed no consensus. Unsurprisingly, still has little evidence of its notability.
• Join-calculus (programming language) - Closed merge. Essentially a duplicate article of Join-calculus. Pretty much the equivalent of delete, as it will remain merely a redirect after that's done.
• Hope (programming language) - I never took this to AfD.
• Napier88 - I never took this to AfD either.

Clearly, based on the above, people didn't agree with you that slashdot, reddit, ycombinator, and github are reliable sources nor that they establish notability.

Newsflash: Just because you want to give your friend a WP:MEMORIAL, doesn't mean he's notable enough for Wikipedia, and any editor on Wikipedia is fully within their rights to dispute the notability. ― Padenton|✉   22:25, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Response From Itsmeront (talk)

My numbering doesn't match yours. Where there is a direct answer I have quoted your comment.

1. "Such as claiming I blackmailed Ymblanter on his talk page when I have never even said anything on his talk page "

• I have already corrected the record that it was Msnicki and not you that was accused of attacking an editor. I know you have read it, and seen the correction but even after it was corrected you mentioned it 3 times.

2. "Canvassing of editors I am in completely irrelevant disputes with in the hopes that they support your inane claim based on some issue they have with me elsewhere"

• Notifying users and editors is what you told me to do. I don't see this as canvasing.

3. Your actions to delete the articles were in retaliation to users that disagreed with you. I see no real research. Having other editors not want to take you on, I've seen other editors say you are constantly doing blanket, not properly researched, delete requests but I didn't mention them here, is exactly what I mean by deleting content when nobody is looking. complaints were ignored by you:

@Padenton: You nominated a whole bunch of programmming languages at the same time based on his list. I can't do a serious search for sources on so many languages at once, and I don't want to see them all deleted, so I came here to ask for help, as he was interested in Nim deletion, maybe he don't want some of those languages articles lost. And I do think Wikipedia is being hurt by this. Caroliano (talk) 20:27, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

and instead you attacked people that dared to disagree with you. See: User_talk:Caroliano Canvasing warning.

4. Not knowing where to air these issues is not the same as an attack against you. You have been citing quick close because this is not the right venue for this complaint. You could have pointed me to the right place instead of letting me flounder around. TransporterMan was nice enough to let me know.

Your words:

@Caroliano:Trustable did nothing. I'm the one who nominated them, as anyone should for any article that does not meet notability guidelines. The only reason these articles have not been nominated before is because no experienced editors had come across them, which is why WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is a notability fallacy. If the article can stand up to scrutiny, it will remain. If not, it never deserved to be on Wikipedia in the first place. Stop acting like someone is being hurt over this. ― Padenton|✉ 19:24, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

This to me is an attack against someone making a claim that blanket delete requests are not in Wikipedia best interest, both in terms of a hostile response, but also hostile actions in your warning, and deletion requests.

About Andreas Raab, he is and was extremely notable. I hope that you will be also be defeated in this AFD by editors that are more reasonable and less hostile then you. Your arguments against NIM are not the same as the augments here. Claiming number of citations on published articles, or position in naming on papers, is just nuts. Your argument for the deletions of Nim didn't hold water, and your argument against Andreas Raab even less. My biggest complaint is not about these two articles Nim and Andreas Raab. My complaint is your attack against people that argue against you. Wikipedia needs to be open to volunteers, and free of these types of attacks so that reasonable discussion can take place to improve the usefulness and quality of Wikipedia. This is not about protecting your Turf, and I hope that you will be properly punished for your actions. Itsmeront (talk) 23:08, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm going to respond to these in the order you presented them.

• The correction doesn't change the fact that you attempted to do it without checking your facts, which still seems to be a problem for you as you have continued.
• Read WP:CANVASSING. Notifying editors you have accused is required by WP:ANI policy. Notifying editors involved in a specific dispute is allowed by WP:CANVASSING. What you did was notify editors not involved in any way with this dispute, solely because you thought they would rally behind your attacks on me. This is called WP:Votestacking and is inappropriate canvassing.
• I've seen other editors say you are constantly doing blanket, not properly researched, delete requests but I didn't mention them here, is exactly what I mean by deleting content when nobody is looking. Those "other editors" have trouble understanding wikipedia policy. You have yet to show a single AfD where I did not properly research. You didn't mention them here because you know that they do not support your claim. Otherwise you would have no need to dig through in-progress discussions of no relevance to this dispute.
• Once again you have provided no evidence but your incessant whining. I don't care that you don't see "real research", as far as I have seen you will lie or use any fraudulent information you can to malign any who disagree with you. Anyone with common sense can guess that it would be wrong to pick and choose comments from disputes elsewhere, and paste them in here without even knowing what the dispute was about.
• Caroliano deserved the canvassing warning, again, read the policy here and get over it.
• Forgive me if I don't have the time to help you whine about me to every person on Wikipedia that you can. Especially when reading the top of Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests could have easily told you where to go.
• When you went to Trustable's talk page looking for anything you could dig up to attack me on, did you happen to notice the discussion before that post? Yeah....funny you don't mention that.
• Sadly, the say-so of a "friend of 10 years" isn't enough to support the claim that "About Andreas Raab, he is and was extremely notable."
• Claiming number of citations on published articles, or position in naming on papers, is just nuts. This is how it works in academia. Anyone can write a paper and papers are not enough to grant notability, especially when they have low citation counts. You can read more about it at the policy link I provided at the AfD, WP:ACADEMIC.
• Your argument for the deletions of Nim didn't hold water, My argument for the deletion of nim was that it wasn't notable. I'm sorry that you assumed every single person disagreeing with you wasn't a programmer (false) and therefore shouldn't have a say in the AfD (also false), and that github, slashdot, reddit, and ycombinator are reliable sources (yet again, false); but your inaccurate assumptions are not my problem.
• I am normally sympathetic towards new users, it was not too long ago that I was one myself. But my patience runs out when those new users refuse to read policy, make false claims against other editors, and bring up cherry picked discussions from another editor's history(which they know absolutely nothing about) in the hopes it will prejudice others against someone they disagree with. Wikipedia needs to be free of editors like that, you add absolutely nothing to the site and you have no interest in working with others when they disagree with you. Plenty of new wikipedia editors have little trouble reading about wikipedia policy when they're informed of it.
• This is not about protecting your Turf, and I hope that you will be properly punished for your actions. I have no turf. I'm just not going to sit here and take false accusations from you. Shocker. ― Padenton|✉   23:43, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Recommended close

Anyone is free to browse through the Nim, Andreas Raab and MX Language AfDs or the Nim DRV that Itsmeront complains about (I wasn't in any of the other cited discussions) and confirm that I've been consistently respectful, that my arguments have been consistently policy-based and that I've dutifully avoided responding to any of Itsmeront's silly taunts of vendettas and other nonsense. I've argued in good faith for deletion based on lack of reliable independent secondary sources to demonstrate notability. Itsmeront has argued for keep based on primary and self-published sources and popularity in social media and claimed without any plausible basis that the reason Padenton and I don't accept that as evidence of notability must be because we have it in for them.

I think this silliness has gone on long enough and recommend that this complaint be closed with no action beyond a warning to Itsmeront that making unsupported allegations of vendettas and repeatedly questioning other editors' good faith constitutes a pattern of WP:Personal attacks. It's not helpful and it's not allowed. If it happens again, Itsmeront should face a block.

Here at Wikipedia, we settle questions of whether, what and how to report based on WP:CONSENSUS. It is normal for people to disagree and that's why we've created everything from talk pages to deletion reviews where editors can present their evidence, explain how that satisfies the guidelines, argue for their position and seek support. It's also normal that even after an outcome has been decided, that not everyone will agree. Consensus does not require unanimity and we are all entitled to our opinions disagreeing with an outcome. All we ask is that you assume good faith and that you focus on the arguments and the evidence, not what you dislike about the other editors you may disagree with. You're entitled to your opinions about other editors; you're just not entitled to post every one of them.

Without clear evidence in the form of actual diffs, it is never helpful to speculate about the secret nefarious motives you suspect someone might have for their position, especially when their stated reasons are in fact all clearly guidelines and evidence-based and the real issue is that you just don't agree with the guidelines. It's also not helpful to cite irrelevant nasty things that others have said about someone. Who cares that someone else said something disrespectful? Itsmeront needs to find something that I said that was disrespectful. Itsmeront can't because it's not there. I behave myself and it's time Itsmeront started to do the same.

That's really all I have to say on the matter. Msnicki (talk) 17:39, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Resposne by ItsMeRonT

Both Msnicki and Padenton have been using Wikipedia editorial policy as a stick to poke people. I understand that Wikipedia editors are very important and I agree with the fact that deletions are a very necessary fact of life, lest Wikipedia turn into a garbage dump. The evidence is clear that the two editors that went after NIM is a way that seemed entirely unprofessional, then even took the close to Deletion Review, then took their show on the road against the person that argued against them. I thought there attitude so unprofessional I asked that:

• I would also ask that if Nim is going to be recommended for deletion in the future that Msnicki and Padenton refrain from submitting the article for deletion or participating in the discussions going forward Itsmeront (talk) 05:36, 30 April 2015 (UTC) Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2015_April_26#Nim_.28programming_language.29 Nim Deletion Review

Again I would like to state that it should be against Wikipedia policy to aggressively use Wikipedia rules to stifle argument, and then to retaliate by going after other submissions of people that argue against you is just plain wrong. That is not a good example of being a good Wikipedia editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itsmeront (talk • contribs)

WP:FORUMSHOP. Also, anyone who wants to look at this deletion review or the AfD will clearly see that it is Itsmeront with the vendetta. If you look at the AfD here: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nim_(programming_language) Itsmeront repeatedly insisted that slashdot was a reliable source, and that anyone who disagreed wasn't a programmer, here is one such diff where he did so. [75] Anyone who disagrees with Itsmeront must either be unqualified or bullying him. Anyone who shows him policies, consensus, guidelines, they all interfere too much for him, they must be wrong, or the person showing them to him is retaliating against him. ― Padenton|✉   21:26, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

This is exactly what he got called out for at Wikipedia talk:Notability after attempting to "filibuster" his POV that it's wrong and unfair to demand reliable independent sources to establish notability. Not one person in what is easily the most relevant forum for this question agreed with him. He also continues to make accusations of bad faith. I really wish he could learn to behave himself. I am very weary of this individual. Someone please close this. Msnicki (talk) 16:47, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Suggested Resolution by ItsMeRonT

I've reviewed some of the comments and work of both Padenton and Msnicki and I find their work to be in general quite useful. I wouldn't want to ban them or stop them from working on Wikipedia since volunteers that dedicate so much time are quite valuable.

I ask for the following:

• A sincere apology on my talk page from Padenton.
• A sincere apology to User_talk:Caroliano from Padenton
• That Padenton and Msnicki not be allowed to submit NIM for deletion or participate in the augment against it in the future.
• That Padenton have a warning placed on his account that he has been overly zealous submitting articles for deletion. And that if mass articles are submitted again he could face further sanctions.

I hope I've presented my case in a calm an thoughful way. Thank you for your consideration. Itsmeront (talk) 19:40, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

• Sigh. Once again: the Andreas Raab AfD wasn't in retaliation, you are not the center of my world, neither is the WP:MEMORIAL you made for your friend 2 days after his death. I don't apologize when I've done nothing wrong. Your inability to understand the notability policies after being informed of them several times and your clear vendetta against anyone who disagrees with you, do not deserve an apology. It is not my fault or problem that Nim and your friend Andreas Raab are both of questionable notability, and you can't just have people barred from an AfD because they disagree with you. ― Padenton|✉   20:59, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Timeline and Clarification

I was incorrect that the tagging of Raab was after the AfD Nim. I didn't notice it until 5/9 and assumed incorrectly (but justifyably) that it was retaliation by Msnicki. It is clear from this timeline that Msnicki is overzelous in her objection to articles, but since the tag on Raab was done on the same day as NIM before We had talked it was obviously not in response to the NIM incident. The same can not be said for Padenton, who has been extreemly overzelous in deleting articles without proper research, a number of which are now missing with no documentation on any process, and attacking people the disagree, including Caroliano, and myself. I am also modifying my suggested resolution.

Date .	Msnicki	Padenton	Caroliano	Itsmeront
26-Mar	Raab Tagged by Msnicki
26-Mar	Nim AfD by Msnicki
27-Mar			Caroliano joins Nim AfD
29-Mar		Padenton joins Nim AfD
29-Mar		Trustable Votes keep and cites other languages
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Picky
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Little Interpreted Language
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Seph
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Halide
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Roy
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Plaid
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Join-calculus
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Objeck
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Nemo
31-Mar		Padenton AfD OOC
31-Mar		Padenton AfD Cl4
31-Mar		? AfD Slave Programming Lanaguage
31-Mar		Padenton AfD PureScript
31-Mar		? AfD MCTRL
31-Mar		? AfD SmallScript
31-Mar		? AfD Wigzy
4-Apr		Padenton AfD Napier88
4-Apr		Padenton accuses Caroliano of Stalking for comment on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ooc 4/4 adds warning on Caroliano User_talk:Caroliano	Caroliano frantically responds on both
26-Apr	Ymblanter closes nim AfD
26-Apr	Msnicki complains to Ymblanter
26-Apr	Ymblanter response to Msnicki "Sorry, I really hate when people blackmail me.
26-Apr	Msnicki Deletion Review NIM
3-May	RoySmith closes Nim Deletion Review
3-May	Msnicki complains to RoySmith
3-May	RoySmith responds to Msniki "I suggest you drop the WP:STICK and move on"
6-May				ItsMeRonT starts Wikipedia_talk:Notability#Suggest_WP:NSM_noteworthy_based_on_social_media
9-May				ItsMeRonT sees Msnicki tag on 5/9 and starts improving Raab article
11-May		Padenton AfD Raab
11-May				Ormr2014 suggests to ItsMeRonT to remove negative comments about Padenton and Msnicki from Raab AfD
11-May				ItsMeRonT opens Editor Assistance Request removes negative comments AfD
12-May				TransporterMan closes Editor Assistance Request and suggests Admin Incidents
13-May				ItsMeRonT opens Admin Incident 5/12

Itsmeront (talk) 01:13, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Requesting close & archive

I grow tired of these repeated allegations with 0 evidence to support his claims. Every single time someone shows policy or where Itsmeront is incorrect, he posts a new wall of text or an absurdly large table restating claims that he has already attempted, attempting to drown out opposition. His consistent refusal to read policy, refusal to tolerate anyone else's opinion, refusal to provide sources for claims of wrongdoing, attacking editors for following policy. Evidence for these claims can all be found in the discussion above. This thread has been ignored long enough on this noticeboard and should be addressed or allowed to die, regardless of Itsmeront's attempts to revive the discussion by repeating everything he claimed before, in yet another large section, again with no evidence to support his claims. ― Padenton|✉   19:57, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Padenton the evidence is clear and backed up by Wikipedia history. Feel free to update the table if you find anything that is incorrect or want to add something to it. The issue here is about YOU not about policy. So far, everything you said indicates that you believe you did nothing wrong. That to me is ample evidence that you need to be warned for you actions since if you truly believe you did nothing wrong someone of authority should point it out to you. Itsmeront (talk) 21:12, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

That's because I have done nothing wrong. ― Padenton|✉   21:15, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you for stating your position so clearly. Itsmeront (talk) 21:18, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Signing to kick back the archive clock. Steel1943 (talk) 22:41, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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User:DaltonCastle canvas

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User:DaltonCastle posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Conservatism#May 2015 attempting to organize advocacy for his preferred version of four articles. Canvas attempt was blatant in its partisanship, its selection of audience "vote stacking," and non-neutral in the wording of the request "campaigning." In the request user called out a colleague by user name but was apparently careful not to trigger auto notification. User was warned on his talk page User_talk:DaltonCastle#May_2015_canvassing_warning. User response seemed rather flippant and lacked any sign of acknowledgement let alone remorse. I believe this user may need to hear about the importance of our WP:CANVAS policy from an administrator. Request a warning. Sorry to bother. Thank you. Hugh (talk) 07:12, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Apologies, Hugh. My response was not flippant. I was simply noting that I would get around to responding, as I still will. I did not intend to recruit editors to push a POV. My thought was that that would be the place to locate editors who would be interested in looking at the page. I believe there are larger issues on the Americans for Prosperity page itself. I apologize if I have misinterpreted WP:CANVASSING guidelines, but I believed myself to be acting in good faith, as I also believe HughD to be acting. But acting in good faith editors can still make mistakes. Again, I apologize if Ive done any wrongdoing and will gladly do what needs to be done to correct it. DaltonCastle (talk) 07:24, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

"I was simply noting that I would get around to responding" You were too busy deleting well-referenced content and their reliable source references from a series of articles that you were unable to respond promptly? That's your story? Hugh (talk) 15:29, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

"...if I have misinterpreted WP:CANVASSING guidelines..." The claim of misunderstanding of policy is simply not credible. User understood our policy on canvassing well enough that user claimed twice in their canvas attempt that they were not canvassing. Hugh (talk) 15:29, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I would like to please add that this user's actions demonstrate elements of harassment WP:HARASSMENT, in particular wikihounding WP:WIKIHOUNDING, in singling out one editor, editing multiple pages edited by that editor, inhibiting collaborative efforts toward good article status, and, further, soliciting other editors to swarm to a multi-article campaign. The canvassing, in conjunction with a relentless campaign of deleting content and reliable source references in the last two days, article space content achieved through consensus by contributions from a team of collaborating editors over many weeks, I feel is a deliberate, transparent attempt to interfere with my enjoyment of editing Wikipedia. Thank you again. Hugh (talk) 07:54, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

The claim that the intention was not canvassing is simply not credible. Hugh (talk) 07:54, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, when I had made the edit I believed myself to be acting in good faith. My intention was to have the page checked for any POV, not to push a POV. I hope the distinction is clear. Anyways, I can pull the section down if that would resolve the issue. Thoughts? DaltonCastle (talk) 07:57, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Oh come on. Thats not fair to say. You are not being harassed. You made sweeping edits to several pages and it got noticed because there is potentially a POV push. And this does not note the undue weight given to details, the irrelevant details, potential puffery, and the use of primary sources. DaltonCastle (talk) 08:01, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

May I respectfully request admin deletion of the canvas attempt from the Conservatism project talk page and history as soon as possible. Thank you for your consideration of this unhappy incident. Hugh (talk) 08:05, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@DaltonCastle: that does seem to be Canvassing. You say you are willing to pull it? That should resolve this. Please do.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 08:17, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Respectfully bump in hopes of a timely deletion of inappropriate canvas attempt from Conservatism project talk page and history. Thanks. Hugh (talk) 17:51, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Done. This does not mean that my concerns on the pages itself are resolved. There is a possible push to coatrack the page, not necessarily intentionally. But I believe someone should still look at it. DaltonCastle (talk) 21:16, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

You might perhaps consider a RFC? See WP:RFC.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 22:53, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Resolved

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Respectfully request administrator attention to the behaviour issue; this is not an innocent mistake, blatant vote stacking, posting to the WikiProject Conservatism talk page, blatant campaigning, while declaring "I am familiar with canvassing policies" and "I am really trying to avoid canvassing" IN the canvassing attempt itself and the emphasis in his essay on an editor as opposed to content. I would like to please hear from an administrator on how we might improve understanding of WP:CANVAS. I would also like to please ask for advice from an administrator on the harassment aspect of an essay proposing a multi-page campaign against the contributions of a particular editor, please see diff, an aspect personally very disappointing. Thank you. Hugh (talk) 05:59, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Respectfully request a courtesy clean-up of the WT:WikiProject Conservatism history. The Conservatism Project talk page history has a conspicuous red -5,161 link to the essay only marginally less effective than talk space content. Thank you. Hugh (talk) 04:44, 24 May 2015 (UTC) Please clean 23:55, 20 May 2015. Thank you. Hugh (talk) 05:59, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

There's absolutely no reason to assume bad faith here.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 05:39, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Are you seriously asking for a revision delete here? That is totally overkill. DaltonCastle has deleted the offending posting, and apologized for it. There doesn't need to be any further action here. The best advice in this case is let it go... --IJBall (talk) 06:55, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Frankfurt School Article and right wing brigading

Hi, I've been embroiled in the lengthy process of Welcoming and then explaining Wikipedia policies to a new user on the Frankfurt School page. The user goes by the handle Second Dark and consistently ignored policy suggestions related to their changes to the page. After which they went on to WP:CANVAS conservative right leaning areas within Wikipedia and possibly outside as well (note: I'm not attempting to WP:OUT anyone, and the external link which can be found on the Talk:Frankfurt_School page remains anonymous as to any user's identity). Since then I've noticed within the edit history of the Frankfurt School page a series of users who seem to have been making disruptive edits across Wikipedia, inserting the term "Cultural Marxist" into biographic pages (although no WP:BLP pages) and trying to insert ideas like that Einstein didn't come up with Special Relativity. These users seem to consistently lack a user page, some also lack a talk page, some have a very short edit history, or seem to consistently be involved in contentious claims. Anyways, I was wondering what could be done about all this, is there a page protection setting that can stop this sort of interference? At what point is a SOCK investigation in order? I'm not that familiar with the higher level controls on wikipedia, so am seeking others who can help (the users there are doing a good job of protecting the page, but it seems like quite the level of vigilance is becoming required, and like the problem might stem across multiple pages). Thank you for your time. --Jobrot (talk) 05:30, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

For reference this was the recent ANI on Cultural Marxism that resulted in a close where admins were free to apply range blocks. For convenience: The two ranges are 172.56.xxx.xxx and 208.xx.xx.xx and are considered open proxies. SPI would be useless when dealing with such a large pool of dynamic IPs. Perhaps a CheckUser, such as @DoRD:, @Alison:, @Yunshui: or @Bbb23: could comment. I think page protection would depend on the number of pages involved. Blackmane (talk) 06:18, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I wonder if an edit filter might help here. Black Kite (talk) 07:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• I just closed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rymmen.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Possible legal threat in Alfred W. McCoy

Alfred W. McCoy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I'm not sure if this should be mentioned here or in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard.

On February 5, User:Memccoy44 removed material from the article with the following in the edit summary: "Deleted libelous text to avoid possible litigation"(diff). A few minutes later, additional material was removed: "Libelous and inaccurate content deleted to avoid litigation."(diff) Today, User:96.41.231.196 removed the material again with the following explanation: "Section headed 'Hmong Controversy' contains allegations and undocumented assertions that I regard as libellous. I have deleted this section in the past, and it has reappeared. Please do not let this sectoin reappear. (Signed) Alfred W. McCoy, the subject."(diff)

I reinserted the material as it is cited and appears only to be critical of the subject, but not libelous. Given that this is a BLP, I believe a second opinion regarding the editor's concerns — as well as the possibility of an implied threat — is warranted. Thanks! - Location (talk) 08:09, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I have only just quickly looked at the article, and it appears this edit has the questioned text. A glance at that shows it is the usual kind of gumph that gets added to articles by an opponent of the topic—someone does not like what the author wrote, and the result is undue silliness posed as fact. I have put a comment on the user's page hoping to engage with them and guide them through the maze of dealing with Wikipedia (per WP:DOLT). My quick inclination would be to delete the "Controversy & Hmong Demonstrations, Opposition to Writings on CIA in Laos" section as WP:UNDUE. Johnuniq (talk) 09:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I've responded on the article's talk page. - Location (talk) 21:06, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

administrative vandalism

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An administrator called User:Widr has recently been vandalizing Wikipedia and making random, unjustified blocks.--Youthoughtitwouldbethateasy (talk) 17:55, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

You're going to have to provide some examples if you really want anyone to look into anything... Please provide specific links. Sergecross73 msg me 17:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I think it is fairly likely that this brand new account is evading the very block they are complaining about. Chillum 17:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, same here. Figured I'd give them a brief shot, but of course its always shady when someone's first edits are to make their name and talk page links blue, and then go straight to ANI to complain about "unjust blocks". 99% sure this is block evasion. Sergecross73 msg me 17:58, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Widr is not an admin, but recently warned Theadcarry concerning vandalism, and the latter was subsequently blocked (just a few minutes ago) by Floquenbeam. I suspect we are talking to a sock. Dwpaul ^Talk 17:59, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Persistent vandal is back

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85.243.159.92 (talk · contribs) is the persistent abusive user. See this. SLBedit (talk) 19:20, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• I've blocked the IP and semi-protected the latest target articles.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:31, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Toweringpeaks3

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This editor seems to have taken umbrage to Sarek of Vulcan, and is liberally peppering his talk page with commentary, some of which could be construed as legal threats.

The page that started it all is Isidro A. T. Savillo, and a glance at the page history shows that back in 2014 an editor called Towering Peaks edited the talk page with some commentary.

Sarek is valiantly ignoring it - or hasn't seen it yet - but I don't think Towering Peaks is best behaved. Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:26, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I just reported this user to WP:AIV for harassment/possible legal threats. Their behaviour seems wholly inappropriate. Probably is the same person as ToweringPeaks, although that account isn't block, so it would be a legit alternate account. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:30, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• I know, I know, we're supposed to be nice to new people. But this guy's acting like a nut. Blocked indef, if he wants to stop acting like a nut he can do so from inside an unblock template. --Floquenbeam (talk) 13:46, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Silly legal threats, personal attacks from the very first edit, and can't speak English. Obviosly a sock, and not a very good one at that. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:47, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Let me know if this is the wrong place to report it, but I suspect that User:Toweringpeaks3 is now using the sock puppet User:Gardenofpoisonsinuk (and using threatening, though vague, language on Talk:Isidro A. T. Savillo). Q·L·1968 ☿ 15:38, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Normally it'd go to SPI but obvious duck is obvious. Amortias (T)(C) 15:59, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Blocked. May have to consider short term semi-protection of article talk page. Suboptimal, but... --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:48, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks so much, folks. I really try to play by the WP rules, but I never expect to get nearly as much support as you all have shown on this case. It's really appreciated. Q·L·1968 ☿ 01:55, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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Human3015 and CosmicEmperor

This complaint concerns the conduct of two highly problematic users in the India-Pakistan topic area, one in particular Human3015, and more recently, CosmicEmperor. In a ANI thread from yesterday, I filed a request for a review of around two-dozen long-standing redirects related to the Kashmir conflict which were incorrectly nominated for speedy deletion by Human3015. Per WP:RNEUTRAL, the redirects were valid and not offensive (although they certainly appeared to hurt the political sensitivities of the mentioned editors, which is not a criteria for deletion). The redirects were initially deleted by an admin under WP:AGF but the deletions were contested, and later overturned by admin GB fan (see that ANI thread for more details). In what seems to be an example of tendentious editing, WP:POINT and knee-jerk tit-for-tat editing, Human3015 created the following WP:OR redirects which violate WP:RFD#D3 (offensive or abusive), WP:RFD#D5 (nonsensical and misleading), WP:RFD#D8 (obscure). They also do not fit WP:RNEUTRAL, which requires redirects to be established terms as opposed to random phrases pulled together that are neither search terms nor useful. It also violates WP:SOAP, and WP:WTA (words to avoid). In particular, I'd like to draw attention to the following redirects created by Human3015:

• Pakistan supported insurgency
• Pakistan propaganda politics
• Mumbai terror attack mastermind (this is not a "search term"; also, the subject has not been convicted in court yet as a "mastermind")
• Killings of Hindus in Pakistan
• ISI terror activities

I'd like administrators to take a look and see if the above redirects are valid and meet WP:REDIRECT guidelines. After the deletion of these redirects was rejected, Human3015's buddy came into action and began reverting the CSD templates back in after the ANI discussion had been resolved (he obviously did not read it). Human3015 and CosmicEmperor have resorted to bullying and name-calling tactics, [76], personal attacks and ad hominem harrassment [77], posting extreme political comments and labeling as "terrorists" (these are only recent diffs; I have innumerable other links). They've also nominated the redirect Butcher of Gujarat for RfD here despite the fact that it was closed as keep only 5 months ago. CosmicEmperor is openly canvassing editors to vote through private emails at that RFD and, along with Human3015, is posting personal comments targeting TopGun and I.

Hounding

I would also like to bring attention to consistent stalking, harassment and WP:HOUNDING by Human3015 in articles I've recently edited. I have been followed to the following articles, which Human3015 never edited prior to my edits there (refer to page histories). Several of these articles ended up as the subject of content disputes and edit wars initiated by Human3015:

• Stranded Pakistanis (followed me to this article and started a content dispute at article talk page)
• Indian subcontinent (started an edit war and was blocked for violating 3RR)
• Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir (blocked again for edit warring with up to four users)
• Pakistanis (never edited before, came on article once just to revert me)
• Overseas Pakistani (reverted me on 8th May)
• Ajit Doval (edited article for the first time, again to revert me)
• Pakistani American (adding irrelevant link, then edit warring and starting content dispute on talk page)
• 2014 Peshawar school massacre
• Xi Jinping's visit to Pakistan 2015 (following again, starting dispute on talk page
• Gilgit-Baltistan (editing on 23 April following my edit on 22 April)
• Muhajir people and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (editing both pages a day after I edited)
• Getting involved in a content dispute at Talk:Kargil_War#Kargil_War_Result where I was involved, despite never having edited the article
• After mutually agreeing to a self-imposed interaction ban and that he would not follow me, he did not abide by his words and followed me yet again to British Pakistanis, where we now have another edit war (page got protected) and full-blown content dispute on the talk page.

These are just some articles. I hope some third party editors can take a look at the above diffs. As an editor, it is really frustrating and demotivating to have another user constantly following you everywhere, opening up disputes (constant refusal to discuss) and continuing edit wars. This is in addition to having to put up with their uncivil remarks and personal attacks (I have a received a truckload of such comments, but will choose not to waste my time digging all of those up). I would really like the community to consider how the activities of such editors can be allowed unabated, who are making Wikipedia their political playground, and imposing their nationalist narratives on others. My good faith regarding their conduct is at a minimal, and let me also add that I have been long enough here to learn that such editors usually always end up getting indeffed if they don't change their attitude. I am also trying very hard to find a convincing reason why Human3015 should not be blocked in light of this recent pattern of vicious and tendentious editing. Mar4d (talk) 09:40, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Comment by Kautilya3

As a reasonably experienced Wikipedian, I take it upon myself to induct new editors when I run into them, showing them tips, and advising them about troublesome issues. Human3015 is one such new editor. His main interest seems to be Indo-Pakistan relations and conflicts, which is of course a minefield. I have seen him edit constructively in topics like Kashmir conflict as well as battle incessantly on other pages. I have also seen him improve his editing behaviour over time. I can see why Mar4d feels that he is being hounded. Whether it is genuine hounding or not, I can't say. But also think Mar4d should welcome another keenly interested editor challenging him in areas which are often subject to disputes. Certain amount of WP:POINT exists on both the sides. It is natural for every one involved in these disputes to feel, if X is acceptable, then why not Y? For example, X might be "Butcher of Gujarat" and Y might be "Mumbai terror attack mastermind". These issues have to be decided through the normal procedures. I don't believe there is a general conduct issue because I see Human3015 taking advice and improving himself. - Kautilya3 (talk) 10:28, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Comments by Human 3015

• Well I don't think that it is even significant here. I'm first time commenting on ANI so if some mistakes happens please understand it.
• Mar4d has 9000+ pages, redirect created.[78], we can't even check them all. Still I will show you very few.
• Butcher of Gujarat Creating attack page on living person who is Prime Minister of country like India and no charge on him is proved. (But this guy Mar4d consider United Nation's designated terrorist Hafeez Saeed as innocent man when charges on him proved in Indian and US courts. Also see in talk page of Mumbai terror attack mastermind that it is most common term used for him.)
• Persecution of Muslims in India: He can create such redirect on Wikipedia but if someone else creates redirect of Killings of Hindus in Pakistan he will report you. You just can't make any edits which shows negative image of particular country, but you can do all edits to show negative image of India.

I can show his hundreds of redirects which particularly defame some country. Regarding my redirects, two of them I explained earlier.

• ISI terror activities: The page where it redirects is Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism, which itself has word terrorism in it. Also there are redirect for this page Inter-Services Intelligence role in terrorism, Pakistan's role in terrorism in India already exists. Thats why Mar4d also didn't nominated it for deletion.(Thank you).
• Pakistan supported insurgency: for this you have to see talk page where I contested deletion. Pakistan's official authority openly says that we support "freedom fighters" in Kashmir and we will provide all support to them. Also FBI said in US court that Pakistan provides arms to Kashmiri militants.(see sources in talk page of the redirect). So what's problem in making redirect on it?
• Pakistan propaganda politics]: See talk page of this redirect where I contested deletion. This page redirects to Kashmir conflict. Pakistan always talk about Kashmir issue at all levels. They don't focus on their own nation. When Obama was visiting India that time also Pakistan Prime Minister requested Obama to talk about Kashmir to Indian Prime Minister(though Obama rejected to talk). Means here also they want "Kashmir issue". In all United Nation's speeches, Pakistan only talk about Kashmir issue. So it is a propaganda by Pakistan. Kashmiris are peacefully living in India by voting in large % in Indian elections but Pakistan do propaganda that Kashmiris want to join Pakistan. So thats why this redirect. Read WP:RNEUTRAL.

Hounding

• I don't even think that this is relevant issue here. I joined Wikipedia just 4 months ago, Mar4d is on Wikipedia since 5-6 years and has 50,000+ edits. He think that in this so short span on Wikipedia I should have past history of edits on every page that he edited otherwise I can't edit that page and he will report me for hounding.
• He should give a single evidence that I disrupted his edits. All I given is constructive contribution to those articles that hementioned above. Admins can check my all edits on mentioned articles and can tell me where I was wrong or where I disrupted Mar4d's edits.
• I am part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan since two months. [79]
• Mar4d thinks that I should not edit any Pakistan related page as all them are owned by himself, if I want to do edit on those page then I must take his permission for that.--Human3015 Say Hey!! • 10:41, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Charge of repeated disruptive editing

• I have not come to wikipedia for disruptive editing. As I mentioned above, among my 3000+ edits show my atleast 10 disruptive edits.
• I'm reading wikipedia since 10 years and it is just 4-5 months ago I got to know that anyone can edit wikipedia. 4 months ago I saw one completetly rubbish and wrong comment on one page and I was just shocked how "Wikipedia" can write such things.(I used to think that authorized professional people of Wikipedia writes articles). I decided to do legal case on Wikipedia for that info in article. But after some search on net I realized that anyone can edit wikipedia and then I opened my this account just to delete that wrong edit. For first 2 months I was very less active on Wikipedia and its been just 2 months I'm active on wikipedia.
• As one user Kautilya3 said above that I'm very much interested in Kashmir related issues so I often get involved in those articles but he is partly correct. I'm interested in vast number of fields not just in India-Pakistan issues. Those who claim that I am only on Wikipedia to write against specific country I want to show my some contribution to Wikipedia in my short span of 2 months of active Wikipedia life.
• Articles that I have created: Make in Maharashtra(Wikiproject Economics), Tourism in North East India (wikiproject tourism and travel), Marathwada Statutory Development Board (government body), 100 Pipers (Wikiproject Spirits), SAARC satellite (Wikiproject Spacecraft), Hazrat Turabul Haq Dargah (Wikiproject Religion), Biographies I have created Sheshrao Deshmukh, Babanrao Lonikar. Villages that I have created Kausadi, Jintur, Bhogaon, Jintur, Walur, Palam, Parbhani, Charthana, Zari, Parbhani, Ashti, Gadchiroli, Bori, Parbhani, Ashti, Jalna, Sonkhed, Amboli, Pune. Also I have created some articles on Political constituencies Partur (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Parbhani (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Jintur (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Ghansawangi (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Gangakhed (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
• Templates that I have created: Template:North East India, Template:Marathwada, Template:Parbhani district villages, Template:User WikiProject Villages.
• Categories:Category:Tourism in North East India, Category:Marathwada, Category:Talukas in Marathwada.
• There are also many articles in which I have given most of contribution, that I will not mention.
• All this I have done in last two months. So charges that I came to wikipedia only for writing my POV against one particular nation and for disruptive editing are completely wrong. I have come to Wikipedia to give positive contribution.
• I want to write about vast number of things on wikipedia because I have interest in atleast more than 20 fields. I'm still relatively new, I still not gave my best to Wikipedia. If you see me after 2 years, you will really recognize my efforts.
• Some editors like Kautilya3 are always helpful to me. But some like Mar4d always discourage. Whatever I write on controversial issue is always highly sourced. If you read my edits on any controversial page, you will find it highly sourced.
• I think admins should encourage me, I am also improving day by day. Its not like that I have not done any mistakes, I was involved in edit war 2 times and was blocked for that, I got my punishment, I was not clear about 3 RR rule.
• Lastly I will say on this issue that, I never had any bad faith against anything, I'm on wikipedia to give positive contribution, I never disrupted anyone's sourced and relevant edits.--Human3015 Say Hey!! • 12:46, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Comment by TopGun

With all the WP:SOUP that's following up on this post, I'd like to note that all of the redirects that were mass nominated by human were restored by an uninvolved admin, following which Human has created tit for tat redirects - most of the redirects that were created have again been deleted by yet another uninvolved administrator. The two that are left were not nominated yet so I've nominated them as well as they were not created in good faith and are misleading in the least such as "Killing of Hindus in Pakistan" being redirected to "Hinduism in Pakistan" to imply to all. This is quite blatant disruption in itself. This is what can be seen right away as a fact all apart from the claims that would need further indepth investigation (due to the WP:SOUP here) such as the hounding cases discussed. What I do want to point out is that should an admin choose to read through this, they should note that the two editors are casting aspirations with their divisive theories that are solely based on which editor belongs to which region rather than what their comment is. Such comments in repetition are disrupting this RFD and have been rebutted by multiple uninvolved editors. CosmicEmperor went so far as to editwar, in blind support, with a CSD template against its scope after being declined by an editor (me) who was not the creater and was rebutted on that as well. --lTopGunl (talk) 14:39, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Comments by Vanamonde93

Since this has come up, there's also some ridiculousness going on at these two pages; Anti-Pakistan sentiment and Anti-India sentiment, where several editors with opposing POVs are joyfully tit-for-tatting unencyclopedic content into both articles. Human3015 has an unedifying part in this, but so do several others. Vanamonde93 (talk) 14:43, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• Vanamonde93, It was me who requested full protection for Anti-Pakistan sentiment and currently that page is protected, don't blame anyone just because they don't push your POV.--Human3015 Say Hey!! • 15:16, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
  • And what is my POV, may I ask, when I successively deleted allegations about both governments from the corresponding places in both articles, because neither of those sections talked about prejudice of any kind? Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:28, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
    • Vanamonde93, You reverted me on that page, then I reverted you, it means we do have different POV regarding this issue. You maybe true/false or I maybe true/false, thats why I requested page protection to resolve our issue as I said on that talk page that edit war may get worst on it as there are many editors who are interested in this page. I just stopped edit war by requesting protection and giving us time to discuss. So on that page we reverted each other then it doesn't mean that you will come here on ANI and will blame me for any other issue without knowing reality of issue just because I reverted you.--Human3015 Say Hey!! • 17:47, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Comments by Sitush

Not sure why we're doing sectioned discussion but hey-ho. For the record, I got an email from CosmicEmperor yesterday. I've never knowingly interacted with them but they were asking me to weigh in at some RfD. I ignored it but, really, this isn't good practice and if they have been emailing others then it would surprise me if everyone has been as scrupulous as I was. - Sitush (talk) 14:47, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• Sitush, why you are using term "they"? When I emailed you? or When I emailed anyone else? It is obviously not good practice.--Human3015 Say Hey!! • 15:11, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• I have no idea of the gender of CosmicEmperor, hence "they". In fairness to them, they didn't ask me to comment for or against the move but selective emailing such as this is still not A Good Thing. - Sitush (talk) 15:20, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Anyway Sitush, I also adviced him on his talk page to not email anyone regarding such issues. Your sense of humor is nice though. .--Human3015 Say Hey!! • 15:35, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, for what it is worth, if I had not received the email then I might have commented. My comment would have been preceded with the word delete and might have made reference to the "usual suspects" from the pro-Pakistan/pro-Muslim camp. They know who they are. - Sitush (talk) 15:43, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Comments by CosmicEmperor

I E-mailed two editors from Wiki Project Pakistan also. But after first few mails E-mails were blocked due to anti-Spam measure and I was not able to send messages to other members of Wiki Project Pakistan. Those who are mentioning about E-mails should also mention the details whether I was trying to influence their judgement or asking about their personal opinion. I should have known about this before.

"Stealth canvassing Shortcut: WP:STEALTH Because it is less transparent than on-wiki notifications, the use of email or other off-wiki communication to notify editors is discouraged unless there is a significant reason for not using talk page notifications. Depending on the specific circumstances, sending a notification to a group of editors by email may be looked at more negatively than sending the same message to the same group of people on their talk pages."--C E (talk) 15:14, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

But I don't think simply sending them E-Mails about something is like trying to change their decision as i didn't know most of them and not sure what their decision would be. I saw only 3 comments in that page and wanted more participants. More the number of votes better the consensus. I don't know about any shortcut to notify all at the same time. And the accusation of personal attacks is simply twisting my words. I made that comment in relation to these news:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Two-Lashkar-e-Taiba-terrorists-killed-in-JK-encounter/articleshow/46329046.cms

http://zeenews.india.com/news/jammu-and-kashmir/two-jaish-e-mohammed-militants-killed-in-sopore-encounter_1532117.html C E (talk) 15:14, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

(uninvolved editor) "I saw only 3 comments in that page and wanted more participants. More the number of votes better the consensus." That counts as votestacking, which is undesirable because it distorts consensus. Of course I don't know if your emails were actually partisan votestacking notices or nonpartisan notices because I didn't saw them, but even if they weren't partisan, that would still fall as stealth canvassing because friendly notices must be limited AND neutral AND nonpartisan AND open. Your emailing fails the latter. Since I am an uninvolved editor in this case my comment may not be that accurate. --TL22 (talk) 16:20, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

@Sitush: you must reveal the contents of that E-mail for everyone else to see. TL22 (talk)

I sent the same mail to everybody as I was not aware of WP:STEALTH.C E (talk) 08:40, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Repeated accusations of canvassing

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Serialjoepsycho (talk · contribs) has repeatedly accused me of being canvassed [81][82][83][84]. Per this guideline, the accusations are clearly false. Since I've already warned him to stop but he persists in making this accusation, a short block might soon be necessary. -A1candidate 08:40, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Repeated accusations along with evidence. Here is the diff prior to the ones listed where I show that A1 Candidate was canvassed to the discussion. Here's another diff where I post this evidence. What is this supposed to be here, "I don't see that"?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 08:50, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Please read WP:APPNOTE carefully. I have watchlisted AN/I and participate regularly in discussions here. Just strike all your accusations and stop, okay? -A1candidate 08:55, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

This is canvassing. It's not an appropriate notification but canvassing. They canvassed you. After they canvassed you is when you inserted yourself into the [85] conversation.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 09:00, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I have AN/I and pages related to electronic cigarettes on my watchlist. I was already aware of a possible AN/I thread even before it was posted. Take a look at this talk page discussion that first caught my attention. I would have replied sooner or later to any discussion that concerns QuackGuru (as I have always done in the past), regardless of what DrChrissy said. Just strike all your accusations and stop. This will be my last reply to this thread. -A1candidate 09:14, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes and you must have Acupuncture on your watchlist as well [86]. You had to show everyone the "Very Controversial" edit that Quack Guru just made [87]. -Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 09:30, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, but that alone does not constitute canvassing, per WP:APPNOTE. It still seems you have not read and understood that guideline. You may have a case, but you have yet to make it. ―Mandruss ☎ 09:11, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Alone that constitutes canvassing. It is Votestacking. APPNOTE does not offer an exclusion for notifying the enemies of your enemies that an ANI was opened against them. That is WP:BATTLE behavior. Answering such a canvass borders meatpuppet like behavior, if that isn't what it is already.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 09:48, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Request for close-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 11:05, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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User:81.101.142.111 account used for vandalism

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This user has said here at AN/I that they intend to rigorously vandalize Wikipedia with a large scale team. Though they this far have only conducted personal attacks since their block, I believe this user must be indefinitely blocked before they cause trouble, thanks.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 01:18, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Here is the diff. IPs are usually not indefinitely blocked and the threat does not seem credible. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 01:23, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

And how about the multiple personal attacks on top of the threat of vandalism? Honestly, this needs to be swiftly handled before vandalism can commence.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 01:29, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

An indefinite block is not the way to handle it. Despite being a dynamic IP it seems to have been held by a problem user for over a month and so a longer block (2 months?) would probably be the best option. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 01:34, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Ok, if you think that is best for a user who clearly outlined they wanted to vandalize, than I'm all for it.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 01:38, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

The thing to remember is that an IP isn't necessarily the same user. That's why we don't indefinitely block IPs: the address could wind up being used by another user (company internet gateway, computer lab, dynamic IP, etc.). —C.Fred (talk) 01:45, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I understand that now, but I still suggest a block similar to what Phantom Tech recommended.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 01:53, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Links: 81.101.142.111 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) --IJBall (talk) 02:11, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Strong support for block – This IP was already blocked in April. And has now taken to issuing threats right here at ANI. This is clearly a WP:NOTHERE case. --IJBall (talk) 02:11, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Strong support for block as this IP is clearly not here to contribute to the encyclopedia in any way, shape, or form. Weegeerunner (talk) 02:30, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

As I've said above, I support a long block for around a couple of months. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 02:54, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Blocked: Saw report on user at AIV and blocked for a month since IP appears to be stable. Suggest WP:RBI. Abecedare (talk) 06:47, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Resolved

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Persistent clueless editor attempts to insert promotional article - Block evasion

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The user User:SipleDailyUser may be one of several block-evading accounts that are being used to attempt to insert a purely promotional article. SipleDailyUser (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

The user came to the Help Desk to ask why his or her efforts to create an article about Macphun or Macphun Software kept being deleted. Wikipedia:Help_desk#Article_Creation

The post to the Help Desk was the only post by that account, so that it was not possible to check the talk page message with the speedy deletion. In response to a question, SipleDailyUser said that every time the article was deleted, they created a new account and started over. Advice was to use the Articles for Creation process. Instead, SipleDailyUser posted inquiries to User:Ukexpat and User:Y, one of the deleting admins, asking for help, and evidently created the article again, and it was speedy-deleted again. SipleDailyUser then explained, on talk page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SipleDailyUser&diff=prev&oldid=663513710

that three previous accounts were "deleted by moderators". In Wikipedia terms, that would be blocked by admins. If the previous accounts were blocked for being used only to add purely promotional material, then this account is a block-evading sockpuppet.

Robert McClenon (talk) 19:15, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• Macphun Software was first created by Juliameinly (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) who is not blocked, and then recreated by SipleDailyUser. Each time this page was speedied for being promotional. Macphun was created by Danmeiteam (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) who is not blocked either. When that page got deleted for the second time, BogdanShumei (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) restored it including the speedy deletion tags. Neither of these accounts have ever been blocked nor have their user pages been deleted. The name Danmeiteam makes me think of promotional teamwork though. De728631 (talk) 19:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• I salted the two articles. Not a great deal more we can do right now, I guess. Guy (Help!) 19:43, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

In that case, if none of the accounts were blocked, then SipleDailyUser was just cluelessly confused in saying that the accounts were "deleted by moderators". He or she may simply have forgotten the password. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:55, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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John Dehlin article

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The John Dehlin article is having sourced content systematically removed by a variety of users, apparently as a result of a Reddit request here. Further information is on the talk page at Talk:John Dehlin#NPOV Issues. While it's possible that some editing should be done, especially as this is a BLP, what is of more concern is the wholesale removal of sourced content being directed off-wiki by the article's subject. Some admin help (page protect or other) is needed to help save appropriate, sourced content. Thanks, Bahooka (talk) 14:48, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Rightly so. A lot of it needed removing, and some of it stretched the definition of "sourced" to breaking point. This, for example, is cited to partisan websites of no evident merit and clearly violates WP:BLP. Oh, and it was you who did it. Beware the WP:BOOMERANG. Guy (Help!) 17:46, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

The material removed needed to be removed, and you shouldn't restore it anymore. I've also noticed that you've asked editors to discuss this on the talk page, but you haven't made any posts there. In fact, all you've done is revert and report here. Try taking your own advice and discuss this on the talk page. AniMate 17:54, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I was simply restoring a large deletion of long-standing sourced content that was done without any discussion (at the time) on the article talk page, not adding in new content. There is now discussion, so I left the changes as is. I am now simply bringing this up to determine if WP:MEAT applies. I've already disengaged from the article. Bahooka (talk) 18:01, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

The article subject's concerns are entirely legitimate. Your edits, not so much. Guy (Help!) 19:44, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

As there does not appear to be any issue with the article's subject directing edits, and as I have already indicated that I would not be restoring the sourced content, I believe this discussion may be closed. Thank you for the feedback. Bahooka (talk) 16:25, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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50.104.200.91‎ and Muppet Classic Theater

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50.104.200.91‎ (talk · contribs · WHOIS) persists in editing Muppet Classic Theater to add an unsourced list of every Muppet that appears in the production, including such characters as "Chickens" and "Cows." I've posted a few messages on their talk page, but have received no response. Perhaps the article could be semi-protected? Trivialist (talk) 23:13, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I note that your first attempt to discuss was on the 20th [88]. I can see they have persisted and with out any attempt at discussion. PSemi-protection sounds like a good idea to me. You may get a quicker response at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 23:48, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Ah! Hold on a minute here!!... There was a very similar IP editor – 50.104.201.89 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) – that was performing very similar edits to Muppets-based articles back in April: see, for example, diff. There is no question in my mind that this is the same IP editor. They hit a string of Muppets articles back in April, and I think it took myself and Oknazevad a day or two to undo their mess. Note, too, that IP 50.104.201.89 received a 3 month(!) block from Admin JohnCD for this! And, as before, the current IP hasn't uttered a peep on a Talk page. I advise (another) IP block for disruptive editing (and/or block evasion). --IJBall (talk) 23:49, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Note I have blocked this IP for block evasion. Chillum 00:11, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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Proposal for structuring discussions on ANI

Discussions at ANI can be rather long. In heated discussions this can be rather chaotic. There's a tendency at ANI for such discussions to become heated. I would like to propose that some uniform standard is adopted for discussion for organizational purposes. I note the overall structure of conversation with ARBCOM related discussions as one option. Should a seperate RFC be opened or would it be acceptable for the discussion to take place here?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 00:20, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Such meta discussions generally go on the associated talk page, in this case Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard. ―Mandruss ☎ 00:23, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

My contributions to Emmanuel Lemelson and Lemelson Capital Management

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Would appreciate your assistance. I have been an editor for a year and created the two articles above last year. I recently moved both to my sandbox so that I could make some modest improvements to both, including potentially restoring some content that was deleted for reasons largely unexplained and to potentially make other improvements, such as possibly adding new information in the year since I created both articles. Almost as soon as I moved both articles to my sandbox a few days ago, however, User:Smalljim began criticizing my involvement in the pages and saying that my contributions should be confined to the talk page. He has alleged that I have a conflict of interest, presumably because I dived into these two articles pretty aggressively and really have not had time yet to contribute much else. In reading Ignoring all rules--a beginner's guide and be bold, however, my approach seems permissible and encouraged. I have no conflict of interest and nothing about my edits has been unjustly critical or embellishing of the subject. In fact, despite review of both articles by multiple editors, the changes to my original drafts have been very modest and mostly cosmetic.

A lengthier exchange regarding all of this exists on my talk page. I am requesting that I be permitted to continue (time permitting) to make the modest modifications and additions to both articles in my sandbox and then, when I am comfortable that I've written them well and consistent with all guidelines, to move them live. I fully anticipate that my edits will be reviewed by others, and that's fine by me. I claim no ownership to the pages and am just looking to perfect what I believe to be two decent article contributions.

I first attempted to resolve this with User:Smalljim on my talk page. I guess we did not see eye to eye. I then referred it to DRN and COI. Neither of them felt it belonged on those pages.

Thanks very much for your attention and assistance. Orthodox2014 (talk) 22:11, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I looked at the DRN page and it seemed like the discussion was getting started. I don't know why the page was archived but I didn't see anyone saying that this was the wrong forum. Maybe @TransporterMan: can explain?

In general though, I think it is a bad idea to copy whole articles into your sandbox and replace the actual article with your new version of it. For one thing, other editors can make changes between the time you've copied the article and the time you replace it with your new version and while those edits would be recorded in the page history, they wouldn't exist in the article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:33, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

The DRN thread was closed by TransporterMan, not because it was the wrong forum, but because it was filed manually, rather than using the template for the purpose. The editors can refile using the template, or can continue discussion at the conflict of interest noticeboard, but the discussion at COIN should be closed if DRN is started, to avoid conflicting discussions and forum shopping. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:45, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I have 2 things to say on the matter, both of which aren't key to the actual issue.

Firstly, I felt it wasn't appropriate for WP:COIN because they said they didn't have a COI- so the issue didn't appear to be COI.

Secondly, when you report someone to noticeboards, you are obliged to inform them- in this instance, I informed User:Smalljim about this thread, and the other ones at DRN and COI too. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:35, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

I did notify him on his talk page at 22:10, 12 May 2015, prior to your posting this. You must have missed it. Orthodox2014 (talk) 21:56, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

I was drafting the following, but I see I've been pre-empted. Posting now without full check, so E&OE !  —SMALLJIM 

Emmanuel Lemelson is a hedge fund manager and, unexpectedly, also a Greek Orthodox priest. We have two articles: one on the person (EL), and one on his company, Lemelson Capital Management (LCM). Both have been extensively edited by Orthodox2014 (talk · contribs), whose only other edits have been to an AfD on the company, an AfD nomination of another fund manager, and a few edits to some related articles (example) and some other Greek Orthodox religious figures (example). This narrow focus has continued despite my suggestion in July last year that he could do something else to avoid the appearance of only being here to promote Lemelson.

In the two articles he has employed promotional wording designed to puff up the subjects (see this version for example), and has packed them with excessive references, on which he has been called out several times (see User_talk:Orthodox2014#Failed_verifications, Talk:Lemelson Capital Management, Talk:Emmanuel_Lemelson#Too_many_references and the LCM AfD). In July 2014 the LCM article was trimmed down to under 10kB in accordance with these opinions [89]. But on 8 Oct, after working on a pre-trimmed version in his sandbox, Orthodox2014 pumped it up again to 23kB with the edit summary "update new references/developments, remove a category", which in fact added only a little new info, and substantially reinstated the removed references.[90]

On 29 April this year, I got round to cleaning up both pages again – a task that had been on my back burner for some time. Soon after, Orthodox2014 started editing a copy of his last version of the EL article in his sandbox,[91] suggesting that he intended to replace the live version with his preferred version again. His response to my enquiry indicates a strong sense of ownership. This is not the behaviour of someone who has WP's best interest as his first priority.

Orthodox2014 has firmly stated that he does not have a COI. Four editors have expressed concerns that he does, as I set out on his talk page, and I think the minimum we need is a topic ban on these articles. He has at least recently expressed a willingness to edit some other articles.[92]  —SMALLJIM  22:40, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

• Perhaps this should have stayed at COIN. The heading for the noticeboard states This Conflict of interest/Noticeboard (COIN) page is for determining whether a specific editor has a conflict of interest (COI) for a specific article and whether an edit by a COIN-declared COI editor does not meet a requirement of the Conflict of Interest guideline . The question here is covered by the first part of that, whether the denial of COI by an editor who has only substantially worked on these two very closely related subjects should be accepted as settling the matter. DGG ( talk ) 23:15, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Coincidentally, DGG, in 2013 you deleted an earlier version of one of the pages. I don't suppose this could be connected?  —SMALLJIM  16:32, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

It was deleted as G5, Creation by a banned or blocked user (MooshiePorkFace or Morning277). I shall therefore not be restoring it. DGG ( talk ) 16:11, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

The question I meant to ask – sorry if it was unclear – is do you think this editor could be related to that paid editor farm.  —SMALLJIM  17:20, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

I referred this incident to this page seeking assistance in resolving a dispute I have with User:Smalljim on the two pages referenced in this entry's heading. I am asking that he cease projecting ownership over not just these two articles but also my own sandbox, where I had begun work on some modest revisions to these two articles. His insistence that he has free range to edit both articles but my edits must be restricted to the talk pages is clearly a projection of such ownership and a policy violation. He also is violating good faith in projecting baseless, false allegations and additionally violating be bold in developing apparently his own editorial policy that new editors not be permitted to create articles (the policy of boldness suggests the exact opposite) and do not bite the newcomers in asserting his ownership, assuming bad faith, suggesting his edits hold more validity than my own, and in mass removing content and references (developed in full accordance with the citations guideline) without as much as an explanation. When he first complained that the articles had excessive references (never seen that as an editorial policy) a year ago, I even went back and reformatted all of them so they aesthetically appeared limited to three (as suggested in the citation guideline when more than three references are used in substantiating a fact).

I reiterate my initial request, which initiated this discussion, that I be permitted to continue working on both articles in my sandbox and then move over edits when I feel comfortable that my revisions are improvements and consistent with all policies and guidelines; I have not yet reached that point. I also ask that User:Smalljim be instructed to treat me and my page edits with the civility required. Orthodox2014 (talk) 19:41, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

This case ought to be closed. It's evident, Orthodox2014, that the community is not interested either in your report or mine. I think the best resolution would be for you to refrain from editing these articles and (time permitting) work on something else, as you said you would – and I'll carry on fighting the vandals.  —SMALLJIM  20:11, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

I also agree the case should be closed. I do not agree, however, that there is any reason that I should not be permitted to edit the pages. It was exactly that sort of page ownership (I will make my edits then falsely accuse you of having a conflict so you can't make revisions) that prompted my posting here. As I said I would, I intend to make some modifications and possibly additions that are consistent with Wikipedia policies and standards and then move them live when I am comfortable with them. In the meantime, my sandbox should not be stalked and scrutinized. I am, of course, willing to work on consensus edits with User:Smalljim or any editor, and I made that clear before referring this here. Thanks. Orthodox2014 (talk) 15:55, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

@Orthodox2014: My primary reason for being on Wikipedia is to further the interests of the encyclopedia. Despite your persuasive words, the evidence shows that you have a higher imperative. But as an involved admin, without community support I can't do anything, and I'm not willing to spend any more time on this. You should, at least, heed the advice given you by User:Liz above: don't replace a copy of an article that's been worked on by others with one based on an earlier version of your own (as you did in October last year). That's not "work[ing] on consensus edits", that's ownership.  —SMALLJIM  20:10, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

My response and final requests:

1.) User:Smalljim and I (the two editors involved in this dispute) have asked that the case be closed. I'd like to reiterate that request: Please close this case.

2.) Let me respond, User:Smalljim, to your most recent post here because you continue to blatantly violate Wikipedia policies and guidelines in ways that are troubling (especially for an administrator). "The evidence shows that you have a higher imperative," you write me. Let's be clear: The evidence shows nothing--absolutely nothing--of the sort. That is a blatant violation of the assume good faith principle. You are not assuming good faith. You are engaged in McCarthy-like, baseless allegations that I have told you are wrong. The evidence is this: I created two pretty good Wikipedia articles that should have existed and didn't. I see both of those articles as having some room for at least modest updating and improvements, and I've embarked on a careful effort to draft the changes I am considering making. I am not employed by the subject. I have never met the subject. I have no investment or stake in whether his fund performs well or fails. I have no interest in seeing the article reflect positively or negatively on him. My singular goal is now (and has been) to begin doing some editing on Wikipedia--and to do that (as I have with these two articles) in ways 100 percent compliant with all Wikipedia policies and guidelines. When you allege otherwise, you are clearly not assuming good faith and you are alienating other users.

3.) I have been responsive to your concerns and questions, including bringing the entire (baseless) matter here for evaluation by others. Your complaints and efforts seemed to me like harassment from the beginning. But continuing to make false, baseless allegations about me is clearly harassment and completely lacking in civility. You are harassing me and seeking, in your policy-violating efforts, to discourage my editing participation here. It needs to stop.

4.) While you have besieged me with questions and allegations, you still have not answered the one question I put to you (first on May 7 and then again on May 9) [93]: Will you please declare your own conflict of interest on these two articles? Your obsession with them from the beginning and your effort to unjustly ban me from editing them are strong suggestions that you are conflicted. Not answering this question is a violation of many Wikipedia policies and guidelines, including civility, ownership (I will falsely allege misconduct by others but not answer fundamental questions about my own behavior), etiquette and others.

5.) Your insistence on reversing my edits, questioning my motives, trying to ban me from editing the pages, etc. is a clear indication that you are out to project control and ownership over the articles and make a point at the expense of this site--the point being that, forget the policies, you can throw your weight around and get your way because you spend all day, nearly every day editing Wikipedia (the motivations of that alone raise question in my mind). Even a cursory view of your talk page and history suggests to me that these are ongoing trends in your behavior here when you encounter those who dare to differ from you: false allegations against them, rarely assuming good faith, attempts to dishonor them in public forums like this, and bullying and harassing editors whose entire lives are not devoted to editing this site. These are policy-violating traits that should not exist in an editor, much less an administrator, but I will leave that to others to assess.

6.) And finally a broader point and question: As we moved along in addressing your baseless allegations, it became clear to me that you fail to assume good faith by me because I started my account and immediately jumped into creating two articles that did not exist. But the articles on this site that so obviously should exist largely do exist, so the opportunity for a new editor like me is to identify subjects, organizations or people who deserve pages (based on notability criteria) and don't have them. That necessarily means diving pretty heavily into some narrow subject areas. You clearly object to this, but your objection is not what matters when the policies of the site are the exact opposite: To encourage new editors to be be bold and for other editors, in interacting with new ones, to assume good faith, not bite newcombers and be civil.

As I move on to possibly creating new articles, they too might be on topics or subjects that, while notable, seem obscure. But creating articles--diving into a topic, assessing its notability, collecting references and ultimately writing articles consistent with all policies and guidelines--is what interests me most. That isn't to say I may not make more routine edits to existing pages, but it's not my primary interest. And it's nice to see that (while you clearly disagree with the policy) new editors are actually encouraged to be bold and can create new pages. If you do not like that policy, I am sure there is a methodology for you to suggest it be changed. But there is a big difference between your views and this site's policies. In my particular case, I am a new editor who has created two new and pretty good articles (completely permitted and even encouraged), I created a username that tangentially could be extrapolated to be at least vaguely applicable to the subject articles I created (probably a bad idea in retrospect, but completely permissible), and (despite your allegations) I have no conflict of interest--none at all--as it relates to these articles.

You write that, "My primary reason for being on Wikipedia is to further the interests of the encyclopedia." My own experience with you (and apparently the experience of many others) has been the complete opposite. You create (in your mind) your own policies, you bully and complain whenever anyone stands up to your baseless allegations and impermissible creation of your own policies, and then (even when--as has been the case twice now) your strongly-held opinions are rejected by other editors who definitely are committed to the betterment of Wikipedia, you just forge ahead, stalking user's pages (as you are mine), inventing your own rules (editors you disagree with should not be allowed to edit pages), and leveling false allegations against other editors, as you've done here yet again. I see no evidence that "the interests of the encyclopedia" are your predominant interest, or any interest. Your predominant interest is very clearly your bullying efforts to try to get your own way. I ask that it stop, and I ask that others ask this user--who somehow became an admin--to stop. If this sort of behavior is permitted and not challenged, that will be to the ultimate loss of Wikipedia. New possible editors will have no interest in participating. Existing ones will leave or be too timid to be effective. And hard-headed, "my way or the highway" editors will be left to manage a declining site with four million articles.

My incident here should now be closed. As I knew was the case, User:Smalljim has no basis to restrict my editing of these or other pages, but I brought it here in the interest of civility and obtaining the input of others. In closing this, I ask that User:Smalljim be counseled on his approach--namely, that new editors are allowed to create pages (not just a policy, but something encouraged); he needs to get used to it. New editors may choose a username that somehow can be interpreted to have some relationship with the subjects he or she edits; that too is permissible and not a basis to question motives provided it complies with the username policy, and (as with other editors) we should not be forced to come to these forums on baseless allegations and someone else's view of what policies should be, as opposed to what they actually are.

Thanks to all for your attention and assistance. Orthodox2014 (talk) 16:36, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

To Orthodox2014, as an uninvolved party, please note that many ANI sections are "closed" only by the discussion fading away, and the item being archived with no final judgement being pronounced. I think archiving at ANI is set so that items are archived after about 3 day since the last comment. So your adding a new comment, two days after the last one, delays this item being finished in that way. I personally don't see that there is any obvious other "close" to be implemented here, so letting this fade away is the right way to end it. Just don't comment further and this will go away. --doncram 16:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I didn't realise I was such a malign influence on Wikipedia. Sorry everybody.  —SMALLJIM  18:57, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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User:Alex132351

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Alex132351 (talk · contribs) 3 edits, 3 lots of vandalism, including personal attacks. Clearly WP:NOTHERE. Could someone just block him/her now rather than we have to wait for any more damage to the encyclopedia? PamD 10:23, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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Ivettealexandra COI and multiple copyvios

User Ivettealexandra has stated that she is a record label executive, writing on commons, "I work for Provident Label Group/Sony Music Group." She continues to add unsourced and poorly sourced content. Was asked to stop. Today, editor has added copyrighted images to commons: at least 6 of 11 I have seen so far are clear copyright violations, while several others have embedded copyrights that show they belong to others. I have another handful to review and have thrown my hands up in frustration. the files were all uploaded to commons, but to be linked here. They could all probably be accepted if they have OTRS, but the editor's behaviour is unacceptable. She was warned on 18 May 2015 about a copyright violation exactly like this but continued. COI warning also added on 18 May. Created several articles for her label's bands.

The editor has not discussed warnings and requests to improve. I usually don't mind COI, but this is simply promotional and could get at least one project sued. I will let admins determine if we need "help" like this or not. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:55, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Seems like if she's adding copyrighted material to the commons then you should take that matter to the commons. You say she has a COI, perhaps you could provide evidence?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 05:31, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

All have been nominated there. It's the fact that she's using commons as a cover for adding the material here that's a problem. The lack of discussion is also a problem. COI is also a problem. I would provide evidence but the three files she uploaded to commons where she stated "I work for Provident Label Group/Sony Music Group" have been deleted. Need a commons admin to show deleted history. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Further to COI: All of the editor's edits have been to musicians on the same record label: Provident Label Group. Walter Görlitz (talk) 06:02, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

So there's a COI but you have no evidence for it? There's theme starting to occur. Here you say they are a sock and you don't provide any evidence. Perhaps an Admin can do something in the way of getting this evidence for you?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 06:19, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Sorry. Meant SPA not SPA. Walter Görlitz (talk) 06:40, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Oh, A SPA? Seems to be to much of a new user to be considered a SPA.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 06:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, a SPA. Not too new, admitted that she worked for the record label and that all edits have been to articles associated with the record label. Walter Görlitz (talk) 07:27, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Not too new? LOL Yes they've been here for more than one day. But their first edit was May 15 and it is just May 22. They are still new. Again there's this whole lack of evidence that they are involved in any COI. You've not provided any evidence here, actually.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 08:00, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I have: a statement written by the editor. Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Serialjoepsycho: from reading this thread it appears that Walter Görlitz has made it clear that there is evidence, however he no longer has access to it as the files have been deleted on Commons. Despite your repeated demands, he can't produce something that he cannot access. Walter Görlitz, perhaps you can ask a Commons admin to confirm that Ivettealexandra stated she works for Provident Label Group/Sony Music Group in the now deleted files? If they can confirm then perhaps WP:COIN would be a better venue for discussion if direct discussion with the editor is going nowhere.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 15:57, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Not often at commons. Any idea how to make such a request? Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:17, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Commons:Administrator Noticeboard perhaps.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 04:40, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Google is your friend: two files with a statement "I work for Provident Label Group/Sony Music Group" are still indexed. File talk:1 Girl Nation.jpg and File talk:I Am They.jpg. Anyhow, all these releases do need OTRS tickets at Commons and the files should not be used over here as long as the copyright status has not been confirmed. De728631 (talk) 12:30, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Anonymous editor switching from ISP to ISP for each revenge edit.

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OK - this is a thorny one. Seemingly as a result of an edit conflict/disagreement on Elsa Schiaparelli (I say disagreement - the other editor has made zero effort to engage with my arguments on the talk page or discuss) I have become the subject of targeted random reversions of my edits, the majority coming from anonymous ISPs from the 151.20 range. Each anonymous editor makes one reversion and then jumps onto the next ISP and does a reversion of another random edit on a random page I've edited, and so on.

The ISPs so far are:

• 151.20.80.160 (performed the Schiap edit, possibly same person as 65.196.51.10 who made a very similar edit a few days before.)
• 151.20.106.171
• 151.20.105.201
• 151.20.104.221
• 151.20.104.30
• 151.20.96.229
• 151.20.89.202
• 151.20.82.26
• 151.20.80.234
• 151.20.79.118
• 151.20.75.157
• 151.20.19.76

Do I need to report each one individually? Also apologies if I am missing a page more relevant to this kind of disruptive ISP-ing, but as you can see there clearly isn't a single account or ISP related to this editor, and it looks like abuse reports require you to report an individual ISP/editor, having already issued due warnings as appropriate. Thank you so much for any advice and assistance. Mabalu (talk) 12:55, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

There's a couple of things that can be done. Another admin has protected the Schiaparelli article so only registered users can edit it. All of these IPs are in the same range: 151.20.0.0/17 (covers 32768 IP addresses), which sounds like a lot, but it looks like he is the only person using the range at present. I will block the range for a few days for the disruptive editing. Please re-report if the problem resumes when the semi-protection and block wear off. -- Diannaa (talk) 14:53, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately the semi-protection and block have not stopped this vandalism which is continuing at the very moment.176.93.54.248 (talk) 16:52, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Could you be more specific – I don't see any edits at Elsa Schiaparelli since Admin Sergecross73 protected it... --IJBall (talk) 16:57, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

IJBall, the editor has been going after my edits on pages other than Elsa Schiaparelli, usually making a random reversion and then switching to a new ISP from the same ISP range. (a couple examples: Omar Kiam and Callot Soeurs) I think the ISP editor on List of fashion designers is a separate person who just happened to get caught up in the mass reversion I was doing - their edit, while kinda nothingy, isn't actually that disruptive. Thank you Diannaa for temporarily range-blocking the ISP - I'll let you know if I see a bunch of red notifications in a few days time telling me a bunch of random edits I made have been reverted. Mabalu (talk) 17:19, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Technical note: It took me a while to figure out that by "ISP" (internet service provider, analogous to a phone company) you actually meant "IP" (referring to an internet protocol address, analogous to a phone number). ISP's get blocks of IP addresses and assign them to customers, and these addresses are probably all coming from the same ISP. 50.0.136.194 (talk) 17:50, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I have double checked this, and both of the IPs 151.20.82.26 and 151.20.19.76 are already blocked via the range block. The edits you point to in these two diffs (Diff of Omar Kiam and [diff of Callot Soeurs) both took place before the range block was laid down. If you see any edits that took place after the range block was placed at 14:56, May 23, 2015, please list them here so that the range block can be adjusted. -- Diannaa (talk) 18:13, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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• Sorry to revisit this after it was archived, but as Diannaa requested, I'm reporting an edit that seems suspicious. I woke up today to a suspiciously similar reversion from IP 52.1.111.215. It fits the editing pattern of reverting a random edit - one I made back in 2009 and had completely forgotten about! - where I disambiguated a link to direct to the correct article (see the Omar Kiam edit above) for no apparent reason. Another note - the IP vandal previously targeted the Clare Potter article with this edit and the next day another random IP just happens to target a Clare Potter link? Mabalu (talk) 09:13, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

There is no article on the poet Clare Potter. So you disambiguous link is a red link. It looks like they found the link to Clare Potter and made a mistake. It looks more like a mistake than a deliberate action or vandalism. Also is this [94] the vandalism you are talking about at Clare Potter? I see that you reverted it but looking at it there is no vandalism. Monte-Sano & Pruzan and Vincent Monte-Sano link to the same article. Someone should probably go thru and check these IP's individually and verify that there is an issue here.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 10:58, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

And now re-pinging Diannaa (I've been told the first 'ping' likely did not go through...), just to make sure she sees this – @Diannaa: --IJBall (talk) 17:02, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

@Mabalu: The edits you link to are harmless improvements. Clare Potter (poet) does not exist; the article is located at Clare Potter; and Vincent Monte-Sano redirects to Monte-Sano & Pruzan. While the person using the range that I blocked yesterday was indeed following you around, you need to please ensure that IP edits are actual vandalism before reverting or assuming the worst. -- Diannaa (talk) 17:39, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Actually, Diannaa, I do think it odd that the IP harasser performed an random reversion on Clare Potter, and after the block went through, another IP editor came along and just happened to alight upon and revert a Clare Potter related edit from YEARS back? Coincidence? Possibly. Anyway I've reverted their reversion, this time with an edit summary to explain, because it is not an "improvement" to link to a wrong article. Mabalu (talk) 21:32, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

QuackGuru and Electronic cigarette

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Someone uninvolved rein him in, please. Doesn't need to be very heavy-handed.—S Marshall T/C 20:08, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

comment I disagree about not being heavy-handed. This editor has a massive history of being one of the most unpleasant, disruptive editors on WP and needs more than just reigning in.DrChrissy ^(talk) 20:26, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Please do not involve yourself here DrChrissy. ~Adjwilley (talk) 20:38, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice - it is noted.DrChrissy ^(talk) 20:40, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Isn't this article subject to community general sanctions? That isn't ArbCom discretionary sanctions, but very similar. Maybe the admins at arbitration enforcement could look at this. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:03, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes it is, and they should be invoked if appropriate. BMK (talk) 21:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Incidentally, I don't recall having many direct contacts with Quack Guru over the years, just a few here and there, bit I will give my impression of him for anyone who intends to set out to "rein him in": QG will not be affected by threats, cajolery, persuasion, sympathetic warnings, discussion, debate, anger or humor. In my opinion, the only possible way to control QG is by blocking him or banning him from a topic -- and I say this as someone who is on the same philosophical "side" as QG. If you're going to try to "rein him in", half-measures will not work.

Anyway, that's my take on the matter. BMK (talk) 21:17, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I have to agree. Anything short of a clue-by-four wielded by an orangutan is unlikely to work. Guy (Help!) 22:03, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

He brings excellent sources forwards. Thus the majority of their work is positive.

What specific issue are you having User:S Marshall? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:14, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Did you ever review the ArbCom case request listed below? Sticking to sourcing guidelines when its convenient and not when it isn't whilst violating many other policies and guidelines as demonstrated in the ArbCom case request is completely unnaceptable. Going by the last few sections of the e-cigarette talk page there are several editors that think that WP:OWNERSHIP should be added to the list.Levelledout (talk) 22:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)I agree with the above posters, in particular BMK. Unfortunately, in QuackGuru's case he has had chance after chance to improve his conduct over the years and shows absolutely no signs of doing so aside from the odd meaningless symbolic gesture. There was an ArbCom case on him filed by me only last month. He got off on the fact that e-cigarette sanctions had only just been introduced and they needed to be given more time to work. There was advice given from arbitrators such as "I would strongly advise him to take on board the opinions expressed here and moderate his behaviour". Has he done that? Evidentally not.Levelledout (talk) 22:15, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• One that calls for someone uninvolved, I'm afraid, User:Doc James. That person will certainly not want to act without reading my recent contribution history and Talk:Electronic cigarette, and if they do read those pages they won't have any trouble grasping the problem. It doesn't need a big drama, there's no need for everyone who dislikes QuackGuru to pile on, it just needs a gentle caress with the clue feather.—S Marshall T/C 22:32, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

You have come to ANI without providing any links to evidence. But as you wish. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:42, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

See User_talk:Adjwilley#QuackGuru_2. -A1candidate 22:51, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• Seems to be a bit of canvassing going on [95] [96]-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 23:00, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Yes and that user is banned from commenting about alt med widely construed per User_talk:DrChrissy#Modification_of_topic_ban. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:35, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

  Oh yes, I forgot about this indirect form of canvassing on another admin's page. And this for his talk page stalkers. And this. -A1candidate 23:16, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

It's May 21st and those diffs don't seem to concern this ANI. You getting canvassed here and then coming here does concern this ANI.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 23:38, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• If QuackGuru's fan club would please consider starting their own threads about their own complaints, I'd be very grateful. I'm looking for a targeted, focused intervention on one specific issue.—S Marshall T/C 23:10, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
  • And which issue is that? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:32, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
    • When I started this, anyone who did enough investigation to close this discussion could quite plainly see the problem. But there have now been quite a few irrelevant diffs in this discussion pertaining to other complaints that editors have about QG, so I'll have to lead the horse to water. I was trying to avoid this, because it will probably lead to one of QG's characteristic wall-of-irrelevant-text responses.

      The concern is about controlling behaviour from QuackGuru. Editors were discussing a particular section, and QG offered to make some changes. I told him not to and explained why, and he then made the edit anyway with this justification. Editors protested that the edit should not have been made. I restored the stable wording pending discussion and warned QG not to change that section again until consensus was reached. Then, in this article that's fraught and subject to discretionary sanctions, QG's next edit was to restore his preferred wording with this justification. Note the copyvio allegation used as a pretext. This allegation should in the circumstances have been made on the talk page and not, in the circumstances, by directly editing the article.

      QG needs telling to respect the discussion process and wait for other editors to reach agreement when dealing with fraught areas. That's all.—S Marshall T/C 07:44, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

      • I have followed up on the copyright issues. This Indian journal article [97] has copied and pasted from our article from Feb 1, 2013. Without attribution. I have informed the journal in question. Agree that QG was mistaken and should be more careful going forwards..
      • Looking at your revert here you removed a number of formating improvement such as the adding of citation templates, restored uncited text, and restored this poor quality ref which is basically commercial spam. Reverted positive edits for procedural reasons is not typically good. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:33, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
        • It's a pity you chose to do and say this when I specifically requested action from someone uninvolved. You should have recused.—S Marshall T/C 16:50, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
          • • I am not taking admin action against either of you. The closing admin can take my comments as they wish. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:17, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
• One thing is to protect WP from BLP violations or from WP:FRINGE views, but another thing altogether is to become an advocate, abuse process, or make life miserable for all other editors. QuackGuru may benefit from taking a look at the recent Collect case (Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Collect and others) who had a similar MO in different subject matter, and see how that ended up. - Cwobeel (talk) 23:10, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• In the context of the heated discussion in talk, I think this edit was highly unwise. QG should know by now that WP:BOLD has to take a back seat to WP:CON in situations where there are ongoing discussions on a disputed topic. QG is well meaning but needs a long break from this area. There was a previous topic ban in 2011 I believe and something similar seems to fit the bill here. --John (talk) 23:13, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Of all the diffs for you to try to hang QG with, John, why this one? Four paragraphs for the lead is pretty standard for medical articles. The article looks like it had 4 paragraphs in the lead going in, here it is with 4 mid-April, here it is mid-March. Without any previous discussion about doing so on the article Talk page, CorporateM cut the lead down from four paragraphs to three here. QG restored the previous four-paragraph format. Also QG went to the Talk page and explained his concerns over CM's recent cutting of the lead here. Nobody objected to the concerns QG raised. The diff you provided was from 10 days ago; as of right now the lead still has the four paragraphs, so it doesn't appear there was a problem with QG doing that. So what behavior problem of QG's are we supposed to see in that edit? Zad68 05:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
    • I am not trying to hang QG, I am trying to prevent him continuing to disrupt our articles. An easy clue for you (and apologies if this seems patronising, but you seem to have commented without properly examining the diff). Did QG merely restore the lead there, or were there other, fairly major changes as well? Would you have made this edit, given the context? You're right that there are many other problematic diffs from this user though. --John (talk) 06:05, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
      • Yes four paragraphs is standard especially for an article of this length. CorporateM made a mass of edits [98] QG made a mass of edits. If only people cared about conditions that kill millions to this degree. And than have a dozen other people made masses of edits since.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:39, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

The problem is IMO quite simple: QuackGuru behaves like a bull in a china shop. He always has. The reason he has escaped sanction to date is largely that the edits he makes are generally in line with policy, and in articles that desperately need reality-based editors - a pro-SCAM editor who behaved the same way would have been shown the door a long time ago. QG is very energetic, passionate and committed, and virtually all SCAM articles are under siege by SCAM proponents seeking to rewrite our almost universally reality-based treatment of their practices. Upholding WP:NPOV in SCAM articles is a recipe for burnout since we have long term civil POV-pushers, a constant flood of new partisans, and relentless off-wiki solicitation. If we sanction QG broadly then we will need more people active on these articles.

E-cigs are unusual in that they have attracted a cult-like following who will viciously attack anyone who is anything less than uncritical; it may be correct that they are harmless, but it also may not, the science is very definitely not in, and any attempt to accurately portray the equivocal nature of the current evidence is seen as heretical by the vapers - not just here, everywhere on the internet. The community of vapers is not the same as the community of SCAM advocates, but there is a significant crossover between science-based critics of vaping and science-based critics of SCAM. This appears to include QG.

Since e-cigs are a subject area with a lot of eyes, I actually don't think there would be any net loss in separating QuackGuru from this article, and there may well be a net gain in that the debates would be shorter and easier to assess. Guy (Help!) 08:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

We could always fully protect the article again to force people to get consensus before changes are made. But I am not sure if it is at that stage yet. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:59, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Who was it that was so desperate to get full page protection removed the last time we had it? Who in fact put in a successful request for the removal of protection and then instantly dumped a ridiculous amount of material into the article? When the page was consequently re-protected, who then immediately demanded that page protection was removed again and once it was, did exactly the same thing again? QG is the answer to all of those questions of course. For the evidence, see this. We don't need to protect the article at the moment if QG can be topic banned, it's his actions that are causing most of the disruption.Levelledout (talk) 09:50, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

It's only Doc James who thinks the article should be protected. So far, every other participant in this discussion has been able to see that the problem is with an editor, not with the article, and the solution should be at an editor level rather than an article level. I'm afraid Doc James is here to protect his friend and his interventions should be read in that light.—S Marshall T/C 19:34, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

No I agree the article should be full-protected too, which is an idea that neither Doc nor I but Serialjoepsycho floated. I don't agree the problems there can all be laid at the feet of just one editor. Serialjoe also pointed out some canvassing going on, and CorporateM made a public notice on the article Talk page that he's gotten stealth e-mail canvassing asking him to make edits promoting several, opposing viewpoints. Several editors at the article have plainly visible direct or indirect COIs, one editor there recently was recently congratulated on-Wiki for taking a professional position promoting e-cigs, and another had made a declaration they write for e-cig enthusiast 'zine or blog, can't remember who's associated what at this point, but surely you won't deny those, right? S Marshall you're trying to diminish the weight of Doc's comments but one would then just as quickly have to diminish your comments as those of an editor trying to eliminate an enemy. Yes QG has made mistakes, but there are plenty of issues to go around several editors, the indef full-protection idea is a good one. Zad68 22:45, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Are you implying me when you are claming that i have a "professional position promoting e-cigs"? In that case you would be 100% on the wrong track, but with regards to profession and with regards to promotion. DADAFO is a consumer protection organization - and the position is entirely unpaid.as disclosed on my userpage. --Kim D. Petersen 00:18, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• Absolutely I'm trying to diminish the weight of Doc's comments: he's coming to the rescue of his medcabal buddy, and it's reasonable to point that out. And no, I'm absolutely not trying to "eliminate" an enemy. I began this discussion with a request not to be too heavy-handed, and I've repeated it several times since. It's true that there's been canvassing during this discussion, which I think relates to editors who've clashed with QG at Acupuncture (an article with which I'm completely uninvolved). I deplore this. I'm on the same side of the debate as a number of shills and COI editors, which looks good on their CVs but isn't as wonderful on mine. But the fact that these editors agree with me doesn't make me wrong, Zad68. It's extremely hard to edit an article that QG is involved with and that problem is specific and personal to him.—S Marshall T/C 23:03, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• S Marshall... "medcabal buddy"? Heh... sure, let's conjugate:

I edit within WP:CONSENSUS and have a solid understanding of content policy and guideline, as do several other editors I find myself editing along-side, and whom I happen to respect;

You are active in a disreputable WikiProject and can call up a distressing number of blind supports by dropping a note on the Talk page there;

They are the ring-leader in a disruptive meat-puppet tag-team WP:CABAL (and probably have sock farm)

OK back to the original point, that problem is specific and personal to him -- I don't think you're showing that here, if you take into account the circumstances of the makeup of the population of editors there, as I mentioned. Zad68 23:44, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• Is it your position that QG is a collaborative editor who edits in a respectful and co-operative way?—S Marshall T/C 00:01, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@Zad68: I wasn't promoting Page Protection. I'm not sure page protection would be useful here at this point as it seems it may prolong this. I suggested perhaps that we could do a targeted version of page protection based off WP:GS/ECIG. I agreed with the suggestion that limiting major changes to those with a consensus.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 01:19, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

That could work and I'm sure the majority of (the few left over) editors wouldn't mind as they've mostly worked that way anyways.--TMCk (talk) 01:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support topic ban for the precise reason that JzG just gave. There is a continuing discussion and we don't need disruptive editors. Shii (tock) 09:12, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
• WP:GS/ECIG Is interestingly written. I wonder if perhaps a single editor could be banned from making any changes to that article without first receiving a consensus on the talk page.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 09:35, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I think there may be scope within that to essentially mandate talk page consensus before any significant change, without having to protect the article. It's a mature article by now and sweeping changes should not be necessary. Guy (Help!) 09:49, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree that may be within the scope.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 10:17, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I believe not only is that within the scope but it is the intent of the sanctions that it is within the scope to prevent this sort of behaviour that has led to e-cigarettes being a battleground. SPACKlick (talk) 15:01, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree that it's within scope. I don't think it's likely to work in this particular case, because it lacks a rigorous definition of "consensus", and QG will be much readier to perceive a consensus in favour of his preferred wording than one against it. But the nature of Wikipedia is to give second chances, or in this case eighth or ninth chances depending on how you view QG's record, so I suggest we try it and expect to come back here when it fails.—S Marshall T/C 17:01, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Comment: user:Adjwilley tried to advise QG after the last clash here (#Something needs to change) and later here (#The dispute has bubbled over to ArbCom) on their talk page. That didn't help as we can see.--TMCk (talk) 17:21, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

In the "Something needs to change" link you provided, QuackGuru stated "I agree to focus on content and not comment on the motives of others at the talk page". I think this post was very unwise, particularly in consideration of the aforementioned commitment.Levelledout (talk) 17:50, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support indef full-protection of article per my comments above, this is not a single-editor issue, if editors don't like the pace of development there, requiring thorough discussion and consensus-building on the Talk page first is sensible. Zad68 22:48, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

@Zad68: Which editors? Please provide names and diffs. Thank you.--TMCk (talk) 23:46, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support full protection Agree there are a number of issues with a number of editors. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:22, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

@Doc James: Which editors? Please provide names and diffs. Thank you.--TMCk (talk) 23:44, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

While User:S Marshall generally does good work I have concerns with him personalizing the discussion above as pointed out. This dif also causes me concern [99]. They reverted a number of positive changes.

That they opened this thread without providing any diffs is also a little unusual.

All editors including QG would probably do well to slow down their editing and discuss more. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:25, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

So Marshall reverted after QG's fast paced and undiscussed mass editing which ignored Adjwilley advise and QG's own promise to change their editing behaviour; And of course this is the very reason it was brought here, with uninvolved editors having no problem finding misconduct w/o the need for diffs. But for you diffs shouldn't matter anyways b/c as you pointed out further above, "He brings excellent sources forwards. Thus the majority of their work is positive." So any misconduct can be excused b/c as long as the source-finding is fine, the five pillars don't apply (is there some smallprint disclaimer I've missed?).
Anyhow, you pointed the finger at one single editor and still are talking about "all editors" (which would include myself) "would probably do well to slow down their editing and discuss more." WOW, I didn't notice my fast paced editing of the article, but I can see it now b/c it was even too fast for the software to catch it according to the history, doh! Some "parental" advise re. your "parental" protection: If QG doesn't get some serious slap soon, they'll end up like Collect in the long run. I really don't care much either way but since you do, you should think about it.--TMCk (talk) 01:08, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Recommending that people discuss more is not pointing fingers. Saying that there are "issues with a number of editors" is not saying that their are issues with all. This topic has been exceedingly controversial for a long time. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:55, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

You're generalizing and now you're elusive. Suit yourself.--TMCk (talk) 02:16, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Comment As I have previously stated, @QuackGuru:'s revert of my changes to the Lead of the acupuncture article were part of a routine BRD cycle and not an indication of disruptive editing. @Doc James: provided a neutral description of the circumstance. We both made a bunch of edits, we both revert each other from time to time, then we discuss it. I have no "clash" with this editor, or anyone else on the page for that matter. No comment on the rest. CorporateM (Talk) 23:38, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
• Comment Full protection of the article would appear to be a distraction from the issues surrounding QuackGuru. Even if the article was fully protected, as it has been fairly recently, it would still not resolve issues that QG is known to participate in on a regular basis such as filibustering, failing to understand concepts and still not WP:LISTENING, personal attacks and incivility. Once again see the ArbCom case request for evidence of all of those. I am not opposed to full protection of the article when necessary, but Doc James himself said that he was not sure that this was necessary only yesterday. Why the change of position?Levelledout (talk) 00:28, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Have been looking at the editing more closely. The evidence around this topic changes slowly. These changes can be added as consensus forms on the talk page. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:57, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support full protection One of the benefits of full protection is that it's like a sedative -- participants are denied the adrenaline rush that comes from argumentation and reverting, so the situation naturally becomes calmer. If folks do settle down over time (as evidenced by talk page behavior) the protection could be lifted. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 00:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
• Comment interesting discussion of possible COI here Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Electronic_cigarette Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:48, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose full protection If multiple users are being disruptive at the page I would rather see short and if needed escalating blocks against those users than locking down the page. We are here first to write an encyclopedia and full protection is a last resort, better to deal with those forcing the situation. Chillum 14:02, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Proposal for General sanctions on the Electronic cigarettes article

• Proposal for General sanctions All editors are barred from making any Major or controversial changes to existing content without first receiving a clear consensus. New content that does not change existing content will follow the principles outlined in WP:BRD. Meaning that in the event of a revert it is necessary to achieve a consensus before the material can be placed back in the article. (Addendum) Multiple unrelated edits should only be added individually (Excluding minor edits and edits of an uncontroversial nature, such as general cleanup and minor grammar fixes.)-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 03:01, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose as unnecessarily drastic and more than I asked for. This is a disproportionate response, and it's inappropriately aimed at the e-cig article rather than the editor who's actually causing the problem. The article is already under general sanctions and has already spent long periods under full protection, which protection at the time I supported, but things have moved on and we now only have one misbehaving editor active on the page. Appropriate and proportionate responses might be (a) the quiet word with QuackGuru that I originally requested (first choice), or (b) an editing restriction along the lines that Serialjoepsycho recommends but directed at QuackGuru specifically (second choice).—S Marshall T/C 11:24, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Noting the battleground behavior such as [100] I'm not myself convinced.I'm also considering the overall history of the article.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 08:49, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support Serialjoepsycho's proposal per my comment further up at 01:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC).--TMCk (talk) 03:15, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
  + propose to add to the proposal that unrelated edits should not be packed into one big lump.--TMCk (talk) 03:20, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
• Might not be a bad idea to also set a limit on the number of edits (outside grammer) each editor can make to the page per day. This will allow people to keep up. And changes will not quickly get buried. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:32, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm not really sure about that. Looking at the page history it doesn't seem like any interested party should have an issue keeping up. Perhaps we should note the importance of clear edit summary?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 06:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Note: QG just filed a request for page protection of e-cigs. There you got a nice example of disruption.--TMCk (talk) 06:02, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
  • If they wish to request full protection, in some ways I can see them agreeing to the above proposal, which will, for now at least, hopefully calm things down. I'm fairly sure that, even at this stage, coming down heavy-handed is unlikely to change them in the long run, the only thing that will is discussion. We can ban everyone in the world for being overly strong at times - however, if we can't resolve the underlying issue, then what is the point of the whole exercise? Mdann52 (talk) 06:18, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• • • Huh?--TMCk (talk) 06:21, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Comment - QuackGuru decided to ignore this ongoing RfC by making a very controversial edit just several hours after the new RfC was posted. Can someone please do something to stop him? Either protect the page or remove his editing rights. You cannot make such a controversial edit while a newly posted RfC is still ongoing. It's definitely not the first time he disruptively edits [101][102][103][104] and makes major changes [105] [106][107] while other editors were right in the midst of talk page discussions. -A1candidate 07:42, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Adding a Tag doesn't really seem all to controversial. The complaints here seem to be centered around E-Cig's and not acupuncture. It doesn't seem like the discussion of a topic ban on acupuncture has came up, though I may have missed it. Weren't you canvassed here in the first place?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 08:07, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

No, I was not canvassed here. AN/I has been on my watchlist all the time. I participate in related discussions regularly in many related and unrelated topics here. Your repeated accusations need to stop. -A1candidate 08:20, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

[108]-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 08:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

And that looks to be before the first comment here. Did you forget that the message had been left for you? Had you not seen it before now? Because if you were aware of it at the time of your comment, it isn't exactly a good look for a point blank denial of any canvassing. If you had already seen this thread and hadn't yet got around to commenting when you noticed the comment on your talk page, that's fine but you should have said that rather than point blank denied any canvassing. If you hadn't seen this thread when you noticed the comment on your talk page but believe that you would have seen it and would have commented, that's fine too but again you should have said that. If you only commented here after you noticed the comment on your talk page (but noticed it before your denial above) again that's fine but you should have said that too. In fact, even if you were canvassed and may not have came here were it not for the canvassing, since you weren't the one doing the canvassing, it's not your fault, but you should have mentioned that in your first comment here. (In fact, under normal circumstances I'd be reluctant to complain about a message or two left on the user page of one or two editors who have experience with problems with an editor so that they can offer feedback. But the history here suggests it's problematic and in any case as I emphasised if someone does query it a proper explaination will help no end rather than a point blank denial.) Nil Einne (talk) 16:12, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• While we've all been getting our opinions out and waving them around, QG thought it might be a good idea to continue editing the article without discussing any of his edits on the talk page. I've asked him to desist for the moment.—S Marshall T/C 23:32, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I think the overall organization of often inherent at ANI may be the issue here. I sectioned off my proposal. Perhaps sectioning off other specific sections may help?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 00:09, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• This diff is sufficient to address my concerns. Although electronic cigarette is not covered under the restriction, it does constitute the warning shot across QG's bows that I wanted to achieve and from my perspective as the person who started this thread, I'm happy to consider the matter closed.—S Marshall T/C 09:26, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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I am being threatened (I think) with pizza

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OK. I'm afraid this may not a lot of sense but after reverting vandalism by User:38.95.109.35 he seems to be threatening me with Pizza. I am not sure what if anything can/should be done about this but I thought I should report it in case he does something stupid. He has gone as far as looking up my address (the location mentioned in the second diff) so clearly he aspires to be some sort of stalker nutcase. Diffs here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADanielRigal&type=revision&diff=663941882&oldid=660741395# and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:38.95.109.35&diff=prev&oldid=663943650. There is also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:38.95.109.35&diff=prev&oldid=663942630. --DanielRigal (talk) 12:49, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

He just got blocked for 2 weeks. Maybe that is sufficient. I don't know if he will be sending pizza. I hope not. I probably won't be around but I don't want him wasting the time and money of pizza companies on his pathetic feud. --DanielRigal (talk) 12:57, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

It could be worse, he/she could add you as Dani Rigal to every Zoo fan group in the world - Less Chessington more Donkey P.....85.9.20.150 (talk) 13:03, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Was it deep dish, stuffed crust or Ultra thin? -Roxy the Mainstream dog™ (resonate) 13:04, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

This is no laughing matter -- pizza is dangerous because of the slices. EEng (talk) 13:05, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

It is no laughing matter. How would any of you feel about some editor posting your address in an edit? I agree with bobrayner, this should be rev-deleted. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:01, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't think there is a policy regarding pizza threats, but I wouldn't necessarily consider that a threat unless they added toppings I don't like. It's all in how you look at it, and, as George Carlin said, "fuck you" is one of the nicest things you could say to someone. ―Mandruss ☎ 13:06, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

He just tried to post an obscene comment to my personal blog which showed an unhealthy interest in donkeys and maybe links him to 85.9.20.150, who commented above, due to the similarity of unhealthy interests. He made no attempt to hide his IP and even provided an email address, although I assume it was a false one. It was blocked because I have all comments set to require moderation but that still shows a willingness to engage in stalking, albeit of the most elementary type. It is not like I have that blog linked from my user page on Wikipedia. Again, I am not sure what, if anything, can be done. I am just creating a record in case he does something even more stupid later. --DanielRigal (talk) 13:08, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I shouldn't worry Danny, they are probably using VPN software so that's not their real IP, as they really live in Worplesdon they are probably on their way to to you now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.9.20.155 (talk) 13:13, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

That will be him (note the hamfisted attempt to find my location). Do we need a rangeblock here? It certainly counts as block evasion. --DanielRigal (talk) 13:16, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Good idea, it's not like you are going to have to block off thousands of innocent users :-(, he's probably in a different country by now..83.143.240.16 (talk) 13:28, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I live in Worplesdon, small world. I miss the Beefeater.... 83.143.240.16 (talk) 13:37, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Whether or not the location is accurate, these comments should still be revdel'd, as attempted WP:OUTING. bobrayner (talk) 16:34, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Historical note and comment: while it may seem difficult to believe, the "pizza threat" is a real and historical phenomenon in American politics, made popular by the Watergate scandal investigation which revealed a pattern of dirty tricks by Republican operatives during the 1972 presidential campaign (see for example the famous "Canuck letter") that focused on discrediting opponents of Nixon. According to official government documents, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie was one of the most famous victims of the pizza trick on at least two occasions, with upwards of 200 pizzas at a time being sent and billed to his campaign. Viriditas (talk) 19:48, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Memo to anyone who may be inclined to threaten me I like my pizza Sicilian style with pepperoni black olives and mushrooms. -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:09, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

While it may seem like a good idea, the victim of the pizza trick often receives the bill, and if this involves multiple pizzas, it can get expensive. This is why most pizza restaurants in the US today depend on caller ID and sometimes (but not always) credit card numbers to confirm a delivery. Based on current practices, the pizza trick was no longer effective after around 2004 or so. Viriditas (talk) 20:14, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Even then only a fool would pay it, the pizza place could just be tricking you to pass off extra pies! Chillum 03:13, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

If he does send you pizza, you'd be lucky if its the one with pepperoni slices. That is very good pizza. ;) SilverSurfingSerpent (talk) 03:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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Memorial Day page - picture changed

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The picture under the Memorial Day page was changed from American flags on soldiers' graves to a ceiling fan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.217.12.27 (talk) 14:09, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

File:Graves at Arlington on Memorial Day.JPG over at Commons seems to be the problem, with someone repeatedly vandalising it. Mr Potto (talk) 14:20, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I do so little at Commons that I don't know where to post a request there for protection. Anyone here a Commons admin who can do that? EEng (talk) 15:46, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm not a Commons admin but I left them a note. De728631 (talk) 15:57, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

The uploader has been blocked at Commons. Apparently it was a David Beals sock. De728631 (talk) 16:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

If it hasnt been done already can we blcok them here as an obvious sock of our not so friendly ceiling fan vandal. Amortias (T)(C) 16:18, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

We have a ceiling-fan vandal? REALLY???. There's something somehow... beautiful and touching about that. EEng (talk) 18:41, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

It's not. It's been persistent, involving a lot of socks, and occurring for years now. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:54, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

 Done. User:Alexander Goldman has been blocked. De728631 (talk) 16:35, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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Problematic editor

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Although this might belong at UAA there seemed to be more to it than that so I am bringing it here. Acosador wikipedia (talk · contribs) - one of the meanings is "Stalker Wikipedia" - has a barnstar on their page allegedly signed by EllenCT. A check of the edit history shows that ECT has never posted there. Further Aw has been posting on other editors talk pages using ECT's signature. On the plus side Ebyabe removed several of the personal attacks and/or pointy posts. But a short time later this IP 186.46.61.166 (talk · contribs) shows up also making pointy posts that include snarky barnstars [109]. IMO the whole thing should be checked on and, at the least, the items with the false ECT signatures should be removed. Now if this belongs on another notice board please feel free to move it there. MarnetteD|Talk 16:49, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

If you think that that IP user is a sockpuppet of the Acosador account, you can file a sockpuppet investigation. Thanks. SilverSurfingSerpent (talk) 17:17, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Marnette could go to SPI, but it will be far faster to go here for any really more urgent issues – SPI moves pretty slow these days... --IJBall (talk) 17:25, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the replies. The possible socking is not my main concern. The usurping of EllenCT's signature and the accompanying "bad faith" editing is. MarnetteD|Talk 18:04, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree that the impersonation is a more important dimension of this complaint than any possible socking. However, it is the sock activity that is more likely to result in admin action. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:51, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

(The bureaucracy of pointing people in all different directions has become excessive.) In light of edits such as [110], I have blocked Acosador Wikipedia as a single-purpose harassment account. Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:44, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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Theduinoelegy's behavior after returning from a block

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

After coming back from a block (one of many), Theduinoelegy vandalizes Acroterion's userpage, laughing at his warning about refactoring posts and signatures of other users.

They made a nominally good-faith (if pointless and potentially debatable) edit to veganism, before calling Wikipedia a totalitarian cult and besmirching the concept of reliable sourcing (a problem their previous blocks were partially related to), and restoring their refactoring of other's posts, and making a personal attack against another user.

Given the vandalism-upon-return and this threat to sock and claiming they were blocked for their "good-faith edits and dyslexia related abstract memory issues" (which appear to be conspicuously 'well-managed' to say the least), I'm not seeing a reason to not treat the user as just another troll.

If we take them at their word that they have some sort of memory management issues that leaves them unable to know better than to violate topic bans, vandalize articles, and attack users, then WP:CIR definitely applies. If we assume competence, they're a troll. They might have been vaguely useful a few years ago, but they've since turned away from that. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

My abstract memory issue has absolutely nothing to do with my conciencious objection to the deliberate restriction of the flow of information happening on Wikipedia. Don't pretend it has.Theduinoelegy (talk) 21:42, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

There we have it folks, an admission to WP:POINT. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:45, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Theduinoelegy, most of your edits are to user talk pages and article talk pages. Do you expect to be working on any articles in the near future? I'm sure you want to be seen as a productive editor and not a troll. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:21, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

• Clearly WP:NOTHERE to build an encyclopedia. Claiming 'dyslexia related abstract memory issues' at this point just seems similar to WP:BROTHER. ― Padenton|✉   21:51, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

• Indefinitely blocked. Clearly WP:NOTHERE to build an encyclopedia. Extensive block log in a short period of time. Explore a standard offer after six months if this editor wants to return. Mkdw^talk 23:07, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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User:Charles Coco

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Although already blocked behavioural evidence makes me think this is quite likely a sock of User:Evlekis. Anyone willing to review and add it to the list. Amortias (T)(C) 18:07, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Links: Charles Coco (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) --IJBall (talk) 17:17, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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A1candidate

0RR for acupuncture, 1RR for alt-med imposed by Adjwilley

(Note for context: this thread was started in response to comments made above, section "QuackGuru and Electronic cigarette".--TMCk (talk))

Am I the only one becoming weary of A1candidate's hysterical over-reaction to quite trivial things, and attempts to abuse process to silence opponents? Guy (Help!) 09:10, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't know. Let me think on that. No.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 09:13, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

No, you're not. Bishonen | talk 10:57, 23 May 2015 (UTC).

• No, you aren't.—S Marshall T/C 10:58, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Now that it's confirmed Guy is not alone, what to do? Given that most of his disruption relates to topics under discretionary sanctions such as e-cigs, alt med, etc. it may be worth trying for some relief at WP:AE. The simplest thing would be for an uninvolved admin with the cojones (or ovaries, as the case may be) to come in and lay down the law but none have stepped in so far. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 16:19, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Boris, please can you leave more informative and neutral edit summaries. The last one seemed rather inflammatory and combative.DrChrissy ^(talk) 16:24, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

[111] doesn't seem that inflammatory. -Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 20:38, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

This is odd [112].-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 20:10, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

So someone just restored that comment.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 20:41, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Short Brigade Harvester Boris I don't know with this already open. Perhaps this could be moved to a section of it's own here where it could be more discussed independently of Quack Guru?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 21:05, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Earlier today I apologized to DrChrissy with regard to the edit summary. It was my weird sense of humor gone astray. If people want to keep arguing over it that's fine; it's a (U.S.) holiday weekend. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 21:10, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@User talk:Short Brigade Harvester Boris I am drawing your attention to Help:Edit summary#What to avoid in edit summaries which states "Avoid misleading summaries."DrChrissy ^(talk) 21:31, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

User:DrChrissy, please take some time for reflexion on how you interact with people on the site. You complained above about that edit summary, and Boris apologized to you on your page yesterday — apologized nicely, graciously. The apology remains the last post on your page, because you still haven't replied to it. Instead you complain here again, wrapped up in 'advice' about edit summaries (linking to one of the less relevant parts of the help page, btw). You have your mouth full of complaints about "civility" always, but do you have any concept of what it means? It really doesn't look like it. Coming soon after the community has commented amply here on the matter of dropping sticks, too. Bishonen | talk 09:46, 24 May 2015 (UTC).

Bishonen Actually, I think it is you who should look at your behaviour. Boris made a mistake, I civily pointed this out and he civily apologised. Boris made a similar mistake and I civily pointed it out again. Why do you feel the need to get involved and raise issues which do not involve you? Is this a form of harrassment? Anyway, I suggest you take your own advice and begin dropping sticks as I have done.DrChrissy ^(talk) 10:58, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

This is an Administrator's Noticeboard, the function of which is for admins to comment on issues that are brought here. Where issues concern user conduct, that involves admins commenting on that conduct. Black Kite (talk) 11:11, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

@User_talk:Black Kite thank you for that clarification. Would you please consider hatting this little sub-thread, It is really not relevant to the subject of the thread.DrChrissy ^(talk) 11:24, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

I strongly request that this not be hatted. When I make a mistake I want it to be clearly visible. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 15:11, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

@Short Brigade Harvester Boris: I actually posted where A1candidate had reverted DrChrissy's comments. I have no issue with DrChrissy comments. After they were restored I commented thinking they were new. The above message was in regards to your position that it be taken to AE. Have a happy holiday.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 21:32, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Guy, no, you are not alone. Dbrodbeck (talk) 21:50, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Tiresome would be an understatement. -Roxy the Mainstream dog™ (resonate) 08:55, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Some examples:

• Non-neutral editing of content and lack of self-criticism, e.g. Purinergic signalling (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), a WP:COATRACK for the statement - written by A1candidate in Wikipedia's voice - that "The anti-nociceptive effect of acupuncture is mediated by the adenosine A1 receptor; when qualified, A1candidate reverted. A1candidate stated in recent talk page debate that acupuncture: "the mechanism includes purinergic signalling, as I've told you before. In fact as the article now makes clear, this is a speculative finding, which is what the sources admit. It is emphatically not settled science, as A1candidate represented and reverted.
• Commentary again repudiating the fact that A1candidate is, as pretty much every dispassionate onlooker has noted, an advocate for acupuncture.
• Attempt to use arbitration processes tor emove opponents
• Attempt to use arbitration processes to remove an opponent
• Arbitration request, declined.
• vexatious "last and final warning"
• [113] engaging in precisely the same behaviour that got DrChrissy banned, representing a forthright statement of fact, as malfeasance.
• Supporting an editor's attempts to rewrite an article to undermine the consensus view that laetrile is quackery, two RfCs unambiguously rejected this proposed edit.
• Content edits:
  • Change plain English to technical term, likely to obscure the plain meaning to non-specialist readers
  • ditto
  • Quote mining for supportive statements
  • ditto
  • ditto

A1candidate's core problem is a common one in SCAM: any finding that supports any part of a SCAM practice, is taken as validating the SCAM practice as a whole. It may be, for example, that needling specific points may result in release of adenosine. This is of no relevance at all to the refuted doctrines of qi and meridians on which most practice is based, does not validate acupoints (or by extension acupressure) since extensive research has shown that acupoints are irrelevant, and so on. It also doesn't address the fact that several studies have shown no objective difference between real and sham acupuncture, including when the needle is inserted into a dummy rubber hand. The placebo effect is difficult to unpick in the case of a dramatic intervention. It took a long time to work out that arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (a surgery on the knee) is actually a placebo intervention.

A1candidate is the second most prolix current editor of Talk:Acupuncture and the second most active current editor of Acupuncture. In both cases QuackGuru scores higher. There is a problem here and it is making the article impossible to manage. Guy (Help!) 11:05, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• The most recent example is fairly illustrative. He added a section to acupuncture, where he listed a series of organizations that had guidelines that "suggested the use of acupuncture for some groups of patients". When I dug through the listing, I discovered that, "some groups of patients" may be literally true, but highly misleading. The American College of Physicians, for example, describes its recommendation as "weak" and only makes it for patients that have not been successfully treated by any other techniques: a Hail Mary pass. When I started to go through the guidelines and insert the qualifiers (including such things as noting that the American College of Chest Physicians, in its study of lung cancer patients, countenanced its use not for the lung cancer, but for chemotherapy-induced nausea, and then only in conjunction with other anti-nausea treatments). A1candidate's response to my editing was to immediately go to John and Adjwilley requesting that the article be "immediately protected to keep Kww from starting another edit war". When that gambit failed, he started an RFC wherein he claimed that including the qualifiers "places undue weight on the fact that these recommendations are far from strong". Hard to imagine what would be undue about it, and it's interesting to note that not even the normal group of acupuncture supporters are lining up behind him on this one. His goal would seem to be to provide an exaggerated sense of legitimacy about acupuncture.—Kww(talk) 15:23, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

I see from the above Resolved note that this did not go so well for him. Let's see how that restriction works out. Guy (Help!) 20:47, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• UnarchivedWhile action was taken it seems to extend only to Acupuncture and Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The complaint was specifically about A1candidate abuse of process. Any sanction placed to resolve this here should address any future abuse of process and not simply be limited to Acupuncture or CAM. The current responses to the sanctions on A1candidate talkpage suggest to me WP:IDHT.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 00:57, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
• I'd think A1candidate will have got the message loud and clear, personally.—S Marshall T/C 12:47, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
  • No, no he hasn't. --Calton | Talk 16:10, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
    • Tempting though it might be to move for a full topic ban based on this latest example of A1candidate's lack of self-criticism (along with the rather blatant forum shopping at Jimbotalk), I suggest we hold off at least until he's been given time to cool down and demonstrate whether he can abide by the restriction or not. Guy (Help!) 21:14, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

• I don't find a full topic ban tempting. A full topic ban of CAM would only stop them from editing in CAM. It would not have an effect on an abuse of process elsewhere. I also wouldn't find a site ban very useful as they have made and can make useful contributions. Perhaps a warning or admonishment?-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 00:34, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

IP 115.166.47.100 and Template:Terrorism in Australia

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The IP 115.166.47.100 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been engaged in a persistent edit-war and POV-pushing on Template:Terrorism in Australia, against at least 2 editors (against me and Wittylama) [114], [115], [116], [117], [118]. The IP removed warnings from their talk page twice [119], [120]. In a clear personal attack that was very offensive and disruptive, the IP also just called an editor a vulgar term for female genitalia in the edit summary [121]. Khestwol (talk) 21:33, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

This is pretty clear cut, this IP needs at least a two month block and I'd only encourage more. The personal attack more than anything really upsets me, but the other issues consolidate a long-term block.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 21:58, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

The crude personal attack on its own was a good enough reason to block in my view. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 00:14, 25 May 2015 (UTC).

I also request to semi-protect Template:Terrorism in Australia from edits by anon IPs due to their persistent edit-war for the last few months. There are also other IPs 101.160.146.228 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 121.220.1.2 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 137.147.23.192 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 138.217.65.231 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 110.149.159.169 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), and 121.214.136.95 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) who have been recently making the same edit as 115.166.47.100, pushing the same POV, and have the same disruptive style on the template.
And I agree with TheGracefulSlick that 115.166.47.100 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) needs at least a two month block. So, Lankiveil, can you please extend the block on 115.166.47.100 to at least two months? Khestwol (talk) 05:10, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Update: Now the blocked IP seems to have reappeared as 120.144.74.147 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), making exactly the same edit, continuing the same clear disruption on Template:Terrorism in Australia and related articles. The IP location is Australia like before. The IP reverted 3 users within 4 minutes while evading the block. Khestwol (talk) 08:23, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

The user is still edit warring.... I've previously listed this template for semi-protect on this page, which HJ Mitchell did for a few days (log). I'd suggest that this needs to be implemented on a more permanent basis. Wittylama 10:52, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I've already logged a request over at WP:RFPP but there appears to be a bit of an admin shortage over there at present. Amortias (T)(C) 16:21, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Semi'd the template for one month. Take it longer if someone feels the need or just let me know. KrakatoaKatie 22:01, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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Why is every article on AFD now listed under the category baseball?

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What is going on here? I am seeing AFD's listed as "under the category baseball". Which none of them even have that anywhere! (I was unsure where to report this-I have checked the person that started it though who seems to be doing it to tons of articles) Wgolf (talk) 04:52, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• It does look like something has gone haywire with these edits, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Baseball and Special:Contributions/Mellowed Fillmore. --Arxiloxos (talk) 05:00, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• Blocked: Given the rapid pace of edits, I have blocked the User:Mellowed Fillmore account, which is possibly compromised. Can some checkusers take a look? (And admin is free to unblock w/o consulting with me if they are convinced that the account is no longer a risk.) Abecedare (talk) 05:12, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
• I do think that it is possible that it was hacked given how many edits there were in just 15 minutes-no way one person could of done that many that fast it seems. Something is up. Wgolf (talk) 05:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Could also be a failure of some automated-script they were using. In either case we can't do much unless we hear from the user, or from a checkuser. I have filed a CU request. Abecedare (talk) 05:27, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• Note CU indicates that Mellow Fillmore is in control of their account, so this is apparently a case of them opting for an enforced retirement. In any case their edits have been reverted by User:Supdiop and they remain blocked indefinitely. Marking as resolved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abecedare (talk • contribs) 05:44, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Resolved

• Caution, please - I would not be so quick to treat this matter as resolved. Mellowed Fillmore is/was a productive editor, in particular in baseball-related AfDs and notability matters. I would suggest that user talk page access not be blocked; there may be more to this story than is obvious now. It looks like the uncharacteristic behavior started suddenly around midnight, with no antecedent cause that I have found in the edit history. Presumably checkuser showed the account using the same IP address; can we tell if there was any sudden logging in or logging out, password changes, or other changes to the account in the last few hours/ Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 07:10, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• Apparently all of the CU data indicated that nothing had changed at all. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 09:07, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• Wow, that is just weird. Normally when someone "goes off," there is a precipitating incident. Here, MF was editing normally and productively until 00:27 this morning, and four minutes later just started on an odd little rampage of adding every AfD to the baseball delete sort. No hint of an explanation -- no harm in allowing the editor access to his talk page if there is an explanation to be provided and/or an unblock to be requested. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 12:59, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
• A CU can't determine if a user is in control of their account. Perhaps someone in Mellowed Fillmore's household gained control. The edits went from productive to bizarre in less than an hour. There may be some explanation forthcoming.- MrX 13:26, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• But «the CU data indicated that nothing had changed at all», if there is no password change, then the editor cannot have lost control of their account (Mellowed can log in at any time to say «That wasn't me!») Spumuq (talq) 14:19, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• Yes, that's true. But someone could have still taken control, even if only temporarily, if they had access to a logged in device. Of course, this is all speculation.- MrX 14:27, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't quite know what happened, but it seems to me "out of whack automated script" is much more likely that "burnout" or "rampage" or something. If I'm right, though, I'm pretty puzzled by the {{retired}} banner; surely he knows that all that's needed is an "oops, sorry, messed up a script" to get unblocked? I'm tempted to remove the block as a gesture of "don't worry, all is well", on the theory that it's unlikely to be repeated. I know, people would probably like and explanation first, but I don't think there's much harm in putting the cart before the horse this once, just to see if we can get the retired banner out of there. Anyone mind if I try that approach? In particular, @Abecedare:? --Floquenbeam (talk) 13:10, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

@Floquenbeam: No objections from me. Either we regain a productive editor or, worst case, the vandalism resumes and a block can be re-applied. Abecedare (talk) 14:55, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support removing the block per Flo's reasoning. Adding multiple unrelated delsorts is a little odd, slightly disruptive, but pretty harmless otherwise.- MrX 13:26, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support Floquenbeam's humanitarian approach. In keeping with Floquenbeam's theory of the case, I note that every one of the questionable edits was made using using a script called User:Fox Wilson/delsort (FWDS). This is/was a productive editor -- he may just be embarrassed about the script getting away from him. Is anyone familiar with FWDS? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:37, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support this suggestion, to try to get to the bottom of what happened here. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:06, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
• With Abecedare's OK, I've unblocked and left a "don't worry about it" message. Hope it helps. --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:08, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't sure whether I should say anything or just go quietly, but I feel I am compelled to speak in order to prevent Fox Wilson's script from being blamed for my 'spree'. It's a perfectly good script and nothing is wrong with it. (To be perfectly clear, I appreciate the desire that most of you have shown to assume good faith on my part.) What happened was really more a case of, as Abecedare suggested at ANI, a 'forced retirement'. I need to re-prioritize my time, and since Wikipedia has a very strong pull on those who try to leave, this time I'm not leaving myself any opening to come back. I know that since I've crossed the line over into vandalism, some of you will consider me persona non grata, as vandals are loathed and despised here. I also realize that I did create some extra work for other editors and they may be annoyed about it. However, keep in mind that you guys all get to keep editing while I've committed wiki-career suicide. I hope the fair-minded among you will be willing to listen to what I have to say.

• As I have stated before, this is not my first account. While I am not going to divulge prior identities, I have made tens of thousands of edits over a multi-year period. If I decided to go postal for a few minutes at the end (and none of it affected the article namespace), well, whatever. This place has left me more than infuriated on a lot of occasions, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's ever been tempted to go out in a full blaze of glory. Just be glad you never made me an admin!
• From the start of my rampage [122] at 4:31 UTC, to my being blocked at 5:05 UTC, I was able to tag roughly 200 articles. Now, I know that at the time of my edits, most American editors were probably asleep, but still!The bottom line is that I was able to go on unchecked vandalism spree for half-an-hour on Wikipedia! The longer you guys keep promoting fewer and fewer admins, well... you get the picture. I'm not going to say don't shoot the messenger, but please don't completely miss the message.
• I see that I just got unblocked while typing this. Well, that's very kind of you Floquenbeam, and I appreciate your going to bat for me (so to speak), but I'd appreciate it if you restored the block.

Well, I've said my piece and now I'll go find the door. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 15:24, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Enjoy your time away from Wikipedia.- MrX 15:34, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I think given the late hour we as a community moved pretty swiftly and effectively to block you and undo your damage, while giving you every benefit of the doubt. So I reject the suggestion that there is any kind of "message" here. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:39, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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I've been editing wiki since some time, contributed good enough. One of my colleague who have an account too, told his username as User:Sairam v. Recently, he saw my edits at Vizag page. He uses the same device which I've use to edit wiki like here. Will I be in trouble if any other uses the same device where I log in? Also, he had started a discussion on the same page, I've answered that discussion too, treating him as any other user. I got doubt if I would be suspected of sock puppet and banned from editing.--Vin09 (talk) 08:37, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

@Vin09: If someone else uses the same computer as you, providing the individuals involved log into different accounts at different times, then that is not sock puppetry. Accusations of meat puppetry might arise if you were working in conjunction with the other editor to push a particular POV but from what you say there is no evidence of that. In a nutshell, you haven't done anything wrong but just be careful to always log out to avoid any potential problems in the future.  Philg88 ^♦talk 13:35, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)@Vin09: The policy is at WP:COWORKER. There isn't a rule against it, but particularly if you edit in the same areas, which you indicate it you do, it can create concerns. There is no technical way for us to know whether you are in fact the same person making a WP:SOCK (which would be bad), were engaged in Meat Puppetry (also bad), or are two people editing totally independently, that just share the same computer (Totally fine). I would follow the guidance at WP:COWORKER on best practices in a situation like this. Bringing this to light on your own is definitely a good start. Monty₈₄₅ 13:37, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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The admin User:AntonioMartin is repeatedly adding unsourced information to Xavier Serbiá's BLP, while still reverting many (if not all) of other unrelated edits I did (like formatting references, adding sections, adding wikilinks...)

He failed to reply at his talk page. --damiens.rf 16:19, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

That's some rather awful edit-warring from both sides. AntonioMartin is trying to add obviously unsuitable material (trivial and with unreliable sources, though not an obvious BLP violation that would justify violations of otherwise bright-line rules to remove it); both sides are blatantly revert-warring without using the talkpage; Damiens is making wrong accusations of "vandalism". Can somebody give me a good reason for not blocking both parties? Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:29, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Well I'll give you a reason (not necessarily a good one, YMMV etc) - since nobody else appears to be working on the article, full-protect it for three days or so and tell the pair of them to thrash it out on talk. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:36, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I'd be inclined to go with Ritchie's suggestion. While a block would be hard to argue with for AntonioMartin, Damiens is a slightly trickier call (I wouldn't block, but wouldn't complain very strongly if someone did). Some of his edits at the article aren't reverts, and he's not blind reverting like AntonioMartin. Still, the false vandalism claim always sticks in my craw, and things are out of control there. I'm going to go ahead and full protect, and if blocks are handed out by others the protection can be removed. I'll leave a note for AntonioMartin so he understands editing through full protection will be considered a Very Big Deal. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:54, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Do we let users put a long autobiography on their talk pages now? WP:USERBIO suggests AntonioMartin's is far too detailed. Ah, looking at it again, it also has information about other living people, some not flattering. I'd say his userpage is a BLP violation itself. I note he became an Admin 16 September 2002 - things were rather different then. Dougweller (talk) 16:58, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) Yes, all of these things, together, personally make me concerned about this person having "the bit" – is there an Admin review process (aside from ARBCOM)? Should that be pursued in this case?... --IJBall (talk) 17:08, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I've never understood the issue with long biographies; the guy's been around for 13 years and made 23,600 edits, why not cut him some slack? The unflattering info about other people using their real names is an issue, and should probably be dealt with. By someone besides me, as I've got to leave. But start with discussion, not outright removal. I'd say it's far too early to talk about "admin review" (which means "ArbCom", there is no other process), wait to see what he says first. No need to go off half-cocked. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:13, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Believe me, I have no desire to go off to ARBCOM on my end, if that's the only avenue here! --IJBall (talk) 17:19, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

If an admin is making page edits that violate policy, nothing prevents them from being blocked like anyone else. Arbcom is only needed if you think they are misusing their admin powers. User:AntonioMartin's logs show hardly any use of admin powers in the year 2015, a few routine moves and deletions. EdJohnston (talk) 17:29, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

It's probably worth remembering that there's been a rather long history of clashes between Damiens.rf and AntonioMartin (and his father, Marine 69-71 (talk · contribs)) over Puerto Rico topics. One such clash last year involved a rather blatant case of misuse of admin tools on Antonio's part (Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive843#Admin undeleted an article); others have included wikihounding accusations against Damiens. On the present article, interactions and problematic editing by Antonio and/or Marine go back to at least 2011. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:50, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

If that's the case, then if the protection ultimately doesn't work then an interaction ban might be the next step? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:55, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm reluctant about interaction bans in cases where a pattern of (possibly) mutually bad behaviour is overlaid on a pattern of (unilaterally) bad content edits, which might be the case here. If Antonio has a history of making poor content edits of the type shown here, and nobody except Damiens has been cleaning them up, then to impose an interaction ban, however much it might be justified on behavioral grounds, would have the effect of preventing necessary cleanup of content, which must be the highest priority. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:58, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

In a discussion at the top of this page, we have an admin making a questionable and probably incorrect call re content policy, which was accepted by some as gospel because it was by an admin. Here we have an admin behaving the way an admin shouldn't be behaving. What are the "red lines" that admins are not supposed to cross before they aren't admins anymore? Are there any? Are they pretty much in the clear as long as they don't abuse their tools, or should they be removed because they simply aren't qualified? Coretheapple (talk) 18:02, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

That, in a nutshell, is my concern as well. Thanks for putting this into words, Coretheapple! But I am definitely concerned here, on my end, as we have an Admin who got 'the bit' when Wikipedia was in its infancy, and who has subsequently behaved in a such a way that they certainly would not get through a RfA if they applied today. To me, a "they don't use their tools much" defense isn't really enough of a comfort – we potentially have someone who is "under-qualified" to have tools, and has over an over 10-year period not displayed the type of behavior we expect in an Admin. Fut.Perf.'s points above are especially disquieting. (FTR, I am not in the "cabal" that likes to push for every Admin to lose privileges at the smallest perceived "infraction" – this is literally the first case I have even seen of someone who has Admin privileges who I am starting to wonder if maybe they shouldn't...) --IJBall (talk) 18:12, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

The only options are voluntary resignation or Arbcom. An admin is unlikely to have the bit removed by Arbcom without tool misuse, or really series violations not involving the tools. Monty₈₄₅ 18:22, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

He last blocked someone in 2009, last protected a page in 2012. He's used his ability to delete this month. Dougweller (talk) 18:31, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

So what is the point of him having tools? What Monty845 says is an accurate statement of fact, and I hope that it is kept in mind the next time someone laments about the so-called admin shortage, or why RfAs are such a difficult hurdle to pass. It's for that very reason: because an inept administrator can't be removed on that basis alone. There have to be serious violations or tool abuse. As long as the hurdles for removal are very high, the hurdles to become an admin will be equally high. Coretheapple (talk) 18:35, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

As long as there isn't serious tool misuse that would cause a desysoping, tools can only be given up voluntarily or taken away after three years of complete inactivity. I've seen "active" admins who had 7 edits over three years time and they are still admins. As long as this admin is making edits, the tools won't be removed. It just takes one edit every three years to retain the mop. If you want that changed, go to the Village pump! But it might be a perennial proposal. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:54, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, Fut.Perf.'s link to the earlier ANI thread shows that there was tool misuse, last year. And the only reason a WP:RfC about that wasn't held was apparently due to a technical mistake. Now, no one took that situation to ARBCOM at the time, which in retrospect may have been a mistake. On my end, I'd definitely feel more comfortable if this Admin turned in their bit voluntarily (esp. since they don't even seem to be using their tools now), but I suspect that won't be happening... I think this situation does point up an obvious flaw in the current system. --IJBall (talk) 21:15, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

An admin(!) is putting unsourced info into an article and is edit warring. He doesn't answer for his actions in his talk page, as required of all admins. The same admin has misused his tools in the past. There's no big moral dilemma here - block the admin for whatever seems an appropriate time. If the other edit has been edit warring as well, block him for a time appropriate for *his* actions (not necessarily an equivalent amount of time). What's the big discussion? BMK (talk) 02:14, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

At the time of writing, AntonioMartin's contributions show that he has not edited Wikipedia since 11:11 on 20 May, which is before this thread was created. Let's see if he plans to respond here. EdJohnston (talk) 03:16, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree that maybe a review of AM's adminship is in order now. An edit warring admin who has a past history of abusing his tools? And man does his blocking log confuse the hell out of me. Given how inactive they are with their tools, I don't think it would be much harm if they lost adminship anyway. EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 03:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

How many times can a guy get "accidentally blocked"? BMK (talk) 04:17, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Heh. In AntonioMartin's defense, a lot of that "accidentally blocked" stuff in his log happened in 2006. So that part, at least, doesn't seem relevant to the current discussion... --IJBall (talk) 04:40, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, maybe, we'll see, but first I really want to know how it is even possible to get "accidentally blocked" 16 times in six months? Was he caught up in IP range blocks? Was there a six-month wheel war with a (hopefully) non-deposed admin? Was he doing to to himself? Was there then, and is there still now, a CIR problem with this editor? When ArbCom looks at desysoppings (and I am not advocatng that this should go to ArbCom on the basis of the information here), they look for a pattern of behavior, but a pattern of behavior is impossible to look for if one throws out old information as being too stale to consider. BMK (talk) 05:53, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

@Beyond My Ken: Before July 2006, an IP block caused an autoblock of *every single* user on an IP address, no matter their status, so admins regularly got caught in IP blocks; there was no way to disable autoblocks in those days. See the infamous bug 550 (the link to Bugzilla is intentional). Graham87 14:25, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

@Graham87: Thanks, I was wondering if it was something systemic like that. BMK (talk) 21:22, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

The Xavier Serbia article was done during my infancy at Wikipedia. I think I should just try to find references on the information in there. BUT ALSO I have to note, the information which made Damiens start this with, is actually referenced. I know the link is a YouTube video, but if this YouTube video, in which we see the act ACTUALLY HAPPENING, is not a reliable source, then I do not know what is.

Also note that Damiens calls this vandalism when if you look at MY particular history, you will see that I clearly do not. Damiens' attitude towards me and my father borders on obsession. He keeps an eye on everything we do, our history and even my dad being awarded by the Puerto Rican government for his work at Wikipedia notwithstanding.

As far as the other thing, I have from time to time used my tools the right way and the one time I used it the wrong way was without the intention of hurting Wikipedia. Only one time in 13 years, I think that record speaks for itself. The main reason i am at Wikipedia, however, is because I love informing people, and sometimes I admit that I forget about doing other things I should do more often. There was in particular one time when I thought everything was written about at Wikipedia and I admit I only visited to read and learn myself during that time but generally my passion has been in writing and informing. But i understand what you all say and am trying to remember carrying on the other things administrators are supposed to do. Antonio Macho Macho Macho Martin (haw haw!) 05:51, May 21, 2015 (UTC)

Ooops...I wasn't signed when I wrote that. I apologize. Antonio Nacho Nacho Nacho Martin (haw haw!) 05:57, May 21, 2015 (UTC)

Antonio, you can still contribute as much as you want to Wikipedia, but you don't need to be an Admin to do that – most of the people posting on this board are non-Admins, and we do just fine. If you aren't really using your Admin tools anyway, maybe it would be best to voluntarily resign them, and focus on content creation... --IJBall (talk) 05:04, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I think we should steer away the discussion from the use or non-use of admin tools, as that wasn't involved in this latest incident at least (it's only a matter of background regarding the wider-ranging situation). As far as the present situation is concerned, Antonio, I'm much more worried about your reaction to the charge of edit-warring. You have reinstated that "Caracas" bit 12 times in the course of a month, without a single posting on the talkpage and without a single comment in an edit summary, misusing the rollback feature at least three times in the process (incidentally, that in fact is an abuse of the tools – if you weren't an admin, I would take away your rollback bit now, but since you're an admin I technically can't). You also made at least two large-scale blanket reverts of multiple positive article improvements at once, again without any kind of argument or justification. Surely you realize that simply saying "but it was sourced after all" isn't a convincing thing to justify yourself in this situation? Fut.Perf. ☼ 05:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Ah, the guy admits to his "using tools the wrong way" once, you admit that his use of rollback (an admin tool in his circumstance) was incorrect, and that rollback would be removed from a non-admin editor. How, then, can be "steer away" from his use of tools when it enters into this very incident?

I admit that going to ArbCom over this seems like making a huge fuss over nothing, but considering the amount that AntonioMartin actually uses his tools (very, very minimally) the percentage of misuse is disturbingly high. Given his lack of use and his stated goals, I don't see where he really needs the tools, and would suggest that perhaps the easiest course would be for Antonio to give up the bit voluntarily, under a cloud. BMK (talk) 06:01, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

It's not really over nothing. Arbcom appears to be the only solution when admins shouldn't be admins. The current system, as has been made clear, makes it easy for admins to stay admins even if they shouldn't be, even if they don't use their tools very much and misuse them when they do. It's as if being an admin is an irrevocable privilege, like being an federal appeals court judge, and not just a regular Wiki user with added tools. Rather than throw up our hands in situations like this, perhaps Arbcom should be deployed more often than it has, and employ broader criteria than the really narrow and extreme circumstances that it utilizes. Also I just looked at his user page. WTF? Coretheapple (talk) 14:03, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

We expect admins to at least understand the rules. When an admin engages in edit warring we are justifiably alarmed. How can they take part in enforcing the rules if they don't follow them themselves? It seems to me that Antonio should make a blanket statement that he intends to follow policy in the future, both WP:EW and WP:BLP. He should promise to follow the requirements for use of Rollback. If we don't get a satisfactory answer, that is prima facie reason to go to Arbcom. EdJohnston (talk) 16:46, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Personally, I still think it's a waste of time to go to arbcom given that the misuse of tools seems to be minimal (and a lot of that seems to be rollback) even if it may be a fairly high percentage. Perhaps if there was continued misuse of admin tools (including roll back) after repeated warnings, but I'm not really seeing that. The wider behaviour is concerning but we don't need arbcom to deal with that. There's nothing stopping us warning, topic banning or plain banning or blocking an admin if it becomes necessary. If the admin unblocks themselves then we can go to arbcom or more likely just request an emergency de-sysoping but I doubt that will be necessary. Nil Einne (talk) 19:00, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, the last incident that FPaS linked to took place just last year, and buried in that report was another, similar incident (i.e. a "silent" recreation by AM of an article he created which had been deleted) reported by JzG which took place in 2009. So, just this one incident? nothing else in the last 11 years? ... not so much.

Incidentally, in the discussion of that incident from last year, AM's attitude is rather pugnacious and disrespectful towards the community. Given his attitude, his lacksadaisical use of the tools, his explicit rejection of giving them up voluntarily, and his incidents of misuse, this is really not the kind of person we need as an admin. He's certainly not contributing to any back-up problems, and seems to see the mop as a medal of some sort, not as an active obligation of service to the community. BMK (talk) 21:37, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I reluctantly reach similar conclusions. The problem is that our hands seem tied here – the current infraction isn't worth going to ARBCOM (at least, not so far), and I'm sure last year's infraction would be considered " Stale". So I'm not sure there's anything to be done. But, as I said above, this situation definitely points up flaws in the system, as here we have someone who's an Admin who quite probably shouldn't be, but there's nothing the community can really do about that. It suggests that some kind of reform may be needed, but I'm not even sure exactly what that should look like... --IJBall (talk) 01:00, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

It doesn't really matter what it should be, or what the "proper" venue or precedure is, as a matter of sheer practicality, it is virtually impossible to "reform" Wikipedia. It can "evolve", certainly, but (contradictorily) only in two directions: more and more procedures can be added to existing procedures, or existing procedures can be lopped off and totally discontinued without replacement. (I'm not sure exactly why that is, but I think it has something to do with tension between the libertarian underpinnings of Wikipedia and the need for regularity and due process.) What can't be done -- at least in my observation -- is to scrap a structure which isn't working and replace it with another that might work. Which is why Wikipedia is perhaps in need of a firm but altruistic dictator -- something Jimbo never was and is apparently incapable of being by his very nature -- a deus ex machina to descend from the rafters just in time to settle all affairs and then depart the scene, leaving everyone unhappy in his wake, but new ways of doing things set in place. BMK (talk) 01:43, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

But, in the meantime, there being no other choice, AM should be hauled before ArbCom. BMK (talk) 01:45, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• Meh This is a pretty tame incident. I'd suggest AM just be more careful with the tools, and possibly have some chats with other admins about current practices. That Youtube link doesn't look so bad to me. It's to a TV show (news/entertainment I guess) about the described incident, on the show's official youtube channel, so it's at least plausibly relevant, and disputing it should be a routine matter of content discussion on the talk page. One can call it a lousy source, but it's completely wrong to say that it's not a source at all. BMK: really, there's too much procedure,[123] and lopping off is the right thing. Procedures expanded as Wikipedia did until 2009 or so, and then Wikipedia started shrinking but procedures kept expanding. Rather than procedures or dictators we just need reasonable numbers of editors who know what they're doing and aren't too obnoxious most of the time (we have that), and to get rid of some of the perverse incentives for bad editing (we could fix most of that by adding one line to one page on the site). 50.0.136.194 (talk) 06:07, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Well no one is stopping you BMK bringing an arbcom case. I still think that would be an epic waste of time (and I say this whether or note arbcom even takes the case). I stick by my above comment that the bigger problem is more general editing. To give a good example of this, while the full protection has stopped the edit warring, it hasn't yet achieved the wider desired effect. The most recent discussion on Talk:Xavier Serbiá remains something from 2013. Nor is there anything at WP:BLP/N. So the only discussion seems to be that done via edit summaries, that above and that on User talk:AntonioMartin#Adding unreferenced information to BLPs is vandalism. Hopefully the edit warring is not going to restart after the protection expired but if it does, this doesn't look good for anyone involved. But if it does happen, we can start to look at sanctions which don't need to involve arbcom. Nil Einne (talk) 17:24, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, and all of that is fine. But it doesn't get to the other point, and that is – Is this an editor that should have Administrator privileges?! Based on the pattern of behavior here, apparently over years, many of us feel the answer is "no", and yet there is no real avenue here for "Administrator review" (or, maybe something like, "reelection" or "reaffirmation") outside of the arduous ArbCom process which no one wants to engage in unless an Admin has gone on a virtual rampage and "set the house on fire" or done some shady COI stuff. That's a flaw in the system. --IJBall (talk) 17:44, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

The thing is I never commented on whether or not the system was flawed as I do not believe this is a useful place to discuss that as it will achieve little. I simple said I did not believe going to arbcom would be a useful activity in this case. If you want to change the system I really have little idea how you can actually achieve that but I do have a good idea that a discussion on the flaws here is nearly as much a pointless waste of time as taking AM to arbcom. Nil Einne (talk) 03:03, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

I disagree. An admin who removes a source and adds in unreferenced material to a BLP [124] and then edit-wars over it (together with the previous issues mentioned above and the lack of admin activity), needs to be put before ArbCom. It's no wonder that many editors have a negative view of admins when the reaction of the community to something like that is "that's a minor issue". Black Kite (talk) 17:47, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Everyone has their own list of admins who they think are harming the project, and obviously it's the most active ones who have the most capacity for harm. AM based on something like this would be pretty far down my list. AM, could you have a (maybe private) conversation with someone like Floquenbeam? BMK and Black Kite are right that the way you are editing is way outside of admin expectations in 2015 even if it was ok 10 years ago. But, given today's excessive bureaucracy and the well-known brokenness of current RFA, I'd rather not go around desysopping anyone without seeing a level of conflict and disruption equivalent to other disputes which end that way, and I don't see that here. 50.0.136.194 (talk) 22:42, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Right, but I never said it's a minor issue. Nil Einne (talk) 03:03, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree with BMK (yes, really!) and Black Kite. The history on the article in question should be enough to get any editor a block. For someone who is an admin, it is simply unacceptable. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 09:14, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it seems as if Antonio should not have involved himself in a war-editing situation, even though his version of the article was much better then the Demiens decimated version. However, some of you should stop throwing all the caca on Antonio as if this was a Damiens Club. After all, it takes two to tango and both are experienced editors who should have known better. Antonio should have added references to the article and both of them should have discussed their issues on the articles talk page. Damiens in the past has attacked articles related to his family, he even managed to have an article on Antonio's grandfather, a pioneer in the New York-Puerto Rican community deleted and cropped images removing any member of his family. He has gone to the extent with his edits as if he were in an Anti-Puerto Rican agenda. Therefore. instead of concentrating on the faults of one user, let us condemn the actions of both and request that from now on instead of edit-warring they first try to solve their issues on the "talk pages" and if they can not agree, then have a neutral mediator interfere. Le Pato Frances (talk) 21:49, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Damiens is not an admin, and admins are supposed to know better, and to lead by example. The two articles mentioned below actually indicate a CIR problem to me, something I've never seen in an admin. BMK (talk) 15:33, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

But Damiens has nothing to do with Productos Ochsi, an article AM just created on an obscure Paraguayan food company of no evident notability, which he sourced to this website, which doesn't even mention the company, and this website which makes a passing reference to the company as it made the meat for a record-setting hot dog. And how about the sourcing for another article he just created, Open Road Brands? Look OK to you? A Pep Boys listing, the Yellow Pages, and the company website? Do either of these articles look as if they were created by someone who should be an administrator? Just run the tool,look at the articles he has recently created, especially the ones on obscure companies, and judge for yourself. 24.168.62.229 (talk) 13:54, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Both articles are now at AfD. Even more worrying is his keep rationale at one of them. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 07:17, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I think this must be the first time that I've had to explain the difference between a proposed deletion and an AfD to an admin! Cordless Larry (talk) 15:50, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

It looks like we're at a crossroads here – Do we take this to ArbCom? (And, if so, who is "we" in this case?...) Or not? --IJBall (talk) 16:48, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I'd be very happy if nothing was done. Let the situation fester. Let an admin continue to keep his tools even though he creates non-notable articles, has no apparent grasp of content policy, doesn't seem to understand the deletion process, and keeps tools he doesn't use as a kind of merit badge as someone pointed out. It's the best argument I've found for why the system is FUBAR, and why it's essential to keep the barriers high at RfA. Coretheapple (talk) 16:53, 26 May 2015 (UTC) Striking out per below, overtaken by events. Coretheapple (talk) 11:26, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• Apparently Arbcom is already involved, according to posts on his talk page and on the talk page of an arbitrator. I was about to point out that however this is resolved, it is imperative to scrutinize articles created by AntonioMartin. But I was caught up short by this startling comment on an arbitrator's talk page in which Antonio indicated that the newly created account User:Le Pato Frances, which spoke up on his behalf very strongly above, is probably somebody "who lives in his house." Oh boy. Coretheapple (talk) 11:20, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• So now we have meatpuppetry in a debate - to add to BLP issues, misuse of tools, lack of knowledge of content and deletion policy, creation of NN articles ... surely this needs to be an ArbCom case now? Black Kite (talk) 11:28, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Apparently Arbcom is already involved. But whether it does or it doesn't, we have to think about the implications. We have a broken system, clearly. There needs to be a mechanism that allows ordinary users to come to arbcom and express concerns about particular admins without feeling that their only remedy is ANI and that they are going to be subjected to "boomerang." I realize that boomerang is an important principle. But it also prevents non-admins from "blowing the whistle" when they have a concern about an admin, as there would be a realistic concern that admins will circle the wagons and trump up a case against them. Damiens deserves credit for coming to ANI despite that possibility and despite a block record that made him appear particularly vulnerable. Indeed, immediately after this discussion began there was talk of blocking him or, insanely, even an interaction ban. There needs to be a "non-boomerangable" mechanism for admins to be held to account for misbehavior/misconduct/incompetence short of the gross misuse of tools that ordinarily is required to get them de-adminned. Coretheapple (talk) 11:41, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• I've blocked the obvious sock/meatpuppet, and have come around to the point of view that the best thing would be a quiet resignation of the admin tools, and the next best thing would be an arbcom case. --Floquenbeam (talk) 11:43, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

"If you are Antonio, shame on you."[125] That's what happens when a admin creates a sockpuppet. He gets a "tsk tsk"? Coretheapple (talk) 11:49, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Oh screw you. If I could prove it was him, I'd block him. I can't. This "there must be a cabal" is so fucking tiresome. --Floquenbeam (talk) 11:52, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

You just said on his talk page a couple of minutes ago "I find it too hard to believe that User:Le Pato Frances, an account who was created to revert/attack User:Damiens.rf, is not either you, or not someone you were aware of and did nothing about." It looks to me that this is a situation in which an ordinary user is blocked but an admin simply loses tools is politely asked to resign tools that he should be losing anyway for other reasons. Not a "cabal" situation but an admin getting special treatment, to risk stating the obvious. Coretheapple (talk) 11:57, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

There are 6 edits. Over 1 year. Taken with everything else, it is enough to push me over the edge to at least support bit removal. On its own, I don't think it's block-worthy, for an admin or for a non-admin. Kind of like the difference between "a preponderance of evidence" in a civil trial and "beyond a reasonable doubt" in a criminal trial. If some other admin disagrees and thinks there is "proof" of socking or intentional recruitment, they'll block him. --Floquenbeam (talk) 12:04, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I assume you're referring to the sock's contributions? So what you're saying that if I create a sock now and only use him sparingly, and only trot him out if I get in a jam, I won't blocked? Coretheapple (talk) 12:12, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

No, no honest sentient human would think that's what I meant. I assume you know such rhetorical gamesmanship won't work with me; I hope it won't work with others reading this, but you never know. If any rational editor wants to discuss this with me further, they can come to my talk page, but I'm done here. Dealing with a hyena salivating at the smell of first blood is too depressing. --Floquenbeam (talk) 12:15, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Any "sentient human being" knows that "schoolyard insults" = "lost the argument." Coretheapple (talk) 12:34, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I can explain what happened. The house I rent is a house where many people live at, or stay (in fact tonight we have 6 people sleeping here plus the dogs) so many, many people have internet access through this computer, in fact, my dad, he does his edits from the same computer as me. My niece Isabel also has a Wikipedia membership that she created from here, but she doesn't come very often anymore so I know that was not her. So as far as "Pato Frances" now that one I don't know who made that but I suspect probably my sister or brother , or my mom, or one of my multiple nieces and nephews....the only ones I do not suspect of are my dad, my niece that has a user page, myself and my dog. All I can do is try to find out who did that because, even if he/she meant no harm to me or dad as far as Wikipedia is concerned, it still affects us. Sooo.....I guess I have not much else to say, and I do have to go get something from my room right now so the only thing left to say is, Thanks and God bless you! Antonio Buddah Martin (haw haw!) 13:42, May 27, 2015 (UTC)

You are just copy-pasting what you had already said on Courcelles talk page. Is there something new? OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 12:54, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Antonio, every single one of the edits by that account was in opposition to Damiens, either reverting him, opposing an AfD by him, and, finally, coming here and not just supporting you but attacking him. It's as clear a WP:DUCK situation as I've ever seen. Claiming that somebody in your house just happened to set up an account that edits like you has no credibility and frankly makes thing worse. (Note that Antonio's comment was made at 12:51 but for some reason is date-stamped 13:42) Coretheapple (talk) 13:27, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

At least the dog is innocent. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 13:36, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Are you sure? On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 14:22, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Maybe Dad?

...or little brother? Seriously? Marine, please account for the situation in your house. It is unacceptable that two admins are under the same roof and we have sockpuppetry/meatpuppetry going on...you need to get answers for this. Your son has alluded that this might be you so this is indeed a problem which involves you. Admin accountability mandates a response. Your previous block was for a compromised account and Tony says everyone is using the same machine. What is going on?
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 14:36, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Actually he said he didn't suspect his father. Re admin accountability, I'm less concerned with this particular instance than establishing a mechanism in which all the "Damiens" on this site can blow the whistle on admins without being subjected to retaliation (or as we call it, WP:BOOMERANG). Just as in the law there are special "summary proceedings" to evict tenants, perhaps the same kind of simple and retaliation-free mechanism is needed to hold admins accountable before arbcom. Coretheapple (talk) 15:01, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed indef block for admin AntonioMartin

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NOTE: as of this posting, the subject of my proposal has been desysopped by ArbCom, for which I thank them. The fact that AntonioMartin did not do so himself, however, calls for an ongoing community discussion of sanctions up to and including an indef block, so I ask that this proposal, which I have again modified to reflect the circumstances, remain open. Jusdafax 20:31, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Sorry but the consensus has clearly shifted into demopping is enough. Given the circumstances it seems cruel to maintain the discussion but happy for any involved editor to revert my close if they genuinely believe good will come of it? Spartaz ^Humbug! 21:38, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Having waded through this entire thread and various subpages with considerable incredulity, I propose an indef block for this admin, until such time as they choose to respond resign as admin. We have to start drawing the line by holding those with extra buttons to a higher standard, and it's time to say enough is enough, right here, right now. My thanks to Coretheapple, who I am in complete agreement with.

• Support as proposer. Jusdafax 12:30, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I am underwhelmed by the response by AntonioMartin above, to put it as mildly as possible. I have struck through "respond" and added "resign as admin." After a suitable time, he can run for admin again. Jusdafax 13:55, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

As noted above, I have modified this proposal in view of the admin's desysop by ArbCom. I continue to support an indef block at this time. Jusdafax 20:31, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• Comment I support a block for AntonioMartin commensurate with his offense, which in this case is WP:DUCK sockpuppeting. It's an absolute insult to our intelligence to suggest that an ordinary editor caught trotting out a sock at an ANI would just get a "shame on you" as an outcome. Coretheapple (talk) 12:39, 27 May 2015 (UTC) Support indef block based on his (AntonioMartin's) comments above. Coretheapple (talk) 13:28, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support. TheTMOBGaming2 (talk) 13:23, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support per WP:ADMINACCT, namely points #1 ("Bad faith" adminship (sock puppetry)), #4 (Failure to communicate) and #5 (Repeated or consistent poor judgment). Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 13:40, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support per others. --Fauzan^{✆ talk}_{✉ mail} 13:57, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support. The evidence of misbehavior is clear and the defense provided is dubious at best. Deli nk (talk) 14:27, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support No doubt. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 14:55, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support after carefully reading the above. Though, I don't think resigning tools should be an instant way back. This block would be for WP:DUCK socking, which requires a higher bar for unblocking than that. Consider a standard offer. Mamyles (talk) 15:06, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. My support was for an indef ban period, not for an indef ban to persuade him to give up his tools. Coretheapple (talk) 15:07, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• Sorry this is too complicated for a bolded vote. The Le Pato Frances account is blocked because there is no conceivable explanation that would justify its use. If it can be proven that it is AntonioMartin's sock, or a recruited family member, then I support a 1 week to 1 month block, similar to what we would do for a non-admin in his position, and an ArbCom motion to desysop. If, as I suspect, this is a non-recruited family member who thinks he's "helping" attack an "enemy", I don't support a block on AntonioMartin, but I do support a desysop, because (a) it's hard to believe Antoniomartin didn't know about it, even if he didn't ask for it, and (b) it's the straw that broke the camel's back, when added to the issues above. So at this time, with the info we have, I oppose a block, but support an ArbCom case to desysop. Although I really wish there was a structured community desysop process, an unstructured adhoc process where we indef block until they resign their tools strikes me as far too prone to misuse. So even though only one or two people have proposed it, I specifically oppose a block to force tool resignation, regardless of what actually turns out to have happened here. --Floquenbeam (talk)15:41, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Since the "proof" that you seek is unobtainable, short of AntonioMartin admitting he did it, basically you're against a block. That's fine, so why not just say it? As for a structured desysop process, I definitely agree. If it wasn't for the obvious socking here, this would have died. Coretheapple (talk) 15:46, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Floquenbeam plainly stated "... I oppose a block, ..." so he just said it. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 16:02, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I guess I would have said "I oppose a block, period" and left it at that. We get WP:DUCK situations all the time, and this is one of them. We should be forthright if we feel that this editor, though obviously socking, should be cut a break, because he has done such a good job as an admin or whatever. My point is that let's not pretend that it is not a duck and that it is quacking, that it is a "complicated" situation and that there are standards of "proof" that haven't been met. Bullfeathers. Coretheapple (talk) 16:10, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support as SNOW, and obviously support a "defrocking" here as well (yes, yes, I know it's "desysoping", but "defrocking" sounds "sexier"!). Geez, I go to bed for a few hours, and when I awake all Hell has broken loose! --IJBall (talk) 16:14, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

In light of desysoping, I'm changing my vote to: support block of indeterminate duration. Regardless, the edit warring and puppeting cannot, and should not, be swept under the rug, so a block is still needed here. --IJBall (talk) 18:45, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#User:AntonioMartin desysopped. Doug Weller (talk) 18:02, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

(It's posted at the bottom of this page but not everyone may be reading the whole page). Doug Weller (talk) 18:13, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose indef as proposed. Former admin now de-sysoped. This should suffice for now. That, and AntonioMartin will now be under a microscope. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 18:28, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose There's no need for an indef block. The behavior was substandard and that cost him his mop, which takes care of the principal concerns in this discussion. We would not indef an editor for something like this. Hopefully Antonio can now continue his Wikipedia activity as a productive editor and stay away from these types of actions and disputes. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 18:33, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, indef is arguably excessive. But look, let's say this wasn't an admin, just an ordinary editor who created a sock. Would they be told "now that was naughty, don't do it again"? What would be the penalty? Surely there would be some kind of block. What gets under my skin is the attitude that admins are some kind of elevated personages, and that knocking them down by taking away their "mop" is sufficient punishment for actions that would get them blocked if they didn't have the "mop." Also, can we please stop using terms like "mop" in describing administrators? That's just plain phony. In practice it's a lot more, and we all know it. Coretheapple (talk) 18:45, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

You want to make an example out of him? What purpose would that serve? The block in this case would be purely punitive at this point. He was hauled in here for behavior that would garner a warning for anyone else and a block if it continued, he's been de-mopped (sorry) already and I just don't see where this request for an indef block is coming from other than to "stick it to the man". Clearly admins are not above other editors when they do things like these - ARBCOM took care of that. So now we have some half-stale worrying behavior that got lost in the desysop discussion, and for which I don't think an indef block is merited unless it repeats itself in any way, shape or form. I'm not sure what else is there to do. Antonio is now just a normal editor, and that's what this discussion should center around. There shouldn't be an extraordinary punishment above the removal of his admin rights. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 18:58, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

So don't indef block him. But nothing? Would an ordinary editor get nothing for socking? And no, losing the "mop" doesn't count. It's nothing. Hell it's just a mop. I've owned dozens over the years. Coretheapple (talk) 19:07, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Edit-war and risk and 48/72hr block. Being an admin who gets found out to use a sock account at a ANI discussion questioning their behaviour and get a strongly worded warning. Everyone get your second accounts ready for a wrist-slapping, just incase you get summoned to ANI in the future. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 19:27, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

In normal circumstances, I wouldn't be opposed to a block of defined duration. I'm just not seeing how a block at this point would be preventative, and not punitive. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 20:04, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose indef block per 78.26 and FreeRangeFrog. Losing the mop is enough. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 19:09, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose A similarly situated editor with the same past contributions to the project would at most be facing moderate duration block. We shouldn't punish more harshly just because the editor had the admin bit that was rarely used, particularly in light of the desysop. Monty₈₄₅ 19:12, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose AntonioMartin did not make the edits. Someone else in the house made the edits. QuackGuru (talk) 19:13, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Comment With Floquenbeam's indef block of the sock, there is an accompanying autoblock (#6131380) of the IP used which is set to expire 2015-05-28 at 11:36 which means that the house computer and all editors behind it are essentially blocked if they still have same IP.
   — Berean Hunter (talk) 20:02, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose indef Stick to the usual sanctions given to first time offenders. I frequently see, "Socks blocked indef, master blocked one week". --NeilN ^{talk to me} 20:13, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose. I think the removal of his admin rights is enough. (Off-topic) Speaking of which ... wow, becoming an administrator sure was easy back in 2003; this place sure has changed, and now, RFAs can be the most stressful thing an editor will ever have to go through, sometimes leading to retirement if the RFA fails. Amazing to think that AntonioMartin was one of our first admins ... they had the mop for over almost 12 years! Steel1943 (talk) 20:23, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose This seems like over kill. They have been desysoped. Let it go for now. Any future problems can be addressed on an as needed basis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ad Orientem (talk • contribs) 20:35, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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Related proposal

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Given the concerns above, and elsewhere, regarding admins who are only very mildly active and were made admins a long time ago, what are editors thoughts on an organised effort to investigate admins elected more than, say, 5-7 years ago to verify that the community still deems them qualified to be admins? This needn't be a strung out process for the obviously qualified and active admins, but it might be useful to check for other cases like this one where the user is only active enough to retain their adminship and isn't editing/acting in line with current practice and policy. Sam Walton (talk) 18:44, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, you might be interested in what Beeblebrox has to say here. As a lowly member of the Peanut Gallery, I think that such a review would be a very good idea (though I don't expect them to find too many other cases like this one...). --IJBall (talk) 18:48, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

For sure. But what about a mechanism in which users, without being threatened with retaliation ("boomerang") can get arbcom or a committee thereof to review the behavior and, perhaps more importantly, the performance of administrators in general? If an admin is a good person but just inept, or knows the rules but is abusive (a common complaint, judging from a certain off-wiki site), then there should be some way to bring them to the attention of arbcom to be either mentored or upbraided or removed, if the charges are true. This current "nothing unless they are either socks or lunatics" stuff is strictly "for the birds," as my dad used to say. Coretheapple (talk) 18:56, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

We don't have a policy in place that would allow us to desysop them in such cases, unless you can stumble upon a smoking gun as occurred here. Without consensus for such a policy first, I don't think an admin review project would be very fruitful. Monty₈₄₅ 19:16, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

There's no question that were it not for the socking there would have been no action in this particular situation. Coretheapple (talk) 19:20, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Hmm. Bear in mind this isn't necessarily a case of 'find who we can desysop', we of course want as many admins as possible, and I think this was a particularly bad case. In the case that a discussion decides that an admin should be desysopped, the available options will, it seems, amount to a strong suggestion that they voluntarily resign their tools or requiring ArbCom to agree to the consensus. Sam Walton (talk) 19:26, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

In fact, though I would appreciate the opinion of an arb on this, I think ArbCom would be able to desysop an admin if community consensus deemed that "the account's behaviour is inconsistent with the level of trust required for its associated advanced permissions", per Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Procedures#Removal_of_permissions. Sam Walton (talk) 19:29, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I think that Monty has a point that under current procedures nobody, including this particular admin, would have been de-sysopped for simple incompetence. Whether there is a consensus for a change in the status quo is another matter. There certainly would be if admins were viewed as having a conflict of interest and did not participate in the discussion. Coretheapple (talk) 19:33, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Sorry I was responding to your 19:26 comment and didn't read your more recent one. You have a point. But note the way that is phrased. They're talking about extreme conduct. If an admin is simply insult happy and abusive, well that's just tough. Absolutely nothing, not even a firm finger-wagging. Coretheapple (talk) 19:36, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

One of the concerns that has blocked past attempts for a de-sysop process is the fear that editors will use the process to retaliate against admins who make the hard decisions and/or to settle grudges. Imagine having to go through something similar to RFA, whenever a certain number of editors decided they wanted your head. I don't think anyone has come up with a particularly good solution to this. Monty₈₄₅ 19:46, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

If there was such a thing as a "Vote of Confidence RfA", I'm unconvinced that any editor "cabal" would successfully be able to "desysop" an Admin if it wasn't legitimately warranted – there'd be too many other uninvolved editors that would be able to see through such a gambit. Further, there might be ways to prevent that further (perhaps requiring a certain specific threshold number of "oppose" votes being needed, rather than basing it on the rough "support-oppose" percentages...). In any case, while I like what I am seeing from what Sam Walton linked to above, re: Level II procedures, it does concern me that community involvement isn't specifically included in the provisions there. It seems to me if community involvement is specifically required for granting Admin privileges re: an RfA, community involvement should also be specifically included in at least some cases for desysopsing... --IJBall (talk) 20:00, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't think there is any need to do anything else with regard to Antonio at this time. I don't in the least believe his excuses, and neither did arbcom, hence the desysopping. Blocking on top of that seems punitive and I don't see how it would help Wikipedia.

That being said, I do believe (as I have stated elsewhere) that it may be time for a comprehensive review of the remaining admins that got it in the "no big deal" era, before 2007 or so when it bacame clear what a serious msitake it had been to hand out admin rights willy-nilly, often to users who had little to no idea what admins even do and have not kept up with the evolving standards of admin behavior. This was a problem that was "too big to solve" for a while, but with normal attrition as most have them have gone inactive that is no longer the case.

To be clear, I am not and would not propose that they all be sumarrily desysopped or anything like that. However, a comprehensive review of those that remain, and perhaps a requirement that those found to be lacking demonstrate knowledge of current policies may be in order. Over and over again we have seen out-of-touch admins, some of whom barely use their tools and seem to make the absolute minimum effort required to keep them, making serious errors when they do actually take an admin action. I am speaking in particular about blocking, which I think most of us agree is the admin tool witht he greatest potental for misuse and creating drama. How this would work, and under whose authority it would be done are not questions I have answers to, but it may be time to start seriously discussing this. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:11, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• The current proposal may be out of place here since this isn't an incident and local consensus will not affect policy or procedures. Suggest that this is taken to Village Pump (policy) as the proper venue to involve the community-at-large.
   — Berean Hunter (talk) 20:18, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Agreed, I really only asked here to get a general idea of whether this was a good idea or if there was an obvious flaw I was missing. Sam Walton (talk) 20:29, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

That's pretty much where I'm at as well, I wasn't intending to actually try and establish such a thing via ANI. I can't imagine that ending well. I'm out of the creating giant policy RFCs game for the moment as well, so if there is real interest in this someone else can put their head on the chopping block over it. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:57, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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Apparent dispute over Semion Mogilevich and meddling with a userpage.

Not really sure what to do with this, actually, since things have changed over my time in Wikipedia... Couple of IPs (probably used by the same person) have been re-inserting apparent POV link to Semion Mogilevich (edit history). IPs in question have left comments threatening to report me and User:Andhisteam to request bans and the like. Now those IPs have also edited my user page with similar comments and threats (I took a liberty of reverting the changes in my user page). I might have got somewhat annoyed in the process, commenting in one IP page. If there really has been reports or ban requests targeting me, I don't know about them. IPs apparently involved are User:122.152.167.101 and User:122.152.167.218 but they are probably dynamic and going to change in the future so I am not sure what IP I should be sending further comments to. I'd rather not get involved with a fruitless edit war with those but have apparently been involved against my wishes. I leave to your judgement of what could be done, if anything. - Skysmith (talk) 20:17, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Just a note here: The IPs are a part of a corp, and do change. Some advice is if you must say anything to them, say it to whichever acted last. Also, due to this, it is quite likely that it is the same person making these edits. As well, I am watching the page, and will step to help. -- Orduin ^Discuss 20:46, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

After reviewing a request for page protection on this article (which I denied), I decided to perform 2 blocks. One, a rangeblock on 122.152.167.0/24 and one on an account, likely the same person, Lemma2Lemma. Rjd0060 (talk) 21:18, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Next IP User:121.100.143.123, another IP involved with the same page - Skysmith (talk) 23:16, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Given that the user is hopping outside the blocked range, I have semi-protected the page for now. Pinging @Rjd0060: to check if the range-block can/need be undone ie if there are other users on it. Abecedare (talk) 23:21, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Abecedare, I think it would be wise to leave the block in place. It was a very small range (<300 IPs) and he used many of them. Unless we get any unblock requests showing collateral damage, I'd assume that was his primary range and unblocking it would be counterproductive at this time. Rjd0060 (talk) 12:20, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Edit war over "Judeophobia"

After warning me about edit warring User:NeilN continued the edit war on a differn't article. We should probably both be blocked from the effected pages.Scientus (talk) 06:38, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

No. As specified by you, you made a bold edit to Antisemitism, no doubt to bolster your case at Talk:Islam_and_antisemitism#Requested_move_25_May_2015. I reverted it and explained why on the talk page. Stop trying to force through your changes. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 06:43, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

MOS:BOLD WP:BOLDTITLE, not WP:BOLD.Scientus (talk) 06:46, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Look at your edit summary. You should have known the change would be opposed, anyways. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 06:49, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Note that Scientus is now attempting to remove this AN/I discussion. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:33, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

attempted. No problem with having it. I just don't like to excessively bother people.Scientus (talk) 07:50, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

The edit war stopped because I stepped back when one of your supporters reverted me. I note that neither have you have seen fit to respond to my objection on the talk page to your change. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 07:55, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

It appears Scientus should get a case of boomerang. NeilN did everything in their power to prevent an edit war after Scientus kept making controversial edits without consensus. Makes you look even more guilty when you remove the very AN/I you started with the bogus reasoning that you didn't want to "bother" anyone.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 13:16, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Attempting to remove an active ANI discussion should be grounds alone for blocking. Otherwise, it appears that the OP is attempting to use Wikipedia to create artificial notability to a theoretically legitimate but not widely used term. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:41, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Blocking threats

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User IndianBIO is threatening to block me with overly libelous and exaggerated pretenses like vandalism, soapboxing, and advertising - which is clearly not what I'm doing. I tried resolving the dispute but he proceeded with blocking me. This is a violation of the civility code and a personal threat or attack in that manner. Evidences of such actions is evident in the messages the user left in my talk page. Hope you deal with this matter ASAP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riot kiddo (talk • contribs) 16:59, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Links: IndianBio (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) --IJBall (talk) 17:07, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

User has been adding unsourced genres to a number of articles, was warned with level 4 for it which has autoblock warning in it. Came to my talk page with a high and mighty attitude of "trying" to help articles without adding sources. I mentioned clearly that this behavior continuation will lead to blocking since he/she has paid dust to numerous warnings left on the talk page by previous users also. End of story, started harassing my talk page. —Indian:BIO ^{[ ChitChat ]} 17:12, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Uh, this diff is not "OK", Riot kiddo – please see: WP:TPO. --IJBall (talk) 17:10, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

And this does not qualify as proper notification of taking IndianBio to ANI... I'm seeing enough evidence here that IndianBio could legitimately feel like you are harassing them. --IJBall (talk) 17:13, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Can we just boomerang this now? Clearly the user is just upset by being blocked for legitimate reasons and is trying to get some revenge.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 17:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Thing is, they've never been blocked. Though if they keep up with the attitude, that'll change very shortly. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Health and Welfare ‖ 17:17, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

You're harassing IndianBIO. They warned you appropriately, and you will be blocked if you continue, though not by IndianBIO, who is not an administrator. Acroterion (talk) 17:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

This edit seems to show they aren't getting the message. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Repel All Boarders ‖ 17:20, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Where did this notion that level 4 warnings are blackmail, threats, and harassment come from? I don't get it. Whatever happened to WP:AGF? It's like there is an increasing pattern of people assuming bad faith. or it could just be me. Weegeerunner (talk) 17:21, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Blocked for 48 hours, with a note on indef if this happens again. Acroterion (talk) 17:22, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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POV pushing, removal of sourced material

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I would like to highlight the case of tendentious editing by some editors.

We need as many uninvolved admins as possible keeping an eye on more or less all Ukrainian conflict-related articles. There's a never-ending edit war going on there.

Problem:

Removal of well sourced material. User:Volunteer Marek seems to be the most aggressive. An editor keeps deleting content which he disagrees with.

Evidence:

Here are a few examples. 2014 - April 2015: diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff diff. May 2015: diff, diff diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff.

Violation of WP:NPOV policy:

WP:NPOV says clearly include fairly all significant views published by reliable sources. This means the article should not be trying to argue for one view or another, but simply representing them proportionately.

Excuses for POV-blanking:

"There is no consensus for these changes", or "WP:UNDUE" (In other words, WP:JUSTDONTLIKEIT)

or "doesn't belong here": diff, diff, diff, diff.

See examples here: MyMoloboaccount: Restored, Volunteer Marek: Removed. Tobby72: Restored, Bobrayner: Removed, Darouet: Restored, Volunteer Marek: Removed.

and here: Tobby72: Added poll, Volunteer Marek: Removed, MyMoloboaccount: Restored, RGloucester: Removed. Haberstr: Restored, Volunteer Marek: Removed.

Further discussion here:

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard – Ukraine conflict.

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard – Continued POV-pushing – May 2015.

Talk:2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine – Breedlove, Soros, Der Spiegel

Talk:Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation - POV blanking

Talk:War in Donbass – POV blanking of sourced material

User talk:EdJohnston - Volunteer Marek – 2

At least 12 editors: MyMoloboaccount, Tosha, Anonimski, Darouet, Buzz105, Jirka.h23, Herzen, Haberstr, HCPUNXKID, Leftcry, KoolerStill, Lunch for Two, seem to agree with me.

I totally agree with User:Darouet:[126]

To be honest, looking through many of the edits discussed here, it doesn't seem to me that Tobby72 is editing from a "pro-Kremlin" perspective. Often, their edits are qualifying or simply represent the "other side," without removing material. By contrast, RGloucester, Marek, raynor, Tlsandy appear to view the mere inclusion of other perspectives, including from major politicians, news sources, or even public opinion polls, as intolerable. All of us have responsibility for maintaining a neutral point of view and a friendly editing environment. I'm afraid that by repeatedly sanctioning this kind of editing we've enabled behavior that wouldn't be tolerated anywhere else on this encyclopedia, and encourages only the most partisan editors to enter into the fray. That is *not* the decision we need to make.

Is there anything that either I or an admin can do about continuous POV pushing and removal of sourced material?

Thanks for taking a look and sharing your opinion. -- Tobby72 (talk) 22:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Can you make a list of involved articles?

This one is odd.

What is he talking about when he talks about "discussed, agreed upon"? Can you find out?

Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 23:21, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

What he probably means is Talk:Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation – POV blanking

or Latest outrage: excluding opinion polls that show Crimeans overwhelmingly support unification with Russia

Yet another person who has doubts - diff, diff.

The (probably incomplete) list:

• Donetsk People's Republic, * War in Donbass, * Right Sector, * 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, * 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine, * Republic of Crimea, * Crimean status referendum, 2014, * Humanitarian situation during the war in Donbass, * Freedom of the press in Ukraine, * Ihor Kolomoyskyi, * Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, * 2014 Ukrainian revolution, * 2014 Odessa clashes. -- Tobby72 (talk) 01:01, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Add *Federal Reserve System to your list. Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 17:01, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• I'm not sure if you're going to get "as many uninvolved admins as possible" User:Tobby72 but I'm certainly an uninvolved long-term editor in good standing; I took a look and am willing to share my opinion. I picked an article at random which you fought for in one of your edit wars very recently. It is called "Breedlove's Bellicosity," Spiegel Online, March 6, 2015. What I found was a piece of low-brow tabloid stock journalism with expressions like: "hawks in Washington", "Putin, the 59-year-old ... upped the ante", "The Super Hawk", the 'Super Hawk' Victoria Nuland", "False claims and exaggerated accounts" (!) from NATO ... and on, and on. – Do you realize Tobby72 that the real problem might actually be you, and not the Wikipedians in your laundry basket? Poeticbent talk 00:39, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your opinion (though I don't think Der Spiegel is tabloid). -- Tobby72 (talk) 01:01, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Bottom line, this is a content dispute, well beyond the scope of ANI. There is nothing "actionable" for Admins here. You would have thought that might have sunk in when Admin EdJohnston took no action (and, in fact, didn't even comment on his Talk page)... --IJBall (talk) 02:03, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Other editors' comments:

• User:Haberstr — In conclusion, obviously Volunteer Marek is putting a lot of effort into pushing me and other editors who do not share his point of view away from editing Ukraine-related articles. This is part of a long-standing practice on his and like-minded editors part, and the results are horribly POV Ukraine-related articles. He and like-minded editors do this through these repetitive, hostile, and time-wasting appeals for administrative action, through creating extremely toxic, abusive-language filled and bad-faith-assuming environments on talk pages, and by reverting even the most innocuous edits by editors who do not share their POV. I suggest surveying his style and behavior and applying sanctions on Marek in order to deter his worst excesses.[127]

• User:MyMoloboaccount — There is definitely a issue in these articles being edited by dedicated users who have certain POV. Tobby72 is right that this violates NPOV and other guidelines. There have been numerous examples where reliable sources and information has been removed time and time again under flimsy pretexts, and attempts to present a more nuanced view with neutral description have been opposed, at times very aggressive and with use of vulgarisms.[128]

• User:Darouet: — To be honest, looking through many of the edits discussed here, it doesn't seem to me that Tobby72 is editing from a "pro-Kremlin" perspective. Often, their edits are qualifying or simply represent the "other side," without removing material. By contrast, RGloucester, Marek, raynor, Tlsandy appear to view the mere inclusion of other perspectives, including from major politicians, news sources, or even public opinion polls, as intolerable.[129]

• User:Tosha — I support Tobby72. All my attempts to make this article neutral were failed. IMHO this article is shame for wikipedia. Returning POV tag is the least we can do.[130] -- Tobby72 (talk) 12:56, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I have to disagree with IJBall that this is a content dispute, and I truly hope that Tobby72 gets clobbered by the boomerang s/he deserves. Tobby72 is WP:FORUMSHOPPING yet again, and I will reiterate the differences provided by that editor in order that it be evaluated from the forum shopping perspective: see this, this, this and this, this, this, this, this, this, and this. This is not indicative of a content dispute, but Tobby72's refusing to accept NPOV and trying to WP:CRUSH any opposition to their POV.

Tobby72, you keep bringing the same differences to talk pages and other boards, invoking comments by users over a protracted period of time (that is, over at least a year's worth of discussion and editing) including editors who have been sanctioned from editing Eastern European articles. You consistently fail to respond to observations that these comments and edits are not indicative of the true consensus of dozens of other editors who have developed the articles on a regular/daily basis. You've also continuously PUSHed the limits as regards gaming the system, ducking in and out of editing various articles surrounding recent events in Ukraine every time you understand that you've become too obtrusive. Taking a very short-term break from your involvement when EdJohnston was involved in examining your editing patterns was an unabashedly cynical act of trying to fly under the radar.

At best, you are a disruptive editor on Eastern European articles. Such an evaluation of the NOTHERE gaming is, however, an underestimation of your forum shopping, crying incivility, and casting WP:ASPERSIONS about numerous editors. There is nothing honest about your approach in order to wear your perceived 'opponents' down. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:00, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Note: Iryna Harpy is editor directly involved in constant edit-warring & removal of sourced content, see diff, diff, diff, diff diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff. -- Tobby72 (talk) 12:56, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

This is an issue that goes back a long way and needs to be acknowledged and addressed by Marek so we can all move forward. Quis separabit? 13:00, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

If there is anything here for attention by administrators (I do not really see it), this should be brought to AP:AE, as author of this request should be well aware. Linking to discussions with an administrator who is active on WP:AE, but bringing this here is a battleground approach and waste of time. My very best wishes (talk) 13:41, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Note to uninvolved editors: Edit-warring & removal of sourced material by User:My very best wishes. This is what I've been talking about, see diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff, diff diff, diff, diff, diff, diff. -- Tobby72 (talk) 15:04, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Comment - The original post is Too long, difficult to read. In addition, it is my opinion that bringing alleged conduct disputes about Eastern Europe to this board is either misguided or an attempt to create drama. The last that I looked, Ukraine is still in Eastern Europe, so that WP:ARBEE applies. If there really is a conduct issue, take it to Arbitration Enforcement for decisive action by effective uninvolved admins. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:04, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion, Robert! -- Tobby72 (talk) 15:10, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

This is a classic WP:ARBEE problem. I think that Tobby72 would benefit from a trip to arbitration enforcement, sooner rather than later. bobrayner (talk) 17:19, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Are these edits legitimate?: diff, diff, diff, diff, diff — "rv the usual Serb sock" - WP:WIAPA?, diff — "rv the usual Serb sock", diff — "rv stalker." - WP:ESDOS?, diff — "restoring sourced content. Quit it." - WP:RS?. -- Tobby72 (talk) 19:33, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Toby72, you really need to drop it. NOT ONLY have you been told more than a half a dozen times that consensus is against you, but you've ALSO been told more than a half a dozen times (that's not hyperbole, it *really* has been more than that) to quit it with the endless, time wasting, tendentious, obnoxious and tedious WP:FORUMSHOPPING. You not only have maxed out the violations of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT and plain ol' disruptive editing, you're well into the WP:NOTHERE territory. I.e. your value added to this project is significantly negative.Volunteer Marek (talk) 20:49, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

What consensus am I violating? Please provide me the related talk page discussion where a consensus is found. Clearly there is no consensus among editors. -- Tobby72 (talk) 11:15, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Archive or boomerang?

There's clearly nothing to do here unless the OP needs a boomerang block for forum shopping and trying to abuse process to gain advantage in a content dispute. Guy (Help!) 22:46, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

There's good reason for a boomerang but a warning may simply be effective if they have not done anything like this before.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 22:56, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Considering this appears to be a long-term pattern with the original poster, I'd recommend something like a final warning from an Admin, along with a close of this... --IJBall (talk) 23:30, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I will respect your decision, whatever it may be, but does it mean that you've sanctioned behaviour of Volunteer Marek, Iryna Harpy and similarly minded editors i.e. massive, systematic removal of well sourced material with a POV they dislike? Ukraine-related articles have been jealously guarded by several editors who have certain POV and any attempt to improve has been blocked. You're shooting the messenger and assuming bad faith on my part instead of focusing on the real issue. -- Tobby72 (talk) 11:15, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

While I'd accept a final warning, I have sincere and well founded reasons to believe that the user will resume the same disruptive pattern after X period of time in order to allow their battleground attitude to have 'gone away', and believe that boomerang is in order. Recent good faith opportunities have been proffered (such as this), and multiple warnings have been issued on the various talk pages. I'll provide a comprehensive list of diffs if it's deemed to be necessary, but prefer to keep this comment as brief as possible at this point.

The fact of the matter is that this is not a unique event in Tobby72's editing behaviour as regards AE articles. This is evidenced by the user's last interactions on recent events surrounding the crisis in Ukraine around the end of 2014, whereupon the user recognised that s/he was on the brink of being taken before an ANI or AE and backed off, only to resume activities a few months later (such as here).

While I recognise that Tobby72 is encouraged/egged on by other problem contributors, the user is hardly a newbie, and there is no excuse for usurping civil discussions as to content with tracts of examples of 'dissent' by POV editors cherry picked from over a year's discussion, as exemplified here. This has undoubtedly impacted on new contributors backing away from good faith editing and discussion of controversial topics here on 24 March 2015 (see this new contributor's edit history here, with Tobby72 (in tandem with others on 31 March 2015) having created a toxic talk page atmosphere where genuine attempts to discuss issues are consistently disrupted in an unmistakeably WP:POINTy manner. This is why Tobby72 and the other editor were brought to EdJohnston's attention on his talk page.

On a final note, even the excerpt from user Darouet is misleading, having been cherry picked to make a POINT. In fact, Darouet's observation was directed to me. The full comment here was a good faith attempt to engage with me on the NPOV/N as I have a good and respectful working relationship with the user, as with other editors who are HERE whether or not we agree on content issues. I'm sorry to say that I didn't respond there simply because the so-called discussion was being falsely kept from being archived by means of gaming. Should Darouet be reading this, I extend my sincerest apologies as I was not avoiding him/her, but was not prepared to duplicitously resuscitate a FORUMSHOPPING section. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:05, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Iryna, may I remind you that the assumption of good faith is a core principle here.

The severe toxicity of the Ukraine-related articles where genuine attempts to discuss issues are consistently disrupted can be seen here. -- Tobby72 (talk) 11:15, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

@Tobby72:, one point here: good faith tends to expire when Tendentious editing takes place. You have been told repeatedly that Consensus is against you in including that reference, as it's considered to be WP:UNDUE – at this point, it's best to Drop the stick, and move on. Failure to do so could probably be considered "bad faith". Bottom line: you're not going to win every argument on Wikipedia, even when you think you are "right". --IJBall (talk) 16:47, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I think it's a good idea. -- Tobby72 (talk) 15:10, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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99.228.128.219 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been reverted multiple times at, for example, Prince George of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, and has received multiple messages from editors bringing attention to the need for sources, edit summaries and communication. Regardless, the same information has once again been added to both articles[131][132] without an edit summary or any post on either the article talk page or the IP's talk page. Unsourced information,[133] which is in fact wrong,[134] is also being added to other articles. This is disruptive, and I would like to ask for this IP to be blocked. DrKiernan (talk) 07:36, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Just in case it's not clear why this is a problem, there may be a WP:COMPETENCE issue here, as George and Charlotte are not the first great-grandchildren of the Queen, the first great-grandchildren are the children of Peter Phillips. It's an easy enough error to make, but one should listen when it's pointed out rather than doggedly continuing on the same course. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 12:32, 24 May 2015 (UTC).

Comment I see plenty of warnings placed on the IPs talk page but do not see evidence of any attempt being made to educate or correct the user. I would not support an indefinite ban/block in a case that I am uncertain whether the editor concerned has been made aware of the extent of the problem. The IP has done ~250 royal related edits. I'm not sure of the proportion of the edits are problematic. GregKaye 15:06, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't understand what is being suggested as a remedy here? The editor continues to add erroneous, trivial, redundant or inappropriate information to articles on royalty despite being reverted and having it repeatedly explained what the objections are, mainly in the edit summaries but also on the talk page. Since no response is ever provided, on edit summaries or talk pages, what are we supposed to do to stop the disruptions, which require others to check and correct repeatedly and on an ongoing basis? FactStraight (talk) 23:59, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I've blocked 24 hours for disruptive editing. This editor has never left a post on a talk page of any kind, and has never responded to any of the concerns expressed on their own talk. We can't afford to delegate experienced content people to follow this person around to see if they are inserting nonsense to articles. EdJohnston (talk) 00:10, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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With edits like this (1, 2, 3), this new account's only purpose is for vandalism.Cebr1979 (talk) 19:39, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Stuff like this really should go to WP:AIV probably... --IJBall (talk) 20:38, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about that, will move!Cebr1979 (talk) 20:48, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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User:Shagadelicbasil23 and null edits again

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There was a previous discussion about User:Shagadelicbasil23 for many repitions of bad edits, especially making numerous, pointless null edits- discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive883#User:Shagadelicbasil23 This discussion culminated in an admin warning here from @Philg88:.

Despite this admin warning, and a final warning from myself for making null edits here after null edit here, they are continuing to make null edits, and other unhelpful edits, and have made no contact with any users about these actions.

Null edit: [135] Not obeying protocol of alphabetical order: [136]

I think there's a few more diffs as well, will add them if I find them. The problem is that lots of their edits are unhelpful, the null edits are annoying, and they frequently go against well-established principles (for example WP:VERIFY, WP:NOTNEWS, listing umpires alphabetically, listing best bowler as the one who's conceded fewest runs, not best economy rate). They're just not co-operative with anyone, I've only once ever received a message from them, and never a reply to any complaints posted on their talkpage.

@PeeJay2K3: @Lugnuts: @Philg88: Because you were all involved in last discussion. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:34, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, this was happening on another article since the last warning. Another null edit and adding unsourced content. The latter was only verified today. Very unhelpful edits all round. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 12:45, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Let me start by saying I'm always grateful when people want to help out with updating cricket articles on Wikipedia. God knows there aren't enough cricket fans any more. However, when editors such as Shagadelicbasil23 come along and treat Wikipedia as their own pet project with no regard for collaboration, that's a problem. He keeps making null edits and I can't explain why; my best guess would be that he just likes having his name at the top of the edit history. There's no place for that kind of behaviour here and either Shagadelicbasil23 needs to sort himself out or he needs to go away. – PeeJay 13:07, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree with Peejay, lots of his edits are good, but there's also far too many that aren't, and show they're ignoring editors by making the same errors. As for the null edits, they've been asked about them multiple times- initially I thought it could be something like they make phone posts and so it happens accidentally. But combined with them not giving explanation, and other non-collaborative behaviour I think they might just like themselves at the top of the edit history. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:00, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Another pointless edit, this time made after this thread was started. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 07:27, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

They've not bothered to come here and defend themselves, yet continue to edit, and used the "thank" function to thank me for the edit where I gave the, the ANI notification. Their editing just super confuses me sometimes. Joseph2302 (talk) 18:31, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• Blocked until they start responding on their talk page. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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No Gun Ri Massacre

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This may not be the correct place for this. It's such a convoluted mess I wonder if it's too much for something like WP:AC. I looked into this for a bit and I'm left with "it's complicated". I came to this through a RfC at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history. As can be expected on a page about atrocities, things are controversial and the matter seems to boil down to a dispute between Cjhanley and WeldNeck.

Cjhanley seems to legitimately be a Pulitzer prize winner on the subject. This certainly indicates that he knows more about the topic than I do, but may also increase the importance of well cited balancing sources. You don't commit a significant portion of your life to reporting on a subject without forming an emotional attachment to it. As indicated by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/No Gun Ri Massacre he is also fairly new to WP, and may need help understanding WP guidelines. His account seems to have been created solely to work on this article, which is understandable. Also, a good deal of his references seems to be his own work, which can be touchy, but may also be expected from a subject matter expert.

WeldNeck also appears to need some help understanding WP guidelines and, in all fairness, has probably done a bit of edit warring. However, he seems to have pinpointed the main detractors to Hanley. As I'm sure everyone can appreciate, controversial articles can benefit from dissent, so long as it does not wander into WP:UNDUE. It does appear that there is some controversy in the sources over what exactly happened. It's not clear if this is legitimate debate or denialism al la Armenian Genocide.

At the base of it, the sheer weight of how long this has gone on is crushing. Help would be greatly appreciated, especially from someone well familiar with the Korean War. I am trying to moderate a bit, but I seriously doubt that either side is going to respect my opinion if it disagrees with theirs. Timothyjosephwood (talk) 21:17, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, it appears that this has already been addressed here to no avail. Oh bother. Timothyjosephwood (talk) 21:22, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

This looks like a battleground issue between two editors that will probably require some admin or community intervention. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:35, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Should this ani be merged to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Cjhanley? ― Padenton|✉   21:37, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Logically, yes. But that thread above might benefit from a fresh start. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:18, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Looks like we can postpone this for now. We have at least marginal acceptance of an edit-by-edit review on the talk page. If whatever the outcome is results in an edit war by the other party then I think there will be a strong argument for sanctions. Timothyjosephwood (talk) 01:06, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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Wentworth (TV series)

Hi all! There is a problem over at the Wentworth (TV series) page where unsourced material is being added. The problem seems to be whether or not the show has been nominated for an award titled "Best International Show" by the TV Choice Awards. Now, this actually dates back quite a ways so I'll only show the last couple months. This info was added on 30 April 2015 with the only source being @Raintheone: stating "It was a nominee because I added it and I voted for it, do not remove stuff because the url redirects, find an archived version".

As we all know, her own personal experience cannot be counted as a source and, so, it was removed by @Poltair: on 1 May 2015 with these two messages being left on the talk page. The first of those messages actually includes two sources stating who the nominees were and Wentworth is not there. There are two sources confirming the show was not nominated!! That edit was then reverted again by Raintheone with her only justification being "that has ever right to be there as it is true." There's nothing but her word to say it is true but, apparently that's supposed to be good enough... even though there are sources saying it is not true. It was then removed by myself yesterday and re-added today, again by Raintheone, this time claiming "Link rot." This is not a case of link rot as her original source (found here) still works very well... it just doesn't state what she's claiming it states.

There are also these two conversations: this one titled "Accolades - TV Choice Awards 2014" and this one from Raintheone's talk page where she continues with her reasoning of "It's true because I said so."

Is this correct? Should this unsourced (and proven incorrect) info be allowed to remain on the page simply because one user says it's true? I'm thinking not and finding the user's reasoning to be absolutely baffling. Thank you in advance.Cebr1979 (talk) 18:21, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

As one of the parties mentioned in this matter, I originally removed the information because I could not find it substantiated anywhere, and could only find the sources, that I quoted on the talk page, which seemed to contradict the claim that the show was a nominee. My removal was later reverted with comments that disappointed me, so rather than bicker about it I left it there. The issue is really with process of the People's Choice award which starts with a long list of candidates that the public are invited to vote for. These are selected by the editors of People's Choice magazine and the initial public vote narrows these down to a shortlist of 'nominees', usually four in each category, from which the winner is selected. Now, Wentworth was indeed on the long list of candidates in 2014, as it is again in 2015, but it did not make it to the the shortlist of nominees in 2014. The point is whether being chosen by the editors of magazine to be included on a long list of candidates for the public to vote from, constitutes 'nominated' status, and therefore worthy of inclusion in a list of accolades on a show's wikipedia entry. My opinion is that it does not. Poltair (talk) 19:07, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

My opinion is the same. That's no different than being a pre-nominee at the Emmy's (which we do not list here).Cebr1979 (talk) 19:32, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

It was put forward on a list of nominations chosen for their own awards ceremony. Big potato, small potato.. it is still a potato. But I understand we all have different opinions on that matter. Thank you Poltair for acknowledging that what I added was correct and the show was nominated. In regards to this ANI, you can come here and paint me as the disruptive editor adding unsourced information. I know it was nominated and the link path changed to the current article, certain websites do so when information is updated for whatever reason. Those who know me on here know how much of my own money I have blown buying sources and old books to improve the project. If it was not true I would have not added it in the first place because all I have given my time to on here is removing flase information and adding true sourced content. I think I am an editor who you can assume good faith with. So yeah, as a community based project, take my word it was nominated and I will do my best to find a replacement source - even if I have to buy a back issue of the magazine online. I see that as a fair solution and we can all work together in peace. To add, Raintheone is male.Rain the 1 22:01, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) This seems like a content dispute that didn't really need to be brought to ANI; in addition, it appears that a solution has already been put forth. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 02:28, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

It is not a content dispute. It's a matter of a user saying "her word" should be accepted and trusted just because (something she just said right here on this board). I will never merely "take a user's word" and no editor should.Cebr1979 (talk) 03:04, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

User Breem001

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Breem001 (talk · contribs) has been editing on and off since 2012. Whenever he was on, it was a burst of vandalism of various kind: false information, hoax articles, random edits with misleading edit summaries, even inserting the word "crappy" :-) I reviewed all his edits, all of them were reverted and many described as "vandalism" in edit summaries, but surpizingly not a single reverter bothered to post a warning. Nevertheless all his life is a clear case of WP:NOTHERE and IMO deserves an indef block without much talk: clearly this person knows what they do, and I would strongly suggest not to waste other wikipedians' time to keep an eye on him whether he pops out in next 6 months for a yet another ludic stint. Staszek Lem (talk) 00:49, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I know this is a pain, Staszek Lem, but reports like this go better if you pick out 3–6 diffs, and show us what you mean. Also, Breem001 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has only posted once in the last month, so Admins may consider this mostly  Stale. --IJBall (talk) 02:36, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• Blocked as Not Here; they can explain themselves in an unblock request.
   — Berean Hunter (talk) 02:49, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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BLP violations by IP editor

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99.155.19.95 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
174.251.2.196 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
174.238.225.146 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

IP is variously denouncing people as paedophiles, [137],[138] and when reverted a bit of petty vandalism. [139] appears to be IP hopping as well.

Requesting a block of the IP addresses and a revdel of the offending entries per WP:BLP. I came straight here as the IP editor is edit warring to impose their changes and IP hopping, so immediate action seems to be required. WCM_email 22:02, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Blocked the first two IPs, but not the third since it hasn't been used since May 9. Also revdel'd the offending edits in Delavan, Illinois and Rossville, Georgia. Looks like an AT&T DSL user with a Verizon Wireless account. KrakatoaKatie 00:02, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I also semi-protected both articles for 2 weeks, so unless another IP pops up, I think we are done here. Monty₈₄₅ 00:04, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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User:Jagged 85 evading ban

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Banned editor Jagged 85 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is apparently active again using various IPs. 86.176.253.179 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 86.176.251.97 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), and possibly others have been making a large number of problematic edits to Electric blues, Blues rock, Origins of rock and roll, and related artist and song articles. They add original research, synthesis, copyvio or closely paraphrased material, etc. in an attempt to push barely sustainable minority or fringe views. Their edits are not supported by RS, which often include only a bare url link to a book or blog. In many cases, these IP edits are identical or similar to those by Jagged 85 from 5 to 6 July 2012[140], such as Origins of rock and roll, Electric blues, Willie Johnson, Moanin' in the Moonlight (Howlin' Wolf album), etc. They also follow Jagged 85's past patterns of introducing large amounts of misinformation to Muslim and computer game articles (see User Jagged_85 and abuse of sources discussion at ANI[141]). A range block or other measures may be necessary to prevent ban evasion. —Ojorojo (talk) 14:22, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

If this guy is screwing around with Moanin' in the Moonlight he needs to be stopped now. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 16:02, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

If you feel this user is evading a ban using sockpuppets, you should file a sockpuppet investigation following the instructions here. SilverSurfingSerpent (talk) 17:20, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

User is not using multiple Wikipedia accounts and evading the ban would seem the main concern. —Ojorojo (talk) 17:41, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

@SilverSurfingSerpent: WP:SPI generally can't confirm IP addresses to usernames for privacy reasons. ― Padenton|✉   21:10, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

• More info: WP:Jagged 85 cleanup and WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jagged 85/Archive. Johnuniq (talk) 12:05, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Added at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jagged 85. —Ojorojo (talk) 22:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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Edit summary by a user (who is now banned)

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Earlier today I emailed the oversight team to request that an offensive edit summary by a user (who is now banned) be deleted from the revision history of the article on S.L. Benfica. I received an email back to say "Unfortunately, the edits associated with your request cannot be suppressed under our policy. If you think this matter needs attention from administrators or editors, please visit the appropriate noticeboard."

I do think that it would be appropriate for the offensive edit summary to be deleted. I would be grateful if an admin could assist with this. The user made four edits before being banned indefinitely. All four edits were vandalism, but one of them contained the offensive edit summary. Please see his or her contributions and edit summary at the following link [142]

Regards, Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 13:32, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• I personally think this doesn't rise to the level that it justifies revision deletion. Considering it under RD2 or RD3, the profanity in an edit summary is only slightly disruptive in this case, so the value of an intact and transparent log outweighs any value deletion of the summaries would bring. I don't see any indication the editor is banned, while they were blocked indefinitely, to justify deletion of material, the material must be added by an already blocked or banned editor in violation of that block or ban. If you can identify a previously blocked/banned editor who this new account is a sockpuppet of, you may be able to get someone to delete under RD5, but I would still abstain myself. Monty₈₄₅ 13:49, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
• Yeah, garden variety profanity doesn't really fit under our deletion criteria, which mostly cover stuff that's way over the top - if we deleted every "fuck" someone used on Wikipedia, we'd have very little time left to do anything else. As Monty says, if you can explain some more about the banned user situation, it's possible it would fit under another criterion, but my feeling right now is that if we'd need to work that hard to find a reason to make it delete-able, it's probably not something that really needs to be nuked. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 13:55, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanations. I personally felt that the edit summary was inappropriate. A couple of times before in the past, when I have contacted the oversight team about a similar type of offensive or inappropriate edit summary, the email that I have received before from the oversight team has said: "After review, we have determined that suppression is not warranted for these edits, but we have used the Revision Deletion extension (which allows the edits to be viewed by administrators only) to remove this content since they fall within the revision deletion policy as inappropriate content."

So although I felt myself that the offensive edit summary came under the category of "inappropriate content" which falls within the revision deletion policy, I do accept your reasons if you disagree with the need to delete it.

Regards, Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 14:09, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

My view is that while it's obviously offensive and inappropriate, it's not so shocking as to justify the rather dramatic step of revision deletion, let alone oversight. WP:CRD lists when we can use RevDel, and I think this qualifies as "ordinary" incivility. Not that you were in any way wrong to ask the question, of course. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 15:26, 26 May 2015 (UTC).

The thing is that I've seen edit summaries that are not as profane as this rev'deltd. Of course, other stuff exists. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:57, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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User:Kheider Adding stuff to WP:Notability (astronomical objects) to point to at AfD

Kheider has been attempting to go against consensus in AfDs for minor astronomical object articles. After several AfDs failed to go his way, he made these changes to WP:Notability (astronomical objects) So that he could point to them at this AfD: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/1775_Zimmerwald in this edit here, less than 30 minutes after adding the 'support' to the notability guideline. There is no consensus on the talk page and little discussion.

Kheider also has been attempting to characterize Boleyn's attempts to cleanup the articles that failed notability as "genocide" at multiple AfDs: 1 2 3

Edit(Added this numbered list for clarity and organization: 18:32, 20 May 2015 (UTC)) In summary, these are the policies that have been alleged that Kheider violated:

1. by me: Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines#Substantive_changes "Editing a policy to support your own argument in an active discussion may be seen as Gaming the system, especially if you do not disclose your involvement in the argument when making the edits."
2. by me: Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks#What_is_considered_to_be_a_personal_attack? "Comparing editors to Nazis, dictators, or other infamous persons. (See also Godwin's law.)"
3. by Boleyn(evidence included below): Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines#Others'_comments "Never edit or move someone's comment to change its meaning, even on your own talk page."

(end list and edit ― Padenton|✉   18:32, 20 May 2015 (UTC))

At 20:45, 17 May 2015 Padenton reverted all 9 of my good faith edits to NASTRO and then called my edits disgusting and assumed bad faith on the NASTRO talk page. Then at 23:53, 17 May 2015 Padenton posted on my talk page accusing me of edit warring. I then explained my edits on the NASTRO talk page at 00:25, 18 May 2015. Then at 00:39, 18 May 2015 Padenton further harassed me by posting this unnecessary (assuming bad faith) ANI complaint. On the NASTRO talk page, Padenton replied back suggesting that the Astro wikiproject is not a proper place to discuss Astro guidelines even though NASTRO itself suggests taking such discussions to the project page. None of my edits to NASTRO were done in bad faith and the ongoing harassment and character assassinations by Padenton need to stop as he has failed to demonstrate how any of my NASTRO edits resulted in a change of outcome for any AfD. Boleyn, was aware by May 6th that "I am working on NASTRO as we speak". -- Kheider (talk) 15:40, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Also Notifying users who have been involved in the deletion discussions: Praemonitus, David Eppstein, Boleyn ― Padenton|✉   00:39, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Wow, you like forumshopping. Take it to Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(astronomical_objects)#Changes_without_consensus. I would say you are the one out of line that can not support reverting my edits. -- Kheider (talk) 00:44, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

If you look at the 29 April 2015 version of NASTRO, it says to "redirect" asteroid stubs, not delete them. If you were paying much attention you would also note that I am not supporting many asteroids in the AfDs. But I do have a right to express opinions and hope that users do not to throw out the baby with the bath water just because an article was created by a bot. -- Kheider (talk) 00:49, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

"it says to "redirect" asteroid stubs, not delete them." Show me a single one that has been deleted in violation of that. "But I do have a right to express opinion" You do. What you don't have the right to do is unilaterally change a notability guideline to support your opinion. ― Padenton|✉   00:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

"Wow, you like forumshopping." Feel free to read WP:FORUMSHOP. If bringing the incident to WP:ANI was forumshopping, this noticeboard wouldn't exist. ― Padenton|✉   01:03, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't have any heartburn with those edits to WP:NASTRO by Kheider. Those just appear to be adding clarification and refinement. Lower numbered asteroids generally have more sources available, and so they are worth checking more closely. I've also had to ask the poster to limit the number of AfDs so we have a chance to investigate properly, and he was kind enough to do so. Praemonitus (talk) 02:36, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I would be inclined to agree with Praemonitus. I don't see Kheider's edits as drastically changing the guideline; rather, I see them as editing the guideline to reflect the current practice of not unilaterally redirecting the low-numbered asteroids. However, the diffs provided comparing Boleyn's actions to genocide are unacceptable, however, and were I uninvolved I would have already issued a strong warning for such behavior. StringTheory11 (t • c) 04:42, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I concur. It has been the result of discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy and simply clarifies the policy. --JorisvS (talk) 12:49, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Kheider is clearly very emotionally involved in this. My main concerns have been about him rewriting my AfD nominations (changing 'delete or redirect', which was my nomination, to just 'redirect', although he stopped when I warned him, I could easily have not noticed these changes being made. Although Kheider stopped, he didn't seem to acknowledge he had done anything wrong. There have also been a range of bad faith comments aimed at me by Kheider in the discussions which I have tried to just ignore and leave the discussions to be about the notability of the page in question. The comments about my actions being 'genocide' shows that Kheider has lost perspective on this (to say the least!). However, his opinions on the notability of the pages are of course very welcome. Boleyn (talk) 07:28, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

As I mentioned on your talk page User_talk:Boleyn#A_barnstar_for_you.21_5, " I re-wrote 2 of your AfDs because you were asking for numbered asteroid deletions when NASTRO makes it clear you should be asking for a re-directs when dealing with asteroids." The problem was quickly solved and I have noticed you have changed your wording since then. Thank you. For the record, I was comparing the act of re-directing 15,000+ bot created asteroid articles to genocide which may be not the best comparison, but 15,000 is a large number. I am disgusted with Padenton attacking me at NASTRO, my talk page, and here without actually having a conversation about the content of NASTRO. -- Kheider (talk) 13:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

If an editor changes a policy, to support their argument in other pages citing that policy, it is very bad practice. Policies must be about «What is best for Wikipedia», not «How can I win my argument?» Spumuq (talq) 09:54, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I fail to see how any of my edits to WP:NASTRO favored my argument for Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/1775_Zimmerwald as claimed by Padenton. This has simply become character assassination by Padenton since he is a deletionist and took a strong dislike to the use of the word genocide. Padenton should NOT have reverted my edits at NASTRO and he is the one harming Wikipedia. Do we need to revert every edit to NASTRO since it was accepted in 2012? I know other people made minor edits to it without approval of a committee. -- Kheider (talk) 13:03, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• The big difference between most of those edits is that they weren't being made by someone taking a position at AfD that is generally against consensus. When you are debating a series of articles in an AfD debate, you should not be making any changes to the relevant notability guideline, unless you're fixing spelling errors/typos. It is also COMPLETELY inappropriate for you to be editing any AfD proposal in the way you did. And, to compound matters, you're trying to blunt-force in your own views as being Wikipedia guidelines, and edit warring in the process. If you keep this up, regardless of any "good" previous history in this area, you will have to be topic banned. Claims that you haven't drastically changed the guideline (by you or by others) are clearly wrong, when the passage of text Asteroids numbered below 2000 should be discussed before re-directing as they are generally larger and have been known longer. Editors should not nominate more than 10 asteroids a day to AfD for discussion. was not previously in there in any form, and is obviously bullshit in part (you have no right to place arbitrary restrictions on how many things editors can nominate at AfD whatsoever). Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 14:16, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• And those edits are being explained and discussed on the appropriate talk page at Wikipedia_talk:Notability (astronomical_objects)#Changes without consensus. I was not available during March or April when Boleyn started hundreds of AfDs. -- Kheider (talk) 14:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• The fact they are being discussed now does not change the fact that you tried to force your change in TWICE after being reverted. Also noteworthy is the fact that both editors who have cast a !vote have opposed your changes. Wake up and smell the coffee - your viewpoint isn't the same as the majority of other editor's, and you need to recognize that ASAP. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 14:41, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• As being discussed below, do not confuse my 50km asteroid proposal that is being opposed with my clean-up of NASTRO that has received support from Praemonitus, StringTheory11, JorisvS, and has been general consensus for quite some time. If anything is new, it would be the 10 AfDs a day rule, which Boleyn found reasonable when Praemonitus made the request. -- Kheider (talk) 15:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Two thoughts:

1. Kheider should probably be topic-banned from this area for a month or so until he calms down
2. WP:NOTABILITY and its subpages aren't gold-locked WHY exactly? There's no need for anybody but sysops to edit them, particularly when editing them causes problems like these.

pbp 14:36, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Wow. Even the editors against me say my edits to NASTRO were good. -- Kheider (talk) 14:39, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Some editors say that. I don't say that, nor do several other editors - your claim above is a barefaced lie (as can be seen from Padenton's comments on the NASTRO discussion which are staunchly in opposition to your actions, whilst David Eppstein has directly rejected your numbers-based change). Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 14:46, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

You do realize that they (including David Eppstein) are opposing my 50km asteroid rule, not the changes I made to clean-up NASTRO? -- Kheider (talk) 14:51, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

You do realize that is not an entirely accurate analysis of their position? "A number is not a source and does not convey notability." rejects your attempts at arbitrarily defining notability for multiple sections with numbers you came up with yourself, not just the "50km asteroid rule". Padenton was also opposing your ownership of the guideline and associated articles - and it is pretty hard to come to any other conclusion. You are way too personally involved in this, you need to back right off and let other editors have their say. Just because you created something does not mean you can rule it with an iron fist. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 14:57, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Can you name a change that I made to the actual NASTRO guide that I do not have any consensus for? I never inserted my 50km proposal. There is a basically accepted consensus on the Astro project for treating numbered asteroids below 2000 differently. I am not aware if anyone is even against even that change. -- Kheider (talk) 15:06, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

I just pointed to a comment that is rejecting your arbitrary numbers, which, yes, includes that "numbered asteroids below 2000" thing. And besides, you're talking about a discussion for automatic redirecting, not one where asteroids below a completely arbitrary number are automatically assumed to be notable. Chalk and cheese. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 15:27, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Where did I write all numbered asteroid below 2000 are notable? The general consensus for years has been to discuss the ones below 2000. -- Kheider (talk)

I misread who made the post on the discussion thread with the laundry list of arbitrary numbers, so I apologize for that. However, the whole point of an AfD debate is to have a discussion - so there's nothing wrong with nominating it whatsoever. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 15:49, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

That's right, there's nothing wrong with that. Kheider's version says that below 2000 that's exactly what should happen, on an individual basis. Above 2000 has already been discussed and decided that, if they meet certain criteria, they can be redirected without further discussion. Of course, if someone would like a discussion, that can still happen. --JorisvS (talk) 08:07, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

I suggest archiving this thread as it is out scope of this board. Anybody can edit any page in Wikipedia including any guideline. There is nothing here that requires administrator attention. Ruslik_Zero 21:01, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

@Ruslik0: The allegations made against Kheider in this ANI are (Redacted) (See top instead, list has been moved to initial statement)

Evidence for all these is in the arguments and links above. I could be wrong, I am not an admin, but I believe these are certainly within the scope of WP:ANI. If not, by all means show me where it should go and I will happily apologize and take it to the rightful location. ― Padenton|✉   03:50, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

ANI is only for reporting specific incidents that require immediate administrator attention. General dispute resolution is outside the scope of this board. Ruslik_Zero 13:09, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

@Ruslik0: Sorry, but WP:CONDUCTDISPUTE seems to say that the place would still be here unless I'm misreading it: "If the problem is with the editor's conduct, not their position on some matter of article content, then you may ask an administrator to evaluate the conduct of the user. You can ask for an administrator's attention at a noticeboard such as the administrators' noticeboard for incidents (ANI)." This is an issue about user conduct in this disagreement, and as much as a few editors may have chosen to respond to only say "I liked/didn't like kheider's changes" that isn't what this ANI was brought up for. Rather it was brought up for the allegations I made above. ― Padenton|✉   13:25, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

• There is nothing to be done here. If it draws some attention to Boleyn's mindless attempts to redirect some asteroid articles instead of consolidating the information in those articles into comprehensive list articles and a rational organizing scheme, all the better.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 04:29, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

AfD is the place for that claim. However, I am still unsure how stubs with less information than JPL's completely free database with less organization would be more helpful in constructing the comprehensive list articles you want. ― Padenton|✉   05:36, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

AfD is not for cleanup, however. There are lots of better free websites than Wikipedia, but none nearly as comprehensive nor as able to be continually improved. Thus the 10 minutes I just spent on 504 Cora will better serve humankind than mass AfDs which are effectively deleting content.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:14, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

"AfD is not for cleanup" refers to WP:CLEANUP, not articles where the issue is the subject's notability, as you were told in AfD. See Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup. Cleaning up articles of questionable notability by deleting them or changing them to redirects is exactly what AfD is for. ― Padenton|✉   14:24, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

No one is debating that the information contained in these stubs could not be retained in list articles, yet it is being effectively deleted by stupid AfD drone behavior. The slavish devotion to whether a subject has a "page" vs. whether that content is available on Wikipedia in a digestable way to benefit our readers is ridiculous. It may well be that a ton of stubs is not the best way to display information. E.g., having stubs on every member of AKB48 is not a good way to present information. All I am demanding is that editors improve this encyclopedia if they wish to edit it.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:50, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

The presence of indiscriminate information on minor planets of no significance whatsoever in separate articles doesn't improve this encyclopedia. It improves this encyclopedia to follow consensus, and that consensus is that most of these articles shouldn't exist. There is absolutely nothing lost here, this is complaining about nothing. Feel free to expand the list articles with the various numbers, all of which can be seen from the history of any of the articles (all of which were redirected, I haven't seen a single one deleted), or you can just use the JPL database (which is where all the information was scraped from in the first place). ― Padenton|✉   14:58, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I demand that Boleyn rewrite List of minor planets: 1001–2000, etc. to include a collapsible box with all the data content in every asteroid article they are sending to AfD, which number in the hundreds. If this is not done, I vote that Boleyn be deleted from Wikipedia. I am not Boleyn's slave.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 16:34, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

If you are the one who wants to see the information, it is on you to make the table; you get to demand nothing. Boleyn is simply following the notability guideline WP:NASTRO, which was approved by community consensus. If you want to see a change, perhaps you could actually go to the appropriate forum (the talk page) and propose such a change, to see if it gets support, instead of here and on AfDs. StringTheory11 (t • c) 17:11, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Wrroooonng. I am not making any tables, you are not making me a slave. I am demanding that Boleyn make these changes and expect them to be followed. If not, I will demand that an asteroid collide with Earth. At some point an admin will close these thread and my demands will certainly be fulfilled.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 18:21, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Milowent interaction ban

I hate to propose sanctions against somebody who is clearly usually a productive member of the community, but I must here. Milowent seems to have taken it upon themselves to oppose every recent AfD started by Boleyn (see contribs here; search for AfD nominations). That alone would constitute some wikihounding and is subpar behavior, and then I saw Milowent's comment in this thread that was obviously a personal attack on Boleyn here, referring to himself as a slave to Boleyn and "demand"ing that Boleyn be "deleted" from Wikipedia in the most condescending way possible. I thought it was an isolated incident, but then noticed that Milowent has been plastering the same comment on multiple AfDs regarding asteroids, see [143], [144], and [145]. When queried by me here and MrX at one of the AfDs, Milowent's responses were not encouraging, saying that his "demand" is rational [146], and that he, again, was not going to be a "slave", and that he wishes an asteroid would collide with Earth to stop the nominations [147]. It is clear at this point that Milowent cannot constructively interact with Boleyn, and I propose a one-way interaction ban preventing Milowent from interacting with Boleyn. (I also recommend that no further action be taken against Kheider for the time being). StringTheory11 (t • c) 02:12, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support as nom. StringTheory11 (t • c) 02:12, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Neutral: struck support, Milowent has acknowledged (but not apologized over) the personal attacks and incivility. A point that needs to be mentioned: Using WP:EFD for incivility, then bringing up the excuse of humor, is a very poor excuse to use WP:EFD. Esquivalience ^t 00:36, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support This behaviour is upsetting me. I started AfDs as per general consensus, to solve a notability issue several years old - and the majority of those I have nominated have not been kept, but redirected. Nevertheless, I've felt hounded and intimidated by people opposing them being discussed, including around 30 notifications from Milowent of comments which have all been personal attacks, including 22 in one go. I'm fine with someone disagreeing with me, but we can't have this sort of behaviour. Boleyn (talk) 05:47, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose as accused. More to come later, on the night shift at the moment. Suffice it to say, I've had my say and only commented in a few of Boleyn's mass of nominations. I have no intention of going further with my efforts to draw editor attention to my concerns, if that was not sufficient.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 10:53, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Additional comments from the accused: Oh lord people. I must disclose an important fact. Despite my frequent claims of omnipotence, I do not have the power to make an asteroid collide with Earth to influence AfD outcomes I do not like. I commented in about 10-15(?) of maybe 200 asteroid AfDs started by Boleyn (far from "every recent afd") in the past month. My initial comments about it being a misuse of AfD to do this (no AfD references the others, cut and paste nominations, no real evidence of WP:BEFORE occuring) went unheard, as they are trying to use AfD to develop policy, which really never works like this. WP:EFD (nominating editors for deletion you are frustrated with) is a joke as old as wikipedia. One really shouldn't propose interaction bans and blocks the first time you have a complaint about another editor, without even talking to them. I am the most reasonable person in the world. I didn't ask that Boleyn be banned from making AfD nominations for asteroids for a month (though it would be a good idea if they voluntarily let the prior AfDs run and then propose some consensus rules, but they completely ignored my suggestions). What am I primarily taking my time to do? I spent time timing improving 1700 Zvezdara, currently at AfD, to show it may indeed be notable, instead of being subject to a cut-and-paste nomination. I also improved 504 Cora, which isn't at AfD, but on a hitlist Wikipedia:Minor planet articles that might fail NASTRO, and which appeared notable to me. Boleyn, as with my perfectly friendly comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uthai Thani F.C., I simply ask you to consider if you are going about this the right way, and when you get negative reactions that is not a terrible thing, it is something to consider.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:56, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose: Boleyn, this whole Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia is one of Wikipedia greatest problems and one of the reasons people leave Wikipedia never to return. This is also why I had asked to spare borderline asteroid candidates so there would be wiggle room for some growth, thus still giving the inclusionists something to expand. Newbies simply will not know how to undo a re-direct to a list page. Hell, after editing Wikipedia since 2006, I have not run around memorizing every policy, guide, or essay that can be thrown in someone's face by the Wiki-police. I only got involved in the NASTRO guide because I thought it was important and to combat extremists such as Chrisrus. Personally, I hate working on policies and making rules, but I also know very few have my knowledge or willingness (foolishness?) to work on NASTRO. After reading all of this crap, do you really think anyone else from the Astro project page will want to step-up and put serious effort into NASTRO any time soon with the risk of some wiki-cop coming around and attacking them? -- Kheider (talk) 15:42, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support per nom, Esquivalience, and Boleyn. No objection to no further sanctions on Kheider provided he agrees in the future to:

1. Allow the discussion of his changes to policy/guidelines at the proper venue (which is the talk page of said policy, not a wikiproject talk page)
2. Be up front about edits he makes to policies/guidelines by alerting discussions he is involved in that are affected by those changes
3. Cease personal attacks against other users, including but not limited to:
   • Comparing actions fully justified by policy to genocide
   • Characterizing the edits of other editors as gang rape
4. Refrain from editing the discussion comments of others, especially when he disagrees with them.

I really fail to see how any of these are 'obscure policies' being thrown at Kheider by the 'wiki-police'. It's simple common decency, honesty, and integrity. But apparently fair, reasoned discussion is a little too bureaucratic for "one of the creators of WP:NASTRO" as he introduced himself in some of the AfDs. ― Padenton|✉   16:59, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

"Common decency" is not how I would describe your bad faith assumptions, calling my edits to NASTRO disgusting, posting edit war comments to my page "before having a real discussion at NASTRO", and then taking me to ANI so you could have your way with me. -- Kheider (talk) 17:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

It's not a bad faith assumption to bring this issue to WP:ANI, the proper venue for it, when you allege Boleyn has committed Genocide, allege I gangraped you by starting this ANI, and edit Boleyn's AfD nomination to change its meaning. "so you could have your way with me" Seriously? Right after your 2 day block ended for comparing my actions to gangrape? You talk about scaring newbies away from Wikipedia. Are you sure you're not more of a problem than I am? You changed WP:NASTRO by "adding clarifications" that would support your argument in an AfD and then pointed to the new text as you had modified it to support your claims in an AfD. You still don't seem to realize how dishonest that is and how dangerous that is for consensus in Wikipedia. ― Padenton|✉   17:33, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

You assumed my edits to NASTRO where in bad faith and still may think that for all I know. Not one of my changes to NASTRO caused a change of outcome at an AfD and am not sure how any of those common sense changes to NASTRO would. -- Kheider (talk) 17:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I grow tired of repeating myself. Your edits to WP:NASTRO here again implied a size cutoff for notability, in support of your previous arguments in the AfDs. They also implied that any number of light curve studies or occultation studies would support notability. You also imposed your own personal opinion of how many nominations should be made a day. All of these were in support of arguments you have been making in numerous AfDs for the past couple weeks. ― Padenton|✉   18:04, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

See if you ask a question instead of attacking me, I can better explain. The main-belt asteroid 1999 XF255 is 5km in diameter and that is mostly why it is NOT notable in anyway shape or form. In no way was I suggesting asteroids larger than 5km are notable be default. When doing a search for asteroid info you will normally come across light curve studies or occultation studies, again that is does not automatically grant notability, but should be considered. You obviously know that the text can be edited vs completely reverting everything a single editor has added?-- Kheider (talk) 18:22, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

The problem is this is a guideline. Editors unfamiliar with the topic go there for guidance in their actions. By saying "it's not notable because it is less than 5km in diameter" doesn't clarify it, it makes it more vague. Just as saying "before nominating, check for light curve studies and occultation studies" (neither quote is verbatim) is implying that they are notable when you don't clarify that by saying it alone is not enough to justify notability. People are already checking for light curve studies and occultation studies, because they come up in searches for sources. I have yet to see a minor planet AfD where participants did not check google scholar and discuss that specific minor planet. ― Padenton|✉   21:01, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support as per OP - and as per some of Milowent's totally ridiculous comments in the thread above (ie the sarcastic demands and such tripe). Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 00:57, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose as completely uninvolved, unlike many participants in this discussion. These are all good contributors and this is a content dispute, acted out over inclusion of semi-minor astronomical objects. For the record, I've never been accused of being a friend to User:Milowent. It would fair to say that usually that editor and I have disagreed, sometimes bitterly, about AfD procedures. However, IMHO, there's some hyperbole being tossed around here on both sides (heck, even on the part of the IBAN/TBAN proposer), and I don't think an interaction ban is the way to go, and I certainly don't agree with a topic ban. Milowent is an editor I consider a strong inclusionist and perhaps an eventualist (in this case I mean that as a compliment). That editor has in the past worked doggedly to improve and keep articles at AFD as opposed to delete them, in virtually every sort of content area. The editor's passion is and has always been very strong, and I'll agree the comments made relating to slavery and user deletion were over the top. The diffs provided above, however, don't meet my standard for personal attack (personal yes, hyperbole yes, sarcastic yes, attack not so much). On the other hand, User:Boleyn has been a busy beaver, putting several hundred astronomical pages up for AFD in the last month or two, and other editors have asked Boleyn to slow down. We've got no deadline after all. Milowent has only commented at 25-30 processes (hardly "every one" as proposer asserts). Saying you want to delete users is an ancient inclusionist/ARS joke which doesn't play well anymore. As far as I can see, most of the conflict could have been avoided if (after seeing the way the wind was blowing) Boleyn had simply chosen to redirect the articles, which is how almost all of these AFDs have concluded. If Boleyn had not been so dedicated to putting these up for deletion in such a hurry, perhaps a better decision could have been made, given feedback at these many AFDs that these mostly deserved redirect, page histories being kept intact for later expansion (which is why I suspect Milowent opposed deletion so vigorously). IMHO, this whole affair would be better served at DR, not to this board. For now, Boleyn should stop putting more of these articles up for deletion until the issue is resolved. For now, Milowent should admit their use of language was unnecessarily strong, and promise not to repeat the behavior. For the rest, this deserves dispute resolution. I see insufficient diffs of wrongdoing to find anything actionable against any user in this dispute. BusterD (talk) 05:54, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

• BusterD's comment has made me feel all warm and fuzzy. I agree that my language against Boleyn was unnecessarily strong despite the silliness of it, and promise not to repeat that behavior. I also promise to call off all notable and non-notable asteroids I previously had summoned towards Earth at high velocity.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 02:37, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you, Milowent. With the promise not to repeat the behavior, I withdraw the proposal; I take Milowent's word for what it is, and no longer believe an interaction ban is necessary. StringTheory11 (t • c) 05:48, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Together we can take things like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1656 Suomi and improve wikipedia for future generations of humankind.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 06:20, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose. Sorry, but proposing an editor for "deletion" is not something that warrants interaction ban. Some people here clearly lack sense of humor. Ruslik_Zero 20:20, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Couple of rangeblocks needed

Well, it looks like I've managed to upset someone, and now I have the pleasure of being hounded by an IP user hopping across a couple of ranges. From what I'm seeing, the ranges are pretty much 63.141.204.xxx and 216.177.129.xxx. Could someone help out and drop a couple of rangeblocks down to stop this silliness please? Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 00:11, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• Well, we have a new IP in this farce: 98.124.175.25 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 00:33, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
• IPs all ping back, so far at least, to either nLayer Communications or AS Areti Internet Ltd. Are these proxy providers? Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 00:38, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
• Latest range is definitely 98.124.175.xxx. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 00:42, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

@Lukeno94: I can only find 3 IPs in that range, giving 98.124.175.0/24 (covers 256 IP addresses). Have you got any other candidates in that range? --Diannaa (talk) 00:54, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• As far as I can tell, they're all pretty small ranges right now. The WHOIS data for some of the IPs in this range doesn't even seem to exist yet; for example, 98.124.175.69 didn't produce much of the more detailed parts on the WHOIS check (ie, the bits in the dark grey box) when I first checked it. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 00:57, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• @Diannaa: They haven't given up on the old ranges yet, as evidenced by 63.141.204.170 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 01:04, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes I saw that. I did 63.141.204.0/24; 216.177.129.0/24; 98.124.175.0/24, all for 24 hours. -- Diannaa (talk) 01:09, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• Perfect, thanks. I can now go to bed in peace! Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 01:11, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• Heh, looks like they're back, and are now taking more care to make themselves less detectable/predictable. So far today, I've had 85.9.20.151 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), which is a Romanian CyberGhost IP (which will therefore need blocking, as will any IP on that range - CyberGhost is a VPN), and 95.141.29.55 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), which is a Luxembourg Kaia Global Networks Ltd IP. @Diannaa: to make you aware of this change. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:38, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
• 208.31.49.20 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) is the latest - Kaia Global Networks Ltd. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 22:06, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
• 208.31.49.58 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) gives us confirmation that there is a blockable range there. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 22:09, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

@Lukeno94: Just got back from the symphony, it looks like the activity stopped about 30 minutes ago (likely because you too stopped editing). Range for these two is 208.31.49.0/26 (covers just 64 IP addresses). I'm not inclined to block unless the activity resumes. -- Diannaa (talk) 22:55, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• That's fine, just want to make sure that you're up to date on what was going on. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 23:06, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

• Now back as 95.141.31.8 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), an Italian Kaia Global Networks IP. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 06:53, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

User:AntonioMartin desysopped

For violation of policy in relation to the account User:Le Pato Frances; AntonioMartin is desysopped. They may only regain the tools through a successful request for adminship.

Supporting: Courcelles, Doug Weller, GorillaWarfare, Guerillero, LFaraone, Roger Davies, Salvio giuliano, Seraphimblade, Yunshui

For the Arbitration Committee;

Courcelles (talk) 17:56, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#User:AntonioMartin desysopped

Shared account being used for harassment: MaWillder

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The account MaWillder (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is shared according to this edit and this website. My user talk page was protected by Zad68 because of harassment and this is a continuation of that harassment as the user admitted they are the same as the IP user (see linked edit above). Requesting account be indefed as TOS violation. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 21:21, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

If you want to delete an account I didn't even create, go ahead. And as for the supposed 'harassment' of you by me, I could only wish to be subject to 'harassment' like that I were an editor, filled with information and suggestions, but that's just my odd tastes. ~~~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaWillder (talk • contribs) 21:27, May 27, 2015‎ (UTC)

Not to mention that I find it pretty bizarre that you speak of 'continued' harassment while every single one of my edits was a reaction to your action and not once did I reply to myself on your talk page. But, again, that's just me that finds this peculiar. ~~~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaWillder (talk • contribs) 21:38, May 27, 2015‎ (UTC)

@MaWillder: please properly sign your Talk page comments – do not use "nowiki" around your "~~~~" tags... --IJBall (talk) 21:51, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I was under the impression that WP:SIG explicitly allows customizing your signature with markup tags, which is exactly what I'm doing. ~~~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaWillder (talk • contribs) 21:55, May 27, 2015 (UTC)‎

No – you need to get rid of the "nowiki" stuff... --IJBall (talk) 21:56, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, you can customize it by going to Preferences>User Profile>Signature. Using nowiki means that your tildes (~) are just tildes and not your signature. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:07, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Exactly the behavior of the IP editor that was doing the previous harassment. See Talk:Self-harm#The_current_image_is_not_representative EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 22:09, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for bringing my points on the irrelevance of the requirement to sign your edits to a broader audience of administrators, Fir. I would not venture to do this myself. That said, let me mention that if you've managed to identify me using my ~~~~, then it means it is clearly unique and therefore, by definition, a signature. ~~~~

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History of the WWE - Long-running edit war

• User:RealDealBillMcNeal and User:Rebelrick123 have been engaged in an on-and-off edit war on this article since February. The general gist of it seems to centre around the names of the "eras" involved. The first revert in this long-running sequence came on the 6th of February, where RealDealBillMcNeal (henceforth referred to as RDBMN) reverted a bunch of edits from Rebelrick123 (henceforth referred to as R123) with the edit summary of "Removing waffle." This edit war lasted another two days before the page was fully protected for a week. Since this rime, R123 has been blocked thrice for edit warring and personal attacks, whilst RDBMN has been blocked twice for exactly this kind of behaviour (both times ending up with their talk page access revoked). It's hard to say who is "right" in terms of the content war; both editors have had people intervening on their behalf as more than just reverting to the status quo (the latter is all I've done), and I've seen sources support both sides of the story. But it's not just the edit warring which has been problematic, it's been the language and attitudes used by both editors - be it in edit summaries, talk page threads, or user talk page posts:

• R123: There's no Reality Era but Authority Era? Lol keep acting like you run this page, man., "Quit putting BS paragraph titles:", Must've been a good few weeks of this false nonsense., "RealDealBillMcNeill is a fool."
• RDBMN: Removing steaming pile of unnotable garbage and unsourced shite, Banned LOL, "who are you?", "Imagine defending a professional paedophile-enabler?"

• I think there's little question that RDBMN's attitude has been worse, but then again, the vast majority of R123's edits were done with either no edit summary at all, or were just "undid revision X by editor Y", which is no more helpful. It's also worth noting that, since February, R123 has barely touched any article that is not the History of the WWE article; and most of those, if not all of them, were to related articles (ie articles on wrestlers). RDBMN also has a history of being incredibly combative on other articles; four previous blocks for 3RR violations are a pretty good sign of that.
• Just a further note to say that R123 has reverted twice more since the start of this ANI thread, and probably should face an immediate block on that basis. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 09:49, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Proposed solutions

• I think we have to look at a few potential solutions to this problem. Short-term blocks don't work, and that's been proven. It's also been proven that neither editor is going to stop and discuss at this point. I can think of three solutions:

1. Both RealDealBillMcNeal and Rebelrick123 are indefinitely topic banned from editing the History of the WWE article, due to the long-term edit war.
2. Both RealDealBillMcNeal and Rebelrick123 are indefinitely banned from interacting with each other, under the standard terms of an IBAN.
3. Both RealDealBillMcNeal and Rebelrick123 are indefinitely blocked from editing Wikipedia, for persistent battleground conduct, including long-term edit-warring and severe incivility.

• I would support all three of these solutions in equal amounts, and personally think that option 2 should be enforced if option 1 is. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 19:33, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
• Definitely support #1 – an article ban seems like it's definitely necessary in this case. No opinion (yet) on #2 and #3... --IJBall (talk) 19:40, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Imagine banning somebody from editing a page for trying to stop continuously disruptive editing that has marred this article for a long long time. Great patter. RealDealBillMcNeal (talk) 20:29, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• You've edit warred so heavily on it that you've been blocked twice for your actions on the article, and both times your behaviour was so out of line that you found your talk page access getting revoked. Neither of you is any better than the other. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:16, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support #1 and #2 (in the hope that we won't need #3). Neither party has clean hands in this dispute. Miniapolis 22:11, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support #1 and #2(uninvolved non admin) The behaviour of both surely warrants the actions. AlbinoFerret 22:35, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support #3 I have only had the honour of interacting with RealDealBillMcNeal and the behaviour extends beyond the article being discussed here, one I've never edited. The trash-talk was unacceptable. Treating Wikipedia as a battleground is not particularly enjoyable. Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:37, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support #1 and #2 as option 1, but would not oppose #3 if the consensus became the two should be indef'd. Blackmane (talk) 02:08, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support #1. The two editors have only banged heads in the context of this article, so if they stay away from it it should make #2 moot. #3 is overkill. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 13:16, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• The reasoning behind #3; this is far from the first article that RDBMN has been problematic at, or their first edit-warring block; they have four priors, as well as a long history of extremely uncollaborative behaviour, and R123 is, at this point, essentially an SPA. Perhaps it could be argued to be overkill for R123, but RDBMN's history more than deserves such a sanction IMO. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 20:07, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

• Support RealDealBillMcNeal being topic banned from editing the History of the WWE for a time period such as a year. Rebelrick123 should be kept under surveillance. GregKaye 04:49, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

• Question: how can you support a topic ban for one party and not the other? Both have been equally as bad as the other, regardless of who is "right" content-wise. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 11:58, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

• Bumping this to ensure it's not archived without action. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 20:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support all three. The first is so obvious that it shouldn't need to be written out, but it's better to make formal. The second is also pretty obvious, as it will prevent potential revenge wikis talking from either side. As for the third, well, it's pretty heavy, but this is out the first time RDBM has shown himself to be a guy who tried to bully his way around. He needs to take a hike and not let the door hit him on the way out. R123 I'm less concerned needs a full ban, but as both sides display equally atrocious behavior here, they should get the same result. oknazevad (talk) 13:55, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support Option 1 and 2 but only after some instances I think that option 2 should be used first, if they see that they have been given enough leash, and start making trouble again Then option 1 would apply, I would reccomend that we use option 3 only if they start using socks or meatpuppets or preforming ban evasion. Happy_Attack_Dog (Throw Me a Bone) 19:28, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support 1, 1&2 or 3 Oppose 2 on its own. If we enact an IBAN then the first of these two to post edits and post in talk page discussions owns the page. I think a long term 1 should be enacted at first. 2 should be used if this spills over to other pages, 3 should be used if 2 is broken. SPACKlick (talk) 23:03, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Whoa, what just happened?

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For some reason Wikipedia wasn't working for a while. Did something go wrong with the coding? --Mr. Guye (talk) 23:00, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Had that problem too for about 10 minutes. "Internal server error" was message I got. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:01, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Just a run of the mill server burp I'd guess. The IRC side of things means these type of issues normally get dealt with in a matter of minutes. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 23:03, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Considering the timing, I strongly suspect [148] this here is related. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 23:08, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Jimbo! Grognard Extraordinaire Chess (talk) Ping when replying 23:10, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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Editor forcing his edits through

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Editor 185.34.28.184 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is forcing his edits through on the Battletoads article. They use edit summaries, but don't seem to address the reasons for their edits being reverted in a meaningful way. Also, this is probably suited for another place, but for the life of me I can't remember where. Eik Corell (talk) 16:02, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

The IP has done a bit of copyediting, removed some unsourced content and removed some redundant categories. What's the issue? IMHO the article needs far more work as it is woefully undersourced and has the whiff of a fan's point of view about it. As for another venue, the talk page is the best first step, followed by dispute resolution. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree. The filing party is advised that there is no evidence of problematic editing and they should take their concerns to the article/user talk page, as appropriate, per WP:DR.

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Editor removed all but a small part of an article on Scottish village, stating that WP policy is that all unreferenced claims should always be removed

User:Mcmatter has removed all but a small part of the article on Borve, Lewis. I tried to discuss with him on his talk page, but I hit a brick wall when he asserted that Wikipedia's policy was that "if it isn't referenced it can be and should be removed". I questioned that sweeping assertion and he could not justify it, preferring to collapse the discussion from his talk page saying he is "done with" the conversation. The discussion is in the history here.

Mcmatter originally became involved with the article to support the action of editor MacRusgail, a user who has been warned for repeated incidents of bad behaviour and threatened with a block. MacRusgail's action had been to revert an edit I had made on the grounds that I had removed two references, references which in my view were completely unnecessary - one being to a road users' website, included as a source for the assertion that the main road through the village is called the A857, information that is easily verifiable and that nobody had challenged. Compulsively sourcing such information makes for a feel that is sophomoric.

It is interesting that Mcmatter and MacRusgail, who have such similar usernames, should share such an extremist view of references and be applying it to the same article at the same time.

For the record, in my editing I removed a few pieces of non-notable information but did not, as far as I can recall, add any new information. In fact I shortened the article considerably, but this was mainly due to improving the style. So I am not someone who has kept adding information needlessly. But I do think that in its form before the involvement of Mcmatter and MacRusgail it was a good article undeserving of being slashed back to the quick, and I do not believe that Wikipedia has a policy that unreferenced claims should always be removed, which is the point on which the discussion with Mcmatter turned.Lordelephapia (talk) 07:41, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

There is no policy that unreferenced material must be or even should be removed. In fact WP:PRESERVE says otherwise. I do think that in this case User:Mcmatter is engaging in destructive tactics that are a form of almost "control bullying" which is poor etiquette for such an inoffensive article. Sometimes editors make tiresome demands for citations for things that could easily be found, or which are so uncontested that the demand itself can seem like a form of intimidation. Removing a citation, however, was not helpful. I presume that much of the other content could be cited to local history literature. Paul B (talk) 10:57, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Actually Mcmatter's correct, Wikipedia cannot be used to post anything that isn't reliably sourced, no matter who thinks it's true. So yeah, McMatter's correct KoshVorlon Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti 11:20, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

No. Read WP:UNSOURCED. The guideline is quite nuanced as does not support such blitzing behaviour. There is no such rule. Huge swathes of content on Wikipedia is unreferenced. Content can be challenged and can be removed, but there is no rule that says uncited content "cannot" exist or that it should be removed, let alone must be removed. Show me where it is. Paul B (talk) 11:31, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree with Paul B, not every statement in an article needs to be referenced. It's preferable that sources are provided but a statement can exist, unreferenced, until another editor questions whether it is verified and challenges it. If every sentence that didn't have a citation was removed from en-Wikipedia, I'm guessing Wikipedia content would shrink by 90%. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:45, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

This is essentially a content dispute, and thus not appropriate for this page. I notice that none of you has so much as raised this on the article talk page, which is the appropriate venue for this discussion. RolandR (talk) 11:27, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't agree with the removal of all content, but if it's being re-added, then WP:BURDEN applies - "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material". Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 11:31, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree with the removal of content, per WP:VERIFY and WP:OR- Wikipedia clearly states a requirement for reliable sources. It should definitely not be readded without reliable sources. Also, this seems like a content dispute, why isn't it at the talkpage? Joseph2302 (talk) 11:36, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

The relevant guidelines do not support such blitzing destruction of unchallenged content. See WP:UNSOURCED. Paul B (talk) 11:39, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Paul Barlow you've repeated yourself about three times with the same sentance, go back and read WP:UNSOURCED, it says, on the very first line " All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing a citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." it goes on to say Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source . So yes, WP:UNSOURCED definetly supports removal of unsourced items, McMatter is still right. Keep calm and add reliable sources. KoshVorlon Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti 16:25, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I haven't repeated the "same sentence" even once. I have referred to the same guideline to two different editors (not "about three times"). And no, you didn't read it very well. It does not support blanket removal of content. It advises asking for or looking for sources, and tagging, not blanking. I repeat what I said befotre to you. The guideline states that "Content can be challenged and can be removed, but there is no rule that says uncited content "cannot" exist or that it should be removed, let alone must be removed". I suspect you know this, and are perfectly well aware that I read every word of the passages in question. Paul B (talk) 00:03, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

I have readded some content to the article, with sources, and I see Voceditenore has taken up the baton too. In the meantime, I would suggest Mcmatter calm down and look for sources himself (perhaps the National Archives of Scotland has something?) before he tries to take Port Carlisle Junction, Scenic Daylight, Tracking (particle physics), Winter vacation and Writing in Ancient Egypt to AfD. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:14, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

So now admins are attacking users or placing words in their mouths? I had no intention of taking this article to AfD, never said or implied I was doing any such thing. The content which I challenged and removed was the history on a tiny village in Scotland, all the information is in the history for easy retrieval for anyone with the knowledge or access to source the information. I have done nothing which is outside policy. I have included the discussion from my talkpage for all to review.- McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 12:33, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I haven't used any admin tools in this discussion, so I don't understand how that's relevant. My point is that you seem to keen to delete content and point fingers at everyone else to fix it, rather than doing the work yourself. Is that really what's best for the enyclopedia? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:38, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Ritchie333 is right. If both McMatter and Lordelephapia had worked togther to provide proper references (always a good thing), instead of edit warring (always a bad thing), festooning the article with banners (rarely an optimal thing), and pointlessly arguing here (never an optimal thing), the encyclopedia would have been made better and in a much shorter time. Geesh! This whole farrago rather reminds me of the (satirical) tag at the top of User talk:Sitush. Voceditenore (talk) 13:12, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

True, but Lordelephapia at least has the excuse the he's a very inexperienced new editor. Paul B (talk) 13:16, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

That's true too, Paul. Not a very fab introduction to Wikipedia :( and all the more reason why the deleters/festooners should have helped out a bit there. Voceditenore (talk) 13:27, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

I reverted MacRusgail's edit because his only stated reason for reverting my extensive and mainly stylistic revision, that I spent a lot of time over (not in finding sources, but in crafting), was that I had removed references for two tiny pieces of information, one of them being for the official number of the main road through the village. He gave his reason in the summary to his edit. Had he just added the references back in for those bits, I probably wouldn't have done anything. Mcmatter referred to WP policy so I tried to engage him on his talk page (and ironically, as well as asking him what statements he thought required references the other thing I asked him was to point me to a source for his understanding of WP policy), but I didn't revert his edit, even though I felt like doing so, restoring what he had deleted and asking him in the summary what exactly he challenged the verifiability of. So he is right to say below that no edit war has taken place. But he then says that if he had "caught" the material, and so on, not realising that if he applied that way of thinking more widely he'd delete 90% of Wikipedia, as Liz says above. I intend my main contribution to Wikipedia in the near future to be stylistic revision, so I may just wait for what the Borve article looks like in a few weeks time and then review it for style, leaving all references be.Lordelephapia (talk) 17:37, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Ritchie333 second comment is fair, his first is not, It doesn't matter if you use the tools or not, as this is an admin board an admin should be ever so caution on their words. No edit war has taken place, this only leads me to believe you are only reading the headlines and not the story. I stand by my edit, if I had caught this material when it was first entered into the article nothing would have happened and no one would have cared, but because it was caught a year later and a big red number shows up, some begin to scream deletionist and BAD BAD!. If I would have left the tags they would have sat there for years because again no one cared. User such as I do care and help the encyclopedia by holding it to the higher standard, if everything is left then we would be Wordpress. As this has all happened within the last 24 hours I do think everyone should probably take a step back and look at everything as I can see some people are only reading what they want to and is very quickly going to turn into another witch hunt by the mob.- McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 14:08, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Mcmatter, the only thing I think was wrong is that you didn't show evidence you had searched for sources. If you had said, "look, I have raked through Google Books, and all my archive subscriptions and I can't find any evidence the church opened in 1895, aside from a blog saying it opened in 1896. Until a definite source comes forward, out it goes - we can't put hearsay and rumour on the encyclopaedia" then I wouldn't have had a problem. This and this shows I am no stranger to removing large amounts of content from articles myself. But it has to be done with care and showing good faith attempts at improvement first - hence the rather tongue in cheek reference to Port Carlisle Junction which has lain as a forgotten unsourced stub (much like its real life counterpart) for about 9 years .... at least until this afternoon. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:38, 27 May 2015 (UTC)