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Shuki

Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

Request concerning Shuki

User requesting enforcement

Nableezy 00:38, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

User against whom enforcement is requested

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

Sanction or remedy that this user violated

WP:ARBPIA#Discretionary_sanctions

Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it

Shuki has repeatedly edit warred at a number of articles removing any mention of their either being in occupied territory or claiming that certain places, such as the Golan Heights is in Israel. Edit-warring to push an extreme minority view as fact and removing what countless high quality sources say. Examples:

• On Ohalo College, repeatedly add text saying that the college is in "Golan Heights, Israel" as well as removing what Shuki calls "POV cats", , ,
• On Herzog College quickly reverts multiple times removing that the college is in the Israeli-occupied territory, ,
• On Ariel University Center of Samaria repeatedly removing that it is in occupied territory , and later claiming that it is not "in Palestinian area" . Continues to remove any language that says this place is either outside of Israel or in the Palestinian territories (, , )
• On Katzrin repeatedly placing fringe minority terminology before standard terminology that Shuki even admits is more widely used in the sources and again removes any mention of it being in occupied territory ,

Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required)

Notification of ARBPIA sanctions

Enforcement action requested (block, topic ban or other sanction)

Topic ban or revert restriction

Additional comments by editor filing complaint

There are many more examples, but the gist of the issue is Shuki's insistence on using minority viewpoints as gospel truth and rejecting the overwhelming majority of sources as either "anti-Israel" or "ignorant". nableezy - 00:38, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

To be clear, I am not here because Shuki favors a certain POV, but because of the repeated reverts of numerous users. On Ariel University Center of Samaria Shuki has reverted 4 different users 7 times within the span of a few days. Any attempt to include the super-majority view on where this place is located is summarily reverted. I had prepared this request prior to Shuki's request against me, so I dont see how it could be considered "revenge". I had planned to not file this after the dispute at Ohalo College died down, but Shuki continues with the same actions at the Ariel college page. Shuki is indeed a prolific editor, I am not arguing that. But when it comes to how certain incontrovertible facts are presented in the pages dealing with the occupied territories Shuki is unwilling to allow what the super-majority view of what the facts are to be presented as such, and repeatedly edit-wars to present an extreme minority view as fact. I dont think a topic ban is necessary, as Shuki does contribute a great deal of quality content to the topic area. But the mindless reverts should stop. nableezy - 18:16, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Re to Plot Spoiler: Yes it can be. The problem is that Shuki repeatedly reverts to impose the idea that these places are in Israel and refuses to accept anything that says that they are not. nableezy - 19:09, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Re Sandstein: I tried to make the request avoid the content as much as possible, the issue I raised was the edit-warring across multiple articles. See the history of Ariel University Center of Samaria where Shuki has reverted 7 times in a few days edits by 4 different users. See the history of Ohalo College where Shuki reverted 5 times in a few days. The fact is that Shuki is esit-warring to push fringe views on a range of articles, such as the Golan being in Israel, or that the West Bank is not Palestinian territory. I'm not looking to address the actual content here, but Shuki is obstructively edit-warring to prevent any mention of super-majority views. How many reverts per article would it take before this is "disruptive"? nableezy - 20:55, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Sandstein, I would appreciate a reply to my questions here. nableezy - 21:04, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

All right, here it is broken down by article with dates and diffs and all that good stuff

Ohalo College

1. 21:46, 31 March 2010 (edit summary: "Undid POV by Supreme Deliciousness")
2. 22:02, 31 March 2010 (edit summary: "Undid revision 353232485 by Supreme Deliciousness take this POV to a central discussion before slapping it anything")
3. 23:11, 31 March 2010 (edit summary: "tweak per other Golan pages by consensus")
4. 14:19, 2 April 2010 (edit summary: "college was established by Israel, is operated by Israel, and Israelis study there")

Ariel University Center of Samaria

1. 20:49, 31 March 2010 (edit summary: "Undid revision 353176427 by Supreme Deliciousness (talk) Ariel is in Area C - not occupied")
2. 21:46, 31 March 2010 (edit summary: "Undid revision 353225823 by Nableezy (talk) POV cat, again")
3. 20:47, 1 April 2010 (edit summary: "rv, not in Palestinian area")
4. 14:15, 2 April 2010 (edit summary: "Undid revision 353433188 by Peter cohen (talk) please use talk for this")
5. 21:40, 3 April 2010 (edit summary: "not a Palestinian institution")
6. 23:25, 3 April 2010 (edit summary: "Undid revision 353798873 by Nableezy (talk) not")
7. 00:25, 4 April 2010 (edit summary: "Undid revision 353812941 by Nableezy (talk) not a Palestinian institution")
8. 21:14, 6 April 2010 (edit summary: "Peter, I expect much more accuracy from you. The green line is not a border of Israel at all. And now we see how ridiculous these extra boilerplate qualifiers can get.")
9. 21:26, 6 April 2010 (edit summary: "rv, reinserting POV again")

nableezy - 22:07, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

Discussion concerning Shuki

Statement by Shuki

So Nableezy carries out his harassing threat, but it is stale. The Ohalo issue was frankly a misunderstanding later agreed on properly. Herzog College was to remove a disputed POV cat that is up for cfd. Ariel University is also a Nableezy POV issue to piss me off since he knows I follow that article and he has not added that cat to any other academic institution though he insists that he is right. He skirts his 1R and does not really bother to engage in mature discussion or consensus to occur. Katzrin is also POV. Katzrin is a town, Nableezy likes to deprecate that to the generic label 'Israeli settlement'. We have long since agreed not to edit the order of those terms (on all Israeli West Bank articles where the issue is about half/half) until a general project consensus on naming order (of municipal status or political term) can be achieved. This ain't anything to do about minority viewpoints at all but about some sort of lame revenge against me. --Shuki (talk) 08:03, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by others about the request concerning Shuki

I concur with Nableezy's assessment of Shuki's edits. In editing subjects related to the I-P conflict -- especially Israeli settlements -- I have found Shuki to be a particularly difficult editor to work with. He continually promotes a fringe pro-settlement point of view that is extreme even among the pro-Israel contingent. He is extremely obstinate and stubborn and often refuses to discuss issues or accept the consensus achieved in a discussion and will edit war at the drop of a hat. For example,

• Instead of taking an article to AFD to be deleted he repeatedly blanks pages (,).

• He removes the "Israeli-occupied territories" category from an article to which it clearly applies (,).

• He makes untrue claims regarding what a source says to justify the removal of material ().

• He uses a deletion discussion as a soapbox for his fringe, non-mainstream views (, ).

• He misuses the "citation needed" template in a paragraph that is already sufficiently cited ().

• He repeatedly removes a section in Israeli settlements about the highly notable topic of Illegal outposts - , , , ).

• He removes sourced, verifiable information ().

• He erroneously claims that legitimate spinoff articles are POV forks, never proving or giving any evidence of this - , , ,

• Removes relevant material and 4 separate citations from an article and then adds the "citation needed" tag to the remaining material ().

• Inappropriately uses the "citation needed" tag in the lede for information that is clearly provided in the body of the article ().

Factomancer (talk) 09:22, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Unomi (talk)

At the risk of 'piling on'.

• Accusations of taking advantage of a holiday, characterizes editing behavior as tag teaming, though rationales of the editors in question were presented at the locus of the dispute. ()
• Announces in ES that categories are up for deletion in a non neutral manner - The issue is POV since that user will surely not add that cat to all Arab/Muslim/ex-Syrian/Druze/non-Jewish companies. ()
• Reverts hatting of material that clearly should have been in a separate thread ().

The issues I have presented are fairly minor and I would not have sought action on them by themselves, but in the context of a wider discussion on the manner in which Shuki approaches editor interaction I thought them to have some relevance. Unomi (talk) 10:40, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

So you admit they are minor. Then why 'out' yourself as anti-Shuki? --Shuki (talk) 15:16, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Peter Cohen (talk)

In order to be consistent with what I have said in comment to the other threads, I suppose I've got to say that this should be dealt with as a general purge of tendentious, edit-warring and otherwise unproductive editors. However, I must say that I'm doing this through gritted teeth given how frustrated I am by Shuki's repeated suppression in multiple articles of the fact that the West Bank is internationally recognised occupied Palestinian territory.--Peter cohen (talk) 11:41, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Lumping me into the tendentious 'group of four' and calling me unproductive is absurdly ignorant. I have created and maintained more articles than Nableezy, factomancer, and Unomi combined. --Shuki (talk) 15:16, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Supreme Deliciousness (talk)

I would like to point out that Shuki has also removed the worldview and inserted the extreme minority Israeli POV at Derech Etz Chaim, that Golan is in Israel. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 18:04, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Plot Spoiler (talk)

There needs to be a more balanced way to deal with Israeli locales in "occupied territories" because this issue continually crops up. Mention of the fact that these universities or what have you are on such lands should be noted, but it's also clear that Nableezy and others spend significant time and effort highlighting this fact in a prominent fashion in order to poison the well on this issue, i.e. this university is in the Golan Heights = bad. Can it not be noted this this university is located in territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 War rather than this is a university in occupied territory? It's a bit of well poisoning, don't you think? When people speak of these universities, the most notable thing about them is not that they are located within "occupied territory." Plot Spoiler (talk) 19:05, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by Gatoclass

Haven't looked at all these diffs, but wasn't a page started somewhere to try and resolve the nomenclature issues related to the occupied territories? If those issues have yet to be resolved, then I think it's time something was done to resolve them, because these same issues have been causing strife for a considerable time now and if nothing is done they are only likely to continue to generate problems. Gatoclass (talk) 15:11, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Result concerning Shuki

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• Initial assessment: the issue of whether and how to address the territorial status of article subjects in their articles is a content issue that cannot be resolved through arbitration enforcement, but must be resolved through editor discussion (WP:DR). So please don't discuss this here. From what I see here, it does not appear as though there can be only one common solution to this issue that is compatible with relevant policies such as WP:NPOV; instead, editors might for instance choose to resolve this issue on a case by case basis. I'm saying this only to explain why we will not sanction an editor only because they hold a particular opinion about this, and act on that opinion by adding or removing certain categories and so on. What AE can address are conduct problems, including the problem of editors being unable to resolve their differences of opinion in a non-disruptive manner. In my view, this request (which lumps together nonactionable content disagreements and possibly actionable conduct problems) does not really provide enough evidence to convince me that we have an actionable conduct problem with Shuki in particular (not very many reverts per article, for instance), though I am open to be convinced otherwise. The request, however, might prove actionable in another respect, namely, in that it is — like the three(!) preceding requests — a symptom of there being a number of editors on both sides of the conflict who have recently been unable to work together productively and who might need to be topic-banned. It is impractical, however, to discuss this in the context of an individual request, and I invite fellow admins to join the newly launched wikiproject WP:WPAE, which is intended to provide a forum for such discussions.  Sandstein  20:12, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

• In reply to Nableezy, the only thing I see so far that's potentionally actionable is the edit-warring. Everything else is far too much a content dispute for me to adjudicate. But the evidence for edit warring is not usefully presented for easy evaluation. In situations such as this, where the edit history is complicated and the edit war is of the slow-moving type, I need to see a dated, numbered list of reverts per article, as is usual at WP:AN3.  Sandstein  21:36, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for providing the list. I agree that Shuki has been reverting others substantially more often than is advisable in this sensitive area, engaging in slow-moving edit-wars. Under the authority of WP:ARBPIA#Discretionary sanctions, therefore, Shuki is hereby restricted to one revert (as defined at WP:3RR) per page per day with respect to all pages or content relating to the Israeli-Arab conflict for the next three months. Reverts of obvious vandalism or WP:BLP violations are excepted from this restriction. This sanction is not to be construed as an endorsement of any misconduct by the editors Shuki has been warring with; they may (if required) be made subject to separate AE requests. The content dispute (how to deal with the territorial status issue in the articles) is not actionable in this venue.  Sandstein  16:31, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

TheDarkLordSeth

Arbitration enforcement action appeal by TheDarkLordSeth

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Appealing user

TheDarkLordSeth (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) – TheDarkLordSeth (talk) 05:36, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Sanction being appealed

Prohibited from editing the article "Armenian Genocide" and it's subsequent talk page as stated above: WP:AE#TheDarkLordSeth.

Administrator imposing the sanction

Tim Song (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

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Statement by TheDarkLordSeth

I have been blocked(User_talk:TheDarkLordSeth#April_2010) for 31 hours from this article due to misuse of reverting in 6th of April. I have not reverted anything since then. I have been warned(User_talk:TheDarkLordSeth#Advice) on 7th of April for my use of nationality on my observation for various editors. I have stopped this use after this. Even though my initial approach was rather blunt and confrontational I do not feel that I deserve to be banned from this article. I would like to request that the ban be lifted as I have taken the advices and warnings seriously. Even though I'm accused of doing the contrary, my actions of editing and use of talk page of the article shows clearly. TheDarkLordSeth (talk) 05:37, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Reply to Sandstein The very fact that I have not carried out the same actions again and trying to engage in a constructive discussion in the talk page trying to show that why such an edit is needed to improve the articles accuracy shows that I have improved my ways. Certain members ignored this fact while still implying that I was continuing disruptive behavior if you choose to check my history. TheDarkLordSeth (talk) 15:55, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Reply to Tim Song There is no explanation for justification of the indefinite ban from the topic neither by Tim Song nor by other members. Whatever you may think of me, at least I deserve an explanation with some proof. TheDarkLordSeth (talk) 23:41, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Reply to KillerChihuahua Only two admins have commented on the previous discussion for the topic ban; three others simply agreed. First comment by NuclearWarfare accused me of treating Wiki as a battleground ignoring the fact that I stopped any action after I was warned about it. The second comment by KillerChihuahua stood against me just because I did not agree with him. No other explanation or proof was provided to show that I have broken the guidelines for WP:Civility and WP:Assume_good_faith though I'm beginning to see the violation from the very same admins that have accused me of it. If I was the one posting this sentence, "TDLS has now gone from WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT to what, WP:IHAVEAMNESIA?" I would most likely be warned for civility and insulting others by KillerChihuahua. The same behavior was also apparent for my request to make the "Armenian Genocide" page fully protected(pointing out that I'm likely to be banned from the page in a place where it was irrelevant to do so). Nevertheless, I have looked back at the previous discussion, the discussions that were made in my talk page and my previous posts to simply fail to see that I have done anything wrong after being warned. That's not an opinion but a fact. This is not a WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT argument as such an argument requires ignorance of constructive and concrete evidence which simply lacks in this and the previous discussion. My only mistake after being warned was to be confrontational and blunt. TheDarkLordSeth (talk) 07:34, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Reply to Sardur The topic ban is about "Armenian Genocide" and it's talk page. Where I posted is a different. Can you please revert your delete as it's not a part of the band. TheDarkLordSeth (talk) 16:40, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Reply to AGK So what am I being banned for? TheDarkLordSeth (talk) 23:27, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Reply to Nuclear Warfare I understand. I was under the impression that it only included the article itself and the talk page. Check my talk page for that. But I still don't understand why I'm banned from this topic?

Statement by Tim Song

I imposed the topic ban per the consensus of the discussion in the AE thread above. I have nothing further to add to that discussion. Tim Song (talk) 23:28, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Discussion among uninvolved editors about the appeal by TheDarkLordSeth

• I'm inclined to decline this appeal because it does not appear to advance any arguments that were not already considered in the AE discussion closed just yesterday in which the topic ban was broadly supported. More generally, administrators enjoy wide discretion in imposing sanctions of this type; overturning such a sanction is an exceptional step that would require evidence of a clear and substantial error in judgment on the part of the closing admin. No evidence of this sort is provided in this appeal. An appeal (to the sanctioning admin, not here) might be more successful after TheDarkLordSeth has shown that they are able to edit actively and uncontroversially in similarly sensitive areas for a few months.  Sandstein  09:33, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
• Decline per Sandstein; no evidence that the admin did anything other than enact a decision which had strong unanimous support. No wrongdoing nor error there. There have been now some 17 thousand characters and over 3 thousand words expended on this decision. The issues were clearly, not to say exhaustively, remunerated. TDLS has now gone from WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT to what, WP:IHAVEAMNESIA? No rationale given for request other than a complete denial of those 3,000+ words expended. Should TheDarkLordSeth truly desire to know why this restriction was applied to him, he need only read the discussion which led to it. KillerChihuahuaAdvice 07:07, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
• I'm not sure whether I should add this here or whether I should start a new request: TheDarkLordSeth is already violating his topic ban on Talk:Denial of the Armenian Genocide: . Sardur (talk) 10:56, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

  Thanks, post removed and I have informed him that is a violation and a blockable offense. KillerChihuahuaAdvice 13:08, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• TheDarkLordSeth: You were topic banned from "editing Armenian Genocide and all related discussions and other content (including talk pages and process discussions, except only for legitimate and necessary dispute resolution involving themselves), broadly construed." Talk:Denial of the Armenian Genocide is certainly related to that. Consider your topic ban applicable to any page related to the Armenian Genocide. NW (Talk) 00:05, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Result of the appeal by TheDarkLordSeth

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• Further to the discussion above, I'm going to action this appeal as declined. Nine reverts in a day is absurd; and contested topic areas are not the place for second chances to be handed out flippantly. I see no substance to KC's concerns that TDLS poses a wider problem—in part because the only evidence of disruption presented was that documenting the nine reverts. But even the edits of April 6 are in themselves sanctionable. Per Sandstein, I too would be willing to reconsider my position after a few months of good behaviour. AGK 23:22, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

  With all respect, I have voiced no such concern. Are you confusing this case with another, or me with someone else? KillerChihuahuaAdvice 10:10, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

  No, I meant you; but I may have misunderstood your position. You said that TDLS expended 3000 words on this topic area, then denied… something about them. I had only saw a handful of edits, and those were only over a single word in the article. Did you mean something else by "3000+ words"? Sorry if I misrepresented you. AGK 11:05, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

  I apologize for being unclear earlier, then - the 3000+ words expended (pls note that although you have misunderstood me to say "by TDLS", I did not, I merely stated they were expended without specifying by whom) were the count for all discussion in the section above which led to his topic ban, in which multiple people discussed what TDLS had "done wrong". My comment was a direct response to TDLS' assertion to Tim Song: "There is no explanation for justification of the indefinite ban from the topic neither by Tim Song nor by other members. I deserve an explanation" - there is indeed explanation, contained within the previous discussion (as well as on his talk page). I was suggesting if he didn't understand why he was topic banned, he go read the discussion which led to that very ban, and commented that his appeal seemed to be a denial of all the discussion which had taken place there, by multiple editors. Is my post now clearer, or does it still somehow suggest to you that I have further concerns? KillerChihuahuaAdvice 13:07, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Interaction ban between Vexorg and Mbz1

Arbitration enforcement action appeal by Mbz1

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

To help determine any such consensus, involved editors may make brief statements in separate sections but should not edit the section for discussion among uninvolved editors. Editors are normally considered involved if they are in a current dispute with the sanctioning or sanctioned editor, or have taken part in disputes (if any) related to the contested enforcement action. Administrators having taken administrative actions are not normally considered involved for this reason alone (see WP:UNINVOLVED).

Appealing user

mbz1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) – ~~~

Sanction being appealed

Topic ban for Arab/Israeli conflict

Administrator imposing the sanction

Sandstein (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Notification of that administrator

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Sandstein&diff=prev&oldid=355167858

Statement by Appealing user

• On April 3 I was banned on "Israeli-Arab conflict, broadly construed and without exception for reverting vandalism or BLP violations, for three months."If I only knew what "broadly construed" means…

• As it is explained in ban policy:

"Note that topic bans are meant to be preventative and not punitive. That is to say those users subject :to topic bans are not being punished for bad behavior but instead the removal of the user from that topic area where they repeatedly violate policy" ... (highlighted by me). I have never :repeatedly violated policy on the topic of my ban, never.

• I am not, and never have been a single purpose account. Only one of the articles I have wrote Fata Morgana was viewed more than nineteen thousands times, when it :appeared at DYK. I uploaded dozens of pictures that became feature pictures on Misplaced Pages. I have plenty things to do on Misplaced Pages besides editing in the area covered under my ban.

That’s why at first I have decided not to appeal the ban that did not bother me at all. I’ve changed my mind now because of my latest block

I got blocked for 48 hours! for

this edit, which discusses nothing else, but Misplaced Pages policies.

After I was blocked for that edit I realized that my ban works as a trap that is ready to catch me at any moment.

The banning admin wrote: "While the soap issue is probably :outside the scope of WP:ARBPIA, it being brought up here is part of a pattern of battleground conduct by Mbz1 mostly in an ARBPIA context. In other words I got banned for filing AE request :concerning Gatoclass, who btw was advised as a result of my AE, which means I had at least some merits to file the request.

Okay let’s assume I showed some “pattern of battleground” and deserve to be sanctioned. In that case I might be sanction that way that I would no longer be able to conduct “battleground”

I am asking you to lift my topic ban now, and instead issue those editing restrictions on me:

1. Cannot file any report to any administrator notice board indefinitely.
2. Cannot file any AE indefinitely.
3. Restricted to 0RR indefinitely with an exception of revering vandalism.
4. Cannot file any complain about any user to any administrator’s talk page indefinitely.
5. Placed under civility watch indefinitely.

Those restrictions will cover so called "battleground conduct" by me, and I will know, where I stand, and what I am not allowed to do. With those I will be restricted, but not trapped. Thank you for consideration. --Mbz1 (talk) 16:59, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

@uninvolved editor and administrator about my block log.

My first block was issued at my own request for a personal reason.

My second block was lifted 30 minutes after it was issued with admin apologizing for a wrong block.

My third block was issued by Sandstein for BLP violation not even in the article, but in the discussion page. First of all I was not warned about that before, second of all few reliable sources confirmed I was right in my assessment, and I could prove it to any fair minded person.

My fourth and fifth blocks were issued by Georgewilliamherbert, who likes to push block button. Please look into those blocks. There were no any differences of disruptive behavior

provided to support the blocks because there was no any. Admin, who blocked me wrote in the block explanation: "there is significant administrator support for a proposal blocking you for a week..." It was not the case. Only 4 editors (all very much involved with me) supported the proposal, only one of them was heavily involved with me admin.

Two last blocks were issued by Sandstein for "violation" of my "broadly constructed" topic ban.

Please look at my contributions and me, not at my block record. it does not proviide the correct representation.

• Question to Sandstein. Are you proposing to block me instead of topic ban? Did I understand you right? What for? What have I done?--Mbz1 (talk) 18:29, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

@Beyond My Ken, I am not an I/P conflict editor. I hardly ever edited any articles in the area except the two I wrote myself, from one is hardly touches the conflict because it is mostly about 800 years old synagogue.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:11, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

@shabazz, why so much hater? Isn't this because I told you once that both Misplaced Pages and you might be better off, if you are to spend more time enjoying watching the thing that you mention in one of your user boxes (no relation to I/P conflict :) ) versus administrating Misplaced Pages? Well, I could only repeat the same. And that was my last comment here. Please do with me as you wish.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:59, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Conclusion by Mbz1

• To the closing administrator.Involvement of some voters with me:
  

Turian voted as an univolved editor. As a matter of fact the user is involved with me very much. More differences could be presented by request.

Ncmvocalist was involved with me. More differences could be presented by request.

I am not going "re-enter" I/P conflict articles, simply because I've never been into them in the first place. I just like not to feel myself trapped as I am now, not to get blocked for 48 hours for discussing Misplaced Pages policy! I am not I/P conflict editor. My edit count is almost 12,000 with maybe 5% related to I/P conflict. I've started 23 articles from which only one was somehow historically related to I/P conflict. I uploaded hundreds of images from which not more than 10 are related to the conflict. I simply was knocked down by a huge wave, and now I need a friendly and a fair hand, a person, who maybe will spend some time talking to me, really looking into history and helps me back to my feet. I need a real ADMINISTRATOR and a real help, no not therapy, but simply a person, who will look at the differences I provided, ask me questions and will make a fair judgment Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

I have never repeatedly violated the policy in the topic of my ban.Please before closing the request come up with some differences from my own contributions to show me how I "repeatedly violated the policy in the topic of my ban". Please look one more time at the banning administrator explanation. There's neither claim nor differences provided of me repeatedly violated the policy in the topic of my ban. I've never said Gatoclass is the Holocaust denier. I only provided few differences. I am sorry, if I was understood in a wrong way. Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Sandstein

(Thanks, Nableezy, for fixing this previously malformed appeal.) I refer to my statement declining the previous appeal, which I believe still applies. It is also my understanding that discretionary sanctions may (or at any rate should not) remove a user's ability to use necessary dispute resolution measures, so Mbz1's proposed restrictions no. 1, 2 and 4 are probably inappropriate.

But I do not object if another administrator would like to substitute my topic ban with another sanction that is more suited to address Mbz1's particular problem, though I can't currently think of anything better, except presumably a block. The problem, in my experience, is mainly that Mbz1 does not interact with other editors in the area of conflict in an appropriate manner. They do so most likely not out of malice but because of a lack of self-restraint and an overly emotional approach to the subject matter. Mbz1 has also shown difficulties understanding and complying with even a relatively simple sanction such as a topic ban (see their block log) so any substitute sanction should not leave much room for discussion.  Sandstein  18:09, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Stellarkid

As someone who has witnessed the harassment of Mbz1 by the User:Vexorg and who has tried unsuccessfully to get some sanctions applied to him at ANI for this harassment of her and others, Note this diff he cannot be considered an "uninvolved editor" by any means. He faithfully attends her every edit, and dogs her heels everywhere with negative comments. His comments should be disregarded. Stellarkid (talk) 21:25, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

I am not dispassionate with respect to Mbz1. I think she is a person with high principles, and we all know where high principles leaves us. It is not surprising that she has got frustrated in this section of WP. The I-P conflict brings out the troops on both sides, no question about it. But I have watched in the last few months where she has been severely hounded. I believe I first met Mbz1 at a discussion on pictures with respect to the Holocaust. Since then, I have watched as a number of editors have simply harassed and hounded her, lied about her, voted en bloc against her, been rude, threatened and bullied her. (I can provide diffs, I promise you.) These editors come to each others' aid in virtually every discussion and some of them are here now. I have tried to bring the community's attention to this but instead have been warned with topic bans, and become a target of the abuse. With regard to administrators, I think Malik Shabazz should recuse himself from all discussion of her since he appears to me to be also always ready to pound on Mbz1 at every opportunity. That is his right, I guess, but he is not uninvolved. He edits a great deal in the I-P area and has strong opinions, which are sometimes (probably often) at odds with Mbz1's. I completely sympathize with Mbz1's statement and agree with Lars, Cptnono and others here who would err on the side of compassion. Let's score a victory for WP principles and not be so quick to punish with 3 month topic bans. Sandstein himself seems to be amenable to some slack here, so please will an uninvolved administrator come in and to the right thing?! Stellarkid (talk) 04:16, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Accept appeal I urge the community to accept this appeal. Stellarkid (talk) 04:18, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

With respect to User:Beyond My Ken. Previous comments make me believe that he is involved and should move his comments to the appropriate place. At an ANI about another user Beyond My Ken suggests blocking me for bringing the case, and slamming three others who were not involved (including User:Mbz1) as "members of ...contentious and disruptive groups." In fact he acknowledged that he was feeling "bloodthirsty" that night! Note that this ANI was not about the others. When asked by one of those uninvolved parties, not bring his name into something for which he was not a party, he responded with this rude message. Finally in his comment below he says that no one has a "right" to edit Misplaced Pages. That may well be true, but we do have a "right" (in fact an obligation) to use dispute resolution, which means bringing those we believe responsible for disruption to the attention of the community, and we have the right to appeal. If someone brings an issue to ANI or AE, they should have a right to have the case heard on its merits, not to turn the case around to point to the person who brought it. If one feel that others, including the originator of the case or the appeal, warrants a block or a ban, then you should yourself bring those editors up at the appropriate forum. We all have a right to have our cases heard, not watered down by charges thrown wily-nily at other editors. I urge Beyond My Ken to move his comments to the "involved" area, as that more accurately reflects his status, as I and other editors here have. Stellarkid (talk) 17:41, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Vexorg

• Decline appeal - This sanction was applied after a lot of thought and after a lot of incidents. And failing a block/ban is the best course of action IMO. I declare my involvement as being someone who was greatly harassed by Mbz1. The comments by Stellarkid above are not only a gross misrepresentation but are nothing more than an excuse to further attack myself and should be disgregarded. Malik below is correct this is just another attention-seeking stunt by Mbz1 and before we know it it'll escalate into yet another time wasting 1,000,000 word war where the usual players will dive in and use it as another excuse to unleash personal grudges against other editors. This is my final comment, I won't be baited yet again into responding to yet another tedious pissing match. Vexorg (talk) 20:24, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Malik Shabazz

Unlike Vexorg and Gilisa, I won't pretend to be uninvolved. I think this appeal should be rejected as another attention-seeking stunt by Mbz1, who has shown time and again that she cannot control her acid tongue when it comes to matters related to Israel and Palestine.

I recommend that further appeals, complaints, and other nonsense from Mbz1 should result in escalating blocks.

Finally, if she will accept my offer, I am willing to purchase an English-Russian dictionary for Mbz1 to help her understand the meaning of "broadly construed". — Malik Shabazz /_Stalk 21:36, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by unomi

I think that mbz1 is a valuable contributor both in terms of images and photography related articles, but I fear that she does not have a temperament that is conducive to keeping the peace in I/P related articles. On one hand I have the unattractive impulse to say give 'em rope, but on the other I am convinced that doing so will come at the cost of further genuinely valuable contributions from this editor. That the user is so keen to re-enter the I/P sphere just after being topic-banned from them, without pausing for reflection or admitting to any wrong doing whatsoever does not exactly reassure me of a cessation of drama. Unomi (talk) 01:17, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

The 2 articles that the user contributed to I/A were largely coat-racks prior to concerted efforts by outside editors

• Maimonides Synagogue
• Robert_Kennedy_in_Palestine_(1948)

and accompanying DYK hook

• RK DYK

Unomi (talk) 02:32, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I propose that we close this asap and blank it as a courtesy. Unomi (talk) 04:11, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

To Yasan, I can only guess that they are worried that the result of this appeal will be a block. Unomi (talk) 11:37, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Yazan

I agree with past sentiments. Mbz1 is a fabulous photographer, but she obviously haven't been able to contribute to the topic at hand constructively. She may not do so, as Sandstein noted, in a sinister manner, but her history of immediately assuming bad faith with people who disagree with her is worrying. In the latest incident, when Mbz1 was topic banned, the Maimonides Synagogue article took only a couple of days to be fixed, with no drama at all, and was featured promptly on DYK. Not to mention that she has been recently involved in a flare up of inappropriate PAs with other editors of the IP conflict here. And from her comments above, one can feel that she still doesn't understand why she was blocked for, alternatively resorting to excuses like "block button happy" and such. Her frustration is noted, but I would feel advising her to participate in the project in areas where she can be quite productive, is the most sensible answer to this appeal. Yazan (talk) 03:51, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

It seems a little odd to me that many people who are inclined to support this appeal seem to cite Mbz1's excellent photography skills as the reason. Her skill is not the point, and I doubt anyone would disagree that she is a fabulous photographer and her contributions in that field are important to Misplaced Pages as a whole. Nonetheless, she is a problematic editor when it comes to the topic of IP, which is why she was topic banned. This topic ban does not extend to any of her prior or future contributions in the field where she has considerable acclaim, but rather encourages those contributions without disrupting other topic areas. It seems more than appropriate, to me at least. Yazan (talk) 07:16, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Gatoclass

Mbz1 is a curious case as she apparently edited for a considerable time without controversy until recently getting involved in IP conflict pages. In the last two weeks, she got slapped with an interaction ban after exhausting the patience of contributors at AN/I, followed it up with the creation and submission to DYK of two contentious new articles which created all kinds of problems for the DYK regulars and whose promotion she pursued more aggressively than any editor I can remember, started a frivolous AE case against me for trying to help NPOV one of those articles, and then, right after being warned not to engage in any more personal attacks, strongly implied in the very same AE that I am a holocaust denier, which earned her a three month topic ban.

Since then, she was blocked 24 hours for immediately breaching her topic ban, and only the next day left this totally gratuitous attack on another editor, followed up by this, either of which in my opinion ought to have been more than enough to earn her a considerably longer block.

I don't know what the problem is with Mbz at the moment, but from my POV she has caused a huge amount of disruption over the last two weeks and thoroughly earned her topic ban. The ban is not about "punishing" Mbz, it's about giving the community a break from her aggressive and hostile interactions, and hopefully giving her some time to reflect upon and modify her behaviour. No-one wants to see Mbz banned from the project given her very positive contributions in the field of photography, but it seems clear to me that a circuit breaker in the shape of a ban was required at this point if only to prevent further escalation of the pattern of the last couple of weeks. If we don't impose a ban now, I fear the end result will be not only more disruption, but the possibility of a much harsher sanction which I'm sure none of us want to see. Gatoclass (talk) 05:18, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

BTW, Gilisa, Cptnono and Broccoli all have involvement in IP conflict pages and should not in my opinion be commenting in the "uninvolved editor" section below. Gatoclass (talk) 05:35, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Struck above comment as Gilisa has now moved the comments. Thankyou Gilisa. Gatoclass (talk) 15:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Gilisa

First, and in reply to Gatoclass-I guess that we all were confused, after Vexorg posted his comment in the uninvolved section (and moved it ever since). Personally, I had doubts were to put it because of this for few minutes.

• Accept appeal-I think that the restrictions Mbz1 suggest instead are going too far. Instead, I would suggest to replace the 3 months topic ban with indefinitely probation-have she violate any WP policy in any I-P subject and in any venue, she will be banned for 3 months automatically. Mbz1 is overall positive and original contributor and I think that if we take into account other editors on the I-P topic (who are at as least passionate as Mbz1 and clearly have a side), the punishment is hard and there is place to mitigate it and to give her second chance (on proabition) before harsh penalization is taking place. Unlike Beyond My Ken argued, Misplaced Pages will earn nothing from this ban.--Gilisa (talk) 21:06, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Btw, comment by Turian posted in the uninvolved editors section should be ignored or removed as it appear to be blatant PA on Mbz1 from its beginning to its end. --Gilisa (talk) 06:01, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• :: What you seem to be forgetting is that this report was created by an editor inviting comment on their behavior as part of an appeal and therefore criticism both positive and negative is the whole point here. You can't call for editor's commentary to be removed or ignored simply because YOU do not agree with it!! FWIW I agree with what Turian says. Vexorg (talk) 02:50, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Proposal: It seems that Mbz1 had mostly conduct problems with editors who could easily find themselves appealing here instead of her. Some times admins imposed sanctions against her and sometimes against others, when they severly harrassed her. I don't think that her "bad" record realy represent her. Sometimes she felt like injustice was done, and honestly I think that at least in some cases, she had a reason to feel so. Also I'm not familiar with any conduct problem she had outside the I-P topic-if she have any at all. She's a great contributor to any article and any subject she decide to contribute to, only in the I-P topic it ended bad many times. Also, in the I-P topic she's a decent editor-the problem is not POV editing, but clashing with falling into the trap other editors place for her many times. In this context, I think that "solving" the problem on individual basis would lead to zero improvment. There is severe conduct problem between many editors on this topic, there is extensive problem of inserting POV content into articles, of disruptive editing that is invisible when checking it editor by editor and so forth. I suggest that Mbz1 topic ban will be mitigated to 3 monthes topic ban on proabition and will be enact without option to appeal if she violate any of WP policies in this topic even once, and that a mentor will accompany her for month from now when editing on this topic. I know that the chances of this proposal to be accepted are very slim, but I think it could be a very good solution.--Gilisa (talk) 13:31, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Broccoli

Removed from the uninvolved editors section

• Accept appeal I enjoyed reading Aureole effect that Mbz1 wrote. I've never heard about that phenomena before. I also enjoy from the images she takes and uploads for Misplaced Pages use. I also agree with the things Gilisa wrote. Mbz1 is very valuable to give up on her so easily. Broccoli (talk) 21:30, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Cptnono

Removed from the uninvolved editors section

• Comment Other editors have received reductions of their sanctions just for asking and having enough people vouch for them. In this case, Mbz1 seems to have received a little too harsh of a sanction. I know the admins have been getting frustrated so I would like them to revisit the decision to make sure that it truly should be for this long.Cptnono (talk) 00:49, 11 April 2"010 (UTC)

Well I hope being considered involved by being involved in the topic area does not detract from my point that some reduction could be considered. What is the Kb difference betwwen Beyond My Ken's and my edits on the ANI report directly related to this? I don;t recall even ever speaking to a few of the editors considered involved. I have been involved in other disputes and that might be part of the reason that I mention other editors have gotten away with reduced sanctions after people asked (sometimes nicely sometimes not)Cptnono (talk) 13:47, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Discussion among uninvolved editors about the appeal by Mbz1

• I have worked with Mbz1 before, mostly on Commons, and have been involved in one way or another (usually as an admin trying to resolve matters satisfactorily) in a number of incidents that Mbz1 was involved in. I think Mbz1 really means well. I don't think they set out to cause problems, it just comes out that way sometimes... There is no malice involved, just misunderstanding and unfortunate circumstance. I do think that Sandstein is right that Mbz1 often has quite a bit of emotional investment in matters, to the point where it may get in the way. I've counseled Mbz1 about this before. It's clear that Mbz1 cares deeply about matters and feels strongly, and acts on their feelings sometimes way too hastily. But Misplaced Pages needs dispassionate editing. The passion, if any, should be around upholding the Misplaced Pages way, not in pushing for a point of view. Mbz1 is a great photographer and has a lot to offer the project. I would not want to see Mbz1 banned altogether or even topic banned, if there is a way to get Mbz1 to be less invested. I would urge working out some set of sanctions or mentorships that allows Mbz1 to contribute while helping Mbz1 exercise self control. This despite the fact that "we are not therapy" and "we are not your mother"... I still think it would be nice if we can come up with a creative solution. Or at least amelioration. ++Lar: t/c 19:00, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Unomi asked me on my talk if I would be willing to mentor. I would, if that's something we think is worth a try. I'm not a very good mentor though because I'm sometimes unavailable when something blows up, although Mbz1 does listen to me and seek my advice. If the community wishes it I will try. The details would need to be established. ++Lar: t/c 04:36, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
• Decline appeal - I agree that Misplaced Pages could use fewer "passionate" editors, since their passion is usually for their points of view and not for creating a truly neutral and objective encyclopedia. My observation is that "passionate" editors tend to stray into incivility more often than other established editors, get reported and file reports on the administrators noticeboards more often, and end up in arbitration more often then less passionate, but more reasonable, editors do. I think it's well past the time to put away the "a good editor who gets carried away" cliche permanently since it's almost as overused as the neighbors who say of the local serial killer "He was a quiet guy, kept to himself, you'd never think it of him" We'd be better off learning from our past experiences that passion that's ideologically-based and not focused on a better Misplaced Pages is not something to praise, but in fact a good indicator of possible problems to come.

  Specific to the general case at hand, that of the conflict between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian editors which has been sludging up the noticeboards for weeks now, I reiterate the argument that I made here, concerning Vexorg and Stellarkid, that admins in general ought to start being tougher about these disruptive editors, and wheeling and dealing some blocks and bans to get this thing under control. As such, I oppose any slippage in the current ban on Mbz1, and in fact encourage it being tightened. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:52, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

• Reply to Mbz1: I am totally uninvolved except to the extent that I am annoyed by the whole kit-and-kaboodle of editors who cannot get along and come back to AN and AN/I (and elsewhere) again and again and again with your bickering, attacks, accusations and counter-accusations. It has to stop, and my proposal was the best idea I myself could come up with to make it stop. I'm not married to it, but, really, something must be done fairly quickly to stop this stuff before it really spirals out of control. I see your topic ban as being part of that solution, not perhaps the most important part, but necessary nonetheless, which is why I do not support your appeal.

  Perhaps you are an innocent victim who has been dragged into something that is not of your own doing, but I do not care, nor should anyone at this point - that can all be sorted out later. There's no due process here, no right to edit Misplaced Pages, no elevation of the rights of the individual over the needs of the project, and that's just the way it is. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:27, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Decline appeal - I don't see any problem with the current ban, and don't consider what is being proposed by Mbz1 an improvement. I think sometimes overly complex restrictions are applied, which are endlessly argued over on this board. PhilKnight (talk) 20:06, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
• Decline appeal I don't think it is necessary for Mbz1 to edit such articles. The majority of his edits are outside the article namespace; he usually ends up discuss wikidrama in any medium he seems to be able to find that day. I think that a more focus and cooperative editing period, where he doesn't focus on procedure, is necessary in order to determine the future capabilities of this user. As of now, he is definitely not ready. –Turian (talk) 03:13, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Mbz1, your smug conclusion of people being 'involved' in the matter makes my decision even more sound. I am by no means involved in this situation. With all of your drama mongering, the majority of the people who will reply here will have talked with you one way or another. This is just to go to prove that all you do is center yourself around drama, and this is why you are unable to cooperate with any type of user. Your frequent dramatic antics will not smother the thoughts of others, despite whatever the hell you are trying to do with it. I would like to make a note to any administrator of all of this user's actions in the repeal. Sitting around, saying other users are involved.

  I don't care about you. Whatever you think you did to upset me or anything, I couldn't give a crap about. This is a discussion about you, and sound points, brought up by whomever, are permitted in any case, whether you like it or not. –Turian (talk) 04:15, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Mbz1, when will you understand that I am not involved with you? –Turian (talk) 15:14, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

• Comment Mbz1's photography is amazing, she has a huge number of featured images on Misplaced Pages, and in fact 2 of the 25 images featured in the Wikimedia Foundation annual report this year are hers. I think it would be really unfortunate if we were to see more blocks of this editor, who has a proven interest in and talent for contributing very positively to the project. I agree with Lar, I really hope that an agreeable solution can be found that allows this editor to contribute while smoothing over difficult situations. CordeliaNaismith (talk) 03:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
• Decline per Philknight and Sandstein. A complete break (however temporary) from the area is needed. The sanction imposed is effectively the least restrictive measure that can address the problem, and it unfortunately became necessary due to an unwillingness to take the break voluntarily. Nothing seems to have changed in the meantime. Ncmvocalist (talk) 05:09, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Mbz1 seems to be reinforcing my comment here with the growing list of problematic conduct including wikilawyering. Ncmvocalist (talk) 05:54, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
• Comment I've interacted with Mbz1 on Commons for some time now. I have found her helpful and supportive of fellow photographers. As many of us do she believes passionately in some things. I've noticed that others find that it makes her quite easy to provoke and they do so. That this makes her react is hardly surprising. Like Lar and CordeliaNaismith a way should be found to allow her to continue contributing to the project. --Herby 11:05, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
• I think the three months topic ban is very lenient. I propose that Mbz1 waits until her/his topic ban expires. (I was topic banned for life by the arb com without any diff of bad edits, though later I was allowed to comment on the talk page.) Andries (talk) 14:34, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Accept appeal. I agree with user Broccoli. Mbz1 is perfect and very valuable photographer. I suggest changing the editor's sanctions to WP:0RR edit restriction and civility watch. This will be enough. -- George Chernilevsky 07:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• I agree with Herby. And even small punishment has moral aspect. I try to be neutral and I prefer not to interfere with conflicts. I see no reason for topic ban. --George Chernilevsky 14:11, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• In his statement to explain why he should be unbanned, Mbz1 submitted a handful of reasons. Only one ("I have never repeatedly violated policy in the area of my topic ban") actually focusses on his own conduct. This reason is untrue. And the other reasons can be disregarded as irrelevant (the other editors are just as bad; most of my edits are not to the I/P subject area). So, in the absence of any explanation as to why this sanction does not continue to be the best thing for the I/P subject area, I too suggest that we decline this appeal. AGK 11:30, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Result of the appeal by Mbz1

This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the sections above.

• There is not a consensus above to overturn Sandstein's enforcement decision and so the appeal is declined. Lar's mentoring suggestions may offer an alternative route for Mbz1 but will require discussions and agreements including Mbz1, Lar and Sandstein. CIreland (talk) 15:27, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I have been banned for WP:BLP

I've been given a ban, without warning, and apparenlty it's indefinite. The reason was that I've said something that was in my opinion, and explained it in a talk page about an Israeli college in the west bank. I have no idea why this was WP:BLP but if an administrator would have told me why, I would have removed it. The justification of this ban seems to be 3RR that I've done years ago, and an accusation of a case of sockpupptery done a long time ago, which I didn't really do - and the outcome was "likely" not certain, but I was still banned for it even though I was innocent. Anyway, apparently this ban is indefinite without warning.

20 minutes before the ban, another adminstrator warned me on my talk page. I would have complied with that. Since this was already dealt with by the 1st adminstrator, why did a 2nd adminstator weigh in and ban me? Again, I would have complied with it, but apparently the 2nd adminstator was asked by an involved user to come, and I find that offensive.. I didn't have a chance to comply with the first adminstrator, which again I would have done gladly.

No 1R restriction, no asking me to delete the alleged WP:BLP, no anything... banned indefinitely. I don't really mind that much, but this will be an excuse for users to revert a lot of work that I've done. They've been doing this every time I was away. I would gladly accept a 1R revert rule per day or per week or month, or anything reasonable, like I've seen users engaged in these articles... but indefinie for alleged WP:BLP that I don't even understand why, and explained why it wasn't... without an administrator telling me that it's WP:BLP first... is unbelievable... Amoruso (talk) 20:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Admin Sandstein is clearly out of line. 11 hours to judge - jury - and decision handed down on a freakin Sunday. --Shuki (talk) 20:58, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Seeing the discussion here, I believe that the ban is appropriate. Keep in mind that indefinite does not mean infinite. This was not a decision made on a whim, and you did violate previous sanctions. –Turian (talk) 21:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

This diff indicates there are very serious behavioral problems, so I support Sandstein's ban. PhilKnight (talk) 21:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Appears to me to be an admin being an admin. Please remember that discussion is not required. Discussion usually ensues here, when another editor reports someone here for violation of an ArbCom decision - but this page is recent compared to ArbCom, and it is not a required step to enforce ArbCom decisions. You would have to show some reason why Sandstein's action was in error - for example, some other editor was the one who violated the ArbCom decision, not you, or the ArbCom sanctions (and any sanctions previously enacted against you) were not violated - to have any argument for appeal. KillerChihuahuaAdvice 21:17, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I realize I was wrong. I didn't know the scope of WP:BLP. I would have never kept the information if an administrator would have told me about it. But I don't see how a ban is justified. It does feel like it was made on a whim. How did I violate previous sanctions? What do you mean? I was guilty of 2 3RR incidents years ago, and this happened in contentious subjects. Then I was suspected of sockpupptery once and I was innocent but a determination was that it was likely that it was a sockpuppet... I realize that it doesn't matter what I say about that, but well, you can take it anyway you'd like it.. that was too a long time ago anyway. I think this is extremely harsh. I was never in an ArbCom decision issue - I don't think I was active at the time, and I'm still not active, I was only editing a few articles that I was heavily involved with, and returning portions that were deleted to some articles, and I made this WP:BLP mistake about a non issue really.. it was an off-comment and a mistake in a heated debate where two users were heavily edit-warring and reverting an article about an Israeli college to say it's occupied palestinian land again and again.... I was familiar with this article from years ago, and the attack on it was relentless This user Nableezy does nothing but edit war on articles - he's assisted by user:Unomi and a couple of other users, and then Nableezy goes to an administrator's talk page and complains about my WP:BLP to ban me? while there's an open case at BLP noticeboard? Why?

And I realize that there is a problem - I'm editing articles that sometimes get heated and this happens to all users... but an indefinite ban is too much. A 1RR per a time period restriction is more appropriate and this is what other users have. Amoruso (talk) 21:30, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I didnt go on Sandstein's page, I only opened the BLP/N section. nableezy - 22:01, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Consistency is not necessarily required when handling different users. Like I said, this is only indefinite. If you prove to other users that you are able to cooperate and behave, then down the road you can make an appeal do the topic block. You realize you are wrong; now go fix it. –Turian (talk) 21:42, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't understand how in the middle of a discussion someone can come and ban me when an inolved user goes and notify him. This is wrong.

Here are replies to the thread I never had a chance to read:

• "free speech" does not apply to talk pages per WP:FORUM. Editors opinions about the subjects of WP:BLPs on talk pages are unwelcomed, unneeded, and against policy. Please use the talk page to discuss how the article can be improved. Thank you, --Tom (talk) 17:57, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Amoruso, you do not appear to be listening, and to an extent people are pussyfooting around, so let's be really clear here. WP:BLP applies everywhere, and the most important thing you need to know about it is that if you insist on engaging in commentary that is identified as violating the policy, that is, is polemical commentary about living individuals, then you may be blocked from editing. There are a whole raft of essays and guidelines covering this area including WP:TRUTH, but the most important is WP:BLP and also WP:NOT, which describes what Misplaced Pages is not for, including being a forum for discussion or an experiment in free speech. You have two choices: you can understand and dial it back about ten notches, or you can carry on and I will block you. This is not because of what you believe, it's because of what you are saying and about whom. If you want to blog that stuff then you're welcome, just please don't bring it here, OK? Guy (Help!) 19:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Yes, these are administrators.... why on Earth would another administrator come and ban me? They said THANK YOU, and OK? How can this be appropriate? Nableezy (or is it UNOMI in fact... he reported it wrong?) goes behind my back and complains to ANOTHER administrator to be more harsh? Amoruso (talk) 21:55, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Just because they might have done something wrong, which I don't believe the did, that does not minimize what you have done. –Turian (talk) 22:56, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I initially asked for Sandsteins opinion after I reverted the fairly blatant BLP violation you introduced on the talkpage. I did this as I simply wasn't sure how much I should make of it, when Sandstein indicated that in his opinion it was problematic enough to warrant a warning I found that BLPN had been taken in use and I posted there. You then start arguing with uninvolved editor off2riorob, rather than actually reading the policies which you had been given links to. I don't think anyone tried to get harsher punishment for you or any of that sort. Unomi (talk) 23:05, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I am sympathetic to you Amoruso and notice how it is always the same people getting involved in these discussions, screaming for blood. Pro-Israel editors are getting banned and blocked left and right. (see above and below) I put up a couple of ANI's about Vexorg and others' rudeness and accusing everyone of being part of a lobby, and all I get are people screaming for my blood! I can't even get a uninvolved administrator to take a look. You on the other hand get walking papers without warning ?! I for one think it highly unfair. I imagine that will get me banned shortly as well for being disruptive and battlefield etc. With respect to Unomi, he made the following edits to people who showed support for Mbz1, in a clear effort to influence them to change their !vote or view. ,, Stellarkid (talk) 23:13, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Have you even read those diffs? Unomi (talk) 23:35, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Stellarkid!!! PLEASE STOP using arbitration reports that have nothing to do with me as an excuse to fuel your obvious ongoing personal agenda against me. Thankyou. Vexorg (talk) 00:04, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

• After viewing the six diffs provided here, I am at a loss to see why Amoruso deserves anything stronger than a warning, and a reasonable time in which to withdraw anything in violation of the rules, if, in fact, rules were broken. Everyone stumbles at times. Prior discussion and an opportunity to remedy a problem may not be required, but would be considerate. A sudden, indefinitely long ban seems grossly excessive and an overreaction. The administrator apparently had to bring long-past incidents and suspicions into the picture to inflate what otherwise would be too weak a case for a ban. If expressing opinions in non-article space is a crime, we are all in trouble. In my opinion, it would be healthier for WP to look into whether the opinions expressed might be justified, than to automatically rule them off limits. The ban should be rescinded. Hertz1888 (talk) 06:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
• If Amoruso was a new editor who needed some educating, I'd argue that Sandstein's action was excessive and should be replaced by a short block. However, Amoruso is in fact a very experienced edit-warrior who has disrupted the I/P section of WP for years with endless POV-pushing, endless tendentious debate, and worse sins like lying about sources (repeatedly, proof provided on request) and sock-puppetry. On the positive side, ...er...er...er... my memory must be defective. Zero 12:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Zero, we were involved in many content disputes over the years, and you also wiki-stalked me on numerous occasions. You were banned yourself, even banned yourself, and I don't think your comment is in good faith. I can provide many incriminating diffs concerning you, but I don't do that. I want to move on amicably. Any discretions were long time ago anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Topic_ban#Types_of_topic_bans "Note that topic bans are meant to be preventative and not punitive. That is to say those users subject :to topic bans are not being punished for bad behavior but instead the removal of the user from that topic area where they repeatedly violate policy" ... talking about 3RR that you did yourself years ago, and that case of isolated sockpuppetry (which I deny. it was never confirmed, I was blocked for "likely") is abit too much. I'm not guilty for life for those things, it didn't happen recently, and I resent your unfounded accusations.

• For the record, I await Sandtein's response but here's my apology to user:Sandstein and an explanation that my mistake was based on an WP:RS who used the same word prominently. That WP:RS was in the Jerusalem Post and referenced in an article in Florida Law Review.Amoruso (talk) 15:30, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

another RS was brought to my attention here. However, this is not the core of the argument - I think it was too contentious and came up in the heat of the debate, and it will not be repeated. At the time it did not even occur to me how this could be a violation of WP:BLP. Another user commented on how it's common within many circles including in Israel to equate anti Israel with anti-semitism. I could not see how such accusation could be a violation of WP:BLP and I misunderstood or rather did not know the scope of BLP. These RS's show that it wasn't out of the blue or crazy, but I still won't ever introduce such a thing into a talk page, any talk page. On a related note, I ran across this statement from user:nableezy on Avigdor Liberman talk page "It is SYNTH for you to cite unrelated sources to support the phrasing in this context in that you seek to give the leader of this racist and fascist party (to soapbox in your manner) an excuse for such language". I think the use of the word fascist is largely similar to the use of the word antisemitic and can be found in numerous sources that reflect opinions, not facts. Why was user:nableezy bothered about antisemite but not racist or fascist. all of them are wrong by WP:BLP and all parties should avoid them from now. Amoruso (talk) 17:03, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Statement by Sandstein

This is also in reply to various issues raised at my talk page and at WP:BLPN. Insofar as this unstructured mess of an appeal is made to me, I decline it, and insofar as it is made to the community, I recommend that they do likewise, for the following reasons:

As explained in my original rationale, this ban is not principally because of the BLP violations at issue, but because Amoruso was essentially given a last chance by being blocked for only two months in response to the abusive sockpuppetry documented in his block log. By his continued disruption in the same topic area he has failed to use that chance. I was about to block him indefinitely, as suggested by Moreschi in his block log entry, but decided to use the lesser sanction of a topic ban instead.

The ban is also necessary because Amoruso does not understand WP:BLP, as he has admitted subsequent to the ban; his later statements to the contrary are not credible. As documented in my rationale, the BLP violation consisted in his repeatedly voicing his opinion that a certain judge is "antisemitic", "an utter loon" and "legally daft and biased". On appeal, Amoruso argues, in substance, that his statements were supported by a source that refers to a decision in which that judge took part as "joining the parade of anti-Semitic infamy". Nothing Amoruso has said so far makes me believe that he understands that this source does not justify him stating his own opinion, without attribution to any source, that the judge is an antisemitic loon etc.; at most, the source (if reliable) might have been used as a reference to support a statement that "so-and-so has said that such-and-such decision is antisemitic".

Amoruso's statements that he would have complied with an administrator instruction to cease his BLP violations are also not credible: As documented in my rationale, he has up to the moment of the ban ignored the advice of the multiple editors who told him to stop. Instead he has made long, spurious arguments why he should be allowed to voice his opinion, and has reverted other editors who removed his violations. There is no reason to believe he would have changed his conduct had it not been for the ban.

I advise Amoruso to spend a significant amount of time, about six months, editing actively in less sensitive areas to prove that he does understand WP:BLP now. If he can do so without causing any problems, I will review his ban upon appeal at that time.

Many correctly point out that editors should work on articles or resolve their differences amicably instead of engaging in drama. But administrators cannot make them do so; our only power is to remove from the game those who become too disruptive.

Apologies are irrelevant: policy requires compliance, not contrition. So are any good contributions by Amoruso: we are all expected to make only good contributions and may not use them as excuses for bad ones. Finally, it's indeed likely that many other participants in this dramafest also deserve sanctions, but that is no reason not to sanction Amoruso. It is, however, a reason for admins to start work at WP:WPAE (which I intend to do now) and bring those others, too, into compliance.  Sandstein  17:46, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Moreschi was obviously only talking about the sockpuppeting charge - if I repeat THAT, not that you can use WP:BLP violation years later as an excuse to say that it warrants a penalty. I emailed him and asked him if there's any evidence to be presented that can exonerate me over that old charge. I immediately erased those other comments you're accusing me of. The "likely and not certain" sockpuppeting of ages past (that I always denied) have no relation to this issue. It's whether I'm disruptive now. And of course I would have complied with an administrator telling me what to do other than users who kept insulting me. This is a mistake but actually a favor. User:Nableezy can go on and call people "fascists" and "racists" and that will not be WP:BLP violation, but I say one time "anti-semitic" and get banned indefinitely in a period of less than 12 hours on a Sunday (for other users to comment and talk to me) and a remembrance day eve in Israel. I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TIME TO ADD SOURCES OR CHANGE THE PHRASING BECAUSE I WAS BANNED SO QUICKLY. Thank you. I hope other administrators can see how wrong and counter-productive this ban is. Amoruso (talk) 18:02, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Drork

Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

Request concerning Drork

User requesting enforcement

Nableezy 21:59, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

User against whom enforcement is requested

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

Sanction or remedy that this user violated

WP:ARBPIA#Discretionary sanctions

Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it

1. Repeatedly accuses others of of hijacking articles, intimidating users, and introducing propaganda into articles
2. Accuses others of an "anti-Israeli agenda"
3. Accuses others of acting together in a "campaign" to push a POV
4. accuses others of "hijacking" articles
5. accuses others or pushing propaganda and "manipulating websites"
6. Accuses others of engaging in an "ongoing political campaign" and "intimidating" others.

Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required)

Notification of ARBPIA

Enforcement action requested (block, topic ban or other sanction)

Topic ban

Additional comments by editor filing complaint

Since receiving a 1RR restriction in late February, Drork left Misplaced Pages until a few days ago. Since he has come back he has done nothing but repeatedly accuse others of "hijacking" articles and pushing "anti-Israeli propaganda". Nearly every single edit Drork has made since coming back to Misplaced Pages has been filled with personal attacks and assumptions of bad faith. He doesn't even try to discuss the content, focusing solely on attacking other editors. It seems clear to me that Drork is incapable of discussing the content and not attacking others, and I would like to either give a proper response, which would likely lead to me being blocked, or have him stop with the attacks. nableezy - 21:59, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Re Shuki, my 1rr restriction has nothing to do with Drork repeatedly personally attacking me and others. I know you would like to make everything about me, but the problem here is simple. Drork has done nothing but attack others since returning. Also, while I realize you are in the habit of making unfounded accusations, please either provide a single diff of me "canvassing admins" or strike the comment. nableezy - 23:40, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Re Angus McLellan, could you list the number of times I have filed a frivolous complaint against anybody? nableezy - 10:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

Discussion concerning Drork

Statement by Drork

Nableezy is intoxicated with power. He currently acts a sniper who shoots anyone who dare to stand against his despicable conduct for which he has been condemned in the past. I am the next in his target list, and I won't be surprised if he manage to successfully target me too. He knows how to do it. He learned how to game the system. I just hope someone on the Wikipedian community will finally come to his senses and stop this bulliness. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drork (talk • contribs) 22:11, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Pieter Kuiper was blocked on Wikimedia Commons for asking to make an antisemitic cartoon a featured image. Naturally he teams up with Nableezy for his campaign against Israeli editors. Pieter Kuiper also did his best to hinder a free content commons-related initiative of Wikimedia Israel for political anti-Israeli motives. I wonder how long en-wp is going to allow these campaigners to bully around here. Pieter Kuiper almost managed to destroy Wikimedia Commons. His next target is en-wp. DrorK (talk) 22:25, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by others about the request concerning Drork

• I also noticed "mafia-like threats" in Drork's edit comment; his recent contributions on talk pages are mostly attacks on opponents. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 22:20, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• DrorK's comments here are not helping his case. — Malik Shabazz /_Stalk 22:28, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by SD: What I find the most disturbing is this comment: Of course, your tag team partner is here to massage your back while you fight the "infidels". --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 22:32, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by unomi

Just about every single edit by Drork since at least the 28th of February has either been alluding to meatpuppets, organized editing or plainer forms of personal attacks.

I think that the problem stems from the fundamental untenability of the argument that Drork subscribes to; discussions necessarily devolve into less than constructive exercises.

For my part I don't care if Drork is banned at this point in time, as long as we can keep further disruption to a minimum. A discussion regarding the the applicability of Israeli-occupied territory was opened at WP:IPCOLL, but so far no one have been presenting arguments against it. Unomi (talk) 22:52, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

It is a poor symptom that you dont care and peculiar that you had nothing to do with I-P and now virtually only edit here. Anyway, it is hard to AGF when we see that that assumed discussion on poorly trafficked page WP:IPCOLL, turn into a battlecry to go push this POV on other articles and create and add POV cats and then take the discussion to those areas wasting everyone's time. Amoruso actually put up a short-lived good side to the debate but then he was brought down quickly with no mercy. So that does not build any good faith from the 'other side'. Did you take the time to pull in many editors from all sides to build visibility? No. The same thing happens on noticeboard discussions and AE's. Frankly, that is disruptive. --Shuki (talk) 23:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree that IPCOLL seems a bit disused, but why is that? Am I to blame for you not watch listing what should be our shared project for centralized discussion? And actually.. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Israel#General_discussion_on_Israeli-occupied_territories. I notified all the WikiProjects I could think of a week ago. No one forced Amoruso to fall back on stating that 1 out of the 14 judges who agreed that that it was occupied Palestinian territory was an antisemite, thats just silly. Unomi (talk) 23:31, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by Shuki In fact, Nableezy is an aggressor on the warpath. Limited with this 1R sanction, what he cannot achieve on the discussion pages, he will prod and bait other editors until he can build a case to bring here and canvass admins too. Amoruso and drork are significant threats to Nableezy's POV. Better to not have to deal with them. --Shuki (talk) 23:38, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Nableezy is a single purpose account. All his editing is either

1. contributions to the P side of the I/P dispute articles, or
2. attempts to get editors on the I side blocked.

It appears that the editing situation in the I/P articles has worsened in recent months, which I did not think possible. I could understand if topic bans were handed out all around, en masse, to both sides, in the hope that a new set of editors will get involved and be more neutral. That might help improve the articles, which is what all else on WP is supposed to be about. But allowing the campaign, by one side to eliminate the editors on the other side by wiki lawering, to succeed will accomplish nothing but remove even the hope of WP:NPOV. 173.52.124.223 (talk) 00:39, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by Cptnono It is a shame that Drork did not keep his cool. Regarding Nableezy, another AE request or a noticeboard would be counter productive but another reminder on civility is in order regarding his parting short ("Grow the fuck up") at Drork. Cptnono (talk) 10:51, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by Factomancer

A major problem with the I/P field in Misplaced Pages is the extremely combative and non-collegiate atmosphere that has developed. The result of this is that uninvolved editors who might otherwise provide much needed neutrality and an outsider's perspective are driven off leaving only the battle-hardened POV warriors who thrive on insulting each other. The best way to change this state of affairs is to remove the unapologetic repeat personal attackers like Drork from the topic area because they poison the debate for everyone else by making insults the norm.

Question to AngusMcClellan below: If Nableezy's behaviour is truly equally problematic can you produce a comparable set of diffs to that of Drork's above? Factomancer (talk) 11:39, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

A quick look at Talk:Golan Heights, shows that Nableezy and Drork have been in a protracted and acrimonious editing dispute there. Nableezy may have done some baiting of Drork, which is problematic even if Drork should not have taken the bait. For instance, at the top of the talk page Nableezy calls Drork a liar .This diff is old, but still shows that he has done some baiting of Drork, and shows that the problem is not all on one side. 173.52.124.223 (talk) 12:24, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Nableezy didn't call Drork a liar in that diff. He said that intentional factual errors are lies, which is true by definition. And truthfulness is an absolute defence against claims of a personal attack. If that is the worst comment you can come up with, Nableezy is probably more civil than most Wikipedians. Factomancer (talk) 12:34, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

The implication, rather obliquely put, is that Dorork was a liar. That appears to be baiting, at best. PA at worst. 173.52.124.223 (talk) 13:51, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by ZScarpia Angus, with respect to your comment in the Result section regarding banning Nableezy from AE, I would agree that it would be a good idea to try to reduce some of the trivial or vexatious issues being raised on the Incidents and Enforcement pages. But, does your comment mean that you think that the current request is one of them or do you just think that Nableezy appears on this page too often? To a certain extent, the problem of trivial or vexatious requests is already being dealt with, I think. Editors who have raised such requests have themselves been sanctioned. Presumably, an editor would have to be raising a large number requests of which a high proportion was low merit or meritless before being given a blanket ban?     ←   ZScarpia   11:46, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by No More Mr Nice Guy

Someone should write a tool that shows how often certain groups of editors are involved as a group on the administrative boards. It didn't take much time at all between Nableezy filing this report and a certain group of very familiar faces showing up to support him, some of whom had no interaction whatsoever with Drork since he resumed editing. It's all quite intriguing. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 12:14, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Since there's only about four people that this could be referring to and has appeared just below a comment by me, I'm figuring that there's a pretty good chance that I'm one of the people who the comment is aimed at. We could take it up as a topic for conversation elsewhere if you like.     ←   ZScarpia   13:36, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment by Huldra

Comment to No More Mr Nice Guy: I am sure such a tool would show a group of "very familiar faces" turning up and with a 100% predictability-rate: oppose whatever Nableezy supports. It's not very intriguing really; I´ve seen the same since I arrived on wp nearly 5 years ago... The day, say, you, or Shuki support anything Nab proposes: I swear: I´m going to faint.... ;) Cheers, Huldra (talk) 12:45, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Moved from the admin section

I think you are quite wrong. What is going on, in this complaint against Drork, is the wiki-equivalent of SLAPP. It is an attempt to intimidate opposing editors by making the investment in time, effort and stress so high that the opposing editors will give up the fight...or perhaps be pressured into behaving foolishly enough to get sanctioned. Administrators should not allow this noticeboard to be misused as an instrument of pressure and intimidation. 173.52.124.223 (talk) 18:41, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Result concerning Drork

This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the section above.

I see clear battleground behavior from Drork, which is unacceptable in any topic area, but particularly problematic in this one. With the history of three edit warring blocks - all resulting from editing on Israel-Palestine related topics - and a 1RR restriction that failed to curb the disruption, I think an extended break from this topic area is in order. Unless another uninvolved admin objects, I'm inclined to impose an indefinite topic ban on Israel-Palestine related topics, including discussions, broadly construed. Tim Song (talk) 00:02, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I rest my case. You've proven my point. The clique worked again. Another Israeli is off the list, time to snipe the next one. DrorK (talk) 03:53, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I concur with Tim Song's assessment. (I'm not removing the preceding comment because it has a certain illustrative value.)  Sandstein  17:56, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't disagree regarding Drork, but I'm finding Nableezy's behaviour here to be equally problematic. Is there a precedent for banning editors from AE? If not, we can set one in Nableezy's case. Just as in other problem areas areas, I/P editors need to spend very much less time trying to get their "enemies" banned, topic banned, or blocked, and more on writing an encyclopedia. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:33, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

No precedent I'm aware of for filing actionable reports. I understand your concerns, but don't entirely share them. I'll ask Nableezy whether there are any more reports in the pipeline. PhilKnight (talk) 17:04, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

First, if this needs to be addressed, it should be done in a separate thread, to avoid sidetracking this one and allow for fuller examination of the circumstances. Second, it is AFAIK unprecedented and IMO inadvisable to sanction user for filing meritorious reports. Frivolous reports are definitely sanctionable, but I don't see how filing meritorious reports could possibly amount to misconduct in the absence of improper motives (e.g., threatening to file a report unless user agree with him). Tim Song (talk) 17:11, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes. If Nableezy's conduct is of concern, it should be made the subject of a separate request. But making AE requests is only a problem if the requests are frivolous or otherwise disruptive, or are mostly non-actionable.  Sandstein  17:55, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

See now also Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Arbitration Enforcement/IP/Users#Nableezy as a test case; eventually I envisage us having similar sections dedicated to logging potentially problematic conduct by all prominent parties to the ongoing I/P drama.  Sandstein  19:09, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

That's helpful, thanks. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:19, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Per the discussion above, Drork (talk · contribs) is banned indefinitely from editing all articles in the Arab/Israel conflict topic area, as defined in WP:ARBPIA#Area of conflict, and all related discussions and other content (including talk pages and process discussions, except only for legitimate and necessary dispute resolution involving themselves). This sanction may be appealed as provided in WP:ARBPIA#Appeal of discretionary sanctions. Tim Song (talk) 00:19, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Nableezy

Attention: This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.

Request concerning Nableezy

User requesting enforcement

Shuki (talk) 22:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

User against whom enforcement is requested

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

Sanction or remedy that this user violated

WP:ARBPIA#Discretionary sanctions

Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it

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1. Accuses users of lying and making stuff up about them without provocation.
2. Inciting violence on his user page and refusing to remove pictures and hateful text when asked.
3. Repeatedly removes categories and templates or changes them to meet his narrow WP:POV.
4. Removing images
5. Removing Hebrew language
6. Changing order of sentence so that "settlement" appears before "village" and not vice-versa. very productive.
7. Change NPOV leads to POV leads
8. using popups when users nominate cateogories for deletion
9. saying that today it is modern day "Jordan and Palestine", denying Israel's very existence. but everything he says "not in israel"
10. threatens users to just be happy with current version or he'll write something worse
11. Lies about naming conventions to revert-massively
12. Violating civility by telling editors what to do - "Grow the __ck up"
13. Violating 1RR restriction applied on recently here
14. Violating 1RR restriction again on different article
15. Instead of welcoming new editor, WP:BITE and makes sockpuppet claims to editor who he cannot collaborate with and refuses to join discussion on talk page by deleting it

Diffs of notifications or of prior warnings against the conduct objected to (if required)

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1. Notification of ARBPIA sanctions
2. previous two month topic ban
3. Civility warning by Malik Shabazz

Enforcement action requested (block, topic ban or other sanction)

Extended topic ban and/or other timeoff

Additional comments by editor filing complaint

I find it absurd that Nableezy is filing repeated AEs while he himself continues his disruptive behaviour of being uncivil, failing AGF, and violating his own recent 1RR restriction, twice in one day (three times actually, but to his credit, he self-reverted on Jerusalem). The editor finds it hard to mend his ways and lose the battleground mentality. He has improved, thank goodness to the warnings and restrictions, but apparently needs more and/or much more time to think. --Shuki (talk) 22:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

Discussion concerning Nableezy

Statement by Nableezy

Comments by others about the request concerning Nableezy

Comments by George

Going through Shuki's diffs in order:

1. Hmm, you neglected to mention that Nableezy apologized and struck out his accusation.
2. I can't read Arabic, so I don't know what those song lyrics say. What about them "incites violence"? And what pictures are you talking about?
3. These diffs look like a move toward neutrality, so I'm not sure how you interpret them as POV pushing. Labeling the Golan Heights as part of Israel is a particular POV; removing any label from them (not saying they are in Israel, and not saying they are in Syria) is hardly POV pushing.
4. It looks like there was some consensus for their removal on the talk page a month ago. Nableezy discussed the issue; you don't appear to have been a part of that discussion?
5. That's a highly selective description. Editors should note that he removed both the Hebrew and the Arabic.
6. This looks like a content dispute between yourself, Nableezy, and Supreme Deliciousness. It's unclear to me why your version or Nableezy's is better, but this isn't the place to decide that.
7. This is a diff of Nableezy re-writing a lead that was unsourced by citing sources. Are there counter sources? This diff alone doesn't seem to indicate anything of POV pushing (in contrast to if Nableezy was replacing certain sources with other sources).
8. I don't know what this diff is supposed to show. What's wrong with using popups?
9. The first diff should say Israel, not Palestine. I see nothing wrong with the second (an Israeli settlement in the West Bank isn't considered to be in Israel, as far as I know).
10. This is a repeat of an earlier diff, and I hardly see it as a threat... seems more like an encouragement to accept compromise.
11. I don't understand what Nableezy meant (maybe he was referring to the term Judea?), but you should watch the personal attacks labeling his statement a lie. In general, his version is a bit more readable, but it's unclear if this is anything more than a content dispute. And really, you're going to describe his changing one sentence as reverting "massively"?
12. Yup, it was uncivil.
13. Looks like two different, but similar, versions of this sentence, not a revert. Note that in the second diff Nableezy isn't removing or replacing material (as in the first diff), only expanding.
14. Why would Nableezy be on 1RR on this article? How is Pan-Arabism related to the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
15. Asking a new editor if they've had a previous account isn't a WP:BITE, though Nableezy seemed quite terse with them in the back and forth.

Going over all your diffs, #12 and #15 seemed like minor incivility, and probably should have been taken to WP:WQA or put to Nableezy directly. However, this seems like yet another monstrously large AE report, filled with meaningless diffs and exaggerated summaries, and it's getting old. As I've stated before, throwing a pile of crap on the wall to see what sticks isn't the way to handle these cases. ← George 23:16, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I would add that the number of AE reports Nableezy has filed in recent days is concerning. Is there any evidence that any of these, or his past reports, have been frivolous? ← George 23:18, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by Vexorg

Yet another ( as competently demonstrated by George above ) highly petty and exaggerated AE report designed to attack another editor rather than for the good of Misplaced Pages. My advice to you Shuki and anyone else in the I-P conflict to stop these reports (and withdraw this one). The admins are fed up with it. All that will happen here is that a bunch of partisan editors will turn up and attack each other again. Vexorg (talk) 01:10, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Result concerning Nableezy

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