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Your DYK nomination for Alexander Korzhakov was successful

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Thanks for your contributions! ++Lar: t/c 04:30, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

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DYK

On 27 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hitler's Cross, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 28 August, 2006, a fact from the article Kullen Lighthouse, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Nice one! --Srikeit 19:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Håkan Syrén image

How is Image:Hakan Syren.jpg a "historical political poster, button, flier or banner"? While IANAL, I guess the image could be considered fair use in Håkan Syrén, at least if the resolution is lowered, but it should be tagged correctly, and it seems to me to be a photograph. (And yes, it needs to be fair use, as non-commercial licensing is not enough for Misplaced Pages.) -- Jao 19:34, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Fredrik Reinfeldt

According to what I've herd in the media, his trem stars at 12:00 the 6:th of October. _→AzaToth 08:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Picture Hitler

You keep changing the picture on the Hitler article without explaining yourself on the talkpage ignoring the discussion there. Agathoclea 08:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Personally I don't think either picture is particularly "good" but we have got not much freeuse images available to choose from. The issue was that this picture had been choosen after a fashion when the "prefered" image got deleted due to copyright issues. I will copy your comment to the Hitler talkpage and feel that the discussion (if needed) should continue there. Agathoclea 09:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Yunus/Grameen Bank

Your paragraphing is unnecessary. ☆ CieloEstrellado 09:39, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

PersonData templates

Why are you adding all these empty Misplaced Pages:Persondata templates? Do you intend to actually put in the data later? --Rajah 06:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but I usually add the templates to new articles hoping more people will understand the need of this particular metadata. Cheers, Camptown 11:42, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, that's cool. If you'd like a list of some "important" people without Persondata added, here's one: User:Rajah/persondata. Please don't remove names from the list though until they have the data added and not just the template. Thanks. --Rajah 11:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I think that if you're going to put the template in you should fill in the data. Not doing so is ..... Rlevse 22:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'll do my part. But since you are the Lead Coordinator of the Scouting WikiProject, maybe you could fill in the data for Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden? Cheers ;) Camptown 22:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Hardly a valid comparison. If I put a template in an article, I fill it in. Rlevse 22:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I've rethought my position, and I agree with Rlevse. I think that templates should only be added with the data filled in. --Rajah 06:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

It wasn't my intention to cause you guys so much headache. And since Rajah rethought his position, most articles in this experiment now have metadata. I'll probably fix the rest myself in due course. Have a great day! :) Camptown 09:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 31 October, 2006, a fact from the article Pontus Hultén, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Allen3  16:23, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Core bios

Please do not list articles as Core biographies unless they actually are. It makes things confusing for the people working on that project. Thanks. Kaldari 00:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

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Did you know?

Did you know? was updated. On 8 December, 2006, a fact from the article Gustaf Tenggren, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Good catch, it made the lead for the latest update. --GeeJo ⁄_(c) • 16:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Did you know? was updated. On December 22, 2006, a fact from the article First Engineer Bridge, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Hello Camptown. Keep up the great work. Regards, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

rationale

It was empty when I looked at it. Anyway Bhai Gurdas was the fast scribe of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of Sikhism. Sikhism is a major world religion, and Bhai Gurdas a prominent figure in the early development of Sikhi and related matters. I also added noms which I thought would bring diversity to the mix. You do know from the december 8,7,6 noms, most are questionable length and are controversial noms.Bakaman 02:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• You are perfectly right and of course the question is not about your article, but the fact that you immediately put the article you had started yourself on at the DYK-trial for the next update. A debate is currently dealing with that issue at DYK talk. Cheers and keep up your excellent work! -- Camptown 17:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Did You Know

Just wanted to let ya know that I think you are doing a great job on the did you know next update section! Keep up the great work. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 23:56, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Swedish Arms

Hi! I see that you have nominated the version of the Swedish Arms which I created for deletion. As I made and inserted the new arms into Misplaced Pages in good faith, the changes were not Vandalism but rather an attempt to be bold and improve these illustrations. Having SVG versions of coats of arms is advantageous because they render better in different sizes. A problem with the old versions of these coats of arms is that they look very bad in large sizes.

Another advantage of the SVG format is that changes to colours, proportions and details are very easy to make. As you obviously have an interest in this topic, perhaps therefore you would be willing to assist me in modifying the images to improve them by saying what should be changed? As they are quite large and complex, perhaps we could start with something simple like the Arms of Bernadotte which are an inescutcheon in the Swedish arms (and presumably less inaccurate as you did not nominated them for deletion) or even the three crowns which could then be worked back into the main shield. In this way we could create something which is more accurate and also assist the transition to SVG project. Best wishes, Arcjgh 12:50, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• Hello! Thanks for your kind words! I'm sure that you did all this work in good faith and you surely did some hard work! The problem, however, is that all edits articles shall improve the articles. And I would actually regard this as a kind of vandalism (albeit in good faith!), a kind of vandalism that is not so easily detected by all editors of Wikipdia, and in the long run might jeopardize this project. If we actually have official versions of the Swedish National CoAs, only better illustrations (such as vectorized copies of the official version) can be accepted. I know that the Swedes accept some margin of appreciation when it comes to the national arms - thay are only briefly layed out in the legislation for example, and what the "Riksheraldiker" thinks are only soft guidelines - and your arms may very well be within this margin! Yet, people who go to Misplaced Pages to be informed most probably want prefer the offical versions rather than a home made version that in this case actually uses parts from a foreign (here: the Serbian) emblem. So let's make vectorized images of the official version (the present one is from around 2000) with the prescribed colors. That would be such a great improvment! I'll write to you later about this, best regards, Camptown 13:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed this issue. There indeed seem to be some errors in the files (for instance 2 and 3 includes three bends sinister wavy not three bends sinsiter as now (actually I'm not entirely certain a bend sinister is said to be wavy in english, what I'm referring to is the equivalent of the french trois barres ondées). The supporters' tails don't look good either (bad image manipulation) and might include an error, there is a distinction between a split tail and a split tail passed in saltire (which is the case for the supporters in the svg). But these errors do not justify deletion, though the images should be corrected quickly. Likewise, the currently used png images seem to include other errors (the lions being crowned or... instead of gules).

I don't read or understand Swedish, so I cannot judge the images by their official blazoning, only by translations from various sources. In general, the text describing a coat of arms is binding, not the graphic representing it. That is to say, blazonning in a law would supersede any image that might be used, even officially. And it should be noted that even in official heraldry mistakes in graphical representations are pretty common.

Lastly if there is a problem it might be good to ask for advice at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Heraldry_and_vexillology on english wikipedia or fr:Projet:Blasons on french wikipedia (which plans to vectorise all its coats of arms).--Caranorn 18:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Birger Dahlerus

Hi there; I note that you have marked this article as Start Class. OK, no problem, but I am not sure that all that much more information is available. He came, and he went.--Anthony.bradbury 22:32, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• That's true, he came and he went.... Well, I'll guess the article will make it to the DYK anyway (that seems to depend more on how lazy our administrators are...) Do you think you can find a photo of the man? --Camptown 22:46, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

External links and sister projects

See Misplaced Pages:Guide to layout: "Links to Sister projects should be under the last appendix section." Normally, "external links" is the latest appendix, though it is sometimes absent. Personally, I believe that it makes far more sense to add them in this way (with an inline link) than to leave them in a "references" section (if only because these templates are rarely used otherwise). I also believes it generally looks better, at least while there are no other external links. Circeus 02:13, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Your DYK nomination for Monument to Peter I (St Michael's Castle) was successful

Did you know? was updated. On December 23, 2006, a fact from the article Monument to Peter I (St Michael's Castle), which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! ++Lar: t/c 23:50, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Answered your oppose on DYK

Hi! I've answered your oppose on För tapperhet i fält on the DYK suggestions page. I hope that I've answered your concerns regarding the article. God Jul! – Elisson • T • C • 13:01, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello again Camptown. I don't know if you remember that you were surprised that an administrator like me could use such condescending language that I used. Anyway, I am surprised that such a fine user as yourself can forget such a remark so quickly and use a snotty edit summary like "valor in the filed" - is this an ecological award?, correcting the hook. I am certain that you speak and write in English better than me, but judging by the search results for the expression "valor in the field", at least a few other native English speakers use the term in the same sense as I did. And I doubt that the following texts describe ecology.

• by 1872 they had formed one of the most celebrated fighting units in western American history, the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts. Scouts won four Congressional medals of honor for valor in the field
• And their valor in the field gave glorious proof how men will fight when they know that their all is at stake.
• He saw action during the campaign against France, where he earned decorations for valor in the field.

Since a word for word translation of the actual name of the medal was possible, I used it. If that is a problem to you, then please tell me so. And if you feel that I've done something wrong, then please tell me so as well. – Elisson • T • C • 13:46, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

I do remember... and I'm still surprised... And Valor in the filed is absolutely OK with me! -- Camptown 14:29, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Bryncelyn Brewery DYK

I've expanded the article a bit. Is there anything in particular that needs more treatment? --Stlemur 09:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

small = ?

yes → no - so, too minimalistic? :D Picaroon 22:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Untagged image

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DYK

Why did you remove the small image I posted on the DYK talk page? House of Scandal 17:19, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

What image did I remove? When...? Camptown 17:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

If you don't know you did it, it was either an accident or I am reading the revision history wrong. No big deal. HNY. House of Scandal 17:39, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeltsin

Do you have a problem with the picture you reverted? I think it's a better picture of him. Crud3w4re 01:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

• I reverted because of pending copyright concerns. Nice picture, though... Camptown 01:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK

There are two intelligence agency facts on the next DYK update. Think maybe hold one for another day? House of Scandal 17:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Can we use the Ichikawa Danjūrō I picture instead of the Siege of Jasna Góra image? It's much more colorful and looks much better at a small size. Also, the Roscoe Mitchell "hook" fact is confusing...if you look here the dates don't match. I will try to figure it out so we can run that article too. Sound okay? House of Scandal 22:31, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I removed the quotes from around the sentence. Also, in the interview sourced, he was in the Heidelberg Symphony of Germany. The Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra of Melbourne is the one that was established in 1978. -- moe.RON 22:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks. I was going to go and figure everything out. It was just the strange quotes that sent up a red flag for me. Roscoe Mitchell is back on DYK. I hope my attentiveness doesn't seem excessive. House of Scandal 22:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Hearthstone House

The Hearthstone House picture looked much better than the rune stone does. Also, as much as I hold NishKid in high regard, let's PLEASE not have another article about a minor, basically undistinguished California or New Jersey politician. We have had many lately. House of Scandal 20:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• For a wider audience, I think Runamo might be more interesting and fun than the Historic House. That's why I think it should have the picture slot. If you disagree, you may always change the order. When it comes to Californian politicians, I couldn't agree more. From now, I'd suggest to include politician bios only if the politician has at least accomplished something worth mentioning. Camptown 20:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the runestone article is more interesting, but the runestone image looks bad at that size. Re: California and NJ politicians, we've had Allan O. Hunter, Frederick R. Lehlbach, Henry Helstoski, Edward J. Patten, George N. Seger and Charles S. Joelson in the last week. I left a good-natured message for NishKid and think he will understand my concern. House of Scandal 20:18, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• To me, Runamo is pretty much how DYK used to be. How about increasing the size of the picture slightly? - The shape of the picture would probably allow a size up to 200x100px. Camptown 20:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll let you tinker with it alone so we don't have an edit conflict. If you can get it big enough to look like something and still fit in the column, I have no objections at all. House of Scandal 20:32, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Nikki Haley

This is the second time in as many days as Nikki Haley has been removed from the next udate DYK page. Haley is the first Indian American to hold state wide elected office in South Carolina and the first Republican Indian American State legislator in the country. What is the issue here? House of Scandal 00:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The issue is your problem with my well-referenced and encyclopedic page going on mainpageSorry Houes of Scandal, little mixup. Camptown I trust you know what a good DYK article is, considering you're a good NU editor.Bakaman 01:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks like there was a big mix-up. There's nothing to it, it seems new update seems to be running along.Bakaman 02:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 6 January, 2007, a fact from the article Vladimir Shainsky, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--savid@n 19:00, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Stanisław Wojciech Wielgus

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Non-sense? Removed text is '22:34, 5 January 2007' dated, New York Times' article 'January 5, 2007'. How to do you to explain that? New York Times copyviol? --F. Cosoleto 18:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't believe to you, sorry. Then you should accuse New York Times. --F. Cosoleto 18:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Letter to The New York Times

Due to the plagiarism concern at Stanisław Wojciech Wielgus, I am writing a letter (or rather have already written a letter) to The New York Times. However, I would like you to confirm (by e-mail) that you stand by your story that you never looked at the New York Times when adding the alleged copyrighted information to the article. I don't want to be sending the letter only to find out you were not telling the truth. I obviously trust you, given that I wrote the letter pending your response, but I just want to make sure. Regardless of whether you state that you told the truth or that you lied, I will not reveal your response to anyone (that's why it's by e-mail); I just want to know to save myself unnecessary trouble.

Please also include whether you're male or female (I don't want to use the wrong gender pronoun) as well as, optionally, a detailed account of your research for the article and sources. If you want to co-sign the letter, you are free to do so (I'll send you a copy of the letter at your request). However, if you decide to do that, please be advised that you may have to reveal your real name, as well as your address and phone number; most newspapers want that information to verify the author and the content of the letter. Most people would not be willing to reveal that personal information to someone they do not know (that someone being me), so instead of co-signing, perhaps you should consider writing a letter on your own (so I wouldn't see that personal info, but a New York Times editor would see it). Alternatively, I'll just send my letter with just my signature and personal information. I await your response, by e-mail. -- tariqabjotu 03:58, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK Hassmyra Stone

If an entry is disputed, don't add it to the template until the problem is resolved. Or there wont be any meaningful nomination process, etc. Cheers, Camptown 15:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• Sorry. I grabbed that one because it had a picture and had no other options left for that day. I knew it wasn't awful...just a little skimpy. I should have gone forward a day to find a suitable one and will remember to do so in the future. Thanks for your good work on DYK. Shaundakulbara 23:00, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Orthodox church (building)

See Template_talk:Did_you_know#January_10. `'mikka 19:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK

I'm not sure if you're aware, but I am asking him why he replaced a DYK with his own entry. I had originally placed an undisputed entry, but then Violetriga replaced it with his own expired one. Nishkid64 23:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, it needs actual references (not just external links). I mean, anyone could have added material in random places, but proper referencing would help show why people are saying certain things on the particular subject. Nishkid64 00:25, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 23 January, 2007, a fact from the article 51 Birch Street, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomangani 18:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Stub Categories

Hi, I noticed that you've tagged a number of articles recently with an uncategorised stub tag. It'd be helpful if you could try to use categorised stub tags where possible, such as {{election-stub}} - a full list can be found here. Thanks, Jeodesic 00:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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DYK Question

I'm wondering why you returned Walter Galenson in favor of Akhurian River which was mostly written on Jan 19 and I think it was commented what river hasn't said to have run red after a battle next to it? Please consider this a curious inquiry rather than an objection. Thanks. Shaundakulbara 11:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• I read some notes you left about Walter Galenson. Nevermind, thank! Shaundakulbara 11:52, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I'll make a point to examine the goods a little closer before approaching the register. Shaundakulbara 12:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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DYK of 2007 Balad aircraft crash

Hi, you suggested I should expand the above article if I wanted it to make it to DYK. I have done some work on it, what do you think now? Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 18:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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DYK

Why on earth did you add Hurricane Bob when it wasn't even qualified for DYK?

Nah, I'm just kidding around. I removed Hurricane Bob after a user informed me that the article was already significant (it was around 7KB, definitely not a stub) nearly a month ago, and the significant expansion this week would not qualify it for DYK. In the future, please look at the article history to make sure a user did not mistakenly nominate an ineligible item for DYK. Nishkid64 19:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

No, I did read that. That would qualify as an expansion/rewrite, as the article already existed before January 23. It was pretty long even then, and that means it does not qualify for DYK. I don't think Art went back to look at the article history, and just apologized because he thought he made an error. Nishkid64 20:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

It was already in the mainspace. What the user did was just a rewrite of the article, and since the previous state was not a stub, the article does not qualify for DYK. Nishkid64 20:14, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Bart King

Yeah, it looks good. Trust your own judgement! I'm just a noob. Shaundakulbara 22:33, 30 January 2007 (UTC) The hook is kind of ambiguous though. "Considered" is kind of a weasle word. What about:

• Bart King was called "America's greatest cricketing son"?

The quote is referenced. Shaundakulbara 22:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Bart King: Interesting and a well sourced article! But unfortunately - I'm afraid - too old for WP:DYK... according to these rules. And there doesn't seem to be much room for derogation right now. Please, keep ut the good work anyway! --Camptown 23:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for posting this on my page. I misread the requirements. I knew that adding 1,000 characters was good for inclusion, but I didn't know that it had to start as a stub. Hopefully I'll get it on the mainpage soon as an FA :) Thanks again.--Eva 03:44, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Cathedral DYK

I already responded at WPT:DYK and left a note on the user's talk page about thirty minutes. Nishkid64 22:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

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DYK updates - expired noms

Please do not take expired nominations (January 29) and add to the Next updates. DYK rules require that the articles be no more than 5 days old. Many articles did not get featured from Jan 28 and Jan 29 due to the long list and infrequent updating. — ERcheck (talk) 21:43, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

The rules clearly state 5 days. I've discussed this with a very active DYK admin (see my talk page). Though nominated, not all articles get featured. Unfortunately, if there are long lags between updates, some articles will expire. — ERcheck (talk) 21:49, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Please discuss on the DYK talk page. — ERcheck (talk) 21:54, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

If you feel some selections (from the unexpired nominations) are unfair, feel free to discuss and replace with unexpired selection(s). Again, see the talk page for reaching consensus on a rules change. — ERcheck (talk) 21:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

The criteria is that the articles should be over 1000 characters. The articles that I added, though short, did meet the criterion. — ERcheck (talk) 22:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I do not have time to revert the changes. I was about to do an update when you started making a lot of changes. Now, RL intervenes and I can't do it. I would ask that you honor the process and return the expired nominations and chose from the unexpired nominations. The "short" articles that I added were from Jan 30 and I was attempting to make a more frequent update so more articles would not expire. I would hope you would return the ones that I added in Good Faith, for example the Sego lily, with picture, which I had just protected for updating. — ERcheck (talk) 22:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

To my knowledge there are no rules on length of article and picture. The lily picture is an excellent picture that perfectly represents the article. — ERcheck (talk) 22:14, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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-- Nice find! GeeJo ⁄_(c) • 23:30, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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Kārlis Zāle

Hi. I noticed that you added some cats to this article. Please take a look at this (Defaultsort) - it saves a lot of time with cats, and in fact was already on the Kārlis Zāle article. HeartofaDog 16:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Did you know is 10 Hours old

Did you know is 10 Hours old --Hirakawacho 10:28, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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Anna Politkovskaya

Hi Camptown, Could you take a look at recent editing of Anna Politkovskaya article by User:Vlad_fedorov and tell what you think about it? To me it seems extremely POV, but I would not like to revert any of his changes because of a dispute with him: Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_comment/Vlad_fedorov. Sincerely, Biophys 16:53, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

• First, users Biophys, Ilgiz and Colchicum never contacted me on a Talk page and tried to resolve the dispute. In fact they just demanded me to stop the editing of the articles. They also never tried to resolve the dispute. They also haven't presented evidence of trying to resolve the dispute with me. Complains to the Administrators noticeboards and false, unsupported accusations of my violations of Misplaced Pages policies are not a method of resolving the dispute.

• Second, they violate 'good faith' obligatory assumption in cliaming that I stalk them. I am a newcomer to the Misplaced Pages. I was brought to the Misplaced Pages, because the article on Boris Stomakhin created by Biophys was completely outrageous since it turned everything uspide down. Convicted criminal Stomakhin was presented as a hero, besides his calls to exterminate all Russians, to destroy Russian with atomic explosion, to commit terrorist attacks on Russian civilians.

• Third, accusations presented here were already taken up at vurtually every Administrators, incident, 3RR, BLP noticeboards and administrators talk pages. So they just mainly repeat their accusations. I have never received any warnings from administrators, because otherwise they would have gladly published these warnings already here. I was just arbitrarily blocked by non-Russian, English speaking admin William Connolley. This admin, however, later helped me to clarify the points of dispute which I had with Biophys over Boris Stomakhin article, but unfortunately he left the discussion on the talk page of Boris Stomakhin article, when the critical decision on the validity of Biophys accusations was needed.

• Fourth, these accusations pursue the goal to harass me and to stop me from contributing another POV into the articles dedicated to Russia.

• Fifth, I also would like to bring all these issues to the arbitration, because the allegations of Biophys and Colchicum that I violate Misplaced Pages policy by citing reliable sources defame me and are directed not on the sources, but on my person. I would like to have finally a decision of an arbitrator/mediator/administrator that my sources are valid and reliable, the are not contradictory and do not violate anything. The problem is that Biophys claims that every my contribution violates Misplaced Pages policies. This is a strategy taken by him in order to discredit every introduced material presenting other point of view.

The underlying problem, in my opinion, is the personal dislike of me and revenge of user Biophys against me for the following:

1)Dispute over Boris Stomakhin article.

In this dispute Biophys has created this article in order to present the evidence for human rights violations in Russia and to make the point in the article Human rights in Russia. However, the initial version of this article was totaly one-sided and presented just allegations of human rights activists and other defenders of Boris Stomakhin. In order to make the article NPOV and to add other POV I have added the official text of the Court sentence and Investigation conclusion on Boris Stomakhin. Also I have added Boris Stomakhin citation taken from the official website of his organization. These contributions made Biophys personal opinion on Stomakhin and his initial version of the article to look controversial. The edit war resulted because Biophys claimed that all my sources violate biography of living person policy. He was deleting opinions of the journalists from such respectable Russian newspapers as Komsomolskaya Pravda, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Izvestia. See the respective version of my edit of Boris Stomakhin article here http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Boris_Stomakhin&oldid=105173635

In order to delete my contributions from the article, Biophys had employed a strategy of accusing me of violations of Misplaced Pages policies. Namely, he declared that all my contributions are taken from the contradictory sources which violate Misplaced Pages BLP policy. Namely he claimed that the article of Izvestia journalist Maksim Sokolov who also was a talk show showman and is very respectable and famous journalist in Russia contradicts to the website of Boris Stomakhin. It was established that from the citated passage two citations of Boris Stomakhin are found in his articles on his website, and the third citation is not found here. Therefore it was established that Biophys claims about contradictions are false. See the discussion here http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Boris_Stomakhin#quote_.22Death_to_Russia.22.

As Biophys failed to present the evidence of contradictions he chose to accuse me of other violations http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Boris_Stomakhin#Violations_of_LP_policy. He claimed after that the source (Izvestia newspaper article) is unreliable, it is not neutral, and it is "non-encyclopedic". As you see these accusations are not supported by any facts and resent just empty accusations. It is laughable to claim that the source is not neutral, sine the neutrality may be restored by presenting other POV and it is easy enough. However, Biophys pursued the goal of complete deletion of sources presenting POV which contradicts to his personal opinion. He failed to support his accusations here http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Boris_Stomakhin#Points_to_answer_for_Biophys and here http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Boris_Stomakhin#Violations_of_LP_policy.

Following the edit warring between me and User:Biophys, Boris Stomakhinarticle was protected by administrator User:Cbrown1023 who told that he would unprotect that page till I reach an agreement with User:Biophys. The underlying problem for edit warring is that Biophys holds strognly Russophobic views and maintains that criminal Boris Stomakhin, who got 5 years of prison in Russia for public calls to extremism and terrorism against Russians including me, is actually innocent dissident and there is conspiracy against him by Russian government

Here http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Boris_Stomakhin#quote_.22Death_to_Russia.22 Biophys wrote the following:

I am not talking about Izvestia at all. I am talking about this citation by Sokolov. 
It was taken from another unreliable and not identified by Sokolov source (probably 
RKO site). He also made a composition from three different articles/sources but 
misrepresented this as a single continuous citation. We do not want such citations 
in Misplaced Pages. Sokolov discloses his "source": Stomakhin (this is not a case with 
protecting an anonymous witness). Of course, he does it! The entire article by 
Sokolov is clearly a defamation of a dissident ordered by government (there are  
numerous cases like that in Soviet history). But this is not my argument at the 
moment. The argument is poor source - RKO site. Biophys 19:03, 31 January 2007 (UTC) 

Biophys himself took his text material inserted into the article Boris Stomakhin from blog . As you could see phrases in the current article Boris Stomakhin match those found in Blog La Russophobe. It is evident that this Blog La Russophobe is inciting ethnic hatred at least. The page of that blog http://russophobe.blogspot.com/2006/06/why-is-lr-russophobe-why-arent-you.html says that you should hate russians. User:Biophys insists that we should agree on exclusion from the article of citations taken from Russian respectable newspapers which hints that Stomakhin is not really innocent peaceful dissident, but actually almost a fascist. My question for Misplaced Pages administrators: If Misplaced Pages is a proper place for publishing Russophobic statements (anti-semitic statements), inciting ethnic hatred against Russians? I understand the position of User:Cbrown1023 who doesn't want to verifiy reliability of Russian texts, but a simple search in Google on Boris Stomakhin would lead to all Russophobe sources which are published by User:Biophys in current protected version of the article on Boris Stomakhin. I am astonished that Misplaced Pages administrators allow to paint people like Osama bin Laden like peaceful dissidents.

Biophys refused to negotiate, he demanded to scrap all sources which may prove that Stomakhin is a fascist. Here is his message and respective diffs , :

Sorry, but I insist to exclude this paragraph for the reasons
explained above. This is my last word. There is nothing to 
discuss here. Biophys 23:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Therefore, I have filed petition for Cabal Mediation on Boris Stomakhin article here http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2007-02-10_Boris_Stomakhin

Biophys is a very interesting user, who contributes only to two topics: either anti-Russian propaganda, such as Putin (Putin phallus, Putin's citations), involvement of Russian in world terrorism, Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, Mitrokhin archieve and etc.) where he advances only one POV - Russophobic, or Biophysics (hence that's why he had chosen his nick). He never contributes to NPOV materials and holds extreme Anti-Russian position. Initially article about Boris Stomakhin was designed by Biophys to claim violations of freedom of speech in Russia (article 'Human rights in Russia'). However after I edited this article to present another POV, he began his personal vendetta on me by reverting and deleting all other materials, because my edits had compromised his edits at the article 'Human rights in Russia'. Incidentaly, the article was edited by two Russian admins - Alex Bakharev and Mikka, but Biophys was reverting and deleting even their versions, without any hesitation.

2)Accusations of Stalking.

As could be seen from the complaint, applicants do not show the real evidence of me stalking them, they just provide links to the history pages of some articles. It could be seen from these pages, that my edits, contributed to these articles, are deleted by users Biophys and Colchicum in no more than 24 hours period.

Moreover, the fact that some pages were created by Biophys and Colchicum doesn't grant them any authority or powers to publish false information in them. And certainly doesn't forbid other users from editing their one-sided stories by adding relevant and sourced material.

Users Biophys and Colchicum never tried to resovle any disputes with me. Empty and false accusations on Administrators noticeboards are not a method of peaceful dispute resolution. Personal attacks and unsupported deletions of my contributions, intimidation and threats are certainly not the way a man could resolve a dispute.

Users Colchicum and Biophys claim that I currently 'stalk' them. However, it could be easily ascertained form the Colchicum contributions page that he is editing the following articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/Colchicum

14:39, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Anatoliy Serdyukov 14:24, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Dzhokhar Dudaev (→Assassination) 03:39, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Democratic Union (Russia) (top) 03:36, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Viktor Cherkesov (top) 03:21, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Kondopoga (→2006 ethnic tensions) 03:19, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Kondopoga (→2006 ethnic tensions) 03:18, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Kondopoga (→2006 ethnic tensions) 02:48, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) User talk:Petri Krohn (Reiman) (top) 02:35, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Sergey Naryshkin (top) 02:24, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Anatoliy Serdyukov 02:20, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Anatoliy Serdyukov 02:06, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Anatoliy Serdyukov (→External links) 02:00, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Eduard Limonov (→Early life) 01:58, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Eduard Limonov 01:57, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Eduard Limonov 01:57, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Eduard Limonov 01:56, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Vladimir Pribylovsky (→External links) (top) 01:52, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Akhmed Zakayev (→Exile) (top) 01:50, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Akhmed Zakayev (→Exile) 01:44, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Template:Russian Government Cabinets (top) 01:42, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet (→External links) 01:41, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Yevgeny Primakov's Cabinet 01:40, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Sergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet (top) 01:38, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Sergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet 01:37, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m User:Colchicum 01:34, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Sergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet 01:31, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) m Sergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet 01:31, 18 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Sergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet

It is evident from my contributions page

http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/Vlad_fedorov

04:25, 20 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (→External links - Do not force you POV on Stomakhin.) 04:24, 20 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (Boris Stomakhin is not a dissident, he is a criminal) 04:20, 20 February 2007 (hist) (diff) David Satter (Irrelevant phrase deleted. Claims that mafia is ruling some country are ridiculous, then Clinton met russian mafia boss Eltsin? It is absurdity.) (top) 04:18, 20 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Galina Starovoitova (Absurd - is what you write here. Aleegations are not real facts and you should correctly edit the article containing unconfirmed allegations.) (top) 04:16, 20 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Yevgenia Albats (This is completly sourced and neutral text supported with references and good sources. Stop stalking me.) (top) 06:17, 19 February 2007 (hist) (diff) GRU (→Miscellanea - Source says they are not GRU. They are under control of GRU - which is a deifferent thing. You have falsified infornation) 06:14, 19 February 2007 (hist) (diff) GRU (As far as I see there are only allegations without any reliable sources) 06:11, 19 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Talk:David Satter (→Vandalism by Vlad Fedorov) 06:11, 19 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Talk:David Satter (→Vandalism by Vlad Fedorov) 05:40, 19 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Talk:David Satter (→Vandalism by Vlad Fedorov) 05:40, 19 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Talk:David Satter (→Vandalism by Vlad Fedorov) 05:39, 19 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Talk:David Satter (→Vandalism by Vlad Fedorov) 05:25, 19 February 2007 (hist) (diff) Putin's Russia (Unsourced defamatory statement presenting original research removed. Biophys stop stalking me.) 05:24, 19 February 2007 (hist) (diff) GRU (There are no any references. Enforcing Misplaced Pages policy on sources.)

That I do not follow edits of the user Colchicum and his claims that I disrupt his edits and Misplaced Pages activities are false. Moreover the articles which he refers to in his support were not created by him, but by user Biophys. Therefore, user Colchicum allegations are not supported by the real facts and are fraudulent. He just tries to help his fellow Biophys there. Moreover, Colchicum invites other users who presented POV identical with him to harass me, in particular user Ilgiz - http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Ilgiz&diff=prev&oldid=109309046. They also try to intimidate users who are supporting me and it's going on right here on discussion page http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Vlad_fedorov. Here Colchicum writes false accusations that I personally pursue him by stalking his edits which is clear lies that could be easily ascertained.

User Biophys also openly acknowledged his personal stalking of me (user Vlad fedorov) here http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Colchicum#Thank_you:

I cite Biophys confession published on the talk page of Colchicum:

Please note that it perfectly appropriate to follow logs of other users. 
We can do it. WP:STALK policy says: "The term "wiki-stalking" has been 
coined to describe following a contributor around the wiki, editing the 
same articles as the target, with the intent of causing annoyance or 
distress to another contributor. This does not include checking up on an 
editor to fix errors or violations of Misplaced Pages policy, nor does it mean 
reading a user's contribution log; those logs are public for good reason. 
The important part is the disruption - disruption is considered harmful." 
Obviously, it was Vlad who disrupted our work in Misplaced Pages. 
Biophys 21:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC) 

It could be easily seen that users Biophys and Colchicum conspired against me not because of stalking, but because my edits and contributions present other point of view, which they do not tolerate and make everything possible in order to harass and intimidate me.

Biophys also confessed in his message to me, that his articles indeed have mistakes , but he demanded that I should not correct his mistakes which is outrageus.

As could be seen from the following history pages, my edits are reverted or deleted by user Biophys in less than 24 hours after my edits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Active_measures&action=history

<cut begin> (cur) (last) 16:56, 17 January 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (everything was supported by refereces; this is personal attack by two partisan users) .... (cur) (last) 08:37, 17 January 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (→Promotion of terrorism worldwide - You haver to prove the 'worldwide' character) (cur) (last) 08:15, 17 January 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (→Promotion of terrorism worldwide - This statement is a blog entry and violates Misplaced Pages policy. The statement is also unsourced and not supported by where the citations were taken from.) <cut end>

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=David_Satter&action=history

<cut begin> (cur) (last) 15:07, 9 February 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (this is description of his books (read them!) - supported by references) (cur) (last) 07:59, 9 February 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (This is unsupported defamatory statement against ethnic Russians) <cut end>

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Glasnost_Defence_Foundation&action=history

<cut begin> (cur) (last) 17:33, 18 January 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (cur) (last) 08:15, 18 January 2007 Khatru2 (Talk | contribs) m (→Funding - disambig) (cur) (last) 12:45, 17 January 2007 213.184.225.28 (Talk) (→See also) (cur) (last) 12:45, 17 January 2007 213.184.225.28 (Talk) (cur) (last) 08:12, 17 January 2007 Alex Bakharev (Talk | contribs) (→Funding - see talk) (cur) (last) 07:52, 17 January 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (→Funding) <cut end>

It is therefore evident, that it's not me, but Biophys traces my contributions, for it is always Biophys who reverts my edits in no more than 24 hours often without any explanations.

I would like to discuss here just the typical case. In the article dedicated to Russian security agency GRU, it was written that terrorist Shamil Basaev and Said-Magomed Kakiev, Said-Magomed Kakiev are 'Chechen GRU agents'. I have deleted these phrases, because there are no any evidence and sources that support these statements. Moreover, there are just allegations that Shamil Basaev was trained by some Intelleigence service long before the Chechen Conflict arised. Biophys however wrote a list of Chechen GRU agents, thereby presenting these pure allegations as established facts.

In less than 30 minutes my edits were reversed by Biophys,

<cut begin> (cur) (last) 05:18, 19 February 2007 Biophys (Talk | contribs) (rv vandalism by Vlad Fedorov - this is supported by refrences 4,5,6, and the content of Misplaced Pages articles that are provided as links) (cur) (last) 04:48, 19 February 2007 Vlad fedorov (Talk | contribs) (→Chechen GRU agents - False unsupported statements removed) <cut end>

who has cited the following source: Land of the warlords, by Nick Paton Walsh, Guardian Unlimited as evidencing that Said-Magomed Kakiev and Said-Magomed Kakiev are Chechen GRU agents. However, in the article the following is written about these individuals:

"Alkhanov rang for the help of Said Magomed Kakiev", the powerful head of the "West" 
battalion of 900 Chechen fighters under the control of Russian military intelligence, the GRU. 

Zair said Alkhanov has gained the support of not only Kakiev but Sulim Yamadayev, the 
head of the "East" battalion, 800 hardened special forces Chechens also under the 
control of the GRU. 

It could be clearly seen that newspaper article doesn't say these individuals are GRU agents. It says just their battalions were under control of GRU which is a different thing at all. It follows therefore, that Biophys has repeatedly and intentionally reintroduced false disinformation by these edits into the article , and . And as such violated repeatedly Misplaced Pages policy.

This is just fresh typical example of Biophys anti-Russian activities in the Misplaced Pages.

Other case include:

Deletion of pertinent information from the article dedicated to Yevgenia Albats. And specifically deletion of the information that her father has been GRU spy during the WW II. http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Yevgenia_Albats&diff=108373818&oldid=108344491 Please note that Biophys has never actually presented his arguments on deletion of this information on the talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Yevgenia_Albats. According to the Misplaced Pages policy deletion of sources material is vandalism. This information about Albats father was later reintroduced by the administrator Alex Bakharev here cur http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Yevgenia_Albats&diff=109477667&oldid=108836686. However, it was evident that the information about Albats father compromises her neutrality as a researcher appointed on Parlament commission for the investigation of KGB activitites and compromises reliability of Albats claims. That's why Biophys initiated campaign for the deletion of such material.

Biophys also claimed on the talk page that the following sources: Boorishness as a World View by Yelena Kalashnikova (in Russian) Full Albats by Oleg Kashin, business newspaper Vzgliad, October 26, 2006 (in Russian)

violate BLP policy, because they are: 1) not neutral 2) controversial 3) Allegations of crude and extremely uncivil behavior 4) Unsubstantiated accusations of fraud

However Biophys failed to show how these materials violate Misplaced Pages policies. There are no facts, evidence, whereabouts and so on. Again Biophys undertook the same false accusations campaign against sources and information he personaly dislikes and the same false flag campaign he was waging on the Boris Stomakhin. Just empty and unsubstantiated accusations.

I have reverted deletions by Biophys of well-sourced materials published by another author on the article Mitrokhin archive. This deletion could be seen here cur http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Mitrokhin_Archive&diff=107010834&oldid=106018891 I have reinserted these well-sourced statements, since they are reliable and definitely should be mentioned in the article. I have deleted Biophys's unsourced defamatory statements on Russians as ethnicity which incite ethnic hatred in the article David Satter. Please note that Biophys reinserts unsourced statements inciting ethnic hatred by following edits cur http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=David_Satter&diff=prev&oldid=107021411. I think he should be blocked for violation of LP policies, since these statements describe David Satter as inciting ethnic hatred at least.

I would like to notice that Biophys deletes well-sourced materials not for the first time. For example Biophys has deleted good source in the article State sponsored terrorism http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=State-sponsored_terrorism&diff=102543018&oldid=102542124 Revision as of 23:23, 22 January 2007 (edit) (undo) Biophys (Talk | contribs) /* United States - reference to blog removed, non-working reference corrected) deleted the working link to . I ask you to read his comments with attention, first Biophys claims that it is a blog, and second he claims the link is broken. But how he could say it is a blog if the link is actually broken? By the way, the source is not a blog and the link always works.

Every edit is explained and supported with specific arguments. FSB cannot be described as a secret police, since this term according to the respective Misplaced Pages article refers to the totalitarian states. I have corrected Biophys POV to NPOV, since CIA is not described as a secret police. As to the Human Rights article, I have employed the same approach which Biophys has taken in regard to the Izvestia article in Boris Stomakhin case. Biophys uses unconfirmed allegations of Anna Politkovskaya which is said was publishing her materials without verifications and presents them as facts and not as unconfirmed allegations.Parfitt, Tom (2006-10-08). "Assassin's Bullet Kills Fiery Critic of Putin". The Observer. Retrieved 2006-10-09. Moreover, in the cited sources on Russian there are no allegations of Politkovskaya that people were detained because of their religion, while Biophys inserted these claims into the passage dedicated to the freedom of religion, which is evidently is not appropriate.

I would like to bring your attention, that I have never deleted the information which was contributed by users Biophys and Colchicum. And their claims about Stalking are actually turn everything upside down, since I do not follow tremendous number of their articles. And claims about me pursuing Colchicum are absurd, since actually he first began harassing me (Mediation case page on Boris Stomakhin) by writing everywhere about my two acknowledged mistakes, thereby violating the Misplaced Pages rule that editors do not discuss personalities and discuss the articles and sources.

3)Allegations of uncivil behaviour.

I would like to notice that in http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Anti-Russian_sentiment#La_Russophob, Biophys behaved himself incivil, and I never wished him to die actually. Biophys wrote 'Just imagine that Putin suddenly dies. What will change in Russia?'. Considering that Biophys wrote offensively in regard of Putin, I have responded the following way: 'The same would be in Russia if Biophys would die too'. I don't find such exchange to be offensive, since Biophys first began 'death' assumptions.

This situation also concerns attepmts of Biophys to introduce defamatory claims of Russian journalist who was sentenced for his libelous and defamatory claims in regard of Putin into the article on cur . Moreover, in order to abuse Putin he published this material deleted from the articles on Vladimir Putin and Phallus on his personal talk page, as well as his deleted article on the blog La Russophobe.

Later in order to hide information compromising him he deleted this material http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User:Biophys&diff=prev&oldid=107095030 the edit which he called clean-up.

Moreover, Biophys openly hinted on me as an agent of KGB working in the internet here . He called me a troll on my talk page and therefore personaly attacked me too.

User Biophys maintains speculatory article about FSB brigades working in the internet on his talk page in order to send the message to and to harass everyone who has POV different from his. http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Biophys. Recently he has published alleged features of FSB brigades agents working in the internet diff here . Later he deleted it from his talk page diff . He also created a page Persecution of political bloggers where he called this speculatory FSB internet team - 'troll squads', diff .

Summary

User Biophys and user Colchicum wage false accusations camapaign against me in order to punish me for presenting my POV in the articles which they feel are important for them. In order to disrupt my work, intimidate and harrass me, they accuse me of violating virtually everything in the Misplaced Pages and persistently publish their accusations on Administrators Incident Noticeboard, 3RR noticeboard, BPL noticeboard. They persistently complain to the administrators urging them to punish me. All this is done with one goal - to silence individuals having other opinion, to punish those who correct their intentional mistakes and malicious disinformation.

I would like to bring to the attention that all of the disputes cited in the accusations of Biophys and Colchicum were published on the respective noticeboards and administrators pages. The problem is that no one has directly ruled that Biophys and Colchicum accuse me falsely. The issues which they complain here were taken by the administrator Alex Bakharev on his talk page.

Users Biophys and Colchicum actual reason for my public prosection is that I present the point of view they personally dislike and do not tolerate. There is no any evidence that I disrupt their work by creating annoyance or distress. It is my POV that creates 'annoyance or distress' for Biophys and Colchicum.

As could also be seen, users Biophys and Colchicum never tried to resolve any disputes with me. All they have done is false accusations and deletions of my contributions to the respective articles.

It is evident that users Biophys and Colchicum claim that any material (sourced and referenced) which contradicts to their personal opinion is violating Misplaced Pages policies.

User Biophys also publicly confessed that he actually stalks me. And therefore, it is evident that Biophys himself violates Misplaced Pages policies and makes fraudulent accusations.

I would like to ask anyone here in Misplaced Pages to review all the pertinent materials to this dispute in detail, and not to consider surface accusations of the users who brought the complain against me. I could be contacted any time on my talk page and could provide any information that is needed to handle this case or others in which I am involved.

I would also like anyone here to ask the administrators User:Alex Bakharev and User:Mikkalai, about these disputes, since they were observing this dispute from its very beginning and were themselves editing the articles on which this duo complains.

Desired outcome

I beg anyone competent to take measures in order to stop users Biophys and Colchicum from persistent and continued campaign waged by them against me. I am not a witch and Misplaced Pages is not a witch trial place. If they couldn't tolerate opinion of other users and if they can't held disputes over the edits by means other than Complaints and threats, then they should create their own encyclopedia where they could do whatever they want without other users disturbing them by other point of views.