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:: Thank you for loooking! - November was rich in sadness and happiness for me, expressed in ]. - You may be too young (on WP) to know that infoboxes are a declared contentious topic, - sorry that my question was unclear. Do you think they still deserve the label. I found one candidate so far who looked into the matter and didn't stay at the surface, ]. There are two composers on the Main page today, ] and ]. I find the response of my friend ] to a question on Copland's article talk promising. What do you think? --] (]) 09:11, 2 December 2024 (UTC) :: Thank you for loooking! - November was rich in sadness and happiness for me, expressed in ]. - You may be too young (on WP) to know that infoboxes are a declared contentious topic, - sorry that my question was unclear. Do you think they still deserve the label. I found one candidate so far who looked into the matter and didn't stay at the surface, ]. There are two composers on the Main page today, ] and ]. I find the response of my friend ] to a question on Copland's article talk promising. What do you think? --] (]) 09:11, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
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:: On the Main page today ] on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's ] from the ]. The discussion is still on the Sibelius, ending with that he was playing in a league with Beethoven then, in 2018 ;) - We ] today. --] (]) 21:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC) :: On the Main page today ] on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's ] from the ]. The discussion is still on the Sibelius, ending with that he was playing in a league with Beethoven then, in 2018 ;) - We ] today. --] (]) 21:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
:: Listen today to the (new) ]. - Congratulations to being elected! Could you look at ] and tell me if you miss something in his infobox? --] (]) 10:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC) :: Listen today to the (new) ]. - Congratulations to being elected! Could you look at ] and tell me if you miss something in his infobox? --] (]) 10:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
:: Listen today to ]'s 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the ] when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with ], because he was on my ] this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. - I can report happily that the Barber situation was resolved.--] (]) 17:04, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

:: I come to fix the cellist's name, with ] and new pics - look for red birds --] (]) 20:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
== Vegan416 ==

Hi SFR, I wonder if you'd consider lifting your TBAN of {{u|Vegan416}}? Maybe you'll need to hear from him, but I thought I'd try to facilitate as someone more comfortable with such wiki processes. I reached out to him because he had done some extremely substantive work, such as this ], and I hoped to see more of that.

I think the reasons for the TBAN were valid, but it has been 4 months which seems like a significant sanction already. Can't be sure that the issues won't recur, but I would argue that a second chance makes sense given Vegan's unique substantive contributions. — ] <sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub>\<sup>]</sup> 15:59, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

:I can say that I realize that speaking publicly about other editors' personal political (or other) opinions is against the rule, and I can promise to avoid doing that again in the future. ] (]) 16:18, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
:Per ], {{tq|Only the restricted editor may appeal an editor restriction.}} Looking at their contributions since the topic ban, I see some sub-par BLP editing that makes me a bit wary about lifting any topic ban unilaterally. ] (]) 16:22, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
::What is the meaning of "unilaterally" in this context? ] (]) 11:54, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
:::On my own, as the administrator who sanctioned you. I would rather you get broader input through appealing at AE or AN. ] (]) 11:59, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

== Appeal on indefinite ban on topic ==

Hello SFR, One year and one month ago, you banned me "indefinitely from any edits related to the Arab/Israel conflict" for unknowingly committing "a 1RR" violation even though I had undone the violation by myself immediately after realizing it was a 1RR, before anyone had done any other edits to the page, and before your ban. I argued at the time that it was clear that I simply hadn't noticed that it was a 1RR violation, as I explicitly stated in the edit summary that I was again reverting someone else's undue removal of content, and only a few minutes later I undid my own edit as I realized it would constitute a 1RR in less than 24 hours violation on my part, but still you ruled to ban me "indefinitely" as, according to you, the Arab/Israel conflict was too serious for someone who was not 100% familiar with the 1RR violation rule. Now that over one year has passed since then, and as I truly believe that a permanent ban (for a violation that had already been corrected by myself in a matter of minutes) was a harsh decision, I intend to appeal the indefinite ban. Before taking the matter to appropriate mechanisms of ban reviews, though, I decided to present these arguments first to you, and to therefore ask if you would be willing to consider removing the indefinite ban yourself. Thank you very much for your time and attention, and for all the time dedicated to Misplaced Pages, and have a good day. ] (]) 08:56, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

:You made far more edits in the week leading to your topic ban than you've made in the past year so it's difficult to determine if there's been a significant improvement. If you do appeal I suggest you mention your earlier 6 month topic ban that came with an explicit warning, {{tq|I would strongly caution you (Dan Palraz@) though that if there are any problematic edits in this topic area after the topic ban expires you will almost definitely end up with an indefinite topic ban and that given that the behaviour continued it would be difficult to successfully appeal.}} as it provides some context to your indefinite topic ban. ] (]) 11:51, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

== Block Evasion ==
You used these words "Block Evasion" to revert multiple edits today on airport pages. What does this phrase mean and why did you use it to revert edits ? ] (]) 14:37, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

:I was mass-reverting the edits of an editor that was evading blocks on a number of other IP addresses. ] (]) 14:41, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
::Some of the edits were good - I would have done the same edits. ] (]) 14:49, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
:::Feel free to reinstate any edits that you believe were an improvement. ] (]) 14:55, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

== Question about what constitutes edit warring (@]) ==
Hello {{ping|ScottishFinnishRadish}}, {{ping|Barkeep49}}. I wanted to ask you for some guidance whether the following situation amounts to edit warring.
* Following a content dispute whether the "]" should be included on the ] article, an RfC was started on 22 November.
* On 27 November, despite the ongoing RfC, User:Selfstudier added content related to the "Gaza genocide" to the article.
* Another editor reverted the addition and requested that Selfstudier refrain from adding the disputed content while the RfC is still ongoing.
* A few minutes later, Selfstudier restored it anyway
Selfstudier says the RfC is about the lead, not the body, but the RfC is clearly about the body too (check the text here ).
I contacted Selfstudier on their talk page asking them to self-revert but they said this wasn't edit warring , asking me to re-read the RfC (which I read, and is clearly on the body too) and threatened to report me for making a 'false accusation'. Then they went on to remove our discussion from the page . Overall this isn't the first time I'm seeing Selfstudier doing this for content that is being discussed in an RfC following a content dispute. What should one make out of this case? thanks. ] (]) 06:14, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

:I trust this isn't going to be treated at all seriously. ] (]) 15:11, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
:Additionally, appears related to . What should one make out of that? ] (]) 15:43, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
:This seems like the type of thing that, if you believe some action is necessary, should go to AE rather than to a single admin. ] (]) 21:18, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
::@] I did ] (]) 15:02, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:::{{TPS}} {{courtesy link|Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Selfstudier}} <span style="color:#7E790E;">2601AC47</span> (]<big>·</big>]<big>·</big>]) <span style="font-size:80%">Isn't a IP anon</span> 15:04, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

{{ping|Selfstudier}} ]<sup><small>]</small></sup> 07:55, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

== TB? ==

See https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Doug_Weller#User_TheCuratingEditor

https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/TheCuratingEditor ] ] 14:01, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

:I would have blocked a few times by now for ECR violations if I had been aware. A topic ban is more than reasonable in my book. ] (]) 21:21, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

== '']'' arbitration case opened ==

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== A little follow-up ==

Just need a repeat of the archive sorting ]; mainly asking you so I don't have to explain it again; might be worth watchlisting that page, thanks. ] (]) 19:15, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

:All set. I have it on my watchlist, but there's 5800 other pages on my watchlist, so stuff slips by. ] (]) 21:15, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
::It's all good I understand. Thanks, ] (]) 21:41, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
:::No worries, thanks for keeping an eye out. ] (]) 22:12, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

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== Thanks for watching the Zionism talk page ==

I originally came to ask about my comment's inclusion in ], but I understand now that you're currently "pruning" the talk page, so to speak.

As such, I'll instead thank you for your diligence. I understand that, with how contentious this topic is, "babysitting" it is exhausting work, but I wanted to let you know that I appreciate that work of yours nonetheless. ] (]) 22:08, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

:Thanks for that. Using an LLM to waste everyone's time is bad enough, but with the new word limits it's egregiously bad. ] (]) 22:11, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
::Apologies for returning to this matter, but after some consideration, the usage of an LLM, & my previous ], I wanted to ask if ] should be hatted as well?
::If they are genuine quotes & I simply failed my attempt at sleuthing, I'll gladly eat crow, but I thought it'd be best to ask just in case.
::Thank you for your time. ] (]) 00:09, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Sorted. I've already pulled their EC permission, as well, so ECR applies to them again. ] (]) 00:21, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

== VOA TPA ==

Might want to unplug talk page access for ]. Thanks, —&nbsp;] ] 00:14, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

:All set, thanks. ] (]) 00:21, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

== On LLM checking ==

Hi SFR, I noticed you have recently been clearing up some LLM text from talk pages, I was just wondering if there was any specific tool you were using to flag/check whether a text was likely generated by an LLM? -- ] (]) 10:44, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

:Many LLMs write with a particular style that stands out like a beacon when you're familiar with it. That's all I use. In my experience, the tools are essentially worthless. ] (]) 12:29, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:: You just deleted a message from my talk page and I'm puzzled by the deletion. . Is it correct that you don't have any evidence it was generated by a LLM but deleted it anyways based on a gut feeling?
:: Boutboul posted a list of 4 references supporting a particular claim. He posted the same references in the Zionism rfc and also you shut down that part of the discussion. LLMs tend to make up facts, but I was able to check the 3rd reference on archive.org and it was sourced correctly.
:: So what makes you think it was generated by a LLM? --] (]) 16:49, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:::The recent removals are because they are no longer extended-confirmed. I removed the permission for gaming. ] (]) 16:52, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

== Removing comment on private Talk Page ==

So if I understand correctly you also have the right to remove comment added on private talk page without giving any indication of the issue? ] (]) 16:36, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:Nothing on Misplaced Pages is private. '''<span style="font-family: Arial;">] <small>]</small></span>''' 16:41, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
::Thanks for the wording correction, I wanted to say on a "user talk" page. So an admin can do that without giving any explanation? ] (]) 16:44, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:::The explanation is in the edit summary, you were violating ECR. ] (]) 16:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:::], ] ] ] ]. Same as any other editor. And for what it is worth he did leave an explanation in his edit summary; specifically enforcing ]. —] ] <sup><small>] ]</small></sup> 16:48, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
::::Thanks for your time and explanation but still unclear. How is an edit on a user’s talk page comparable to an edit in the Arab-Israeli conflict topic area? The page itself does not concern the topic. ] (]) 16:56, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::The edit concerns the topic, and ] says {{tq|The restriction applies to all edits and pages related to the topic area, broadly construed}}. ] (]) 16:59, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

== Suggestion? ==

So, I have avoided DFW as promised, until they a page they know is on my watchlist. I made a , fixing their punctuation and adding ref tags to what appeared to be a chunk of OR/personal opinion. After which, they , tagging me in the edit summary, and have now () another page that I had recently edited (that is completely outside of their normal wheelhouse, clearly following my contribs) and left talk page , in an apparent attempt to get me to respond. Could you maybe leave a note about adding unsourced OR content, and them purposely trying to goad me into interacting with them? - ] (]) 17:18, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

:Is that what they called first mover advantage?
:*{{tq| So, I have avoided DFW as promised}}
:** No. You to ]. It’s the second time already since 11 Nov. That’s why I leave hoping that you can stop.
:**I first edited that article as early as Aug 2023 , with over 124 edits . You never edited that article until you started to have conflicts with me. You only made your first edit to that article on , after you were blocked for gravedancing (in Oct).
:**In the last month (November) I’ve only edited 5 articles. And you “happened to edit” one of them, *right after* my edit.
:*{{tq| they edited a page they know is on my watchlist}}
:** Untrue again. That page is on my watchlist since 2023 Aug. How can I know if it’s on your watchlist?
:* {{tq|left two talk page comments, in an apparent attempt to get me to respond}}
:**This is completely unfound false claim. I made an edit to an article and then leave a talk page comment to , what’s wrong with that? You wrongly accused me of “assumed you are the OP” and I leave a comment to , again, what’s wrong with that?
:*{{tq| Could you maybe leave a note about adding unsourced OR content, and them purposely trying to goad me into interacting with them? }}
:** this is apparently ABF (Also, you specifically tagged what I’ve just added, and is now accusing me of OR, which is ] ) and appeared to be bullying/canvassing our admin.
:--] (]) 20:25, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
::Suggestion for admin: Could you maybe leave a note reminding them to keep the they made in their unblock request and “not to have any further interaction with the user in question, 'thanks' or otherwise, and in the future will let editors dig their own hole without my help.” and them repeatedly making untrue claims about me? --] (]) 20:40, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Please explain how you came upon ] and this page, immediately after I had edited each, having never edited either yourself in the past if you are not tracking my contribs and hounding me? It's been a month, ] already... - ] (]) 20:58, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
::::Please explain how you came upon Air pollution in Hong Kong (11 Nov), Air pollution in the United Kingdom
::::(), Joss paper (), Asian News International (), mostly immediately after I had edited each, having never edited either yourself in the past if you are not tracking my contribs and hounding me? It's been *many* weeks already, when will that stop? You are hounding me like that, even after a block, of course I need to watch your contribs, otherwise how can I know when will I suddenly got wrongfully sanctioned after you apparently canvassed/bullied whoever admins, etc.? To be frank, you should have been sanctioned for all that a long time ago. Now I’m the “ very hypocritical bad faith incompetent deceptive editor who sh*t on others who persistently making disruptive edits, casting aspersions, wikilawyering, showing classic WP:TE” with a block log showing that I’ve been blocked for a week, while you were only blocked for less than one day. Why are you still unsatisfied and refused to drop the stick and move on? --] (]) 21:24, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::Yes, I checked your contributions back when we were arguing and during the AN/I report because you refused to stop using curly q's, and I knew those would need to be fixed. I have had zero interaction with you since the AN/I report closed. I made over 750 edits in November, all completely unrelated to you or the pages we mutually watch. You then made several edits to ] one day, and all I did was (again) fix your punctuation and tag your apparent OR for citations. One single good faith edit fixing your mistakes, no comments, no calling you out in long edit summaries, no tracking your contributions for the past month. I didn't even respond to your edit summary, hoping you would realize it was a good faith edit. Now, you are claiming you "need to watch my contribs" and that I "should have been sanctioned a long time ago" for bullying admins? I'm sorry I made a good faith edit fixing your punctuation on an article you knew I was watching, but that does not justify you hounding me a month later just because you didn't get your way at AN/I. Seriously, get over it, and leave me the hell alone! Walking away now, gonna go watch a movie cuz you have once again ruined WP for me, I will await SFR's reply. - ] (]) 21:45, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::{{tq|ou refused to stop using curly q's}} Untrue again. I didn’t refuse to stop using that, I told you in my talk page that it might be a problem of my device which I can’t control. When will all these stop??? Please!
::::::I do see a lot of “a good faith edit” initiated by you on this talk page. And good to know that you’ve found a reason (fixing curly q's?) to break your promise in your unblock request. By “you should have been sanctioned a long time ago” I mean your hounding behaviour from article to article which lasted for many weeks (that’s a lot of ___ faith edits) up to now and all the untrue claims, etc. --] (]) 22:12, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::::I think a third opinion can be useful here, let’s see if ] can offer us some help. --] (]) 22:48, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::::Sorry, I don't have time to help with this or even read the discsussion. You might have a look at ] it it's a content dispute. -- ] (]) 04:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::::::Thanks for the reply. It’s ok. Hmm.. I’m not sure that it’s a content dispute, as I have already reverted my edit before the drama on this page, but they just won’t stop their persistent problematic behaviour. Thanks anyway. --] (]) 04:46, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::::::{{u|Dustfreeworld}}, they have been avoiding you since the unblock, so bringing up six week old diffs isn't very constructive. It's also not a reason to follow them to another article. You two just need to stop interacting. Unfortunately, I don't see any CTOP I can leverage to place an Iban unilaterally, so I'll just ask you both to stop, and take it to ANI if you feel you need to. Then the community can impose an Iban or other sanctions. Really, though, knock it off. ] (]) 12:57, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::::::::Thank you SFR, I have no issues, as mentioned. I have avoided them as promised, it was a very simple good faith fix on a mutually watched page (which DFW knew that I watched from our previous interaction), 48 hours after they had made their edit (when I happened to notice it on my watchlist), and after a month of purposely NOT interacting with them otherwise. I didn't think "zero interaction" would include "allow them to purposely introduce bad punctuation, grammatical errors, and OR to a page you both mutually watch a month later". I assumed (yeah, I know...) that DFW would see it as the good faith "olive branch" edit that it was, I never expected it to turn into "I can harass you, and your promise means you can't do anything about it". I will be happy to take this to AN/I though, if DFW wishes, now that they have openly admitted to tracking all my contribs for the last month just to harass me and seems to still have an axe to grind from the original AN/I report. I apologize, I never meant for all this to happen on your talk page. - ] (]) 14:33, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

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== WP:HOUNDING, and enforcing policies and guidelines == == WP:HOUNDING, and enforcing policies and guidelines ==
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:::] (]) 04:09, 4 December 2024 (UTC) :::] (]) 04:09, 4 December 2024 (UTC)


:::: ] Can you please respond to the edit war being started by Awshort (who is yet wiki stalking me again)? We are having a dispute on this article page: ]. Thank you. ] (]) 23:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
== ] ==
:::::I'll give you a bit of a third opinion. The lead should follow the body, and there is no other mention of lamplighter in the article. It would make more sense to add that information, and also information on whistleblowers which is also absent, to the article before adding it to the lead. Looking at the importance of that information in the context of the article is also important for deciding if it should be in the lead.
:::::This is really a run of the mill editing dispute so you should just follow ]. ] (]) 23:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::@] And disputes are fixed with discussion. I asked you for a reliable source that isn't one person refering to himself as such, provided policy based reasoning on why your edit was reverted, and provided alternative article suggestions where your text (with proper sourcing) would fit better than an unrelated article with it randomly thrown in.
:::::I would also suggest reading ] {{tq|It is also not harassment to track a user's contributions for policy violations.}}
:::::You never did answer the above question on what brought you here, but the edits I have reverted or tried to fix of yours in the past have been either highly problematic policy violations (you linking to a private data dump which could carry legal implications for the site, you referring to BLP subjects as pedophiles without proper sourcing stating the same, a few similar instances) or you ignoring ] and using as your rationale.
:::::] (]) 23:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)


:::::: ] The content fits, but not in the lead per ]. You may now determine where in the article the content belongs and re-add it. The issue here is the quickness to revert and not improve. My first edit had an allegation of bad sources, and you alleged on my talk page that it was nearly impossible to find a better source. So, I showed you with a book citation how easy it can be to improve something without hitting the “revert button” and complaining on a talk page. Now, you may demonstrate your dedication to teamwork on Misplaced Pages by finding my research and correct citation a proper place on the article. Hope this is a lesson for you in good Misplaced Pages etiquette. ] (]) 23:33, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Dear ScottishFinnishRadish, could you explain why you're closing the discussion with 'Sacrebleu' please? Did something go wrong? Or do you have any concerns about it? Kind regards, – ] • <small>]</small> • 17:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::::I didn't say that it fits in the article, just that it shouldn't be in the lead unless it is in the article, and the first step would be to work it into the article. If you want something in an article it is your responsibility to find the appropriate sourcing to demonstrate that it is ] for inclusion. ] (]) 23:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::::@] As I said, I attempted to improve it and find better sources which supported the text, not that it was "nearly impossible" as you put it. Your book citation showed that one person called himself that, and was still not valid for what you were trying to add to an unrelated article.
:::::::There have been several instances of you adding random tidbits of somewhat-related-but-only-barely information to articles which don't necessarily help readers understand the overall topic any better, and other editors in the past have pointed this out to you over a period of several years. In the instances I've seen in the past (as in, not involving me personally) it usually involves you telling them you found the information, it helps the article, and they need to add it back. Misplaced Pages is not an indiscriminate collection of information; that is policy ]. As is consensus being how things change in articles (or as you refer to it above, "complaining on a talk page"). Not all material necessarily improves an article and just being factually true doesn’t automatically mean it should be included or stay in an article. Once material is disputed, the responsibility falls on the person who wants the material included in the article to obtain consensus that it should stay in (with no consensus usually resulting in the material being left out). And lastly, your responses to other users when you are upset/annoyed with them come off as ''extremely'' condescending. Please work on how you talk to other people; that is part of policy (]) and has been mentioned to you in the past by several users including an admin.
:::::::Regarding the information which started this whole reactivation of an old discussion - I looked last night for a more suitable alternative for the material and it appears in both {{Section link|Frank Serpico|Retirement and activism}} as well as
{{Section link|Whistleblowing|Advocacy for protection}}, with the second link also mentioning the Lamp Lighter Project. Since there is no mention of Internal Affairs in the few sources that mention the term or connection between IA and the term, it seems this has been fixed on the content level at least by ending up in a suitable set of articles.
:::::::] (]) 21:17, 19 December 2024 (UTC)


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== Possible 1RR violation ==
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:the link is dead/wrong? ] (]) 22:42, 15 December 2024 (UTC)


:Thanks for the heads up. Should be fixed. ] (]) 23:26, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
I believe is a 1RR violation, right? I'm checking to make sure before I request the person self-reverts. ] (]) 18:17, 3 December 2024 (UTC)


== Revdel question... ==
:Yes, it is. ] (]) 18:18, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
:{{u|Raskolnikov.Rev}}, I've requested a self-revert. ] (]) 18:20, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
::Thank you, I did too at the same time so hadn't seen yours yet, but that's alright, I also added a response to the edit summary. ] (]) 18:23, 3 December 2024 (UTC)


So, what should we do about revdel if ? - ] (]) 22:47, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
== Remove my ban ==


Hi, Please remove my ban of editing Indian subcontinent contents. I am feeling sorry and will not edit contents with Talk. Please remove. ] (]) 09:25, 4 December 2024 (UTC) :Sorted. You had me worried, but the article only had like 9 edits. ] (]) 22:56, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
::That's what I was expecting to happen, that's why I just left you a message and then left a copyvio warning on the user's talk... - ] (]) 05:31, 17 December 2024 (UTC)


== A request for block an user ==
:I will not be unilaterally removing the topic ban any time in the immediate future. I suggest you edit other topics for at least six months to demonstrate you can do so constructively. ] (]) 11:42, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
::But it's ban for indian subcontinent. Remove ban of these area ] (]) 13:44, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
:::If you know you're banned, why did you make ? An Indian actor in the Indian film and television industry is pretty clearly under a topic ban for India. ''']''' (]) 04:56, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


Hello, I'm ], one of the editor on Misplaced Pages. I hear that you are one of the admins on Misplaced Pages, so I want to ask you for help. In the few months before, the article ] had an user name ] was vandalism the article so many. Since the ], there was no third place match. But he always edited the third and the fourth ranking on the ], which lead to many user have to reverted the article many times. He always said that the reason was he used it from the AFC website, although there was no source about it. I have already gave him a warning for this, but he said threatly for me and always said by using CAPSLOCK to tell many user when they said to him politely. I think this user not only used incorrectly sources but he also one of the dangerous user that threaten anyone. So this message today is can you help me block this user please? Because if anyone warning to him about it, he will not change and still violated to them. Thank you for reading this message. Hope you have a good time during this week. ] (]) 07:46, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
== what should one do when in dispute with a ]? ==


==Io Saturnalia!==
thank for your assistance ] (]) 11:24, 5 December 2024 (UTC)


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:{{tps}} You might want to start by disclosing previous IPs or accounts that you've used to edit from as this was your second-ever edit from this IP and there is nothing in your edit history to indicate you're in a dispute with the ]. ] (]) 13:54, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
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::would disclosing IPs or accounts change the advice given for user in my place? if so why is that exactly?
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::how dose the content matter when requesting advice regarding conduct? ] (]) 12:18, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
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:This looks more like an ] issue than an unblockable issue. ] (]) 20:21, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
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::::dammit. I recently started using Grammarly because I make so many typos, but once in a while it backfires. ] ] 20:48, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::They're also unlockable because you're not a steward. ] (]) 21:16, 5 December 2024 (UTC)


:Happy Holidays to you and yours as well. I hope you don't have any winter problems on the farm. ] (]) 17:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
==]==
Hello, ScottishFinnishRadish,


== Another possible 1RR violation ==
I had a question about a topic ban you placed on Southasianhistorian8. A similar sanction was placed by ] on another editor. Is this 500 main space edits or 500 edits in any namespace of the project? It seems like a fair sanction I was just wondering what the intent was here. Thanks for clarifying this for me. Thank you. <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">]</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">] ]</sup> 07:19, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
:Can't speak for SFR, but my view on it is that it is 500 edits anywhere, not just to mainspace. Of course if an editor is clearly "gaming" that part, e.g., makes 500 one-letter edits to their sandbox, that can be seen as bad faith and the sanction can be extended or made indefinite. But I think if anything, it is even ''more'' valuable for a sanctioned editor to, for example, learn to participate constructively in discussions and the like, so I certainly have no problem counting non-mainspace edits. ] <small><sup>]</sup></small> 11:50, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
::That's basically my view. The whole point is to get them involved in other places, which may involve discussions on article talk pages, BLPN, NPOVN, and similar venues. All of that is good experience and shows that they're expanding their involvement rather than sticking in a topic where there have been issues. The hope is that when the ban expires they have enough experience elsewhere to let them see where they might be making missteps. ] (]) 12:39, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
:::That's what I wanted to know, ] and SFR, thanks for the thoughtful reply. <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">]</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">] ]</sup> 00:50, 7 December 2024 (UTC)


Once again I may be wrong here, but I think this is a 1RR violation: https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Mohammed_Deif&diff=prev&oldid=1263475889
== When does WP:GAMING for permissions go stale? ==


If so, can you take appropriate action?
I've come across an editor who I believe gamed their extended-confirmed permission and since then has posted almost exclusively within the PIA space, with some attention paid to the war in Ukraine. Between Oct 6 and 7th, 2023, they made over 500 edits changing short descriptions. A majority of the edits were on Oct 6th; they stopped their edit chain a few minutes after getting EC on the 6th, then did a couple hundred more on the 7th. They had never made this kind of edit before, and they've only made a few edits of this type ever since, all on one P-I article this spring. But they do now have over 1,200 edits, and I'm wondering if this is still something that should be reported. I've searched ANI/AE and their name has appeared for other reasons (you've interacted with them), but gaming wasn't brought up at the time. I don't want to put their username on a report without some input first because there are implications from a gaming run for PIA on Oct 6th 2023, but those same implications leave me uncomfortable saying nothing.


Thanks. ] (]) 18:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
I'm also wondering if you know whether gaming like this is (discreetly) monitored; I've been looking at Quarry and I think a query could go through the list of EC perming over the past year or two and find users who made many edits of a single type within the month prior to their perming, who then went on to be mostly active in specific contentious topics (maybe even show trends in volume), but I don't have the expertise to write this myself. Thanks for advice in advance! ] (]) 07:26, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


:I've remedied the violation and made them aware of the CTOP sanctions on the topic. ] (]) 18:51, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
:I don't think that there's a stale time for permissions gaming, and it will also draw more attention to their ARBPIA edits. Gaming is a bit nebulous though, so unless it's solidly obvious I prefer to take them to AE or AN.
:That query could certainly be helpful. I check the contributions of most editors in ARBPIA that I don't recognize, but I'm sure I've missed plenty. ] (]) 12:45, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


== Possible ] violation by Bohemian Baltimore ==
::Thank you, I'll take this to AE then. ] (]) 15:46, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


Good morning,
:{{u|Safrolic}}, for interest, I've been thinking about this kind of thing too. for the first 600 revisions can be illuminating. But even for the same person (with many hundreds of sock accounts) there can be a lot of diversity in those first edits, even though the objective is the same, to tunnel through the EC barrier. Also, many tools are provided to help editors get started now, so it is pretty trivial for someone to make perfectly legitimate edits to reach EC within a few days. an especially impressive example of efficiency.


I have just reverted an edit by Bohemian Baltimore, who has a topic ban on self-ID articles for BLPs, broadly construed. This editor has made a number of small edits that seem to test/skirt the TBAN, with the text I reverted today seeming to be a more obvious violation of the ban. The editor disputes whether this applies in this case.
:As for extendedconfirmed grants, far fewer accounts acquire it in a given year compared to the total number of new accounts than I expected so that might help. . And does appear to tell you something about the likelihood that the account will be blocked later (or even before they get EC) for ban evasion or some other reason. ] (]) 15:17, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


Details as follows:
:You could imagine looking for a change of slope in the cumulative bytes around the 500th revision mark as the user changes from gaming to normal editing, but so much of 'gaming' relies on intent, which you can't see with SQL. You can see whether a user suddenly starts making edits in the PIA topic area though. ] (]) 15:41, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


* The editor to the ] article to change the wording around how these people are identified.
::Those are some very pretty pictures (and illustrate the complexity of the question), thank you. My proposed query probably wouldn't catch anyone deliberately trying to conceal their game, I agree with that. I see that you're using Quarry to collect the initial data, but what tool are you using afterwards to compile the graphs? ] (]) 15:46, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
:::I tend to only use Quarry if I need to share a query or the results with another editor. I have a toolforge account so I can do stuff from the comfort of VSCode on my laptop through an SSH tunnel to the databases. Those plots use the matplotlib Python library. But you can do this kind of thing without a toolforge account using the cloud service. There's also an ] sqllab service which I think has charting functionality. ] (]) 16:17, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
::::Thank you for the tips, I'll try to learn the rest of these words! ] (]) 17:20, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


* The editor also made , which are used by some to self-ID.
== ECR ==


* The editor changed the article to remove the '''Category:Nahua people''' to '''Category:Nahua''', and the article.
Hello! I've had to 2RR a ] comment on ] by non-EC accounts including an IP sock. Do I have to self-revert or is it justified per ARBPIA? ] (]) 14:50, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


* I have just reverted the addition of ] (i.e., groups of people who self-ID) to .
:ECR enforcement is an exception to edit warring, and the 1RR sanction doesn't apply to talk pages so you're fine. ] (]) 14:51, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
::Thanks! I hope that my latest edit summary there could further explain why. ] (]) 14:53, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
:::You can also leave {{t|welcome-arbpia}} on their talk page which explains the sanctions in plain language. ] (]) 14:54, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


It might be that these don't fall under the "broadly construed" clause, but I thought it worth raising the issue now before a future edit does. I saw that you implemented the ban, so thought I'd reach out to you first. ] (]) 07:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
== new user ignoring WP:ARBECR after warning ==


:@], pinging you for transparency. Hopefully we can get an answer. ] (]) 07:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Hey, not sure where is should bring this up, but i noticed you and a few others have warned ] about editing in the Arab–Israeli topic area and Fyukfy5 seems to be ignoring these warnings—] 19:31, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
::@] There is no testing or skirting. I was told to stay away from BLPs related to self-identification and citizenship due to controversy over Native American BLPs. And that is what I have done; stayed away from editing those topics on Indigenous BLPs. None of those edited articles is a BLP. I am not aware of any total ban on editing Indigenous topics. If there is, I was not informed. ] (]) 07:17, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Self-ID is a major topic of most of these articles. Or are least of the edits you have made. It's worth noting that some of the info is also inaccurate—Taíno groups in Puerto Rico and the USVI are in non-sovereign territory (i.e., colonies), so they have no route for formal recognition. Your creation of the ] article and the related '''Category:Taíno heritage groups''' therefore seems oddly ]. ] (]) 07:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
::::I'm sorry, but this seems like grasping for straws. If a topic ban for BLPs were to include non-BLPs, I would have been told this. Innocuous edits like creating a parent category for Nahua or adding Taino to the Native American identity article, in addition to not having anything to do with BLPs, doesn't even have anything to do with citizenship or self-identification. The information on the heritage group article, also, was not inaccurate. Not that that's relevant to the BLP question though. ] (]) 07:42, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::If I am misinterpreting the decision, then I am happy to apologise. It's entirely possible I'm looking at this too rigidly.
:::::But either way, clarity would be good going forward. It seems to me these articles all have self-ID in common, either as an explicit or implicit element, and often involve the self-ID of people or groups of people.
:::::If these articles are too tangential to the topic to count and it's too non-specific for the BLP element to count, then that's also useful to know for you as well as anyone else. ] (]) 07:59, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::@] I think it is clear that it is my intent to adhere to the topic ban and that is what I have tried to do since I was T-banned. If we are going to quibble over broadness, then that needs to be clarified by the administrators and then I can adhere to whatever their determination is. But it seems like you are arguing for my topic-ban to be broader than what it was originally stated to be. If the goal posts are going to be moved, well okay, but I need to be informed of where they are now. ] (]) 08:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::::I think we are broadly in agreement that it's helpful to know where the boundaries lie. I read "broadly construed" as meaning anything related to the matter of Indigenous identity. What's a BLP or not is also relatively broadly construed in its own right. If that's not the case, I am happy to retract and strike my comments. ] (]) 08:19, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
More edits here:


*Created the article – using the language of your prior self-ID articles to say these aren't recognised. (Note that Puerto Rico is a colony, not a state, so there is no formal route to recognition.)
:Sorted, thanks for the heads up. ] (]) 19:35, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


* Created the .
== Could you take a look please ==


* Editor added , even though the link is tangential. Again, seems pointy.
At ], apart from the many comments not assuming good faith, this has been posted by a new user. It seems like a threat to out the nominator? Or maybe not. Thanks in advance, ] (]) 23:16, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
* ("an ethnic identity") and to a bunch of other articles.


* Edited ]. (See below.)
:I think it's more likely that it's just bullshit. I would just remove it, but you've already replied. ] (]) 23:56, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
::Thanks for taking a look. ] (]) 00:09, 7 December 2024 (UTC)


Re: BLPs, also see ]: {{tq|A harmful statement about a small group or organization comes closer to being a BLP problem than a similar statement about a larger group; and when the group is very small, it may be impossible to draw a distinction between the group and the individuals that make up the group.}}
== Revdel? ==


I take your point that some of these are probably not violations, but the point is that they're skirting the issue "broadly construed". As for the Taíno, I have added text to the page you created to clarify. You'll see what I mean. But creating a category to call groups out for ''not having recognition they cannot obtain'' does, again, seem to be pointy. ] (]) 07:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
] & ] ]&nbsp;] 02:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC)


:@] So you admit that there probably aren't any violations and everything is only tangentially related if at all, but are still making an issue out of this. Well, that's interesting. The category for Taino heritage groups was actually created ''before'' my topic-ban was instituted, not that it matters, because it isn't a BLP anyway. Puerto Rico is a territory, not a "colony". I'm not sure that you are correct that a territory cannot give recognition to a tribe (Why are we debating this here?). But your quibble there is not I didn't give enough context on a newly created article still being worked on, not that there is anything false, because there wasn't. None of the edited articles pertains to "small groups". Name one, if so. It is my understanding that "broadly construed" pertains to BLPs, as I was topic-banned from BLPs. I didn't create the Taino category, by the way, to "call them out". That's a bad-faith accusation. I created the category to make it easier for readers to access articles related to Taino orgs. I think my editing over the past month has demonstrated my intent to adhere to the topic ban, as I have stayed away from the BLPs. I supposed it would be possible to quibble broadly enough to make the argument that ''any'' Native-related edits "tangentially" relate to BLPs in some way. ] (]) 08:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
:All set. ] (]) 02:14, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
::{{tq|So you admit that there probably aren't any violations}} I didn't say that. I said some may be tangential. I stand by statement that it's helpful to get clarification either way, and have offered to apologise if I'm proven wrong.
::] ]&nbsp;] 02:24, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
::As for the Taíno stuff, I have added sources at the relevant article. You will see what I mean there. The legal framework for recognition only applies to the 48 contiguous States and Alaska (and the latter only because they brought in specific rules to do that). Puerto Rico and the USVI are non-sovereign territories with limited ability to officially recognise groups, which is why groups from those islands have been pushing the UN to intervene on their behalf. But I agree we can drop that discussion here.
::ETA: Also, it's early and I'm particularly grumpy today. I apologise if my tone in general has caused an escalation. ] (]) 08:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
:::If you want this looked at in detail I suggest you bring it to ]. ] (]) 12:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
::::Thanks. Having thought about it some more, I'm happy to leave this for now. I don't have the energy for it and don't want to get into any wikilawyering. @], I'm sorry for any bother caused. ] (]) 15:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)


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== Please Re-open Requested move 6 December 2024 ==
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:::::Given the context, I assumed that link would be about furries on wikipedia! ] 16:20, 20 December 2024 (UTC)


== ] unblock requests question ==
Discussion of changing "Gaza genocide" to "Gaza genocide accusations" was closed and archived before adequate discussion could take place. Please re-open the discussion and restore the archived comments, including my own:
* “Genocide” refers to the physical destruction of a group that has been targeted on the basis of its identity. Immense suffering and civilian toll in Gaza have resulted from the war started by Hamas, and from specific actions by Hamas that put Gazan civilians in harm’s way.
* Hamas does not separate fighters from civilians in its Gaza health ministry numbers. Hamas does not specify whether they died because of attacks carried out by the IDF or because of intentional or unintentional actions by Hamas or other Palestinian armed groups; for example, the explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City was caused by a failed rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.<ref name="b361">{{cite web | title=Gaza: Findings on October 17 al-Ahli Hospital Explosion | website=Human Rights Watch | date=2023-11-26 | url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/26/gaza-findings-october-17-al-ahli-hospital-explosion | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref>
* Israel’s goal is to destroy Hamas, not the Palestinian people or the Palestinian population of Gaza. When Israeli officials have made statements reflecting callous disregard for Palestinian civilian lives, they have been disciplined.<ref name="r875">{{cite web | last=Williams | first=Dan | title=Netanyahu suspends Israeli minister over Gaza nuclear comment | website=Reuters | date=2023-11-05 | url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-disciplines-israeli-minister-who-voiced-openness-hypothetical-nuclear-2023-11-05/ | access-date=2024-12-08}}</ref>
* The goal of Hamas is to wipe Israel and Jews off the map, an example of genocidal intent. Israel directs its force at legitimate military targets, which Hamas has intentionally placed under and within civilians’ homes, hospitals, mosques, and schools.
* The Israeli military sends Arabic-language warnings to Gazans prior to its airstrikes on military targets, and indicates routes for Palestinian civilians to relocate. Hamas has repeatedly called on Palestinian civilians to ignore Israel’s warnings about impending strikes and reportedly forced civilians to remain in the vicinity of military objectives, using them, like its hostages from Israel, as human shields.
* Hamas has continued to launch missiles into Israel, not from military bases, as international law dictates, but from civilian areas in Gaza. International law allows legitimate military targets to be attacked when the anticipated military advantage from the attack exceeds the expected civilian harm. Hamas has inflated the number of civilian casualties. Harm to Gazan civilians is a horrible outcome of war, but it is not genocide.
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:Allthemilescombined1, for interest, why do you appear to believe that it is okay to use talk pages in the topic area for what appears to be advocacy and the expression of your personal views about the real world? I don't understand why this happens so often in the topic area or what can be done to ensure that editors don't need to filter it out when they read talk pages or participate in consensus forming discussions. ] (]) 16:13, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
:I'm saving everyone the time of coming to the same conclusion and lowering the engagement at the next discussion even more. Wait until something significant has changed or a more appreciable amount of time has passed. There will be more outside input and a better representative consensus of things at that point. ] (]) 01:44, 9 December 2024 (UTC)


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Please take extra attention to this recent ECU whose edits to I-P articles look rather deceptive to me. -- ] (] · ]) 00:55, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
I'm not sure what the standard procedure is here, or if there is one, but do you think it would make sense to replace their unblock requests with the "on hold" version so it is immediately clear that this at AE and not something for a single admin to review?
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== <s>Condolences</s> er I mean congrats.... you gon' be an arb ==


:Yeah, that should get it out of the queue, at least. ] (]) 22:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
Looks like you got in, right in the meaty part of the pack. I will not be joining you. That's fine though, you got a hell of a great group coming in with you, I'm suddenly far less worried about the committee's ability to get shit done. ] ] 00:07, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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== Question ==
*Congrats. As reward for dealing with the thankless tasks you get... even more onerous tasks! No, seriously, congratulations and I hope you take it as something of an antidote to all of the criticism that you now enjoy a mandate from the community to clean things up even more. ''']'''<span style="border:2px solid #073642;background:rgb(255,156,0);background:linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255,156,0,1) 0%, rgba(147,0,255,1) 45%, rgba(4,123,134,1) 87%);">]</span> 00:21, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
*Congrats to the Raddish! You’ve come an incredibly long way and have a lot to be proud of. ]] 02:21, 9 December 2024 (UTC)


Hi, could you explain this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Zionism&diff=prev&oldid=1260458061
:<small>(Extends my congrats to you)</small> ]? You have a right to. Now, with that out of the way, my recommendation for your first order of business as part of the ArbCom: What are your thoughts about ]'s ] (which include ''Correspondence clerks'', ''WMF staff support'', ''Coordinating arbitrators'' and ''grants for corresponding clerks'')? <span style="color:#7E790E;">2601AC47</span> (]<big>·</big>]<big>·</big>]) <span style="font-size:80%">Isn't a IP anon</span> 02:34, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
::I've been thinking about that, but I don't have any solid input. It's difficult to comment on how to fix a process you've never seen up close. ] (]) 16:15, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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:First root vegetable Arb? Congratulations friend. ] ] 02:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC) Thank you, ] (]) 01:11, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
::{{yo|Star Mississippi}} We're making plans for an eventual root vegetable majority :) ] (] • she/her) 14:25, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
:::That arbcom will be the best ever! {{small|at remaining edible when kept in a cellar over winter}} ] (]) 14:27, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
* O wow, wasn't following this. Well done (I think) - what was it you did in a former life that requires this degree of atonement? ] (]) 03:36, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
*:In a former life I was responsible for the formulation of ], and thus for the comedy career of ]. ] (]) 16:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
*Congrats! ] (]) 12:19, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
* Congratulations. ] (]) 14:10, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
* Congrats! ] (]) 19:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
:Thank you, everybody, for the congratulations. Here's to hoping I don't bollocks the whole things up. ] (]) 16:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
::You'll be accused of it regardless. And in case nobody told you, next month is a sort of hazing ritual where tons of banned users try their luck with the new committee, so enjoy that. ] ] 19:20, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
::You managed to swim through the rapids of PIA, so I'm sure that the rest will be a doddle. Well done. ] (]) 19:21, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
*Fantastic news! You'll be a fab addition...-- ]<sup>]</sup> 21:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
*:Finally, I'll get that raise I've been itching for! Right?? {{small|...right?}} ] (]) 14:27, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
:::A raise in blood pressure, guaranteed.-- ]<sup>]</sup> 17:36, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
::::I know WMF has a legal assistance fund, what about medical assistance? ] (]) 17:38, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::That's an option, but they only dispense . You need to be available 24/7 now!-- ]<sup>]</sup> 18:06, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::If it comes with ] I might just be able to make it work. ] (]) 18:14, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
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:An editor was using an LLM to make arguments while falsifying sources so I collapsed some of it, and removed other parts that hadn't been replied to yet. ] (]) 01:13, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
== Revdel inquiry re BLPN ==


== Seasonal greetings:) ==
Greetings! At ] we have whose mind works differently and saw fit to name names of other presumably living people. Is it worth a redaction? Along with a tall glass of calm
the hell down for OP? This seems like someone who could maybe be a wider problem, per her post. I'm looking at ] and missing ]... thanks for your thoughts. ] (]) 00:07, 9 December 2024 (UTC)


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:{{u|JFHJr}}, I don't think this needs a revdel, but I did redact the names. Looks like there are some eyes on the article now. ] (]) 13:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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I'm looking at a bunch of old talk page archives and blocks for a ... project (we all have our hobbies) and I saw that, in June, you blocked two accounts for sockpuppetry ] and ]. The problem is... I don't think they were socking. Basically, a somewhat popular youtuber made a series about micronations, and then made one of his own for fun. It's called "Ironland" and it's not notable by any stretch of the imagination, but it was a pretty popular series (Youtube kept trying to push me into watching it, and the Romanian government's tiktok acccount had some fun with it). It's hardly surprising that a few fans tried to write a Misplaced Pages article for it. (Again, we all have our hobbies) I poked around on reddit and a few fans tried to work on a draft together, but they seemed to accept the decline. Somebody made one on the micronation wiki and fandom, in the end, thank goodness. But that still leaves the issue of these blocks. I know they were made in good faith, and to be fair, I can't see the draft- but I do have additional context.
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:Thank you kindly and I hope you and yours also have a wonderful holiday season. Hopefully the weather shifts a bit and I'm not stuck with less than no degrees. ] (]) 13:45, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
CG52110 has filed several unblock requests, admitting they had one other account, and promising to abandon its use- but because they were tagged as a sockpuppet in control of at least nine accounts, they're not getting unblocked anytime soon if ever. As far as anybody working in cat:unblock is concerned, not only did they sock, they're also lying. One admin even accused them of being the person to create the micronation- which knowing what I know about the YouTube series, is highly unlikely.


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The other block, of 7goldfishglory, is also something I'd like to ask you about. They made a draft, it got rejected, they asked why- and then came back to say they did their research, understood why, and that they'd {{tq|wait until it's more well-known}}. Which, at the end of the day, is sort of what we want to see. They were acting in good faith and they were respectful of our norms, once they realized what they were. I'm not seeing anything blockworthy. They could have used the exact same text in their draft, in fact, and I'd merely assume that they copied it from another fan, or the micronation wiki or something. Bad in terms of copyright, but, again, not blockworthy until they do it twice. They haven't asked to be unblocked, but to be fair, but if they're used to dealing with reddit or discord mods, they probably thought "why bother?" and disengaged.
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Anyway, just thought I'd ask to see if my context helped, or if you had any context I'd missed. And, because I've seen your talk page archives and I don't want to feel left out: <insert long, vaguely off-topic ARBPIA-themed rant/interrogation here>. ] (]) 22:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)


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:I am aware that, normally, nine accounts show up to write an article about an obviously non-notable subject is a pretty clean sockpupping block, 98% of the time. But that remaining 2% of the time.... ] (]) 22:50, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
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::I blocked a lot of accounts creating ironland drafts, and after salting accounts were recreating the draft at the same unsalted title. That, combined with matching prose, led me to the conclusion that it was sock or meatpuppetry. Quite a few of the blocks were noted as sock or meat. ] (]) 23:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Yeah, don't worry, I do actually know those guidelines, and I completely get how, with the evidence and knowledge you had, you came to the decision you did. ] is very useful for when you just can't quite prove an account is socking or canvassing, but they're causing just enough low-grade disruption that we'd rather be rid of them. I'm not fully sure that applies to all the accounts here though, that's what I'm trying to get at. Some of them, yeah - but 7goldfishglory was blocked <em>after</em> they went out of their way to clarify that they understood why the draft wasn't going to be accepted, and said they'd stop working on it until they found sources that could prove its notability, so I don't exactly know what their block was meant to ]. At worst, they're a fan of the Youtuber who probably saw a fully formed article at the micronation wiki and copied it over in violation of our copyright policies. Your call though. I just think blocks like these are the equivalent of blocking everybody who tries their hand at creating something related to BFDI as an Brandon1998 sock, and that our regular policies of dealing with this kind of stuff - liberal salting and a few polite warnings about what ] - tend to work just fine. Again, YMMV, and I've been known to use quick and dirty solutions like that on occasion. I just figured you'd find an alternative explanation interesting. ] (]) 04:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
== 2025 Arbitration Committee ==


== Revdel request ==
The Arbitration Committee welcomes the following new and returning members following their ]. Their two-year terms formally begin on 1 January 2025:
* {{userlinks|CaptainEek}}
* {{userlinks|Daniel}}
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* {{userlinks|ScottishFinnishRadish}}
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Hello, got another quick revdel request for you. has already been reverted, but is a copy/paste of . - ] (]) 02:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
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:Thanks for the heads up, all set. ] (]) 02:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
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FYI, 83.203.20.206 appears to be a sock for 76.67.115.228 that you blocked, based on the edit to ]. So far just the one edit. ] (]) 03:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Committee, ] (]) 02:44, 12 December 2024 (UTC) :I was wondering if this was the same person. {{User|83.203.20.206}} ] (]) 03:08, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
::Given the preoccupation with Israel/Hebrew, I would assume so. Though of course conceivably a friend, or just someone who saw the vandalism and decided to do the same. ] (]) 03:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
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::Congratulations. ] (]) 16:22, 12 December 2024 (UTC) :::I reported them anyway, and they're blocked. ] (]) 03:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
::::213.49.236.39 the same. same maybe-Neapolitan edit summaries. so they appear to be IP-hopping. ] (]) 05:26, 24 December 2024 (UTC)


== Another IP ==
== Potential myopia of PIA-centric RSN discussions — thoughts? ==


You interacted on the user talk of {{vandal|190.219.101.225}}. The IP was a sockpuppet of Alon9393 and is now blocked. ] (]) 08:54, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
I’m sure you’re aware of the recent trend of news outlets being RfCed primarily for PIA-related topics


== Happy Holidays ==
However, one of the most irritating things about it (apart from, y’know, the very incursion of mud-slingers onto RSN, the taurine tunnel vision of both sides, the non-policy-grounded biases nakedly displayed, and the systematic coordination on at least one side) is that both sides tend to forgo any discussion of the given source for its non-PIA coverage. This is detrimental and inconvenient for the broader editing community because it muddies the waters about the usability of these sources for everything else in this big world we live in.


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For example, Al Jazeera tends to take a fairly detached, professional view of Ukraine and certain other hot topics, but at the polar opposite end its quasi-coverage of Qatargate in Europe and the Menendez trial quite frankly puts RT and the Global Times to shame. The nuanced usability assessment that a rational, civil discussion would be likely to produce is instead swept aside by a circus in which the majority is spouting distorted applications of policy while the opposing side basically just does variations on “nuh-uh!”
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In another example, I recently argued against the Jerusalem Post being tarred and feathered because of the inevitable effects on its non-PIA coverage and in particular that it could mess with the diversity of the source basket for domestic Israeli politics and society/culture stuff. <s>Oh wait why would they even care</s>
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:Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! ] (]) 16:54, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
Do you think there’s any grounds to expect forthcoming changes to the situation due to recent formal proceedings at arbcom and AE and stuff, or that there’s any way to help keep project-wide discussions from turning into spillover from the ungodly cesspool that is high-traffic PIA talk pages? I feel like part of the problem is the self-selection of anyone who wants to make big edits in that topic area.


== Editor you blocked for ARBPIA violations ==
Cheers, ] (]) 14:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)


Aren't their latest edits violations? ] ] 16:46, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
:The short answer is no. The longer answer is nooooooooooooooooooo. As long as the real-world conflict is at high intensity there will be spillover on to en.wiki, and part of that means that there will be an increase in NPOVN, RSN, NOORN, and other spillover from the topic area. The topic area has a great need for these venues of wider participation, both for regular dispute resolution and to establish wider consensus than a local talk page consensus. This does lead to a lot of large discussions, but the recent 1000 word limit sanction should keep things a bit tighter and hopefully avoid huge spirals.
:Despite the added stress on venues like RSN, this is Misplaced Pages working as intended. There are real conflicts over the use of these sources, and rather than have editors argue back and forth on an article talk page they ''need'' to be able to seek a community consensus. ] (]) 16:44, 12 December 2024 (UTC)


:Looks that way to me. I'm trying to disengage from arbitration enforcement, though, since I'm now on the committee. ] (]) 16:51, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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== Feedback request: Maths, science, and technology request for comment ==
To differentiate from everyone else congratulating you on the promotion, I decided to do it in your three languages. {{smiley}}
* Scottish: {{lang|gd|Mealaibh ur naidheachd!}}
* Finnish: {{lang|fi|Onnittelut!}}
* and <s>Radish</s> er, Wikipedian:
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(I just looked at the list of articles you have on your user page, and hoped you might appreciate having them illustrated. .) The last isn't perfect, but better than what was on the article already, I hope you'll agree. BTW, any objection if we move that to just ], since there isn't anyone else in Misplaced Pages with that name that we need to disambiguate with the middle initial? --] (]) 19:14, 12 December 2024 (UTC)


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:Thanks a ton, and go for it. I rescued those all from ] declined drafts so they got stuck with whatever name they were created at. Same with ] which was at ], but I actually remembered to move it. Again, thanks, I really appreciate the images. ] (]) 19:28, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
::Speaking of. I would hate to break it, since it's a GA and all, and my skills are more in finding pics than in editing them, but what do you think of:
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::? --] (]) 19:32, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
:::I think the after is a bit over-processed, which makes the image artifacts stand out. Somewhere in the middle would probably be an improvement. What really irks my taters is that I ''know'' there are other images of her in old newspapers and other documents, but I haven't been able to dig them up. ] (]) 19:38, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
::::Better? (I used the same file, so if you don't see any change, hit shift-reload.) --] (]) 19:41, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::Yeah, that's better. Keeps the skin tone from getting washed out while still improving the visible details. Thanks again! ] (]) 19:48, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you for standing for arbitrator. I am far away from it all (travel, mourning), not in the mood, so just an informal question you can answer or ignore:

What does this 2024 DYK tell you about infoboxes for classical composers in 2024? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:26, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Those articles don't, in and of themselves, tell me a lot about infoboxes, other than that most of them have infoboxes. Quick power ranking on their hair, though.
  1. Franz Schreker - Off center widows peak over male-pattern baldness. Wild wings on the sides. Combined with the expression he really communicates "intense Austrian composer"
  2. Alexander von Zemlinsky - always maximum respect for a pompadour
  3. Arnold Schoenberg - I'll always believe that Picard was the best captain, and this haircut communicates that. Middle of the road though, as the default bald guy cut
  4. Gustav Mahler - trying to pull off the "genius that doesn't care about his hair" look, but Schreker did it much better
  5. Erich Wolfgang Korngold - looks like he's going to a job interview at a bank
ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:56, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
story · music · places
Thank you for loooking! - November was rich in sadness and happiness for me, expressed in music. - You may be too young (on WP) to know that infoboxes are a declared contentious topic, - sorry that my question was unclear. Do you think they still deserve the label. I found one candidate so far who looked into the matter and didn't stay at the surface, Simonm223. There are two composers on the Main page today, Siegfried Thiele and Aaron Copland. I find the response of my friend Jerome Kohl to a question on Copland's article talk promising. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Having closed around a dozen infobox RFCs, I think they're still fairly contentious. The CTOP designation serves to let people know they have to be on their best behavior which is important when dealing with an issue that is the subject of strong disagreement. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
I wonder when you closed those, because I don't see many discussions anymore. Most classical composers today get an infobox without a discussion. Mozart was closed in favour of an infobox, for example, almost two years ago, and I haven't seen new arguments since. We still have discussions for a few FAs, usually caused by editors who have no idea of a conflict but get immediately treated as infobox warriors, - that's what I see. - Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:58, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
Today, listen to Sequenza XIV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:43, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. The discussion is still on the Sibelius, ending with that he was playing in a league with Beethoven then, in 2018 ;) - We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. - Congratulations to being elected! Could you look at Samuel Barber and tell me if you miss something in his infobox? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. - I can report happily that the Barber situation was resolved.--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

WP:HOUNDING, and enforcing policies and guidelines

Apologies for bothering you on your talk page, but I was wondering if you could spare some advice. I am leaving the name of the editor this is about off intentionally.

I had a dispute with a user around a year or so ago who said that they didn't need to follow WP:V, essentially. This wasn't a new user, but a user who has been here for close to 12+ years and who had been warned several times for their edits by other users (no admin warnings from what I remember)

So I went over several of their older edits at the time and realized that they would insert material with citations that didn't mention what was added to the article or said something entirely different, insert links to primary documents in BLP articles, insert links to piracy sites containing pirated software, just a whole mess of things.

I've tried not to hound them since I firmly believe everyone deserves peace when editing here (within reason), but it has drawn their past edits into question. I don't want to go through and edit 75+ edits of theirs for not following correct policies, since as a regular editor that would certainly annoy me. I have for the most part only edited five or less of their edits in that year time frame but am curious when this should be brought to ANI, or if it's better to just let them go about their editing. I occasionally check their edits to make sure there isn't anything super terrible that justifies immediate removal but feel like this is borderline harassment of them, and wanted to ask the proper steps.

Thank you for whatever advice you can give! Awshort (talk) 17:24, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

If you've spoken with them without positive results and the behavior is continuing ANI is certainly an option, or AE if their editing is in a WP:CTOP and they're aware of the CTOP designation. Really, though, how you handle it is up to how you feel, and if you think it's worth whatever can of worms could be opened. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:07, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

awshort does harass and needs to stop stalking me and anyone else. They are not a victim and seldom change anything of value. I saw my “targeted killings” edit was reverted because the allegation was that my sources which said exact dollar amounts of $15,000 and $30,000 paid by Iranian proxies to kill people in the west was alleged to not be accurate. Twillisjr (talk) 00:39, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

@Twillisjr I removed that in mid November. Since you weren't tagged to this conversation, and no user was mentioned by name, what brought you here?
Awshort (talk) 01:57, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
@Awshort I am here in an act of self defense from you. Twillisjr (talk) 02:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
@Twillisjr That didn't answer the question - you weren't pinged, and I wasn't specific on who I was talking about. So unless you are following my edits, I'm unsure why you came here or why you specifically believe this is in regards to you.
Awshort (talk) 04:09, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
ScottishFinnishRadish Can you please respond to the edit war being started by Awshort (who is yet wiki stalking me again)? We are having a dispute on this article page: Internal affairs (law enforcement). Thank you. Twillisjr (talk) 23:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I'll give you a bit of a third opinion. The lead should follow the body, and there is no other mention of lamplighter in the article. It would make more sense to add that information, and also information on whistleblowers which is also absent, to the article before adding it to the lead. Looking at the importance of that information in the context of the article is also important for deciding if it should be in the lead.
This is really a run of the mill editing dispute so you should just follow WP:DR. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
@Twillisjr And disputes are fixed with discussion. I asked you for a reliable source that isn't one person refering to himself as such, provided policy based reasoning on why your edit was reverted, and provided alternative article suggestions where your text (with proper sourcing) would fit better than an unrelated article with it randomly thrown in.
I would also suggest reading WP:HA#NOT It is also not harassment to track a user's contributions for policy violations.
You never did answer the above question on what brought you here, but the edits I have reverted or tried to fix of yours in the past have been either highly problematic policy violations (you linking to a private data dump which could carry legal implications for the site, you referring to BLP subjects as pedophiles without proper sourcing stating the same, a few similar instances) or you ignoring WP:V and using this as your rationale.
Awshort (talk) 23:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Awshort The content fits, but not in the lead per ScottishFinnishRadish. You may now determine where in the article the content belongs and re-add it. The issue here is the quickness to revert and not improve. My first edit had an allegation of bad sources, and you alleged on my talk page that it was nearly impossible to find a better source. So, I showed you with a book citation how easy it can be to improve something without hitting the “revert button” and complaining on a talk page. Now, you may demonstrate your dedication to teamwork on Misplaced Pages by finding my research and correct citation a proper place on the article. Hope this is a lesson for you in good Misplaced Pages etiquette. Twillisjr (talk) 23:33, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I didn't say that it fits in the article, just that it shouldn't be in the lead unless it is in the article, and the first step would be to work it into the article. If you want something in an article it is your responsibility to find the appropriate sourcing to demonstrate that it is WP:DUE for inclusion. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
@Twillisjr As I said, I attempted to improve it and find better sources which supported the text, not that it was "nearly impossible" as you put it. Your book citation showed that one person called himself that, and was still not valid for what you were trying to add to an unrelated article.
There have been several instances of you adding random tidbits of somewhat-related-but-only-barely information to articles which don't necessarily help readers understand the overall topic any better, and other editors in the past have pointed this out to you over a period of several years. In the instances I've seen in the past (as in, not involving me personally) it usually involves you telling them you found the information, it helps the article, and they need to add it back. Misplaced Pages is not an indiscriminate collection of information; that is policy WP:INDISCRIMINATE. As is consensus being how things change in articles (or as you refer to it above, "complaining on a talk page"). Not all material necessarily improves an article and just being factually true doesn’t automatically mean it should be included or stay in an article. Once material is disputed, the responsibility falls on the person who wants the material included in the article to obtain consensus that it should stay in (with no consensus usually resulting in the material being left out). And lastly, your responses to other users when you are upset/annoyed with them come off as extremely condescending. Please work on how you talk to other people; that is part of policy (WP:AVOIDUNCIVIL) and has been mentioned to you in the past by several users including an admin.
Regarding the information which started this whole reactivation of an old discussion - I looked last night for a more suitable alternative for the material and it appears in both Frank Serpico § Retirement and activism as well as

Whistleblowing § Advocacy for protection, with the second link also mentioning the Lamp Lighter Project. Since there is no mention of Internal Affairs in the few sources that mention the term or connection between IA and the term, it seems this has been fixed on the content level at least by ending up in a suitable set of articles.

Awshort (talk) 21:17, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

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Your evidence at PIA 5

Your example:

the link is dead/wrong? Huldra (talk) 22:42, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. Should be fixed. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:26, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Revdel question...

So, what should we do about revdel if the plot section on a film's article was a copyvio since the article's creation? - Adolphus79 (talk) 22:47, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorted. You had me worried, but the article only had like 9 edits. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:56, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
That's what I was expecting to happen, that's why I just left you a message and then left a copyvio warning on the user's talk... - Adolphus79 (talk) 05:31, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

A request for block an user

Hello, I'm Quangminhvilla, one of the editor on Misplaced Pages. I hear that you are one of the admins on Misplaced Pages, so I want to ask you for help. In the few months before, the article 2023 AFC Asian Cup had an user name RealLifed was vandalism the article so many. Since the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, there was no third place match. But he always edited the third and the fourth ranking on the 2023 article, which lead to many user have to reverted the article many times. He always said that the reason was he used it from the AFC website, although there was no source about it. I have already gave him a warning for this, but he said threatly for me and always said by using CAPSLOCK to tell many user when they said to him politely. I think this user not only used incorrectly sources but he also one of the dangerous user that threaten anyone. So this message today is can you help me block this user please? Because if anyone warning to him about it, he will not change and still violated to them. Thank you for reading this message. Hope you have a good time during this week. Quangminhvilla (talk) 07:46, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Io Saturnalia!

Io, Saturnalia!
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth (talk) 15:26, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Happy Holidays to you and yours as well. I hope you don't have any winter problems on the farm. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Another possible 1RR violation

Once again I may be wrong here, but I think this is a 1RR violation: https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Mohammed_Deif&diff=prev&oldid=1263475889

If so, can you take appropriate action?

Thanks. Raskolnikov.Rev (talk) 18:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

I've remedied the violation and made them aware of the CTOP sanctions on the topic. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:51, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Possible WP:TBAN violation by Bohemian Baltimore

Good morning,

I have just reverted an edit by Bohemian Baltimore, who has a topic ban on self-ID articles for BLPs, broadly construed. This editor has made a number of small edits that seem to test/skirt the TBAN, with the text I reverted today seeming to be a more obvious violation of the ban. The editor disputes whether this applies in this case.

Details as follows:

  • The editor edited the intro to the Taíno article to change the wording around how these people are identified.

It might be that these don't fall under the "broadly construed" clause, but I thought it worth raising the issue now before a future edit does. I saw that you implemented the ban, so thought I'd reach out to you first. Lewisguile (talk) 07:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bohemian Baltimore, pinging you for transparency. Hopefully we can get an answer. Lewisguile (talk) 07:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
@Lewisguile There is no testing or skirting. I was told to stay away from BLPs related to self-identification and citizenship due to controversy over Native American BLPs. And that is what I have done; stayed away from editing those topics on Indigenous BLPs. None of those edited articles is a BLP. I am not aware of any total ban on editing Indigenous topics. If there is, I was not informed. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 07:17, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Self-ID is a major topic of most of these articles. Or are least of the edits you have made. It's worth noting that some of the info is also inaccurate—Taíno groups in Puerto Rico and the USVI are in non-sovereign territory (i.e., colonies), so they have no route for formal recognition. Your creation of the Taíno heritage groups article and the related Category:Taíno heritage groups therefore seems oddly WP:POINTY. Lewisguile (talk) 07:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but this seems like grasping for straws. If a topic ban for BLPs were to include non-BLPs, I would have been told this. Innocuous edits like creating a parent category for Nahua or adding Taino to the Native American identity article, in addition to not having anything to do with BLPs, doesn't even have anything to do with citizenship or self-identification. The information on the heritage group article, also, was not inaccurate. Not that that's relevant to the BLP question though. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 07:42, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
If I am misinterpreting the decision, then I am happy to apologise. It's entirely possible I'm looking at this too rigidly.
But either way, clarity would be good going forward. It seems to me these articles all have self-ID in common, either as an explicit or implicit element, and often involve the self-ID of people or groups of people.
If these articles are too tangential to the topic to count and it's too non-specific for the BLP element to count, then that's also useful to know for you as well as anyone else. Lewisguile (talk) 07:59, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
@Lewisguile I think it is clear that it is my intent to adhere to the topic ban and that is what I have tried to do since I was T-banned. If we are going to quibble over broadness, then that needs to be clarified by the administrators and then I can adhere to whatever their determination is. But it seems like you are arguing for my topic-ban to be broader than what it was originally stated to be. If the goal posts are going to be moved, well okay, but I need to be informed of where they are now. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 08:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I think we are broadly in agreement that it's helpful to know where the boundaries lie. I read "broadly construed" as meaning anything related to the matter of Indigenous identity. What's a BLP or not is also relatively broadly construed in its own right. If that's not the case, I am happy to retract and strike my comments. Lewisguile (talk) 08:19, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

More edits here:

  • Created the article Taíno heritage groups – using the language of your prior self-ID articles to say these aren't recognised. (Note that Puerto Rico is a colony, not a state, so there is no formal route to recognition.)

Re: BLPs, also see WP:BLPGROUP: A harmful statement about a small group or organization comes closer to being a BLP problem than a similar statement about a larger group; and when the group is very small, it may be impossible to draw a distinction between the group and the individuals that make up the group.

I take your point that some of these are probably not violations, but the point is that they're skirting the issue "broadly construed". As for the Taíno, I have added text to the page you created to clarify. You'll see what I mean. But creating a category to call groups out for not having recognition they cannot obtain does, again, seem to be pointy. Lewisguile (talk) 07:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

@Lewisguile So you admit that there probably aren't any violations and everything is only tangentially related if at all, but are still making an issue out of this. Well, that's interesting. The category for Taino heritage groups was actually created before my topic-ban was instituted, not that it matters, because it isn't a BLP anyway. Puerto Rico is a territory, not a "colony". I'm not sure that you are correct that a territory cannot give recognition to a tribe (Why are we debating this here?). But your quibble there is not I didn't give enough context on a newly created article still being worked on, not that there is anything false, because there wasn't. None of the edited articles pertains to "small groups". Name one, if so. It is my understanding that "broadly construed" pertains to BLPs, as I was topic-banned from BLPs. I didn't create the Taino category, by the way, to "call them out". That's a bad-faith accusation. I created the category to make it easier for readers to access articles related to Taino orgs. I think my editing over the past month has demonstrated my intent to adhere to the topic ban, as I have stayed away from the BLPs. I supposed it would be possible to quibble broadly enough to make the argument that any Native-related edits "tangentially" relate to BLPs in some way. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 08:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
So you admit that there probably aren't any violations I didn't say that. I said some may be tangential. I stand by statement that it's helpful to get clarification either way, and have offered to apologise if I'm proven wrong.
As for the Taíno stuff, I have added sources at the relevant article. You will see what I mean there. The legal framework for recognition only applies to the 48 contiguous States and Alaska (and the latter only because they brought in specific rules to do that). Puerto Rico and the USVI are non-sovereign territories with limited ability to officially recognise groups, which is why groups from those islands have been pushing the UN to intervene on their behalf. But I agree we can drop that discussion here.
ETA: Also, it's early and I'm particularly grumpy today. I apologise if my tone in general has caused an escalation. Lewisguile (talk) 08:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
If you want this looked at in detail I suggest you bring it to WP:AE. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Having thought about it some more, I'm happy to leave this for now. I don't have the energy for it and don't want to get into any wikilawyering. @Bohemian Baltimore, I'm sorry for any bother caused. Lewisguile (talk) 15:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

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Glad to help. Thanks for the bear, I appreciate any animal in goggles. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:48, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
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It's very TaleSpin. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:57, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I can't believe there's no images in that article, surely FUR applies? El Beeblerino 22:35, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
I could probably use dall-e to make sexy Rebecca pictures. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:44, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
Given the context, I assumed that link would be about furries on wikipedia! Cmrc23 ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 16:20, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Nicoljaus unblock requests question

you should see the video I got of this, he eventually turned it completely over and tried to see if spinning the wheels would get him access to the sweet, sweet combination of garbage and cat poop within.

I'm not sure what the standard procedure is here, or if there is one, but do you think it would make sense to replace their unblock requests with the "on hold" version so it is immediately clear that this at AE and not something for a single admin to review?

Additional bear provided for your amusement. El Beeblerino 22:32, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, that should get it out of the queue, at least. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
 Done. El Beeblerino 23:57, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
Thank you kindly. Dall-e is doing an okay job making Rebecca images, but I don't think we're allowed to use them. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:13, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Question

Hi, could you explain this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Zionism&diff=prev&oldid=1260458061

Thank you, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 01:11, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

An editor was using an LLM to make arguments while falsifying sources so I collapsed some of it, and removed other parts that hadn't been replied to yet. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:13, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you very much. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:57, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

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Hello ScottishFinnishRadish: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:25, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you kindly and I hope you and yours also have a wonderful holiday season. Hopefully the weather shifts a bit and I'm not stuck with less than no degrees. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:45, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
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Revdel request

Hello, got another quick revdel request for you. This revision has already been reverted, but is a copy/paste of here. - Adolphus79 (talk) 02:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, all set. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 02:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

IP block

FYI, 83.203.20.206 appears to be a sock for 76.67.115.228 that you blocked, based on the edit to Maté. So far just the one edit. — kwami (talk) 03:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I was wondering if this was the same person. 83.203.20.206 (talk · contribs) Knitsey (talk) 03:08, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Given the preoccupation with Israel/Hebrew, I would assume so. Though of course conceivably a friend, or just someone who saw the vandalism and decided to do the same. — kwami (talk) 03:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
I reported them anyway, and they're blocked. Knitsey (talk) 03:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
213.49.236.39 the same. same maybe-Neapolitan edit summaries. so they appear to be IP-hopping. — kwami (talk) 05:26, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Another IP

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Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:54, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Editor you blocked for ARBPIA violations

Aren't their latest edits violations? Doug Weller talk 16:46, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Looks that way to me. I'm trying to disengage from arbitration enforcement, though, since I'm now on the committee. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:51, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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