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'''Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam ("{{highlight|Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it}}") {{dash}} ]''' | |||
== October 2024 == | == October 2024 == | ||
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:@], I added just to clarify that simply saying the word “sh*t” is not sanctionable, but using it to describe/attack another editor is probably is. Are you having problem with that? | |||
:And to borrow their words, I am tired of their attacks, their harassment, their complete lack of couth. No, they aren’t the worst editor in the history of the project. I am. | |||
:So <ins>do</ins> you really think {{highlight|I am a very hypocritical bad faith incompetent <ins>deceptive </ins>editor who sh*t on others <ins>who persistently making disruptive edits, casting aspersions, wikilawyering, showing classic WP:TE?</ins>}} (You know all these stem from the fact that people presumed that a tbanned user is a bad editor It caused much misunderstandings, prejudices, humiliations and cyberbullying/harassments afterwards. I have been tolerating all that. And you now choose to block me. Do you think it’s fair? You are trying to destroy the last bit of respect that I have for you). --] (]) 14:19, 29 October 2024 (UTC); --] (]) 04:45, 1 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Trying to bully the blocking admin is probably not your best choice of action. Bullying me is allowed, I'm a nobody here, but ScottishFinnishRadish is a respected member of this community. I only pray that they read the entire report, and see how many times you ] other editors in the space of a week. - ] (]) 14:23, 29 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::Ok I just read this | |||
:::*] | |||
:::** I do see who is canvassing and bullying our admin now. | |||
:::--] (]) 14:25, 29 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::For the record, re {{tq|”Bullying me is allowed ... I only pray that they read the entire report, and see how many times you attacked other editors in the space of a week”}} No that’s not true. | |||
::::I’ve never bullied or ] anyone. Everything I said in that is true. Saying that I have, without providing any diff (that isn’t misrepresented), is bordering on aspersions. Yes there are serveral other editors that disagree with /criticise me in that discussion. However, the fact that for a high visibily venue like that (up to 6-7K pageviews per day), there were only so few of them, and that almost all of them were either pinged / canvassesd to that discussion and/or have content disputes with me before (including the bloocking admin, who were pinged there), i.e., not uninvolved, is enough to prove that who is at wrong and that the silent majority is likely on my side. --] (]) 08:05, 1 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
::As I said when you protested to my closure at ], I would reopen it for another six hours if you wanted. Most people don't want reports open any longer than necessary, and it was clear that would be the result. Being a consensus of administrators at AE it would require a clear consensus at an appeal to modify or overturn. ] (]) 14:26, 29 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::I don’t think after a person has stabbed someone, one can pretend that nothing had happened just by saying that “ok I’ll take out the knife if you want”. But it’s up to you. Thank you. --] (]) 14:30, 29 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::FYI, it’s not “a consensus of administrators”, as you '''can’t close that AE discussion as “a consensus of administrators” in less than 24 hours according to the Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Procedures ''' But again, you are the one with the power and it’s all up to you. It’s how this Misplaced Pages works. Thanks again. --] (]) 14:32, 29 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::]... - ] (]) 14:55, 29 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::@], you {{highlight|]|lime}} me from ] to <ins>] to ] ,etc. to</ins> the totally unrelated ], <ins>assuming bad faith, harass me and casting aspersions since 17 Oct, first on my talk then at ANI, </ins> refused to my attempt to make peace, saying that you had “mental health crisis” on my talk and saying that I bullied you at ANI. Aside from those ], which did earn my empathy, you cast 20-40 misrepresentations / aspersions against me <ins>either on my talk or</ins> at ANI. Just because you can’t accept losing, just like you did at RfA (and I don’t think you have improved even <del>you did admit</del><ins> after you were told that</ins> “you don’t have any knowledge about our policies” ). You know what kind of person you are. Do not post to this Talk page again. I’ll view any further comment by you as ]. --] (]) 15:16, 29 October 2024 (UTC); --] (]) 05:06, 1 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::For the record, this is the discussion at ] that leads to the above block: | |||
::::*https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1254115812#User:Dustfreeworld_and_CIR | |||
::::--] (]) 04:41, 1 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::The OP (and all the related IPs) who filed that ANI complaint against me is now blocked (CheckUser block): | |||
:::::*https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/2A02:6B67:D622:5E00:0:0:0:0/64 | |||
:::::--] (]) 10:07, 1 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::*Adolphus79 blocked on 29 Oct for grave dancing . Unblocked the next day upon appeal | |||
::::::*Karnataka officially warned for engaging in sock puppetry , "The only reason that you're not currently blocked is because I didn't notice it until now, and blocks aren't supposed to be punitive." | |||
::::::--] (]) 13:43, 4 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::For the record, just a few hours after I made the above post, it seems that User:Karnataka had made a request to rename user "Karnataka" to "Renamed user 941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a", and now their account is . I think it’s the result of a successful account vanishing request? But per , “Even if vanish is intended to be permanent, it may still be reversed” ... | |||
:::::::Actually this is not the first time that they request for renaming. They have requested to have their name changed from Tirishan to Karnataka after a sockpuppet investigation that was closed as no action in May 2023 | |||
:::::::Will they be back as an established user who has never been sanctioned? I don’t know. Vanish may still be reversed, and they have a *clean* block log, much much cleaner than that of mine ;-) | |||
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:::::::a) https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Log?type=renameuser&user=&page=Karnataka&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist | |||
:::::::*17:30, 4 November 2024 TenWhile6 talk contribs renamed user Karnataka (6,282 edits) to Renamed user 941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a (per request) | |||
:::::::*19:54, 8 June 2023 Neriah talk contribs renamed user Karnataka (0 edits) to Karnataka (usurped) (per usurp request on enwiki) | |||
:::::::b) https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Log?type=move&user=&page=User%3AKarnataka&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist | |||
:::::::*17:30, 4 November 2024 TenWhile6 talk contribs moved page User:Karnataka to User:Renamed user 941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a without leaving a redirect (Automatically moved page while renaming the user "Karnataka" to "Renamed user 941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a") (revert) (thank) | |||
:::::::c) https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?page=User:Karnataka&title=Special:Log/delete | |||
:::::::*18:29, 26 July 2023 Fastily talk contribs deleted page User:Karnataka (U1: User request to delete page in own userspace – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND) (thank) | |||
:::::::*14:18, 8 July 2023 Sdrqaz talk contribs deleted page User:Karnataka (U1: User request to delete page in own userspace – to retrieve it, see WP:REFUND) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit (thank) | |||
:::::::And, https://meta.wikimedia.org/Special:Contributions/Renamed_user_941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a | |||
:::::::</small> --] (]) 22:44, 18 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::::Forgot to add this last time, | |||
::::::::<nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/User:Tirishan</nowiki> | |||
::::::::"Tirishan" is not registered on this wiki. Please check ] to see if the account is registered on other wikis. | |||
::::::::This user has been renamed. The rename log is provided below for reference. | |||
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== Re advocacy == | |||
@], re your recent at ANI and some of your recent reverts, I believe there’s misunderstanding somewhere. Yes I’m against pollution. BUT, I don’t think there’s anyone in the world who is *not* against pollution. I really can’t agree with your comment that I’m here to “bring their advocacy against pollution into Misplaced Pages” or to RIGHTGREATWRONG. Quite the contrary, I’m here to improve our articles on that topic, and trying to reduce the biases/ misinformation/ viewpoint-unbalance. Per ]: "All encyclopedic content on Misplaced Pages must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, '''all the significant views''' that have been published by reliable sources on a topic." (emphasis mine). | |||
For example, for ], before I edited it, it’s totally outdated, and heavily biased towards certain view points. The are not just fuel combustion from power plants or cars. It’s much much more than that. Another example is the . It only mentioned *one* organisation, which was heavily biased. <ins>I had removed it (moved to it's own article) and the</ins> list I added later was to fix that NPOV problem and FYI it’s *sourced* to the government website at the end of the section. Perhaps you didn’t notice the sources because I didn’t add it to every entry … I do agree maybe the list is a bit long and need some trimming, but I don’t think it should be completely removed. | |||
While I do agree with some of your reverts and admit that I should have formatted the article better and shouldn’t have made it look like sandbox/draft, I believe most content removed are relevant and ], and I know HK so well that some info that looks like ] to me may look irrelevant or even advocacy for others … As I seem to be the only contributor there and the page has very low visibility (only 10-20 visitors each day), also, I was planning for retirement (after I have that article in an acceptable state) and was in a hurry, I admit that I was too relaxed with my edits there (e.g., many links that are now removed from the EL section should have been put in Further reading as sources for future article expansion instead of External links, and many of the see also links belong to the article body, instead, and, the structure/headings of the article needs much improvement which I didn’t have time to do better, etc.) Please accept my apologies. But again, please believe my good faith in making the article more comprehensive and less biased, instead of “advocacy”. | |||
Another revert I want to talk about is the Other names section that you removed from ]. FYI, the section was added per ], and I’m not sure if a section like that needs to be sourced. It’s a new and emerging technology, with presence in countries that speaks different languages (e.g., Europe, India and China), and thus it’s not surprising for it to have many alternative names. Although I didn’t add the source, please be assured that all of them *can* be sourced. It’s because I either found those names *in* the sources when I edited the article, or, I had verified that those names were used in RS before adding them. I would be more than happy if you had tagged that section as ], rather than outright removal. <ins>Btw, I have never said that *everything* that's ever added to an article shouldn't be removed. No, that's not what I think. And I really don't understand why linking to ] is a problem. People who really click on it and read on should know there are situations that justify removal (it's the first sub-section in FIXTHEPROBLEM ... I don't think everything should be preserved indiscriminately. Just that I believe most content can be tagged for improvement first (before possible removal), and that in this case for the Smog tower article, ] (which to my understanding means when an editor genuinely believes that no sources have ever been ''published'' that can support the material, and thus "material whose verifiability has been challenged" e.g., with a tag, can then be removed) should be a more appropriate reason for removal when compared with simply "unsourced" (for most non-contentious material).</ins> | |||
There are more edits that I would like to explain or clarify. I should have written this a few days ago. But due to that case at ANI, which people holding grudges will make an issue with whatever thing I say, I decided to comment on “advocacy” only after that case. But that doesn’t matter anymore. Now that I’m blocked (at the highly visible ANI board with as much as 6K daily page views) and everyone thinks I’m a tendentious and disruptive (in addition to tbanned) editor, <ins><b>I can forsee that there will just be even more</b> misunderstandings, prejudices, unneccessary conflicts, <b>humiliations and cyberbullying/harassments in the future</b> (unless I'm happy with being an editor that only fixes typos). FYI I'm not paid and I don't see any reason for me to tolerate all that anymore.</ins> I will retire (much sooner than I planned to) and I don’t think I will come back, except to fix some obvious problems in the articles (mostly not introduced by me) I contributed heavily (e.g., now in Air pollution in Hong Kong, Joss paper is under the section “”. Also, which talk about heavy equipments that use diesel does not belongs to the power tools section either. It’s somewhat complex. Construction and demolition can generate particulates both mechanically and by fuel combustion… and I haven’t made up my mind on the article’s structure yet, so there are the many empty sections you found). Btw, there are some very important causes missing from the air pollution in HK article now, for example construction and demolition wastes, electronic wastes (e wastes) and <ins>road works</ins>. E wastes is a significant issue in HK and was widely reported in the news (you can found some sources in the removed External links section). If you can add them back, I, and the people in my place, will definitely thank you for that. Regards, | |||
PS. As for the low quality images, my apologies again, as I dropped my phone a few times recently ... re MOSIMAGERELEVANCE, as I took most of the photos and I see them happening almost every day, I’m quite sure that they are relevant, although the caption might have been written in a better way ... Aside, I believe that block of mine does reveal some problems of Misplaced Pages. For example, admins,<ins> like eveyone else, value their reputation and "face" and their relationship with other admins and/or editors</ins>. This sometimes makes actions (or no actions) difficult. This is something for the community (and/or WMF) to think about. Do we need separate accounts for admins (e.g., User:ABC (ADMIN), just like User:ABC (WMF)? Or, better yet, has someone who is completely uninvolved in the project (not even an editor) to be admin? Further, how should the harassment policies be enforced? Only when someone complains? Only enforced for those with first mover advantage? If the victims keep silence the admins keep silence too? <ins>Moreover, are we sure we need to have trials as public as what we now have at ANI, which are similar to "public spectacles", "public mass accusation meetings", etc. in which everyone (or anyone, including those who aren't from your village/city/state/country/continent and maybe just 8 years old, etc.) can throw stones? Can you imagine some of the employees of a publishing company (e.g., of a print encyclopedia) being yelled at or threatened with "Block! Ban! Fired!" Almost everyday? Is that a good working environment? Or just because here people are voluntory contributors so they have to accept that? Yes there is workplace bullying but that is another thing which is quite different from the open/public/internet "trials" we have here. </ins>Anyway. --] (]) 20:07, 29 October 2024 (UTC); --] (]) 04:23, 1 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
== Taboos of Misplaced Pages == | |||
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:If you want to spend time at Misplaced Pages: use it in order to learn the taboos of Misplaced Pages. Seriously. That's the first thing an editor should learn, but it is never too late. ] (]) 06:53, 30 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
::@], by {{tq|“taboos of Misplaced Pages”}} what do you mean? --] (]) 08:16, 30 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::Things that should not be said, and things that should not be done. E.g. {{u|QuackGuru}}'s activism wasn't "wrong" according to the prevailing POV of Misplaced Pages, but the mere fact that he was an ] sealed his fate. ] (]) 21:11, 30 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::I don’t know that editor. It seems that they left long before I joined. If I may ask, why do you come to my talk citing an ] and describing another user who had decided to left the project / stay inactive more than four years ago as “activist” (and saying something strange about their “fate”)? --] (]) 04:19, 1 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::My suggestion is that you should be more welcoming towards receiving hints about your own behavior. | |||
:::::Sometimes, it is other editors who are wrong, but at other times they are right and you are wrong. | |||
:::::You should know that the Misplaced Pages Community takes a dim view of "activists", even if those activists mean well. ] (]) 20:19, 1 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::After reading your comment I did reflect on my own behaviour again, but I really can’t find the problem mentioned. | |||
::::::When good-faith editors query about my edits, I always try to be patient and welcoming. The newest example is the one that just above this discussion. To quote myself: | |||
::::::“I do agree maybe the list is ... and need ... I do agree with some of your reverts and admit that I should have formatted the article better and shouldn’t have ... admit that I was too ... with my edits ... do better, etc.) Please accept my apologies ... I don't think everything should be preserved indiscriminately ... | |||
::::::PS ... my apologies again ... “ | |||
::::::I explained my views and admitted what I could have done better, and apologised twice when needed. I have no idea why you think I “should be more welcoming”. | |||
::::::As for your “hints”, they are somewhat difficult for me to understand I would say. When you first mentioned about “taboos”, I did a quick search in order to understand what that means. Unfortunately, it only comes up with two links, one is this page, another is your comment on an action imposed to your account in 2022. In that comment you said “I don't know all the taboos of Misplaced Pages. Now I know this taboo and I will behave accordingly.” It seems to me that you were still learning the “taboos” after you had registered for almost twenty years, while in your “hint” to me you said the “taboos” is “the first thing an editor should learn”. Further, I really have no idea about what’s that taboo that had led to that action, and again, I really don’t know who is Quackguru and how all these related. Please accept my apologies if my comments didn’t seem very welcoming. As to my personal view, I don’t think we need too much taboos here, as Misplaced Pages is not censored. Btw, I don’t think I’m an “activist”, no, not at all. Maybe it’s my username that gives such impression? Well, in fact a world that’s free of dust can be both good and bad. FYI, I often have concerns that a world completely free of dust would cause problems because it may be completely free of precipitation too (you may want to read ] in case you are interested; again my username just doesn’t imply whether it’s good or bad, it’s up to people’s interpretation). That said, I certainly will take your advice and pay more attention whenever I see the word “taboos”. I agree with you that “Sometimes, it is other editors who are wrong, but at other times they are right and you are wrong.” I think reasonable people can disagree. I believe collaborative editing is the key to the success of Misplaced Pages, and mutual understanding and AGF are always more important and essential that those sanctions / punishments. Lastly, I think I’ll be closing this as I’m not feeling very well recently and probably won’t be responding swiftly / frequently and I don’t want to keep you waiting. Sorry again, and thank you. Regards, --] (]) 13:26, 4 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
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{{Discussion top|It's a non-issue. Please do not reopen. --] (]) 18:08, 1 December 2024 (UTC) }} | |||
Hello, Dustfreeworld, | |||
Do not "unarchive" a discussion on ANI that has been over for weeks and then dictate how you want the discussion to be closed. This discussion ended a long time ago and shouldn't be put back on the ANI main page just to note that the OP was blocked back in October. It's a non-issue. Please do not do this again. <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">]</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">] ]</sup> 08:25, 19 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Hello, Liz, | |||
:Sorry for the late reply as I’ve been overwhelmed by RL events. I don’t think it’s a non-issue. If you think that being described as a “very hypocritical bad faith incompetent deceptive editor who sh*t on others who persistently making disruptive edits, casting aspersions, wikilawyering, showing classic WP:TE“ is a non-issue, then perhaps it is. Maybe because I said that I’m not going to hold anyone accountable and that makes it a non-issue? I believe I’ve stated my reason for reopening the discussion clearly in my . It’s not reopened “just to note that the OP was blocked back in October”. Later information, which was not shown in the original closing statement, indicates that both the OP and another user in the discussion are likely socks, which means that the outcome of that discussion is highly disputable. Also, given that the closer even ], do you think that the original closing statement was appropriate and my unarchiving was unwarranted? I didn’t reopen the discussion to “dictate how you want the discussion to be close”. I was just proposing (and I believe my proposal was gentle and neutral enough). People can discuss and even disagree. With the “rearchive”, the discussion was then dictated to an extent that there could be no more discussion. | |||
:Having been an administrator for so long, I think you probably won’t understand what I mean by “not a non-issue”. No one will attack you like that. People may still attack/harass you, but they will bear in mind that you are an admin who can use tools to block/ban/mute people. | |||
:I don’t know why you said the discussion “ended a long time ago”. We may have different definitions for “a long time”. AFAICT, ]<nowiki/> fought for his reputation for years after those bans/blocks were imposed on him and even took ] until he died. He’s not alone. Can you imagine that a user still remember a block imposed to her back in 2013, which lasted less than an hour, and ]? (if memory serves, she said similar things more than once). I don’t think admins with clean block logs can understand all these. There are more. Have you seen an editor sanctioned at ANI, with others citing reasons such as “this editor had been dragged to ANI a few times before without being sanctioned and the discussions weren’t closed but just archived. So he should be sanctioned this time”? I have. I know it’s just Misplaced Pages. I see from your user page that you care about cyber bullying. I don’t think those are “non-issues”. | |||
:IMO, and from my own experience, all those attacks, harassments, aspersions, following (hounding), etc. are very common, especially for the active editors who didn’t choose to “hide” and thus are not “low profile”, and even those from WMF can’t be exempted from them (e.g., ) . I did hope that admins/arbitrators/WMF(?), etc. would do something about all that, but no, I was too naive. Even getting a more factual and fair closure is so difficult, not to mention having someone to speak up when needed. | |||
:Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying you are not a good admin. You definitely aren’t the one who are unjust or will bully others. I’m just saying that maybe you can do better. Or, maybe it’s a systemic problem. Maybe. --] (]) 17:57, 1 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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Re what I said, "all those attacks, harassments, aspersions, following (hounding), etc. are very common, especially for the active editors who didn’t choose to “hide” and thus are not “low profile”, and even those from WMF can’t be exempted". That also apply to editors who had disclosed some of their personal information/affiliation such as religions, race, etc. Also more vulnerable are those who don't have ten to hundred thousands of edits, those who don't have any/much "hats" (permissions), those who are not "old"/long-term enough, those who were sanctioned before (no matter just or unjust; e.g., editors who don't have a clean block log, those who were topic banned..), <ins>and those who has stood up for others (instead of looking away) when they witness very bad behaviour,</ins> etc. --] (]) 04:09, 2 December 2024 (UTC); --] (]) 19:40, 10 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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I only wanted to undo your change of the title, not all three edits, apologies. ] (]) 13:22, 9 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Noted. Nvm. BTW, I've changed the title to adhere to the fact. --] (]) 13:25, 9 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
Please stop closing a discussion with many participants on another people's user talk page just because ''you'' "see many untrue/ABF claims.". Your edits are against the ]. ] (]) 13:38, 9 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:I’m polite enough to say that I “see many untrue/ABF claims”, what I see is much more than that, and I think you know what I mean. Per our Talk page guidelines, anyone can remove those of “what I see”, again, I believe I’m gentle enough. Aside, as other users has said, that discussion is going no where. It’s just *unconstructive* and *uncollaborative*. IMO your edits are against the guidelines you linked to. --] (]) 13:47, 9 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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== archiving at ANI == | |||
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], actually. ] (]) 13:38, 14 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:@], I know. Just that I think the bot should do it faster for cases that are closed as no action, especially when the discussion title is so contentious and being associated with a user’s name in such a way to imply wrongdoing. As it’s a bot, it won’t be able to distinguish that. Thanks for the comment anyway. --] (]) 16:56, 14 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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] Hello, I'm ]. I have removed your contribution (awards section) on the ANI article. I don't think it is needed there. Because it was given to ANI founder Prem Prakash and not to ANI. Thanks<!-- Template:uw-delete1 --> ] (]) 18:49, 19 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
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]May your holidays be filled with peace and joy. Spread the ] by wishing another user a ], whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! ]<sup>]</sup> 02:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC) <br /> | |||
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:I don’t think I’ve removed any content from that article. No. Would you please provide the diff? | |||
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:OTOH, you have removed the content I added just now . The person was an employee (and founder) of ANI and he got an award for his contribution to journalism. I don’t think that content should be removed. --] (]) 19:04, 19 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Did the person win the award, or the organization? - ] (]) 19:06, 19 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
::: The person. But it’s the right place for that content. Please see ] --] (]) 19:09, 19 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
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Latest revision as of 02:12, 1 January 2025
Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam ("Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it") – Giordano Bruno
October 2024
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Misplaced Pages's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:55, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish, I added this just to clarify that simply saying the word “sh*t” is not sanctionable, but using it to describe/attack another editor is probably is. Are you having problem with that?
- And to borrow their words, I am tired of their attacks, their harassment, their complete lack of couth. No, they aren’t the worst editor in the history of the project. I am.
- So do you really think I am a very hypocritical bad faith incompetent deceptive editor who sh*t on others who persistently making disruptive edits, casting aspersions, wikilawyering, showing classic WP:TE? (You know all these stem from the fact that people presumed that a tbanned user is a bad editor It caused much misunderstandings, prejudices, humiliations and cyberbullying/harassments afterwards. I have been tolerating all that. And you now choose to block me. Do you think it’s fair? You are trying to destroy the last bit of respect that I have for you). --Dustfreeworld (talk) 14:19, 29 October 2024 (UTC); --Dustfreeworld (talk) 04:45, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- Trying to bully the blocking admin is probably not your best choice of action. Bullying me is allowed, I'm a nobody here, but ScottishFinnishRadish is a respected member of this community. I only pray that they read the entire report, and see how many times you attacked other editors in the space of a week. - Adolphus79 (talk) 14:23, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ok I just read this
- User talk:Adolphus79#c-Hiobazard-20241029140200-Hi Adolphus79, 2
- I do see who is canvassing and bullying our admin now.
- User talk:Adolphus79#c-Hiobazard-20241029140200-Hi Adolphus79, 2
- --Dustfreeworld (talk) 14:25, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- For the record, re
”Bullying me is allowed ... I only pray that they read the entire report, and see how many times you attacked other editors in the space of a week”
No that’s not true. - I’ve never bullied or attacked anyone. Everything I said in that WP:ANI discussion is true. Saying that I have, without providing any diff (that isn’t misrepresented), is bordering on aspersions. Yes there are serveral other editors that disagree with /criticise me in that discussion. However, the fact that for a high visibily venue like that (up to 6-7K pageviews per day), there were only so few of them, and that almost all of them were either pinged / canvassesd to that discussion and/or have content disputes with me before (including the bloocking admin, who were pinged there), i.e., not uninvolved, is enough to prove that who is at wrong and that the silent majority is likely on my side. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 08:05, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- For the record, re
- Ok I just read this
- As I said when you protested to my closure at WP:AE, I would reopen it for another six hours if you wanted. Most people don't want reports open any longer than necessary, and it was clear that would be the result. Being a consensus of administrators at AE it would require a clear consensus at an appeal to modify or overturn. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:26, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- I don’t think after a person has stabbed someone, one can pretend that nothing had happened just by saying that “ok I’ll take out the knife if you want”. But it’s up to you. Thank you. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 14:30, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- FYI, it’s not “a consensus of administrators”, as you can’t close that AE discussion as “a consensus of administrators” in less than 24 hours according to the Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Procedures But again, you are the one with the power and it’s all up to you. It’s how this Misplaced Pages works. Thanks again. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 14:32, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks... - Adolphus79 (talk) 14:55, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Adolphus79, you followed me from Indoor air quality to Air pollution in the United Kingdom to Joss paper ,etc. to the totally unrelated Asian News International, assuming bad faith, harass me and casting aspersions since 17 Oct, first on my talk then at ANI, refused to my attempt to make peace, saying that you had “mental health crisis” on my talk and saying that I bullied you at ANI. Aside from those emotional blackmail, which did earn my empathy, you cast 20-40 misrepresentations / aspersions against me either on my talk or at ANI. Just because you can’t accept losing, just like you did at RfA (and I don’t think you have improved even
you did admitafter you were told that “you don’t have any knowledge about our policies” ). You know what kind of person you are. Do not post to this Talk page again. I’ll view any further comment by you as WP:HARASSMENT. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 15:16, 29 October 2024 (UTC); --Dustfreeworld (talk) 05:06, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Adolphus79, you followed me from Indoor air quality to Air pollution in the United Kingdom to Joss paper ,etc. to the totally unrelated Asian News International, assuming bad faith, harass me and casting aspersions since 17 Oct, first on my talk then at ANI, refused to my attempt to make peace, saying that you had “mental health crisis” on my talk and saying that I bullied you at ANI. Aside from those emotional blackmail, which did earn my empathy, you cast 20-40 misrepresentations / aspersions against me either on my talk or at ANI. Just because you can’t accept losing, just like you did at RfA (and I don’t think you have improved even
- For the record, this is the discussion at WP:ANI that leads to the above block:
- --Dustfreeworld (talk) 04:41, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- The OP (and all the related IPs) who filed that ANI complaint against me is now blocked (CheckUser block):
- --Dustfreeworld (talk) 10:07, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- --Dustfreeworld (talk) 13:43, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
- For the record, just a few hours after I made the above post, it seems that User:Karnataka had made a request to rename user "Karnataka" to "Renamed user 941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a", and now their account is globally locked. I think it’s the result of a successful account vanishing request? But per Account vanishing, “Even if vanish is intended to be permanent, it may still be reversed” ...
- Actually this is not the first time that they request for renaming. They have requested to have their name changed from Tirishan to Karnataka after a sockpuppet investigation that was closed as no action in May 2023
- Will they be back as an established user who has never been sanctioned? I don’t know. Vanish may still be reversed, and they have a *clean* block log, much much cleaner than that of mine ;-)
- a) https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Log?type=renameuser&user=&page=Karnataka&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist
- 17:30, 4 November 2024 TenWhile6 talk contribs renamed user Karnataka (6,282 edits) to Renamed user 941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a (per request)
- 19:54, 8 June 2023 Neriah talk contribs renamed user Karnataka (0 edits) to Karnataka (usurped) (per usurp request on enwiki)
- b) https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Log?type=move&user=&page=User%3AKarnataka&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist
- 17:30, 4 November 2024 TenWhile6 talk contribs moved page User:Karnataka to User:Renamed user 941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a without leaving a redirect (Automatically moved page while renaming the user "Karnataka" to "Renamed user 941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a") (revert) (thank)
- c) https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?page=User:Karnataka&title=Special:Log/delete
- 18:29, 26 July 2023 Fastily talk contribs deleted page User:Karnataka (U1: User request to delete page in own userspace – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND) (thank)
- 14:18, 8 July 2023 Sdrqaz talk contribs deleted page User:Karnataka (U1: User request to delete page in own userspace – to retrieve it, see WP:REFUND) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit (thank)
- And, https://meta.wikimedia.org/Special:Contributions/Renamed_user_941cc78c00a0c5924c78bcbe91e8541a
- --Dustfreeworld (talk) 22:44, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- Forgot to add this last time,
- https://en.wikipedia.org/User:Tirishan
- "Tirishan" is not registered on this wiki. Please check CentralAuth to see if the account is registered on other wikis.
- This user has been renamed. The rename log is provided below for reference.
- 19:54, 8 June 2023 Neriah talk contribs renamed user Tirishan (1,412 edits) to Karnataka (per usurp request on enwiki)
- This page does not exist. The deletion, protection, and move log for the page are provided below for reference.
- 18:10, 4 June 2023 Pathoschild talk contribs deleted page User:Tirishan (replaced by global user page (requested by Tirishan)) (thank)
- --Dustfreeworld (talk) 17:16, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks... - Adolphus79 (talk) 14:55, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Trying to bully the blocking admin is probably not your best choice of action. Bullying me is allowed, I'm a nobody here, but ScottishFinnishRadish is a respected member of this community. I only pray that they read the entire report, and see how many times you attacked other editors in the space of a week. - Adolphus79 (talk) 14:23, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
Re advocacy
@Canterbury Tail, re your recent comment at ANI and some of your recent reverts, I believe there’s misunderstanding somewhere. Yes I’m against pollution. BUT, I don’t think there’s anyone in the world who is *not* against pollution. I really can’t agree with your comment that I’m here to “bring their advocacy against pollution into Misplaced Pages” or to RIGHTGREATWRONG. Quite the contrary, I’m here to improve our articles on that topic, and trying to reduce the biases/ misinformation/ viewpoint-unbalance. Per WP:NPOV: "All encyclopedic content on Misplaced Pages must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic." (emphasis mine).
For example, for Air pollution in Hong Kong, before I edited it, it’s totally outdated, and heavily biased towards certain view points. The causes are not just fuel combustion from power plants or cars. It’s much much more than that. Another example is the organization section. It only mentioned *one* organisation, which was heavily biased. I had removed it (moved to it's own article) and the list I added later was to fix that NPOV problem and FYI it’s *sourced* to the government website at the end of the section. Perhaps you didn’t notice the sources because I didn’t add it to every entry … I do agree maybe the list is a bit long and need some trimming, but I don’t think it should be completely removed.
While I do agree with some of your reverts and admit that I should have formatted the article better and shouldn’t have made it look like sandbox/draft, I believe most content removed are relevant and can be sourced, and I know HK so well that some info that looks like WP:SKYBLUE to me may look irrelevant or even advocacy for others … As I seem to be the only contributor there and the page has very low visibility (only 10-20 visitors each day), also, I was planning for retirement (after I have that article in an acceptable state) and was in a hurry, I admit that I was too relaxed with my edits there (e.g., many links that are now removed from the EL section should have been put in Further reading as sources for future article expansion instead of External links, and many of the see also links belong to the article body, instead, and, the structure/headings of the article needs much improvement which I didn’t have time to do better, etc.) Please accept my apologies. But again, please believe my good faith in making the article more comprehensive and less biased, instead of “advocacy”.
Another revert I want to talk about is the Other names section that you removed from Smog tower. FYI, the section was added per MOS:ALTNAME, and I’m not sure if a section like that needs to be sourced. It’s a new and emerging technology, with presence in countries that speaks different languages (e.g., Europe, India and China), and thus it’s not surprising for it to have many alternative names. Although I didn’t add the source, please be assured that all of them *can* be sourced. It’s because I either found those names *in* the sources when I edited the article, or, I had verified that those names were used in RS before adding them. I would be more than happy if you had tagged that section as Template:Unreferenced_section, rather than outright removal. Btw, I have never said that *everything* that's ever added to an article shouldn't be removed. No, that's not what I think. And I really don't understand why linking to the editing policy is a problem. People who really click on it and read on should know there are situations that justify removal (it's the first sub-section in FIXTHEPROBLEM ... I don't think everything should be preserved indiscriminately. Just that I believe most content can be tagged for improvement first (before possible removal), and that in this case for the Smog tower article, WP:CHALLENGE (which to my understanding means when an editor genuinely believes that no sources have ever been published that can support the material, and thus "material whose verifiability has been challenged" e.g., with a tag, can then be removed) should be a more appropriate reason for removal when compared with simply "unsourced" (for most non-contentious material).
There are more edits that I would like to explain or clarify. I should have written this a few days ago. But due to that case at ANI, which people holding grudges will make an issue with whatever thing I say, I decided to comment on “advocacy” only after that case. But that doesn’t matter anymore. Now that I’m blocked (at the highly visible ANI board with as much as 6K daily page views) and everyone thinks I’m a tendentious and disruptive (in addition to tbanned) editor, I can forsee that there will just be even more misunderstandings, prejudices, unneccessary conflicts, humiliations and cyberbullying/harassments in the future (unless I'm happy with being an editor that only fixes typos). FYI I'm not paid and I don't see any reason for me to tolerate all that anymore. I will retire (much sooner than I planned to) and I don’t think I will come back, except to fix some obvious problems in the articles (mostly not introduced by me) I contributed heavily (e.g., now in Air pollution in Hong Kong, Joss paper is under the section “Use of power tools”. Also, this section which talk about heavy equipments that use diesel does not belongs to the power tools section either. It’s somewhat complex. Construction and demolition can generate particulates both mechanically and by fuel combustion… and I haven’t made up my mind on the article’s structure yet, so there are the many empty sections you found). Btw, there are some very important causes missing from the air pollution in HK article now, for example construction and demolition wastes, electronic wastes (e wastes) and road works. E wastes is a significant issue in HK and was widely reported in the news (you can found some sources in the removed External links section). If you can add them back, I, and the people in my place, will definitely thank you for that. Regards,
PS. As for the low quality images, my apologies again, as I dropped my phone a few times recently ... re MOSIMAGERELEVANCE, as I took most of the photos and I see them happening almost every day, I’m quite sure that they are relevant, although the caption might have been written in a better way ... Aside, I believe that block of mine does reveal some problems of Misplaced Pages. For example, admins, like eveyone else, value their reputation and "face" and their relationship with other admins and/or editors. This sometimes makes actions (or no actions) difficult. This is something for the community (and/or WMF) to think about. Do we need separate accounts for admins (e.g., User:ABC (ADMIN), just like User:ABC (WMF)? Or, better yet, has someone who is completely uninvolved in the project (not even an editor) to be admin? Further, how should the harassment policies be enforced? Only when someone complains? Only enforced for those with first mover advantage? If the victims keep silence the admins keep silence too? Moreover, are we sure we need to have trials as public as what we now have at ANI, which are similar to "public spectacles", "public mass accusation meetings", etc. in which everyone (or anyone, including those who aren't from your village/city/state/country/continent and maybe just 8 years old, etc.) can throw stones? Can you imagine some of the employees of a publishing company (e.g., of a print encyclopedia) being yelled at or threatened with "Block! Ban! Fired!" Almost everyday? Is that a good working environment? Or just because here people are voluntory contributors so they have to accept that? Yes there is workplace bullying but that is another thing which is quite different from the open/public/internet "trials" we have here. Anyway. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 20:07, 29 October 2024 (UTC); --Dustfreeworld (talk) 04:23, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
Taboos of Misplaced Pages
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- If you want to spend time at Misplaced Pages: use it in order to learn the taboos of Misplaced Pages. Seriously. That's the first thing an editor should learn, but it is never too late. tgeorgescu (talk) 06:53, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Tgeorgescu, by
“taboos of Misplaced Pages”
what do you mean? --Dustfreeworld (talk) 08:16, 30 October 2024 (UTC)- Things that should not be said, and things that should not be done. E.g. QuackGuru's activism wasn't "wrong" according to the prevailing POV of Misplaced Pages, but the mere fact that he was an WP:ACTIVIST sealed his fate. tgeorgescu (talk) 21:11, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- I don’t know that editor. It seems that they left long before I joined. If I may ask, why do you come to my talk citing an essay and describing another user who had decided to left the project / stay inactive more than four years ago as “activist” (and saying something strange about their “fate”)? --Dustfreeworld (talk) 04:19, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- My suggestion is that you should be more welcoming towards receiving hints about your own behavior.
- Sometimes, it is other editors who are wrong, but at other times they are right and you are wrong.
- You should know that the Misplaced Pages Community takes a dim view of "activists", even if those activists mean well. tgeorgescu (talk) 20:19, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- After reading your comment I did reflect on my own behaviour again, but I really can’t find the problem mentioned.
- When good-faith editors query about my edits, I always try to be patient and welcoming. The newest example is the one that just above this discussion. To quote myself:
- “I do agree maybe the list is ... and need ... I do agree with some of your reverts and admit that I should have formatted the article better and shouldn’t have ... admit that I was too ... with my edits ... do better, etc.) Please accept my apologies ... I don't think everything should be preserved indiscriminately ...
- PS ... my apologies again ... “
- I explained my views and admitted what I could have done better, and apologised twice when needed. I have no idea why you think I “should be more welcoming”.
- As for your “hints”, they are somewhat difficult for me to understand I would say. When you first mentioned about “taboos”, I did a quick search in order to understand what that means. Unfortunately, it only comes up with two links, one is this page, another is your comment on an action imposed to your account in 2022. In that comment you said “I don't know all the taboos of Misplaced Pages. Now I know this taboo and I will behave accordingly.” It seems to me that you were still learning the “taboos” after you had registered for almost twenty years, while in your “hint” to me you said the “taboos” is “the first thing an editor should learn”. Further, I really have no idea about what’s that taboo that had led to that action, and again, I really don’t know who is Quackguru and how all these related. Please accept my apologies if my comments didn’t seem very welcoming. As to my personal view, I don’t think we need too much taboos here, as Misplaced Pages is not censored. Btw, I don’t think I’m an “activist”, no, not at all. Maybe it’s my username that gives such impression? Well, in fact a world that’s free of dust can be both good and bad. FYI, I often have concerns that a world completely free of dust would cause problems because it may be completely free of precipitation too (you may want to read Cloud condensation nuclei in case you are interested; again my username just doesn’t imply whether it’s good or bad, it’s up to people’s interpretation). That said, I certainly will take your advice and pay more attention whenever I see the word “taboos”. I agree with you that “Sometimes, it is other editors who are wrong, but at other times they are right and you are wrong.” I think reasonable people can disagree. I believe collaborative editing is the key to the success of Misplaced Pages, and mutual understanding and AGF are always more important and essential that those sanctions / punishments. Lastly, I think I’ll be closing this as I’m not feeling very well recently and probably won’t be responding swiftly / frequently and I don’t want to keep you waiting. Sorry again, and thank you. Regards, --Dustfreeworld (talk) 13:26, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
- I don’t know that editor. It seems that they left long before I joined. If I may ask, why do you come to my talk citing an essay and describing another user who had decided to left the project / stay inactive more than four years ago as “activist” (and saying something strange about their “fate”)? --Dustfreeworld (talk) 04:19, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- Things that should not be said, and things that should not be done. E.g. QuackGuru's activism wasn't "wrong" according to the prevailing POV of Misplaced Pages, but the mere fact that he was an WP:ACTIVIST sealed his fate. tgeorgescu (talk) 21:11, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
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- It's a non-issue. Please do not reopen. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 18:08, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Dustfreeworld,
Do not "unarchive" a discussion on ANI that has been over for weeks and then dictate how you want the discussion to be closed. This discussion ended a long time ago and shouldn't be put back on the ANI main page just to note that the OP was blocked back in October. It's a non-issue. Please do not do this again. Liz 08:25, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, Liz,
- Sorry for the late reply as I’ve been overwhelmed by RL events. I don’t think it’s a non-issue. If you think that being described as a “very hypocritical bad faith incompetent deceptive editor who sh*t on others who persistently making disruptive edits, casting aspersions, wikilawyering, showing classic WP:TE“ is a non-issue, then perhaps it is. Maybe because I said that I’m not going to hold anyone accountable and that makes it a non-issue? I believe I’ve stated my reason for reopening the discussion clearly in my edit summary. It’s not reopened “just to note that the OP was blocked back in October”. Later information, which was not shown in the original closing statement, indicates that both the OP and another user in the discussion are likely socks, which means that the outcome of that discussion is highly disputable. Also, given that the closer even misunderstood who was the OP, do you think that the original closing statement was appropriate and my unarchiving was unwarranted? I didn’t reopen the discussion to “dictate how you want the discussion to be close”. I was just proposing (and I believe my proposal was gentle and neutral enough). People can discuss and even disagree. With the “rearchive”, the discussion was then dictated to an extent that there could be no more discussion.
- Having been an administrator for so long, I think you probably won’t understand what I mean by “not a non-issue”. No one will attack you like that. People may still attack/harass you, but they will bear in mind that you are an admin who can use tools to block/ban/mute people.
- I don’t know why you said the discussion “ended a long time ago”. We may have different definitions for “a long time”. AFAICT, this user fought for his reputation for years after those bans/blocks were imposed on him and even took legal action until he died. He’s not alone. Can you imagine that a user still remember a block imposed to her back in 2013, which lasted less than an hour, and compared it to a “scar”? (if memory serves, she said similar things more than once). I don’t think admins with clean block logs can understand all these. There are more. Have you seen an editor sanctioned at ANI, with others citing reasons such as “this editor had been dragged to ANI a few times before without being sanctioned and the discussions weren’t closed but just archived. So he should be sanctioned this time”? I have. I know it’s just Misplaced Pages. I see from your user page that you care about cyber bullying. I don’t think those are “non-issues”.
- IMO, and from my own experience, all those attacks, harassments, aspersions, following (hounding), etc. are very common, especially for the active editors who didn’t choose to “hide” and thus are not “low profile”, and even those from WMF can’t be exempted from them (e.g., ) . I did hope that admins/arbitrators/WMF(?), etc. would do something about all that, but no, I was too naive. Even getting a more factual and fair closure is so difficult, not to mention having someone to speak up when needed.
- Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying you are not a good admin. You definitely aren’t the one who are unjust or will bully others. I’m just saying that maybe you can do better. Or, maybe it’s a systemic problem. Maybe. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 17:57, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
Add
Re what I said, "all those attacks, harassments, aspersions, following (hounding), etc. are very common, especially for the active editors who didn’t choose to “hide” and thus are not “low profile”, and even those from WMF can’t be exempted". That also apply to editors who had disclosed some of their personal information/affiliation such as religions, race, etc. Also more vulnerable are those who don't have ten to hundred thousands of edits, those who don't have any/much "hats" (permissions), those who are not "old"/long-term enough, those who were sanctioned before (no matter just or unjust; e.g., editors who don't have a clean block log, those who were topic banned..), and those who has stood up for others (instead of looking away) when they witness very bad behaviour, etc. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 04:09, 2 December 2024 (UTC); --Dustfreeworld (talk) 19:40, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
Undid too much
CLOSED Enough. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 15:45, 9 December 2024 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I only wanted to undo your change of the title, not all three edits, apologies. Fram (talk) 13:22, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- Noted. Nvm. BTW, I've changed the title to adhere to the fact. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 13:25, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Please stop closing a discussion with many participants on another people's user talk page just because you "see many untrue/ABF claims.". Your edits are against the Misplaced Pages:Talk page guidelines. Fram (talk) 13:38, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- I’m polite enough to say that I “see many untrue/ABF claims”, what I see is much more than that, and I think you know what I mean. Per our Talk page guidelines, anyone can remove those of “what I see”, again, I believe I’m gentle enough. Aside, as other users has said, that discussion is going no where. It’s just *unconstructive* and *uncollaborative*. IMO your edits are against the guidelines you linked to. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 13:47, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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This is the job of a bot, actually. Valereee (talk) 13:38, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Valereee, I know. Just that I think the bot should do it faster for cases that are closed as no action, especially when the discussion title is so contentious and being associated with a user’s name in such a way to imply wrongdoing. As it’s a bot, it won’t be able to distinguish that. Thanks for the comment anyway. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 16:56, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
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